Three Girls, Two Drinks and a Hotel Suite
"To the death of siblings!" Nonee said, raising her margarita in a toast.
"To the death of siblings!" Bhavna agreed, clinking her screwdriver against Nonee's margarita.
They both looked at Aradhna, who shook her head. "I am not toasting to that," she said, sipping her soda.
Shrugging, both Nonee and Bhav sipped their drinks, and immediately made faces.
"This is disgusting," Nonee said.
"I know, right?" Bhav agreed, making a face.
"Then why are you drinking it?" Radz asked pointedly, arching an eyebrow at her two friends.
"Because we can!" Nonee declared triumphantly, and she and Bhav collapsed into giggles.
Radz rolled her eyes. "You guys are so wasted," she muttered.
"I am not wasted," Bhav disagreed. "See, this is my right hand," she held up her left hand, "and this is my left hand," she held up her right hand, "I am not drunk now, I can stand well enough and I can…something something well enough." To prove her point, she stood up and attempted to walk, but her step fell astray, and she grabbed the table to hold herself steady. She giggled again, and Nonee laughed harder, clutching her stomach.
"Good god, she quotes Shakespeare when she's drunk," Radz sighed, burying her face in her hands.
"First time drinkers?" asked a male voice from the next table.
Radz picked her head up and turned to see who was talking to her. Besides, she was desperate to talk to anyone who wasn't busy giggling over…well, just giggling, period. She found herself looking into a pair of brown eyes that peered at the three of them rather amusedly. He smiled at her, and she felt her face heat up. "Yep," she admitted. "They wouldn't even let me talk them out of it."
"At least quoting Shakespeare's better than moping over failed relationships," he retorted. He looked pointedly at the table next to him, where a rather cute blonde in a blue suit sat pouring over a Jack Daniels, and a brunette with a cashmere scarf wrapped around his neck said something to him before taking a swig of his own whiskey. "I'm Dan, by the way."
Radz returned her attention to the one who had spoken to her. She smiled, shaking his hand. "Radz. And these two here are Nonee and Bhav."
She glanced back at her friends, who were busy alliterating.
"Ooh!" Nonee cried. "What about billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles?"
"Or…or…or…Puny pesky Potter!" Bhav offered.
Nonee pouted. "Hello? I like Harry!"
Bhav's face fell. "Oh, right."
Radz rolled her eyes and turned back to Dan. "How do you put up with them?"
Dan grinned at her, and she felt her heart flutter again. "Chuck's not so bad," he said, gesturing to the brunette in the scarf. "But Nate gets all…"
Unfortunately for Radz, Dan couldn't finish his sentence, because just then Nonee and Bhav chirped in.
"Radzie's got a boyfriend!" they sang before erupting into more giggles.
Radz immediately turned bright red, then spun around to face the other two girls. "Shut up," she hissed, but that only served to make her two friends laugh harder. Oh, god, why me? Radz wondered, wishing she could just dissolve into the ground.
-||-
"Come on, Nathaniel. What's the best way to get back at Vanessa than by making out with another girl?" Chuck tried again.
Nate opened his mouth to protest, but Chuck wouldn't hear anything.
"'Sides, Dan here's already found us a couple of girls."
Dan spun around hearing his name, frowning. "Whoa, hold on, Chuck. There is no way I'm letting you corrupt any of them!"
-||-
"You can corrupt me anytime you want," Nonee giggled, wiggling her fingers at Chuck.
Both Radz and Dan turned to her, then looked at one another despairingly.
"They're not making it any easier, are they?" Radz asked.
Dan shook his head, sighing.
"Come on, Nathaniel. What do you say?"
Nate looked up, his eyes meeting Bhav's. Her eyes widened, and she tapped Nonee, who was still silently flirting with Chuck, whispering a "He's pretty," to her.
Nate sighed his consent, and Chuck smirked. "Wonderful." As Dan and Radz watched helplessly, he sauntered up behind Nonee and Bhav, with Nate in tow. "Have you ladies ever been up to the Bass suite?"
"Aw, come on, Chuck!" Dan protested.
Chuck raised his eyes to him. "You're invited too, you know."
"Chalo na, Radz!" Bhav chirped. "Tumhare bina mazaa kahaan aayega?"
Dan frowned at her. "What'd she say?" he asked Radz.
Radz sighed. "Nothing. Let's go." And she grabbed her bag, following Chuck (with Bhav and Nonee on either side of him) and Nate up to the Bass suite.
-||-
"No way!" Radz laughed. "The way Orsino so immediately forgot all about Olivia and married Viola? That is so not true love!"
Dan took a sip of his coffee, grinning. "But don't you think Orsino might have felt the attraction Viola as Cesario had for him?"
"What does that have to do with true love?!"
Their discussion over the nature of love in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was rather rudely interrupted by a groan. Both Radz and Dan turned away from the window, looking at the couch, where Bhav was waking up.
She sat up groggily, rubbing her temples. "What the hell happened last night?"
Radz grinned. "You got totally drunk, kissed Nate and threw up on his jacket."
Bhav stared at Radz, her mouth hanging open. "I…what?!"
"You got totally drunk, kissed Nate and then threw up on his jacket!" Radz repeated happily.
Dan looked at her. "You are having way too much fun with this," he commented, smiling.
Radz laughed. "It's not every day my best friends do something so entirely unlike them!"
"You're kidding, right?" Bhav asked, still unable to believe what she had done.
Radz and Dan returned their attention to her. "Nope, sorry, she's…she's telling the truth," Dan informed her.
Bhav buried her face in her hands. "Oh, CRAP!"
As if on cue, Nate came out of the bathroom, the sleeves of his white shirt rolled up. He dried his hands on a towel, tossing it onto an armchair.
"Hey, Nate!" Radz chirped.
Bhav peered at him from the space between her fingers. She swore silently. He was cute. Radz noticed, and bit her lip hard in an attempt to stop herself from laughing.
"Hey," Nate replied. He glanced at Bhav. "Hey, you're up!"
Bhav lifted her head from her hands, smiling weakly. She gave him a little wave. "Hi," she said softly. "Um, sorry for throwing up on your jacket last night."
Nate grinned. "That's alright." He handed her a glass of water and two pills. "Aspirin?"
Bhav took it gratefully, swallowing the pills and resisting the urge to make a face. "I hate pills," she muttered.
Nate handed her another glass, this one filled with orange juice. "Juice helps."
Bhav took it, looking up at him despondently. She looked at Radz. "Are you sure I threw up on his jacket?!"
Nate grimaced. "Yeah, that was my jacket."
Any further conversation was interrupted by a hysterical scream coming from the bedroom.
Bhav covered her ears, making a face. "Nonee, shut up!" she hollered.
Nate patted her arm. "You probably shouldn't scream," he suggested.
She looked up at Nate despairingly. "Please make her shut up?"
Rolling her eyes, Radz hopped off the window seat and hurried to the bedroom.
Nonee stared at her, hysterical. "Why am I in a guy's bed with his clothes all over the place?!" she demanded.
Radz tried hard to keep a straight face. "Nothing happened, N. You got here last night, Chuck tried seducing you, he went to get champagne and you passed out in his bed."
Nonee didn't look like she believed her.
"Seriously, Nonee, nothing happened. Tumhe lagta hai ki mere hote huye aisa kabhi ho sakta hai?" Radz raised an eyebrow.
Nonee hesitated, then shook her head.
Radz nodded. "Ab chalo, come and have some breakfast."
Nonee made a face. "I think I'd rather not," she said, looking a little green. "Where's the bathroom?"
Bhav and Nate looked up as Nonee ran, barefoot, to the bathroom, slamming the door shut. They both winced as they heard the sounds of her throwing up.
Chuck opened the door to the suite, sauntering in. He paused at the bathroom. He looked at Nate. "Who?"
"Nonee," Nate informed him. "The girl who passed out in your bed?"
Chuck scowled at the memory. He made his way to the coffee table, where a breakfast spread lay waiting for them. He grabbed a muffin and bit into it, settling down on the armchair.
Nonee emerged from the bathroom and glared at Radz. "What the hell did you let me drink?!" she demanded.
Radz rolled her eyes. "Hey, you were the one who ordered a margarita even though I warned you not to!"
"Some friend you are," Nonee muttered. She headed to the coffee table, then froze upon seeing Chuck.
Chuck stared at her unblinkingly, eating his muffin nonchalantly.
Nonee swallowed nervously.
"Lo, phir se latoo ho gayi," Radz snickered.
Bhav giggled.
Dan and Nate exchanged similarly puzzled looks. Dan shrugged.
"Um…uh…I…um…" Nonee stuttered.
"What's she trying to say?" Bhav stage-whispered to Radz.
Radz shrugged. "Kuch kar lein kya?"
Bhav pouted. "Lekin mazaa aa raha hai!"
Radz rolled her eyes, grinning. "Chalo, we should get going." She turned to Dan. "Thanks for last night."
"Do you really have to go?" Dan asked softly.
Radz smiled. "We're actually backpacking across America right now, and we have our friend's wedding in Canada to attend in a couple of weeks."
"Oh," Dan said simply, nodding.
Radz turned to Bhav, who was grinning like an idiot as Nate saved his number into her cell phone.
"Call me sometime," he told her.
Bhav nodded, not trusting herself to say anything. Radz tapped her shoulder, and she stood up. The two girls made their way to the door, grabbing a still-stuttering Nonee as they did.
-||-
"I cannot believe I had a night that I don't remember," Bhav commented in the elevator. "And I cannot believe they actually have elevator music here!"
Radz grinned. "Well, at least I remember my night," she said, a faraway look in her eyes.
"Chuck is hot," Nonee added, her first proper sentence in over seven minutes.
"Well, on the plus side, we'll never have to live through a night we'll never remember again," Bhav said as the elevator doors opened.
The three girls walked out, arm in arm.
"But Chuck is hot," Nonee pouted. "Can't we tell Meera that we can't make it for her wedding and just stay here for a few days?"
"She'd understand, wouldn't she?" Bhav asked, looking at Radz.
Radz sighed. "Tempting as it is, you know we need to be there. Besides, there'll be Preet there!"
Her two friends giggled. "Preet," they echoed simultaneously.
As they reached the door, a voice stopped them.
"Radz! Hey, wait up!"
The three of them turned around, all surprised to find Dan running towards them.
Bhav and Nonee exchanged a look. "We'll see you outside," Bhav said, leading Nonee out.
Radz smiled as Dan caught up to her, trying to still her racing heart.
They stood in awkward silence for a moment, then Dan leaned over and kissed her cheek.
Radz felt herself heat up.
"Come back soon?" he asked, a hopeful look in his soulful brown eyes.
Radz bit her lip, trying to stop herself from giggling uncontrollably. "Okay."
-|end|-
So, to the person who wrote this, I'm so going to attempt a sequel! And do let us know what you think!
[And if you know who wrote it, don't say. It's kinda obvious though no? 😆]
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