"Cheers!" El yelled and downed his tenth shot of tequila.
Ayaka chucked at the grinning man who could barely keep his eyes open, "don't you think you've had enough now?" She asked as she sipped her margarita.
"Hmm I don't know.." he mumbled between drunken hiccups, "stroll around in front of me, let me see.."
"What?"
"Star please," El added on, "it's the only way I'll know."
The brunette rolled her eyes as she slipped off the bar stool. She walked lazily in front of El and then struck a silly pause.
The man squint his eyes and raised his brows as if critically analyzing something and then shook his head. "Nope! You're still hot." He turned to the bartender and ordered another round of shots.
"El if you pass out I swear I'm going to leave you here," Aya warned the man who was lining up six glasses of shots in front of him.
"I told you, I gotta get too drunk to get a boner remember," El responded. He had a serious look on his face like what he was doing was anything of importance.
"Okay yes but this is a little too much," Ayaka warned.
El looked up at Aya and flattered his long thick lashes. He slid closer to her and smiled sheepishly, "you're worried about me?"
"I'm worried you'll have alcohol poisoning and die," the brunette responded, "I don't want to testify in court. I don't need that kind of attention."
"Okay then why don't you help me?" El pushed four shots in front of the curvy woman and winked at her, "you know.. to avoid law suits."
Aya sighed, who knew the high and mighty 'mr steal your girl' El was such a child. "Alright, but after this we have to tone it down on the drinking. Deal?"
El nodded enthusiastically and pushed one more shot glass in front of the woman, "now it's a deal."
Ayaka took a deep breath, five shots at a goal? The highest she'd ever gone was three. She wondered if the extra two would make a difference. The brunette shook her head, nah she would be alright.
El grinned from ear to ear as he watched the woman beside him down the shots one by one in a span of thirty seconds. He was both shocked and a little turned on. He didn't think she'd actually do it, guess she wasn't the sheltered elegant rich girl he thought she was.
El snapped out of his little trance when he noticed that Ayaka had frozen in place, was she okay? She hadn't even taken her lime after she emptied her last glass.
"Star?…" he reached for her arm and gently pat her shoulder, "hey Star we good?"
The woman slowly turned her head to him and smiled awkwardly. "Is it getting hot in here?" She begun unbuttoning her jacket and the tossed it to the ground. "Fuck it's so hot in this place isn't there any conditioning?! Hey bartender don't you have air conditioning-"
"Star we're outside," El spoke with a chuckle, "we don't need air conditioning here." He observed the woman who was fanning herself with her hands. "Star are you drunk? Maybe five shots was a little too… Whoa! What the hell are you doing?!"
El rushed to her and grabbed her hands before she could pull off her shirt. "You want to give all these strangers a show?!"
"But it's so hot," Aya whined as she wiped her forehead that had zero sweat.
"Okay you are definitely drunk," El chuckled. She looked so adorable with her droopy eyes and drunken smile. If he was a sleezeball he would have taken advantage of that and kissed her, but he wasn't that kind of guy. He loved good sex and he was a very touchy guy but never without consent.
"Come on beautiful let's get you somewhere you won't completely embarrass yourself." He stood in front of the brunette and gave her his back, "come on, let me piggyback you out of here."
Aya squealed excitedly and jumped on Ella's back. She wrapped her arms around his neck and lay her head on his shoulder while he carried her to the quieter, less crowded parts of the concert. There was a borne fire near the tents were couples were chilling and minding their own business and El figured that would be the perfect place to blow off some of the alcohol.
He slipped her off his back and led her to an empty log where they sat down. Aya lay her head on his shoulder and wrapped her arms around his bicep. "You smell so good El," she mumbled.
The man looked down at her and blushed lightly, "I smell like booze and sweat but thank you."
"And you're really hot," she added on, her head snuggling up against his shoulder, "you're like super yummy. No wonder all the girls fall for you."
El's heart flattered. She thought he was hot? Well he had been told that a hundred times before but for some reason when she said it, it made him feel a little queasy. He looked down at her and pursed his lips, he wanted to say he thought she was really hot too. In fact she was the hottest woman he had ever seen, she was insanely beautiful, and smart, and funny and she made him feel things he'd never felt before. But he couldn't tell her that, he was drunk, and so was she, it was probably the alcohol making them say and think ridiculous things like this.
"Are you still feeling hot?" El asked the brunette. When he got no answer he looked down at her and noticed she had fallen asleep.
"Geez Star," El whispered as her put an arm around her, "you didn't even tell me where your tent is." He scoffed happily as he watched her chest move slowly up and down, for some reason he had the urge to just hold her and maybe kiss her like.. all over her sleepy face.
"Snap out of it El what the hell!" He chided himself. He decided to let her sleep in his arms for a little bit longer before carrying her to his trailer. He didn't understand why, but having her just sleeping there by his side took away that empty feeling that had been swirling around in his chest over the past few weeks. This was nice.
*
Ayaka groaned as the light sipped into her eyes, why was it so goddam bright. She grabbed the blanket and covered her face and tried to go back to sleep again. She was feeling a little sick, had she drunk a little too much the other night? She couldn't really remember.
She shifted and turned around but instantly froze when she noticed that the blanket was not the only source of the warmth she was feeling. She shifted again and then froze, yhup, those where definitely arms around her body. She couldn't believe she had gotten so drunk that she had spent a night with some guy, Aya never woke up in the arms of a man, never!
She lifted the blanket to let a little light in so she could identify the person sleeping next to her. When his handsome face was illuminated, Ayaka felt her heart lodge itself into her throat. Oh shit had she slept with El again?! No.. no .. no .. no! This could not be happening.
El opened one of his eyes when he felt Aya moving around. He smiled when he saw her beautiful brown eyes looking up at him. "Good morning beautiful," he rasped in a sleepy voice that sent shivers down her spine. "How are you feeling now?"
The man tightened his hold on Aya and pulled her into his embrace making the woman scream internally. He was naked from the ways up and his touch was making her body tingle.
"you were so drunk last night," the man chuckled, "I kept asking you were your tent was but all you wanted to do was take your clothes off."
The brunette tensed up. Take her clothes off?! Oh fuck!
"El..?"
The man looked down at the brunette in his arms, "what's up?"
"Did we… you know.."
Was she asking if they had sex? El found it very amusing why she was so embarrassed about that, they had already had sex before, beautiful sex that gave him goosebumps every time he thought about it, so why was she so flushed right now?
"No we didn't have sex," he reassured her. "I mean even if I wanted so badly to ravish that gorgeous body of yours, you were too drunk to consent."
Aya shoved him away making him chuckle. She peeled the blanket off and was about to hop off the bed when she noticed she was in nothing but her panties and a shirt that wasn't even hers. She turned to El to ask him what was going on but she chocked when he sat up and faced her.
The only thing that stood in the way of him being completely naked was his pair of white A-front boxers that did very little to hide the massive junk in his trunk.
"You kind of threw up on your clothes last night so I washed them and gave you one of my shirts," the man spoke as he got off the bed and walked to the adjacent counter where he put on a pot of coffee. "I hope you don't mind."
Aya couldn't speak, she was too dazed by the beautiful specimen that was Liam Ford. Those broad shoulders, that strong back, that perky butt and those toned legs.
"Wait!" Aya squealed when her brain processed what he had just said, "so you saw me naked?!"
El furrowed his brows at the woman who looked utterly embarrassed, "well yeah. I mean it's not like it would be the first time."
"You pervert!" She screamed and threw a pillow at him.
Liam caught the pillow and eyed the blushing woman who couldn't face him. Really? After the wild night that they had once had now she was embarrassed about him seeing her in her panties. He chuckled and threw the pillow back on the bed.
"What's so funny?!" She yelled as she covered herself with the bedsheet.
"Nothing," El responded with a sly smile, "you're just really adorable is all."
Rule number two : you can't spend the night.. broken.