When Sam awoke the next day, he quietly relished the fact that, at some point during their slumber, their legs had tangled together beneath the sheets. And when Callie's eyes creaked open to the sound of him gently calling her name, she had not pulled away from him. Instead, she drowsily shuffled into his chest and rested her forehead against the uneven skin there, muttering about still being tired and skipping her morning lecture. With his timetable free until that afternoon, Sam didn't complain when he heard her breathing fall back into a steady rhythm as she drifted back to sleep. As a yawn stretched his contented features, he too enjoyed the rest of the morning with a drape of his arm and a stroke of his thumb.

*

"Yeah, you 'forgot'." Sniggered Touya when Sam informed him of what had happened the previous day as they left their afternoon class.

"It's true. I was late that morning and I left them in my other jacket."

Touya found it hard to believe that both Sam and Callie had conveniently forgotten both sets of keys, resulting in their night in a cheap motel room.

"And lemme guess..." His lanky friend droned, his cigarette hanging from his smirking lips, "you still didn't get any action?"

Sam rolled his eyes as Touya clicked his lighter beneath and took a long drag, letting the smoke pour idly from his nose as his peered down it towards him.

"Dude, Callie and I are just friends, capiche?" Sam tutted, titling his head away from the smoke as it pooled around his head.

"Ack. So?" Touya grunted, shrugging his leather wrapped shoulders.

"So..." Sam drawled, his eyes front and his chest heaving a sigh, "I don't just wanna-fuck."

"Don't wanna fuck? The hell's wrong with you?" Touya blurted, eyeing his friend like he was some sort of alien.

"No!" Sam shot back, stopping in his tracks. "I mean, fuck. Look! Isn't that your crazy ex?"

There was no doubt about it. Sam recognised the messy space buns and heavily lined, psycho eyes anywhere. It was Toga alright.

Touya cursed heavily under his breath, flicking away his unfinished cigarette.

"Dude, wasn't she supposed to be in prison?" Sam frowned. But when he turned around to look up at him, Touya was trying to duck behind him and hide his 6f4 body behind Sam's shorter frame.

"Well she clearly ain't now!" Touya growled over Sam's shoulder. "Urgh, why are you so damn short!?"

"Actually, my height's aver-"

"Shit! She's coming!"

And Sam had never seen Touya move so fast in his life. He flung himself behind a nearby tree and pressed his frame against it as the blonde haired girl in a short, tartan skirt and biker boots skipped towards them.

When her wild eyes found Sam, he felt himself tense under their widening gaze.

"Oh my god! Sammy! Is that you?" She squealed.

Before he could react, her arms were around his neck in an alarmingly tight hold.

"H-heya, Toga." He choked, her nuzzling face knocking his glasses askew.

"Ohh! It's good to see your cute, little face again!" She sang, poking her fingers hard into his cheeks where his dimples would have been had he been smiling. But seeing her toothy grin did not make him want to do so. She giggled as she straightened his glasses, breathing hard into his face. She had a metallic tinge to her breath that made Sam's eyes blink faster as he fought back to urge to grimace.

"Tell me, Sammy!" She purred, her arms still around his neck and one foot kicked up into the air like an enamoured school girl. "You wouldn't happen to know where my darling Touya is, do you?" Her eyes flashed dangerously as she said this. They were similar to Callie's in a lot of ways; bright yellow and framed by long lashes. However, Toga's had a sinister slant to them and, unlike Callie's, lacked any sort of warmth.

Sam cleared his throat as Toga relinquished her hold on him, though only slightly, and replied with a confident. "No, can't say I have."

Toga pouted her pink lips and dropped her foot in a childish stomp.

"Oh! But I thought you two were best buddies!"

Sam managed a weak laugh. "Not anymore, sorry."

Luckily, Sam was a rather convincing liar and Toga took his words as truth. Finally, she let go of him with a shove of his shoulders.

"No fair!"

Sam wasted no time in taking off back towards his apartment, turning only briefly to see Touya cast him a somewhat desperate look from behind the tree. A lazy grin split Sam's face as he shrugged his arms towards him behind Toga's back.

"Good luck," he'd mouth.

Touya would have to get himself out of this one.