AN: I just want to take a second to touch on the Chris/Torrie thing. I'm
sort of playing with an angle in the story that Torrie does treat her bad
even if she doesn't realize it...I'm not sure just where I'm going with it
but I do have a reason. You're not supposed to be happy about how they
treat Chris, although for some reason people don't seem to like her very
much. Come on people, Vince deserves happiness and he and Dom can't both
have Torrie! ;) Well, not in this story at least. But then so many people
don't like Chris I wonder if I shouldn't have her go away and maybe have
Vince discover he likes Lex or something... Anyway, anyone with an opinion
can leave it in a review. By the way the amount of reviews on this story is
getting depressing! Was it ya'lls intent to make me cry or is there really
just like 4 people reading this story now? Just curious. And with that I've
taken enough time, on with the show.
Chapter 70 – A Diabolical Plan
When they arrived at the club they all got out of the car.
"I need a drink." Torrie said as soon as she'd gotten all the way in the door. She could feel many sets of eyes on her and knew most of them were male and were sizing her up, and how the competition might be. She tossed her hair back over her right shoulder and looked at her friend, waiting for a reply to her earlier statement.
"Me too." Lex answered her back and they both headed to the bar. The did a few shots to get a head start on roaring drunk and then walked off to see who was around with mixed drinks in hand.
Vince got a corona and wandered after the girls. He wasn't pleased about the whole situation. Torrie got wild when she got drunk. She was dressed to kill and she was clearly in the club with something to prove to herself. Vince didn't want to fight her in public but he wasn't going to let her do something really stupid either.
His cell phone rang and he picked it up, moving to a corner of the room where he could hear his caller, but could still see the girls.
"Wha?" He growled into the phone.
"Vince where are you? You ok?" Mia asked in concern. "Torrie left the street like a bat out of hell then I didn't hear from you. I got worried that something happened. I saw how she almost ran you over when you were getting in the car."
"Yeah, I'm ok. I went with Torrie and her girlfriend Lex to some club." Vince sighed.
"Vince you need to come home. You can't stay out with Torrie at a club." Mia sounded angry.
"I can't just leave her here alone either Mia. What are you thinking asking me to? You saw the state she was in when she left the house. I can't let her lose on L.A. like that. She'll end up dead, in jail, or with strangers somewhere doing things she has no business doing."
"You can't just leave it to me to try and explain to your girlfriend that you did not just leave her for Torrie either." Mia snarled out, mad at Vince for running off after Torrie instead of staying with his own girl and mad at Torrie for acting so childish, even though Chris had gone pretty far. The more Mia had thought about it the more she had realized that Torrie did tend to act like a psyco child when she was really down or upset.
"Why would she think that? It must make sense that I can't let Torrie drive off alone in the state she was in. If I let Torrie take off on her own and then she had a car wreck you know Dom would never forgive me, and hell, I'd never forgive myself." Vince growled back. "Oh, and just because I've dated her some and like her enough doesn't make her my girlfriend." Vince was angry that anyone had dared to presume that Chris would become his girlfriend when he'd yet to ask her anything about it himself.
"You didn't stick around long enough to see the hysteria I was left to deal with here either."
"Mia, you're just gonna have to keep dealing with it till I can get Torr home. I don't know when that'll be. She'll get good and drunk then I should be able to drag her home. But before then I'm just gonna have to keep an eye on her and ride it out." Vince answered, almost apologetic now that he knew what Mia was going through.
"Well, what got into Torrie? I think I deserve to know."
Vince relayed the story of what Torrie had found in Dom's room.
"Well, at least now I understand why the thing about Dom needing to take a break from Torrie drove her over the edge but I mean, Torrie slapped Chris and you took off after Torrie. Why didn't you just tell this poor girl to her face you care more about Torrie then her?" Mia was getting angry again.
"I did what I had to do Mia. I don't let anyone run my life and that means you, Dom, Chris, Torrie, anyone. I do what I think I need to when I need to and that's that. I had to stay with Torrie so I did. I'll be home when I can." With that Vince closed his phone and cut the call off. He was getting irate with Mia for questioning his actions. He didn't see it as any of her business
Mia stared at the dead phone in her hand in shock for about 30 seconds before she hung up and stood staring at the wall in shock till Brian came to make her sit down. Brian forced the story from Mia. It wasn't pleasant. Brian was very concerned about how the next few days around their house were going to play out.
*~*
Vince watched as the two girls he felt were in his charge slowly got drunker and drunker.
A few more drinks later Torrie and Lex were doing a rendition of the dance they'd done the last time Vince had gone out with them both. He watched as Torrie and Lex belted out the words of the current song while dancing with each other to the beat.
*Call it what you wanna call it I'm a fucken Alcoholic! Bring it if you really want it, ain't gotta put no extra's on it.*
And with that they both tossed back the rest of the drinks in their hands, laughed at each other, and went for new ones. Vince noticed how often both girls let men buy their drinks for them and he really thought that Torrie was playing with fire.
Vince recalled the days when he'd thought that the way to fix any issue was to drown the hell out of it with any liquor he could get his hands on, and how he'd learned that alcohol created more problems then it solved. He still got piss loaded every once in awhile, he just didn't expect it to solve life's issues any more. Something it seemed that Torrie had yet to figure out.
It was like she was trying to prove to herself that she could cheat on Dom if she was so inclined and Vince knew if it ever got back to Dom that she'd done so it would be the worst fight that their house had ever seen. She'd danced with about 6 different guys since they'd arrived and she'd started to become truly inebriated. Each guy had gotten progressively fresher with his hands and Torrie had been allowing it to happen each time.
When the song Get Low started to play Torrie and Lex picked out the guy they thought was the cutest and motioned him over with their fingers. The guy looked like he'd died and gone to heaven. The two girls proceeded to put on a show that had the poor guy they'd chosen thinking things were really going his way. And Vince admitted ruefully to himself that if he wasn't there to stop Torrie from doing something really crazy the guy might be getting a happier ending to his night then he'd planned on when he'd left his house for the evening. Vince didn't want to fight with Torrie so he let her have her fun. He figured that as long as it didn't go any further then some very dirty dancing Torrie wasn't really hurting anything.
Some Britney Spears song came on and Vince decided he'd had enough. Torrie wasn't as steady on her feet as she'd been when they'd arrived and he figured she might leave with him without much of a fight. He didn't want to have to try to stop her when she decided to leave with some guy. The way she was starting to be all over the guys while they were all over her led Vince to believe that Torrie did in fact plan to pick up by the end of the evening. He'd been afraid of as much when he'd seen how she was dressed and heard she planned on going out anyway. He walked up to her where she stood on the dance floor.
"V!" She exclaimed sunnily. It seemed she'd found a better mood while she'd been drinking. That and forgot he was there. She'd greeted him like she was glad he'd shown up out of the blue. "Dance with me!" She implored in a sing song voice. "Where you been. Feels like I haven't seen you in forever!"
"I thought we could go home now Princess." Vince told the very inebriated beauty in front of him.
"Later V. Dance now. Go home later. You wanna take me home?" She smiled coyly and started to playfully dance with him. She clearly knew the song. She winked at him saucily. "You'll just have to wait to take me away. Besides, who's to say I won't get a better offer. I don't want to go home now."
Torrie had just gotten an idea that seemed brilliant in her intoxicated state. It had occurred to her the solution to her problem was now standing in front of her.
"I'd like to go home now." Vince stated and started to try and move Torrie off the dance floor again.
"I wouldn't. I'll still let you take me home when the song's over V." Torrie told Vince, trying to strike a tone between playful and seductive.
*I dare you to stand in my way, just give in, when you are ready to play. Like this! Here comes the showdown.*
Torrie suckered him into the song. "I don't wanna go home. Everyone's mad at me there. I wanna stay here and have a good time. No one's mad at me here. They all like me. They all want to look at my goodies." Torrie answered honestly in her drunken state, giggling. "Don't you wanna watch me shake my goodies?" She asked rhetorically. She had to know from the look on Vince's face that despite his best intentions he was very interested in how she could shake what her momma had given her.
"Lex?" Torrie called.
Torrie's friend looked at her and grinned.
"Yeah?"
"Do you think people are looking at my goodies?"
Lex laughed.
"Yeah. Fo'sho'."
Torrie put her mind back on her dancing with a smile.
*I don't really wanna be a tease, but would you undo my zipper please?*
Torrie turned her back to him and smiled at him over her shoulder, pretending she was asking him to undo the zipper of her clothes. He was pleased to see her so happy but he wondered if she wasn't playing with fire with him more so then she had been dancing with all those other guys and letting them buy her drinks.
Things between them had been explosive, but he'd been sure that had been in the past, and sure they'd both wanted it that way. He didn't know if Torrie had changed her mind about that, or if she just wanted to do something that would really hurt Dom the way he'd hurt her, and she knew that 'doing' Vince was one sure way to hurt Dom, or if she wanted to hurt Chris by taking what she perceived Chris wanted for her own. Vince didn't appreciate it much no matter why she was doing it. Most of the scenarios saw Torrie using him for her own purpose and he didn't like it one bit.
As the Britney song ended Vince went to leave the dance floor and he planned on taking Torrie with him. As he started to leave the dance floor towing her she stumbled into him. He turned to catch her and a slow song started. Lex was dancing with some random guy.
Torrie had no desire to leave the floor yet. She grabbed Vince. "We need to dance to this song then we can go." Torrie knew it was three am and it was the last song of the evening anyway. She figured she could keep that knowledge over his head.
Vince took pity on his girl, he knew she was just blowing off steam from a horrible night and he pulled her close for the slow song. When it ended and the DJ said good evening he gave Torrie a look that let her knew he knew what she'd pulled. She just threw her head back and laughed at the look on his face. She'd played him and loved every second of it. As they moved to leave the club Vince had to fight the other men off the two women in his care to get them out of the place without being accosted.
After arguing with Torrie that she was in fact too inebriated to drive he finally got both girls into the car and safely belted in. He had to suffer through Torrie and Lex's drunken renditions of "Wild One" "What's My Name", and the girls definitely didn't do a good Snoop Dogg impression drunk, "All Eyez on Me", and several others that poor Vince tuned out to save his ears.
Vince drove into Lex's driveway and stopped the car. Torrie got out of the car to let Lex crawl out of the back seat. Torrie held a hand out to Lex to help her up and when Lex was on her feet Torrie promptly fell down on her butt on the lawn of Lex's house. Vince thought she'd start to cry over the incident but she surprised him by starting to laugh hysterically from her seated vantage point on the grass. Lex then helped her back up, also laughing uproariously and Torrie crawled back into the car, still laughing like a mad woman. Vince and Torrie both watched Lex teeter up her walkway. Both girls were plastered and Vince knew Torrie was lucky Dom wasn't around to see how drunk she was. She was going to be so sick Vince knew.
Torrie fell asleep on the rest of the way home and when they arrived he knew where Dom was coming from because he had no desire to wake her up for the walk into the house. He sighed, got out of the car, walked around to her side of it, picked her up and then used his hip to shut the car door. He used the clicker to lock the doors and arm the security system then headed to the house. He got the door open and shut with out too much difficulty and then headed up the stairs. He missed Chris sitting in the living room in the dark waiting for him.
Chapter 70 – A Diabolical Plan
When they arrived at the club they all got out of the car.
"I need a drink." Torrie said as soon as she'd gotten all the way in the door. She could feel many sets of eyes on her and knew most of them were male and were sizing her up, and how the competition might be. She tossed her hair back over her right shoulder and looked at her friend, waiting for a reply to her earlier statement.
"Me too." Lex answered her back and they both headed to the bar. The did a few shots to get a head start on roaring drunk and then walked off to see who was around with mixed drinks in hand.
Vince got a corona and wandered after the girls. He wasn't pleased about the whole situation. Torrie got wild when she got drunk. She was dressed to kill and she was clearly in the club with something to prove to herself. Vince didn't want to fight her in public but he wasn't going to let her do something really stupid either.
His cell phone rang and he picked it up, moving to a corner of the room where he could hear his caller, but could still see the girls.
"Wha?" He growled into the phone.
"Vince where are you? You ok?" Mia asked in concern. "Torrie left the street like a bat out of hell then I didn't hear from you. I got worried that something happened. I saw how she almost ran you over when you were getting in the car."
"Yeah, I'm ok. I went with Torrie and her girlfriend Lex to some club." Vince sighed.
"Vince you need to come home. You can't stay out with Torrie at a club." Mia sounded angry.
"I can't just leave her here alone either Mia. What are you thinking asking me to? You saw the state she was in when she left the house. I can't let her lose on L.A. like that. She'll end up dead, in jail, or with strangers somewhere doing things she has no business doing."
"You can't just leave it to me to try and explain to your girlfriend that you did not just leave her for Torrie either." Mia snarled out, mad at Vince for running off after Torrie instead of staying with his own girl and mad at Torrie for acting so childish, even though Chris had gone pretty far. The more Mia had thought about it the more she had realized that Torrie did tend to act like a psyco child when she was really down or upset.
"Why would she think that? It must make sense that I can't let Torrie drive off alone in the state she was in. If I let Torrie take off on her own and then she had a car wreck you know Dom would never forgive me, and hell, I'd never forgive myself." Vince growled back. "Oh, and just because I've dated her some and like her enough doesn't make her my girlfriend." Vince was angry that anyone had dared to presume that Chris would become his girlfriend when he'd yet to ask her anything about it himself.
"You didn't stick around long enough to see the hysteria I was left to deal with here either."
"Mia, you're just gonna have to keep dealing with it till I can get Torr home. I don't know when that'll be. She'll get good and drunk then I should be able to drag her home. But before then I'm just gonna have to keep an eye on her and ride it out." Vince answered, almost apologetic now that he knew what Mia was going through.
"Well, what got into Torrie? I think I deserve to know."
Vince relayed the story of what Torrie had found in Dom's room.
"Well, at least now I understand why the thing about Dom needing to take a break from Torrie drove her over the edge but I mean, Torrie slapped Chris and you took off after Torrie. Why didn't you just tell this poor girl to her face you care more about Torrie then her?" Mia was getting angry again.
"I did what I had to do Mia. I don't let anyone run my life and that means you, Dom, Chris, Torrie, anyone. I do what I think I need to when I need to and that's that. I had to stay with Torrie so I did. I'll be home when I can." With that Vince closed his phone and cut the call off. He was getting irate with Mia for questioning his actions. He didn't see it as any of her business
Mia stared at the dead phone in her hand in shock for about 30 seconds before she hung up and stood staring at the wall in shock till Brian came to make her sit down. Brian forced the story from Mia. It wasn't pleasant. Brian was very concerned about how the next few days around their house were going to play out.
*~*
Vince watched as the two girls he felt were in his charge slowly got drunker and drunker.
A few more drinks later Torrie and Lex were doing a rendition of the dance they'd done the last time Vince had gone out with them both. He watched as Torrie and Lex belted out the words of the current song while dancing with each other to the beat.
*Call it what you wanna call it I'm a fucken Alcoholic! Bring it if you really want it, ain't gotta put no extra's on it.*
And with that they both tossed back the rest of the drinks in their hands, laughed at each other, and went for new ones. Vince noticed how often both girls let men buy their drinks for them and he really thought that Torrie was playing with fire.
Vince recalled the days when he'd thought that the way to fix any issue was to drown the hell out of it with any liquor he could get his hands on, and how he'd learned that alcohol created more problems then it solved. He still got piss loaded every once in awhile, he just didn't expect it to solve life's issues any more. Something it seemed that Torrie had yet to figure out.
It was like she was trying to prove to herself that she could cheat on Dom if she was so inclined and Vince knew if it ever got back to Dom that she'd done so it would be the worst fight that their house had ever seen. She'd danced with about 6 different guys since they'd arrived and she'd started to become truly inebriated. Each guy had gotten progressively fresher with his hands and Torrie had been allowing it to happen each time.
When the song Get Low started to play Torrie and Lex picked out the guy they thought was the cutest and motioned him over with their fingers. The guy looked like he'd died and gone to heaven. The two girls proceeded to put on a show that had the poor guy they'd chosen thinking things were really going his way. And Vince admitted ruefully to himself that if he wasn't there to stop Torrie from doing something really crazy the guy might be getting a happier ending to his night then he'd planned on when he'd left his house for the evening. Vince didn't want to fight with Torrie so he let her have her fun. He figured that as long as it didn't go any further then some very dirty dancing Torrie wasn't really hurting anything.
Some Britney Spears song came on and Vince decided he'd had enough. Torrie wasn't as steady on her feet as she'd been when they'd arrived and he figured she might leave with him without much of a fight. He didn't want to have to try to stop her when she decided to leave with some guy. The way she was starting to be all over the guys while they were all over her led Vince to believe that Torrie did in fact plan to pick up by the end of the evening. He'd been afraid of as much when he'd seen how she was dressed and heard she planned on going out anyway. He walked up to her where she stood on the dance floor.
"V!" She exclaimed sunnily. It seemed she'd found a better mood while she'd been drinking. That and forgot he was there. She'd greeted him like she was glad he'd shown up out of the blue. "Dance with me!" She implored in a sing song voice. "Where you been. Feels like I haven't seen you in forever!"
"I thought we could go home now Princess." Vince told the very inebriated beauty in front of him.
"Later V. Dance now. Go home later. You wanna take me home?" She smiled coyly and started to playfully dance with him. She clearly knew the song. She winked at him saucily. "You'll just have to wait to take me away. Besides, who's to say I won't get a better offer. I don't want to go home now."
Torrie had just gotten an idea that seemed brilliant in her intoxicated state. It had occurred to her the solution to her problem was now standing in front of her.
"I'd like to go home now." Vince stated and started to try and move Torrie off the dance floor again.
"I wouldn't. I'll still let you take me home when the song's over V." Torrie told Vince, trying to strike a tone between playful and seductive.
*I dare you to stand in my way, just give in, when you are ready to play. Like this! Here comes the showdown.*
Torrie suckered him into the song. "I don't wanna go home. Everyone's mad at me there. I wanna stay here and have a good time. No one's mad at me here. They all like me. They all want to look at my goodies." Torrie answered honestly in her drunken state, giggling. "Don't you wanna watch me shake my goodies?" She asked rhetorically. She had to know from the look on Vince's face that despite his best intentions he was very interested in how she could shake what her momma had given her.
"Lex?" Torrie called.
Torrie's friend looked at her and grinned.
"Yeah?"
"Do you think people are looking at my goodies?"
Lex laughed.
"Yeah. Fo'sho'."
Torrie put her mind back on her dancing with a smile.
*I don't really wanna be a tease, but would you undo my zipper please?*
Torrie turned her back to him and smiled at him over her shoulder, pretending she was asking him to undo the zipper of her clothes. He was pleased to see her so happy but he wondered if she wasn't playing with fire with him more so then she had been dancing with all those other guys and letting them buy her drinks.
Things between them had been explosive, but he'd been sure that had been in the past, and sure they'd both wanted it that way. He didn't know if Torrie had changed her mind about that, or if she just wanted to do something that would really hurt Dom the way he'd hurt her, and she knew that 'doing' Vince was one sure way to hurt Dom, or if she wanted to hurt Chris by taking what she perceived Chris wanted for her own. Vince didn't appreciate it much no matter why she was doing it. Most of the scenarios saw Torrie using him for her own purpose and he didn't like it one bit.
As the Britney song ended Vince went to leave the dance floor and he planned on taking Torrie with him. As he started to leave the dance floor towing her she stumbled into him. He turned to catch her and a slow song started. Lex was dancing with some random guy.
Torrie had no desire to leave the floor yet. She grabbed Vince. "We need to dance to this song then we can go." Torrie knew it was three am and it was the last song of the evening anyway. She figured she could keep that knowledge over his head.
Vince took pity on his girl, he knew she was just blowing off steam from a horrible night and he pulled her close for the slow song. When it ended and the DJ said good evening he gave Torrie a look that let her knew he knew what she'd pulled. She just threw her head back and laughed at the look on his face. She'd played him and loved every second of it. As they moved to leave the club Vince had to fight the other men off the two women in his care to get them out of the place without being accosted.
After arguing with Torrie that she was in fact too inebriated to drive he finally got both girls into the car and safely belted in. He had to suffer through Torrie and Lex's drunken renditions of "Wild One" "What's My Name", and the girls definitely didn't do a good Snoop Dogg impression drunk, "All Eyez on Me", and several others that poor Vince tuned out to save his ears.
Vince drove into Lex's driveway and stopped the car. Torrie got out of the car to let Lex crawl out of the back seat. Torrie held a hand out to Lex to help her up and when Lex was on her feet Torrie promptly fell down on her butt on the lawn of Lex's house. Vince thought she'd start to cry over the incident but she surprised him by starting to laugh hysterically from her seated vantage point on the grass. Lex then helped her back up, also laughing uproariously and Torrie crawled back into the car, still laughing like a mad woman. Vince and Torrie both watched Lex teeter up her walkway. Both girls were plastered and Vince knew Torrie was lucky Dom wasn't around to see how drunk she was. She was going to be so sick Vince knew.
Torrie fell asleep on the rest of the way home and when they arrived he knew where Dom was coming from because he had no desire to wake her up for the walk into the house. He sighed, got out of the car, walked around to her side of it, picked her up and then used his hip to shut the car door. He used the clicker to lock the doors and arm the security system then headed to the house. He got the door open and shut with out too much difficulty and then headed up the stairs. He missed Chris sitting in the living room in the dark waiting for him.