All characters belong to JE unfortunately, I would kidnap some but Ranger might find me, in fact what a good idea.
We managed to collect Carl with little hassle, or should I say he suddenly fell asleep against Lester's fist after calling me a rather demeaning name. Gotta love those Merry Men. I only needed his help with Carl but he stuck to me the rest of the day and it was great fun, we got subs and after dropping one off for Connie headed back to my apartment, apparently Tank had taken it upon himself to have my car taken home without me.
We trudged up the stairs, Lester tired from running after my skips and me tired from laughing when old Mrs Kertly refused to come out until she got to pinch Lester's bum. It was made even funnier by the fact that Scooter had just turned up handing out programmes for the funeral parlour and commented he thought Lester had a lovely ass too. My grin was a mile long; I had a great time, now had money, a night out to look forward to and extra time to get ready because Lester was so efficient with my skips. Ranger couldn't be further from my mind as I settled on the couch next to Lester after tugging on some slippers then handing him a beer and taking a long pull from my own. He downed it in one and headed back to the kitchen for another, well couldn't blame him after his day I would be pretty annoyed too.
"Hey, don't feel so bad, at least if you don't tell the guys then you won't have to come with me again. Plus I got you off work 3 hours early."
He wandered back into the living room and sat next to me wrapping an arm around my shoulders and picking the remote up, before he turned the TV on he turned to me.
"No way am I giving this up to the other guys, I had fun apart from being sexually assaulted, I mean hell it's not my fault the ladies love me. So what we going to do for the next 2 hours while we pretend to be working or else Tank will stick me on monitors to make up."
"We could chill and watch a film, play cards, surf the net or sleep? Plus eating as well but we are definitely doing that."
"How about a game of shot spit?"
"What is that? There is no body fluids' involved is there?"
"Not if you don't want there to be." He winked and I rolled my eyes. "Basically, you have to get rid of all your cards by matching them to a card on the table either 1 higher or 1 lower, when you get rid of all your cards you have to shout spit and hit both piles in the middle. If you lose you have to do a double shot of vodka, although you're kinda a light weight so I'll make it a single for you."
"I don't have any alcohol other than beers in the house though."
"We'll go to the shop first then and get food as well as vodka."
"Will Tank be pissed when he finds out you're drinking when you're pretending to be working?"
"Na, he won't know and as long as Ranger doesn't find out I'm safe."
Ranger, fat chance him finding out he was probably on his way to Siberia by now. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and controlled my pain, when I opened them Lester was looking uncomfortable.
"Sorry Beautiful, it just slipped out. Don't worry he will be fine." As soon as he saw me relax he finished, "Then you can get Mr Lover back into your bed."
Whoa!! Bed? What is hell's name is he talking about? Nobody knows about Ranger and I have slept together do they?
"Wait a minute, Ranger and I aren't fuck buddies Lester." I spat, feeling my anger boil over.
" I never said that Bomber but you guys are obviously involved, he does everything for you and you help him any time he asks, I just figured you guys were a couple."
"We. Are. Not. A. COUPLE! He doesn't even know the meaning of the word, sending me back to Morelli then kissing and leaving and touching and leaving, never the ball's to say what he wants!"
I ranted on till I suddenly noticed I was getting back on ranting about Ranger not Lester, I mean I didn't want to rant about Lester he obviously saw the same things I did and I began to feel sorry for him after my explosion. He reached over and took my hand, looking into my eyes.
"Look Beautiful, I never knew and I'm sorry but he is rubbish with his feelings and if he can't make a commitment, why make one to him? Why let him keep doing it. If he hadn't been around I would have been falling at your feet long ago. You're damn special Steph don't let someone play you for a fool. As for Morelli, don't play yourself short he may be wanted by loads of girls in the burg but your in demand from the whole of New Jersey."
He never broke eye contact the entire speech and I felt my heart constrict at his confession and I immediately relaxed. "Thanks, Sorry I got annoyed just a little tightly sprung."
He gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and pulled me out of my seat, "Now let's go get our drink on."
We motored to the 7-11 and wandered down the aisles, picking up tasty cakes, peanut butter, M&M's, Oreo's, Ben & Jerry's then finally Vodka. Heading to the till disaster struck, Morelli was leaning against the till obviously trying his charm on the pretty cashier. He looked up when we walked towards him, cutting a look to Lester then scanning me up and down he stopped at my feet.
"Nice slippers Cupcake, what you doing with this thug?" He cut a glare to Lester. "Sorry babysitter."
Lester went to take a step forward but I stopped him with an arm on his abdomen.
"Sorry Morelli couldn't find my shoes when I got out of bed, Lester and I looked though. And thug? Excuse me but he has more honour in his pinky than you have in your entire body and I am including you thimble sized dick in that too." He looked shocked for a moment before his cop face slammed into place and he stepped back.
"Well, wouldn't want to keep you from you night in." He leered as we walked to the cashier. Lester was packing while I loaded the belt then pulled his wallet out to pay. The cashier was obviously more fascinated by Lester than Joe and kept looking him up and down like lunch.
"That's $16.70 handsome." She winked, he took it all in his stride and gave her a dazzling smile back as he handed her a twenty.
"Keep the change darling." He flashed another smile and she blushed right to her toes.
"Here's my number if you need anything else just ask." She winked and tried to smile suggestively up at him and I could see Joe out of the corner of my eye turn an ugly shade of red and storm out the shop. Once outside Lester stalked over to Joe's SUV and tucked the number in his wind screen wiper while Joe fumed inside.
"You looked more desperate than me, thought you might want to try again although can't say you've got much going for you." He grinned and hoped in next to me as I motored out the lot back to my apartment. We cracked up as soon as we got onto the road and didn't stop till we were safely on the couch in my living room with food scattered in front of us.
"That was brilliant Beautiful, you really got him good." He laughed.
"No way, you got him way better he was so angry she gave you her number then to give it to him was just priceless."
We finally settled down and I flipped in a CD while he set up the cards. We were sitting facing each other across the thin table shots set to the side and munchies around our folded legs. He explained again and then showed me how to play and we got started I won the first lot because he was going easy on me but as his hands got slower and sloppy I got faster, he decided he wasn't going to win so he finally decided to pick up the pace and won the next few, the vodka burned down my throat and I started to feel giddy really fast. I could tell we were getting drunk when we decided that every time Ranger's name came up we were going to sing the batman theme tune. It was going downhill. Yes!
I dared Lester than if I won he would cut his stupid rat's tail thing in his hair off and he countered that if he won I had to change into a very revealing top. Thankfully I won and drunk as we were I cut it from his head, both of us were laughing our asses off and rolling around the floor flinging the little bunch of hair at each other, it wouldn't have been so funny except Lester was drunk because he had been drinking a whole beer in between shots and had about triple the amount of alcohol in his system that I had.
We were laughing so hard we almost missed the locks tumbling; quick as a flash we had the couch upside down and were crouched behind it guns drawn thinking we were the absolute shit. Lester sat his phone to record and placed it on the counter to film the whole thing as Tank walked in. He just about fell over as soon as we both shouted, "Freeze Motherfucka!" Then both of us rolled backwards and laughed our heads off, Lester picked up his pony tail and flung it at Tank who caught it with a look of disgust. Suddenly Lula rushed into the room and took in the sight of a breathless and giggling Lester and me till she broke out in a huge smile and sat down with the bottle of vodka pressing it to her lips and downing nearly the rest. Lester and I looked at each other then Lula and let out a whoop of applause. Lester picked up his phone and tucked it back into his pocket and headed to the kitchen to get us more beer. Tank stood watching this exchange with a face like thunder,
"Santo's what the hell are you doing? You're supposed to be helping Steph catch skips and keep her safe. Monitor duty for a week."
Lester shrugged and looked at me, "It was worth it and the nights not over." He grinned and we both continued laughing our asses off. Tank interrupted again but with the complete wrong sentence.
"Would you do this if Ranger was in charge?"
Lester and I looked at one another and burst into song at the top of our voices.
"Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah BATMAN!!!"
Then we fell about laughing again much to Tanks dismay. The vodka had obviously gotten to Lula's head by the time she stood up and carefully picked her way over to Tank.
"Honey, it's just a bit of a laugh, Steph need's the release since Ranger left."
"Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah BATMAN!!!"
"Would you two shut up about Batman! Look honey I know but if this get's out then I can kiss goodbye to respect from the men. He's not doing his job."
"I tell you what, you give Lester a break this one time, and we promise not to tell anyone. You can say he didn't get drunk until after his shift and if you do that I'll..." Her voice was low and husky when she bent in close to Tank, his eyes suddenly went molten chocolate then quick as a flash into dark pools of lust. He suddenly took her hand and started to lead her over to the door.
"Santo's you are one lucky fuck, no one hears about this I'll sign you out and I'm offline for the next 4 hours at least."
They rushed out of the apartment and we shuddered at the thought. 6 came and went with Lester and I trying to get ready to go out, I invited him along and we both fought to be first in the shower, I eventually won and we scrambled around the apartment getting changed, He got a lot of looks as he rushed outside to his truck in his towel to get his change of clothes and I think the entire neighbourhood was going to be waiting outside for his exit. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Lester went to answer, he found Mary Lou, Valerie, Connie and Lula standing there done to the nine's waiting for me.
"Hey guys, I thought we were meeting at Connie's?" I tried to hide the slur but was talking real slow so they obviously knew what was wrong.
"You were taking ages and Lula mentioned you had already started drinking so we thought we would join. But Steph why is there a man here in just a towel?"
"He's not a man he's a spit fire, a towel clad spitfire." I turned round locking eyes with Lester and we both started running towards the living room arms stretched like a plane, making stupid noises.
"Neeeeeeeeeerwwww, neeeeeeeeeeeeeerwwwww!"
"ratatatatatatatataatatatatata!!!" Then we collapsed onto the upturned sofa and returned to laughing our heads off at a previous joke that was still hilarious. The girls loaded in and since I was pretty much ready apart from my dress and shoes I sat with them and held up the shoe chat. Lester was taking a real long time so I excused myself to get my dress and shoes on and find Lester. He was laying across my bed asleep with his pants half up but the back was obviously snagged on the bed. I let out a laugh and headed back to pick up a red bull Connie had brought. I placed it on the bed side table and unhooked his pants, as soon as they were almost up and he hadn't stirred I had a great idea, taking a few steps back I launched myself at him landing squarely on his chest, knocking the wind out of him and waking him up fully. When he finished gasping for air and I had stopped laughing my head off he looked up.
"Thought that would be funny did you Plum?"
"I did, and it was." I screeched as he reached for me and rushed into the living room.
"'I'm sorry I left you a red bull to wake up then you can kill me but I need to get changed."
We headed back to my room and he finished dressing as I pulled on my shoes then slid the towel to the floor so I could pull the dress on. I glanced over and he was openly staring eye's sparklingly deep green reflecting the tightening of his pants. It was the weirdest feeling, I usually feel self conscious when I'm barely dressed and standing in my red plunge bra and thong set from VS and a pair of fuck me pumps would usually do it but he was looking at me with such desire I was less self continues and more aroused. Sane Stephanie suddenly showed her head finally and punches drunk and stupid Stephanie, I can't do this he is Ranger's friend and I work with him. I quickly pulled my dress up and flashed a smile as I headed out the bedroom. He caught me quick before I had made it to the living room, "I meant what I said earlier, Ranger's stupid if he doesn't realise how amazing you are, I can't believe how sexy you are." He whispered in a husky voice in my ear and placed a hot open mouthed kiss to my neck which caused me to moan quietly. He pulled away, I noticed he was reluctant and headed back to my room to put a shirt and shoes on. His wonderfully strong back trailing down to his trim waist disappearing behind the door. The girls were starting to get bored so I downed a red bull and a few more vodka shots before we headed out. Lester walked into the hall ready for the night a bright smile on his face as he realised the girls were all drooling over him. "Wow, em you look nice Lester." Valerie choked out and turned a beetroot red before leading the way down to the waiting taxi's. Mary Lou, Val, Connie and Lula tumbled into one and Lester and I climbed into the other, coincidence, yeah right they knew we were drunk and would end up getting chucked out for annoying the driver. True enough after the eighth rendition of the batman theme song he set us on the curb 12 blocks from the club, Damn. Lester pulled out his phone and winked at me.
"Bobby, are you working?"
He flipped the phone onto speaker and we stepped back into an ally to get a little peace.
"I have just finished, away to head down for the game, where are you? Never came back."
"I'm on the corner of Mississippi can you pick me up, I've had one drink and I'm 12 blocks from the club but I don't know which direction it is. Pleeeeeeaaaaaase help I will loooooooove you forever dude!"
Then we both looked at each other and shouted "PLEEEEEEAAAAAAAAASEEEEEE?" Down the phone.
"Christ is that Bomber? Are you both drunk? In fact don't answer that stay there I'll be there in a minute. Don't move."
He disconnected and Lester slipped the phone back into his pants pocket. I shivered slightly I mean damn it was cold and I was wearing a come get me dress, basically it covered just enough and nothing more. "Cold Beautiful?" I nodded and he wrapped me in his arms and rested his cheek against the side of my head, it was ruining my hair but he was cosy so I didn't care.
We stood there for a while then decided to get Bobby too, I left my purse at the entrance to the ally and we stood against the wall till we saw Bobby pull up and pick up the purse he looked around and we jumped out before he could react, guns drawn and yelled in unison. "Freeze Motherfucka!" He looked completely shocked so we burst into laughter and gripped to each other while Lester reached over and pocketed his phone.
We were still laughing when Bobby walked us into the club and came to join the girls, "You two took long enough, what happened to the taxi and where did Bobby come from?" Mare was obviously very drunk and kept asking questions and not waiting for answers, this was going great.
Bobby and Lester sat down and I was pulled into Lester's lap, he played with my hair and we all chatted for a while about stupid stuff till I started to laugh thinking about Lester the spitfire and me the bomber plane. Lester looked at me quizzically grinning at my laughter so I stood up and within the eyes of the entire club spread my arms and rushed around making plane noises and bomb noises. Lester suddenly stood up and joined in much to the dismay of the rest of the group because it had looked as if he was sobering up.
We rushed around till one of my favourite dance songs came on it was a slow song but had a heavy beat that made it fantastic for dancing. I turned to Mary Lou and she noticed winking, we had loved this song in college and it had gotten any guy drooling but she hadn't tried it since she got married but drunk she was more than eager. She jumped up towards me and I motioned for Lester that we were going to dance so he sat next to Bobby wondering what was going to happen and Mare flipped her hair back as we started. Val had seen it in action before and it was still working as we pushed our way into the dance floor, we kept our hips moving as if we were belly dancers, it caught the attention of most of the guys in the club.
I saw Lester push his way up to the front as we danced, clearly watching every move my body made. His gaze made me even more determined and when it got to the part with the best belly dancing beat in the song I shimmied over to him, turning my back on him I shook my hips side to side brushing my ass into his groin. He bent his legs slightly and positioned his arms at my sides framing me as he ground back into me. I lost all sense of the club around me as we moved together fitting perfectly and moving as one fluid unit. I could feel the eyes of the people in the club as I turned to face him slipping a leg between his as I started to roll my body to the base beat I could feel how his breath was ragged and it made me so hot to think it was me causing that reaction.
We continued for a few songs then headed to the bar for another drink, he handed me drink and I downed it in one. "What was that?" He looked shocked and amused at once and leaned in to shout above the noise. "JagerBomb. Lethal if drank quickly." He chuckled and his warm breath tickled my neck sending goose pimples down my spine. I ordered another tow and down the other to show I didn't care then dragged him over for some more dancing.