Part 4

Next Morning

A knock at the front door disrupts a silent apartment and reaches the ears of the King in the living room. He shifts from his semi-comfortable position on the couch and glares irritatingly at the door, Zan hopes that whose ever on the other side goes away and lets him get a few more hours of sleep. When he was livin' in the sewers he slept till 10 a.m.; it couldn't be more than 8 in the morning.

Just as he was about to close his eyes again the knock comes again, this time louder and more insistent. "Fuck!" Zan mutters under his breath. He rises off the couch, his bare feet making contact with the freezing cold floor that brings back memories of his mornings in the sewers. Rubbing the crud out of his eyes he takes in Maria's sleeping figure, the knocking didn't even cause her to stir.

Zan stands grumbling to himself. "Why do I have ta get da god dammed door? I'm a guest shouldn't Liz be gettin' da fuckin' door?" He opens the door to Kyle and Alex one holding a box of doughnuts the other holding two cup holders with 4 coffees resting in each.

"Where are the others?" Kyle questions not quite trusting Zan yet. He practically pushes his way in with Alex following behind him.

"They're sleeping—what else would they be doing at…" Zan takes a quick look toward the VCR clock, "…7:36 in da damn mornin'?" He shuts the door and shuffles back over to the couch that was his bed for the night. Only then did Maria wake up and stretch out her arms and legs waking her muscles up as well.

"Hey guys, what time is it?" Maria scratches her head and yawns as Kyle puts a cup of coffee in her hand. She raises it in thanks and takes tentative sips, needing the caffeine but also needing to cool it before swallowing it in huge gulps.

Alex sets the doughnuts down on the dining room table and sets out for Liz's room to tell her about breakfast. He comes up on a sight that he didn't expect to see at least not this soon, laying under the covers is a topless Liz and Rath, and Liz's bare leg draped seductively over Rath's covered legs.

Deciding that now would not be a good time to walk them up for breakfast he slowly creeps out of the room and walks to where he knows Ava and Lonnie would be sleeping. He opens the door to find the girls just waking up and shrugging into the robes that Liz set out for them the night before.

"Umm, ladies we have breakfast." He smiles slightly at Lonnie but he quickly loses it when he takes a fleeting glance at Ava. Alex can't help losing his grin—he knows that Ava isn't Tess but it's hard for him to see the girl who looks like the girl who manipulated his mind for months. Alex exits the room as quickly as he entered taking a seat at the dining room table where Zan, Kyle, and Maria were conversing like old friends.

Minutes later Lonnie and Ava come out dressed and make a mad dash for the open doughnut box. Ava grins like a happy child who just got the present she's wanted for Christmas. Lonnie occupies the seat next to Alex casting him flirty looks and licking her fingers of the sticky doughnut sweetness.

"Hey where are Liz and Rath. I thought you were getting them?" Maria polishes off her breakfast while she waits for Alex to answer.

"Well, I did go in there but I don't think they would have appreciated me waking them up." Alex explains embarrassingly as his cheeks pinken with awkwardness.

"Wait—are yous sayin' what I's think you's sayin? Did they bump uglies?" Lonnie questions surprisingly giddy by the news.

"I don't know—that's just what it looked like when I saw them?"

"Who looked like what when you saw them?" Liz bounds out of her room with Rath hot on her heels admiring her ass as she walks in front of him.

They had woken up only seconds after Alex had left the room. Rath and Liz hadn't had sex last night but they came damn close. Surprisingly enough it was Rath who stopped them from going all the way. For two reasons, the first he didn't have any condoms and two he wanted to do something new and that was learn about the person before he fucked them. He did get her off though to take the edge off for her. The reminder of Liz's taste was enough to give him wood, luckily his shirt was large enough to cover his erection.

"Oh, I saw you and Rath together in bed, didn't really think you'd make it there the first night." Alex blushes nervously at telling his friend that he saw them.

Liz reddens furiously and grabs a coffee taking a swig of it trying desperately to cover her embarrassment. Rath seeing her nervousness comes to her rescue…sort of.

"Yea, so wes slept together—what business is it of yours skinny?" Rath roughly asks leaning toward him menacingly. As far as he was concerned its nobodies business what he and Liz did in private and he wasn't afraid to tell people that.

"Wait, Liz you really slept with Rath?" Maria rises from her spot at the table and runs a hand through her hair, then turns to Rath to hit him with an open hand on the chest. "Did you take advantage of her? Bastard, you did didn't you, how dare you do that to her." Maria hits him again on the chest this time with a fist.

"Maria, Maria. Stop." Liz puts herself in between her friend and almost lover. "He didn't take advantage of me honey. We didn't sleep together, sleep together. We just slept in the same bed." And a little more than that but she doubts that Maria wants to know. She places her hands on Maria's shoulder's making her listen to her.

"Oh…" Maria looks to Rath and murmurs an apology for hitting him.

"Just don't do it again blondie. My dupe may have put up wid shit like dat but I won't. And I'm only givin' yous one warning." He speaks to her in a menacing tone that oozes anger if he's to be crossed.

There's a moment of silence until Liz breaks it with a question. "Ok who wants to take a shower." Four hands shoot up without hesitation.

"Alright we have two showers so you four argue who gets to go first." Liz throws her hands up in the air and the arguing begins for who gets first dibs. Lonnie and Ava's argument is that they're the girls and need a shower more than guys. Zan and Rath's argument is that they've gone twice as long without a shower than the girls have.

While their deciding who gets to shower first Liz and Maria take that time to get dressed. When they exit the room the four are still fighting about the damn shower.

"Ok since it's my home I'll decide cuz it's apparent that none of you can. Lonnie, Ava you two go first. Rath and Zan can wait 15 minutes." Zan and Rath immediately disagree while Ava and Lonnie are almost skipping to the showers in delight.

TBC