Re: Caesars Palace

[JulietsCurse]

"Figured everyone needed something a little bit less serious." Connor shrugged his shoulders.

[Guest]

Antonio was so frustrated with this whole trip so he threw the tarantula at Connor's chest, "Listen! I don't know what I did for you to prank me! I mean hardly know you! I've had enough of these damn pranks! This trip has been hell! I was almost thrown in prison cause of Seth counting cards, my hair was dyed white! I was almost sold to three Japanese mobsters, I HAD TO PROSTITUTE MYSELF TO COUGARS! And When I try to sleep you plant a fake spider in my bed! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Antonio snapped, turning around and going to his room to pack up his crap.

[Tiger-Lily]

Ashton bit his lip, feeling sorry for his brother. Sure, he, Seth and Jake pranked Antonio a lot. Mostly Seth and Jake, but they were all friends, they lived with each other. It worked.

"Really?" Luke asked, like he'd never heard of something like this before. He ignored Antonio's mini tirade. He pulled out a little more change as he talked. "Yes, I'm sure we really all needed a little more aggravation when we've been running around Vegas all day saving Tony's butt from psycho Japanese, huh?" A vein bulged in his arm as he rubbed his sticky fingers over the coins.

It was times like these he was glad he'd been surfing since he was eight. Falling off your board and almost drowning tended to put muscle on a guy. People misjudged him so often, it was hilarious. Like this idiot over here. Just because Luke didn't advocate violence, didn't mean he was a wuss.

Luke pressed one coin over a knuckle of his left hand. It stuck there. "It's a real stress relief knowing I'll be walking through Vegas' airport looking like this." The other three coins stuck on the same way,
one per knuckle.

Luke drew his hand back and slammed his metal-knuckled fist into Connor's nose with a sickening crunch!

***

Evelyn had lost track of how long this spout of crying lasted. She sat up, sniffling, and rubbed her eyes. She suddenly felt stupid. "Sorry, your hoodie's all wet," she murmured apologetically.

[JulietsCurse]

Connor yelped and cussed under his breath, reaching up and put a hand over his nose to stop the blood from dripping down onto his shirt/the floor, getting far to used to that by now and kept quiet, his eyes shut tight, pretty sure Luke had at least fractured it, if not broke it.

[Guest]

"Its okay I bought two, one in pink and the other in gray." Ashlee cracked a small joke.

***

James and Jake both dropped their jaws. Jake had always known Luke to sort of be kind of non violent, but damn he would never want something like that to happen to his nose!

James stood there silently. He wasn't used to seeing Luke do things like this either, it was very rare when Luke would lash out at anyone. But Connor had crossed a line and Luke was already not too fond of him.

[Tiger-Lily]

Ashton was wide-eyed as he edged backwards, figuring he'd go pack or something. He slipped past the stairs and to his room.

Luke was now examining his knuckles. Three of the coins had fallen off and were now lying, bloodstained, on the carpet. He left them there and scraped the remaining nickel off his hand, noting the bloody imprint it'd left on his knuckles, and dropped it onto Connor's lap before turning away. "Go buy yourself some dignity. A nickel's worth will do." He sidestepped the other boys and headed upstairs to start packing.

He'd nap on the plane.

***

"Hey, you all right?" Ashton asked his brother, stepping into their shared room. He blew out a breath. "Damn."

***

"Seriously?" Evelyn asked, forcing a smile more for Ashlee's sake than her own. She didn't feel the smile at all. She sighed adn ran a hand through her messy hair. "We'll go with the boys. You're right, we won't get many chances to fly like a G6." She nudged Ashlee a little. "Technically, you can sneak in a jet before you divorce Seth's rich ass."

[Guest]

"Yeah girl Victoria Secret Semi Annual Sale, two for twenty." She grinned, and then got up patting Evelyn's shoulder, "You know I should make a huge deal out of the divorce, demand half of everything. With all that money I could buy NYU." Ashlee quipped.

***

Antonio shrugged, throwing his stuff into his suitcase and zipping it up. "Listen I know I've been annoying, and uptight lately its just... what the hell you know? I mean Seth and Jake for the most part they're my friends but I barely know Connor and its just. I know I can be annoying and shit, but you know there is only so much I can take of all this crap Ash."

***

James just shook his head at Connor and followed after Luke he needed to finish packing, as they entered the room he looked up at his friend, "You alright dude? Usually its me doing stuff like that."

[JulietsCurse]

Connor got up without a word and went to his bathroom, holding his breath and biting his tongue till it bled as he clicked his nose back into place as much as he could and let out a pained whimper. He took a deep breath and let his nose bleed into the sink, as he rinsed his hands off with water. Maybe for now the best fucking thing to do was to stay away from these people and make it out alive with going through his classes and just relaxing with a beer and pot, save his face anymore damage.

[Tiger-Lily]

Luke was stuffing things into his suitcase when James found him. He cracked a dimpled grin. "Yeah, just needed a little stress relief."

***

Ashton stuck his hands into his pockets. "Dude, I'm sorry about the eBay thing. I really had no idea what I was thinking...it just seemed like such a cool thing that you were psychic, you know? I'm gonna stay off the everclear, but you know, maybe you need to not freak out so much. The only reason Seth and Jake prank you is because you give such good reactions!" He nudged his brother and sat down by him. "Like, try to be more, um...well...I was gonna say Jake because he can be pretty levelheaded but given today's little fit of rage from him, I was gonna say Luke, but then again, you just missed Luke burying his nickel-clad fist into Connor's face. So just..you know, take a deep breath before you react, and then think of something else and once you're calmed down, you can call the prankster, whoever he is, a dick and move on."

***

About an hour had passed and Seth had texted Ashlee confirming that the girls were indeed coming.

"Let's GOOOO, LADIES!" Seth hollered now, standing atop the seat by the stairs that led to the front door and waving his arms around while Ashton struggled past him with suitcases. "MOVE IT MOVE IT MOVE IT! JACOB, DON'T BE A WUSS, LIFT DEM CASES, BITCH OR I'LL GET YO BUTCH GIRLFRIEND TO!"

"It'd be helpful," Luke said to him, shrugging on his jacket and kneeling to lace up his sneakers, "If you actually got your elite ass down here to help."

***

Evelyn had Nova's leash on and her jacket and scarf wrapped around her. New York would be freezing. She and Ashlee were to meet the boys by the front doors of Caesars since they were in different buildings.

Evelyn lugged her suitcase and small duffel out into the hallway, and then came back for Rose's suitcase. All this damn emotionalism was wearing her out and her breath began coming out in tired puffs as she shoved everything into the elevator while Ashlee locked up the suite.

"Back to Manhattan, puppy," Evelyn said, nudging Nova playfully with her boot and he yipped and hopped about on his hind-legs at her uplifted mood.

God, she hated Vegas.

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