Super long chapter. I tried splitting it up, but I didn't like it that way and it didn't work for me, so yea... super long chapter. Hope you enjoy! :)

Lita found herself at the Zoo the following Saturday along with Dawn, Ethan, Brooke, Jacob, Adam, and Christian who decided to tag along when Adam was added to the plan. She was feeling so much better than she was earlier that week. She actually went back to work after taking that one day off which was definitely needed. She also had a talk with Adam about how this was going to work out with him in the picture now. It was agreed that sometimes Adam would take Ethan to school when Lita had to be at work before nine which happened rarely but it did happen. She always tried to schedule around Ethan, but sometimes it just didn't work out that way. She usually left Ethan at Dawn's house when she had to work on weekends, but Adam suggested he should take Ethan those days and she agreed to that. Lita was reluctant in agreeing with one thing that Adam brought up, but she thought he made a good point so she decided that Ethan could stay overnight with Adam sometimes but only if Ethan wanted. She wasn't going to force him to do something he didn't want to do and she made sure Adam knew that. She gave him a list of things he needed to get for when Ethan did start staying at his house. Adam was excited about the prospect and started to ask Dawn to help him with setting up a room that would be his when he did stay with Adam. There were still some issues that needed to be talked out, but so far so good.

Currently, Dawn was trying to convince Lita to have a girls night, just the two of them. "Come on Li," she continued with her begging as the two trailed behind the men and children, "You deserve a night. We both deserve a night together without having to worry about the kids. We need some fun to."

"Dawn-" Lita was about to protest, but brunette wasn't going to have any of it and decided to interrupt her.

"Come on Li!" Dawn repeated for about the billionth time which was loud enough that made Christian and Adam turn around and give them a questioning look to which Dawn waved them off. "Do this for yourself. I know Christian will have no problem looking after Brooke. Well, he better not. And Adam should have no problem either taking care of Ethan because he wants to spend more time with him and this is his way. If you don't trust Adam by himself, then it's okay because he and Christian can just take care of Brooke and Ethan together." The duo stopped along side the others who stopped in front of what the display said was Malayan Tigers.

"I don't know Dawn." Lita was still reluctant in agreeing.

"When's the last time you went out just to have fun? When's the last time just the two of us got together just to have fun?" Adam and Christian were both listening but said nothing as of yet.

"Well, that's why we made the Zoo plan so we could have fun together."

Dawn rolled her eyes. "We made this plan for our kids. I asked when the last time was that we had fun for ourselves? It's been a really long time. You deserve it. I deserve it. We work hard during the week at our jobs and then at home as well taking care of our kids. Hell, I'm always around kids. Don't get me wrong, obviously I love kids, but I need a couple of hours break. I'm just asking you for one night, I'm not asking you to do this all the time. It's just one time."

Lita thought about it for a while and was about to refuse again until, "You should go," Adam spoke up. "You deserve a break."

"Yea, because I need your permission," she sarcastically muttered under her breath which didn't go unheard by Dawn, Adam, or Christian who then decided to take the kids a little more closer to the Tigers and a little further away from Lita and Adam.

"I didn't say you do. I'm just saying that you deserve a break. Go with Dawn for a couple of hours. Have fun. I'm fully capable of taking care of Ethan."

"Really?" Lita asked looking up at him, glad Christian took the kids closer to the Tigers. "I wasn't aware you took care of him on your own before."

"Well, I haven't and whose fault is that?" He fought back.

She scowled at him. "Your own. So let's not start that one."

"Actually-"

"Stop," Dawn interrupted the duo. "This is hardly the time or place." She turned her attention to Adam. "Thanks, but you should probably join them," she gestured to the four who were still looking at the Tigers with interest. He sighed and just left the two women. Dawn returned her attention back to Lita. "What was that?"

"What?"

"The way you were talking to Adam."

Lita rolled her eyes. "Well, he was acting like I needed permission from him and I don't. He doesn't control me."

This time it was Dawn's turn to roll her eyes. "He wasn't giving you permission, he was encouraging you."

"I don't care."

"So, yes or no?" Dawn asked.

"I already said 'no.'"

Dawn pouted. "Li, please. It's not just for you, it's for me too."

"Fine," she finally gave in. "What are we going to do?"

Dawn shrugged. "I don't know. We're just going to see where the night takes us."

"Whatever. Let's go. I want to see the Tigers." And with that, Lita left to join the others near the Tigers and Dawn followed. The group spent another hour at the Zoo before they decided to leave. Lita dropped of Jacob first before her and Ehtan joined the other's as Dawn and Christian's house. The two men agreed to look after the children while the two women went out and had some fun of their own.

"So what are you two up to?" Christian asked before Lita and Dawn left after they got ready.

"We're going to find Lita a man," Dawn replied trying to fix a part of Lita's hair, not caring that Adam was around and listening to them as well. She did notice that he seemed to frown when he heard that statement come out of her mouth.

Lita rolled her eyes, smacking Dawn's hand away from her hair. "No we're not."

Dawn rolled her eyes as she hit Lita back for smacking her hand. "Yes we are. When's the last time you actually had a real relationship?" Dawn cringed as soon as those words left her mouth and muttered a 'sorry'. And then it became awkwardly quiet until she spoke up again. "Let's just go now."

"Yea before you put your foot in your mouth again," Lita muttered under her breath to which Dawn repeated she was sorry. She then returned her attention to Adam before they left. "Ethan woke up late from his nap, he was tired so that's fine. But still, his bedtime is eight-thirty on the weekends, and sometimes at nine. No sugar, no junk, he had enough of that at the Zoo. More than enough actually." She was about to say more until Adam interrupted her.

"I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing. Calm down. Relax, just go and have fun."

She glared at him. "And I'm pretty sure you don't," she replied ignoring the last part.

Adam was taken aback by her attitude with him today. She kept jumping down his throat all day today. "Did I do something to you?"

"Actually, yea, you did."

He rolled his eyes. He knew where she was going with this. "Lately?"

"Yes, you just existing is irritating enough."

"Okay," Christian interrupted the two before this could escalate any further. "Li, don't worry. I have taken care of Ethan before. I'm here too, he's not alone. Ethan can stay here tonight, and when you two get back, you can stay here too. I've taken care of him before overnight. Don't worry. I know all the instructions, I can tell them to Adam myself."

"Whatever. Let's go Dawn." And with that said, she left.

"What the hell crawled us her ass and died?" Adam asked.

"She hasn't really been having a good couple of weeks and she's taking it out on you," Dawn answered. "This isn't easy for her."

"And it is for me?"

Dawn sighed, interrupting him before he could continue any further. "I know. She's just... never mind. I have to go. Bye." She went to join Lita so they could leave.

Christian waited for the door to shut as a confirmation that Dawn and especially Lita were out of sight. "Dude, I thought you said she was civil. She's been biting your ear off the whole day."

"I guess I thought wrong. She was like this when I first went to see her which was expected. And after that when we talked about Ethan, she's been fine. Kind of surprised it took her three weeks to act like this again. But it's kind of surprising it started out of nowhere. I don't even know what the hell I did to deserve this."

"Yea, well, I guess it's on you to be civil with her. For Ethan." Adam simply nodded. He just hoped she wouldn't act so bitter towards him forever.

"What is wrong with you?" Dawn asked Lita as they were driving to the restaurant they were going to have dinner at first.

"Nothing. I'm perfectly fine," Lita answered as she decided to turn on the radio. She knew where Dawn was going with this and she wanted to avoid this. Unfortunately for her, Dawn knew what she was trying to do and she turned the radio off. "I was listening to that."

Dawn rolled her eyes. "Sure you were. Why are you so hostile towards Adam?"

"I'm not." Dawn started laughing after she heard that. "Are you crazy? Do I need to turn the car around and start heading towards an insane asylum?"

Dawn sobered up. "I thought that was a legitimate joke. If you don't think you were hostile with him, then you might be the one who has to go to the insane asylum." Lita continued to drive and ignored her friend. "Li, are you acting this way because of what I told you the other day?"

"No."

"Liar."

"Shut up."

"Lili."

"Dawnie."

"Admit it."

"I'll admit one thing: you're annoying."

"Look Li, like I told you, I really think he was just using her to get over you and that obviously didn't work."

"I don't care. I really don't. He can do whatever he wants."

"If you don't care, then why are you so pissed off at him?" Lita said nothing as she continued to drive. "That's what I thought." It was silent the rest of the way other than the noise coming out of the radio that Dawn decided to turn on.

"What was your favorite part of the Zoo today?" Adam asked. It was just him and Ethan in the living room drawing because Christian was putting Brooke down for bed. There was still some time until Ethan's weekend bedtime.

"I liked the monkeys," Ethan said as he continued to draw. "And when me and Jacob got to ride the pony."

"I thought you were scared?" Adam joked trying to figure out what exactly it was that the little boy was drawing.

Ethan shook his head, looking up at Adam. "I wasn't scared! I liked it! What was your favorite part?"

"Oh, just that I got to spend some time with my favorite person."

"Who's that?" Ethan questioned.

Adam smile down at his son who smiled back after he heard Adam's answer. "You."

"Mommy's my favorite person." It was quiet for a while as Ethan went back to drawing and coloring his picture. "Where's is she?"

"She's with Auntie Dawn somewhere."

"So we're having a sleep over?" Ethan asked looking up from his picture once again.

"I guess you can say that."

"Are you going to read me a bedtime story?"

"If you want, then I will."

"Can we play soccer tomorrow?"

Adam nodded. "Okay. We can go to the park tomorrow and play." Ethan smiled at Adam and then returned his attention back to drawing. He loved when Ethan smiled. Even though Ethan looked more like him than he did Lita, his smile reminded him of hers. It was a smile he hadn't seen in a while. She's been angry with him the past two days, especially today, he didn't understand why. "Do you play football?"

Ethan shook his head. "Mommy said I will get hurt."

"What other sports do you play?"

"Basketball. That's my favorite. Uncle Christian said I'm tall and that's why I beat him. He's short."

Adam chuckled. "I beat him too."

"All done." Ethan held up the picture and gave it to Adam so he could see. "That's you," he pointed to the figure on the left. "That's me," he pointed to the figure in the middle and then he pointed to the one on the right. "And that's mommy."

"Good job." Adam handed the picture back to Ethan who didn't take it and just shook his head.

"That's for you. You keep it."

"Thank you. I love it."

"Can we leave now?"

Dawn rolled her eyes. "No we cannot. We have only been here for half an hour. We haven't danced."

"I don't want to dance."

"Well I do and since you're my dance partner, you have no choice but to oblige."

"I do have a choice. I control myself."

Dawn sighed. "Li, please. We came out to have fun. We had fun at dinner and now it's time to have fun here."

"Why are we even at the club? I haven't been to one in forever."

"Same here. Now we get to see what's changed and have some fun. Anyways, I'll be back. Wait here for me, I'm going to make a quick call to Christian and make sure everything is good."

Lita nodded then turned in the stool she was sitting on at the bar so she was now facing that way. She was staring at her drink in front of her playing with the umbrella that it came with it. "Seems like your friend dragged you here," a voice from in front of her said. She glanced up at the bartender so she could reply to him.

"She sure did. Guess you see that every night, huh?"

He nodded. "I do. Most people come to cheer up their friend who just got out of a break up or for having a horrible day. Most of the time it's guy problems. Didn't realize there were so many jackasses out there."

Lita snorted at that. "Well, there are."

"Guy problems?" He asked.

"I don't think that's any of your concern."

"Chris."

"What?"

"My name's Chris."

"That's nice. I think you have other people who need a drink." She tried to go back to playing with the umbrella and staring at her drink, but Chris wouldn't let her.

"I told you my name, I think it's only fair if you tell me yours."

She rolled her eyes as she looked back up at him. "Christine," she replied with giving him her middle name instead of her first.

"Chris and Christine. There's a nice ring to that."

"No there's not," she interrupted him.

He ignored her. "Christine, how about giving me your number." She laughed at him. "A straight 'no' would have been fine."

Lita calmed down after a bit. "I'm sorry, but do you hit on every woman that comes here? New girl every night?"

"Only the redheaded ones."

"Not the blondes?"

He smirked. "I go for the feisty ones."

She let out another laugh. "You're so lame."

"What is this?" She heard from her right side before Chris could say anything, Dawn was back. "Lita looks happy? Is this real?"

Lita rolled her eyes as she turned her attention to her friend. She was about to say something until, "I thought you said your name was Christine."

"She lied. That's her middle name," Dawn spoke up before Lita could, taking a seat on the stool she abandoned not too long ago. "Her name is Lita."

"Lita. Hm, I like that one better than Christine."

"I thought Chris and Christine had a nice ring to it," she mocked his earlier statement.

"I thought it didn't," her mocked her back.

Lita rolled her eyes. "Okay, my friend is back. Thanks for you time, but you should probably get back to work."

"You still haven't given me your number."

"Well, I don't give my number out to strangers." She tried not to yelp when she felt Dawn kicking her on her leg. "Do you want to die?" She glared at her friend.

"Um, would you excuse us just one second? Move over there somewhere. One moment. Please." Chris looked at Dawn like she was crazy, but did as he was told and started to pay attention to the other patrons looking for drinks. "Give him your number," she demanded Lita who gave her a look like she was crazy and out of her mind.

"No."

"Li-"

"Dawn, I don't know him. I'm not giving a random guy my phone number."

"Well, like I told Christian, we're here to find you a man. That bartender seems like a nice guy. He even made you laugh."

"And like I told you, I'm not looking for anyone right now."

"Five years ago was the last time you had a real relationship. Don't you think it's time to move on."

"I have Ethan to think about. I can't just date random guys."

"I'm not saying introduce them to Ethan. Just have some fun. Get to know some guys. Hell, don't date them if you don't want, make some friends and then maybe one day it can turn into something more if you want."

"Yea, well last time I did that it didn't turn out to well." Dawn bit her lip trying to keep herself from saying something she shouldn't say at all. "Well, he moved on, why can't I?" Dawn had to bite her lip again from saying that Adam didn't move on and that he tried to but failed. She knew that if she said that, Lita probably wouldn't give her number to Chris like it looked like she was about to do.

"Bartender, we need another drink," Dawn called over Chris.

"So?" He asked Lita.

It took her a while, but she said what he was looking for. "You got a pen and a paper?" He smiled at that and gave her a pen and paper to which she wrote down her number for him.

"I'm so drunk right now," Dawn giggled after another two hours.

"We both are," Lita joined her in the giggling.

"How are we going to get home? We can't drive."

The duo didn't plan on drinking much, if at all, but that went out of the window when Lita couldn't stop thinking about Adam and his little whore she heard about and thought she needed to drink her thoughts away. "Call Christian. He'll get us."

"Good idea." Dawn tried opening her purse, but it was a bit hard for her as she couldn't get a hold of the zipper. Lita took the purse from her and opened it on her third try. Dawn dialed her husband's number.

"Where are you two?" Christian answered the phone.

"I don't know," Dawn giggled. "Some club." She glanced at Lita who was having a giggling fit of her own. "What's this place called?"

"I don't know."

"Oh I got it!" Dawn yelled in the phone which made Christian wince. "Blue Martini!"

"You both are drunk?"

"Yes!" Lita shouted into the phone with the two women continuing their giggling fest.

He simply shook his head. He knew they went out to have some fun, but he just didn't think they would get drunk, not that he minded much. He was taking care of Brooke anyways and he thought Dawn did deserve some time by herself. Well, with Lita. "I'll send Adam to come get you two. You know Brooke won't sleep without one of us."

"Aw! How's my Brookie doing?"

"Much better than what mommy's going to be doing soon. Have fun dealing with the hangover."

"You totally just killed my buzz."

"Mine too," Lita pouted.

"Just stay there, Adam will be coming soon." Christian shook his head after he hung up the phone. He went over to the other room where Adam and Ethan were in. Ethan was sleeping, but Adam was still up. "Just got a call from Dawn. They're both really drunk. Could you get them? I can't leave Brooke. Don't worry, I'll be here for Ethan."

Adam nodded. "Where?"

"Blue Martini. It's a twenty minute drive from here."

"If they're both really drunk, then I'll just take them to my house so Brooke and Ethan don't have to be subjected to watching their mommy's act a fool and puking their guts out tomorrow morning."

"Good idea."

"I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world," Dawn sang.

"Life in plastic, it's fantastic!" Lita continued for her. The two woman were now sitting in the back of Adam's car. He got there in fifteen minutes since there wasn't much traffic one in the morning.

"You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere!"

"Barbie's a slut!" Lita giggled not continuing with her part of the song. Adam groaned in frustration, they've been repeating the same dialouge for the past few minutes. First they sang some Spice Girls song, and now they were obssessed with sining 'Barbie Girl.'

"Yes she is!" Dawn joined Lita with the giggles

Adam groaned once again. "Can we try to keep it down back there?" He was getting sick and tired of listening to the two singing that song over and over again. He just wished they would shut up.

"NO!" Lita stuck her tongue out at him. Adam rolled his eyes, but said nothing as he continued to drive to his house.

Lita woke up the next day to a pounding headache. She looked around her and saw she was in an unfamiliar bathroom. She looked over to her left side and saw Dawn was passed out on the floor like she was not too long ago. Looked like they both fell asleep in the bathroom last night. Ugh, last night, Lita thought as she brought her hands up to her head. She never drank like that in her life before and was for sure Dawn hadn't either. Never again. She wondered where they were since this bathroom didn't look familiar to her at all. She got up and washed her face. She was about to leave until she heard Dawn get up.

"Damn it! We are never drinking like that again."

"I concur. Where are we?"

Dawn washed her face as well and the two left the bathroom. "Adam's house," she answered as she took in everything around her.

Lita froze in place. "Why are we at his house?"

"Because you two were drunk of your ass and I came to pick you up from the club. I didn't think it would be a good idea to take you back to Dawn's house since the kids are there. You two were so damn loud, it's a good thing I didn't take you back there. You would have woken them up and they could have seen how crazy their mom's are. I think you should save that for later when it scars them less."

Lita rolled her eyes. "Shut up. Let's go. I want to get Ethan and go home. But we have to get my car first."

"Hold that thought," Dawn said, "I have to puke," she ran off towards the bathroom again.

"What?" Lita asked after a while. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You were really drunk last night. You do that often?"

"Not that it's any of your concern, no."

"Actually, I think it is my concern if you decide to go crazy like that when you have Ethan-"

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Lita interrupted him. "Are you accusing me of being an unfit mother just because of last night? Moms are allowed to have fun. And it's not like I do this every night. Just one night out of the many I have been a mother. I made sure he was in good care. I left him with Christian."

"Actually, you left him with me."

Lita shook her head. "No. I left him with you and Christian. I said I left him in good care, good care as in Christian."

"Remind me again, were you always a bitch?"

Lita gave him a fake smile. "No. You just make me this way."

Adam was about to say something, but he was interrupted by the sound of a phone ringing. He thought it was his and Lita said nothing since she didn't know it was hers, he grabbed the phone that was on coffee table in the living room and answered it. "Hello?" He immediately frowned and looked pissed off when he heard the person from the other end speak. "She's busy, she'll call you back later." With that said, he hung up the phone.

"Was that my phone?"

He nodded. "I thought it was mine."

"And you told the person I'm busy?" He nodded again, she just shook her head, she wanted to slap him. "And why would you do that? What if it was important?"

"Who's Chris?" He asked ignoring her.

She shrugged. "I don't know."

"You don't remember meeting him last night?"

Lita thought about last night and then remembered. "Oh him. Why? It was him? Why did you tell him I was busy?"

"Hooking up with random guys now?"

"What's it to you?"

"I don't want you to bring random guys around my son."

Lita laughed humorlessly. He had to be joking. "Do you really think I'm that fucking stupid that I would do that?! I would never introduce Ethan to someone I just met! And it's none of your damn business who I talk to!" Her voice was getting more and more louder with every word. She was pissed off at him and he knew it, he just didn't care.

"I thought you weren't going guy hunting last night."

"And this affects you because...?"

"I didn't say it does."

"Then stop acting like it!" She was about to leave it at just that, but she couldn't help it. "How's Whorrie? Sorry, I meant Torrie."

Adam couldn't believe what he just heard. How did she know about Torrie? "I don't know. I'm haven't talked to her for a year now."

"So what?" Her voice was a bit calm now, but she was still angry. "Did you leave me so you can go and find some bimbo to play with?"

"How did you even know about her?"

"I have my ways."

"Dawn told you." That was more of a statement than a question.

"I have my ways," she repeated once again which to him seemed like a confirmation that Dawn did let it slip about Torrie. "So is that why you left? Did I bore you that much that you had to go find some bimbo on the other side of the country?"

"Why does it matter to you if I did move on? Jealous?" He ignored the first part of her question.

She snorted. "No," she lied. She knew she was jealous which made her hate him for moving on even if it didn't work out. "Are you jealous of Chris?"

"It's not like you're my girlfriend anymore and it's not like you're even seeing him."

"Well, he did call me. So maybe this could be the start of something." He knew she was doing this to get to him, unfortunately for him and fortunately for her, it was working.

Uh oh, Dawn thought to herself. She was actually listening to the two from behind the wall in the hallway. She heard their whole conversation. She could tell Lita would agree to go out on a date with Chris if he asked her just so she could make Adam jealous. And by the expression on his face, she knew it was working already. They were fine until she found out about Torrie. Why did I have to open my big mouth?

Thanks for reading. Thanks for the reviews. Wasn't that fun? ;)

I just wanted to say I will not be updating this particular story until after I updated my other stories which I will work on after I submit my last paper of the semester (dec. 20th... yay! Semester is almost done with!). So the next update will probably be in January unless I get really lazy during winter break.

Hope y'all have a great Christmas for those who celebrate it. I don't celebrate it, but it happens to be my birthday that day, so yay for that! Anyways, Happy Holidays! :)