DOWN THE LOCAL: MEANWHILE…

A/N: Well, sorry for lying. This isn't so much tomorrow as today… I just confused myself immensely. Anyway, enjoy!

Popuri entered the bar. Although no one noticed her, because, well, you know the reasons. Karen was thrashing Rick's sorry arse in a sculling comp. "Chug, chug, chug, chug, WOOOOOOOOOOOO!". Rick had blacked out for the tenth time, and this time he wasn't sitting up again. Karen looked proud of her work (although Rick just plain didn't look at anything).

This was around the time that Jack made the biggest mistake of his life. He entered the Inn. Karen whirled around. To Jack it was in slow motion. Her sun kissed hair twirled around and framed her face perfectly. She was truly a thing of beauty. This didn't seem to mean that drooling all over the floor was an exception to Doug.

After mopping up loads of drool, most of which was mixed with beer (Popuri had for some reason been spilling litres of the stuff everywhere) he continued to walk over to Karen. He was about to open his mouth to talk, when she talked for him. "What the fuck do you want, bitch?" She asked him coldly. He couldn't say he was surprised.

"Umm, actually, I just wanted to apoligise…" "For what?" she said, asking an obviously rhetorical question. Jack was about to reply, when she started to speak again. "For being a perverted freak? For trying to get me to make out with you? For being an immoral piece of shit? FOR USING A CHEAP TRICK TO TRY TO FEEL ME UP A LITTLE? FOR…" "ok, ok, calm down, please!" said a worried looking Jack. Everyone in the room was now staring weirdly at them.

Karen looked like she was about to hit him again. But then she did something totally unexpected. She calmed down. "Ok, fine." Jack stared at her, honestly not believing a word she was saying. "Jack, do ya really want me to forgive you?" she asked. She had a devilish look in her beautiful green eyes. "Y-y-yes" Jack stammered, not quite getting if she was faking or not. "Ok then. Fine I will… on one condition." This was what Jack was dreading.

"What?", he asked nervously, now taking a few steps back. "If you beat me in a drinking competition, I'll forgive you. But if you don't, I get to take my revenge". Everyone gasped. They knew that she had just taken part in a drinking contest already, but, knowing Karen's capacity for alcohol, Jack was in deep shit. "Ok", Jack said. It was only when he saw Rick's past out body that he realised something he would have liked to know before he agreed to this. He was fucked.

In a mere 10 minutes, Jack was out like a light bulb that had been screwed on by a man (sorry guys, couldn't help meself!) Karen smiled evilly as she said "it begins". She then rushed home to get something that she had never used (and apparently, never had to… until then).

Jack woke up with a start. He was sweating like wild. He was covered with so much sweat it felt like there was another person… hang on. There WAS another person lying on top of him. He pushed them off. Holy shit, it was Popuri! "Oh crap, I've deflowered the flower loving girl" Jack thought to himself as he got up to leave. And then fell right back down again. Oh crap, he had the hangover from hell.

When he did eventually manage to get up, it was 12.00 pm. He walked out of the mysteriously unoccupied Inn door. Only to find the whole town crowded around. They all burst out laughing. That was about the time that Jack realised he was naked. "Oh fuck", he whimpered to himself.

Trying to cover the more private regions of his body, he ran to the right. Here he found Karen standing in the street, laughing her head off. "You are the biggest bitch I've ever known", he blurted out. Expecting her to hit him, he almost ran, but she caught hold of his hand before he could. She turned him around to face her, and looked him straight in the eye. "Thanks for the compliment", she said, and walked off.

Before she rounded the corner, she said "Oh, and Jack, you know, I thought you were kinda hot before. But now, to be honest, well… let's just say I have a thing about not dating drag queens. Although the lipstick does match your eye colour…" with that, she turned and walked smoothly around the corner.

Jack ran all the way home, and looked straight in the mirror. "Oh fuck" he moaned, actually crying a little bit. It wasn't until he wiped everything off his face, and had gotten some clothes on, that he remembered what she had said… she found him hot? He didn't know if that was a good thing, because she thought he was hot, or a bad thing, because she HAD thought he was hot…

A/N: Well, that was fast. Then again, so was your review, Anna. Thanks. And to everyone else, now you have two chapters to read… yay? Anyway, keep on RnRing, folks! Oh yeah, and I've got a new story coming pretty soon, to…