Chapter 5: Good Times with Memories

Tomiya looked over his shoulder as he crept out of the house. It was late, and there was a crescent moon resting high in the sky. As soon as he thought it was safe, he whipped out a cell-phone like device and dialed a few numbers, then waiting for the rings, since he had it on speakerphone. Someone picked up.

"Hello..?" The voice answered, sounding a little tired.

"Yo, are we still on for bar hopping?" Tomiya asked, brushing some of his black bangs out of his face, reaching into the pocket of his black leather coat for a piece of candy.

"Huh...? Oh...Tomiya? Oh...yeah, let me get dressed and I'll meet you at that old place we used to go to when we were in college." The voice replied, a click being heard.

"I wonder if he'll get drunk again and almost get laid like he did back in college." Tomiya asked himself, smirking a bit at some old memories that birthed themselves in his mind.

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"Hey, You're late." The person said, brushing some of his unruly dirty blonde hair from his face.

"Now you know how I felt when you weren't on time, Ace." Tomiya retorted, giving him a fake look of anger, before laughing.

"Goddamn, I haven't seen you in forever, Tomiya." Ace said, smirking a bit. "Where've you been?"

"Living in that group home that was for sale about...eh...5 miles from here." Tomiya said, taking a seat on a barstool. "So, how's the lovelife coming along?" He asked, with a grin.

Ace looked at the bar, watching his reflection in his drink. "Well...there is this one girl I've been talking to for a while...and I think it's possible we could hit it off."

Tomiya chuckled. "My boy's growing up to become a man!"

"Shut up, man." He said "Besides, you know that Mokohara was all over me in our first year." He said with a smirk.

"No she wasn't." He said, laughing a bit "Dude, she was on me like a magnet."

"Hah, whatever you say." Ace said, taking a sip of his beer, seeing a familiar figure through the clear glass. "..."

"Hey, Ace...? What's up? You look like you just saw a ghost or something." Tomiya said.

Ace swallowed hard and set the glass down shakily. "She's here...!" he whispered harshly to Tomiya.

"Huh? Who's here?" he asked.

"The girl I was telling you about." Ace replied, pointing at a violet haired girl, she was dressed in a simple shirt, pants, and jacket with fur cuffs. Her hair reached down to her bottom, and her bangs were parted, but came down to her chin. She looked like one of those silent, shy girls. She simply took a sip of her drink as she overheard part of Tomiya and Ace's conversation.

Tomiya looked at the girl. "Hot damn, where did you meet a flaming beauty like her?"

Ace gave him a grin. "She hired me as a consort for a mission."

"You lucky son of a bitch!" Tomiya commented.

The girl simply got up and left, she seemed to be one of those "keep to themselves" girls. She quietly walked out the doorway, her long violet hair waving gently in the breeze.

"...Anyways, remember that one time in chemistry?" Ace asked, remembering an incident of college.

"Which one?" Tomiya asked

(zomgflashbacktime)

Tomiya tightened his safety goggles and proceeded to get to work. There were two liquids that were indistinguishable by smell or color, and needed to be looked at under a microscope. "Hey, Mr. Lawson! I need some-" He was abruptly cut off by a loud shattering noise, as the resident klutz in the class knocked over ALL of the empty slides, breaking them all into little shards. "...Nevermind." He said, looking over to Ace.

"Hey, you got any empty slides?" he asked, crossing his fingers behind his back.

"No...but..." Ace replied, looking around and grabbing a pair of glasses he saw laying on the desk. "Use these!" he said with a grin.

"..." He gave Ace his best "you dumbass" look before using the glasses to examine the liquid. At that moment, a girl returned to the classroom and started looking for something. "Hey, Ace? Do you know where my glasses are?" She asked him, giving him one of those looks, because...she secretly had a crush on him.

"Uh...nope! Haven't seen 'em!" He told her, laughing a little nervously.

"Oh Okay, If you fi..." She trailed off as she saw Tomiya using her glasses to examine the substance. "TOMIYA! WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO MY READING GLASSES, YOU COCKBITE!" she screamed, stomping over to Tomiya.

"Yo, quit yelling, I need concentration so I can find the right substance so I won't make a mistake and blow up this damn building." He told her, looking at her through the corner of his eye, giving his classic "go away" look.

"I don't care! You ruined my 150 credit reading glasses!" She shouted.

"Shouldn't have spent so much money on a pair of reading glasses." he retorted, standing up and looking down at her, simply giving her the "go away" look.

"I DON'T CARE!" she screamed again, slapping Tomiya so hard he stumbled into a table, knocking it over and knocking a bunch of chemicals to the floor, the mixing chemicals spontaneously combusting and causing a fire on the floor.

"Now look what you did, you dolt." Tomiya said, getting up and going away from the fire. "Katie, you need to stop getting so asshurt over small things. That's the way the cookie crumbles, deal with it." He muttered as the fire supression system activated.

"...I'm sorry..." Katie said, looking down a little, and blushing, because she did find Tomiya more attractive than Ace at times...and Tomiya being drenched in water only made him more appealing.

(zomgendflashback)

"Dude, that's messed up that you suggested I use someone's glasses." Tomiya said, taking a sip of his drink.

"Why am I the bad guy? You're the one who used them!" Ace said in defense.

"I didn't have any other choice, it was either that, or fail the class." Tomiya said.

Ace gave him the look, the look that signifies one has been owned. "...Good point."

"Hey, that doesn't compare to that one time..." Tomiya started

(zomganotherflashback)

Ace sat up in his bed, his head was throbbing like one was bashing his skull in with a hammer. He was horribly hung over. He rubbed his temples and felt something rub up against his hip. He looked over at a large lump in the sheets, and pulled it off. A nearly naked Mokohara was lying there. "!?" "WHAT THE HELL!?" Ace stumbled out of the bed and fell to the floor, then got up and crawled away to the wall. Mokohara rolled over to face him, opening one eye.

"Ace-chan...keep it down.." she mumbled.

"Tell me what's going on!"

"Well...last night, we went out and bought some drinks...you were in a really romantic mood for some reason. and we came home, and drank some...and we started talking..."

Ace gave her the "owned" look as he remembered a scene from earlier in the night.

"Hey...Ace? What's it like to fall in love?" A giggly, drunk Mokohara asked Ace.

Ace wiped some beer from his lips and laughed a little. "Well, you never can tell,...I suppose it just happens!" He told her, taking another swig.

"And then?" Ace asked, afraid of the answer.

"Well..I didn't take advantage of you...but you did start taking off your clothes" She said, giggling a little.

"I WHAT?! ...H-how far did I go?" He asked, ashamed now.

"You were...average sized." She said, grinning childishly.

"!? YOU SAW MY...!!" Ace screamed out in agony, grasping his head and falling down.

(zomgendflashbackagain)

"Ahaha, yeah, you got owned, and I heard the whole thing." Tomiya said, grinning.

"Hey, that was NOT cool, man!" Ace said. "...But at least I got closer to getting laid than you did!"

"And who's still the virgin?" Tomiya asked, giving him the smug grin.

Yet again, Ace was slapped across the face with his "owned" look. "Shut up!" He stammered, embarassed.

"Heh...good times." Tomiya said, before his cell phone...thing...started to ring. He picked it up. "Yo, Dragon Eye speaking." ... "Oh? 200,000 credits? I'm on it." ... "Consort you say? Alright." He hung up, and gave Ace a look. "You heard the word Consort, you know what to do."

"Yep." Ace said, giving him the "are you thinking what I'm thinking" look.

"Time to kick some ass, yo." Tomiya said, getting up from his barstool and running off to his Hangar.

"Catch you there!" Ace shouted after him as he got on his motorcycle and headed to his own hangar.

Chapter 5 end...