AFW Karaoke Night 2: Hot Tub Karaoke Machine. (Also known as Angel's Birthday Bash!)

Angel peaked into the gift, slowly unwrapping it, and then when the packaging was open, she pulled out the jersey, holding it up and letting it unfurl downwards. She looked over the front, nodding in approval, then turned it around, grinning as she saw the back of it. She then took a moment to gently fold it up, then placed it to the side, stepping towards Ace and pulling her into a big, tight hug, holding the girl close to herself.

"Of course I like it! It's perfect!" She smiled, squeezing Ace against herself for a moment before letting her go, stepping back and flashing a wink towards her. "I like it so much, I might just wear it on the night I make my return!"

Adrian dived behind the bar, trying to find the package she had prepared as a present, and for once it wasn't clothes she'd made in her spare time. She didn't have Angel's measurements ascribed to memory nor did she have enough time to get an outfit made, but she did have something else made. "Got it!" She called out holding up a small rectangular box covered in wrapping paper. 

While hadn't had time to make clothes between finding out and getting to the party, she did have time to make something else. A few memory cards loaded with old Joshi matches from the 1990s, and a little table of contents (with bonus instructions as to how to use) to show what match was on which card. "Here you go." the brunette said with a smile "Might be cool stuff to watch for fun or if you want to pick up some things. 90s women wrestling in Japan probably did more for people's wrestling styles globaly than it gets credit for so yeah, enjoy!"

Ace let out a little "Eep!" as Angel hugged her, before smiling, pleased Angel liked her gift.

"Heh, well you better. You better wear it in a match against me sometime too!"

Adrians gift made Ace grin, taking a peek over Angels shoulder at the match listing.

"Nice! Those are some good matches!"

Tiffany smiled at Ace's gift, although inwardly she winced. She knew it wasn't a completion to get Angel the best gift, but still the cowgirl wanted her gift to be as meaningful as the others. She should have remembered Angel's leadership of the Red Jaguars, as it was a great accomplishment for the Latina.

As Adrian presented hers Tiffany nodded in agreement. "I was a fan of Debbie Malenko. Her matches in Japan were some of the best wrestling I saw back then. Joshi wrestling was hard to get a hold of, so all the videos I saw were horrible VCR copies with no subtitles. Still, me and by stepbrother wore out each one we managed to get our hands on."

Valley hadn't had much to say about the Jaguars jersey - it was a nice pick by Ace, and she understood the significance, but it was all stuff that happened before Valley had come into things. She'd watched the Temple Games, but hadn't gotten quite as much into it as she'd liked, and she knew nothing could compare to living it from the other side.

The tapes caught her interest though, and she looked over them with some interest. She often watched the old matches on Youtube, but they were so scattered it was hard to get them in good order. "Nice." She came up behind Ace, rubbing her shoulder with one hand and holding a drink with the other. "My mother trained me off a lot of that stuff. Nearly broke my neck trying to do some of the crazier stuff, but other than that, fun times."

Angel accepted Adrian's gift and eagerly ripped into it, looking into the box with a curious expression on her face. She lifted up the table of contents page, reading over it, then looked up towards Adrian and smiled.

"Some of this stuff is hard to find in good quality. What kind of holes did you have to dig into to find this?" She grinned and set the box down, glancing over the sheet again before looking back towards the cosplayer. "It's perfect. Maybe I'll learn a few things from watching these!"

She laughed, and then slipped the contents page back into the box, then looked to the other four women again. "So...what's next, then? Just drunken hot tub action or what?" She lifted her arms, the Latina folding them over her chest and putting a smirk onto her face, looking straight towards Tiffany. "I hope you've got a hell of a night planned for me, after tricking me like that!"

"Wait, wait, wait a second." Valley shuffled off to the side and grabbed her gift from off a nearby table. "I know we just met, but all the same, I couldn't come and not give you something. Just rude. So."

She handed Angel a copy of Corriente vital 10 años, Ojos De Brujo's most recent album...signed by the lead guitarist in the band, Ramón Giménez. "My Dad knows a lot of people in the music industry, and when I told him I might be meeting you, he asked to pass this along. It's not much, but...hope you like it."

Angel wasn't expecting a gift from Valley. Hell, she wasn't even expecting the woman to be there, so getting a present from her was a pleasant surprise!

She tore the gift open, her eyes widening as she looked over the CD, listening to Valley's explanation of what it was. It was definitely something unexpected, especially coming from someone she didn't really know, and for a moment Angel wasn't quite sure how to react.

She threw those feelings away though, and stepped towards Valley, grinning and slipping an arm around the woman's waist, tugging her in close as she stood beside of her. "Alright, alright. I think I do like you, chica. Hell of a gift you got me. Thanks." She flashed the blonde a wink and let another laugh rise up past her lips, giving the Slamazon a squeeze before stepping away from her to address all four of the party-throwers again.

"Thanks, all of you. Really." She took a quick breath, and smiled at the other women, glancing over each of them. "This all means a lot to me. I've been taking what happened at Avalanche kind of hard, you know? I think I needed something like this to help cheer me up." She smiled a bit wider, and set her new CD down with her other gifts, and then stretched her arms up over her head, looking towards Tiffany with a smirk.

"Alright. It's party time now. For real. Where can I change into this bikini at?"

Tiffany opened her mouth to speak, but then a knock was heard at the door.
"Well, if that's the booze, then I think this shindig starts now-ish. Changing room is back over there, girl, on the other side of the hot tub." she replied. "Now hurry up and try it on! I wanna see if I was right about your measurements...." Tiffany concluded with a grin.

Crossing the room she answered the door to find a waitress of sorts, carrying a tray that held a large pitcher of the pinkest drink that the cowgirl had ever seen that was supposed to be alcoholic.
"Aaaaadriannn..." she called back into the room. "You mind taking a hold of this witch's brew so I can pay the nice lady?"

While Tiffany tried to get her wallet, a small thing she carried in the front of her jeans, the woman smiled.
"(We still have the information for credit card you used to book this room, miss. We can just bill everything you order tonight to that, if you like, so you won't have to pay each and every time one of us brings you something)" she said in Japanese.

Tiffany cocked her head to the side. While she knew enough Japanese to start cobbling together the woman's meaning from the words she was able to translate, it took her a few moments.
"(Yes, please and thank you.)" she managed to say, her heavy southern accent making her Japanese sound strange, even for a foreigner.

Angel gathered up her new bikini, then with a final glance at the party-goers began to make her way around the hot tub and to the changing room.

"Don't have too much fun until I get back out here," she quipped, leaving the four women alone while she ducked into the room, out of their sight as she began to get herself changed.