Yin: First off, I'd like to say sorry for taking so long and this is just the first update of many... also thanks to those of you that have reviewed and especially to Hanachu for reminding why I started writing this story in the first place, and with out further nonsense here it it, the next chapter:

Disclaimer in chapter one…..

One Love:

Last Time:

Their tongues ran together as they fought for dominance over the kiss. Kai lowered them onto the sofa without breaking the kiss. He could taste the vodka on her breath as they made out on Ginn's couch in the silence, the only sound coming from the soft rustling of the cushions under their combined weight and the smacking of their lips in a passionate war.

Kai smiled as he finally broke the random make out session between the two. He really wanted to do this, but he knew she would never allow him to hear the end of it; she would accuse him of trying to take advantage of her while she was mess up even though she was the one that started it.

"Hey where the heck do you think you're goin Blue?" Ginn whined as she watched Kai stand once again from the couch. He smiled with actually sincerity this time.

"I am much more of a gentleman than you may think Pinky. I'll see you later; don't get sick on that shit." Kai said as he nodded to the bottle that Ginn had once again attached herself to. He turned slowly and left, locking the door with the key that led them to meet in the first place, leaving Ginn suckling on the bottle watching him with wide, sad eyes.

Chapter 9:

Inside the Influence

Ginn sat curled up alone in a pile of clothes that she wasn't sure she would exactly consider clean still clinging to the bottle Kai left in her hands a few hours ago. She couldn't believe she kissed him, without warning or thinking she just reacted. She didn't want him to leave, as much as she hated him, she didn't want him to go to that party.

She hated to admit it, but Tala and Kai were both right, she really had no claim to Kai and had no right to tell him what he could and couldn't do. She hadn't even known him for a day and already she was feeling something one may claim as the equivalent to love.

Maybe this was what all the great romance novels called "love at first sight?" 'Or lust,' Ginn thought as took a sharp swig of the vodka to make her ridiculous ponderings seem less insane. The alcohol stung her throat less and less with every drink; she didn't have class until the next afternoon so she wasn't too concerned with having a hangover from the potent Russian liquor.

A dizzy feeling accompanied by an underwhelming feeling of sadness crept across Ginn's eyes, she didn't want to be alone anymore, and even Kai's company would have been welcomed at this point. Then, as if some god above heard her thoughts a soft knock came at her front door.

She sprung up from her nest in her clothes and rushed to the door, stumbling halfway down the hallway, hoping the blue haired Russian deiced not to go to Hailey's party. She roughly threw the door open with one hand with the clear bottle of vodka still clutched in the other.

To her surprise her red head best friend stood in her doorway, eyes red and puffy, breath reeking of tequila and with a bright red bruise forming on his left cheek bone. Ginn immediately knew what happened. Tala and his mom hated each other, especially when they had both had too much to drink.

"Smashed my face with a fucking cooking pan." Tala mumbled almost incoherently. Ginn grabbed his elbow and led him inside as kicked the door closed behind her. They hobbled in drunken haze to the couch and both plopped down hard into the cushions.

"Are you ok?" She asked in a soft yet slurred tone as she offered him the bottle. This wasn't the first time Tala came to her house late at night with this exact excuse. It was never bad enough to go to the hospital but it usually resulted in a bright purple bruise and some nasty words from Tala about his mother.

Tala nodded as he took a thick gulp from the bottle and examined it closely. "Kai leave this here?" He asked suspiciously knowing Ginn wouldn't buy this type of alcohol. She nodded, not wanting to explain what transcribed between her and the Russian earlier that evening.

The two sat quietly for a few moments before Tala handed her back the bottle and stood up. Ginn watched him as she tipped the bottle back again tasting the heat from the liquid. The red head disappeared into the darkness of her room and after a few rustling noises appeared with a thick white joint and a red lighter.

It was customary during one of these particular situations for the two to share a joint, vent to each other about the happenings of the day, and then curl up together in Ginn's sea of clothes and fall happily asleep. However, that was on a normal night, when Tala and Ginn were both not drinking, and tonight was not one of those normal nights.

The base from the music pounded through Kai's chest and rattled deep in his bones as he learned deeper into the worn cousins on the sofa in the dim, smoky living room of Hailey's apartment. Time seemed to be passing slower that reality and the night seemed to run together as the vast amounts of alcohol and drugs interlaced themselves with Kai's blood stream.

His blood red eyes watched as the people around him swam in swirls in his vision, he had never really tried tequila before, but it was definitely a different kind of drunk than the vodka usually gave him. He felt invincible; he wanted to fight or to fuck but the current blunt going around the circle that consisted of Hailey, himself and three of her friends kept him glued to the sofa in the living room.

There was no talking between them, simply smoking, wasted giggling and more drinking. Kai noticed as the blunt got smaller and the liquid in his cup ran dry that Hailey's blond hair seemed shinier and her eyes more beautiful. He knew somewhere in the back of his mind that she was off limits but he was too drunk to recall why.

Her body was nuzzled against him, soft and warm, her hands grabbed at his to pull herself closer to him on the sofa till she was straddling his lap with her legs, her shoulder length hair falling into his face. He looked across from her and saw the other people in the circle had already coupled off and seemed lost in their own sexual need.

"You Russian's can drink can't ya baby?" Hailey's voice slurred in his ear, a sexual tension hung heavy in her words. He could practically feel her mouth water with want for him. A primal need rose deep within him and settled at his groin, tickling a nasty side of him that only came out in most people with too much alcohol.

He smirked at her with heavy eyelids and wanting eyes, "Think you can hold a Russian, Baby?" His husky voice invited and mocked her at the same time. He didn't understand why but she liked it. With her skirt hiked to her waist, he could feel her wetness seep through her thin underwear onto his jeans. The throbbing in his pants grew to an almost unbearable pain.

She smiled at him, her eyes dilated and lustful, they were both lost in the dizzy spin the tequila and marijuana granted. Her shimmering lips, wet with gloss, landed on his in a wet, messy kiss. Their tongues battled sloppily for domination as her hand crept steadily down his built chest to the zipper on his jeans.

The joint was already half gone and neither Tala nor Ginn had yet to break the silence, they simply would switch every few minutes between either sucking vodka from Kai's bottle or inhaling thick green smoke. The mood was somber, yet a certain comfort wrapped itself around the two best friends.

"Sometimes I think you're the only one I'll every really love." Tala's voice was slurred as it cut through the silence in the smoggy room. Ginn looked up from the smoke cloud she was starring at almost too intently.

The pink hair girl smiled and crept closer to her friend and cuddled against his chest, her free arm wrapped around his waist and her other offered exchange of the joint for the bottle. He accepted her trade and took to suckling on the tail ends of the smoke from the joint before dropping it on the ash tray beside him to let it burn out on its own.

"Don't be silly, you secretly hate me remember?" Ginn joked trying to cheer him up, knowing full well he was serious. She hugged him causing a smile to creep onto his face; it even seemed as if he forgot about the pain in his cheek from his mother's assault.

"So tell me something," He said as his arms wrapped around her. She took another swig of the bottle and offered it to him. He shook his head and set the bottle on the floor beside the couch.

"What do you want to know love?" Ginn said in an abnormally sweet voice. The liquor was really taking her into another mind set. Her sadness seemed to fade as cuddled closer into the red head's warm chest.

"What happened with you and Kai either?" His voice was nothing more than curiosity, not meant to harm her or judge her, he simply wanted to know. For some reason she didn't want to voice her feelings about the whole ordeal.

"Just a stupid kiss, you know, one of those 'shoulda thought that threw first' moments." She shrugged it off not wanting to think of the blue haired Russian while she was lying with her head buried in Tala's chest.

Tala was probably the most important person in Ginn's life. Though he didn't know all her secrets, he accepted her for all she was, her flaws, weaknesses, and human needs, and she did the same; she truly loved him for the sleazy, two-timing, sexaholic that he was.

The two had much more than a friendship; it was a connection that most people could ever hope to understand. They knew they were of the same breed of human beings and because they saw the darkness in one another they loved each other even more, yet could never truly be together for the very same reason.

"One of those 'should have thought it through moments' huh?" Tala said almost absent mindedly.

Tala's icy eyes looked up to find Ginn's lustful yellow orbs starring back at him, a longing, lustful spark was shinning deep within them. His hand found themselves creeping their way up her shirt to land on her skin just below her breasts. Her flesh flamed at his touch sending shivers of want down her back and intensified the growing heat deep between her legs.

Yin: Also, a final note, if your going to flame me at least learn to spell... Again thanks so much to those of you that have stuck with this story and i hope you guys stay tuned for the next update!