As they dropped Lauren off the next morning, Amy bit her thumb.
"You okay?" Ricky asked her. "You seemed okay..."
"Yes... but I just can't believe Madison... 'I didn't meanto sleep with him'? What? It was just dark and she didn't care who she was humping?"
"Apparently." Ricky nodded. "Madison's kind of a doofus. I mean, but you knew that."
Amy sighed and nodded. "Yeah, been one of my best friends for so long ,though..."
"Well, I from what I understand, this party busted up more friendships."
"Oh?"
"Unsupervised high-school parties- or even college parties- just another word for drunken orgy." Ricky nodded. "Adrian slept with Henry-"
"Ben'sHenry?" Amy gasped.
"Yeah. Well, he slept with Alice anyway, didn't he?"
"Yes, but... She is so..."
"Yeah. She has more Daddy issues than a stripper. Ruben came along a coupla years too late."
Amy sighed. "I miss our apartment."
Ricky's eyebrows went up. "Yeah?"
"I do... I think... I want to go back there?"
Ricky nodded. "Okay. Come on. We'll see if you can handle it."
"I can if you and John are there. If you're there I can handle anything."
Ricky smiled, kissing her jawline.
Meanwhile, Adrian sat down at the kitchen counter at her parent's place.
"How was your party, mija?" Cindy asked.
"Great..." Adrian shrugged.
"Adrian... what is wrong? You haven't been you for the past couple of weeks..."
"What if I did something really really stupid, but now the reason doesn't matter anymore?"
"And you feel guilty?"
Adrian shrugged dully.
"Well, if you are guilty, mija, you should confess."
"I don't know that I agree with that." Reuben said, putting down his coffee cup. "I'm a lawyer, so I'm looking at keeping our daughter out of jail."
"Jail?" Cindy frowned. "Reuben, I'm certain she didn't do anything illegal, she probably just slept with someone she shouldn't have- not that I'm condoning that..."
"Great, you think I'm a whore too."
"Adrian... no..."
"We would never say that, honey." Reuben sighed.
"But you'd think it!"
"Well, if you think we'd think it, did you stop to think why?"
"Reuben!"
"Well, she should stop having so many partners! She's gonna end up pregnant again or blind from syphilis-"
"Reuben!"
"We need to be the parents here, Cindy! To tell her 'no'!"
Adrian's lip trembled. "I hired a hit man!" she blurted out.