Hell To Pay

Best of You

A jukebox at the corner is really tempting. "Are you really gonna put our song on it?" Nate rolls his eyes to Taylor. "Of course, this lady needs to know our song in advance, right?" Sam smirks to hear that, "You think I didn't learn about your songs before I got here? Come on."
"So you did your research." Dave smiles, seems so proud. "Of course I did. I didn't take the job without a clue." Both Dave, Nate, or Chris like her already. "That's a good thing." Chris tilt his head and take a drink.
After a few drinks and finger foods, Sam stand up. "Hey, can you take care of my stuff while I go to the bathroom?" Dave, Nate, and Chris are busy drinking and play silly games, so Taylor is the one responding. "Sure. Everything is okay?"
"I'm good. It's just I can't drink too much." When she leave, comes a joke about Taylor. Dave start it. "So Taylor. Already told her brother?"
"About what?"
"Haaaa. Don't lie to me. Come on, she's cute. What else?"
"She is, but then what?"
"You told us she just broke up. Isn't it obvious?"
"No, it's just on your mind. I have nothing about it." Taylor blow Dave's question and take his drink. For a second he see Dave's eyes pointing to something. "What?"
"Phone's ringing." Taylor hear a sound from Sam's backpack. "Yeah, so? It's her phone. Her privacy."
"What if that's Chad who's calling. You don't want him to be worry about his sister." Taylor sighs and think for a minute. "Alright, alright. What if she's angry to me for picking up?"
"I'll tell her it's me who told you to." After Dave assure him, Taylor reach a small pocket on her bag and find her phone.

"It's just a number. Should I pick up?"
"You're halfway to it."
"Right." He rolls his eyes and then press the button.
"Sam? Thank god you pick up."
"It's not Sam, she's in the bathroom right now. I'm her friend. Who's this?"
"It's Fred. Who are you? Do I know you?"
"Probably not. We just get to know. She works for me." While taking the phone Dave looks at Taylor, curious. Making a mouth gesture to ask Taylor who's the caller and Taylor replies with a gesture too. Stating that it's Sam's ex.

"Where is she? Are you two sleep together?"
"Excuse me?"
"Oh great. Just broke up a couple days and she slept with another guy already?"
"Hey. She's not a girl like that. You should respect her. And I don't get it, like you're the one that cheated on her but yet you're bragging about Sam's being with another guy? You should be ashamed and...." Suddenly Sam shows up and grab the phone, looking at the screen and take a deep breath. "You shouldn't pick that up." She looks at Taylor sharply. "Sorry, I don't mean to..."
"No, sorry. He must accused you for something ridiculous. He always like that." She take the call. "What do you want?"
"Sam? Babe..."
"Shut up. Don't babe-ing me. Asshole!"
"Sam, please go home. I'm sorry. I made a mistake."
"A mistake? Really? You think I believe it was a mistake? It's just you being a jerk." Then she hung up the phone and not giving him any chance to talk again.

Turn to Taylor, still with mouth open, amazed. "Sorry. I bet you hear me swearing all over it."
"No.. that's... Fine. Awesome."
"Really? I speak like a trash and it's amazed you? What is wrong with you?" She laughs. "Seriously, that's amazing. It shows how much you resemblance to Chad even though you two aren't biological siblings."
"Yeah, whatever." This time she smiles, with a blush on her cheeks.

"Hey Hawkins!" They turn back and see Dave in the middle of the bar with a paper on his hand, waving to Taylor. "What?"
"I submitted your name to a game! The winner will have a free bill."
"What game?"
"Just come here! And bring a partner!" Taylor looks at both Nate and Chris. They're drunk. "Dave! Everyone's drunk!"
"I'm not." Sam surprised him by volunteer for the game. ".. you're sure? It must be a silly game."
"That's not a problem. You think I can't be silly?" He smiles, "Well, sure you can."

Taylor takes her hand and run to the game. "Sam's in." He tells Dave and he wrote their name on the paper. "What should we do?"
"One guess a song, one make a sign."
"Oh, okay. One of us should guess a song while others try to tell the title with signs. Am I right?"
"Yeah."
"Alright. Sam? Sign or guess?" He turns to Sam and she thinks, "I'll do the sign."
"Okay."

They both get ready for their roles. "First song." The bartender is giving contestants a piece of paper and Sam get one too. She got Baby One More Time. So she makes a gesture of holding a baby and Taylor quickly guess. "Baby?"
She then raise one finger and then clock ticking. "One? Clock? No? Time? Oh wait, Baby One More Time?"
"That's it!" They got one point.

The next song is Stairway to Heaven. She makes a stepping gesture with her fingers. "Walking? Walk?" She keeps making the gesture and then adding a pointing finger to the ceiling. "Upper ground? No! I know this! Heaven? Stairway to Heaven?"
"Yup! You're right." Another point added to the blackboard besides their name.

When she got Kiss Me, she's sort of confuse. So she just blow a kiss and then pointing to Taylor. "What? A goodbye? A flirting? What's the title?" Taylor can't get it right and it makes Sam think harder. She rolls her eyes. She put two fingers and kiss it, and then pointing again to Taylor. "Ughh. What?" After loses the cue, she goes to him and kiss him instead. Taylor, now loses speech just able to say a word. "Kissing?"

"Times up!" The bartender stop the third round. They didn't get the last point. "Ughh. It's Kiss Me. Smartass." Sam rolls her eyes. "The clue are not clear enough though. You should pointing at yourself, not me."
"Say it again.."
"You should... pointing at... Alright alright. You're pointing at me because then I can say Kiss Me. I get that now." Taylor laughs, which both of them do.

"So...you guys didn't win?" Dave comes to them with a smile on his face. "Kinda...why you even smile?"
"Nothing.. just noticed a kiss you guys did." Sam cut him, "That's just a clue. Because your friend here didn't get them all."
"Yeah, whatever you say Sam." Dave leaves them two and back to Chris and Nate.

"Is Dave always act like that?" Sam looks at Taylor and he raised his hands. "He's unpredictable. You gotta know him."