The After-After-Party Is Where The Real Fun Begins

Cassie furrowed her brow, put her hands on her hips and stepped up in front of Johnny. She looked up into his eyes. "You don't like me. Don't worry, though, we'll talk, we'll talk. You just met me, anyway! Silly. Besides, I have a present for you. I think. It might be broken..."

Taylor had gone from trying to think of how to let Cassie down easy to trying to think of how to let Johnny down easy. She didn't want to part ways with him, of course, she wanted to stay wrapped around him for as long as possible, but she couldn't deny that seeing Cassie, her sort-of friend from a billion miles away, who now lived in the same city as her, who just happened to be touring the same city as her, was worth something. She couldn't bring herself to be so insensitive as to blow her off. Maybe they could just hang out for a while, and her and Johnny could sneak out or something.

Either way, her boots weren't the greatest for walking long distances. Sitting still for a while wouldn't be such a bad thing.

"Taylor?" Cassie grinned.

"I... uh..."

"Awesome!" Cassie scooped up her backpack and hugged it against her chest. "Oh! Look!" She picked up one foot and pointed to her shoe, a heavily faded red Chuck Taylor. She hopped once to keep her balance, grinned, and then turned and marched off to the door at the back of the room.

"Oh, gawd, those shoes..." Taylor put a hand over her face, then looked back at Johnny.

"Uh... heh..." She blushed and looked down at her shoes. This was awkward. "So... meet Cassie? She's, uh... she's alright, man. I knew her from my days at pro wrestling school. We had a locker room all to ourselves and stuff. I, uh..." She at Johnny with pleading eyes and leaned into his chest. "I don't think I can just blow her off. This is too weird to just leave her hanging. Don't... hate me."

The woman at the desk, who had been dividing her attention between them and her book, laughed under her breath.

Johnny's eyes widened in surprise at Cassie's insinuation. "What the fuck, man? I ain't got a problem with ya." Johnny chuckled nervously. "I was just hopin to get a little alone time with Taylor and junk." Johnny relaxed a bit and waved his hand at Cassie. "You're cool, man. Don't worry." He said trying to reassure Cassie.

Jonny watched the two girls 'make small talk' or whatever they were doing. It seemed like it was mostly Cassie being hyper which seemed to be a trend. When Taylor finally 'introduced' Cassie, Jonny threw the red head a quick grin and a wave.

"Yo."

Johnny could see that Taylor was in a tight spot and slid his hand against her back and gave her a reassuring pat.

"I gotcha, dude." Johnny said. "It's cool. Besides, We're young punks. We got all the time in the world, right?" Johnny said and flashed Taylor a wide grin.

Taylor smiled and gave Johnny a kiss on the cheek, then grabbed his hand and put her head on his shoulder while they followed after Cassie.

Through the door at the back was a small room with an elevator on the left and a door to the stairs on the right. Cassie was already headed up the stairs. "Top floor!" She called down.

Taylor walked to the elevator and pressed the up button. "She, uh, doesn't use elevators. She says it's for the exercise, but really she's scared of them. Of elevators."

The doors slid open and Taylor stepped through and hit the '4' button. The doors slid shut and she sighed. "So, in case it comes up or something, about the shoes, the deal is that back in New York we went shopping once, one time, and we both decided we liked those shoes. I wore Converse back then, and Cass thought I was just the coolest thing ever, because she's an idiot, and Canadian, so then she was all about them. Especially the red ones, and I didn't have a red pair, and we both decided to get a pair of identical red Converse, and she thought that made us BFF's. Then we found out she didn't have her wallet with her, and so I just paid for her. She wigged out. And, apparently, she still has the shoes. So that's that."

Taylor sighed again. Dealing with Cassie was complicated for her. It was just uncomfortable for Taylor to spend any amount of time with her. Like visiting lonely grandparents or something, that were always super nice but so much so that they made you uncomfortable. Like they were so nice they'd end up keeping you and you'd never be heard from again.

"I don't know how long we'll have to stay..." Taylor said. She didn't know what that meant, really, she was just trying to find a way to make it not look like their night together was going to be eaten up by a cherubic little Canadian girl.

Johnny blushed as Taylor kissed his cheek. He smiled when Taylor grabbed is hand and squeezed hers back tightly. He watched as Cassie bounded off. She took the stairs and the elevator opened for them. He was thankful for that at least. And he chuckled when Taylor said Cassie was afraid of Elevators.

When the elevator doors closed Johnny turned to Taylor only to find her explaining the shoe incident. Cassie seemed like she was a little whacked out. if she wasn't so nice, Johnny would have guessed that she probably needed to see a psychiatrist. She probably needed to anyway.

Johnny then grinned and looked at Taylor. "That's a cool story and all..." Johnny said and then pushed the stop elevator button and pressed himself against Taylor. "We can stay as long as you want to, babe." Johnny then leaned in and kissed Taylor's cheek. "But she won't mind if we''re a minute or two late.."

Johnny then pressed his lips against Taylor 's and kissed her hard.

"Mmm..." Taylor moaned softly and kissed Johnny back. "She'll... take longer... anyway. Stairs, and..."

The little window of privacy Johnny had created was brilliant. With the doors stuck shut, Taylor eased some sexual tension in a torrent of hot, increasingly urgent kisses. Her hands drifted up to his hair and pulled him in tight until she couldn't take it anymore. She wrapped one leg around behind his and coiled the other behind her on the wall and pushed to trip Johnny and roughly put him on his back.

She straddled his hips and tossed her hair to one side to keep it out of the way before lowing her body down, pressing her chest against his and arching her back to flatter her stomach against him. She kissed him, on the mouth, then on the neck, rubbing her body slightly up and down against his, and then she yanked on the neckline of Johnny's shirt to kiss his chest. She moaned again.

"Um..." She started in between kisses. "We can't, like... this isn't... ya know..." They couldn't just throw down and do it in an elevator. Spontaneous as it was, which was in itself pretty sexy, Taylor didn't want to break that ice with Johnny in a hurried, impromptu elevator-session. And she didn't want to leave Cassie hanging, that would be kind of a dick move. "We should... um..."

"Uh huh... slower..." Johnny said between kisses as though Taylor's attempt at rationalizing their behavior was something that he also needed to acknowledge. He pushed his tongue around hers and squeezed her arm with one hand pulling her in while running his hand up and down her other arm. Johnny's kisses were more like pants as he opened his mouth to suck in breaths, pushing the kisses as deeply as he could.

Johnny grinned as Taylor wrapped her leg around him. She was certainly getting into it. Johnny was too but then Taylor pushed off. Johnny's eyes widened as he was pushed backwards.

"W-Woah!"

He crashed to the ground, making sure, first and foremost, that Taylor didn't get hurt accidentally from her lusty shenanigans. After the initial Jostle, Taylor seemed on him like a savage beast. It was awesome. Johnny groaned as she pressed against him.He was certain as she bucked and rubbed against him that it wouldn't be hard for her to feel exactly what she was doing to him.

He ran his hands up and down her back, pushing up and kissing whatever part of her was close enough to his lips. Usually the top of her head.

Johnny smiled when Taylor stuttered. "Hah... Hah..." He panted slightly. Her sheepish voice, he knew what was coming. Johnny threw his head back and grinned. "Yeah..." He said and pushed out his hand and felt around, pushing the Elevator on button. As the elevator whirred into action again, Jonny put his arm around Taylor.

"Just... pinch me or something..." He said. "I don't wanna like... show up at your friend's room with a .." Johnny blushed and turned his head. "Well... you know.."

Johnny then laughed. "One of these days... you're gonna have to pay up on all this teasin!" He then flashed Taylor a wide grin. Though this time he had started it but he had a feeling that of the two of them, she'd probably be able to deal with it better.

"Yeah." Taylor said in almost a whisper. "I think so."

With a pleading look and a high, whiny noise Taylor pushed herself back to her feet and started to straighten her hair. After a moment the elevator doors opened, just as Cassie emerged from the stairwell looking as if she'd been running.

"Oh, hi! I thought maybe you didn't hear me and went to the wrong floor, so I went to check. Must be a slow elevator! You guys shoulda taken the stairs, eh?" She said and put on a cheerful smile.

"Yeah, it was really slow. And old. It felt like it was going to drop us the whole time." Taylor said, just to watch the twinge of apprehension in Cassie.

"Okay, c'mon, I got an awesome room."

Cassie swiped a magnetic card through a door near the elevator, a light turned green, and she pushed open the door. The room inside was spacious, at least for it's purposes, clearly an upper end suite. The seedier, porn-like features notwithstanding, it was well furnished. "It was the last room they had, and I'd been walking all day, so... But it worked out, because now you're here! C'mon in! Welcome to my luxurious suite."

Cassie marched in and tossed her backpack down on the bed, and then grabbed a pitcher used for ice and thrust it into Taylor's hands. "Here, can you get ice? It's at the other end of the hall."

"Okay, yeah." Taylor took the picture, gave Johnny a forlorn look, and started off down the hall.

Cassie poked her head around the door for Johnny. "Comin'?"

Johnny grinned at Taylor and smiled, touching her cheek as she finally stood up. He was glad that he wasn't the only one who was anxious over all of these brief encounters. But strangely enough, he was sort of glad for them. They allowed him to stretch out his time with Taylor. Make the passion between them never lose the sizzle it had. Though as he stood up as well, it seemed like it was weird to speak like that. This was only the second day they had known each other and they'd only spoken one other time aside from that.

Johnny grimaced a bit as Cassie appeared. She seemed omnipresent. It was creepy. He grinned and scratched the back of his head. He looked at Taylor as she teased Cassie. He brought up his hand and stifled a chuckle and then flashed her a look.

Johnny raised his eye as Cassie had figured Taylor for some kind of slave girl. He was even more surprised that Taylor only put up a small grumble and seemed obedient. Johnny gave Taylor a pitiful grimace and then stepped inside as Cassie commanded. As he walked past her, he ruffled her hair and then plopped down in a chair.

"So, champ, how's life treatin ya?" Johnny said trying to make conversation. It's not that he didn't want to talk to Cassie. She was a cute girl and under other circumstances he would be more than willing to listen to the spunky girl. Or at least humor her. She was cute enough that if he had met her outside of the current circumstances, he would at least be semi interested in hearing her out, but he doubted he would actively chase her. He turned and looked to the door, hoping to see Taylor. He then looked back at Cassie. Well, she obviously wasn't his type. He smirked and kicked his feet up on the table.

"You wrestle too? That's pretty awesome. I thought it would be cool to get into the ring with some chicks but it wasn't what I thought it would be." Johnny blushed. "Well, maybe for certain reasons." Johnny then chuckled nervously.

Cassie knelt on the floor and began rifling through her backpack. Her tongue poked out a little as she concentrated on finding whatever it was she was looking for. "Uh huh." She said, only half paying attention.

She pulled something out, a little smaller than a tennis ball and wrapped in paper like a piece of candy, and held it up triumphantly. When she looked back at Johnny, she suddenly realized she was alone with him, and that without the familiarity of Taylor's presence her self-assuredness went up in a puff of smoke. Her eyes widened and she flashed Johnny a nervous smile.

She shuffled across the carpet on her knees to Johnny, blushing just a little. What had seemed like such a great idea only moments ago now seemed like the most incredibly stupid thing in the world. She sheepishly offered the ball to Johnny.

"Here." She said. "It's, um, my friend makes candy and stuff and she made me a buncha stuff to take on my trip. She told me that, she told me that this one was the sweetest and to be careful with it... [size=85:3r5yf43u]because it's so sweet. Um..." She looked at Johnny's shoulder so that she wouldn't have to look him in the eye. "And I just thought that since you're dating Taylor, and she hasn't... had... luck with boys, that maybe you'd be able to get along with her if you were just really really sweet, the sweetest one, [size=85:3r5yf43u]and I though this would make you... um... [size=50:3r5yf43u]cause it's so sweet." Her voice shrank to a whisper by the end, and for a moment she sat paralyzed. She never knew why she got so nervous sometimes. Maybe that was why she didn't have a boyfriend.

Cassie's relief was audible as Taylor appeared in the doorway. She leapt to her feet and took the pitcher of ice from Taylor and turned back to the room, unsure of where to put it or what to do with it. It became apparent that she didn't actually have a need for any ice. Taylor arched an eyebrow at Cassie and glanced at Johnny.

"You cut your hair." Taylor remarked to Cassie, then crammed herself tightly next to Johnny on his chair and put her arms around his neck. "She used to have really long hair. She looked like a farmer's daughter, especially when w-she braided it. I guess you're like a real fighter now or something so you've got to hair tough-girl hair?" Taylor breathed a laugh at the thought of Cassie being tough.

"Yup!"

The room contained two plush chairs, a luxurious bed, a small dresser and a small bathroom around the corner from the hall door. A TV was attached to one wall, and on the other there were several long, narrow windows that overlooked the street, with an open area separating them from the bed area. The windows themselves hadn't really been visible from the street. Despite the establishment's obvious efforts to keep this room looking untouched, as though every couple who stayed were the first, there were some signs of wear.

Taylor looked around. "Man, do you make money for this sort of thing?" Cassie was either really stupid about money, or had a lot more than one would think.

"Well, sorta... I have a manager who handles me getting paid." Cassie up-ended her backpack on the bed and a mass of homemade confection spilled out, along with a magazine with Megumi Fujii on the cover, a book by Manami Toyota, and a travel guide to the city of Kyoto. "But how abowt you tell me alll about everything! Like, I don't know you at all, Junichi, so tell me, and how did you guys meet and stuff?"

Taylor said nothing but looked curiously at Johnny with a hint of a smirk.

Johnny wrinkled his brow at Cassie. Not in annoyance but it was obvious whatever she had going on was more important than actually listening to him talk or answering his questions. Not that he was particularly interested in the answers. Small talk was just that.

But then Cassie's master plan was revealed and foiled all in one fell swoop. As Cassie scooted over to him, Johnny laughed. "Yo, dude, chill out. It's cool man." He tried to reassure Cassie with a warm smile. Cassie then sheepishly offered Johnny some candy and he shook his head at Cassie's sudden shrinking. He took the candy and then laughed. "Thanks, I guess." He said."No one's ever really called me sweet before except my mom but she says that about my stupid brother so she's obviously just saying that cause I'm her kid."

Johnny then chuckled at Cassie. "Well... I intend to treat Taylor as good as I can for as long as she'll have me." Johnny then turned her his head nervously. "I dunno if we're dating officially though..." He mumbled the last bit nervously.

Johnny's eyes brightened and he smiled when Taylor finally returned. When she sat on the chair and pushed against him, he slid his hand along her back and hugged her close. It was a lot easier to be relaxed around Taylor, Especially when she was so close.

"uh..." Johnny turned his head a bit when Cassie called him out. "Just call me Johnny, dude." The boy said with a smile." He then looked at Taylor and grinned back. "Well, we sorta met at a club like not that long ago. This is kinda like only the second time we've met actually." Johnny chuckled nervously. "But.. it's cool cause Taylor's pretty fuckin awesome."