"Dude, I love when you wear your hair curly. It looks really good."

"You think?" Anna smiled.

"I know."

"Well, I love yours, too. The straight look really goes well with your face, Peyton. Although it's still beautiful when it's curly."

"Thanks", the blonde blushed.

Brooke made a loud gagging reflex.

"What in the hell is this? What are you two, married? Geez! Luke and I aren't even that nice to each other. Okay. Peyton, your hair looks great. Anna, your hair looks great. Now I know I look great so can we just get out of here already and go to the club?"

Anna and Peyton smiled at the impatience of their friend. They drove to a nearby club, meeting the guys there. Nathan and Haley were lost in their own little world of Naleyville while Brooke dragged poor Lucas onto the floor practically from the minute they arrived.

"Oh man, I love this song", Anna gushed as 50 Cent's hit In Da Club began playing.

"Look at you, Miss Gangsta Girl."

"What? I'm into some hip hop. I just really dig this beat. Come on. Let's dance."

"Nah. I think I'll sit this one out."

"Like hell you will", Anna laughed as she grabbed Peyton's wrist and forced her to the floor.

The girls made it to center stage and began moving to the fast beat. Peyton's natural ability along with years of cheerleading practice made her a good dancer but Anna was something else. Her body was lean and taunt yet graceful and sexy. It looked as if she had been built just to dance. The way she writhed her hips it looked like she didn't have a bone in her body.

"Just let it go. Feel the music. Just go with it. Let your body go", Anna instructed.

Peyton closed her eyes and did just that. All of a sudden, it was just her and Anna and the wonderful beat of the music. Nothing or no one else existed or mattered. It felt good. It felt liberating.

Nathan grinned as he let his hand slip and grab Haley's butt.

"Hey!" she pretended to admonish.

"What? It was an accident. An honest mistake."

"Yeah right", she grinned.

"Okay, okay. I'm busted. But how can I resist when my incredibly sexy girlfriend is bumping and grinding all over me?"

"It takes two to tango, buddy", Haley teased as she wrapped her arms around her boyfriend's neck. "Hey Nate, I was going to…whoa!"

"What?" he asked, following the direction of her eyes.

"Oh my God. Look, over there. It's Peyton and Anna."

"Huh? Oh damn!"

"Nathan!" she hit him. "I said, look not ogle."

"Sorry but how can you not?" he laughed.

"Wow, babe. They're dancing awfully…close."

"What? You mean the way their asses keep touching?"

"That's kind of hot. I wonder what brought all that on."

"Attention", Nathan concluded.

"Attention?"

"Yeah. See, girls dance up on other girls like that to get attention from guys. They know it appeals to that girl on girl fantasy we all have and if they're two hot chicks like Anna and Peyton…"

"Looks like it's working", Haley noted as Skills approached the hot and steamy pair.

They parted long enough to allow him in the middle making a Skills sandwich as they continued their sexy moves. The deejay had the place jumping and the friends spent hours dancing before taking a breather at their table.

"I am so beat!" Peyton announced as she took a sip of her drink.

The crew's table was filled with drinks as the sweaty friends laughed and talked and did shots together.

"Oh no", Anna groaned. "Here comes my stupid brother and the sister in law from Hell."

All eyes turned to the approaching Felix and Teresa.

"Oh. My. God", Brooke mouthed. "Look at Teresa's butt. What the hell has she been eating, oats and hay? Her ass is so wide! And those pants. Oh my God! Can't you just hear the leather crying out for help?"

"Hi everyone", Teresa cooed in her sweetest fake voice.

"Well hello", Brooke said back, equally phony. "Teresa, you look fabulous! Married life definitely agrees with you. Call me for brunch sometime. We have to catch up."

"No time like the present", Felix smirked as he basically invited himself and his wife to join the already full table.

There were a couple of audible groans as Felix began to dominate the conversation. He went on and on about stocks and bonds and IRAs and other things of zero interest to the gang at that time. Peyton smiled as she watched Anna roll her eyes.

"Well, Felix as stimulating as this all is, that dance floor is just calling out to Broody and me", Brooke mumbled, grabbing a grateful Lucas.

Nathan and Haley smiled, seemingly plotting their own impending escape as Anna reached for her bag to touch up her make up. Using a compact, she applied a fresh coat of mascara and wiped away a trail of eyeliner that had started to smudge. She capped it off with a fresh coat of matte lipstick.

"Isn't this too cute?" a loud and drunk Felix said. "My little sis playing with make up. Just yesterday it was Barbie dolls."

Anna rolled her eyes.

"Ha! Ha!"

"What? I'm only kidding. It's just that you don't need all that crap on your face, Anna."

"It's make up, Felix."

"Well, I don't like it on you."

"Why not?" Peyton questioned. "I think the colors look great."

She smiled and wiped a corner of Anna's mouth where the lipstick had smudged. Anna returned her grin.

"Wow", Felix smirked, leaning back and talking to Nathan, Haley, Teresa and Skills. "I've heard of Ladies' Night but damn! Didn't know this was going to be a lesbian mixer."

Skills and Teresa chuckled and so did Nathan before Haley elbowed him under the table. Anna glared at her brother. They were all laughing at her and she hated that. She didn't like being made fun of.

"Yeah", she said, slapping away her friend's hand. "Peyton, don't be so gay!"

Nathan, Haley, and Skills exchanged bewildered looks. Peyton seemed absolutely stunned and Anna looked embarrassed and annoyed. There was a tense silence and Felix was smiling broadly.

"Well, um, I'm just gonna head back to the floor…" Skills said, trying to break free of the world's most awkward moment.

"I'll go with you", Anna said as the followed him to dance.

Felix and Teresa continued to drink while Nathan and Haley sat wordlessly. Peyton was quiet, staring intently at the table as if it was the most fascinating thing in the world. She didn't speak and no one else knew what to say to her. Every now and again, her attention would divert to the dancing. Anna had switched partners and was no grinding her hips seductively into a dark haired guy none of the friends had ever seen before. Peyton watched out of the corner of her eye as they danced several fast and slow songs and her heart pounded when it looked as if Anna was kissing him.

"You guys ready to get out of here?" Lucas asked as he and Brooke returned to the table hand in hand. "This place is going to close soon and they already did last alcohol call a while ago."

Everybody nodded in agreement that it was time to leave.

"Anna, you coming?" Haley asked as they began to file out of the door.

Felix and Peyton seemed to await her response with baited breath.

"Nah", she finally said. "I think I'm gonna go have coffee with that Brian guy I was just dancing with."

Peyton's face seemed to fall and Felix couldn't contain his grin.

"Coffee, huh? Well, not too late, little sis and remember…don't do anything I wouldn't do", he winked.

The others continued heading to the parking lot with a lagging Peyton behind them. Before her final exit, she turned back around and looked at Anna. They made eye contact and after a second or two, Anna stood on her tip toes and planted a huge kiss on the lips of the guy she had earlier referred to as Brian. Forcing herself to look away, Peyton quickened her pace and joined the others.

In the backseat of Brooke's car, she was eerily quiet. She was upset, that was a given but Peyton didn't know quite why. Anna's unexplained and uncalled for outburst at the table had definitely stung her feelings but it was more than that. Peyton couldn't figure out why she was more pissed that her friend had gone home with some guy.

"Everything alright, P?" Brooke asked from the front.

"Yeah", the blonde sighed uneasily and unconvincingly. "Everything is fine."