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Nyoko skipped up to the elevator in the lobby of her hotel and pressed the call button. As it reached the ground floor, she strode in with a slight whistle on her lips. She had picked it up from a guy who had been walking by her outside the hotel and whistled randomly; it had made her smile at its light-heartedness and left her really wanting to imitate it. Though she had been trying for the last fifteen minutes, she still couldn't do it too well, but she kept trying.

Upon reaching the door to her room, Nyoko heard some commotion inside and quickly opened the door. “What’s going on in…. here?” she asked as she came across Rune on top of a barely dressed Sakura. Rune looked up at Nyoko and gave a drunken smirk. He got up and walked over to Nyoko. “Hey there, cutie. Care to join us?” Rune reached out and ran a hand down Nyoko’s shoulder. Nyoko stood there with fear on her face, only able to whimper before she began shrieking loud enough, Sakura assumed, for everyone in the hotel to hear.

After a split second, Rune shot across the room, through the glass doors to the balcony, and against the railing. He looked up and saw a hazing object getting closer to him;
Rune’s head then jerked back as a ceramic pot shattered against his head. Nyoko had her eyes closed, was levitating things, flinging them across the distance at Rune, and screaming at the top of her lungs.

“How DARE you touch me!” A matchbox flew at him.

“How DARE you touch SAA-CHAN!!” The telephone swung and connected with his ankle, wrapping its cord around it.

“You… big… meanie face!!!!” Whatever toiletries were at hand in the bathroom began pegging themselves at Rune, who cried out as they pecked at him like hungry birds at any exposed area of skin.

“Don’t even THINK about getting close to Saa-chan EVER again!!!” Once Nyoko ran out of things to throw at Rune, she held out her hands and Rune found himself floating 3-stories above the street below.

Sakura sat up, wrapping herself in the bedsheets to preserve what little modesty she still had, and watched Lee’s little sister unleash rage that she hadn’t even known existed. Until this point, she had just sat there and let Nyoko hurt him, but she slowly got closer to the edge of the bed and spoke in what she hoped what passed for a soothing voice, “Um, Nyoko?”

Nyoko then turned to Sakura with her freakishly-innappropriate, happy-go-lucky grin and responded, “Yes?”

Sakura pointed to Rune, Nyoko put her hands over her mouth, and Rune fell onto the street below, screaming like a girl the whole way down until he hit the ground with a sickening crunk-thud.

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Back from a date with Orion, Rahatani hummed merrily to herself, in one of her rare good moods, and strode by the barely-intact Rune, until what she had just witnessed finally caught up with her. Turning and staring at the boy, who, miraculously, was breathing, she looked up to see Nyoko and Sakura looking over the edge of the balcony; the events of what happened fell into place remarkably quickly. Gods, can this family go one night without needing intervention of some kind? Raha thought exasperatedly to herself as she lividly yelled up to Nyoko, “Next time I offer to give you more practice with your powers, DON’T say that you don’t need it!!”

Nyoko and Sakura quickly exchanged glances before Nyoko yelled back down, “well, I-”

“Never mind! Let’s deal with this, and then you can explain how this was not the direct result of a lack of training!” Swearing colorfully under her breath at whatever had made such a nice night into a total circus, she quickly healed Rune and, making sure that he was unconscious, levitated him back to the room he had just exited rather unceremoniously. Making sure he was completely in the room and that no one had witnessed her doing magic, Raha jogged to the nearest elevator and boarded it, climbing out as soon as she reached her floor.

What greeted her was an even bigger circus than what she’d anticipated: anything that hadn’t been nailed down had probably been hurled at Rune, who for some strange reason had a telephone cord (with the telephone still attached) wrapped around one of his ankles; Sakura was wrapped up in a bedsheet, her clothes strewn in disarray on the floor beneath her and her underwear no doubt askew; one of the beds completely mussed, as if there’d been some action going on… Taking all this information in, Raha turned and faced a cowering Nyoko and Sakura. “So… care to explain what happened? Or should I wake up Rune?”

Sakura went first, occasionally breaking down into sobs as Nyoko comforted her, and explained the first half of the story. Nyoko went second, remarkably calm considering she had just single-handedly torn the room apart, and finished the chain of events up until Raha had returned from her date. As Raha listened, she picked up that Sakura had not willingly agreed to this, and deeply regretted even saying yes in the first place. Once all stories were finished, they sat in uncomfortable silence as Raha formulated a plan for how to get rid of the problem altogether…

“Sakura.” She finally spoke, the name coming out much harsher than she had intended. Taking a deep breath, she softened her tone and said, “will you go get my purse by the door? It has my cell phone in it. Get it out and bring it to me, please.”

Sakura nodded, looking chastened to silence, and obeyed Raha’s request; Rahatani nodded her thanks and hurriedly dialed a number she had seen at the bar she had been at with Orion earlier.

After a few rings, a woman’s voice cheerfully stated, “Hello, this is the Pleasure Treasures hotline, this is Molly, can I help you?”

Raha authoritatively replied, “Yeah, I need a Class A hooker. Make sure that she’s a good actress too.”

Molly hesitated for a moment, asking as innocently as possible, “All right, and may I ask, is this for a male, or a female?”

Raha looked heaven-ward, silently cursing the world for inventing idiotic people, and replied, “it’s for a male buddy of mine. Basically, he screwed me over and I want revenge. You got any one who can act like he just got the best ride of his life? It sounds weird, but trust me, it’ll work.”

After a few more minutes of situational concerns, Molly said that their best one, Serafina, was out, but she could get Cho to take the job, provided the price was worth it. “Sure, I’ll have $250... all right, $350 ready for her when she gets here. I’ll give you the place she needs to be and what she needs to do.” After several minutes of being on the phone, Rahatani hung up and allowed herself a moment of closed-eyed silence before she snapped them back open at the sound of Sakura crying. Rahatani sat on the cleaner bed, watching Sakura sob as Nyoko attempted to comfort her. Sakura spoke brokenly as she sobbed into her hands, “Why? Why didn’t I just listen to him? Why didn’t I just listen to Lee? He had a feeling that something was going to go wrong and he was right.”

Nyoko rubbed Sakura back, hugged her, and spoke with a relaxing voice. “Come on, Sakura. I’m sure Lee would forgive you. He cares too much about you to stay mad at you. Besides, it’s not like you agreed to, well… what exactly was he doing to you?”

Both Raha and Sakura stared at her incredulously before looking at each other, breaking down laughing as Nyoko joined in, not exactly sure what was going on, but happy that the tension had been broken.

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The next morning, Lee woke up with a throbbing headache. He sat up in bed and clutched his temple. Damn, I need to lay off the vodka... Gah, my head hurts... Lee then felt someone wrap their arms around his upper body as they laid their chest against his back. He turned his head enough to see Serafina next to him, smiling seductively and whispering, “You were pretty good last night… a lot better than you were the first night. Either absence makes the heart grow fonder… or men really can learn from their mistakes.”

As she chuckled and let her fingernails dance across his bare chest , Lee’s eyes shot open and he whipped his whole body around to face her, nearly knocking her off the bed. “You mean – we just – I paid you to take my virginity? Over and over??!”

Serafina looked back at him with a look that was just as surprised and responded with her own question, “You were a virgin? Wow… you sure didn’t seem like one.”

Lee then buried his face in his hands again and groaned. She placed a hand on his shoulder and spoke with a caring voice, “What’s the matter?”

Lee shot up with panicked anger on his face and spoke in a half-whispered hysterical voice, “What’s the matter? I’ll TELL you what the matter is! I came here on a school trip to spend time with the girl I love, tell her how I feel, and ask her to be my girlfriend. Do you know what happened? She goes and hangs out with my pathetic excuse for a best friend, I get wasted every night for about half a week, and I slept with you.” He buried his face in his hands again and spoke with a worried voice, “What am I supposed to do?”

Serafina placed her hand on Lee’s cheek, lifted his head to face her, and she spoke with a warm smile, “You’re supposed to run back to your hotel before anyone wakes up and act like you passed out at the club. The bartender agreed to keep you overnight because you were so wasted, driving was beyond a possibility. If you really do love this girl, then do what I just said. As for the payment, it’s free.”

Lee smiled, gave Serafina a hug, put on his clothes as quickly as he could, and ran out of the hotel room.

Serafina sighed and laid down on the bed as she thought to herself. Strange… I actually liked that guy. I’ll miss him. She then reached down under the bed and pulled out some bills. At least I’ll have his money to remember him by.

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Rune woke up slowly and felt sore all over his body. He rubbed one of his arms, but that just made his other one hurt even more. Dear god… What the hell happened? Rune looked over next to him and saw a pale girl with long black hair that reached just below her derriere, staring at him with gorgeous olive-green eyes. One eyebrow raised, he inquired, “Um… please don’t take this the wrong way, but… who the hell are you?”

The girl got up and looked at him innocently as she spoke with a sweet voice, “You don’t remember me, Rune? I’m Cho.” Rune was REALLY confused now, but listened to what “Cho” said next, “You went on a date with some girl, dropped her off at her hotel, went to a bar, and then met me. You were pretty wild last night, I just might have to charge you extra.”

He looked around the room to find his clothes scattered on the floor with Cho’s, a few empty whiskey bottles, the balcony door was shattered, and all of stuff around the room was just as messed up. Rune looked at her and asked, “Exactly HOW crazy were we?”

Cho smiled seductively, kneeled next to Rune with her entire body exposed, and began to outline circles on his chest as she spoke, “Do you want me to tell you or do you want to try again?”

He pondered this for about one second before responding, “ I'll take the second one.”

Cho giggled and pulled him back down onto the bed.