Chapter 9: Sober
Author: Snooglez
Disclaimer: IDOA
Rating: R for language.
AN: There is a little Summer Seth fluff, Sodie fans do not be alarmed. It will surely pass. Warning: Accidental drug use. And yes, Anna Stern is Jodie's ex.
….
Jodie's fingers furiously tapped the buttons on her Xbox controller. A nice first person shooter was all she needed to relieve stress. Stress that Summer had triggered.
Alex walked in the door way to the bedroom.
"Knock-knock lovebird."
"Fuck you." Jodie sung.
"Speaking of fucking, want me to call Summer over?" Alex teased.
"Shut it, Kelly." Jodie warned, trying to instill her concentration. "One more word of Summer and I'll rip your eyes from their sockets and tape them to my wall mirror. Then every morning I'll wake up and tickle them for good luck." She threatened in a disturbing monotonous tone followed by an evil grin.
The blonde laughed at her friend's overly descriptive comment. "Is that a promise ya psycho?" She pressed.
"Oh yeah." Alex saw the back of her head bob up and down.
"I must say though… love definitely works in mysterious ways."
Jodie's macho character blew some weird monster like creature's head to bits as she responded. "…reaching for my pliers…" She warned again.
"C'mon Jodie. Don't you wanna at least talk about it to me?" Alex asked her, not too far from begging. Jodie was clamming up as far as Alex was concerned and it was a bitch trying to pry her open. She knew she was feeling something for Summer, but she was making it hard for her to read.
Jodie dropped the controller and spun around. "What, in god's name are you talking about! I don't have a thing for Summer! Fucking told you that! So stop fucking pressing me Alex! Fucking Christ!"
"Gee… can anyone say "F bombs"?" Alex stifled a grin. She knew what this meant. Jodie was getting aggravated which meant either A: she likes Summer and is hiding her feelings or B: maybe she's just really pissed cause she keeps messing with her about something that's not even there.
Jodie wasn't exactly the type that could word what she was feeling. She hated that. It made her feel all "girly" as she would put it and weak inside, vulnerable and-easy to kill.
"Love's a bitch. And bitches always fuck you over, no matter how sweet and innocent… or cute, sexy, and adorable…dammit, I'm thinking about her again."
"Fine I'll stop if you really want me to." Alex gave in. She still wasn't through with her yet.
"Thank you." Jodie rolled her eyes and went back to playing. "Freakin' panzee."
…
Summer flipped a couple more channels on her tv. It was way past her bed time but she couldn't sleep. Her mind was in overdrive from the day's events and… Jodie.
"What does it mean? I'm not gay. Summer Roberts can't be gay. Summer Roberts isn't a gay!" she pouted and buried her face in a nearby pillow. " I've only known Jodie for one day and now she's invading my brain! What have I done to deserve this?" Her eyes settled on the station and a random talk show was on.
She read the show's description.
"Surprise honey, I'm really a man? Oh ewness!"
There was a loud knock on her door.
She huffed. "Whaat?" She was now annoyed at the fact someone was barging in on her "me" time.
The door cracked open and in came Seth's curly head. "Hey babe."
Her expression fell into an exhausted one. "Cohen… it's you." She mumbled lamely.
Seth faked a wince. "Ouch. Fine don't be happy to see your super cool hero who saved the day. I totally understand." He slowly inched himself out the door.
Summer rolled her eyes. "Get in here dumbass." She demanded. He obeyed sitting on the floor by her bed which she found odd.
"Why are you sitting on the floor?"
He turned around. "Because your bed is so pink, and… girly." He whined.
"I think you'll survive. Not that you weren't all that manly in the first place. You comb Princess Sparkle's tail way too much. Now get up here." She patted a spot on the bed for him.
"Hey hey now…you can't quite feel the wind in your hair when you're on the verge of dreadlocks." He explained gently.
Summer rolled her eyes, shaking off how very homosexual just sounded.
Seth relaxed on the bed lying back upon the perfect pink pillows. Summer crawled up into his long arms which he carefully wrapped around her.
He watched the tv to find a very attractive blonde crying her eyes out. "Wow she's…" the woman turned to watch her husband storm angrily to backstage and he received and eye full of her throat. His eyes popped out. "…got an adam's apple the size of my left asscheek. My eyes! The burning!" he said clenching them tight.
"Yeah I meant to tell you the wives are all really trannies."
He popped one eye open. "Those men make very lovely women. Plastic surgery is incredible." He added fascination evident in his tone.
Summer smacked his arm. He was getting a bit too excited for her taste.
Seth coughed. "Not as hot as the real thing though."
Pacified with his response, she recalled him saying something about being a hero.
"What were you saying earlier about the hero thing? What makes you a hero? And it better not be about how you rescued a mint conditioned issue number two Batman from the hell fire touch of your 8 year old cousin David who comes over to poke and or prod your collection with sticky fingers of grape jelly doom."
"No." Seth deadpanned. "Nice try though."
Seth sighed hard and long. His encounter with Ryan wasn't a pretty one. He was like a brother to him, but he himself was also like a brother to Marissa and couldn't allow Ryan to do the evil deed he was acting on.
"Ryan tried to out the Marissa and Alex thing to Julie."
Summer unraveled Seth's hold on her to sit straight up. She couldn't believe her ears. "That jerk tried to tell Julie about Marissa and Alex!"
She was fuming with rage. God forbid if she ever sees him again, she had a shoe heel with his name on it.
"Yeah. But I worked my magical nerdy powers and showed him the light… and he didn't go through with it.
Summer hugged him. "Oh my god thank you. Marissa would probably go insane. She's not quite ready to stand up to her mom just yet, and her and Alex just got back together and stuff. That would totally suck."
They lay back onto the bed again. Her head rested on his chest, and she began to get too comfortable, fore her eyelids were starting to droop.
"You're so not gay. See? You like this. You love your Seth." She thought snuggling to him closer.
"I'm still gonna kick his ass." Her voice was dragging like she was ready to fall asleep any minute.
"I'm pretty sure you'd win." He stroked her shoulder.
She yawned and closed her eyes slowly, sleep nestling in. "Hmph…definately."
…
:NEXT DAY: Jodie's house:
"Wanna go out?" Alex asked popping another cheeto into her mouth.
Jodie readjusted her position on the couch, legs dangling over the arm rest. "With who? If it's a Malex episode, this is me telling you to fuck off."
Alex was leering. "I know. That's why Summer's going." She announced the name in an over exaggerated girly voice and topped it off with a kind pixie swirl you'd only see in ballet.
Jodie watched on in pain and frustration.
"You have no idea how much I want to kill you right now… literally. Like… stab you in the eye literally." She said lips drawn across her face.
"So, grumpy…it's a date then?" Alex tried.
"So um, how 'bout not?" She imitated.
"Why not? It's been practically forever since we've been out. Me you and Eva used to do it all the time. What's stopping you now?"
Jodie held a finger in the air. "For the fucking record… you guys dragged me along. I had to endure the pain of watching you two suck face and god knows what ever else." She paused to visibly shudder. "Same way with Marissa in the beginning… and the end result after each night involved the constant urge to submerge my retinas into heaping bucket of acid."
Alex's eyes widened. "Are you kidding me? Why are you bring all this up like you were alone all the time. You were never third wheel. You had that one Donna chick from time to time too. We didn't just drag you along like some sad puppy."
"No, no…. you mean that fuckin' nut job who swore on life that I was her soul mate. She was like, obsessed with me. She said she'd jump outta a godamn 5 story window for me if she had to. Tell me, what sane person says shit like that! I don't screw the mentally disabled I'm sorry."
Alex laughed. "Yeah Eva did tell me how she copied your family photo album that she stole from her house. I think she made a shrine or something?" She snorted. "Yeah but um, I thought you liked her. You two were totally fine."
"What the fuck were you smoking? There was no kind of connection. I have standards Alex. Geez, what do think I am? A guy?" Jodie said shrugging up her shoulders.
"Might as well have been."
Jodie scoffed like she was actually appalled by it. "I'm so offended by that horrible statement. We all know men are dirty pigs… I'm a pimp, there's a difference." Jodie said grinning.
"I don't know you." Alex laughed along with her. "So. You don't want Summer as your friend date?"
"No. She doesn't like me… and I definitely don't like her. As a friend or… anything of that matter. Snobs are a real turn off."
Of course she was lying through her teeth.
"Well if you get a date, then she'll feel left out Jodie."
"So? She's a brat."
"And you're not? Quit bitching. It's Marissa's bestfriend. It's supposed to be just the four of us. Don't be a little queer and ruin it."
Jodie punched Alex in the arm. "You're a little queer! Queer."
Alex smacked her back. "No, you are."
Jodie leaped onto her and wrestled her to the ground somehow gaining enough leverage to sit on her back, successfully pinning down one arm. "Ow, fuck! Jodie… get your heavy ass off me!"
Jodie took a couple blonde strands of Alex's hair between her fingers. "I'll yank it. I swear."
"No! Don't!"
"Who's Jodie's little queer?" She playfully cooed in Alex's ear.
Alex reached behind her and pinched Jodie's leg.
"AH! You bitch!" Jodie yelped holding her sore leg.
Alex took off into the room and came back with a pair of sock em boppers on each hand.
"Oh I think you want some of this." The blonde asked playfully shuffling around like she was a real boxer. She kept smacking Jodie in the stomach.
Jodie swatted the offending inflatable mits away. "Dude don't…" She pointed to the tv. "…Oprah's on." She whined.
Alex stopped shuffling. "You nerd. You don't watch that shit."
"Fuck yeah I do. Oprah rocks Jodie's socks."
Alex paused. "Okay, you know what? Alex doesn't care, and Alex feels like kickin' Jodie ass right regardless of Oprah." She said haughtily. She was in a strangely good mood and felt like taking it out on her friend. She had all this pent up happiness bubbling around inside of her ever since she had Marissa back into her arms.
Jodie narrowed her eyes. "You wouldn't."
Alex nodded nice and slowly. "Oh I would." She grinned and wiggled her eyebrows. She repeatedly began to jab Jodie in the head.
"AH! Get away from me you nerd!" Jodie cried. She grabbed a pillow and whapped Alex a good one.
….
Marissa knocked on the door to Jodie's house, but there was no answer. After a couple seconds she just let herself in.
She only needed to step one foot in the house to see the sight of her girlfriend straddling Jodie's back on the floor, repeatedly bopping her in the head with one inflatable sock-em-bopper. It looked like she was enjoying it. Jodie on the other hand had the expression of boredom, propped elbow and hand resting on her cheek. She was watching tv, idly flipping channels even.
She had tired of their numerous wrestling and Alex's plastic toy of choice.
"Fuck Alex, if you're gonna be back there could you quit it? We tired of that shit an hour ago!" Jodie grumbled.
Alex laughed and bopped her again on the side of her face a little harder than she should have. Jodie cursed. "Fuck this. It's on!"
Jodie whipped around and tackled her, seeing Marissa standing in the doorway in the kitchen area.
"Hey Marissa! Come to see your girlfriend get her ass kicked? I was just about to send her to the ER." Jodie said grabbing the blonde's arm.
Marissa laughed and walked herself into the living room. "How very uh, twelve of you guys."
Alex wriggled free of Jodie's grasp and stood up to greet her lover with a kiss to the lips.
"Hey babe. I thought I wasn't seeing you until tonight."
"Yeah. I couldn't stand being in the house with my mother. You know what that's like."
Alex nodded, taking her hand in hers. "Um… about your mom. There's something I have to tell you."
Her look was almost apologetic while dragging her over to the couch to sit.
"What?" Marissa asked wearing a worried expression. Anything regarding her mother was never for a good cause.
Jodie turned her head to face their direction. "By the way Marissa, your mom is the sweetest fucking milf I'd ever seen in my life. God help me if I ever see her again, I won't be able to contain myself."
Marissa's face twisted in disgust. "It official. I'm scarred for life. Thanks Jodie."
"Any time."
Marissa looked at Alex in question. "Wait, when did Jodie ever see my mom? Even you've only seen her once and that was when she thought of us only as friends."
"It kinda ties in with what I have to tell you. Jodie was with me in court and saw Julie as she reigned shit all over me. You see after our break up, while I was stewing in a gigantic pile of self loathing and heart ache, Julie slapped a restraining order against me from coming within 50 feet of her property including you."
Marissa was imploding. The muscles in her jaw were twitching. This was definitely the last straw.
"Basically she gave Alex a swift kick in the nuts while she was already down." Jodie added flipping another channel.
Alex rolled her eyes. She stuck her finger out in Jodie's direction.."Hey! Little queer! You wanna go again!"
Jodie lifted herself up like she was ready to fight. "Oh what then! Nothin' but space and opportunity! Bring it!"
Alex silenced her plies by smacking her in the head with her couch cushion she was laying back on. Jodie growled and began watching tv again using the cushion for a pillow. "Ass."
"Like I was saying… I couldn't call, look or breathe your way if I wanted to. Because after your note I was going to see you the next day since it was all Julie's fault in the first place for our break up."
"Are you fucking kidding me?" She bit her lip as she calmed herself down. She placed a hand on her forehead covering her eyes in frustration. "I'm done. I am so fucking done with her. I can't take it anymore, She just keeps ruining everything I touch."
"Whoa, don't like, kick your mom's ass for it or anything. We can't let her know that you're seeing me. Or I'm in jail."
"And if you do kick her ass, try to stay away from her face. I like her face." Jodie quickly added.
Marissa shook her head. "So what do I do?"
"That's just it. I don't know. We can try to convince her for you to be with me."
"You're kidding. My mother is very persistent when it comes to having it her way. She wants me to marry Ryan, have sex with him, and have an abundance of kids."
Alex made her ick face. "Gross."
"Ew! Hetero sex!" Jodie squealed.
"My thoughts exactly." Marissa paused to think. "Maybe I could lie to her, you know, tell her you moved to the east coast or something so there would be no need for her to keep up the restraining order."
"Might work." Alex said.
"Or I can tell her you like, got into this crazy badass bar fight and this guy named big Chuck, who stabbed you and you slowly died of internal bleeding."
Both Alex and Jodie stared at the brunette like she was out of her mind. Marissa smiled impishly. "Aw, you guys know I'm kidding."
"And I thought her bestfriend was a psycho. You better keep your eye on this one Alex. Next thing you know you'll be waking up to the sound of heavy breathing and Marissa's standing over you with a butcher knife to your temple while whispering "who's yo daddy?" Then I'll be in the corner filming the whole thing and then I'll edit it with a scroll at the bottom saying 'told you so'. Then I'll sell it on ebay and make millions."
Marissa turned to Alex. "She's high, right? She's so high right now, I just know it."
"Nah. She's just retarded. Remind me to buy stickers for her helmet real soon. The shiny ones that sparkle in the sun. She gets real excited over those."
They both laughed.
"Shut up you little queers!" Jodie threw the pillow and hit Marissa.
"We're all queers." Marissa stated catching the pillow.
"Everyone except Jodie. She's a queerdo… weird and gay."
"Your mom." Jodie challenged back.
"You better keep my mom outta this. Now I know how Summer feels."
Jodie wriggled her eye brows. "Ooh. How I wish I knew how Summer felt." She said hinting in a dirty nature.
"Perv."
"You guys are crazy." Marissa said.
Alex twisted her body on the long couch and laid her head in Marissa lap, taking her hand and playing with her slender fingers. "Hopefully she's not too stubborn put down that restraining order."
Marissa stroked Alex's long blonde strands. "Yeah… hopefully." Her voice trailed off into a whisper as she dazed off into how to persuade her mother. "Fuck."
….
Summer was the grocery store shopping for her father who was always way too busy to keep food in the fridge.
"WHAT!" Summer screamed. The old lady right next to her nearly leap out of her skin, accidentally dropping the can of peas she held in her hand. Summer smiled weakly. "Sorry miss."
"You mean to tell me that thing is coming out with us?"
Marissa frowned at her phone. #She's not that bad Summer, plus she is Alex's best friend and I don't want her to feel left out.#
Summer eyed the rack until she found the bag she was looking for. Cradling her cell phone between her ear and shoulder she grabbed her favorite bag of super sized Doritos only to toss it into the cart.
"That frickin' monster better stay away from me. If she merely looks my way I'm gonna scream."
#Summer! Don't be mean. At least try to be nice to her.#
Summer scoffed loudly. "You're kidding. Be nice to her? How am I supposed to do that when she's always saying some kind of psychotic thing to screw up my day? Like how she has the constant urge to knock boots with me… what the hell do I say to that? Huh Marissa?"
There was a long pause over the line.
"Yep. That's what I thought. As long as she keeps her mouth shut, I'm fine."
She heard Marissa sigh long and hard.
#Okay, just don't like make a scene or anything. This is our first outing as a group and I want it to be nice.#
"Like I said before Coop… as long as she keeps her mouth shut, I'm fine."
#Right. See you at seven.#
"Bye." Summer tossed her cell phone back in her purse. She didn't want Jodie to come. After their whole ordeal from shopping it was the last thing she needed right now. She saw a nearby jerky rack and shook it in frustration. "Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it…."
The old lady that had dropped her peas earlier saw everything and trodded over. She placed a comforting hand on Summer's shoulder.
"Child, you need jesus." The old lady said shaking her head.
Summer gave her a lopsided smile.
"Yeah, maybe to smite Jodie."
"I'm gonna pray for you." The old lady said.
…….
Ryan precariously chewed on some beef jerky he found lying around on the counter in the kitchen. He didn't have much of an appetite these last days, and Kirsten became worried. Her Seth had filled her in on the bloody details at breakfast that morning.
She sat at the kitchen table, watching the boy mosey into the room with her. She sat down her catalog and spoke.
"Ryan, how you holding up?"
Ryan never cared to look her way. "Fine." He snapped another bite from the slim jim and leaned on the kitchen sink gazing out the window.
"Hmm." Kirsten nodded not believing him. "Ryan, you have to let her go, as hard as that may be. I know it hurts, but I think it was for the better."
The a corner of his mouth rose slightly, but not into a smile. "Yeah." He uttered lamely before walking out. "For the better."
He was going to get even one way or the other. That much he promised to himself.
……..
:Almost night: Robert's Residents:
Summer was applying her mascara in her vanity mirror. Seth woke up from his nap that had carried on a little longer than he anticipated. He yawned spotting his girlfriend across from him freshly dressed.
"Where you going?" he asked.
Summer capped her mascara and admired her work. "Out with Alex, Marissa, and Jodie."
"Oh, a girl's night out eh?"
"Yeppers."
"Ooh. Is Jodie your date?" The boy teased.
Summer gave him a death stare.
Seth sunk into the pillows. "What?"
"Nothing. Yes she is a lesbian, and no she's not my date. Co-hen." Summer defended herself.
"Okaaay. Sor-ry."
"I'm not gay!"
Seth jumped as Summer yelled it at him. He didn't know what was her deal. It was like she was on edge or something.
"I know! I know!" He said quickly, burying himself deeper into the pillows. "Holy crap babe, lay off the coffee for a while. This time I mean it. You're scaring me."
"I'm not caffeinated."
"Okay. That's a start. What exactly are you on then? Abusing prescription pills is so very 2003."
"I'm not medicated. Just irritated."
"Why?"
She hooked her ears with her earrings. "Jodie's a lesbian menace from hell. 'Nuff said."
"Alright. Why don't you just stay away from her tonight then."
Summer didn't want this though. She wanted things to be even between them, and without all the backsass. She didn't reply. She kissed Seth on the cheek and left the room, leaving the confused boy all by his lonesome.
…….
Summer drove up to Marissa's house waiting for the brunette to come out. She'd tooted the horn a couple times and was now sitting and waiting.
Finally after a few minutes Marissa appeared at the door and closed it behind her. She briskly stepped up to the car. "Sorry. My mom was giving me crap again."
"It's okay."
Marissa grinned and gave Summer an eye over. "You look nice."
"Thanks." Summer glanced over to her friend. "Wow Coop, you look a million times better than I do. Alex is gonna have a heart attack when she sees you." She replied, pulling out of the driveway.
"I'm so nervous."
"For what?"
"This is like, me and Alex's first time out and everything, on a date."
"Whatever. Coop you guys are so natural with each other it's like extreme chemistry. I'm sure it'll wear off when you get there." Summer offered.
Marissa nodded. She leaned back in her chair and relaxed. "You won't believe what my mom did to Alex."
Summer nearly braked the car. "Oh my god she knows! Ryan! That bastard!"
Marissa thought Summer had lost it. "What? My mom knows nothing about me and Alex. And what does Ryan have to do with it?" She could feel her anger creeping up on her.
"You have no idea…"
"You go first."
…….
Jodie and Alex were already at the bait shop.
Alex kept primping her hair nonstop and it was irritating Jodie who sat beside her at their table as they waited for Marissa and Summer's arrival.
"Alex. Your hair is fine. Stop being a girl. It's embarrassing."
She ran her hands over her head again. "I'm nervous is all. I don't know why."
"And what are we doing after dancing this place?"
"I guess we can watch movies at our place?"
"Yawn." Jodie reached out and purposefully flicked Alex's hair, forcing her to fix it again.
The blonde smacked her. "Well, obviously you have something else in mind?"
"Beach? Anything, I dunno. Maybe find a real party and go for it. I know a shit load of people who have parties tonight."
"We'll figure something out when they get here."
Summer and Marissa squeezed through the crowd after spotting the two at the table.
"Hey guys." Marissa greeted.
Alex was having trouble alleviating her blood pressure, taking in the sight of Marissa getup.
"Holy fuck me."
Marissa was wearing a tiny shredded skirt, a black tank top that hugged her lanky form nicely that branded the words 'bite me' on the front, black leggings and black and pink converse high tops. She wore her dark eye makeup, hair slighty curled and flowing over her shoulders. Two black barely studded cuffs donned her wrists.
"Whoa. The rich girl joined the punk nation. And she's fucking smoking." Jodie said oogling Marissa along with Alex.
"Uh, hey." Alex said dumbly.
Summer rolled her eyes. "Hey guys, Summer's here too." She said waving.
"Oh I forgot. Right. Hey Summer." Jodie simply responded.
Summer looked at Alex. "ALEX!"
The blonde jumped. "Oh. Hey Summer. You look nice too." She offered. "I like your skirt too, and um… it's color. The color is nice. I like the color blue." She rambled.
Summer growled and pushed Jodie over to sit down.
"You could've just sat on my lap princess."
"No I couldn't have. Something might've grabbed me and sucked me into the fourth dimension of hell."
Jodie turned to face Summer. "Are you implying that my crotch has the ability to do that? I'll have to investigate this mysterious ability with a mirror and flashlight tonight. Maybe go deep sea diving in that sucker."
"Ooh…I think I just threw up in my mouth." Summer said, face distorted into disgust.
Marissa smiled. "What about your lap?" she directed at Alex. "Is it open for business?"
Alex grinned. "Only for the sexiest girl here." Marissa gingerly slid onto her girlfriend's lap wrapping an arm around her neck. They shared a kiss on the lips.
"My god you're sexy. I'm such a lucky bitch." Alex whispered.
Marissa giggled and kissed her again. "So am I."
Jodie and Summer sat across from them staring.
Jodie nudged her. "Look at them. She's so getting play tonight."
"Jealous?"
"Fuck yeah. How about you fix that problem?" She hinted.
Summer stuck her fist in Jodie's face. "I got five ways to fix your problem."
"You like it rough too?"
Summer pursed her lips. She couldn't win.
"No comment. I'll get us drinks. Jodie you're helping so move your ass." She hit the girl in the arm
"Fine."
The two left the table leaving the remaining two to themselves.
Jodie grabbed Summer's shoulder. "Sure you wanna risk going through the crowd again? You might get stomped on, you know… being short and all." She asked laughing.
"Shut up before I kick you in your shins."
Alex trailed her hand down the smooth fabric of Marissa's legs. "So. What made you dress like this? You almost made me have an orgasm woman."
Marissa laughed. "I wanted to surprise you. It's our first outing in two years and I wanted to do something different."
"Now I kinda feel guilty I didn't wear something as equally hot." Alex stuck her bottom lip out as far as it could go.
Marissa leaned down and kissed it. "Aw, don't be. Wuv you the way you are."
Alex throatily murmured against her ear. "Would it be wrong of me to say I wanted to do you right here right now, and maybe on this table?"
Marissa grinned along with her. "What about taking it slow, remember?"
"What are doing listening to someone as blonde as me? Screw going slow."
Marissa slid off the blonde's lap and took her hand. "Let's dance… and I'll, think about it" she said slyly.
"You tease." Alex eagerly grabbed her hips and directed her towards the dance floor.
….
"Let's get some sprites." Summer said eyeing the beverage board.
Jodie scoffed. "You amateur. Why the hell would we get sprites?"
"Hmm I dunno maybe because we're thirsty, you ass."
"What about beers? Or maybe some liquor?"
"We're not old enough to drink."
Jodie pointed to a lovely looking short haired blonde girl behind the bar who was serving aways from them. "Look, Anna's here. So tonight we're legal enough to drink."
Summer sat back and watched Jodie work.
Anna came over to them. She gave Summer a dirty look before her eyes landed on Jodie. "Hey Jodes… and uh, friend. What's up?"
Summer smack her lips.
"Ugh…Skank ho."
"Nothin'. Can you spare us some hype?"
"Sure sexy. Anything in particular?"
"Somethin' that gonna knock us on our ass real quick like."
"Well then… tequila it is."
"Make it four shots. Alex's back with Marissa again, and tonight they're probably gonna celebrate."
"They're back together? That's awesome." Anna filled the one glass and leaned over the bar closer to Jodie. "So how we don't come to our senses and get back together?"
Summer's head snapped up. "Oh my god, that's her ex?" She felt a pang of jealous seeing the intimidating girl flirt with Jodie right in front of her.
Jodie shifted around. "You had to go and say some shit like that didn't you?"
"Well, I'm sorry that I missed you Jay. Alright? Is that really too much for you?" Anna said pouring out the tequila into the rest of the tiny glasses. "And now you're dating this rich whore that's totally out of your league."
Jodie knew she was standing behind the fan now.
Summer's jaw dropped. "Did you just call me a 'rich whore' you sleaze bag!"
"Fuck yeah I did. You want some of this you fucking muppet?" Anna challenged stretching her arms out.
"Don't make me climb over this damn bar and kick your ass!" Summer spat out.
"Wow, so surprised you can even touch the top of it!"
"That's it you bitch!" Summer proceeded to grab at the girl over the bar, but was held back by Jodie. Summer flailed around still trying to get to the other girl.
"Yeah…real mature Anna!" Jodie yelled back, dragging Summer back to the table.
"It's not over you skank!" Summer screamed struggling against Jodie.
"Summer! Calm down!" She shoved Summer into her seat.
"Why'd you do that!"
"Save your life!"
"I was totally capable of taking her." She huffed.
"As much as I love two chicks fighting over me, I'd really hate to see you hurt princess." Jodie said sincerely.
"Well thank you, I can take care of myself. Obviously that ho felt threatened by me because she thought we were going out. How could you've gone out with someone like that?"
"What can I say? She never liked sharing me. I can't believe you were gonna fight her. All ready to chop some heads and shit. It was kinda scary. But so hott at the same time. You're such a firecracker."
"She called me a rich whore, and then made fun of my shortness. I was not gonna take that."
"I make fun of your height all the time, you never kick my ass."
"Maybe because you're the only one I'll let get away with it."
"Finally, I'ma somebody!" Jodie said in delight.
"You're a sped. What do we do about the drinks? Now I think I actually need one."
"I'll get them, and tell her off."
….
:Mean while on the dance floor:
Marissa and Alex were in the dead center of the crowd grinding and sliding against one another in the midst of cloud of body heat. It didn't take long to work up a sweat dancing to the loud throb of music blazing through the speakers.
Marissa kept giggling and swatting away Alex's naughty hands that just "happened" to slide on the inside of her inner thigh up her skirt.
A moan parted her lips, the blonde's hands taking a new skin route under the thin material of her shirt. Marissa's arms reached up and behind her, grabbing the back of Alex's head as she guided their hips to sway together.
….
"Anna, why are you bitchin' out a girl I'm not even with?"
"Whatever. You know anytime you're around a girl straight or not you're probably fucking them."
"Okay… true. But not her. She's more than that. And you can't handle it can you?" Jodie said flicking the girl's bangs with a finger.
Anna smoothed her bangs back out. "Fuck you. She doesn't know you like I know you anyways. What the hell do you see in a rich girl like that?"
"Probably the same thing that Alex sees in Marissa."
"But you and I both know Alex isn't you. You don't fuck rich girls. You fuck girls like me." Anna pointed to herself.
Jodie narrowed her eyes. "Well maybe I don't want to fuck her. Maybe I just wanna fucking be with her. Did you ever think of that? It's killing you that I might actually see something greater than you'll ever be."
Anna rolled her eyes and downed one of the shots with a straight face. "I don't need you."
"But you want me. Now shut up and be a good girl and give me more liquor." Jodie ordered.
Anna growled and shoved her the whole bottle. "On the house."
Jodie shook her head.
"Get over me. It's sad."
She walked back over the table.
Summer clapped her hands happily, spotting the bottle in Jodie's arm. She placed the glasses down on the table.
"No salt or lime?" She queried.
"If you're referring I go back up there and ask her for some then hell to the no. You're just gonna have to bend over and take it like homo." Jodie told her grabbing one of the glasses.
Summer instinctively grabbed one too. "Ew. Groty analogy."
"On three, 'kay?" Jodie said readying the cup up to her face. "One… two… three."
Summer downed the shot, cool liquid swishing down her throat. It instantly felt like it was burning a hole in her chest. She coughed and sputtered, face twisting in pain, hand rapidly tapping her chest. "Am I supposed to feel like my lungs have collapsed!"
Jodie had downed hers and since she'd done it so many times, it didn't faze her as much.
"Yep." She responded pouring them another shot. She laughed at Summer's actions. "Virgin to the bottle?"
"Yeah. I never had alcohol before."
"Woah. We better go it slow. I don't want to get you drunk. We can save that for last." Jodie implied.
"You better not get me drunk."
"After this one no more." Jodie decided.
"I don't think I'll even want another after this one."
They downed theirs together again and Summer tried to do it with a straight face, but failed miserably.
Jodie finished hers off, rolling her shot glass around and pushed it across the table to Summer.
"Hey um… sorry about Anna." She said quickly, not wanting to seem like a complete softy about it. "I would've kicked her ass if she laid a finger on you. Even if you totally approached her guns blazing." She added winking.
Summer blushed. "It's okay. I understand how she probably misses you now that I think of it. I wouldn't like to see the sight of someone I once loved with someone else if I weren't over them either. But she didn't have to get mean about it… skank."
Jodie kept fiddling with her finger tips chewing around on a question. "Hey you wanna leave?"
Summer looked up at her, eyebrows raised. "Why? We just got here."
"If we stay, Anna's gonna make both of us miserable. I was hoping she wouldn't be on this shift tonight."
They both looked back over to the bar where Anna was staring evilly right back at them.
Summer nodded. "Right. Where we gonna go?"
"Let's go for a swim at the beach."
"Are you nuts? It's night and my hair is perfect. So is this outfit, no freaking way."
"C'mon. It'll be fun. I'll show you this spot me and Alex use to go to when we were kids."
"We can walk on the beach, or maybe the dock but there's no way I'm going swimming. And what do we do about Alex and Marissa?"
"You know damn well they don't need us to have a good time."
"You're right."
"Then to the beach we go. Let's let them be. Grab the tequila and steal those shot glasses."
Summer did as told and they both snuck out of the club with a nice sized bottle of tequila.
….
Alex and Marissa took a break from the dance floor and saw their table empty.
"Where do you think they went?" Alex asked, eyes browsing through the crowd that they just left.
"Maybe they're in the crowd."
"Dancing? Like Summer would dance with Jodie."
"True." Marissa fanned herself with her hand. "I'm so sweaty."
"Me too. Lemme get us some beers."
Alex retreated to the bar, and found Anna sulking while drying out a glass with a towel. Anna didn't speak when Alex met her eye.
"Two beers." Alex frowned.
Anna reached for the cooler and shoved them into her hand.
"What's up with you?"
"Jodie, and her rich bitch." She spat.
"Jodie and Summer? They're not dating Anna, it's alright." Alex assured.
"Well why did she tell me she wanted to be with her then?" She said angrily throwing the towel behind the bar.
Alex thought about that one for a minute. "So she does have feelings for Summer. That little queerdo. I knew it!"
"She did?"
Anna rolled her eyes. "Yeah Alex she did." She replied saucily.
"Hey, don't get pissy with me. I didn't know. So calm down. Summer's straight and she has a boyfriend so it's likely they won't hook up."
"Yeah? Well why did they leave with the whole bottle of tequila then? Apparently she's looking to get her drunk and fuck her."
"Jodie wouldn't do that, and you know it. She has never taken advantage of a drunk girl. She didn't even do you under the influence. In fact that one time you were drunk and tried to have sex with her she totally shot you down."
Anna sighed longingly. "You also know that I miss her." She said quietly.
Alex nodded. "Yeah but you didn't let her breathe."
"You know how she works too Alex. She goes from one girl to the next and…"
"But she told you she had stopped doing that, and you still didn't trust her Anna. You kept picking fights with her about talking to girls that you didn't know, who were actually just friends. She couldn't go anywhere with out you knowing the exact time and place. You totally blew her cellphone if you didn't know where she was and she was tired of it, tired of your constant nagging. She wanted it to work and you're the one that fucked it up."
"Fuck. I just wish I had one more chance."
Alex felt sorry for Anna. She could see that she still truly cared about Jodie and it showed when they were together. If there were no other females present… that is. Her jealous reigned supreme whenever there was a girl around to threaten her position with Jodie.
"Well, you have to be the one to talk to her about that. Not me. Cool?"
"Fine." Anna said softly.
With that Alex turned on her heel and headed back towards the table.
Marissa looked more than happy to see her. Alex handed her the beer. "What took so long?"
"Anna thinks Summer and Jodie are going out." She slid herself next to Marissa and took a sip of her beer. "She was freaking out about it."
"Those two are the most complete opposites. What would make her think that?" Marissa asked puzzled.
Alex shrugged. "Jodie has past habits that still haunt her. Anytime you'd see her with a girl, she was usually doing that particular girl. Then the next day you'd most likely see her with someone else."
Marissa eyebrows rose in understanding. "Oh so she used to be a player." Now things added up. Before when she was just blooming an attraction to Alex, she'd help out at the Bait shop, upon countless times seeing Anna and Jodie argue away. She never knew what their deal was, and never bothered the nerve to ask.
"Yep. But she obviously stopped when she met Anna, because… well she actually loved Anna. But Anna was paranoid and clingy and bitchy so Jodie called it quits on her, and she's been trying to get back with her since."
"Sounds like a true love story." Marissa said tracing the ring around opening of the bottle with her fingertip.
"And I think Jodie might have feelings for Summer, like genuine feelings cause Anna's back there going crazy. My guess is that they got into an argument at the bar and Jodie told her she wanted to be with Summer."
"While Summer was there?"
"Probably not. Jodie's all secretive like when I ask how she feels about her. She like almost severed my head last night when I asked her about it."
….
Jodie pulled up to an unknown house. There were drunken kids partying all over the lawn. They could hear the bass of the music thumping the car.
"I thought we were going to the beach."
"We are. I just have to pay this guy here. I owe him." Jodie said simply unclipping her seatbelt. "Coming in?"
Summer was unsure. She wasn't a party girl and from what she saw at Shoreside wasn't pretty. "I guess. I don't wanna be left alone." She squeaked.
Jodie grinned. "Okay. Well gimme your hand, don't make eye contact with the drunkies, and don't drink anything that's offered to you. It might contain a fizzing pill at the bottom and I don't want you to take that risk of waking up wondering why your ass is sore and your mouth takes like penis." She ordered.
Summer gulped and let herself out the car. She willingly grabbed a hold of Jodie's hand and held it tight.
They walked into the house. They could see some guy randomly running toward the door stark naked and screaming 'I love balls!' at the top of his lungs. The others in the house cheered him on in all their drunken glory.
"I came, I walked, and I saw wang." Jodie mumbled under her breath. She stopped to catch the attention of scrawny frat boy.
"Hey where's Scooba?" She asked him.
He took a hit of his joint and blew it into the air. "He's in his office. You can go." He looked at Summer. "But not her. She has to stay."
Jodie groaned. "Fuck me."
Summer eye went wide. "No don't leave me in this mad house!" She instantly latched her whole body to Jodie like a kid who didn't want to be separated from their mother.
The boy passed the joint to his friend. "I'll watch her. She can stand with me until you come back." He offered.
Jodie narrowed her eyes, grabbing a hand full of his shirt and pulled the scrawny boy close. "Fuck with her and I'll have your balls chopped, stir fried, and fed to my dog in a matter of minutes. Got it stick boy?"
He nodded, coming to his senses quickly even under the influences of pot. "Okay, okay! Just don't make me nervous… I have colitis!"
"Aw sick man. That means you can shit yourself at any given moment right?" Jodie burst into laughter.
He turned bright red in embarrassment. Luckily it was a three person audience.
This was probably the only time Summer really cherished Jodie.
"I'll be right out. Don't move from this spot." Jodie demanded. She looked over to colitis boy. "Maybe a couple feet to the right. Stay away from his ass. And if he rips one… run like forest gump." She whispered.
Summer looked like a little lost puppy, and Jodie couldn't help but to stifle a laugh before mounting the stairs. She pouted and leaned against the wall beside the stoner guy.
A few seconds passed and the stoner held up what looked like little hello kitty stickers. "Want one?"
Summer examined them, deciding that these "stickers" weren't a threat. I mean look how cute they were. She took one, noticing it had no adhesive on its back. "Are these supposed to be stickers or what?"
The stoner guy ripped off a square and placed it on his tongue. He sinisterly realized that Summer in all her innocence had no idea what they were. This fueled with the fact that Jodie had harassed him had spurred on his urge.
"Ew that guy ate a sticker! He must be really high!" She concluded. She'd seen how people did incredibly idiotic things when they were high.
"Uh yeah… the edible kind my friend. They taste like candy. Try one. They're new." He lied, urging her on.
Summer shrugged and popped one on her tongue too. They actually looked commercial anyways. It tasted like a mixture of sugar with a hint of bitterness, but not unpleasant.
"You gotta let it dissolve on your tongue. They're so good." He instructed smiling.
"Okay."
The tab dissolved completely in her mouth just before Jodie came back out. "Mmm. That was kinda good."
Before she could ask for another one Jodie made her way down the stairs. "Hey. You okay?" She asked worried something traumatic had happened when she was away.
"You didn't fuck with her did you, doo doo boy?" Jodie pointed.
The stoner cowered and shook his head no.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Let's go. I think I'm getting high just breathing." She wafted the smoke cloud away that had formed near her as they exited.
"Sweet. Let's head for the beach then."
……
:BAITSHOP:
Marissa found herself contently staring at the blonde sitting beside her, not believing she was there after everything. Definitely not believing she'd forgive her for all that pain. All because of a childish fear of her mother.
If she wasn't such a coward, she could've spared them all that. It was this fact that was slowly boring a hole in her soul, leaving open space that she was sure Alex had refilled.
Their eyes met, and Alex smiled one of those smiles that could warm you from the inside out.
"Thinking?"
"Mmmhmm." She murmured in response.
"What about?"
Marissa blinked. "Stuff." She replied simply, running fingers through her tresses.
"Care to share?" Alex asked tilting her head to one side.
Marissa paused. "It's complicated."
Alex felt disconcerted. She thought they were open enough to each other to talk about basically anything.
"Okay." She said gently. It was still eating her up on the insides.
Marissa could sense this and tried to explain herself. "I mean it's not that serious…that I have to tell you at this moment…" She trailed off hoping Alex would leave it alone.
"If it's not that serious then tell me."
"I don't wanna bring down the night. We're having a good time. It can wait. I promise I'll tell you tomorrow. Swear it."
Alex smiled a little and Marissa felt relieved.
"I've been meaning to give you something…" The blonde reached into her pocket and had her hand clenched into a fist so that it wasn't revealed what the item was. "Close your eyes."
Marissa did as told, waiting in anticipation for what ever it was to come. Within seconds she could feel Alex shift closer to her, so close she could feel her breaths. Alex leaned in kissing her tenderly on the lips; however there was something else… a distinct swishing sound of a metal chain wafting across her ears. Immediately afterwards, she could feel Alex's arms hanging loosely around her neck.
……
They were sitting on the docks, legs dangling over, wave watching and trying out each other's company on for size.
"It's safe to say we're cool now?" Jodie asked, referring to their quarrel in the car the previous day. Her fingers released and handful of rocks into the water. They made a loud plopping sound, and content with her deed she reaching for another handful.
Summer saw this and started searching for rocks too, to keep her hands busy. She picked up a tiny pebble and plucked it upside Jodie's forehead. She grinned. "I guess. Well right now we are so that has to count for something."
Jodie rubbed her forehead, chucking an equally small pebble back at her. It bounced on top her dark haired head two times then landed into the water.
They had put their all their cruel humor aside and softened up to each other.
"So, how long have you and the fairy been together?"
"He's not gay Jodie. I dunno… like two years or something." Summer shrugged.
"You love him?" Jodie asked, knowing the response before she even said it.
"Yes, I do."
"That's cool I guess. Even if I can be the so better lover. I can't imagine being with a guy. It's so gross. They sweat, and they stink all the time, and the hairy. It's like they're little spawns of fucking Chewbacca. Not to mention the offending piece of hardware between their legs that looks like a shriveled wrinkly sausage." She then proceeded to gag.
Summer laughed. "Okay I will give you that last one. But his is… nice I guess."
Jodie clenched her chest. "Oh! Double barf! You're not a virgin are you?"
"Actually I am. Seth and I decided we're gonna wait until we're married."
"So you're waiting until marriage for him to pork ya?" She cocked an eyebrow.
Summer put a hand up to her forehead at her description. "Well um, gross if you put it that way!"
"So miss Roberts how did you end up seeing it then, you dirty bird."
Summer sat, resurfacing the small details in her head. "We were like 6. It was more of an I'll show you mine, if you show me yours type deal. It was… cute."
"And this is Jodie reporting live to toss her cookies…"
"It's not that bad."
That one earned Summer an eye roll. "Dude, better you than me. I'd rather put a bullet in my head than let a guy jab me with his wang. And if he did try to, I'd cut it off and sell it on eBay… like BAM!" Jodie made and chopping motion with her hand slamming it on the pier making Summer jump. "All Emerald style with my butcher knife."
There was a menacing glint in her eye, and Summer feared it.
"I'm sure if there were any guys around right now they'd be crying."
"Pfft, good. I'm sure at one point in their pathetic life they deserved it."
They laid in the quiet for a couple minutes, absorbing the sound of the ocean or the plopping of rocks.
It was at this moment Summer realized how warm she was. It came all of a sudden, creeping up on her.
Only it was a fuzzy type of warm. The kind of warm you feel when someone has thrown a blanket over you in a chilled house… a comfortable warm, and it strangely overlapped her entire being . She sighed feeling this new sensation, her skin tingling all over like it was alive.
Her eyes looked towards the sky and the stars were perfectly aligned…but not in a normal position like they should've been in. They were lined up to form words! Summer read them: "25 off at JC Penny's tomorrow! It's all inside."
Her hands came flailing up to rub her eyes knowing things like these were impossible. She abruptly sat up.
"Did you see that!"
"What?"
"The stars! Th…they…" She sputtered, looking up again and seeing nothing of that nature. "Tell me you saw that!"
"What! What!" Jodie shrieked.
"Okay. I think I need sleep." She said closing her eyes to calm herself down. Something was off. "That's all… just some sleep."
But the problem was she wasn't sleepy. In fact she felt like she should be dancing at that very second.
"Yeah I think you do too. Freaking me out like that princess, geez."
"Can you take me home?" Summer asked sliding her shoes on. She looked over to Jodie and her lips had turned into giant hot dog wieners, moving up and down as she spoke.
"We just got here!" Jodie said loudly.
Summer burst into unfathomable laughing, seeing how her lips squish as they moved.
Jodie sat staring up at her wondering what the hell was going on. Tears were streaming down the smaller girl's face, she just couldn't stop laughing.
"What in fuck's sake is her problem?"
"What is so damned funny?"
Summer gasped for breath, hands on knees. "Your lips are…they're…they're…HAHAHA!" She broke into laughter again this time crumbling to the ground.
"THEY'RE WEINERS!" She cried before laughing uncontrollably again. Wiping her teared eyes with her hand, crawling on her knees she carefully grabbed Jodie's shoulders coming closer to her.
A "what the fuck" expression was clearly worn on Jodie's face.
With a single finger, Summer poked at Jodie's top lip. "Oooh. So soft and squish-shay!" She droned on continuously poking it.
"Are you saying my lips are huge!" She exclaimed slapping Summer's intruding finger's away.
Summer collapsed for the second time in laughter, hearing the squish again when Jodie talked. Apparently she was hallucinating, and it didn't register in her mind that she was. She was too preoccupied. All she knew was that Jodie's lips were these enormous hot dogs and it was funny as hell to watch her talk.
Jodie grabbed her hand. "Okaaaay. Taking you home now."
"Yay! Going home! Woot woot!"
She dragged the girl through the sand coming across a lone crab. Jodie ignored it but Summer wasn't in the mind frame to just leave it alone. So she kicked it.
What really blew her mind was when the crab hopped back up and yelled at her in a Mexican accent.
"Hey homes! Watch the shell! I just shined that shit today ese!" It shook its claw at her.
Summer pointed. "Hey! Crabs aren't supposed to talk! You know what? Screw you and your stupid shiny shell! Dumb crab."
Jodie whipped around. "Summer. Why are you talking to the crab!" She asked eyes wide.
"Because he was back sassing me, duh. Why else would I be talking to it… Jodie weiner lips." She was snickered.
"One more time with this weiner bull shit…" she warned.
Summer simply ignored her and began to skip. "Weeee! Come on Jodie skip, skip!"
Jodie shook her head. "Okay, the only thing I can think of is that the alcohol is affecting her now somehow. She only had two shots though. What the fuck is going on!"
She stopped in front of the car.
"Tell me Summer… seriously, are you alright?"
Summer saw her weiner lips sprout wings and fly away. She watched the flap into the sky until there was no more to see.
"What are you looking at?"
"Your weiner lips just flew away! You just missed them. I forgot to say bye…" She pouted.
Narrowed her eyes. "Are you high? Did you smoke some shit at Scooba's place?"
Summer scoffed. "No I'm not high. I'm cool I swear. I need some sleep is all. C'mon. Take me home." She shrugged Jodie off.
Jodie whipped out her cellphone. "Summer c'mere."
"No. You're standing in a ring of fire. I could get burned! What are you retarded?" She stated upon seeing Jodie actually standing in a ring of fire.
"Okay, fine. I'll come to you then. Stand still." She walked over to Summer and shined a light into her eyes. Her pupils were huge and refused to shrink.
"Oh my god! You're high!"
"No I'm not!" she stopped all of a sudden to bring her finger to her lips. "Sssh. Your car is talking to me." She whispered. "It says you're full of shit! WHOOO!" She laughed again.
"Summer, it's okay if you smoked some."
"But I didn't!"
"Don't you know how weird you're acting? Talking to crabs and shit!"
"Well it talked to me first! I think responding to it is pretty normal to me."
Jodie held a hand to her head in frustration. "Okay, did someone offer you something then? Try to remember."
Summer thought about it. The thoughts seemed to magically appear before her eyes in actual thought bubbles. "Coooool."
"This one guy gave me some edible hello kitty stickers. They good! They real good! Like sugar and sunshine!"
Jodie browsed through book of drugs that she kept stored away in the back of her mind. "Shit! They dropped you some acid! FUCK!"
"ACID!" Summer started to panic, running around in circles, arms flailing around. "OH NO! WHAT DO I DOOOO!"
Jodie stopped her in her tracks. "Firstly, calm your crazy ass down. You might think some stuff is normal… but it's not. Like the crab thing… or the car thing. I don't know how much Lsd is in those tabs you took so I don't think you know what to expect. I think you got the hallucinations down to a tee though."
Summer grabbed Jodie's shirt and pulled her close. "I don't wanna die!" she wailed.
"Yeah I don't want you to die neither. You're staying at my house, that's for sure. I'm gonna have to watch you until it wears off. Just watch out for those gateways to heaven… might look like you're going to see jesus, but really you're walking out a window on the fifth floor, or maybe just traffic."
"NOOOO!" Summer screamed at the top of her lungs. "I'm not ready to see JESUS!"
……
Okay I'm stopping right here… and just so you know, yes this is a real life acid experience I had, I remember them well. I shall never do that shit AGAIN! Sorry about the long hiatus. I tried not to take three months all over again. I know, I suck… But enjoy if you find Summer on acid fucking hilarious as me and my friend did, then I kno u will.
And um… sorry about spelling errors or misplaced words. I've recently found out I'm slightly dyslexic. So if you see words in wrong spot… u kno why.
And don't ask if I was high when righting this…(glance around)… yeah seriously… just don't ask.
Like my new limit? 10,000 words! woot me!
Next chap shall contain:
More of Summer's hallucinations
Some Sodie interaction
Anna's flaming jealousy
Malex problems arising
Ryan's assholage
READ AND REVIEW crazi peoples!
Mwahz…
-Snooglez