Disclaimer: Nope, don't own anything Stand By Me related. I do own Emma and Meghan (mwah-ha-ha, I own my best friend!)

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"Nice hit!" Eyeball yelled, as Ace slammed another mailbox with the baseball bat. They had been driving around for almost two hours, just outside town. Everyone except Meghan and Billy (A/N: he was driving, how sweet, a Cobra designated driver!) had been drinking. Emma was lounging in the backseat next to Meghan, staring out the window. Suddenly, she glanced up.

"Why do you guys keep hitting the mailboxes?" she asked dazed, even though they'd been doing it for over half an hour.

"Its called 'Mailbox Baseball'. You try and hit the mailbox each time", he paused to destroy another "When you miss one, you're out."

"I wanna play!" Emma said, standing up unsteadily in the middle of the car. Ace grinned and handed her the bat.

"Sure… go for it", he said, catching Eyeball's eye. The two snickered.

Emma stood unsteadily on the backseat and prepared to hit. With utmost concentration, she studied the upcoming mailbox and swung hard. Unfortunately, she missed it completely and wound up falling back onto the seat clumsily.

"Shit!' she screamed as she fell. Meghan and the boys cracked up and Ace reached over to help her back on her feet.

"Come here… I'll show you", he smirked as he placed himself directly behind Emma and covered her hands with his own on the bat. She glanced at him and he took the opportunity to kiss her on the nose. "Now hold it steady… that's right… ", Ace moved her body back into his, clearly enjoying himself. "Ok, when I say to, swing the bat hard… ok… NOW!"

Emma swung hard, and managed to connect with the mailbox, shattering it to pieces. "Yay!" she cried, falling backwards against Ace. He stumbled and they both fell into the backseat, landing on top of Meghan, Eyeball, Vince and Charlie.

"You know, I'm beginning to realize why it's illegal to have this many people in the one car", Meghan said, though she was laughing along with the rest of them.

After a little more "baseball", they decided to return to Eyeball's place. Once they got there, everyone made themselves comfortable and soon all the boys plus Emma were relatively drunk. Meghan sat in a corner of the yard, making vain attempts to talk to a drunk Vince. Eyeball was passed out on the porch, while Charlie and Billy drew vulgar (A/N: I love that word!) pictures on his face. Emma and Ace were making out in the darkest corner they could find. Though they were both drunk, Ace could clearly hold his liquor a little better.

"Ace", Emma giggled as he kissed her neck.

"What?" he replied, trying to discreetly get his hands under her shirt.

"Why are your shirt in my hands? I mean-", she cut herself off as she began to laugh again.

Ace finally gave up on her shirt. Her hands would not stop moving. Instead he settled on pulling her in for another long kiss. She wrapped her arms around his neck, appearing to reciprocate before suddenly yanking a lock of his blonde hair.

"Fuck!" he yelled, pulling away and rubbing the back of his head. He glared at Emma and she smiled sweetly at him.

"What?"

Ace's scowl broke into a grin. "Ooh baby. You are gonna regret that", he said, grabbing her round the waist and kissing her roughly. When he finally stopped, Emma poked her tongue out at him.

"Please don't tempt me", Ace said in response, before kissing her again.

Meanwhile, Meghan was still trying to get some form of conversation out of Vince, though not having much luck.

"You know, you're really pretty…" he murmured, reaching out to touch her hair. She smiled wryly before moving away a little.

"Yeah… anyway… so Emma and I didn't really have a reason for coming to Castle Rock. We never really needed one. Have you lived here all your life?" she said. Vince, rather then responding, placed one hand on her shoulder, the other on her waist.

"You know, I'm not seeing anyone. Are you sure you don't want a beer or something?" he persisted, leaning over her drunkenly. Meghan had had enough.

"Um, listen, would you wait here for one minute? I have to talk to Emma about something… you know… girl talk", she prayed he'd just let her leave. It wouldn't do any good to tell a drunk boy she didn't like him. That was too stupid for words.

"Sure… hurry back…" Vince mumbled, falling back into the grass.

Meghan walked quickly across to where Emma sat on Ace's lap. Uncomfortably she tapped her on the arm. "Em?"

Sighing, she reluctantly pulled away from Ace. "Yeah?"

"I need to… talk to you. Now".

Emma glanced back at Ace. "Um, are you sure it couldn't wait?"

"No. It can't", Meghan replied shortly. Emma got the message.

"Ace? I'll be back in two minutes. Less even. Ok?" she asked him.

"Don't you mean 'I'll be two minutes back?'" he asked, smirking at her.

"Shut up! I'm passed the stupid stage", she giggled "Although clearly not the giggling stage".

She gave him one more soft kiss, before following Meghan into the empty house. "Now, what's going on?" Emma asked.

"That Vince guy kept coming on to me. He's beyond drunk and I don't want to deal with telling him how un-interested I am" Meghan replied.

"Ok. Fair enough. I guess this means we have to leave the party", she said, frowning. "This blows".

"Look, I'm sorry alright? Question is: what do we do now?"

"Um… well, we could always go for another drive", Emma replied slyly. She reached down her top and produced Ace's car keys.

"Shit! How'd you manage to get your hands on them?" Meghan gasped, although she was grinning.

Emma grinned back. "It wasn't hard. Anytime I touch that boy he thinks he's gonna get some", she swung the keys around on her finger. "Well, we need a decision. To drive or not to drive?"

"To drive. Just one proviso", Meghan said.

"Which would be?"

"I drive", Meghan grabbed the keys and the two girls run out of the house. Quickly jumping inside, Meghan turned the ignition as quietly as possible before they sped down the road.

"Whooo!" Emma screamed into the night. Meghan laughed and they drove manically down the dark and deserted street.

"Hey, wait! There's someone on the curb", Emma said, motioning for Meghan to slow down. She did and they saw a girl around their age with long brown hair wandering down the street with her thumb out. Meghan and Emma glanced at each other and Meghan nodded.

"Hey! Need a ride?" Emma yelled towards the girl. The girl made her way over to the car and nodded gratefully.

"Thanks a lot. I've been walking for almost an hour now", she said, climbing into the back seat.

"No problem. Just so you know, we just stole this car from a notorious gang leader, who she", Meghan pointed at Emma "just spent the past two hours making out with".

"I'm also drunk", Emma said, grinning.

The girl paused for a moment. "Then perhaps we should start the car again", she grinned.

Meghan smiled at her before turning the car back on and pulling back onto the road.

"I'm Emma and she's Meghan", Emma said, putting her hands in the air and screaming again.

"I'm Katy", the girl replied, before leaning out the window and screaming too.

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Yay, new character! Excitement ensues! What sort of crazy hi-jinx will these crazy kids get up to? Only time will tell! xxo