Max woke up with a start. She had dozed off on the couch watching that infomercial about headlight restorer. She glanced at her Debs watch. 1:30am. She tried to stretch out all of her stiff muscles before standing up. She heard banging noises and for the hundreth time that night she looked up at the ceiling. You've got to be kidding me.
Max trudged slowly up the stairs, thinking she would see if Amy was awake. She had a hard time believing anyone could sleep through the racket Dom was making. She quietly knocked on the door and half opened it. The lights were off, but the hallway light fell right across Amy's bed. Amy wasn't in it. Weird. She went over to Janet's room. As much as she had no desire to talk to Janet right now, there wasn't any way she was going to get any sleep. She listened at Janet's door, and looked down to see if any light was coming from under the door. It looked dark. She quietly opened it, only to find another empty room. Where is everyone? Well everyone besides Dom?
Max headed back downstairs. She tried both Amy's and Janet's cellphones and comm watches. No response. In fact, she could hear Amy's cellphone ringing from somewhere. She looked at the couch, shook her head, and walked outside to sit on the porch swing, slightly irritated. Max would always be one of those people who was annoyed before she was ever worried.
Amy and Lucy were laughing in their booth, sipping on their beers and telling stories. Lucy had just finished telling Amy a story about how, when she was 17, she got caught making out with the daughter of a man whose house she had just cleaned out of $1.5 million in jewelry and gold. She had to jump out of the window into the bushes below in only her boyshorts. The girl was nice enough to throw her pants out of the window where they landed on Lucy's head and caused her to run into the wall of the house before making her escape. Amy had shared a story of one of her missions gone awry. Freshman year they had sent in the Freshman Top Squad to observe a FBI stakeout. Except the two FBI agents got hot and heavy in their car, not noticing their target slip out of the building. The Debs followed and arrested the man, and dragged him back to the FBI agents' car. So, they cuffed him, opened the door to the backseat and threw him in before they noticed the two agents back there as well. The two naked agents. Amy was still owed favors by the two of them.
The laughing had died down to small giggles when Amy excused herself and got out of the booth. "Hey Luce, where is the ladies room in this place?" Lucy pointed to the far corner of the bar and grinned when Amy turned around. She could see Amy snaking through the dancefloor, slowly making her way to the other side of the place. She was admiring the lithe way Amy moved her body, lifting her arms every now and again to get by, revealing the smooth skin of her toned abs. Lucy's eyebrows raised a bit, just as her eyes glinted with a little lust and a lot of mischief. She slid out of the booth and had a much easier time clearing a path to the bathroom, as everyone moved out of her way.
Scud and Janet were having their own laughs by the foosball table. Scud asked Janet about Max's blind date. Janet looked confused and asked,"How did you know about that?" Scud pointed at himself. Janet exclaimed, "No!" and then laughed, "No! Wow, I didn't even get to find out anything that happened, just that it was bad." Scud nodded. "It was bad. I was bad. I was so nervous I ended up insulting her before I even realized she was my date." Scud pointed at his fading black eye. Janet looked at it for a moment, thinking. "Right hook?" He nodded. Janet grabbed the collar of his tee shirt and pulled slightly, causing him to bend down towards her. She kissed the bruise under his eye tenderly. "Sorry she did that. She's a bit..." "Crazy?" "Temperamental."
Amy stood waiting on the (thankfully) short line to the bathroom. The door to one of the two stalls finally opened and Amy entered. She half turned to close and latch the door only to find that Lucy had grabbed the door and quietly slipped in with her. Amy was caught off guard, and then even more so by the look of almost pure lust in Lucy's eyes. "Lu-" The thought was never finished as Lucy wrapped her arms around Amy, pulling her close. Lucy lifted her chin a bit to meet the eyes of the taller blonde. The intensity Amy saw in Lucy's eyes cut off any thoughts beyond what was about to happen. Lucy's hands roamed under the light jacket Amy wore, sliding up and down her tank top. Without realizing it, Amy had taken her bottom lip between her teeth, and she saw Lucy's gaze shift down to look. Amy's entire being was filled with a warmth that started in the pit of her stomach and traveled to all outlying areas of her body. Lucy leaned in to kiss those lips, and Amy immediately followed suit.
Lucy had meant to make it a slow, passionate kiss, that built (hopefully) into something deeper. Upon feeling Amy's warm soft lips on hers, she lost some of her restraint. It was a heady, sexy, open mouthed kiss. Lucy lightly moaned, which in turn, caused Amy to quietly moan as well. Lucy was surprised when she felt Amy's tongue slide into her mouth and slip against her own. Lucy then lightly nibbled on Amy's lower lip. Lucy pulled away slightly and saw a vision of a breathless and flushed Amy. "So that's what that feels like." Amy tilted her head slightly. "What what feels like?" "Biting your bottom lip. No wonder you do it all the time." Amy blushed and Lucy brought her hand up to rest against Amy's cheek. She moved it up to tuck some stray hair out of Amy's face, before moving to Amy's neck to pull her in for another, more chaste, kiss.
Now it was Lucy's turn to blush as Amy's heated gaze fixed on her. "Um...so, I'll just...um...meet you out at the booth?" Amy's eyes darkened a bit more, and Lucy saw a flash of...something in there. It looked a little dangerous. Amy reached up to Lucy's face with both hands and brought them crashing back together again, in a tongue dueling needy kiss, still different from any of the kisses before. Lucy's only thought was This one is full of surprises. Amy dropped her hands, and grabbed Lucy's, now peppering Lucy's lips with small cute kisses. Amy smirked at Lucy and said, "Now you can go and meet me out at the booth." She unlocked the door and pushed it open so Lucy could wiggle out. Amy closed the door behind her and latched it again. She then leaned forward so her forehead touched the door and took a few deep breaths to regain her composure. Woah. I have never been kissed like that before. Not even close.
Lucy returned to her booth, not only at a loss for words, but inner monologue as well. She just took in and released a huge breath, and looked around for Scud. She saw him giggling and laughing with the other Deb. She crinkled up her nose and made a face at giggling Scud. Guess I'll have to ask him about that the inner monologue is back! Lucy looked up at the crowd on the dancefloor and saw Amy heading towards her, a shy smile on her face. Lucy couldn't help but smile back. They returned to the comfortable and easy banter they had shared in the Before. That's how Amy now thought of it. The Before was everything that happened before the bathroom interlude. On her way back from the ladies room Amy had wondered if anything would be different. She was relieved to know that The After seemed just as good, if not better. Lucy took a sip of her beer and caught herself staring at Amy's bottom lip again. She leaned in to claim it as her own again, and Amy, sensing this, moved in to meet her. "Oh my god." Lucy and Amy both stopped and turned their heads towards the owner of this voice. "She almost kissed you. You almost let her!" Scud walked up behind Janet. He leaned his head in towards her ear and whispered to her,"You owe me $50 bucks." She turned to him and winked. "You know I'll just win it back from you." She turned back to Amy. "Can we talk for a second?" She then turned around and walked back to the foosball table. Amy and Lucy shared a quick glance and rolled their eyes at each other and shared a quiet laugh.
Amy got up and walked over to Janet. "What just happened?" "Nothing happened." Because you came over and interrupted. "She was totally going to kiss you. You are so into her!" Amy took a moment and looked over at the booth where Scud and Lucy were talking. She looked a moment longer at Scud. Then she turned back to Janet. "And just what is it that you are doing over here with Scud?" "Nothing, not that it's any of your business." Janet turned a bright shade of red and could no longer look Amy in the eye. Then she smirked and giggled and said, "At least he's a guy." Amy felt the tension that had slowly been building up in her die down. She eyed Janet. "You really like him, don't you?" She nodded. Amy sighed. "Guess we are stuck in this one together." Amy turned and headed back to the booth. Janet followed her. Amy looked at Lucy with a tinge of sadness. "Take me home?" Lucy looked between Janet and Amy and pieced together that things were ok. Lucy stood, took Amy's left hand in her right and intertwined their fingers. She sighed and nodded at Amy.