Tension People Know How To Party

Taylor's hair was blond again. Bright, shining blond. It was one of the first things she did to prepare for her trip to Kyoto to see Johnny and his first Tension match. She wanted him to see her in her natural state, without all the hair dye and stuff.

Of course, the current blond color of her hair wasn't her natural color. Her natural color had been bleached away to make way for her trademark bright blue dye. Still, he'd get the idea. She was a natural blond. For some reason that seemed important. The eyes were windows to the soul, but the hair was the cover of the book. Something like that.

She'd gone out shopping, and actually spent some of her Friction money that had been piling up in savings. It was sort of fun to drop a whole lot of money on expensive clothes and stuff at once. She could see how people would get into that.

By the time she made it to Kyoto, she had taken the train from Tokyo, she was excited and nervous and ready to see Johnny again. She hadn't seen him since their first day. She was immaculately groomed up and dressed to kill and ready to make a second impression on him that would even eclipse the first. She was feeling pretty good about it, too, until the match.

The first twenty seconds ago were fine. The banter between them washed over her. Then Johnny was... grabbing... and then...

Taylor's mouth gaped and she stared in abject horror as the awkward, sexually charged match unfolded. Why were they talking so much? She couldn't really make it out, even from her seat very close to the ring. Her mouth didn't close for a several minutes, and she couldn't look away. It was like a car accident. Like Johnny had driven his car into a slutty, trampy hooker, and then got out of it and began having sex on the hood. It was a disaster.

She clenched her jaw and tried to will Johnny to just pull the trigger and end this bitch already. If he didn't, eventually she would have to. Then, after all the flirting and rubbing and grabbing of things, Johnny choked. She saw it happen. He was also being choked at the time, though, and while Taylor found herself on her feet holding her breath screaming at Johnny to "Break her fucking ribs or something", Johnny tapped. Taylor sat down, stunned.

Then Cecelia kissed him. Murderous thoughts ran through her head, but then she tried to calm down, be cool, she'd only spent one day with Johnny. Two, really. They barely knew each other. They weren't even dating or anything, what did it matter, and what could she possibly have to fear from this cheap skank? The more she downplayed her relationship with Johnny, though, she dumber she felt for getting so excited and dressing up and all that. She decided not to think about it too much until after she'd caught up with Johnny at the after party.

She thought about nothing else the whole way to the after party, which was in a trendy club downtown. Friction was all serious business and feuds and murderous jealousy and hospital visits, but Tension seemed to know how to party. Everyone was way more laid back and outgoing and way less catty and insane, at least that was the impression she got. The dim, ambient lighting and loud music of the club washed over her as she went in and pushed through a crowd of people to the bar. She couldn't tell if they were ALL Tension people or just random club-goers. It didn't matter. There was only one person she cared about seeing. Well, two...

She looked around, but didn't see Johnny, which was okay, she'd just let him find her. She leaned up against the bar, her long blond hair cascading down to her back in gentle waves, with one section of her bangs in the front bound up by a little red band. She wore a gray and black halter dress, tied behind her neck, with an asymmetrical hem that reached her knee on one side and was cut almost all the way up to her hip on the other, showing a little and a lot at once of her sleek, toned, strong legs. She wore her black, knee high boots that laced up the front, and a black bracelet on one wrist. Her eyes were dramatically made up, with black eyeliner and smokey eye shadow all around them blended into a steel blue eye shadow up near her eyebrows. She'd already attracted stares from plenty of guys, and a few girls, in the club, but they were all horny Tension people. They're opinion didn't count, even if they were right. She did look awesome.

Now she just needed to find Johnny so she could stop imagining him and Cecelia having sex in the club's bathroom.

After the match, Johnny, Mamouru and Cecelia left the ring. Johnny and Cecelia needed to change and shower to get ready for the after party and both of them went off to their respective dressing and locker rooms to do as they needed to with Mamouru waiting out in the foyer of the employee entrance. He patiently waited and thought of the match, the party to come and of Cecelia. She was certainly beautiful and the fact that he had already made some in roads was nice. Maybe he could hook up with her since Johnny seemed to be a spectacular failure.

Once the two of them were done, they shuffled off to the party. It wasn't very far away from the facility so they could walk there well enough.

Johnny, knowing ahead of time that he would be meeting Taylor, decided to pack a decent set of clothes for the after party and was wearing some extra tight black jeans that were not cut up like most of his other ones. He spiked up his silver hair, making sure each spike was perfectly errant. He went out and bought a new t-shirt that was blue and had the words "X JAPAN" on it. He managed to find it at an old vintage store so it was worn and tight fitting. He thought it looked good. He kept up the wrist bands and bracelets that covered most of his wrists. He got some new earrings for his ears and bought some new cologne to try out. He thought it smelled pretty manly. Was that what he wanted to smell like? He wasn't sure. Either way, he was ready to rock and hoped that it was well received. Though maybe not too well received by Cecelia. He still wasn't sure what to do about this whole situation and it was weird that she was coming as well. Though, he thought she was pretty cool and they never did have their "talk" so Johnny wasn't entirely sure what was going to happen. Hopefully Taylor didn't see the fight. That might not be so good.

When they reached the nightclub, Mamouru quickly smiled at the both of them. "Why don't the two of you find a seat where we can camp out and keep our drinks and take breaks from dancing. Is that ok?" He gave a sly smile and lowered his head. "I'll get drinks." He added and turned before they could really even answer.

Mamouru then weaved his way towards the bar. He wasn't exactly sure what could be gained by leaving the two alone but he was sure there wasn't anything Johnny could say or do to keep him from messing up his chances with Cecelia. As he approached the bar, he caught the sight of a rather beautiful girl leaning against it. His eyes had to follow her form but something felt familiar. When he got closer, he got to see her face and his eyes widened in delight. Suddenly his previous actions seemed brilliant and he approached Taylor.

"Taylor-san?" Mamouru came in with a low, courteous bow. "I almost didn't recognize you, but you look amazing." He turned his head after looking up at her. He refrained from giving any information yet but he was sure she would question him soon enough. For now, he had to play coy. "What are you doing here?"

Taylor perked up when she heard her name, but her heart sank when she recognized the voice. Close, but not Johnny.

"Oh, hey Mams. Yeah, I was just walking through Kyoto late at night and I decided to take up drinking alone, so, here I am." She said flatly.

She looked down at her dress, how the gentle stretchiness hugged her body and draped over her curves, how she'd managed to make use of every ounce of her modest breasts with a fantastic push up bra. She did look fantastic. She didn't need him to say it, but still. It did feel good.

"Is Johnny here yet?" She asked, trying to sound cool about it.

Cecilia hadn't exactly planned to join a party after her match with Johnny, if the match had gone well she was just going to go home and curl up in front of her TV and watch some movies or something, but that had changed now, and her choice of clothes seemed to be....well not up to par with her normal party clothes, all she had with her to change into was a tight black t-shirt and a pair of tight jeans, The Golden Queen still looked drop dead gorgeous, with her ample chest, her flowing long blond hair, and her well toned body, coupled with her lovely red eyes for accessories.

Anyways she did wish that she had known about a party before hand so she could have brought her A-game, still she hoped Mamouru and Johnny wouldn't ogle other girls because she wasn't dressed...more appropriately (Slutty) enough.

The Bar proved to be quite full of people...she had thought more of the Tension crowd that she knew would be here....but when she thought about it for a second, there wasn't many in Tension that she knew, and she wouldn't think that this was their kind of thing, she looked at Mamouru as he told her and Johnny to find a table, she looked over to Johnny and gave him a little smile, "a table, that shouldn't be too much of a problem to find...come on Johnny" Cecilia said as she began to walk through the crowds of people to find a table, she wondered if this was the best place to have a little talk with Johnny about what they would do, but as of Mamo-chan's arrival she could certainly feel what she thought would be some strong rival feelings between them.

The Swede wasn't very sure that she wanted to come between two brothers, she liked Johnny and Mamouru....well he was Suave to say the least, and she had to admit that she liked the way he addressed her, she would just have to see, question for her was if whoever she picked would hurt the other guy, or if she might cause some tension between them, she didn't really want to start a reputation in Tension as the girl who screws up others relationships, she didn't really care to much about a normal boyfriend girlfriends relationship, such a thing she could easily screw up....if she wanted the guy...or the girl, but brothers, that just felt wrong to her.

Despite Taylor's flat words and obvious prickliness towards him, Mamouru chuckled softly as though she had told a joke. He then ignored her next question and turned towards the bar, leaning against it. He ordered three drinks and then turned and looked at Taylor. "Would you like a drink as well, Taylor-san?" He asked and then turned back and ordered her a drink as well, not waiting for her to answer. After dangling it around long enough, he finally looked back at Taylor.

"Oh, Junichi? Yes, he came in with us. Was he supposed to meet you here or something?" Mamouru lifted his finger up to his chin as if he was thought. "That's strange. Cecelia-san and him should already be at the table together."

Meanwhile, Johnny had been nervous most of the time. He was glancing around, glancing back to Cecelia, watching Mamouru and just generally feeling like he was in a bad situation. "Ehehe... yeah, sure thing...ass..." He muttered that last word under his breath as he looked at Cecelia and grinned, trying to hide his nerves.

He followed Cecelia to the booth and let her get in first before settling down next to her. Even if she thought she was under dressed, she was still good looking. Johnny nervously twiddled his thumbs before putting his hands on the table and looking at Ccelia. "So.. ahh.. Ceclia.." He said and turned his head, blushing a bit. "What...exactly did you want to talk about?" Maybe he could work things out with her before going and finding Taylor. He wasn't exactly sure.

Cecilia heard some mumbling from Johnny, but she couldn't make it out, not that it mattered, they had found a nice place to sit and they finally had chance to be alone, or as alone as someone might be in a club, but still maybe now they could talk about what was happening, and what they were going through and try to work something out, she did like the little rascal quite a bit, and she assumed that he liked him.....if he didn't then he would be a fool anyways.

Cecilia looked around a little as she tried to asses the standard in the club, on girls and guys and how they were dressed, she was really under dressed, she was contemplating going up to a girl that fit her build and pay her a butt load of cash to get her dress, but that would be stupid.....

"Well..Johnny boy....we did talk a little in our match about...you know...you having a *girlfriend* and you didn't know if you wanted to fool around with me because of it.....I think you should think of what this girl means to you....and then decided what you want to to kid....I mean you only live once, and my offer can be left on the table for a little while..." Cecilia said with a smile and a playful wink to the cute silver haired boy.

"Nope, I'm good." Taylor responded, and then watched as Mamouru ordered her a drink anyway. She didn't touch it. What a dick.

"Not many people can order a drink for someone and be a dick at the same time, but you pull it off." Taylor said, irritated, while Mamouru was deep in thought. Her eyes widened at the news, then narrowed, then she directed her attitude back at Mamouru and cocked her hips to the side.

"Coud you be any more of an ass?" She huffed, and looked around for tables. "Which way did they--ya know what, forget it. Just..." She trailed off as she waved Mamouru away and started making her way through the club toward the booths on one side. Having Mamouru show up every time she wanted to see Johnny was a major drag. Maybe he'd let up eventually. Maybe she'd have to kick his ass first. Maybe he'd just leave the country, that'd be good.

She caught sight of Cecelia first. That freaking blond moose. She bristled at the sight of her, and couldn't stop herself from yelling out "SLUT!" She looked around quickly, and only some of the people around her gave her looks, many of which lingered a while longer than they needed to. She quickly made her way to the booth.

Seeing Johnny up close for the first time since their day brought back a rush of warm, tingly memories. Taylor's body language softened somewhat and she gave him a sultry smile and a toss of her hair. "Hi, Johnny. You look good. Can I sit down?" She asked, and then shot a sharp look at Cecelia. "You want me to get rid of this for ya?" She jerked a thumb at the big blond.

Mamouru watched as Taylor huffed and puffed and instructed a waitress to take Taylor's drinks, along with the ones he just ordered and deliver it to their table. As Taylor meandered around the club, Mamouru took a more direct route and found the Table at relatively the same time as Taylor.

Meanwhile, Johnny looked at Cecelia with a nervous smile. "Ahh...." He blushed and looked down. "Yeah... I mean..So far, I guess it's like... we only met once..." He said talking to both of them. "And you're like... fuckin hot.." He admitted despite how modest she might have thought she was dressed. I mean, dammit... if I had met you like a few days earlier, that match... probably would have been totally different, ok?" He wasn't sure why he felt the need to ask her a question. "That kinda gets me thinkin ya know. But... I can't just ditch someone... I mean... even if TECHNICALLY we aren't anything. I guess... shit... I never had any kind of trouble like this before and suddenly it feels like I'm knee deep in it." Johnny sighed and looked away, trying to spot Mamouru. He really needed a drink.

Instead he heard some loud girl being loud. Sounded like some chick starting a fight. It was bound to happen in the Tension crowd, he figured but soon that voice, which seemed familiar, had a face. A pretty good looking face. A pissed off one too. Johnny swallowed hard.

"T-Taylor!" He said. He couldn't hide his excitement and his heart started beating fast... for many reasons. He also couldn't hide his fear. but... what if Taylor got mad at him? Cecelia was right there. So... would it really be too bad?

No... that's how Mamouru thinks. I can't be like that, can I? I always was so jealous... Shit! What do I do?

While he struggled internally, he noticed his eyes trailing down Taylor's body. "Damn... you look hot..' He muttered and then turned to look at Cecelia after seeing Taylor jerk her thumb at her.

"Oh, eh, uh, well I..." He looked and he was sitting at the edge with Cecelia blocking him in from scooting over. Well, he could stand up, that wouldn't be too bad. He kind of felt bad for Cecelia though. It wasn't her fault if Taylor yelled at her,w as it? He didn't really know what he could do really and suddenly he found himself relieved when Mamouru, who had come in behind Taylor spoke up.

That was, until he heard the words that came out of Mamouru's mouth....

"Why don't you join us, Taylor-san?" He said with a polite smile as he slid into the booth and scooted next to Cecelia. If Taylor sat then she would be on the opposite side of Johnny and right next to Mamouru and if she decided to leave or make a fool of herself, well, there was certainly that. Either way, Mamouru found himself in a fairly good position.

Cecilia smiled a bit and even blushed as Johnny complimented him so greatly, she always knew she had looks that could kill, but it was always good to hear it, especially from a person like Johnny, he seemed sincere and it seemed like he was that kinda guy who would say that even if he knew that he wasn't going to get any....not that he wasn't....it all mattered how he wanted to play this, " Ehm....different how?" Cecilia just had to ask as she wondered what he meant, thinking she knew at least somewhat what the boy meant, but still she wanted to hear it from him.

"It's okay Johnny....why don't you have a talk to this girl and....." Cecilia was about to say something else, but she was interrupted by some loud mouth girl, she could almost not hear what she said, but she figured by the way it was screamed out, a fight must be starting, anyways the Golden Queen paid no more attention to it as she went back to look at Johnny, but then the girl came up to their booth, Cecilia looked her over, she was quite a cute thing, and she was dressed a lot better than Cecilia was.

Cecilia glared at her when she spoke to Johnny and payed no attention to her, " Excuse me!...What did you say?!...Get Rid OF ME!" Cecilia shouted out as she kept glaring at this new girl that Johnny had named Taylor, "What the hell!...who do you think you are to talk to me like that !" Cecilia shouted out again, but she could grasp from context that this must have been the girl that Johnny was talking about.

Still that didn't matter to her right now, who was she to refer to Cecilia as and *it* and saying things like *get rid off*, but then Mamouru came up to them, " W-wait what?!..." Cecilia let out as he asked her to join them....what the hell was going on here, she had thought that all she would have to deal with for the night was Mamo-chan and Johnny boy being all....fighting for her and stuff when they got down here, and she would have to try and work that out....but now Johnny's little one night squeeze was here as well....things were not going good....and Cecilia could only think of this as a total train wreck before the train had even left the station.

Taylor pushed Marmouru farther into the booth with her boot and then hopped in. She sat back, slouched a little, and put her short-hemmed left leg up on the outside of the table, the boot making the glasses on the table clatter. "Hey." She said again, to everyone.

She took a second to look Cecelia over and size her up. She was cute, sure, but Taylor found is disturbing just how many people had red eyes here. Were they contacts? Probably half of the people she'd met in Japan had red eyes, and they were all crazy. It made her wonder about Cecelia, though she didn't seem all that crazy, not yet, and the anticipation of her craziness being revealed put Taylor on edge.

"Saw the match." She opened. She didn't really know what the standard was in Tension, beyond hentai matches, so she didn't want to make a fool of herself by bringing up the overt flirtatiousness that had riddled the whole match. "I thought you did really good, but man, you totally pussed out. You were totally gun-shy and stuff. Look at this hoss, man!" She said, gesturing to Cecelia. "She's probably not going to break, and even if she did she knew what she was getting into, right? You totally would've won if you'd just let loose on her. You fought a lot smarter."

She felt like a grizzled old veteran talking to Johnny, who'd only had one match. She didn't want to sound like she was an expert or something, but she'd been around. Really, she was just frustrated that Johnny all but handed the match over to this girl. If he was there to compete, he'd have to compete, but at the same time Taylor was well aware that he was a guy in Tension, and very few of them were there to compete. She sighed inwardly. There was nothing between herself and Johnny but that one night, so it wasn't like she could act like they were exclusive or something, but she liked him. She thought that he liked her, and it looked a little bit like her one big fear from that night was becoming reality, that he'd have his first crack at the over-sexed Tension roster and forget all about her.

"I mean," She went on. "The competition is only going to get prettier, so you'd better get used to beating up pretty girls. You can still do it all gentleman-like, though, it's cute." She flashed a grin at him and noticed the drink in front of her. She started to reach for it, but recognized it as the one Mamouru had bought and left it alone.