Drunk

Xander's POV

It was the same girl I met at the lounge. She must have thought that I saved her but it was honestly cause I dont want any violence around my club but whatever floats her boat. "Hi! We meet again!" she said after looking at me with surprise. I could say that she's feeling nervous so I just nodded my head at her and went to sit with the guys.

"So Arielle" Tyler being the gentlemen always started "is this your first time in Japan?" she just smiled at him and answered with a yes. Hmmmmm seems like the innocent type. Definitely not the kind to hang out with us but I guess since she is family of family there's no choice. I just thought and shrugged it off.

"You just came to visit our Casey here is it?" Tyler continued with the small talk. At this question I could say that the girl looked a bit uncomfortable. But just before she could answer the question the waitress came to get our orders and everybody ordered except her so we were all looking at her to finish the order so that we can continue with our conversations. "Ummm a coke please!"

"A, you said that you want to try new things! You have never got drunk in your whole life! And I thought that was in your bucket list." Casey said to the girl who was now blushing furiously with the revelation of her alcoholic status in front of all of us and Casey turned to the waitress and ordered a Tequila for the lady. Hmmmm too innocent for us. How did she get related to Casey anyway?

Arielle's POV

The guys were all really nice and friendly towards me. Even Shawn who was at first judgmental and rude so I got along with them pretty well apart from their so called club owner. He was just in the corner seated while drinking and seemed bored with our conversations flying around. After a while a few girls joined us and dragged the guys to dance. I was left with Casey, Shawn and Xander.

I still haven't touched my drink when Shawn noticed it and said "Arielle, you still haven't touched the drink! Not fair, we are all atleast a bit tipsy here whereas you are completely sober."

At this Casey started to chip in too, "A, you can't get the real club experience if you have not got drunk and danced on the dancefloor by letting all caution go. This is the safest club for you to let all inhibition go. So let's have a toast," she raised her glass and Shawn did too while Xander was still in the corner not minding us, "to your freedom!" she cheered and drank her shot and now they were all looking at me so I had no choice but drink the shot they got me. It was burning at first so I started coughing horribly but after a while I settled down and felt a pleasant feeling rising inside.

We went to the dance floor and I drank a couple of more shots that Casey got me and I must say, I was feeling really good about after a while. I feel like my mind is completely free of all issues and was starting to loosen up. I was on the dancefloor dancing with Tyler and I must say, he's an amazing dancer, a natural at it! It was so fun dancing with him and then before I knew it I was having so much fun dancing and was changing dancing partners continously.  At one point I was feeling rather thirsty so I went to the bartender and asked for some drinks. 

I was waiting on the barstool when I felt a tap on my shoulder to see a really cute guy, "Hey there! I saw you dancing out there and it looked like you were having so much fun, would you like to dance with me?" I was feeling too tipsy at the moment to rationalize that a complete stranger was asking me to dance with me and said "sure, I'm just waiting for my drink, I'll join you right after" he smiled at me and just sat on the stool next to me offering to stay with me till I got my drink. He was making small talk and suddenly I felt his hand on my knee, at first I didn't think much of it but then I felt his hand going higher and higher. I may be tipsy right now but I am not idiotic so I grabbed his wrist and put all the menace into my voice and said "hands off asshole" he just raised his hands in surrender and backed off.

I sat back on the stool and mumbled "C is absolutely right. It's all animals here." 

"What was that?" I got startled by the voice and made a sharp turn to my left to see Xander standing so close by which was unexpected so I gave a small yelp and took a step back only to stumble on my own footing and grabbed the closest thing to me which was Xander's jacket and steadied myself. Once I was standing straight again I looked at him only to realize that our bodies were almost touching and that his face was only centimeters away from me. I cleared my throat and stepped back to give him some personal space and apologized to him "I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that." 

He was looking at me without any expressions and didn't say anything. I was starting to feel awkward with how he was staring and not being able to decipher his emotions so to break the awkwardness I cleared my throat and asked "um, so ehem, you own this club huh?"

"yes" came his curt reply. I guess I now had enough alcohol in my system to not stop my breaks so the next thing I heard going out of my mouth was "are you always this cold and boring?"

He looked at me with a bit of surprise now. "I mean you hardly talk or interact with people, you are at a club yet you didn't even dance, and you always just give a cold stare to everyone"

I was surprised when I heard a deep chuckle and realized that it came from him. "And are you always this much of a weird person?" he asked me with a smirk. "Trust me sweetheart, I am no where near boring." he got close to me and leaned down to my ear and whispered, "I can be very un-boring but it will have to include a bed and us with no clothes" he smirked when he pulled back and I was stunned with shock. His closeness and voice just gave me goosebumps and I felt something that I have never felt running through my body.

I was feeling nervous so I gulped down my whole drink at once and as the drinks were mixed with carbonated drinks, due to the speed of which I gulped down the drink I couldn't control the gas that came back up and burped out loud "Oops! Sorry! If my father was here he would lecture me about how unlady like that was. Do you also think the same?" I asked him with genuine curiosity.

He looked at me like I grew 2 heads and had a constipated face before he had a beatiful laugh that came out of him. "Omg, you just have the cutest laugh ever~~!!" I sang and pinched his cheeks. He stiffned and went utterly still for a moment and looked at me as if he wanted me dead right this moment. "Oh no, i'm sorry, you just reminded me of my kitten Casper when you started laughing! I think i know why you are always giving that cold look. You look too cute for a guy when you laugh!" I said while patting his cheek like a child's.

I heard a gasp coming from behind and saw Shawn standing behind me "Did she just do and say what I think she did right now??" he asked no one in particular "Shawnnn" I screamed and he suddenly clutched his stomach and started laughing hard. 

"Oi you idiot! Stop laughing at me!" I heard Xander's thundering command at his friend and then he turned to me with a glare, "You! Be glad that you are Casey's cousin, cause if not you will not walk away after humiliating me like that." he said with a menacing glare before walking away.