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Under the Influence at the Send Off Party

Ashley's POV

I've managed to get everyone to agree to come over on short notice for a send off. It was already dinner time after all, so a little late night party is what we're throwing for our two lovely Europe conquering ladies. Wiles is of course the first one to show up, she's always up for a party. Believe me, we already knew she was here before she reached the door. Her motorcycle is incredibly loud and she herself isn't the most quiet human being, so no one's really surprised when she busts through the door, dragging a giggling Bridget behind her.

"Oi, where are my two favorite European travelers and the lousy ass cripple?" She announces and a collective chuckle is heard while Kyla and Spencer get up while Coop aka 'the lousy ass cripple' just ignores her, wrapping her arms around Arden and whispering sweet words in her ear. They seem to be a lot better.

Wiley hugs both Spencer and Kyla happily and Bridget follows soon after, apologizing for her girlfriend's wild behavior. There's really no need, after practically having Coop live in your house, you learn to not be surprised by a lot of things.

"Ya know, Coop. You're making me awful sad." Wiley smirks and puts on a fake pout, while leaning over the back of the couch and wrapping her arms around Coop's neck.

Alex raises an eyebrow at the tough blonde, "Oh yeah? Why's that?"

"One, you didn't come nor react when I called you by a lovely pet name." She batts her eyes, moving out of the brunette's reach, "And two, you're not jumping all over that Davies ass, seriously, when are you two going to get laid? Forty, perhaps?" Bridget smacks her arm lightly and Wiley sheepishly grins. This momentarily distracts her for Alex to jump over the back of the couch. She clings onto Wiley's back as Wiley stumbles slightly and then grins. "Well hello to you too, monkey." Jesus, the girl is strong.

"Alex, get off my girlfriend, pleaase." Bridget tugs on Alex's arm but she just holds on tighter.

"No, I refuse." Alex says sternly.

"Aww, monkey speaks. Want a banana? Is that why you aren't going for Ard? You like those bananas?" Wiley continues to tease as Brooke and Carmen walk into the door.

"No wonder she never mad a move on me in college." Brooke quips, "It all makes sense now." Carmen chuckles and drapes her arm over Brooke's shoulder.

"Oh fuck you, Leighton." Alex growls out playfully before dropping off of Wiley.

"Nah, a certain Latina has that covered." She rasps out and winks at Carmen.

"Seriously, what's with people and their interest in my sex life? I mean come on, people. You must have something better to do." Coop rolls her eyes and plops back down next to Arden.

"But it's just so much fun teasing you." Arden pinches her cheek and Coop growls, glaring at her.

"Not you too." Coop whines and I just chuckle.

"I've learned to back off Cooper today." Lucy smirks and lays her head in Kyla's lap. "We had quite an eventful day."

"I bet." Brooke smirks. Obviously since Coop was texting her in the car, Brooke knows a few things before the phone was chucked.

"Oh yeah, traffic, screaming, a proposal, a wrestling match and a make out session. Quite the fun day."

"Well that seems quite-Wait a second, did you just say proposal?" Bridget exclaims and everyone else stares at Alex.

"What? It wasn't me." Alex throws her hands up in surrender. "I don't even know if the goods are functioning yet, I don't want to buy them without a warranty."

Arden smacks Coop upside the head with a playful glare, "No one's complained yet."

"Sweetie, that's because all the people you've fucked probably didn't even know you were inside of their big cavernous holes." Coop pats Arden's hand and coos. Coop, gross. Baby sister and I don't want to think about their who-ha's. But yeah to translate, she pretty much said that my sister only fucks whores and sluts. Arden gives Coop a glare that I'd hate to be on the receiving end of.

"Need I remind you, Alex Cooper, that I was one of those 'people'." Nikki raises a brow with complete with air quotes. She and Sawyer walked into the door a few minutes ago while the monkey shenanigans were going on.

"Not my fault your bits and pieces are screwed up." Coop shrugs.

"Cooper, I'm warning you. I'm not in the mood for your shit talking about my girl." Sawyer warns in a calm tone but Coop just smirks. Oh no, she's going to get her ass handed to her.

"Not my fault you had a loose-" Coop can't finish the sentence because Sam pretty much tackles Coop to the floor in a bout of rage. Ya know, I think we should just isolate Coop when she's got that time of the month. No wonder she doesn't socialize much during that time, she can be a snarky bitch most of the time, with no filter from her brain to her mouth.

"Oi, Samantha. Knock it off." Wiley pulls her cousin off of Alex. "I know you've got a temper but save that shit for the game tomorrow. They were only kidding."

"Al, your lip is bleeding." Spencer says as she drops to the floor to inspect the damage done. Aw, my girl's such a nurse. Oh, a naughty nurse. I'll have to mention that to her later.

"So back to the proposal, I'm guessing my little sister finally grew a pair and asked Ky." Carmen smirks as she sits down with Brooke on her lap, trying to diffuse the tension. Lucy gives her the trademark Reed smirk and Carmen leans over and hugs her sister. "Congratz, sis."

Congratulations are heard all around and now that we've got everyone here. The party's about to start. Drinks are beginning to pour themselves and we've got the first intoxicated make out session started by Briley. Bridget currently has Wiley up against the wall and they'll be headed towards the guest room any second, I hope. Unless they want to give everyone a look into their personal lives. Arden's getting along surprisingly well with Brooke and Carmen while Nikki and Sam start fighting in the corner after a few drinks and take it to outside where they aren't disrupting people. Wonder what that's about? Lucy and Kyla can't stop giggling and looking at Kyla's ring, pretty sappy. I'm in charge of the bar right now so it's kept me busy instead of wondering what's taking Alex and Spencer so long, last time I saw Spence was a few minutes ago when she was getting ice for Al, wonder what's going on.

Spencer's POV

I took Alex back into Ashley's room to get a better look, plus I need to have a talk with her. She split her lip when Sam tackled her and it doesn't look too bad. I grab an ice pack from the kitchen, pressing a kiss to Ash's cheek as she continues playing bar wench to the happy partiers. I wrap up the ice pack in a paper towel and get back to Ash's room. Al's staring at a picture, it's the one in my locket that they took a while back.

"Fun day, huh Spence? Back then it was easy." She sighs and takes the ice from me, pressing it to her lip.

"Al, what's with all the fighting? I've never seen you like this." I rub her shoulder gently.

"Straight to the point huh, Spence." She smiles a bit. "Nothing. Just hormonal." She shrugs my hand off.

"Al, you can fool pretty much everyone except for me. What's going on?" I wrap an arm around her.

"My show's getting pulled." She whispers out quietly. "If all doesn't go right with Ash's storyline and my man meat shit, it's getting pulled." Her show's her life, now it all makes sense. The stress, the exhaustion, the constant working, the snarky remarks, it's the pressure that's on her shoulders to save her show.

"Oh, Al." I bring her into a hug. "I'm so sorry, sweetie." She sniffles slightly and I feel a couple tears soak into the collar of my shirt. "Why didn't you tell anyone? We could help."

"I didn't find out until I fired Madison, it's why they were pushing for her, to broaden the ratings. And then I needed to figure out a way to fix it, but it all seems wrong and I just can't…I mean Nikki knows. She's been great in helping me out while I've been away, and I haven't told Arden yet, but she knows something weird is going on between Nikki and me, just not that it's show related. It's just so hard." I rub her back gently and she pulls away, wiping the remaining tears from her face and sniffling. "I'll tell her, I will. I just need more time to figure it out. Promise you won't tell anyone, Spence, not even Ash."

"I promise, Al. But you've got to tell Arden, you know how she gets when you keep things from her, she'll understand." She nods and smiles.

"Thanks, Spence. Let's get back to the party." It looks like the swelling's gone down in her lip a bit and we continue outside. I grin at my bartender girlfriend who is attempting to show off by flipping glasses. She looks up at me and grins back. God, I love her. She then sees Alex and gives me a curious look. I shake my head and smile, telling her it's fine. The grin spreads across her face again as I move to stand beside her.

"Well hello there, bar wench." I purr into her ear and kiss her neck softly.

"Hey, babe." She smirks and gives me a drink. I take a sip. Vodka and Cranberry, she knows what I like. I see Alex wrapping her arms around Arden as Arden fusses over her lip.

"Shots, people!" Wiley calls out, coming up for air from their make out session against the wall and Bridget just giggles. "I call taking mine off of this hottie!" She points to Bridge who smirks and rolls her eyes.

"And I think everyone else is going to be sanitary and not do that." Al teases Wiley who bumps her hip lightly.

"Whatever you say, monkey." Wiley winks and Alex makes an adorable scowling face. I have a feeling monkey is going to become a thing.

Ashley pours the shots and I'm surprised when Alex decides to join. She's kind of a lightweight because she doesn't drink all that often. Everyone does their shots and true to her word, Wiley does body shots off of Bridget. They'll definitely be staying the night in the guest room. One, because they're trashed and two, because they're probably going to have tons of sex in it before the night is over.

A couple more shots go down and I've become giggly, Ashley and Arden seem a bit buzzed, Alex's almost three sheets to the wind and Lucy and Ky are loosened up enough to be making out on the couch in public with Carmen and Brooke not too far behind with their cuddling on the other sofa.

I hear the sliding door open and hear the ending of an argument had by Sam and Nikki. I look at Ash who just rolls her eyes, obviously signaling that they've been at it for a while. Nikki rushes in, "Fine! So I'll just do this!" She spins the hammered Alex around and crashes their lips together, pinning Al to the wall. Alex obviously has no clue as to what is going on, other than the fact that lips are on hers and she grabs around Nikki's neck attempting not to fall. The room's gone quiet and Arden turns around to see what the commotion is about, only to see Nikki and Alex practically making out.

Nikki pulls away, panting and Alex stumbles over onto the floor, wiping her mouth, wincing when she touches her lip. "How the fuck did that happen?" Alex slurs to herself.

"You know what, we're done, Sam. I can't deal with you." Nikki storms out.

Sam punches the wall, making a rather loud thud, before growling out in anger. It always seems to surprise me whenever she gets that mad, it's best to just let her cool off.

"S-sam…what was t-that abouut…?" Wiley slurs to her cousin, draping an arm around her shoulder that is soon pushed off.

"None of your goddamn business." Sam growls out following the route that Nikki took to the door.

"Oi, what's up her ass?" Wiley states as she wraps up Bridge in her arms.

Arden's been staring at Alex for the past minute, her eyes glazed in unshed tears. Ash is tense beside me, ready to pounce in a second. I turn to her and take her face lightly in my hands, making her look at me. "Relax, Ash." Her eyes soften a bit and I place a soft kiss on her lips before we turn back to the scene. A drunk, oblivious Alex Cooper and a buzzed, furious Arden Davies. This cannot end well.