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The evening started off with the words that they all knew they'd take to their grave. Sitting down at their table with their orders coming, most stared in shock unable to act, Jubilee unfortunately just too quick for them all.
"Why the hell are they being so cheap with the guacamole?" Jubilee asked, swiping a finger into the small dish with the green paste in it to stick it in her mouth.
Tears in her eyes and spouting profanity that would have made Logan blush, the entire restaurant looking to them in surprise and then pitying understanding. Jubilee stole every glass of water available to find no relief, everyone frozen at the sight in sheer disbelief.
"Water does nothing, shit fuck, what the fuck is this shit!?" Jubilee screamed as waiters and waitresses of the Sushi restaurant came out with glasses of milk and even some yogurt trying to help their poor patron.
"Wasabi." Marie said, feeling awful but despite the tears in her eyes she was laughing at the sight.
"No shit, I'm crying waaaaaaah soobbbbb you're all a bunch of B to the capital I itches for not telling me!" Jubilee swore only to guzzle a glass of milk offered.
Bursting over in laughter, they all saw how tightly contained the rest of the patrons struggled to ignore the spectacle even as they themselves all fought for breath. Twenty minutes of looks and giggles later, Marie saw Jubilee finally find the appetite to try a sedate piece of salmon even though she had asked if there was a hibachi in the house.
"Next time you say you got a reservation at a restaurant, I'm making sure to find out if they A) cook the food and B) serve a flipping T-bone." Jubilee growled, taking a bite of tuna and finding it palatable.
"Oh live a little Lee, try this." Kitty said holding up a piece.
"Okay...I've gone fishing with Pete, I know roe when I see it. That's bait, you catch the fish with that. Flip to the F sake give me some of that grown up salmon, I'm not eating Nemo." Jubilee growled.
Hearing the giggles and snorts around the restaurant, they couldn't fight it anymore and had to join in at the impression their friend had to the cuisine. Blessedly enough they had Sapporo on tap, otherwise they all feared Jubilee might well have punched the waiter after mentioning Sake had he not been quick on the uptake.
"Oh my gosh I haven't laughed like that in a long time." Layla said before taking a sip of her Sake.
"I'm with Jubilee about a steak and a nice baked potato, but to see that it was worth it." Theresa confessed.
"I love roe but I don't know if I can eat it ever again, I'm just going to imagine her rant and be laughing too hard." Kitty added.
Looking across the table, Marie found her friend just joining in with the rest of them, smiling and sipping her beer having forgiven them all. Giving her a kick under the table, she received one back and knew there were no hard feelings then.
"Just so you know, I'm not trusting whatever the heck they'd call dessert here. I saw a Cold Stone down the street." Jubilee said after a waitress came back to find out how they all were.
With looks to another, no arguments were had, paying their check some time later after they had enjoyed a few more drinks. Switching back to their sensible shoes, they all walked down the street to get an ice cream before walking along the avenue.
"Well, I think it was worth the drive." Kitty said, the city nearly two hours off from the school but so much more cosmopolitan than the nearest town.
"Oh come on Pryde, it was worth the drive just to let my baby go for a run, poor thing." Jubilee said.
With all of them looking back to her, Jubilee buckled under them and took a bite of her ice cream even though it chilled her teeth. Waiting patiently Marie saw her relent finally.
"Okay fine, she's not my baby. She's the school's...but ya know...nuff said. But I put all the tender love and care into bringing her back. She was so neglected it breaks my heart, you should have listened to her when I finally coaxed her to turn over." Jubilee related, looking misty eyed and using her napkin to dab at her eyes.
"Did you need a moment Lee?" Kitty asked.
"Oh shut up Pryde, I've heard you talking about your computer when it goes wacky." Jubilee spat.
"Wacky? She had a worm, I had to..." Kitty started, staring hard at Jubilee only for both of them to laugh.
"Alright I see you're point you analog freak." Kitty said.
"Serves you right you digital ditz." Jubilee threw back.
Watching in incomprehension, Marie looked to Layla and Theresa only to see shrugs offered as she herself tried to understand the two. Taking a spoonful of her ice cream she had to concede that it hadn't been a bad idea after all. Thinking to the boys and their poker game after claiming the garage, she could only wonder at their antics knowing the beer fridge was stocked and even a few bottles of wine dotted the work bench.
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"Does anyone know what the hell a Merlot is?" Logan asked holding the bottle up for inspection.
"Uh...it's a red wine...that's about as far as my knowledge goes." Bobby said with a look to the pot and his two cards.
"I've drank beers bigger than this, is this a bottle or is it something you're supposed to share like a scotch?" Logan asked again, the rest at the table looking to another.
"Uh...I think you're supposed to share Logan, but I'm not gonna lie and say I haven't drank a bottle of Riesling after pouring it into a beer mug." Bobby said.
Shrugging, Logan popped the cork with a claw amidst a 'snickt' to take a careful sip, finding it a little warm but otherwise drinkable. With the rest having beers right down to Brother Wagner, he sat down and looked at his cards.
"Fold." Logan said.
"Fold." Pete concurred.
"Oh for crying out loud, he's a priest, it doesn't mean he has to tell the truth after bidding big. Fine, I'll see your twenty and raise you twenty." Bobby said.
Grinning, Kurt threw his chips in, only himself and the Iceman left in the round. With the final card coming up, both looked to their hands again trying to show little, Kurt rapping his knuckles at the table. Throwing a stack of chips in the table worth a hundred easily, Bobby looked to Kurt to see him peek at his hand again.
"I trust the lord to be my Shepard and not lead me astray, I call." Kurt said throwing his chips in.
"That...that right there is why I can't hate you Kurt." Bobby said throwing his hand down, having had bluffed his way to the pot.
Grinning a fang toothed grin, Kurt pulled the chips in to his large pile that dwarfed the others. Taking a sip of his Merlot, Logan set the bottle down to gather up the cards and shuffle, the button passed to him to deal.
"If I didn't know you donated everything you win to charity, I might honestly take offence." Bobby said before a sip of his beer.
"Turn the other cheek Brother Drake." Logan said with a smirk, dealing the latest hand.
"Oh you want to go there Logan? Fine, with the padre excluded...I say we start bidding one truth asked for every hand we fold or loose." Bobby said raising the ante.
Looking to Pete, Logan found himself grinning, the stakes raised and he wasn't about to back down. Catching the nod of the quiet farm boy, Logan looked back to Bobby and rapped his knuckles against the table.
"That's more like it." Bobby said, his turn of bidding and raising it by forty.
"Fold." Pete said, accepting the fate he had just resigned himself to.
Staring Bobby down, Logan let the chips rattle as he let them fall against another eyeballing the frosty X-man down with an eyebrow raised.
"I see your forty, and I raise you the sole right to ask Pete one question this entire evening, any further folds or losses not counting." Logan said, tossing his chips in.
Bobby looked to his hand, his face expressionless as he looked back to Logan. Staring another down with the two friends watching stoically, Bobby tapped a nervous finger against the felt of the table in thought. Rapping his knuckles against the table, Bobby called and they both set their cards down face up as if the game had just been called all in. Burning and turning, Logan laid the river out, staring at the last card and swearing.
"Oh for F sake Drake, don't be a dick." Logan said.
With Pete looking to him ready for any question he might ask, Bobby had to fight against his own curiosity for the sake of his friend. Tapping his finger against the felt again, he gathered up the cards and started shuffling even though it wasn't his turn to deal.
"Okay, I got a couple of personal questions that I'm just dying to know, but I'll let you choose which to answer. But...but I repeat...not to be an ass, sorry Kurt...an arse...," Bobby said, throwing a bill over to Kurt for the swear jar, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander, I will give you the right to ask me one question, no hold bars celebrity death match."
Reaching across the table, both Bobby and Pete shook hands, Kurt and Logan left to watch the two younger men who they still struggled not to see as they boys they remembered them as. With both drawing a breath as if they'd just agreed to a duel, Bobby looked thoughtful until finally he looked ready to pose his choices.
"Okay...at your discretion, I ask you...how did you and Jubilee hook up, or...have you been...you know, uh...intimate." Bobby asked.
Pete smiled, Bobby having to swear under his breath even as he passed off the bills for every curse used.
"What do you mean by intimate?" Pete asked, Bobby looking on him in shock.
"Uh...you know...uh..." Bobby started, making an o with some fingers only to stab at it with another.
"Then no, we haven't." Pete said, Bobby just glaring at him knowing he had fouled up somewhere.
"You my friend, you are sneaky. Okay fine, ask away. I'm spotless." Bobby said throwing his arms back theatrically as if waiting to be shot.
"Why didn't you and Kitty hook up?" Pete asked.
"Exhibit A, we were drunk when we fooled around and she barfed on me. Exhibit B, we're best buds. Exhibit C, because of that everyone thinks she's my beard." Bobby related as if he were reading the day's forecast.
With Logan and Pete looking to another while Kurt looked lost, Bobby kicked back and took a long sip of his beer. Smiling the whole way, he seemed content as if he had nothing to hide nor anything to apologize for.
"Wait...you mean...?" Logan asked catching on.
"Yep, don't know how it got started but you know what, I got more lady friends than I do guy friends and I don't have a problem with that. Besides, most of the time I have awesome talks with them, whole lot easier to relate to them.." Bobby said just smiling.
Laughing, Logan raised his bottle of Merlot in toast, the rest joining him.
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