"Of course I know that. How could I not?"

Gokudera glares at Phoenix playfully and begins to look around for his shirt. Phoenix props herself up on her elbows, frowning slightly as Gokudera pulls his shirt back on. She had been hoping that he would leave it off.

'Well I guess it's the price I pay for-'

Her thoughts were interrupted by a burning pain on her hand.

"Oh now I feel the pain...real good timing."

Phoenix looks down at her cut hand, examining the severity of the injury.

"How do you think I feel! You fucking kicked me in the ankle!"

"Sorry. If it makes you feel any better that was the withdrawal. The fact that you pulled me out of it says something pretty big." She grins at Gokudera. "Although I think your ankle's bleeding again..."

Phoenix quickly looks around for some bandages.

"And that's not all that's painful." He looks down at his pants. "You really are lucky I have self-control."

Phoenix rolls her eyes and mutter something about boys and sex under her breath.

"I think there are some bandages in the kitchen. Hold on."

Gokudera bites his lower lip as Phoenix searches the kitchen, a thought suddenly accruing to him.

"So...does it bother you that I'm younger than you? I mean most women would just be like, 'Oh you're such an immature boy' blah, blah, blah. Is it the same for you? I'm just...curious." Really he was worried but there was no way Gokudera was going to tell Phoenix that. "And I just need to distract myself from this pain really."

Phoenix comes back into with a box of bandages in one hand and the other hidden behind her back. "We're only a year apart Hayato, it's not that big a difference, you know." She smiles and leans against the door frame. "And since you need a distraction so bad, you don't get any bandages."

She smirks and begins to wrap the bandages around her hand

"Yeah but...I don't know. Sometimes I feel like…Nevermind." A second later Phoenix last sentence makes its way into Gokudera's brain. "WHAT! It's human tendency okay! It's not my fault! Especially when you were being such a tease."

Phoenix sticks out her tongue at him.

"My apartment my rules." She smiles and sighs before giving up on bandaging her hand. "Hey can you help me with this? I had to hurt my good hand."

"Not gonna help you since you're not gonna help me. Deal with it." Gokudera folds his arms across his chest "Hmph."

"Are you sure about that?" Phoenix pulls a bottle of vodka out from behind her back. "And this is the good stuff." She looks at the bottle thoughtfully "Of course this means someone here knows me way too well."

Phoenix shrugs, opens the bottle and takes a swig.

"Gimme some. NOW."

"Ah. You have to help me first." Phoenix grins and tosses the bandages over to Gokudera, who catches them and glares at her.

"Get over here."

Phoenix grabs a second bottle and walks over to where he's sitting.

"Here, I'll even give you this first." She hands him the unopened bottle and laughs at his reaction to his first large swig.

"Oh God, this is exactly what I needed." Gokudera begins wrapping the girl's hand carefully. "Well, at least we know we're getting plastered tonight."

Phoenix laughs and takes a drink.

"Not sure if that's the best thing for me, considering I just OD-ed the other day. Might be a tad bit unhealthy."

She takes another drink and watches Gokudera's face as he wraps her hand.

"I'm sure you won't die. I'd kill you if you died." Gokudera takes another large swig at the thought of Phoenix dying and goes back to wrapping her hand, fully aware of the fact that Phoenix was watching him with a thoughtful expression. "There. Done. Now leave me alone with my newest best friend."

He laughs and drains half his bottle, spilling some as Phoenix tosses a pillow at him.

"Get out of my apartment! And give me back my vodka!"

She attempts to take the vodka back but Gokudera hugs it to his chest.

"No! You deny me sex, I deny you this amazing vodka!"

Phoenix rolls her eyes before reaching over, pulling the vodka out of his hands and pushing him on to the ground and kissing him.

"You do know that I want it too right?" She kisses him again. "But I already told you, I'm not a "on-the-first-date" kinda girl."

Phoenix smiles and rolls off of Gokudera but stays laying by his side, intertwining her fingers with his.