Some time later…
Bobby raised his eyebrows at what he saw. He glanced over at Alex, and saw she had a similar expression. "Alex?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you seeing, what I'm seeing?"
"You mean…?"
"Yeah?"
"Oh yeah."
"That's just…"
"Wrong."
"Yeah." Alex opened her mouth to say something else when finally the spectacle ended. Mike made his way back over to the table, completely oblivious to the howls of laughter from his partner and the stunned silence of his other two friends.
"So what'd you think?"
"I never want to watch you do karaoke ever again." Bobby just continued to let his mouth hang open. Carolyn was struggling to get words out of her mouth, but all that came out was,
"Hips…hair…and your arms…worse…shower…" Before she dissolved into laughter again.
"That bad, huh?" Bobby finally regained the ability to speak.
"Oh yeah."
"Well it was your fault, Bobby."
"What? Why?"
"I lost that bet, from a long time ago. I just now decided to pay up." A look of understanding crossed Bobby's face. He then smiled wickedly.
"I think I liked that one. Never has the taste of victory been so sweet!" Mike just rolled his eyes.
"Whatever. I have something more pressing to ask you two."
"Shoot." Bobby took a swig of beer as Alex looked at Mike.
"Have you heard that rumor going around about Carolyn and I?" Carolyn had finally stopped laughing and listened with interest to the conversation.
"You'll have to refresh my memory." Mike sighed.
"The one where I apparently called myself Barek's." Alex made a sound of realization.
"Yeah. Right Bobby?" Bobby nodded his head. "We've heard of it. Why?"
"Well, I just wanted…" But he was cut off halfway through his sentence by Bobby shooting beer onto the table. "What?"
"Carolyn." He sputtered for a moment. "Did you just say 'worse than in the shower'?" Carolyn's eyes widened, and Mike looked over at her with a look of resignation. Alex looked as surprised as Bobby.
"How would you know that, Carolyn?" Bobby spoke up again.
"Unless you…" Mike cut him off.
"Alright. Alright. You don't have to spell it out." He slung his arm over Carolyn's shoulders and laid one right one her lips. "You've figured it out. Why don't you run along and tell them that, too?" Alex chuckled.
"You have to admit. It was really funny to see everyone trying to catch you two doing something inappropriate at work." Bobby nodded his head in agreement. Carolyn decided to put her two cents in.
"Unless you're the center of attention."
"Which is something we've been since before you guys came to major case." Bobby pointed out. "It was a nice change to not be the center of attention."
"Whatever. Anyways, it's your turn Bobby. Tell a story, or sing a song." Bobby tilted his head to one side and contemplated his choices.
"I'll tell a story. Which one do you guys want?"
"How about when you were in the witness protection program?" Seeing everyone nod in agreement, he sighed.
"Okay. It was a bright, sunny day when I went to the convenience store on the corner. That's where it all began."
TBC...
AN2: As I said before, hopefully I'll get up the rest by the end of the week. sorry it's short, but part two is going to be much longer. my school is suppose to have stress-free week, but the teachers will be giving us just as much work as if it were not stress-free week so we'll see. meh. review please!