"What are you going to tell the team?" Lanie asked as they walked towards the club.
"That I came with some friends." Vince replied with a shrug.
"Not a lie but not the complete truth. I like the way you think." She said with a smile as they walked past the bouncer.
"Well, thank you." He said grinning. "But what are you going to say?"
"That this really hot guy in a Maxima asked me to ride with him here." She said looking at the dance floor.
"Ahhh. I think I'm going to have to kick that guys ass." He said as they walked towards the bar and the rest went to the dance floor.
" Aww. That sucks." She said with a pout. "He's a real hottie, though."
"You know what I think I saw him driving this real hot chick. Lucky son of a bitch." He said looking her dead in the eyes.
"So, does that hot guy buy the hot chick a drink?" She said cocking an eyebrow.
"Only if she's good." He said getting the bartenders attention.
"But being good ain't no fun." She said after he ordered two corona's.
"And probably hard for you." Leon said walking up to them.
"Got being bad to an art." She said satisfied with herself.
"I'm sure. What are you two doing here?"
"Here with some friends." Vince said.
"Some hot guy in a Maxima offered to drive me." She said making Leon chuckle.
"Didn't they ever tell you not to get into strangers cars, in school?" Leon asked.
"Since when did I pay attention in school and besides he was realy sexy." She said with a shrug.
"I'm going to leave you two alone. Come upstairs later, if you want." He said grabbing the drinks he ordered and leaving.
"So…You really think I'm sexy?" Vince said as they leaned on the banister over looking the whole dance floor.
"Yea. I do." She said looking him in the eyes. He just smiled and drank his corona. "What? No one tell you that before?"
"I have been told that but not from someone like you."
"Like me?"
"Someone who doesn't say stuff like that for the hell of it. Someone who knows more about the real me then most of my closet's friends." He said.
"Well they're missing out on a hell of a guy. And you're right. I don't throw shit like that around to just anybody." She said. Vince turned his back to the dancers bellow and pulled her into his arms. They stood there holding each other till somebody tapped on Lanie's shoulder. When they looked up they saw Charlize with a big smile on her face.
"You finally made a good choice, bro." She said before walking away.
"Who do you think will be next?" Lanie asked not stepping out of Vince's arms.
"Mia." He said
"Maybe. Maybe they'll forget about us."
"Or we can just keep busy and hidden so they can't bother us." Vince said setting their beers on a table and leading her to the dance floor.
"You're just full of surprises." She said slipping her arms around his neck as he put his hands on her waist and pulled her closer.
"I try." He replied as they swayed with the music.
"You think we should go see the team?" She asked after they danced to a few songs.
"Do we have to?" He whined not really wanting to see the team.
"No. Just figured I'd offer.
"We'll see them at the fort."
"We?"
"Of course. I'm not going through 'The Bomb Session' alone." He said like she was crazy.
"The Bomb Session?" She asked with a laugh.
"That's what I call the time when the girl's ask a whole bunch of questions."
"Ahhh. Is this your way of trying to get me in your bed?"
"Maybe. Maybe not."
"I'm going to take that as a yes."
"Is it working?"
"Maybe. Maybe not." She replied mocking him.
"That's a yes."
"We should get going."
"Yea. I guess so." He answered before leading her to the door.
"I'm hungry." She said as they walked to Vince's car hand-in-hand.
"Me too." He said. "Chinese?"
"Yay!" She said with a smile. After they got their food they went to the fort. When they got there the team wasn't there yet.
"Some quite time before the storm." Vince said sitting on the couch and spreading the food containers on the coffee table.
"Beer?" She asked walking to the kitchen.
"Course." He said before she came back in and sat next to him.
"I really hope you're exaggerating all this stuff." She said.
"You'll soon find out for yourself."
"Damn." She said as they teams cars pulled into the driveway.
"Hey you two." Letty said spotting the two watching tv and eating.
"Hey." Leon said ruffling Lanie's hair before getting a beer.
"So what have you guys been doing here?" Mia asked. Vince just looked at Lanie with a smirk.
"I've been eating. Don't know what he's been doing." She said.
"Hey. We're supposed to be in this together." Vince said making them all laugh as he pouted.
"We've both been eating and watching TV. No sex." She said with a chuckle.
"But you want it." Leon said but Lanie just kept eating.
"So whats the deal between the two of you?" Mia asked.
"I dunno." They answered simultaneously.
"Yea. Right." Charlize said rolling her eyes.
"Maybe if we ignore them they'll leave." Lanie whispered in Vince's ear.
"Tried once. Didn't work." He said with a sigh.
"Damn." She said pouting.
"You staying here tonight?" Charlize asked.
"I guess so since someone seems to want to keep me hostage." She said looking at Vince.
"You weren't complaining." He said with a boyish smile.
"I'm not complaining now, either. I'm just pointing it out." She said before sticking her tongue out at him. "Good thing I don't have to work at the office tomorrow."
"Who's garage do you work at?" Dom asked.
"Brooke's garage on Southeastern." She said. "I only got three days more there anyways."
"What'd you do?" Leon asked.
"I ain't done nothing. She never like me. I only got hired because I brought good business. Anyways I got other shit to occupy my time."
"Like what?" Brian asked.
"Leon most likely. He was a full time job when we was kids and I doubt that's changed." She said making the team laugh.
"Always the comedian." Leon mumbled.
"Really though. There's stuff I'd like to do before I didn't have the time."
"25 and already talking about dying." Leon said shaking his head.
"I was talking about marriage." She said making the guys laugh.
"Marriage is not a bad thing." Charlize said.
"I lost a lot of good friends to marriage." She said. "Or maybe it was just because I knew the guys better then their wives."
"I'd go with the latter." Leon said.
"Probably. Oh well. Still sucks."
"As much fun as this is I'm going to sleep." Letty said with a glance to Dom.
"I'm right behind you." Dom said following her with a smile.
"Yea. Come on, Le." Charlize said pulling Leon with her.
"Come on, Bri." Mia said pulling him with her.
"Where's Rome?" Vince asked Jesse who was eating some of the food that was left.
"With some chick." He said. "I'm going downstairs."
"Night." They said.
"Alone again." Vince said with a chuckle.
"You sound pretty happy about that." She said with a smirk.
"Well I am. It's nice to not deal with the team for awhile. Love 'em to death but they can get annoying."
"Understandable. Now what are we going to do though?"
"Wanna get out of here? Go to the beach?"
"Sounds good to me." She said.
"Let me through this stuff away. Then we can go." After Vince threw the garbage away he grabbed a blanket off a chair and pulled Lanie up off the couch.