Ryuji groans and buries his face in his hands.
“You are too uptight! Here—” Jason starts to snap his fingers.
“No!” I exclaim and smack his hand down.
“What? I was just going to get him a drink.” Jason innocently replies.
“Fine, but not too much. Come on , Naia; I’m sure the girls want to see you.” I say and lead Naia out into the hall.
“So how goes your relationship with your mother?” I ask as we head down the hall.
“It goes well. Thank you, Cole. Without you, I do not know where our relationship would be, but it most likely would not be amicable.” Naia says.
“Don’t mention it.” I reply.
“But I must! You have done so much for me, even after the horrible things I’ve put you through…” Naia responds as she starts to tear up.
“So how is your mother getting here?” I ask, trying to change the subject.
“She is currently in Duat so she will be accompanying Milady to the party.” Naia replies.
“Why is Tali in Duat?” I inquire.
“She has been in negotiations with the Egyptian pantheon to improve relations after the damage done by Horus. You did the jinn a great service by destroying him; mother even commissioned a statue of you to be erected in the palace courtyard.” Naia answers.
“Seriously? A statue?” I get this image of an angry mob tearing it down and proceeding to piss on the head.
“Anyway, here we are.” I say, stopping in front of Reyna’s door and knocking on it.
“DON’T COME IN!” the girls shout.
“Naia is here. See you guys later.” I shout and head further down the hall.
I step out onto the balcony and watch over the set up for a few minutes. Upon seeing that Sean still has everything covered, I return to Jason’s room.
“What … in… the… hell!?” I slowly ask in quiet astonishment as I see Jason lying on the floor next to a bucket in the bathroom.
“Hey bro—” Jason greets, being interrupted by the vomit flying from his mouth, only half managing to make it into the bucket he’s holding; I notice that he has vomit all over the front of his tuxedo.
“What in the fuck happened!?” I ask.
“Well, I gave Ryuji a couple of drinks and when I realized that I was asking Reyna to marry me in a couple of hours, I started getting nervous so I had a few—” Jason says, being interrupted once again. “drinks. Next thing I know, Ryuji and I are way too drunk so I got us a couple bottles of ipecac.”
“ Noooo! HOW!? I haven’t even been gone for thirty minutes!” I reply.
“I’m dying; I seriously think I’m dying! Tell Naia that I love h—” Ryuji is interrupted by the echoic sound of vomit flying into a toilet.
“Now you guys are going to be sleepy as fuck all!” I say and then I hear a knock at the door. “Fuck!”
“DON’T COME IN!” I shout.
“What? Why?” Natasha asks as she starts to open the door. I rush over and slam it shut.
“I SAID DON’T COME IN! JUST WAIT FOR US IN THE KITCHEN!” I yell while holding the door closed.
“Cole, what’s going on?” Cheza sternly asks.
“I’ll explain later, just go wait in the kitchen please.” I beg. The girls don’t say anything else as they walk away.
“I’ll go keep them preoccupied; get yourselves cleaned up and make sure to get some coffee or something to counteract the lethargy you’ll feel from the ipecac.” I tell them and leave the room .
I walk into the kitchen and see Cheza wearing a sexy angel outfit that is just two swathes of white cloth covering her pink bits, and presumably holding up the feathery white wings on her back, with a golden headband to complete the image and pull her hair back. Natasha is wearing a sexy devil outfit that is mostly just a red mini skirt, tube top, and devil horns. I notice that Naia is wearing devil horns too, but these are purple.
“I like your costumes! Where did you find purple devil horns though?” I ask.
“We didn’t; we just painted a pair of red ones with purple nail polish.” Natasha