Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or any of the songs included in this fic or anything else that has copyright laws on it so please don't sue me.
When they got back to the apartment it was 3 o'clock, five hours until the party would start and as they had told her, there was Hikari's and Rei's bags holding their things, then something crossed Asuka's mind.
"How did Toji get in?" She asked Hikari.
"We all have keys to each others homes" Hikari replied while going through her bag, Asuka's brow furrowed at this.
"Is that really needed, I mean I don't know if im comfortable with the idea of Kensuke being able to get in here while I'm asleep," she said with a slight frown, Rei answered this question.
"It makes things more convenient and easier and with us all from different parts of the city we usually have a place to go to in the case of emergency" Aeuka seemed to considered this, but still wasn't extremely comfortable with the idea.
"Think of it like this, if Kensuke comes in here and messes with your stuff, you can go down his and burn all of his manga" Hikari said with a devilish smile, this brought laughter from both Rei and Asuka.
They all had bath first, Rei went first because she won the game of rock, paper and scissors, Asuka and Hikari sat outside and talked, then Asuka thought of something that had been eating at her for the first couple of hours.
"Hikari?" she asked, her friend looked over at her.
"Yeah?" she replied, Asuka seem to go red and began to stutter slightly.
"You know that you and Toji, you know," she said looking away from her friend, Hikari blushed slightly and also looked away but with a slight smile.
"Yeah" she replied, Asuka took a breath to say the next sentence.
"What is it like?" she asked in a rush before going more red than she had ever had gone before, Hikari smile.
"It is amazing" she said simply while hugging her arms around her "being able to connect to some one like that its just amazing" she said with an even bigger smile.
"I see, I thought it would hurt?" Asuka said.
"It does the first couple of times, but then afterwards it is one of the greatest experiences I have ever felt" Hikari said with a smile, Asuka looked at her friend and saw the smile she was holding, it was content and seemed like nothing could wipe it of her face, Asuka smiled.
"It does sound amazing and I am very happy for you, especially with Toji, which reminds me how did that come about?" she asked with a smile, then her and Hikari went into and animated discussion about how she and Toji got together.
It was five o'clock, they had all taken their baths and each of them were in white bathrobes and each of their respective hairs shined and shimmered.
"So what take out are we having?" Asuka asked, each of them thought for a second.
"How about pizza" Rei put in.
"Pizza?" Asuka asked with a quizzical look.
"Yeah it opened up only a year ago, it's really good," Rei told Asuka.
"Yeah but wont Pizza make us feel all bloated with the cheese?" Hikari put in.
"Well we will only get one then" Rei replied.
"Yeah, but then it will only have to be either Margherita or the Veggie, which cuts down on choice" Hikari shot back; Asuka just sat there and watched the two friend discuss.
"Well sorry for being a vegetarian, why don't you get two then and leave some for the boys when we get back later" Rei said in a tone that meant it was finished, Asuka suddenly cut in.
"What do you mean stop here later?" she asked.
"Well this is the closest place to the school and we are going to be there until the earlier hours of the morning, so it makes sense that we stop here, Misato said we could as well" Hikari said, then turning her attention back to Rei.
"Ok we will do that then, but don't go eating the whole Pizza remember what happened last time" Hikari said with a smile, Rei just stuck her tongue out at her.
Asuka was still thinking about what they had just told her "so you two are alright with sleeping under the same roof as the guys?" she asked.
"Yeah we do it all the time" Rei said in a matter of fact tone, then she picked a magazine of the coffee table in front of her and began to read.
"What do you mean all the time?" Asuka asked, Hikari jumped in seeing Rei's lack of tact and not understanding from Asuka's point of view.
"Just like we said with keys, we use each others home for places to stay and everything, like this one time we were over on Kensuke's part of town and we couldn't get a train or taxi back to our places so we just stayed at his" Hikari said, then she got up and went over to the kitchen, in there she picked up the phone and got a menu from out of one of the draws.
Asuka saw that she wasn't getting anywhere with this so she gave up and picked up a magazine and began reading like Rei, Hikari came back in and sat down next to Asuka and phone the take out place.
"Its ordered, you are alright with ham and pineapple right Asuka?" Asuka just nodded and continued reading; half an hour later there was a ring form the doorbell.
BEEP
"Hey Asuka watch this" Rei told Asuka as she went to the door just before she got there she loosened up her robe, showing a bit of her cleavage and opened the door.
In the hallway stood a young man, whose face was greasy with spots and had short greasy hair, his cloths must have been a uniform because no one would have worn them on purpose, his voice sounded like it was desperately trying to break so it gave him a slight squeaky sound.
"One Margherita and one Ham and Pineapple, ok that will be…" he trailed off, up until that point he had been looking at the small piece of paper in his hand but then he had looked up and actually took in Rei's appearance.
"I'm sorry I didn't hear you how much will it be?" she asked sweetly, with a smile and acting as if she had no idea what she was doing.
"Err…well…um it…will be about…two thousand yen th…th…thank you" the poor young man stuttered out, Rei turned her head about in a fast motion, as if getting the hair out of her eye while she counted the money out, the effect of the light reflecting of her blue locks in a shimmering effect caused the delivery boy's eyes to go even wider, Rei handed the boy the money and he passed her the pizzas, while passing she only slightly touched his hand, but the contact caused his face to get bright red and a trickle to come from his right nostril.
"Have a nice night and enjoy your pizzas," he said in a rushed tone as he ran of down the hall, when the door closed all three girls fell to the floor laughing.
"Works every time" Rei said s she opened up her Margherita and smelled it.
"Yeah we even got four hundred yen knocked off as well" Hikari said just before taking a bite out of her Pizza, the three girls ate their pizzas, Hikari and Asuka was content with only three slices each leaving two, but Hikari had to confiscate Rei's.
"Owww but just one more slice and I will be full I promise" Rei said in a pleading tone, Hikari looked over at her as she was putting the pizza to the side.
"You have had five slices already, you will be thanking me later when your not all bloated" Hikari said, Rei pouted and went and sat on the couch with her arms crossed.
It was only two hours until the party so all three started to get ready, an hour and half later each girl was ready, all of them were wearing the cloths they bought and make up, Rei wore a red lipstick with black nail polish, Asuka also wore red lipstick, but red nail polish and Hikari wore a slightly lighter shade of lipstick and orange nail polish, something then crossed Asuka's mind.
"How are we getting down there?" she asked.
"A car is coming to pick us up, we hired it" Rei told her as she was putting stuff in her purse.
"That's a bit flash and expensive isn't it, I mean who is going to pay for it?" Asuka asked.
"The guys are paying for it" Hikari said, causing Asuka to have to turn around to face her, she thought it was funny how the two girls seem to naturally allow each other to answer different questions.
Twenty minutes later the car arrived, Asuka locked up and they all went down, the drive like the rest of the day was full of animated discussions, when they arrived the place was already buzzing, there was a long queue of people and there were light already coming from the main hall, Hikari shoved something into Asuka's hand.
"What's this?" she said as she looked at the crumbled piece of paper.
"Its your ticket you wont get in if you don't have one" Hikari told her, Asuka smiled and nodded, they got out and started to make there way to the queue when Rei said.
"I have something I need to do so I will see you in there k" she said as she wandered of, Asuka was about to protest, not wanting Rei to miss a great night, but came to the conclusion that she was probably only going to be a few minutes.
Even with the size of the queue, they still got in pretty fast. When inside, Asuka looked at the hall, there was music being played from speakers along the walls, the music was a compilation of fast and slow with no real genre. The hall had tables along three walls while the middle was empty, on the stage stood a drum kit and a three-piece synthesiser kit. Hikari led Asuka to a table right next to the stage, with six seats and with each seat was a small sign saying 'RESERVED'.
"The guys" Asuka said before Hikari could say anything, they took their seats and watched as the place began to fill,
After about half an hour the place was completely packed, in that time several people had come up to Asuka and asked how she was, most saying that they hadn't seen her for a while, but Asuka was just wondering were Rei or the three boy were.
"Where's Rei got to?" Asuka asked Hikaria as she came back with two glasses of coke for the both of them.
"I don't know but she will be here" Hikari said while taking her seat next to Asuka, who had chosen a seat facing the stage, she was really excited about seeing a live band performance, even though she didn't know who the band were or had heard any of their songs.
After about an hour the hall was filled, some people were dancing in the centre of the room to the music from the speakers, some watched from either their respective tables or a wall the were leaning up against, others were talking and laughing at their table, but some seemed to just sit there looking at the stage waiting for the band.
The headmaster came out on to the stage finally, he was bald and his suit seemed cleaner than most hospitals, he cleared his throats.
"Ladies and Gentlemen can I have your attention" amazingly everyone stopped, Asuka and everyone who was waiting for the band seemed to lean forwards in anticipation.
"Thank you" the headmaster said.
"First off I wou…" every one in the hall sighed and let out breaths of annoyance, it was the headmasters 'thank you for coming and enjoy the big world when you get out there' speech, he droned on for about ten minutes, to everyone else it was like ten hours, finally his speech came to an end.
"…So when your out there remember where you came from" he finished off, everyone clapped just to make sure he doesn't go into another speech of how they should appreciate his words, then he cleared his throat again and every one stopped clapping.
"Now without further ado its what you have been waiting for, its EVA" at the mention of the name 'EVA' the entire room exploded into applause, Except Asuka who just stared with her mouth slightly open at the four people running onto the stage, it was Toji, dressed in black jeans and a black tank top, Kensuke, who held a guitar in his hands and was wearing black jeans with a white button up shirt, top two buttons open, a black sports jacket and instead of his normal glasses he wore sunglasses, Rei, who was wearing what they had bought earlier today and Shinji, who was also wearing black jeans with a black buttoned up shirt, with the sleeves rolled up and all of his button undone, exposing his chest and stomach that Asuka now saw had developed very well. Shinji came up to the microphone, with an electric guitar in his hands.