I only own Riley, Kiersten, Emma, and Yoda...no one else...

Chapter 28

(Three weeks later...lol XD)

"Is Puppy Chow any good?" Riley asked, gesturing to the tiny bag of dog food, and Kiersten rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, it's the best, I would know cause I eat dog food on a regular basis." Kiersten replied, her tone dripping with sarcasm. Riley smirked and adjusted the tiny puppy under her arm.

"A simple 'no' would have been fine Kit..." Riley replied as the three women continued down the isle.

"How old is Yoda?" Emma asked and Riley thought back.

"Um...I think she's only a few weeks...maybe a month or so." Just then Riley's phone started ringing. She flipped it open quickly, for the harsh beat of Will Smith's Switch came from her phone. Riley smiled. "Tina..." She stated and answered the phone with a smile. "Hey T...whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on Honey...yeah, just calm down and tell me what's up..." She sighed and shook her head. "Yeah, alright...yeah, meet us at my house in about a half hour alright...actually make that an hour. The girl's and I will need to pick up some supplies for this." She nodded and sighed. "Okay, we'll meet at your house Hon...okay." She hung up the phone and turned to Emma and Kiersten. "We've got a problem."

"Warrick and Tina trouble?" Kiersten guessed.

"Big time."

"What happened?" Emma questioned and Riley sighed.

"I don't really know...she was crying and talking really fast. I'm calling an emergency girl's night. We need the supplies." Riley informed them and the girls nodded, and separated to quickly find everything they'd need for a girl's night.

--The Brown's House—Living Room—6:23 p.m.--

"Oh my God T." Riley said in shock and laid a hand on her friend's arm.

"What did he say after that?" Kiersten asked.

"I hope nothing...he's said far too much already." Emma noted and took a long sip of the margaritas Riley had made for them all, the plus side of having a professional bartender at your disposal.

Tina sniffled and wiped her eyes, knowing she looked horrible, but she was too miserable to really care. "He said 'Well then maybe we shouldn't be together!'" She did a poor impression of her husband and all the girl's jaws dropped at the words. "So I told to get the Hell out of my house...then I called you Ry."

"God...T...I'm so sorry." Kiersten replied and Riley sighed and shook her head in anger, grabbing the empty pitcher once filled with margaritas and stormed into the kitchen to make the second round.

"Men are fucking ass holes and should be kept in a kennel until we need them, then put away when we don't." Riley demanded, making Yoda bark in approval. All the girls temporarily forgot their anger to laugh and cuddle the little puppy. Riley sighed and continued making the margaritas. "I just don't understand this...I mean; I know y'all have had your fair share of arguments...but this? This is just..." She shook her head again and brought the pitcher back into the living room, tearing open the box of Godiva chocolates.

Tina shook her head slowly. "I know...I can't believe him! Like he thought that I would actually do that to him...!" She sighed and rested against the bottom of the couch from her position on the floor.

"Men are scum..." Kiersten said and Emma laughed, causing all the girls to stare at her in bewilderment.

"Oh...sorry, just reminded me of this little rhyme thing I heard in Jersey when I was in high school. It goes, 'Boys are cheats and liars, they're such a big disgrace. They will tell you anything to get to Second base-ball baseball, he thinks he's gonna score. If you let him go all the way, then you are a whore-ticulture studies flowers, geologists studies rocks. The only thing a guy wants from you is a place to put his cock-roaches, beetles, butterflies, and bugs. Nothing makes him happier then a giant pair of jug-glers an acrobat, a dancing bear named chuck. All guys really want to do is f-orget with no such luck'."

By the end of the rhyme all the women were rolling on the floor laughing. After a few minutes they settled down, and all simply laid there, thinking of the disgrace that are men.

"That reminds me of this ass I had a one night stand with a couple nights ago-" Kiersten began.

"You had a one night stand recently?" Riley exclaimed. "What the Hell? Why didn't you tell me!"

Kiersten laughed. "I couldn't find you...little did I know you were off fucking Deven." She replied.

"Oooooh!" Emma replied like a little kid.

"What! As in your ex- Deven!" Tina asked in astonishment.

Riley rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, yeah...thank for that lovely trip down memory lane Kiersten." She poked her best friend in the ribs and Kiersten chuckled.

"Any time Chica."

"So wait...what happened?" Tina asked confused.

"Yeah, I still don't know the whole story..." Emma added.

Riley sighed. "Long story short, I was lonely, I had needs, Deven fulfilled them-"

"For a good two weeks." Kiersten added, earning another poke from Riley.

"Yes, thank you...for about two weeks...then we talked and...stopped." She finished, leaving out the fact that they had in fact been caught by Nick...Kiersten was the only one besides Riley and Deven who knew that... (except for Greg and Nick).

"Yeah...what a fun time its been." Kiersten finished.

"Well, we do live in the City of Sin." Tina pointed out.

"Damn...and I thought Jersey was bad!" Emma exclaimed and took another sip of her drink.

"Well, that's Viva Las Vegas for ya...okay..." Riley moaned while struggling to sit up. "We need a chick flick...what's everyone in the mood for?" She asked while digging through the bag of DVDs she had brought over.

"How about...Pretty Woman." Kiersten suggested and everyone nodded in agreement. Riley pulled out the movie and popped it into the DVD player.

About ten minutes into the movie Tina sighed. "I can't believe he thought I was sleeping with Dr. Almers...I just...that was ages ago."

"It was just a year or so ago." Emma pointed out.

"A year or so is a lot of time..." Riley defended.

Tina nodded. "Ya know, truthfully...I always thought he had something on the side."

"With who?" Kiersten asked, turning away from the classic Julia Roberts flick.

Tina sighed. "The blonde he works with...Catherine Willows...it just," She sighed. "It seems like there use to be something between them. I asked him about it and he said they were never together, Catherine was just his friend and co-worker...but I'm not stupid."

"Do you still think he was cheating?" Kiersten questioned.

"I don't know...I read in a Cosmo that often, if a guy is cheating or having thoughts about it, he'll try to deflect suspicion that really isn't there by accusing the girl of cheating...it's like a defense mechanism."

"Eh, but how reliable can a Cosmo magazine be?" Emma asked.

Riley shrugged. "That's what happened with Deven and I..." She thought back to when Nick had accused her of cheating five or six months back.

Whoa...was he cheating on me? Or did he really just think I was cheating...? Nah, nah, he wouldn't have cheated on me...at least I hope not.

Riley thought and quickly drank back her margarita. She sighed. "I need a cigarette." She mumbled and Kiersten raised a brow. "Hey, I quit one addiction this month...I'm not Super Woman." She replied and Emma laughed. Riley slipped out the front door and casually lit her nasty habit. Her mind was still reeling from the fight Tina and Rick had, she felt bad for her friend. She knew they had been going through some problems lately, but she always figured they would pass...and then Warrick had been stupid and said that the two of them shouldn't be together...

Riley sighed and took a drag. From what she knew about Warrick, that didn't sound like him. The whole yelling and screaming and accusing without evidence...it sounded like he had temporarily lost it as, in her experience, often happened when a guy thought his girlfriend (or in this case wife) was cheating on him.

Riley took another drag, and squinted when the bright glow of taillights blinded her vision as a car pulled into the driveway. It sat idling for a moment before Warrick climbed out of the drivers seat and walked over to Riley.

"Ry...hey...what's goin on? Where's Tina?" He asked confused, and then realization hit him. He should have figured it out sooner by the death glares Riley was shooting him that Tina had called her friends and told them everything. Warrick hung his head. "She told ya huh?"

"Duh...Rick what were you thinkin?" She drawled and smashed her cigarette under her bare foot, a pain she had become immune to in high school.

"I wasn't...I was...I thought..." He growled in frustration. "I thought she was cheatin on me." He pleaded and Riley shook her head.

"You know her better than that...she loves you for some unexplainable reason, Rick. Why the Hell would she go back with that ass hole of a doctor that broke her heart?"

This conversation was hitting a little too close to home, and Riley pulled the pack of cigarettes from her pocket of her shorts. She produced another cigarette then lit it and exhaled the smoke away from Warrick's face.

He sighed. "I don't know...I wasn't really thinking..." He sighed again and nodded towards the door. "How mad is she?"

"She's pretty pissed...I'd advise that you didn't go in there just yet."

"What do I do?"

She sighed. "Go to a friend's house, crack open a six pack, tell 'em everything, and figure out what the Hell you're gonna do. And if you think what you have with Tina is worth saving...then get your ass back here and grovel for everything you're worth...if not..." She shrugged and took another drag.

Warrick nodded. "Alright...thanks Riley...will you call me later and let me know how she's doin?"

Riley sighed and thought about it, glancing back at the house, and then slowly nodding. "Yeah...I'll call ya Rick..."

He gave a soft smile. "Thanks Riley...I'm glad she's got a friend like you." Warrick complimented. And, never being one for compliments, Riley scoffed.

"Eh, you only appreciate me cause I constantly keep your wife from kickin your ass." She joked and Warrick laughed.

"Yeah...that too."

--Nick's House—Living Room—9:05 p.m.--

"Man, will you quit lookin at your phone!" Nick begged and Warrick sighed and wringed his hands nervously. Warrick took a long swig of his third beer.

"I'm sorry...I just...I gotta know if Tina's okay."

"Is she supposed to call you and yell?" Nick joked and Warrick shook his head.

"Nah...one of her friends is gonna call...they called an emergency 'girl's night' to bash me and my existence..."

"Yeah, girls do that. And it's in my experience that if one of us screws up, every man in the world is goin down for it. We're all gettin bashed along with ya Rick..." Nick replied and Warrick chuckled.

"You have a lot of 'girl's nights' Nicky?" Warrick joked and Nick laughed as he brought the second six pack of beer over to the table.

"Five sisters man...and Mama didn't raise no fool." Nick drawled, and the tiny Yellow Head Amazon Bird from the corner of Nick's living room chirped in agreement.

Warrick raised a brow at the little bird. "Dude, when'd you get a bird?"

"A couple weeks ago..."

"Why?" He asked and Nick shrugged.

"Cause I was lonely." He admitted reluctantly and Warrick laughed.

"Man, that's why you get a girlfriend."

No thank you...

Nick thought as Warrick laughed and a knock sounded from the door. Nick went to answer it and found Greg standing there; more alcohol, action movies, and junk food in hand.

"I come bearing gifts for the proverbial screw up."

Nick chuckled. "Get in here wise ass."

"Hey, that's Wiseman number 1...you can be Wiseman number 2 and Warrick can be number 3." Greg joked and set the bags down on the table before looking at a very torn apart Warrick. His face was buried in his hands, his elbows on his knees, hunched over in defeat. "Damn...Ladies and Gents...I give you, a broken man." Greg joked and Warrick slapped him in the stomach, making Greg 'oomph' and double over.

"Yeah, I may be broken...but I can still break you Sanders." He growled and Nick shook his head.

"Settle down fellas...we haven't even watched Die Hard yet and y'all are already gettin into it..."

Just then Warrick's phone rang and he quickly snatched it up. "Hello?"

"Rick?" Riley asked from the other end.

"Yeah...is...is she okay?"

Riley sighed. "She's, not the best."

"What? 'Not the best'? What does that mean?"

Riley paused. "She cried herself to sleep..."

Warrick's face fell and he sat back down on Nick's couch. "She did...even with all of you there?"

"Yeah...we tried to calm her down...but she still thinks you want a divorce."

Warrick ran a hand through his afro. "She thinks I want a divorce?"

"Well, you did say that y'all shouldn't be together." Riley pointed out and Warrick sighed and stood up and began to pace the living room.

"Well...I didn't mean it...I was mad."

"Is that the conclusion you came to just now, or is that desperate out-of-it-Warrick talking?" Riley asked, a hint of a smirk in her voice. Warrick sighed and put his hand on his hip while looking down at his shoe.

"I don't want to loose her." He replied and Riley sighed.

"Then the two of you have a lot of talking to do...you need to sort this out."

"Can we do it now?"

"Have you been drinking?"

"Only a few beers."

"Where are you? Can someone drive you over here...?"

Warrick held the phone away from his mouth. "Can you guys give me a lift to my house?" He asked and Greg furred his brows.

"Are you two gonna work it out? I thought you were getting a divorce." Greg asked and Nick placed his hand over the lab tech's mouth to keep him from making even more of an ass out of himself.

"Yeah Rick, I can drive you over there." Nick answered and Warrick brought the phone back to his mouth.

"Yeah...when is it safe?"

She sighed. "I'm havin Kiersten wake her up now...then she's gonna keep her calm and help her think this through rationally without getting all worked up so that all y'all have to do is talk." Riley drawled and Warrick gave a soft smile.

"Thanks...I really appreciate this..."

"Yeah, yeah. I know, I'm wonderful like that." Riley replied in monotony. Warrick chuckled and shook his head.

"I'll be over there in a bit."

"Bring body guards cause if you piss her off you're gonna need your buddies to keep you safe...we'll all just let her at ya."

Warrick winced and nodded. "Got it."

--End Chapter--

Yeppers...this wonderful little night will carry on into the next chapter...so stay tuned! XD

-FMCSI60