[Open] I'll Misbehave If It Turns You On

[Anthony Marcus Owen]

Anthony wrapped his arms around Natalia as she rested on him, poor kid. “You’re welcome. Turn around,” he said lifting her hand up over her heard and slowly started to spin her, “I wanna see it all.” he laughed. Once she was facing him again he smiled, “Damn girl..those legss..mmm.” he joked. “Ouch.” he said when Natalia hit him. “Stop, that’s just weird.” He laughed, “You know I love you girl.” he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and looked at Stefan and Hillary, those two were perfect for each other and quite adorable, it was sickening sometimes. He looked over his shoulder to see Shane and Claire coming over, he took a sip of his drink and the looked back in front of him until they got over, “Hey there.” he said with a smile, “Great party Claire. You really did good.” he sipped his drink again and watched the awkward interaction between Natalia and Claire. He smiled again when Natalia said Claire looked beautiful. “It’ll be good to eventually see the birthday boy.” he laughed.

He looked at the Stage when he heard Ethan’s voice. This should be interesting, drunk Ethan giving a speech. He finished off his drink and placed the empty glass on the bar and directed his attention back to Ethan. He was one of the people who clapped when he mentioned Natalia. He smiled down at her when Ethan said she was hot. Ethan’s speech was one little cofession..ish..after another. When he finished, he clapped and laughed. Oh Ethan. Anthony looked down at Natalia and nudged her, “Go see him.” He smiled and then watched her disappear in the crowd. He smiled again when he saw that she found Ethan. Anthony turned back to Stefan and Hillary, “I’m gonna leave you two to whatever it is you’re going to do. I need to go find my girlfriend.” With that, he disappeared into the crowd as well.

[Natalia Anne Richmond]

Natalia went alon with Anthony's slow spinning. She smacked him at his comment. "stop, that's just weird." she smiled and then sipped her water and rested on Anthony when he put his arm around her. She looked up as Claire and Shane came over. She smiled welmclaire sai she looked pretty. "thank you. You look beautiful." she looked over to Shane whenhe asked her if she was keeping busy. "yeah, so busy. It's so good to be herd though. Missed all my friends." she wrapped her arms around Anthony Shane an Hillary and smiled to Claire. She looked to the stagewhen she heard Ethan.

She smiled when Anthony nudged her. Atleast her boyfriend thought she was hot. She listened to his entire speech and then clapped when it was over. Natalia smiled as she watched him walk off of the stage and into the crowd again. Just then Anthony told her to go see him. She really wanted to. "alright, see you later." Natalia walked through the waves of people. Gosh they were so sweaty. Natalia pushed through a group of girls and bumped into someone. She looked up and realized it was Ethan. Natalia smiled and hugged him. She looked up at him and yelled over the music "happy birthday babe. Hope you're enjoying yourself." she got up on her tip toes and placed a kiss on his lips. She licked her lips and Smiled. Oh how she missed that. Natalia looked in his eyes and kissed ethan once more. This time, she brought her arms up around his neck.

[Shane Alexander Madden]

Shane held out his hand to Anthony but Anthony didn't acknowledge that Shane had tried to shake his hand at all, so Shane withdrew his hand, "Alright..." he added quietly. It was one thing to try and be polite but it was just silly to completely ignore people. Shane shrugged, but replied to Natalia, "It is nice to be home." Shane looked around, pulling Claire closer to his side when people bustled around them, trying to get a glimpse of the drunk birthday boy on stage who was making quite a nice drunken speech. Shane held up his drink to Ethan, chuckling when he mentioned Shane, and shook his head, leaning down to speak in Claire's ear, "He is gonna hate tomorrow for sure..." Anthony and Natalia had both gone off for various reasons, which was fine with Shane because as soon as they'd both walked off he could tell Claire had relaxed greatly. He looked down at her, she probably was ready to move on. Shane turned to Stefan and Hillary, "It was nice seeing both of you, see you both later," he waved briefly, setting his empty drink of the bar and asked the bartender for two beers. He took Claire's hand, pulling her away through the crowd and saying back to her, "I know you probably want to see Ethan but.. well I'm sure Natalia found him, so. Anyways, I just want to say hey to Logan and Blake if you don't mind hanging out." Shane finally found where they were sitting, pulling up a chair and sat down, pulling Claire onto his lap and wrapped his free hand around her and then slid one of the beers across the table to Logan. "Weird seeing you sitting around instead of barking orders," he laughed. He looked over at Blake, god she was so big. She didn't have much longer to go either, only a couple a weeks, "Hey mom, hanging in there?" He laughed, shaking his head, wow that sounded so weird.

Shane set his beer on the table, wrapping both arms around Claire, saying quietly, though the music probably kept Logan and Blake from hearing anyways, "Hard to imagine that's what were looking at, huh?" He rested his chin on her shoulder. It as hard to imagine. Months from now, that'd be Claire and they'd be in the same position as Blake and Logan.

[Rose Elliot Madison]

Rosie smiled and shook her head as Ethan finished his speech and went to climb down off the stage. She lost him in the crowd so she turned around, running right into some creep who was grinning at her like he'd just hit the jack pot, "Hey baby, looks like your big guy friend ditched you. But you're an angel right? Baby, I'll take flight with you.." Rosie made a face, trying to push past him but he grabbed her wrist. She saw Ethan on the other side of him, past a couple of people, wishing he would just look over and call her name so this creep would get lost. "Oh that's nice," she waved dismissively, "Not today," But the guy wasn't letting go. Who was this guy anyways? "Seriously, I could rock you're world," Rosie rolled her eyes, tugging her arm out of his grasp. She bet Ethan didn't even know this guy. He was probably just here for the music and to rub elbows with people who mattered. "Yeah too bad you look like some that comes out of a dogs ass," she said casually, still smiling. "Oh look over there, I think I see Audrey Fraitus, I think she's more your type." She pointed in the opposite direction, and then turned to get away from him, seeing that Natalia had found Ethan, kissing him. But Creep had realized she was joking about Audrey being there, taking her arm and pulling her back, "Come on, let's just go find a quiet room, I hear there's private rooms." Rosie tried to pull her arm out of his grasp, but he was a guy, he was stronger than her. She looked over at Ethan, trying to desperately to catch his attention, stumbling over herself, making it easier for this guy to just pull her off where no one would know where she had gone, "Are you fucking kidding me?" she said loudly, "Let go of me you idiot, your face looks like a baby bird shit on it, seriously." she said drunkenly. She had no idea where in her head she thought that made even a little bit of sense but she'd had one too many drinks and it was not helping her now as this guy was pulling her farther and farther from Ethan, the only person in a close enough radius who gave enough shits to not let this guy drag her off like a regular working whore.

[Claire Jayne Madden]

Claire watched as Natalia and Shane spoke briefly to one another and just as quickly it seemed like Natalia was on her way to find Ethan. Couldn’t really blame her, Claire would make a b-line to find Shane if he was having a party. But she did find herself slightly annoyed at the way everyone just started to walk away. Anthony wasn’t a big deal, she saw him everyday. But Hillary and Stefan would be off in their own little world. Regardless of the annoyance she felt, she also felt relieved. Whatever was going on between her and Natalia was changing the dynamic of their friendship, and it was horrible that she felt more relief when she wasn’t having to think about what to talk about with her. Not that she would cause a fight at Ethan’s birthday. Claire watched her walk away, making her way to Ethan before she kissed him. Claire narrowed her eyebrows slightly as she wondered if they had patched things up. As far as she knew, no. Ethan wasn’t really one to back down. She smiled instantly as Shane made his goodbyes to Stefan and Hillary for them, feeling relieved to just have a breath. She clutched Shane’s hand tightly and smiled at him as he spoke. “ I do want to see Ethan but you’re probably right. I definitely don’t want to walk in on that.” she said, following Shane to the bar as he ordered drinks, still holding the one Hillary had given her though she had no plans on touching it. It just helped to carry a drink around so no one would expect anything.

Claire looked over both of her shoulders to find her own chair before she felt Shane pull her into his lap and smiled instantly before she made herself comfortable against him, draping her arm lazily around his shoulders before she gave him a quick kiss. She looked up at Logan and Blake as Shane spoke to each of them and tried not to make a confused expression. She turned her ear towards Shane as he whispered to her, but kept her eyes on Blake. Who, sitting across the table from them, was whispering to Logan and gesturing to Shane and Claire. After she was done talking to Logan she had reached down for a bar napkin and was wiping tears away from her eyes, which made no sense at all to Claire. What could Blake Renner possibly have to cry about? Claire took in a deep breath as she subconsciously brought her free hand to her stomach, wondering if it was physically possible for her to get that big. And how she was going to save her career. But as she realized she was freaking out, something inside of her triggered, knowing that Shane was probably mildly panicked as well. And she felt an overwhelming need to protect him above herself. Claire turned towards Shane’s chest and kissed the side of his jaw quickly. “ True,” she whispered, placing her forehead against the side of his head so she could kiss his cheek. “But tonight,.. my boyfriend is home from tour. And that’s the only thing that matters..for tonight.” she said wrapping her arms around him in a hug. “Everything else we can take one day at a time… and if that’s…’what we’re looking at’.. then I’m glad it’s with you,” she said, laying her back against his chest again. “ Do you love him?” Blake asked from across the table, straight to the point, staring Claire down like they were in a stand-off. Claire narrowed her eyebrows before she laughed uncomfortably and looked between Blake and Logan. “ Is that why you’re crying?” she asked, realizing that whatever she was upset about, involved Shane. Claire coughed again, licking her lips before she looked at Logan, “ So did you guys already set he nursery up? It’s almost time… I mean it could literally be any day now,” she said, shifting the topic of conversation from her and Shane to their new bundle of joy on her way.

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan took a drink from his glass as he nodded his head to a few other people. He wasn’t even sure who he was trying to find in the crowd, but more or less just trying to get away from the crowd and over to the bar. But he nearly spilled his drink as someone ran into him and he looked down, staring at Natalia before he gave a slight nod. “ So you came,” he said without any infliction in his tone. He knew he had a voicemail from her, but he hadn’t checked it. He nodded again as she said she hoped he was having a great birthday, he was. But then she kissed him, and he had to admit he did miss the familiarity of it. Ethan lowered his free arm, wrapping it around her waist as she kissed him and leaned down to be closer to her. He watched her when she pulled away, but it didn’t last for long before she kissed him again, this time wrapping her arms around his neck. Honestly, he felt a couple of different things. First, being that he couldn’t imagine she possibly believed everything between them was okay. Second being that he was completely trashed and here was his hot girlfriend kissing him, so he might as well take advantage of that. Ethan placed his hand into the back of her hair, nibbling against her bottom lip as he kissed her, pulling her closer to his body by lowering his hand to her waist when he froze in place, hearing Rosie yelling a few feet away.
Ethan stayed with his lips pressed against Natalia’s for a few seconds before he stood up straight and looked over his shoulder to try and find her and who she was yelling at. He clenched his jaw as he saw her, some guy holding her wrist tightly when she was clearly trying to push him away. Ethan looked at Natalia, licking his lips before he spoke. “ Natalia…” he said over the music, though he wasn’t sure what he was supposed to say to her. Excuse me? Be right back? Wait here? All of that was implied, right? He took a step back before he pushed through a few people to get to Rosie and whatever douchebag was messing with her. Ethan gripped his arm around Rosie’s waist tightly and held onto her before he turned to his side and placed her behind him, setting his hand on her lower back. “ Go to Natalia,” he said into her ear over the music before he turned his back on her and looked at the guy that was messing her. “ What the fuck man, you don’t understand that no means no?” he said, tensing before he stepped closer to the guy. But he just kept ranting off, talking shit and made a move to reach for Rosie again before Ethan grabbed the dude by the side of his hair with his left hand to hold his head steady as his right fist came with full force to hit him.

[Joel Carter Foster]

Joel shook his head as he listened to Ethan’s speech. Drunk idiot. But he was a good guy, having a good time. Anyways, he went on his way to carry on dancing, trying to not casually stay around any girl for too long. But when he looked over he saw that Natalia and Ethan were kissing, maybe they were making up. That’d be nice, right? But it seemed like just seconds later he could hear Rosie yelling. Joel turned away from the girl he was dancing with instantly to focus on the girl that he considered a part of his family. “ Rosie!” he yelled out, shoving someone out of his way as he made his way towards her. By the time he reached the situation though, Rosie was halfway on her way to see Natalia and Ethan had thrown a punch at whatever guy was trying to touch her. But it wasn’t just that. He kept wailing on him, punch after punch. The guy didn’t even have a chance to try and stand up without Ethan beating the living shit out of him. “ ……Shit” Joel said, before he looked over towards the bar. “ Logan! Shane!” he yelled out, seeing them sit together before he gestured to Ethan fighting the guy in the middle of the floor.

Joel turned to look at Natalia and Rosie. “ Are you guys okay?” he asked, giving Natalia a quick glanceover to make sure she hadn’t been hurt at all before he looked at Rosie, head to toe, checking to make sure atleast physically she was okay. Sure she was holding onto her wrist, but it didn’t seem like there was anything majorly wrong with her physically. “ Just step back” he said, trying to push Natalia and Rosie back slightly as they waited for some of the guys to come and intervene. As he held his arms out over Rosie and Natalia he watched as Claire moved past them, making her way right into the middle of the fight. “ ETHAN!” she yelled out, trying to wrap her hands around him enough to pull him away from the guy, putting herself almost directly between him and the guy he was fighting.

[Rose Elliot Madison]

Rosie tried to yank her arm free of the guy while he pulled her farther away from where she would rather be going, stumbling over her self, trying to also stay standing. But this guy was being such a slime and he wasn't letting go. What didn't he understand about the word no? She heard what sounded like Joel yell out her name, and she also sighed in relief, someone saw her. Rosie began hitting him with her free hand, hitting him anywhere she could manage to reach, getting one really good slap to his face before she felt another pair of arms around her waist pulling her completely out of the guys reach. She felt her arm jerk back just before the guy let go and she realized it was Ethan who had pulled her away, pushing her behind him roughly and told her to go to Natalia. Rosie rubbed her wrist where the guy had grabbed her, just turning away to just go where he had told her since in her drunken state she couldn't see how that was a bad idea, but before she could even take a step in the other direction she watched as Ethan's fist made contact with the guys face, "Oh my god." She said, standing there, half knowing she should distance herself from a very angry Ethan but didn't want to walk away from him either. She knew if someone didn't stop him he was just going to keep wailing on the guy. But before she could take any step closer to Ethan she felt a pair of hands pull her aside and pushing her back as someone hurried past her, and then a second pair of hands brushed past her too, pushing her back more and she saw Shane and Logan trying to break Ethan off of the guy, Logan pulling the guy away from Ethan, and Shane trying to push Ethan back too. Rosie kept backing up, until she saw Natalia and stood by her side. Shane and Logan were trying to keep Ethan off of the guy but even the two of them couldn't seem to break it up. Ethan was too big and too drunk to probably even know what was going on beside trying to beat the shit out of that guy.

Rosie was at least relieved to see Joel, who had pushed herself and Natalia back farther and was trying to keep them out of harms way. Rosie held onto her wrist, rubbing the skin that was beat red, answering Joel while still trying to see what was going on, "Yeah I'm.. fine... I'm, yeah. You're fine right?" she said, looking down at Natalia. Just then, Claire hurried by yelling Ethan's name and had thrown herself in the middle of the fight and Rosie yelled after her, "Claire!" But Claire wasn't listening. It was only a matter of time before she was going to get hurt, "Joel, Claire is going to get hurt," Rosie said, but knew she'd be just as hurt if she tried to get Claire. But now Shane was trying to keep Claire out while trying to pull the Ethan off the guy, and he couldn't do it all. Luckily Riley had made his way over, helping Shane by pushing Ethan back and Shane took the opportunity to get Claire out of the way, wrapping his arms around her shoulders to shield her from whatever hits might go her way and pulled her out. Logan finally pulled the guy away from Ethan's blows and out of the crowd, and presumably out the door. Mackenzie was beside Rosie asking what was going on and if she and Natalia were okay, "Yeah, we're fine..." But Shane and Riley trying to calm Ethan down, Shane glancing toward Claire, probably making sure she hadn't gotten hurt.

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan was only vaguely aware that Claire had come around him, but to his slight surprise it didn’t stop him from trying to beat the living shit out of the guy. And it wasn’t until after Logan had dragged him away that he realized Shane had been trying to push him back. How many of them were trying to pull him off this guy? He clenched his jaw as he tried to control his breathing before he looked down at his hands to take a look at his knuckles. He turned back to look at Natalia and Rosie, making sure they were okay before he shook his head and looked back at Shane and Riley. “ What the fuck” he said, yelling just in general, not at them. “ Who the hell was that guy even,” he said, throwing his comment in Shane’s direction. He didn’t have a single friend who would disrespect a girl like that. I mean Anthony might get up on the women, but it was always with their consent. Ethan looked at both Natalia and Rosie again, knowing he was too pissed off at this moment to talk.

Ethan moved past a few people in the crowd , stopping in front of Claire as he shook his head. “ Don’t pull fucking shit like that ever again. You know how I would’ve felt if I accidentally hit you? Stay out of it,”he basically growled at her before he made his way back towards the bar. He leaned up against the counter, asking the bartender for some ice so that he could put the ice against his knuckles. “ I need a double scotch, too” he said, still too pissed off to be upbeat and cheery drunk Ethan anymore. Once he got the ice, he played it on his knuckles and stared down at the counter as he waited for his drink. He hated the idea of people he cared about being in that position. Rosie being treated like that, Natalia surely dealt with her fair share of it over the period of her career. Either way, it always put him in a pissed off mood , which wasn’t the most fair of all things. Ethan lifted the glass to his lips, downing the scotch , welcoming the burn of the alcohol that accompanied the sting of his hand.

[Shane Alexander Madden]

The second Shane had heard a commotion on the other side of the club and realized it was Ethan, he got Logan's attention, "Hey," pointing in Ethan's direction before he gently lifted Claire up and set her back down as he stood up, heading over there with Logan right behind him. Shane was trying to push Ethan back, but this guy was seriously fired up and it was going to take more then himself to try and stop Ethan from beating this guy to pulp. But Shane heard Claire yelling Ethan's name, trying to put herself between Ethan and this guy, and she would have too if Shane wasn't already there. It finally took Riley stepping in too so that Shane could grab Claire and get her out of the way before they finally broke it up. After Ethan had come to his senses, asking Shane who that guy was, Shane could only shrug, "Bro I have no clue." Ethan came over, telling Claire to stay out of it, and though Claire looked deflated that Ethan wasn't happy with her for getting involved, Shane had to admit he agreed. Just better for Ethan to say so. Ethan headed for the bar and Shane figured, let him cool off. He looked down at Claire, "Claire are you okay?" he asked looking her over. She looked okay, thank god she was. "Claire don't look like that," he said gently, "You just scared him. Scared me too." He added. "He just, needs to cool off." Shane kept his arm around her shoulders, looking over to where Joel was standing with Rosie, Natalia, and Mack and Riley too apparently. After heading over he asked Rosie and Natalia, who were the most like to know what had happened since he assumed one or both of them were with Ethan at the time, "What the hell happened?" Rosie sighed, looking like she was at fault, "It was me, I just, that guy was trying to, take me somewhere, I don't know. I kept telling him no and he wasn't listening..." She was holding her wrist, looking like she'd sobered up really quickly. Shane nodded. He would have done the same thing for a friend.

[Riley Scott Collins]

Riley stood by Mackenzie, Natalia , Rosie and Joel as the aftermath of the fight started to unfold, Ethan yelling at everyone around him, yelling at Claire, making his way to the bar. He understood that though, the getting angry when you’re concerned about someone. He felt it a lot, he just didn’t necessarily go to that extreme. That guy was a lot stronger than he looked, but Riley knew that once Claire got involved Shane would want to get her out of it. Shit, he would’ve wanted to do the same thing if Mackenzie had stepped in. So Riley had taken over where Shane was, giving him the opportunity to get his girlfriend out of the way. That’s what friendship was all about, right? Making sure everyone was taken care of, even if it meant not being there for them directly, but indirectly. He looked at Mackenzie, being her mothering self, asking the girls if they were okay and he gave a small sigh. Ethan had reached the bar and was nursing a drink, so he figured that part was done with. Logan had already taken the guy out of the bar, leaving Blake at the table with her chin in her hand. Clearly not phased by whatever was going on. He supposed she’d seen Logan in a fight before, taking one apart wasn’t a big deal. But he turned his attention back to the girls when he heard Rosie explaining what had happened and he gave a small nod. Made sense. “ You good here?” he said, looking at Shane and Joel before they each nodded and Riley turned his attention to Mackenzie.

Riley reached down, taking Mackenzie’s hand in his own before he pulled her away from the scene. As they walked away Mackenzie asked him if he was okay. “ Yeah I’m fine , I just held Ethan back. I wonder how that guy is looking…” he said as an afterthought. But she was asking so many questions, was he okay, did he want to go home, did he want to watch Shane’s band. Slowly he smiled and turned around. He didn’t wait until she was done talking, instead he just placed his hands into the side of her hair and kissed her as she was speaking. “ I am perfectly fine, staying here with you.. and keeping you to myself for just a while longer” he said before he wrapped his arms around her in a hug. “We can stay and watch Shane’s band perform, have a drink with me,” he said, placing some of her hair behind her ear for her before he gave her another kiss. “ Come on,” he said, taking her hand before he led her to the bar to grab them a few drinks. He picked up their drinks before he went back to the table they had earlier, sitting down with Blake before he wrapped his arm around Mackenzie. The holidays were coming up and he’d been carrying a ring inside his pocket for the last week. Hadn’t even told her he loved her yet, and he was carrying a ring. Which was really problematic because she was so damn adorable that he found himself wanting to propose about every five minutes. “ When’s the last time we were all just able to sit back with a few drinks together and relax,” he said to the table, looking at Blake and Mackenzie, before he quickly added “ Bar fight aside,” he said with a small chuckle. But it was true. He worked so often that he hadn’t been able to just relax with them in a while, aside from Sunday dinners.

[Ryan James O'Neil]

Ryan smiled softly when she placed her forehead against his, kissing him. He held his arms around her waist, blocking out the rest of the world for the short moments that they seemed to manage through all of the sneaking around that they did. But no sneaking around tonight. Patrick was out of town, and Ryan didn't care who saw them. And he couldn't help eh way his smiled grew wider when she said she loved him. it was good to hear, hadn't heard it in a while. "I love you too." And of course he did, he'd pretty much loved her from the get go. She'd had him so wrapped around her finger from day one, knew he'd drop everything for her gladly. Even back when he was dating someone else, couldn't shake Madeline from his mind. The way she got excited abut little things, the way she lit up when a Prince song was on, even the way she listened intently to his every word when anyone else would tell him he was being such a nerd. She let him ramble about things like the universe, and sharks, and NASA, even let him attempt to explain the concept of quantum physics, though she had no clue what any of it meant. She was wrong. And he shook his head and told her so, "No you're not." She was so much stronger than him in a lot of ways, she just didn't see it. Yes Patrick was abusive, but she was still here, she hadn't crumbled. And she'd held herself together after David died. Sure Ryan knew it took more than one person to hold that together, but she had still managed and it was more than some people. She'd been through a lot and she still went about her life, trying to find the bright side of things. And he knew that was her way of not showing what was really going on, but he knew deep down, with all the hurt she was hiding, she was okay too. She'd be okay.

Ryan looked at her, returning her mischievous glance, saying, 'unless you're scared.' Ryan shook his head, "Mmm... no." He smiled, shaking his head and held her hand, letting her lead him away to the VIP room. There was no one in there, surely no one would be going in there. Ryan closed the door behind them, looking to see if there was a lock but whatever. No one was going to come in here anyways. Ryan shook his head at her, smiling when she pushed him to sit down, moving over top of him on the couch. They were such sinners. Fucking going to hell. He pulled her down and reached up, meeting her in the middle to kiss her. They could still hear the music from in the club, Ryan's hands on her hips, holding steady. Whatever. They were both adults. Making adult decisions. They could deal with adult consequences later.

Later on, Ryan and Madeline left the VIP room and headed back out into the club, Madeline adjusting her crooked dress and Ryan pulled his pants back to where they had been. He wasn't sure what was going on, but Ethan was at the bar by himself and a large group of their friends was standing in the middle of the dance floor talking. Ryan saw Blake sitting at table by herself, not sure where Logan was. Ryan walked to the dance floor with Madeline, approaching everyone and asked Shane who was standing closest with Claire, and Joel standing right near by, "What on earth did we miss?" he asked, shaking his head in confusion.

[Madeline Lea O'Neil]

For a few minutes some shady couch in a VIP section with Ryan was like a little slice of heaven. Being in a secluded area with Ryan away from everyone else was almost metaphorical for how she saw their relationship. You could hear the music but it was muffled through the walls, like they were aware of reality but still in their own little world where consequences and time stood still until they had to deal with the aftermath. She smiled as he reached up to kiss her, lowering her hands from his chest down to where his jeans were and quickly did her best to unfasten them. They may be in their own little world, but there wasn’t telling how much time they would have. Not that it mattered, any time with Ryan was worth anything in the world. He made her feel like she was so much more than what she was, how people perceived her and he had no idea how amazing he was either. He thought he had his nerdy moments, but she just couldn’t help but be mesmerized by him, how passionate he was about things besides music. She had fallen for him right away, at least in the sense that she thought he was insanely hot. But she’d tried to be good, didn’t make a move on him when he had a girlfriend, though she did spend every second with him that she could until one day, like it fell perfectly into place, he was hers. A while later Madeline sat back on the couch, trying to catch her breath quietly as she listened to the music pounding against the walls. She didn’t want to go back but she knew they had to, it drew too much suspicion. She leaned over to give him a quick kiss before she leaned down, pulling her heels back on before she stood and tried to wiggle her dress back into a presentable fashion. Ryan was the only person that she would do things like this with anymore. He’d completely changed her life, as cliché as it was, when she met him. But that was what important people did, they changed you.

Madeline frowned as they came back to the dance floor and she saw Rosie clutching her wrist. Forget what everyone else was doing, something was wrong with Rosie. She followed Ryan as he went out to the dance floor, but as he was busy talking to Claire and Shane, Madeline instead just wrapped her arms around Rosie in a hug. She looked upset, or frazzled, none of which pleased Madeline so she didn’t really care what everyone else was in a tizzy about. “ Sweetie, do you need a drink? Or food?” she asked, running her hand along the outside of Rosie’s arm as she leaned back to take a good look at her. Madeline wrapped her arm around Rosie’s shoulder, looking to Ryan before she gestured to the bar so that he knew she would be taking Rosie over there. Madeline kept her right arm wrapped around Rosie’s shoulders, rubbing her hand against the side of her arm as she ushered Rosie towards the counter of the bar. When they reached the counter Madeline smiled at the bartender, ordering two Victoria Secret martini’s and brushed her hair out of her face before she looked back down and realized her dress was still crooked. She frowned slightly before she unzipped the back of it and wiggled it into place before she turned with her back to Rosie so she could zip it back up.

[Mackenzie Janelle Collins]

Mack took Riley's hand, following him away from everyone. Well, it wasn't a party until there was a fight, right? She answered him, wondering too how that other guy was feeling right about now, "I imagine not too good." She looked back for one moment, and then turned back to continue out of there. Well now that was a little bit of a mood killer, and left Mack wondering who on earth had let that guy in anyways. She just wanted Riley to relax and enjoy himself and here he was, breaking up fights. She wondered if he was ready to go, they seen the band that he'd liked so much. She began to ask him what he felt like doing, but he just turned around, kissing her mid sentence. She just smiled when he said he was perfectly content still hanging out for a little while longer. He hugged her, he was right. Why not just stay and have a drink, watch Shane and his band play, enjoy the evening while they had it. She kissed him back, smiling, "Okay, you're right." Mack and Riley headed to the table where Blake was sitting and smiled at her, "You don't look surprised at all," Mack laughed. Riley asked when the last time it was that they'd all hung out and relaxed, not counting a fight breaking out. Mackenzie just sighed, taking his hand and holding it in her lap while he wrapped his arm around her, "Can the group of us do anything with out getting into some sort of trouble?" she laughed.

Mackenzie leaned back, relaxing after the commotion of the fight and all that. She had to admit it was really nice just sitting here with Riley and Blake, not worrying about much. Lily was home with her sister, she and Riley had the whole evening to just do whatever. He had no idea how important he was. Literally, if she gave it enough thought, he was literally the reason she was sane. Even when he forgot mostly everything about them, it didn't change the fact that he'd been there at a time when she almost totally lost herself. Riley had held her together. She squeezed his hand gently, leaning into him. He had no idea when he did have his memory, let alone now that he didn't have his memory. He just didn't realize how much he had helped her. She was sure he'd say the same thing about her, but that was probably the point. They needed each other.

[Rose Elliot Madison]

Rosie watched as Ethan walked away towards the bar, feeling bad he had to do that. She knew it wasn't her fault, she just hoped it hadn't ruined his party for him. Everyone was kind of standing around, talking or whatever. Rosie just wanted another drink. Rosie turned around when she heard Madeline and sighed in relief. Madeline fixed everything. She asked Rosie if she needed a drink, or food even. Rosie puffed out her cheeks, letting out a big breath, "Yes. A drink." She let Madeline lead her to the bar and Rosie just let her. Rosie wasn't in a state to really argue, she just needed another drink to get back to her happy go lucky normal self. She sat down at eh bar, resting her chin in her hand, "Some guy told me he wanted to 'take flight' with me. Isn't that the worst line you've heard in a while? But I think he didn't need to take flight anywhere, he was already high on something, probably.. anyways Ethan just... he, beat the pulp out of him." She sighed, drunkenly recalling what had happened, just stating the main points. She turned to see Madeline was fixing her dress, reaching over to help her zip it back up after she'd gotten it straightened out. "I see your dress needs adjusting, you wouldn't have been in a compromising situation with any six foot something rock stars, would you have?" Rosie smiled, "Well either way, get it girl..." she cat called softly, taking a very long sip of her martini. "Woo, team Ryan..." she mumbled, setting her glass back on the bar and motioning for Madeline to sit down. "I hope Ethan isn't too upset, I don't want to have ruined his party..." Rosie let her hands drop to her lap. Her wrist felt okay, but she hadn't noticed until now that her shoulder felt kinda sore. Whatever, she thought. Knock back the rest of this martini and she wouldn't feel it at all.