Re: Caesars Palace

[Guest]

Jake flinched at Luke's cold voice, he knew he had to have seen everything by now. And could tell that Seth and him weren't his favorite people.

Jake scratched his head, "Guys what if that dude wants more in the settlement? What if they kill him! They're taking him to Cuba! The Cubans aren't fond of "estupido Americans!"

Antonio sighed hopelessly, great now he was going to die in an iron clad dictatorship, "I'll go pack." He said.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Wait, we'll, figure something out, I mean, we're in Vegas...HOLY FUCK!" Seth exclaimed.

He turned to Luke and Ashton excitedly. "VEGAS! HELLO! CASINOS!"

"Oh no..." Ashton muttered. "Oh fuck no...."

[Guest]

"Seth are you insane?! You're not good at it!! You almost got caught! You can end up in prison!" Jake yelled at him.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Um, actually, I have my chips from yesterday to cash in," Seth spoke nonchalantly, smirking devilishly at Jake.

Luke bit his lip. "Ashton can. And uh....I won five hundred last night. Without cheating."

"This is crazy," Ashton muttered, but he really couldn't see any other way out of this. "But...I can get an extension. The guy just messaged me and said his flight leaves tonight. So if we can raise twenty-eight grand by ten PM, we can save Tony."

[Guest]

"Do you guys really think we can win thirty grand in one day?" Antonio quirked his eyebrow up at Seth and his brother. He knew what Seth was capable of but still this seemed pretty impossible even for him.

[Tiger-Lily]

"I have my credit cards. I can take out dough from there, but not a huge amount because they're already pretty maxed out." Seth said. He turned and glanced at the ring on Jake's hand and remembered Jake mentioning the grand he spent on Evelyn's ring. "There's a grand on Evelyn's finger, if I'm correct." He bit his lip, glancing up at Jake.

Ashton turned to look at Jake, uncertain.

[Guest]

Jake blinked a couple of times. Steal the ring off Evelyn's fingers? Sure he wanted to erase this from happening but doing that seemed low. He glanced down at his ring but he knew that was worth shit.

Jake was gonna open his mouth to say something but thought carefully, since Luke was there and he automatically was now back on his hit list.

Jake just shrugged, he knew he had probably maxed out his cards too and spent any many he had in the casino before winning his jackpot. "I don't know." He muttered.

"You don't know?! Come on Jake! I'm gonna be sold here! Just take the ring off her finger like Seth did with Ashlee!" Antonio blurted.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth cringed as Luke's usually warm eyes suddenly seemed to blaze into flames in his direction. "Hey, I have an idea," Seth said through gritted teeth. "I suggest we just LET them take Tony and forget Ashton ever had a twin!"

[Guest]

Antonio frowned and shook his brother, "SAVE ME!!"

Jake's head was pounding from his hangover, plus Antonio's constant whining wasn't helping, "We'll figure it out alright?! Tony shut up or so help me I will put your head through the damn wall!!"

Maybe Seth was right, they could all use a break from him.

[Tiger-Lily]

Luke ran a hand through his hair. "I'm sure there's a couple grand in mine I cna lend you," he said to Ashton. "But if we're going to hit he casinos, we should hurry up. The better players come out at night so it'll be easier to win now."

"Cheat, you mean?" Seth interrupted.

Luke fought down an urge to punch him. He really hoped Ashlee was piss-drunk when she married Seth, otherwise her standards had clearly dropped. "We'll leave that as a last resort. Or you adn Ashton can hit blackjack and leave poker to me. We can try our hand at the slot machines, maybe Jake's luck will come through."

"Jake's been pretty lucky," Seth felt the need to add. "he just -" he stopped talking instantly and shrugged at Jake, figuring mentioning Evelyn wasn't such a good idea when Luke already looked like he was going to catch Seth on his own and kill him quietly, saying hastily, "Um, let's get going, then Ash!"

[Guest]

"Listen I have like no money to gamble with, and my luck has probably gone to shit. You guys go and I'll stay here." Jake told them, since one of his text messages was from his credit card saying he had maxed it out.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Sell her fucking ring, then! You'll spare us a lot of cheating," Seth said irritably, wondering what was up with Jake. Luke had already run back upstairs to put his swim stuff away.

"Trust me," Seth added, "She'll probably thank you for getting rid of it."

[Guest]

"I can't just do that! Cause whatever that damn ring is worth I can use it to pay for a damn divorce lawyer!" Jake snapped. "Just go and I'll figure it out okay?" Jake told Seth.

[Tiger-Lily]

"You can't divorce her here idiot," Seht retorted logically. "Everything's closed. But whatever, bro. Come on, Ash." He frowned and headed to the front door.

Ashton flashed Jake a reassuring smile. "Don't worry about it." Luke came pounding down the stairs, his jacket on, and Ashton followed him to the door.

"Watch the Tigger!" Seth added mockingly,"Romeo." He headed out and Luke closed the door as he followed the two boys out.

[Guest]

About an hour had passed since the boys had left to go to the casino and win money to buy Antonio back from the Japanese. Jake who had been sitting downstairs in their suite had gotten fed up with Antonio's constant whining, so he had picked him up and thrown him in his room and stuck a chair under the door so he couldn't come out and bug him.

For awhile Antonio had pounded on the door begging Jake to let him out but he just ignored him.

Ashlee had been sleeping but she really couldn't just because of all the damn noise, she had been hearing yelling all damn afternoon. So she finally decided to wake up. She sat up kind of quickly and it made her light headed.

She looked around and remembered she wasn't in her suite. They had been at the boys but who's room was it?

Ashlee had found her phone and there were a few missed calls from her parents and her brother. She then read Jesse's message and her hand trembled.

Whoever the hell Seth Andreasis is, he's gonna die! I can't believe you got married!!

"What...no!" Ashlee shook, and looked down at the covers and realized she was naked, then she saw the wedding dress on the floor and everything just came rushing back to her. She wearing that dress! Rapping with the boys, Evelyn walking with her down the aisle.

Ashlee married Seth!!! Ashlee was so horrified that she let out a loud, long scream.

Jake who was downstairs heard the girlish scream and scowled, "Tony shut up!"

Antonio who had been sitting on his bed called back to Jake, "It wasn't me!"

Jake then figured it had to be one of the girls, and although this was probably traumatic for both of them. He really hoped it was Ashlee.

[Tiger-Lily]

Nova perked up and began barking in panic at Ashlee's scream. This caused Evelyn to finally shove her duvet off her face and moan at him to shut up. She rolled over onto her side and a horrible pins-and-needles feeling shot through her body.

She squinted in the sunlight filtering into the room. Odd. This wasn't where the sun came in, in her suite. She was puzzled a moment while her brain sluggishly tried to fight through its haze and work this out. The room came into sharper focus. A jacket hung off the back of a chair. Leather. There was something distinctively familiar about it. Her brain protested and shut down questioning it.

She rolled onto her back again and blinked dazedly up at the ceiling. Everything else in this room looked unfamiliar, slightly blurred at the edges of her vision.

A dull ache pounded through her head, making her dizzy every time she tried to move her head. She went to sit up and ejected a small gasp of pain, feeling the lower half of her body ache in protest. It didn't really make sense to her. until the cold bedsheets rustled against her stomach.

Evelyn's hungover brain reassured her that this was, yet again, one of the many times she had thought something had happened when it really hadn't. Like that time at the hospital in Jake's room. She'd flipped for a second, worrying she had woken up with nothing on, when really, her dress had been clinging to her.

She lay back down, remembering the red dress she'd worn. It had felt soft and clung to her body too. It made sense.

Her head hurt. Too much thinking. She wondered who had screamed but was in too much head and body trauma to care. Her stomach heaved unpleasantly to indicate its horrible emptiness and overdosage of alcohol. She remembered, vaguely, eating a lot of candy last night. While she lay there, hands pressed to her forehead to stem the headache overpowering her, she cast her mind back to the previous night. Ignoring how her body felt pleasantly free of anything besides the silky fabric against her, she recollected the visit to Rain, flipping over the balcony (she had to get Jake back for that one, she decided grimly) and everything that had occurred around that point was sharply clear.

However, everything after she and Jake returned to Caesars after the hospital became one long, black blur. She wasn't surprised. Someone had mentioned Eveclear and the last time she'd had jungle juice, she'd needed Jake's help to piece together what had gone down.

Nova was now pawing at the door of the room, wanting out. She looked around interestedly to distract herself from her headache and nausea, and tried to work out whose room she had crashed in. Obviously they were at the boys' suite. The spot next to her was slightly dented, so clearly someone had slept there and she would have been worried about this. But her brain wasn't up for adding anything up and a weird buzzing reverberated through her head whenever she tried to think.

Why did she hurt so much down there anyway? This wasn't normal, her hungover brain argued. Even if she was dressed. Especially if she was dressed. She felt her eyelids droop wearily and was in no mood to fight them so she simply closed her eyes and zoned out, half-awake.

Nova lifted himself onto his hind legs, braced his front paws against the door and began whining loudly.

[Guest]

Amongst all the girly screaming, Jake heard tiny thudding and whining (which wasn't Antonio). He got up to let Nova out.

Jake opened the door for the pup.

[Tiger-Lily]

Nova bounded out with a happy yip and then charged past Jake's legs into the living room, yipping happily and pawing at a stray cushion with his tongue lolling out.

Evelyn heard the door swing open and turned her head slowly, fighting back her headache as she opened her eyes a crack to see a tall, blurred form in the doorway and no Nova. She tugged the covers up to her chin uncertainly and squinted at the...guy? Most definitely a guy, but the light hurt her eyes, making it hard to see. Her eyelids began to ache against her pounding head.

[Guest]

Jake had heard the covers rustling and he wasn't sure whether or not Evelyn had woken. He was going to turn back around and walk out but for some reason they kept the damn suite so cold so he tip toed quietly to his bag to get a hoodie.

Of course on his way he managed to walk into the edge of the bed, "Shit!" He cursed, the damn bed nicked him in the side and he fell over.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn's eyes flew open wide as the whole bed was jostled and the tall blurry figure was suddenly standing at her feet.

Fright made her forget her aching midsection: she sat up, yanking up the covers around her and screamed. The figure was suddenly out of her view and she blinked her eyes hard to clear them and huddled against the headboard in panic, shaking. Holy shit! Whose room was she in?!

[Guest]

Jake started and as he got to his feet, his side instantly began aching as it jostled. As an avoidance maneuver to the pain, he hobbled around a bit clumsily, cringing every now and then.

Ashlee was in Seth's room, still freaking out. Her phone buzzing in her hand as her dad called her again. She couldn't believe she had married Seth! The whole idea made her sick...a wave of sickness passed through Ashlee, she quickly got up and ran to the bathroom and began throwing up.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn stopped screaming instantly for two reasons:

One. No one else was this clumsy except a certain idiot.

Two. It had just dawned on her that the fabric she thought was her dress was actually just a bedsheet. She had nothing on underneath and the only thing covering her shoulders and back was her tousled hair.

As her head continued to thump painfully, she struggled to join two and two together and all of a sudden, her chest contracted like a gigantic fist were squeezing her ribcage. She opened her mouth but her breathing came out harshly and her hands began to shake on the bedsheet. She pulled it up around her securely and fought down the rising panic.

She could feel it starting, a wave of tumultuous emotion threatening to break over her and suck her under into hysteria's depths. She fought it back and blinked hard, staring at Jake with wide eyes.

This was his room. That was his favorite jacket. And he was shirtless. A heavy lump dropped into Evelyn's stomach as she took him in.

No, they couldn't have. They didn't. She never would! This wasn't her! She didn't...

The wave of hysteria broke over her head. A helpless whimper escaped her lips, despite her efforts to control her building hyperventilation. She tried to talk again and a soft sob came out instead. Her eyes teared up and she fought to keep the wetness from falling out as she looked away from him to disentangle her ring from the bedsheet.

No, this wasn't her blue or red ring. This was a gleaming cross, but not her cross ring with the studs. This one was chunky and smooth, and absolutely gorgeous.

If it hadn't been on her left hand's ring finger, she would have loved it.

Why was there a ring on that finger? She never wore rings on that finger. And the cross ring wasn't the only odd thing. A silver band gleamed on the same finger below the cross.

A wedding band.

Evelyn suddenly found some semblance of her voice and tilted her chin up to look at Jake as she gripped the bedsheets carefully to ensure her chest was covered. She took a few shuddering breaths as her eyes welled up and the tears started their slow descent down her cheeks. This had to be a joke, and he'd tell her it was. He was always toying with her and with Seth as his best friend, this seemed like a possible prank. Right? There was no way she and Jake could have possibly gotten hitched for real.

There was no way she could have gotten drunk and slept with him. She knew her drunk self. Her drunk self knew her.

Her voice came out in a weak, quivering plea. "Jake?"

[Guest]

Jake stopped hobbling and looked up at the bed where the shaky voice came from. He could see it in her expression, how frightened she was and the relization of their situation. He had no clue what to say or do. "Evelyn..." He said quietly.

[Tiger-Lily]

Just the way he said it told her what she needed to know. She lowered her gaze to her lap and closed her eyes against their tears in efforts to stopper them. It didn't help in any way. She didn't know what to panic at first, the fact that she was now apparently married or that...

She could reverse the whole marriage thing, as dizzy as the whole thing made her. She could never reverse what she'd lost though. She couldn't get...she couldn't get her virginity back.

Evelyn lifted her hands from where they clutched the sheet, pinning it to her with her arms and clamping both hands over her mouth to stifle the sobs threatening to escape her lips. They came out in painful, muffled whimpers instead, but she pressed her shaking fingers over her mouth in a useless attempt to hold that back. Collapsing and breaking down all over the place wouldn't get her anywhere. She hated crying.

But God, that was all she wanted to do right now and her wildly pulsating heart agreed with her as it ached. She wanted to say something, anything, to distract herself from the way her whole body was shaking in a silent fit of disbelief and sorrow. She didn't understand. How could she be in this situation? Sure, she was capable just as much as any other girl of making out with someone she probably shouldn't be kissing, but even her drunk self had bounds.

Of course, the wedding ring on her finger might just be the knife that had cut those bounds. Her inebriated self hadn't thought there was anything wrong with consummating her drunken marriage. Morally, her drunken self was correct.

But that odd, tainted feeling was a huge indication that her sober self wasn't all right with this. At all. She wanted to scrub her skin so hard it shed the ruined old one, like a snake, she wanted to redo the previous night all over, and not get drunk. She wanted to wash away that horrible, filthy sensation that was slowly creeping over her, making her flinch restlessly. She felt repulsive, disgusted with herself, and her hands weren't keeping her quiet sobs from escaping at all. She couldn't look anywhere in Jake's direction, much less ask him the questions drowning her terrified and confused mind.

Evelyn toppled sideways on the bed and turned on her side, her back to him as she clutched the bedsheets to her lips to keep her whimpers from being heard across the damn suite. I can handle this. I can deal with this. I've dealt with tons of shit before. I can do this. Oh God. I can't handle this right now. Tears trekked down her tilted cheeks and dripped to the mattress.

The door was open and she hastily yanked the bedsheets up higher to cover herself up completely, only the top of her head poking through. It wasn't going to undo anything but she felt too vulnerable right now to be seen. She felt like she was floating in some weird alternate reality where her morals suddenly swapped places with Ashlee's skanky roommate. It was a cold, unfamiliar, unfriendly world and she had never felt like a naive little girl as much as she did right then.

Naive, ex-virgin, little girl, she thought bitterly, blinking tear drops off her lashes, watching them drip off the side of her nose and pool on the mattress.

[Guest]

Jake's heart ached when he heard her. He thought he had felt guilty before but now, now he just wanted to die. Jake went to close the door and sat on the foot of the bed, he couldn't stand this. He liked her so much and he never wanted to hurt her this way. This was such a mistake.

"Evelyn...I'm so sorry." Jake's voice faltered. "I'm sorry, if I could I would take it back. I'm sorry."

Jake took in a deep breath, he couldn't believe he had gotten married. He couldn't believe that he had screwed up everything for the both of them so bad.

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