Disclaimer: I do not own Hawaii 5-0 or any of the main characters. I make no money off of them. I also own none of the songs I use in this chapter. What I do own is Laila.
In this version, Danny didn't tear his ACL.
Occurs just after Season 1 Episode 5. And for the sake of my story, Episodes 4 & 5 happen back-to-back.
Also, some of the characters may be a bit OOC. I tried to stick as close to them as possible though I believe they got on like a house on fire from damn near the beginning.
I toyed with whether this should be Chapter 3 or not but I figured that I would instead speed up the series so that their date didn't happen 2 weeks from when Kono initially said yes.
This chapter is gonna be a long one. Thought about splitting it but decided to keep it. Buckle up!
Steve POV
This case was exhausting! They had been dragged from what felt like one side of the island to the other. They had finally located the remaining daughter with no thanks whatsoever to Russell Ellison, who seemingly tried to hinder them through the entire investigation. They have all convened back at 5-0 headquarters to work their individual way through the paperwork. He looked up from his own to check out the rest of the team. Danny was furiously typing at his computer looking more so like he wanted to kill it than anything; Chin looking calm and collected as he typed his report (he had already been doing this for years so that was understandable); Kono would calmly type, furiously stab at the keyboard then calmly type again. They needed a break. Everyone was wound so tight. He called out for pizza from his desk for delivery: a cheese pizza for Danny (something about pizza being a sacrilege), a pineapple & ham for himself (even though Danny would rant about it), a pepperoni and bacon for Kono (he still couldn't figure out where she packed it all and still managed to stay thin) and mushrooms and black olives for Chin. It only took 20 minutes for the delivery to get there. He had given the pizza service his landline to let him know they had arrived. He left his office, none of the others even noticing that he had vacated his office. He quickly ran down, pulled out the money plus tip for the delivery boy and ran back upstairs to his team. It seemed he had gotten there just in time as Danny looked like he wanted to throw his laptop through the window. He knocked on Danny's window, holding up the pizzas and indicating his office with his thumb. Danny practically shoved his chair into the wall and almost leapt over the desk to get away from the blasted reports. He knocked on Kono's window, held up the boxes and indicated with his thumb to his office. Kono leaned back in her chair, let out a huge sigh, hauled herself to her feet and walked towards her door. She grabbed some napkins on her way to his office. He knocked on Chin's window. The older gentleman looked up, nodded and got up to walk out his door and follow him to his office. Steve's office was the biggest and also had a couch.
(End of Steve's POV)
Everyone pulled a box from the pile and opened it up without checked the label on the front of the box. Danny had a look of confusion as he opened up his box which turned out not to be his but Kono's. Steve opened his box and smirked. He got Danny's chin opened up his to see a ham & pineapple pizza. While he wasn't opposed to it, it wasn't his favourite. Kono opened hers and stuck out her tongue. Eww, mushrooms. Gross! she thought to herself.
"How can you eat this much grease Kono?" Danny questioned.
"How could you not know about this combination?" Kono inquired. "Hey cuz, I've got yours," and handed him the box.
"Hey Steve, heads up brah," Chin said as he handed over his original pizza box and took his actual pizza from Kono.
"Here you go Danno," Steve remarked, handing Danny his proper box, while accepting his from Chin.
"I told you not to call me that!" Danny snapped as he accepted his box from Steve while handing off his original box to Kono. Now that everyone had their correct pizzas, they all dug in with vigor. There were only sounds of chewing and swallowing for the next 30 minutes. Once everyone had finished their pizzas, Steve pulled 4 Longboards from his mini fridge and handed 1 out to everyone. They clinked their bottles together and each member downed half their bottle before coming up for air.
"Whew! I needed that, Kono sighed contentedly.
"Yeah, good looking out brah," Chin tilted his bottle towards Steve in acknowledgement. Kono stood up and stretched, feeling quite full and content. As she did, her shirt rose up slightly, exposing a small piece of her stomach. Danny took a swig of beer to cool himself off a bit. There it is again. That ridiculously toned and smooth stomach, Danny thought to himself.
"I'm still kinda wired," Kono hinted to the group hoping someone would pick it up.
"I know what you mean! I've still got residual energy from the adrenaline rush," Danny chimed in.
"Well then, what should we do?" Steve questioned the group.
"How about SideStreets?" Chin suggested.
"Nah, we go there too much already. How about we go clubbing?!" Kono beamed at the group looking very much her age. She could see the guys rolling it over in their minds. Steve was the first to respond.
"I'm down," said Steve.
"Count me in," Chin chimed in.
"Me too," Danny followed up.
"We can go to Zephyr Lounge!" Kono gushed.
"Really Kono? Zephyr Lounge? The place where all the women got kid napped from?" Danny questioned incredulously.
"It's safe now! We made it so! Plus, it's Friday night so all the clubs are packed anyway and we kept their name out of the paper so they must owe us at least a little something Also, they know Steve and Danny are 5-0 so they gotta let you in!" Kono reasoned. The guys had to admit, she had a point. The guys thought it over for a moment. Chin made eye contact with Danny. Chin raised his eyebrows. Danny slightly shrugged his shoulders and indicated with his thumb to Steve. They both looked to Steve. He gave a slight nod.
"I guess we're all going to Zephyr Lounge tonight!" Steve announced.
"Wait a minute," Kono looked at all the men, eyeing each one suspiciously, "how did you guys just communicate? Nobody said a word! You have to teach me how to do that!"
"So we'll all go home, get showered, change and meet outside Zephyr Lounge in 45 minutes," Steve stated.
"Great! We'll see you guys at the lounge!" Chin said, smiling as he and Kono walked out Steve's doors and the double doors to 5-0.
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Precisely 43 minutes later, Steve was standing outside of Zephyr Lounge. He was wearing black jeans, a fitted Navy blue shirt with a collar, a black leather cuff with a deep blue strip running lengthways down the center on his left wrist and black ankle boots. He checked his watch. Just as his watch hit 11:30, Kono and Chin could be seen walking up the sidewalk. Kono strode up the street in a black pair of closed in high heels with a diamond studded strap around her ankle, a shimmery, silver halter dress which had full coverage up to her neck in the front and a thin band around her neck but was backless and the fabric didn't start again until a few inches above her hips and the dress stopped midway down her thighs. She accentuated her outfit with a chunky bangle encrusted with large, red gems and silver chandelier earrings with red gems hanging at the bottom. She had pulled her hair up into a high ponytail at the top of her head. Chin was wearing long, black pants, lace-up black dress shoes, a button-down green dress shirt and a thin leather necklace with a silver scorpion pendant with a green gem on its back. "Hey boss man, looking good!" Kono yelled from a distance.
"You clean up nice Kono!" Steve affirmed as he pulled her into a hug. His hand came in contact with skin when his arm wrapped around her waist. "Woah! Where's the rest of this dress?"
"Shut it Steve, I know I look good!" Kono did a slow twirl. Steve let out a low, appreciative whistle as he took in the full outfit head-to-toe. "Chin had a fit when I picked him up! Said my dress was too short."
"Well it is! So you see how much skin she's showing?!" Chin fumed, gestured wildly to his cousin.
"Excuse me! I can take care of myself thank you very much! And if anyone tries to lay a hand on me without my consent then I'll take them down!" Kono snapped placing her fists on her waist.
Steve smirked at the cousins and their fight. He interrupted them by grabbing Chin's attention. "Hey Chin, howzit brah?" They clapped hands and pulled each other into a bro hug.
"Shoots, I'm good brudda," Chin replied.
"You seen Danny?" Steve questioned. Just as the words left his mouth, Danny came jogging up the street. "You're late," Steve stated.
"It's 2 minutes Steven. It's not the end of the world!" Danny said exasperated. Danny had arrived in dark grey pants, dark grey loafers, a cornflower blue tank top covered by an open, grey button down shirt and grey lace-up Tims. He skidded to a halt in front of the group, a little out of breath. He looked to his other teammates. When his gaze got to Kono, he quickly sucked in a breath. Usually, he was much better at composing himself but she looked breathtaking! The dress hugged every curve perfectly and clung to her like it was made for her. Her accessories were perfectly underststed so that she was the highlight. "Wow, Kono!"
"A man of many words," Kono smirked, "that's all you've got?"
"Wow," Danny stated again. That was the only word he could come up with because she looked stunning! There had been very few times in his life that Danny Williams had been rendered speechless. His wedding day when he first saw Rachel, the hours after Grace had been born and now.
"Let's go! I got us a booth!" Steve declared as they turned to walk past all the people to the front of the line. Steve stepped to the bouncer and leaned in. Danny only realized that they were walking because he had followed Kono with his eyes and her ass was now getting further away. And good grief! The back was better than the front! Dear god! There may be a chance that this woman kills me! Danny thought to himself. Steve was pointing to each team member individually when they all realized that Danny wasn't behind them. Steve made a 'come on' gesture to Danny who quickly speed walked to the group and joined them. They all walked up the steps and entered the club.
Steve walked over to the bartender and asked who to talk to about VIP service. The bartender disappeared into the back to get the host. He leaned on the bar while waiting for the rep as the others took in the club. The young host was actually a lovely young lady who said her name was Melinda. Melinda was 5'5 with brown hair just past her shoulders being held back by a simple felt headband, a simple black, strapless dress that came down to her knees and simple black pumps. She had a white iPad in her hand. She and Steve gave each other a quick hug before she got down to business. She asked for Steve's card, swiped it through the card reader on the side of the iPad. He put in the amount that he wanted as the limit for the evening and it was explained to him that once the limit was reached then he would have to come back to the bar to up the limit. She guided the group to their booth which was on the left side of the room. They passed 2 other booths to get to their booth. They saw that there was a corresponding 3 on the opposite side of the room. Their booth was white with black leather seats and looked like half a circle til Melinda hit a few buttons on her iPad. Then the white semicircle started glowing blue. The table in the center of their booth had a mini built in cooler with ice on the right side which contained carafes of cranberry juice, pineapple juice (of course), soda water and water as well as a bottle of Grey Goose which stood dead center on the table. On the left side of the table was a built in iPad. Melinda explained to them that they would be able to reorder any juices they already had at the table or order drinks, shots included, which would go on the booths' tab from one app. She also explained that there was another app on the iPad which was able to send song requests to the DJ.
As a bonus for getting a booth, they had been set up with 4 glasses that each had their respective names on the front and 'Zephyr Lounge' on the back. They also had 4 shot glasses with the same set up: their respective names on the front and 'Zephyr Lounge' on the back. Melinda set it up so that they could change the password on the iPad to a mutually agreed upon one. After inputting the password (which of course was 5050 [5-0 twice]), she recorded it, told them to enjoy their evening before taking her leave.
"Wow, this is fancy as fuck!" Danny exclaimed.
"You went all out boss!" Kono added. She immediately jumped onto the iPad on the table and started clicking around.
While she was messing around on the iPad, Chin asked, "So, where do you know Melinda from?"
"She and I used to be in SEAL training together. We've kept in touch over the years," Steve responded.
"A female SEAL? That's lolo brah," Chin said surprised. Kono had finished with the iPad and was now pouring them all a shot of Grey Goose. She handed one to everyone.
"So, what are we drinking to?" Danny enquired.
"To ohana!" Chin supplied.
"To 5-0!" boomed Kono. They nodded in agreement.
"To 5-0!" They all yelled. They clinked their glasses together and downed their shots. 'Like a G6' by Far East Movement came over the sound system.
"Come on! Let's go dance!" yelled Kono over the bass. She strode to the dance floor and turned around, expecting to see the rest of her group with her or at least near her. She looked back to the group and threw her hands up in the air as if to say 'What are you doing?! Let's go!' throwing the guys an angry look at the same time. Frustrated, she decided to get her excess energy out through dancing and started bopping to the music, hips moving on the beat. Guys be damned, she came out to enjoy herself. The guys smiled down at her from the booth as she got into the music. She grabbed the nearest free guy, threw her arms around his neck and started to dance with him.
"Well, I don't know about you guys," Danny said swinging his finger between Chin and Steve, "but I came out to have fun. After dealing with this Neanderthal," he jerked his thumb at Steve, "I need stress relief. So I'm gonna go and join Kono on the dance floor. As always, you are free to join us as this is a free country." With that, he turned on his heels and headed down to the dance floor to join Kono. He walked down to the dance floor and slid between the people, making his way to Kono. He finally reached her and tapped her on the shoulder to let her know he was in the vicinity. She smiled at him and turned around in her dance partners arms so that her back was against his front. Danny tapped the shoulder of the nearest blonde and slid in close to her ear, asking her to dance. Kono continued dancing with her partner, glancing over at Danny every so often. Then she actually took a good look at Danny dancing. Danny actually had rhythm and could dance! One would never suspect from the uptight haole that he would be able to cut loose like this. Not from all the evidence that she's seen so far. Kono tapped her dance partner on the hand and smiled back to let him know she had finished dancing with him. She slid over to Danny and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned to see who had tapped him. Seeing that it was Kono, he pulled the blonde closer, squeezing her hips and thanking her for the dance and turned to Kono. Danny reached out a hand to Kono. She accepted and stepped in closer to his body. He dropped her hand and slid his arm around her waist, a slight shiver going through him when his hand came in contact with her bare back. He put his lips close to her ear. "What's up?" he questioned.
She ran her hands up his arms. The left one settled behind his neck while the right hand settled on his chest, slightly squished between them. "Where did you learn to dance like that?" she asked as she leaned in to his ear.
"Well, after cadet training in Jersey, me and some of the other cadets would go out and party for a few hours. You know, blow off some steam," Kono nodded in agreement, "anyway, a few of the Jersey girls got tired of dancing with the meatheads with 'wondering hands' and saw me. They thought I was from out of state til they spoke to me. They seemed mildly impressed that I was training to be a cop and asked if I knew any moves. I said I knew a few and they decided to teach me a few more. A few taught me some Dane moves off the dance floor as well. But that's a story for another day." He leaned back but didn't let go of her.
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Meanwhile, back in the booth, Chin and Steve had each grabbed their respective glasses and filled them up. Steve had made himself a Grey Goose and soda while Chin had simply done a shot and switched up to straight pineapple juice. Each sitting back and watching their teammates dance with each other as they soiled their drinks. They surveyed the others on the dance floor. Steve made eye contact with a pretty brunette with green eyes in a red dress. She smiled at him. He smirked and nodded at her. She ducked her head, tucked her hair behind her ear and looked back up at him through her lashes. He grinned and her and downed her drink. "Well, I've got my signal buddy. See ya!" Steve threw over his shoulder. And with that, he was gone.
Chin was left sitting by himself. He downed his juice, placed his glass on the table and was about to push up off of the seat when a woman plopped herself into his lap. Chin was momentarily stunned. The woman held out her hand and smiled, "Hi, I'm Laila." Laila was a brunette with shoulder length curly hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a one shoulder black dress that shimmered with a pair of silver heels and simple silver hoop earrings. Judging by her torso and legs, Chin estimated that she would be roughly 5-6 inches shorter than him without her heels on.
Chin shook himself from his shock and smiled, taking her hand in his and giving it a small shake. "Hi, I'm Chin," he said. "You know, there is a lot of space in the booth."
"Yeah, but this looked like the most comfortable seat," stated Laila.
"That's quite forward of you," Chin smirked.
"I go for what I want," Laila replied, dropping her voice so Chin had to lean in slightly. Chin's eyebrows shot up at the statement. She was quite forward with herself. And he found that he didn't really mind. He wrapped his around her back to keep her stable.
"Did you want something to drink?" he asked.
"Jack, splash of gingerale," she replied. He gripped her slightly tighter as he leaned forward, typed the password into the iPad and pulled up the drink app to order her a drink. He chatted with her as he made up his drink of Grey Goose, soda with a splash of pineapple. When her drink arrived, they clinked glasses and took a sip of their respective drinks.
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Back on the dance floor, Danny and Kono were still dancing with each other. The song was changing into another summertime jam. "I need another drink. You coming?" Kono asked as she fanned herself.
Danny nodded his head, "Lead the way!" He followed Kono back to the booth and was a little taken aback by his other teammate. Chin had found himself a female companion! Chin was pushing his companions hair back to speak into her hear. It must have been amusing because the young woman had a smile on her face. They both plopped down heavily in the booth on Chin's left, smiling in his direction. Chin swung his head to them. "Who's your friend?" Danny enquired.
"This is Laila. Laila, this is my teammate Danny," Chin introduced. Danny and Laila shook hands. "And this is my teammate and cousin Kono," Kono shook Laila's hand with a bit more strength than necessary. "Where's Steve?" Chin asked the other 2. They all turned their eyes to the dance floor to look for their boss. They spotted kissing a woman on the cheek as she slipped him a small piece of paper. He looked up and saw that the rest of his team were in the booth plus a strange woman he didn't know. Once there, he sat down in Chin's right, grinning.
"Hey guys, enjoying your night so far?" Steve questioned.
"Apperently not on the same level as you. Who was the young lady you were dancing with?" Danny questioned.
"I dunno. She smiled, I smiled. We said 'Hey!' and started dancing," Steve divulged with a shrug.
"Only you McGarrett," uttered Danny, shaking his head.
"Hey Chin, who's your friend?" wondered Steve.
"This is Laila. Laila, this is Steve. The leader of 5-0," Chin gestured between the 2 of them.
"And how did you 2 meet?" Steve asked.
"Actually, she just sat in my lap," Chin stated.
"Just like that?" Steve sounded surprised.
"Just like that," Laila smiled at Chin' "I likes what I sees and I go after it." Kono was back at the iPad again a few minutes later 5 glasses of what looked like Coke arrived with 5 shots of an equally dark liquids arrived. The server placed them on the table then disappeared.
"Kono, what the hell are you trying to do here, kill us?" Danny whined.
Kono hit his arm. "Don't be ridiculous Danny. Did we or did we not come out to have fun and get slightly drunk in the process? This is a D-Dive. It's a drop shot. You drop the shot of amaretto into the glass and then chug the whole thing in one go. Simple!" Kono explained.
Steve reached down and grabbed a glass and a shot. Laila slid off Chin's lap to face the table. Everyone else followed Steve's lead, picking up a drink and shot. "Bottoms up!" cheered Steve. Everyone raised their glass, dropped in the shot and proceeded to chug the entire thing. They each slammed their glass back on the table.
"THAT was NOT straight Coke!" Danny gasped after finishing.
"So there was a little rum in the Coke, no biggie," Kono giggled.
"I'm trying not to die before I get home here'" Danny groaned.
"Oh stuff it grandpa! We came out to have fun and unwind," Steve chided.
Kono stood up suddenly and said, "Hey, next song we're back on the dance floor." She pointedly looked at Chin who held up his hands defensively, "All of us Chin. I picked out this song especially for our group."
"Come on cuz," Chin whined.
"You all had better be down on the dance floor by the next song or so help me..." Kono looked at each of them as she made the statement and let the threat sit in the air. She filled her glass up with water and downed it before heading back to the dance floor.
"That...was a little scary. I see what you mean," Laila whispered to Chin.
"You have no idea," Chin whispered back. The guys filled up their glasses with water, chugged it and headed to the dance floor including Laila. By the time they had made it to Kono, the song had changed to Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO. Chin gave a hard look at his cousin. Kono shrugged her shoulders and tried to look innocent. Chin simply rolled his eyes and started moving to the song. Kono leaned up into each guys ear which was much easier when aided by the heeels. Steve and Chin smiled and nodded at the request. Danny rolled his eyes but nodded all the same. Chin excused himself from Laila's arms halfway through the song. He lined up with the other 3, waiting for their time to come. Finally, the line they had waited for. The music even seemed to stop so you knew that the next part was gonna be hot!
'Shake that!' The music died down.
'Every day I'm shuffling!'
The entire team proceeded to do the Party Rock Shuffle in line, in sync. They hit every single movement. Including Kono in her heels! People around them took notice and cleared out a space when they realized what the group was doing. People were getting hyped up watching the group effectively nailing the routine. When they finished, they grinned at each other. Giving each other high fives and hugs. The people who had seen the routine were clapping for the group. They all turned to head back to the booth. People were giving them high fives and clapping for them as they all headed back to the booth. The entire club was still applauding them as they stood in their booth. They all looked between each other, communicating silently between each other.
Should we? asked Kono.
I don't see why not, answered Danny shrugging his shoulders.
I think it's only fair, we did just rock that dance, Chin smirked.
Let's do it! Steve confirmed.
They all joined hands, stuck them in the air and took a bow. The crowd below went nuts! They sat down in the booth and filled their glasses up with juice and water. At some point Laila had gotten slightly separated from them. She appeared a few moments later and repeated her earlier actions of plopping herself right in Chin's lap. Unlike earlier though, she swiftly brought her lips down to Chin's, sealing her lips over his. The others were a bit taken aback by the gesture and the crowd went nuts; cheering, whooping and wolf whistles could be heard from the floor.
Chin and Laila had eventually pulled away from each other, "That was pretty impressive. What other moves you got?" Laila smiled seductively.
"Wouldn't you like to know," Chin smirked definitely being more bold than usual because of the alcohol.
"Oh lord, well these 2 are gonna be all mushy for the rest of the night," Danny rolled his eyes.
"Lighten up Danny! Come with me back to the dance floor. But first, let's do another shot!" Kono said.
"You're gonna be the death of me Kalakaua," Danny grumbled, "Steve, you in?"
"Sure, why not?" Steve agreed. All three did a shot and went back to the dance floor, leaving Chin and Laila by themselves. Steve walked up to a young lady, tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to dance. Kono and Danny didn't even bother looking for partners but simply turned to each other in mutual compliance and returned to their previous stance with his arms around her waist and her arms around his neck.
Danny leaned in close to Kono and spoke in her ear, "If you couldn't tell from earlier, I think you look stunning tonight."
Kono smiled when he said this to her. "Thanks, Danny. I meant to tell you earlier, I like our outfit tonight. The blue in your top brings out your eyes nicely. Though I must say, this is not what I imagined when you suggested dancing for our first date," she teased.
"This is not a date. This is a group of friends going out for the evening and having a good time. Trust me when I say that our date is just going to be you and me. Granted it probably won't be today because we all might be a bit hung over unlike others who are otherwise occupied tonight," Danny jerked his head to Chin and Laila who were smiling at each other and whispering in each other's ear. Kono grinned at her cousin and Laila.
"Give him a break. He hasn't dated since Malia," said Kono.
"Well then good for him," Danny replied and turned his attention back to Kono. "By the way, your a really good dancer as well." Kono smiled as she turned her back to Danny's front, the alcohol helping her be a little more loose while she grinned into Danny a little bit, her hands up in the air. Danny held onto her hips and matched her for every move that she made, both fueled by alcohol and a slight bit of lust. they continued dancing a bit longer with each other through 3 more songs. Danny tapped Kono on the hip. When she looked back, he jerked his head back to the booth. She nodded in agreement. Before they left the floor, Danny pointed out Steve to Kono and told her to get him. She tapped Steve on the shoulder and jerked her thumb towards the booth. He nodded, thanked his dance partner and followed them to the booth. Kono tried and failed to stifle a yawn. Danny smiled at her. She looked adorable. Beautiful but sleepy which was the cutest combination he had ever seen. Danny stretched his arms over his head and felt some of his spine pop back into place. "Well, I think that's me all done for the evening. I've drank as much as I can, I've danced as much as I'm able and now I'm going home to sleep as much as I want. Good night to you lovely people! It's been a shit ton of fun but I'm going home and crawling into my bed. Steve, I will see you around bud," Steve and Danny hugged, "Kono, I will see you at work on Monday," Danny kissed Kono on the cheek before hugging her (the same as Steve did to her so no one could say anything if they saw it), "and Chin buddy," Chin was still engrossed in Laila. "Chin!" Danny hit Chin's knee. He looked up slightly irritated, "I'll see you when I see you." Danny gave a wave as he headed to the door. Just as Danny got to the bottom of the steps, he heard his name being called behind him.
"Danny! Danny, wait up!" He turned around to see Kono jogging down the steps. "I really did have a good time tonight. Thanks for the dance." She leaned forward and placed a lingering kiss on his cheek. "Good night," she said softly and walked away from him down the street. A soft smile appeared on his face as he touched his hand to where Kono had kissed him. This night turned out better than he expected.
A few different things:
1. I don't own or did not crate the D-Dive drop shot. I got it off of . I am aware that there are other ways to do this drink but this is the method I prefer.
2. I'm aware that doing the Party Rock Shuffle may not be seen as being too impressive now but keep in mind that when it started that it was in 2010 and being able to nail it was pretty fricking wicked.
3. In my mind, I see them all being able to do this dance probably coming out in a night of drinking at Sidestreets.
4. I have no idea if all the tech was out but for the purpose of my story, it was. Also, I don't own Zephyr Lounge but with what I did in there, I kinda wish I did.
Thanks for reading and staying with me! May the next chapter come to me a lot faster than this one. It was a bit of a pain but it was fun. I mostly knew what I wanted for this chapter but the battle was getting there. I now realize that descriptions take up a lot more space in my head and on paper as well as changing speakers for every line. Still fully committed to the story and you should be seeing another chapter fairly soon.