Vudu Lounge

((Connor and Oriana, continued from Oriana & Ashlee's apartment.))

After getting passed the guards with his fake ID and so forth, he led Oriana into the building, looking around with an perplexed interest.

Oriana smiled, weaving her way through the early crowd and down a set of stairs that looked lke they led to the basement. The did, in fact, lead to a dance floor with early partiers and a heavily stocked bar.

She smirked at him over hr shoulder. "This okay for you or should we hit Chuck E Cheese?

"Heeey, I can be an mature kid." Connor said in his defense with a grin at her as he followed her quickly.

Oriana sighed to herself. So he could be, clearly. She wondered absently what James was up to tonight, but pushed that thought away, heading to the bar and ordering a round of shots. "We need to get a bit buzzed to have some fun, I think." She took one and downed it, spluttering.

Connor blinked, watching her take the shot. Was it really gonna be hard to impress this girl?

Oriana glanced over at him and held out a shot-glass. "Come on, let's have fun tonight," she said, leaning over and running slim fingers up his arm. She pulled away quickly and downed another shot.

Connor grinned at her teasing and downed the shot quickly, before putting it down, swallowing and grabbed another.

Oriana grinned and then got up, making her way to the dance floor. She turned around to grin at Connor, a bit tipsy. "Come on, show me whatcha got."

Connor downed his second, letting it set in real quick before he got up, following after Oriana, watching her hips sway as she walked.

She smirked up at him, waiting till he was near enough and then lacing her arms around his neck. "Are you a dancer or would you like me to take baby steps?"

Connor put his hands above her waist with a smirk. "Trust me- I can dance."

She raised an eyebrow but decided to test him. She stepped to the side quickly, still holding onto him. "Really? Keep up then."

Oriana swung herself back, body moving like liquid to the simple techno beat.

Connor blinked, watching her body before shaking himself out of it and went onto dancing, able to keep up better then he thought he would. He was the dance.. when buzzing or drunk.

[[Luke and James from Midtown and Streets]]]

James and Luke had easiy gotten past security with their fake IDs.

James gave the place a once over, it was pretty nice, large leather chairs, a huge bar, a few pool tables.

James figured they could shoot some pool it had been awhile, and he figured it could help him unwind a bit.

"Wanna shoot some pool?" He asked Luke.

"Yes!" Luke replied, heading over to a table. He set up the triangle with the pool balls and took it off while grabbing a pool cue.

He glanced around. At one end of the room was a dance floor, where people were already warming up even though it was about four in the evening. A pair of twin boys suddenly appeared in his vision, both dark0haired but fraternal.

"Hey, wanna hustle?" one of them asked James. He held out his hand. "Ashton. I think I know you from one of my classes. NYU, right?"

James turned back and saw the two dark haired guys, and he did remember Ashton? Or the the other guy, whoever it was, the dude was in his history class so it had to be Ashton, "Hey yeah, I'm James we have I think history together."

James nudged Luke, "Hey Luke this is Ashton, Ashton this is my friend Luke, and who are you?" James asked the guy behind him.

Antonio stuck his hand out and shook James, "I'm Antonio, you can call me Tony, I'm Ash's brother."

"Cool, well yeah sure I'm done to hustle, if you both are." James said.

Ashton hustled fifty and the game began, the twins on one side, Luke and James on the other.

Ashton glanced up at James after a moment, when he was lining up a shot. "Hey, you were at that party, Tuesday night, weren't you? I think I saw you talking to Ori."

Luke flashed a grin at James. "He probably talked to every girl in there." Ashton smiled and made his shot so the burnt reddish 7 ball ricocheted off a yellow ball and into a hole.

James nudged Luke with the end of his pool stick, and went to line up his shot to get the striped thirteen ball into the side pocket.

James cringed a bit kind of rembering bits and pieces, of that night since apparently he blacked out and confessed his love for that bastard on his Facebook.

James eyed, the shot and sank the ball in the pocket, "Yeah actually I showed up to the party with her, and kind of lost her along the way, but honestly besides that can't say I remember much of the night I was trashed."

"How do you know her?" James asked stepping back to let Ashton take his turn.

"Friend from high school," Ashton said, exchanging a glance with his twin. "She bitched about that by the way. And apparently Tony here ditched her later because he's a tool like that."

Antonio grinned, going to take his turn, "Yeah well, some hot chick named Eve in a mask, asked me to dance but then my friend Jake, and this other guy came and scared her off..."

Antonio stopped mid sentence, looking at James, recgonizing him a little from the party he was hanging around with Jacob!

"Dude you were with Jake, you both scared her off." He pointed to James.

James tried to remember doing this, he did know that it was Evelyn behind the mask at the party, and right now he didn't even feel like talking about her at all.

So James just shrugged, "Dude seriously after a certain point that night I didn't remember anything I think I blacked out."

Ashton snickered at his brother. "Man, that's just sad. You ditched Ori for some girl who then ditched you?"

Luke shot James a surprised look - he didn't know this. "Classic, James," he muttered, pulling up his pool cue and setting up a shot.

"Whatever dude she was hot." Antonio repeated.

James was about to say something, but he stopped himself, he knew the minute he opened his mouth about Evelyn he wouldn't shut up.

He simply shrugged, and looked up at Luke, "You should have been there, speaking of which where were you that night?" James hadn't been too sure if Luke had filled him in on his adventures.

"Apparently, she didn't think you were," Ashton replied, amused. A lightbulb went off in his head. "Wait, redhead? That same one from the gym who never called you back?" He grinned. "Ouch, bro. That's two strikes right there."

Luke glanced up at Ashton's comment. He stifled a grin. That kind of sounded like Evelyn. "I was with Carrie. We hung out, is all."

Antonio shot his brother a dirty look, while James couldn't help but laugh, that sounded more like the Evelyn he used to know as opposed to.

Stop it, quit thinking about her!

James nudged Lucas again and smirked, "Whose Carrie huh?" He winked, going to take his shot.

"Friend of Ev - uh, friend from Seattle who's attending NYU." Luke caught himself just as James was lining up his shot.

Ashton glanced up. "Wait, you know her?"

"Carrie?" Luke asked, confused. Ashton shook his head, watching James' shot.

"Oh," Luke grimaced. "Yeah, um...she's an old friend from high school..."

Ashton nodded, clearly losing interest now. Some fast song came on the surround speakers.