PINK- Walk of Shame
"There are not enough showers in the world to make last night right!" Mac lamented as she stood in line at the food court beside her roommate and her best friend. Dick Casablanca's was the epitome of everything that Mac loathed ad Veronica was still in shock, this was the last thing she ever would have expected from the petite brunette.
Veronica hadn't stuck around long after room service had brought her and Logan breakfast and Dick was his usual super hungover self as he climbed into the shower, before reappearing semi-human in his shorts and t-shirt eating a bowl of whiskey soaked cheerio's, turning over the news she had been watching that morning to an episode of Futurama. He still hadn't made it to classes though, Chip Wheeler had mentioned as much to Logan while seeking out his Frat Bro for some lunch time waves. Sympathetically declaring that hangovers sucked all the balls.
"So you had a one-night stand… it's not like you have to arrange for a dowry" Parker offered.
Of course this would seem like no big deal to her roommate. Veronica thought. Not only were casual sexual encounters completely ok in the Parker's Guide to Life but she had no understanding of the complex history between Mac and Dick Casablancas.
No idea of the trauma Mac had suffered at the hands of his younger brother Cassidy...
"I have a boyfriend… a very cute, kind to animal's boyfriend, and he's sweet and he adores me… and I end up in bed with DICK FRICKING CASABLANCA'S?" Mac shrieked in a low whisper.
"Believe me, your shock is well noted. How did this happen?" Veronica questioned her as she picked up a plastic tray and offered it to Mac.
"I'm not sure.." Mac admitted gingerly.
Which was a lie, she remembered too well the moment when he'd peeled off her underwear and his body first thrust into hers... wrecking her uterus...
"There's entire websites dedicated to just that." Parker winked. "And some electives for Health Class.."
"We uh- went to a movie with Wallace and those guys from the basketball team, then we met Piz watching some battle of local bands, then we got pizza with some of the Pi Sigs and Wallace met up this girl... and before I know it" Mac explained, speaking way too fast. "It's just me and Dick sitting outside the Neptune Grand lounge bar and he starts opening up to me about his dad, and Beaver.. So then I really started drinking… because… he's crying and telling me it's like I'm the only one who understands how Beaver could really be sweet.. and how he's sorry for everything.. I was only going to leave him upstairs.. then we get outside the door.. And he's kissing me and….." she rambled as her face went bright red at the memory. Mortified she buried her face in her hands again.
"It was a mistake… we all make mistakes" Parker comforted her, as she handed Mac a milkshake from the fridge but her eyes smiled with amusement of her earlier statement that Hate Sex, is the Best Sex.
"I don't think I could eat anything today.. I wanna throw up" Mac replied, rejecting the offer. Veronica took it instead. "What am I going to do?" she asked.
"Take the morning after pill?" Parker suggested.
"I have to go to the clinic…" Mac declared, her eyes panicked. "The Neptune free clinic, at lunch time… We weren't safe!" she was pacing around them in circles.
"Did you enjoy it?" Veronica asked, as she picked up a small salad from the fridge and a small vegetarian lasagne for Mac. Locking eyes with her friend, she saw the horror fill Mac's face. She had.
"What does that even mean?" Mac exclaimed.
"I think it means did you have a good time?" Parker repeated.
"It wasn't… terrible… for a man-whore, he's actually pretty good at that… but that is beyond the point!" Mac told them both.
"I don't think you have to worry… Dick is pretty much, Dick" Veronica comforted as she moved up the line and handed her card to the cashier. The woman raised her eye-brow and gave Veronica a disapproving glare. "It's his name.. not his appendage" she muttered.
"I just feel so dirty…" Mac explained, ignoring the woman in front of them.
"At least you don't have to worry about him calling you?" Parker offered.
Veronica wasn't sure if that was comforting or not. Dick would never call any girl after something like that, no girl except maybe Madison Sinclair, the girl whom Mac had been switched with at birth, the connection must have registered with Mac about the same time that it occurred to Veronica because Mac suddenly buried her hands in her hair again.
"I just slept with Madison's ex-boyfriend… as if our lives don't overlap enough?!" Mac cried. Veronica slid into an empty seat and the other two girls followed her. Parker had her usual admiring glance towards the Radio DJ booth where Piz was chatting away on the microphone with his two guest stars, a lively debate on the funding for female vs male sports equipment in the Hearst University. The memory of his lips kissing along her throat as they had clawed each other's clothes off made her cheeks red with embarrassment, Mac took the small piece of stuffed pepper that Veronica offered and started to play with it sullenly.
She wasn't sure what unsettled her more, that she'd slept with Dick, self-proclaimed playboy and the most notorious womanizer of all the Pi Sigs on campus.. or that he was her dead boyfriends older brother…
Not to mention he'd tormented her in high school. Her phone chirped, it was her boyfriend again. What was she going to do?
How was she going to ignore the fact she had enjoyed it?
"One step at a time" Veronica consoled her. "We can call over to the Clinic after class"
"Yea, I need to pick up some free condoms" Parker agreed nonchalantly.
"Just please nobody mention this ever again" Mac begged.
Veronica made a locking and throwing away the key motion and smiled sympathetically with her petite brunette friend. She looked across the food court to see Logan entering in from the far side with some of his classmates from Sociology, Wallace was with him, they glanced at each other and he gave her a sweet smile, waving. Wallace noticed the little exchange and shook his head.
"You two finished with your eye-sex yet?" Parker interrupted, a little impatient.
"Huh?" Veronica asked, bringing her focus back to the table.
"Poetry reading and craft class on Thursday, you in?" Parker repeated, her blue eyes searching her companions face.
"Yea, sounds good" Veronica smiled.
"I don't know.. an acid bath and some brain bleaching?" Mac muttered as she sulked.
Logan approached the table, and Wallace followed close behind.
"Ladies, how are you?" Wallace called out as he set his burger down at the table and pulled a chair from the empty table behind them.
"Hey" Logan smiled as he slid into the seat beside Veronica.
"Hey" she smiled back as he kissed her cheek.
"Not a word!" Mac warned, her eyes flashing angrily at Logan as they darted around the room in case Dick was there.
"At ease" he chuckled.
Wallace stared at the group and sensing the tension. "I am feeling a little out of the loop here."
"Mac and Dick hooked up last night" Parker gossiped.
"Sure… let the whole world know!" Mac complained.
"Dick… as in Dick Casablanca's?" he looked at her incredulously. "The same Dick Casablanca's from Neptune High?"
"I am going to the one place I know I don't have to worry about talking or thinking about this anymore… computer lab" Mac said as she left her seat. Veronica wasn't sure if she should follow, this was really affecting Mac.
"Call me later" Veronica told her, the two of them exchanged a look, she gave her a small smile.
"Yeah, sure" Mac said as she left.
"Do I even wanna know?" Wallace queried, giving Veronica a pointed stare.
"Probably not" she smiled, as she intertwined her fingers with Logan's and took a sip of her milkshake.
"I caught her sneaking out of his room this morning" Logan explained.
"Damn… that I did not see coming" he replied as he took a bit of his burger. Had all the women in his life gone crazy?
He glanced at Parker looking dreamily at the DJ booth, at least this one was straight forward, even if she have the hots for Piz.
"Well, I'm glad for her. She deserves more fun in her life" Parker declared, flipping her hair over her shoulder and taking a bite of chocolate cake.
"Did Dick mention anything this morning after I left?" Veronica questioned softly, wrapping Logan's arm around her.
"He was singing in the shower" Logan informed her "but I am not sure what that means."
"It means, if he harasses or hurts my friend, he and I will be having a conversation" Wallace told Logan pointedly. Logan raised an eyebrow and Veronica visibly stiffened.
"Dick's a good guy.. if she says back off, he won't bother her" Logan reassured him.
"Hey Guys" Piz said, finishing his set he was coming to join them, he glanced at the happy couple awkwardly, and gave Veronica a shy smile. Damn his life was messy Wallace thought.
"Hey Wallace" Amira, a petite Indian student purred as she and her roommate wandered into the food court.
"Hey Amira" he smiled, she had been helping him with some calculations for his plane in return for some heavy lifting and favours in her dorm room. Didn't hurt that she was gorgeous.
"Friend of yours?" Parker flirted.
God this girl was like cupid on steroids, Veronica thought.
"We met last week" he explained.
"Isnt that the girl you were talking to last night?" Piz asked.
"Yea" Wallace smiled sheepishly.
"So she's the reason you didn't come home" he laughed, before he caught Parker staring at him again.
"Was everyone getting some last night?" Parker sulked.
"No, not everyone" Logan said with a sly grin watching Piz peel an orange.
It must have been one hell of a hangover and tequila fog because it was not like Dick to skip class and he'd completely missed the Pi Sigs Human Jenga this afternoon. Veronica's shift tonight in the Hearst library gave Logan the perfect opportunity to discuss last night's hook up with his roommate.
"Hello human, goodbye caveman…" Logan commented as Dick finally emerged from his room and returned to his game.
Dick grunted and paced around the living room area in his Neptune Grand hotel suite; a sausage and egg sandwich in one hand and his cell phone in the other, scrolling obsessively through his contacts.
He could understand the slinking out if mystery bae didn't want to overstay and risk the walk of shame but she didn't even leave a fake phone number.… Holy shizballs… what if he couldn't find her?
"You ok there buddy?" Logan asked putting down the controller.
""Yeah. Just wondering, how soon is too soon to offer up a booty call?" his roommate confessed.
Maybe he should Instastalk chicks in his selfies from last night… retrace his steps… WWVD?
"On a school night?" Logan joked.
"Jackie is gay right?" Dick asked.
"As an orange jumpsuit" Logan confirmed.
"That rules her out," he sighed, cancelling the friend request. Tinder was a bust…
"How much do you remember from last night?" Logan enquired. More specifically your post-midnight paramour.
"Snippets- its soaked in a beer and Jägermeister blur and normally I don't mind waking up to an empty bed but not even a post it note sucks." Dick explained, grabbing a beer from the mini-fridge in the room.
Oh God, Dick didn't remember. Landmine.
Logan grimaced at his friend. How was he supposed to explain this?
"You were with Mac."
"Yea, for the movie and the drinks and then… " Dick's voice trailed off as his eyes widened and something flickered through his mind. He froze with one hand mid-rub on the back of his skull. Fuck no….
His mind raced, trying to sort through the kaleidoscope of images from last night. He was out in the student bar eye rolling as Piz gave some lecture about the drummer of a band playing… He recalled feeling warm and loose, drinking until everything became funny and leaning into Mac and really noticing the hint of silver in her grey eyes… the gentle curve of her hips… the sting in his hands burning to graze her thigh…
Dick swallowed his beer in long panicked gulps.
"She made as little eye contact as possible when she dipped out this morning." Logan explained.
"Sexit?" Dick repeated slowly his blond hair framed the frowns in his forehead. "But she hates me."
"Dude, you guys were pretty wasted, and she probably wanted to avoid you saying it was nice to meat her." Logan comforted him, he couldn't imagine the kinds of thoughts that were going through his friends head right now.
"Hell yes we were… she took advantage of me" he protested.
"Yeah… she thought you might say that, so she sent something over" Logan explained, reaching onto the shelf near the coffee machine to retrieve a small disk.
"What's that?" Dick asked.
"She got Veronica to get the footage of you guys coming back to the suite last night" he added.
"We made a sex tape?" Dick asked in surprise.
"God I hope not." Logan grimaced.
"Let just hope they got all the good angles." Dick swallowed as he took the disk and placed it into the game cube. It was static for a second before it showed a brief clip of them returning from the hotel bar, and into the elevator and few minutes of both of them standing in the hallway of his hotel suite staring at each other.
"Thanks for taking me home…" he said in a low voice.
"It's not exactly Mordor and you don't have to click your heels three times..." Mac replied breathlessly patting him on the chest as he braced his hands on the wall above either side of her head.
"You are so cool…" Dick said brushing her cheek with a single knuckle.
Don't do it... he urged his on screen self. Don't cross that line of a desire that was always just a whisper away...
"And you aren't a total bad boy after all… I had fun" she said gazing up at him like she couldn't physically look away.
"…too hot for me to risk putting my hands on you.." he murmured as if answering the other half of some debate he was having with himself as his fingers dipped under her chin. "I've been telling myself no all night…"
Logan studied Dick's face as his friend watched the drama unfolding before him.
Mac stepped into his touch shyly. Then Dick gave her the barest of kisses, pulling back long enough to stare into her eyes.
"God help me I need this..." he growled in a hoarse whisper. His hand other hand sliding down the wall a few more moments passed before she leapt hungrily into his arms snaked around her kissing and hiking her legs around his waist. Barely stopping long enough to stumble into the hotel suite.
"Is that all there is?" Dick asked.
"Yeah, just that one video.." Logan confirmed, as he passed Dick another beer from the fridge.
"Dude… I don't remember any of it" Dick explained. Lie, God help him that was a lie.
All those responsive little noises they'd made in his room, her taut body under his…arching upwards.. her breasts pressed against his chest…
"So it isn't a big deal?" Logan told him.
"Dude… I had sex with Mac" Dick told him taking the beer and opening it.
"Yeah but there's a lot of history here and things could get ugly." Logan cautioned as he opened up his own beer and sat down on the couch, regarding his friend carefully.
"Didn't stop her.." Dick joked and Logan gave him a serious stare.
"She has a boyfriend man" Logan lamented. "This could get complicated…"
"What.. like catching feelings? Please, I'd rather be a few cheese plates away from diabetes! Totally uncool to think I want to complicate my life man.. I know better than that. I leave that stage-five clinger shit to you." he informed him, before putting his cell phone back into his pocket and sinking down onto the seat next to Logan.
The hottest sex of his life had just shrivelled under the ice cold reality that he was now tunnel buddy's with his dead brother. Sure he could understand why he'd screwed up. He'd finally given in…after all those weeks of curiously watching her at parties. Those fantasies he had about her during his intro to social media for business classes they shared.
He pinched the bridge of his nose and gave his head a stern shake.
By why had she allowed it to happen?
He should feel damn lucky Mac had split and saved them the awkwardness.
Hell her slinking out without so much as a 'thanks for a good time sport' had made her feelings on the matter pretty clear.
He had a clean get away so why was he disappointed?
