CHAPTER 5

THE PARTY

Lynn ran up to him and looked at him in sadness, "...Spike, I'm so sorry."

He turned his head looking in another direction, "It's not your fault, Lynn." He clenched both of his fists in rage. "Why did he have to go that low like that? He could've fucking killed her. I wish I could get so drunk, I couldn't remember any of this."

Tempest walked up to him with a wide smile, "I think I can make that happen."

Lynn looked over to Tempest while shaking her head a bit. She even knew that it would be a bad idea.

He ignored her and placed his hand on Spike's shoulder, "There's this guy I know and today he's throwing a kick ass party for people like us."

Lynn placed her hands on her hips, "Tempest, I don't know about that Leon guy."

"Leon?" Spike repeated.

Tempest continued, "Yeah, he and I go way back. Who knows maybe he'll like you too. So what do you say? Wanna come?"

Lynn crossed her arms and frowned, angry at Tempest for ignoring her comment.

It didn't take long for Spike make his decision, "Sure, I have nothing else to do today anyway."

"Sweet, lets go", he and Spike started to continue walking along the sidewalk. It took a moment for Tempest to realize that Lynn wasn't following them. He turned and looked back at her, "You coming, Lynn?"

She sighed and started to follow them, "Yeah", she muttered.

Back at Shadow's house, Shadow was sitting with Rouge on the sofa watching her gaze her wounded arm with a sad look on her face.

She was silent and never said a word since Spike stormed off.

Shadow could no longer look at her act that way anymore. He placed his hand on her leg making her look over in his direction, "Are you going to be okay?"

She had finished bandaging herself, so she placed the gaze down on a small table in front of them and shrugged at Shadow's question.

"Quit acting like that. It was my fault remember? You have no reason to get emotional over that."

"Yes I do. He hates me."

"What?"

"You heard what he said. Loud and clear." She sighed with sadness, "I guess he has every right to hate me."

Shadow's ears tilted feeling sorry for her. He also heard him say that he hated them both which made it worse. "Rouge", he said in a soft voice.

"I'm a horrible mother, Shadow. Just horrible."

He wrapped his hands around her and embraced her, "You may be a horrible mother, but you're not a horrible person."

She turned to him and hugged him, "I just want him to come home and tell him how sorry we are."

"He'll come home when he's ready. He still loves us...I know he does."

Later, Spike, Tempest, and Lynn came to a blue and white house hearing loud music from the inside.

Tempest made a wide smile towards Spike, "Here we are. Let me get you acquainted with him." He took Spike's wrist and led him into the house with Lynn following behind them.

When they got inside, they saw a lot of teenagers most of them drunk or either high dancing to the music.

Spike took his wrist away from Tempest and felt pretty nervous around the other teenagers. "I don't know about this. I'm not very good at making new friends."

"You don't have to make friends, just sit down somewhere and get your ass drunk like you wanted."

When he almost said something back, a blue male teenaged lion walked up to them and gently punched Tempest's shoulder.

"You came huh?" He asked in a drunken tone.

"I couldn't refuse when a friend of mine wanted a good time", he looked over to Spike to introduce him to the lion.

The lion looked over to him with a blank expression. "Who's he?"

"Leon, this is Spike. He's cool."

The hedgehog looked over to him and smiled a bit trying to be friendly.

"Spike, huh? You look like you need some fun. Wanna drink?"

The first time someone offered him beer he said no but this time he couldn't refuse. He was angry and depressed. He figured booze would make him feel better. "Sure."

"Let me get you a few bottles then. I'll be right back."

As Leon walked away, Spike turned to Tempest and Lynn. "So what are you two gonna do?"

Tempest gave Lynn a smile and placed his hand on her butt making her blush, "We'll be upstairs."

Spike had the thought of Tempest making out with Lynn in his mind and it hurt him because maybe just maybe he had loved her the way Tempest loved her. He shook off the hurtful feeling and acted like he got their drift, "Yeah, yeah I got your point. Don't have to tell me twice."

"We won't be long, little brother", he walked past Spike and led Lynn upstairs into a room.

Spike crossed his arms in disgust. He really wasn't friends with Tempest and he had the nerve to call him his little brother. He and him wasn't really close in the first place, he would only hang out with him because he wanted to see Lynn more. "Little brother. What a fucking joke."

Tempest shut the door and locked it behind him when he and Lynn entered a dark room. He turned to her and gave her a seductive smile.

A light blush appeared on her face as he walked over to her and pinned her to the door. She waited for his lips to meet hers. When it did, she had never felt more alive.

He placed his mouth on her neck and started to kiss her there while unbuttoning her shirt.

Her eyes flashed as he did. She never wanted for them to have sex with each other just anywhere. She never felt comfortable with that. She placed her hand on his and hoped that he would stop trying to take off her clothes.

Meanwhile, Spike was sitting at a small round table with his head down on it. Empty beer bottles had taken over the whole table. It was clear that he was drunk. He had almost lost himself and fell asleep, but someone had sat across from him.

"Someone's having a good time", a female teased with a soft giggle.

Spike lazily took his head away from the table and looked up at a purple raccoon smiling at him, "Who the hell are you?" He asked in a low voice.

She giggled again, "Veronica. You?"

"None of your damn business."

She shook her head a bit feeling sorry for him getting so drunk, "You're nicer than this aren't you?"

Spike gave her an annoyed look, "If I tell you my name will you shut the fuck up and go away?"

She shrugged, "Maybe."

"It's Spike. Now get out my life", he slowly stood from the table trying not trip up or fall on the floor. He could barely move correctly. He tried to walk away from her, but she had grabbed his wrist and pulled him back to her. "Look bitch, if you don't let go of me right now I'll fucking..." before he could finish he was pulled into a unexplainable kiss.

She took her mouth away from him and gave him a seductive look as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "So...are you a virgin?"

He blushed after she finished kissing him, "...uh, yes."

"How about losing that virginity to me?"

Answering that question was probably the hardest thing he had to do all day. Before he could answer, he all of a sudden felt sick in his stomach. He pushed her away from him and held his stomach.

Veronica raised an eyebrow, "What's wrong with you?"

"I-I feel..." He then threw up all over the floor and even her.

She screamed and yelled over the mess all over her. She glared at him and slapped him hard in the face knocking him straight on the floor. "You stupid drunk! You'll pay for that! Leon!"

As Spike slowly stood from the floor, Leon made his way into the room.

The lion's eyes were full of shock when he saw her covered in vomit, "Veronica babe, what the hell happened to you?"

She pointed to the drunken black hedgehog standing behind him, "He did it! He walked over to me and tried to get some from me. I told him I already had a boyfriend but he didn't listen. Then he kissed me while shoving his nasty tongue down my throat and after that he threw up on me. Oh, Leon it was horrible."

Spike's mouth dropped to the floor as she told those ridiculous lies, "But Leon, that's not-"

"Shut up! I don't care what you have to say. I'll believe my own girlfriend it's you I don't trust." He walked up to him and grabbed him by his black and red coat. "You're one dead hedgehog."

Back in the dark room, Tempest and Lynn were still making out with each other until he reached for the zipper to her pink skirt and tried to unzip it.

Lynn jerked away and stood across from him.

He stood there with his arms crossed looking pissed off at her, "Man, Lynn what's up with you?"

"I'm sorry, Tempest but I can't. Not here." She walked up to him again and gave him a quick kiss on his lips, "I'll make it up to you when we get back to your place okay?"

He sighed with confusion and decided to wait like she wanted. "Sure, Lynn."

She walked to the closed door and unlocked it, "We should check on, Spike."

When they were walking down the stairs, they noticed that the music had stopped playing and a lot of shouting came from the exit.

"What's going on?" Lynn started to head towards the small kitchen with Tempest following her. She gasped with shock when she saw Leon pick up an empty beer bottle and break the end of it on the counter, smashing the whole end of it off.

Leon pointed the sharp glass at Spike's throat, "Now you'll pay the price for throwing up all over my girlfriend."

Spike shut his eyes with his tears appearing as well. He then heard Tempest's voice approaching them.

"Hold it, Leon!" The blue hawk shouted, "What's this about?"

Spike opened his eyes with relief, "Thank god, Tempest."

Leon never lowered the glass from his neck, "Stay out of this, Tempest. This is between me and the hedgehog."

"So what if he threw up on Veronica, she deserved it. Besides you may not believe it but this was his first time getting drunk. He's for sure going to make mistakes."

"You have the nerve, Hawk. At least I didn't fuck her and dump her all in one night."

He clenched both of his fists not wanting to bring up the horrible mistake that he made before. "Just forget it okay! Just let him go."

Leon looked away from him and faced Spike again, "I don't have to listen to you."

"That's it", he growled. He then pulled out a black handgun from his pants pocket and pointed it at the lion. "Let him go now."

Everyone in the room gasped and screamed as they backed away from Tempest.

Leon on the other hand didn't feel threatened by the weapon, "You're not going to shoot me."

The angry expression on his face never left him, "Think I won't?"

"Do it! Come on and shoot me!"

All his comments just made him madder by the second. He wanted to show him that he meant business and he was the one in charge. He pointed the gun slightly away from him and pulled the trigger.

The bullet from the gun shot him slightly on the side of his arm, but not enough to kill him just hurt him.

Leon dropped the broken beer bottle on the floor and held his bleeding arm, "You shot me."

He looked down at him with disgust, "Still think I fucking won't?" He turned to Spike and Lynn, "Lets get out of here."

Leon and Veronica watched as they took their sweet time and walked out the door.

He growled under his breath, "Just wait, Tempest. I'll kill you, your boyfriend, and your little whore too."