Paging Dr. Vulcano

Chapter 4

Faith woke up the next morning completely confused from the night before. What the heck happened?! Right then Nicole walked in and handed she the phone.

"Hello?" She asked

"Hey Faith it's Sal. I wanted to see if you were ok."

"Yeah I'm alive but I feel kinda groggy. What happened? Did I get drunk?"

"No, but you were pretty tipsy. I knew you were right after your third margarita."

"What?! I drank three?"

"Yeah you did. So I brought you home. I called to make sure you were ok. I didn't want to take you back to my room to make you feel like something happened, I'm not that kind of guy. Maybe we can do something later if you're up for it? The guys are meeting me out here for a special episode."

"Thank you for that, I'm so embarrassed that I did that, thankfully not more embarrassed due to your care. I'd love to meet the rest of the guys. Plus I know Nicole would too" Faith adds in as Nicole makes grandiose gestures to include her in the conversation.

"Shut up! You'll make me say something stupid" Faith whispered at Nicole as she covered her phone.

"Cool. Well, do you ladies want to meet us at the bar we were at last night? Our Tenderloins Bus will take us to the location from there" Sal added.

"Sure sounds like a plan" Faith responded.

"Ok I'll text you the time and I'll put you in a group chat so you know what's going on. Me and the guys are in it but so is Chá and Casey. I'm warning you it's quite the group chat."

"That's ok Sal. I think they will be focusing on teasing you instead of the new lady."

"You're not wrong. Ok. I gotta go the guys are landing. I'll talk to you later."

"Bye" Faith ended the call.

"SO WAIT THEY GUYS ARE COMING?!?" Nicole practically screamed. Faith's ears were still ringing and her head pounding.

"Yeah I guess they are" she said

"IM GONNA MEET MURR!"

"Yes dear... and Joe and Q and you'll talk more with Sal. You prepared?" Faith tried to calm Nicole down a little but she knew there was no hope.

**ding**  **ding** **ding** Faith's phone started to blow up. She knew the only two reasons for that would be Nicole, who was still in the room, but had now transitioned to finding the perfect outfit, or it was the group chat.

"Meet us at the bar at 4:30 guys. We'll get to site at about 7:30 and we'll do this punishment" Chá added in the group text.

"Yeahhhhhh Sal It's your punishment time buddy!!!!!!" Q added.

"Shit guys! Why now? I'm bringing Faith and her friend Nicole. What the hell guys?!?" Sal put in.

"You don't get to pick when they happen bud. It's your fault for staying in California!" Joe added.

"Yeah now she'll see the real you with what we have planned!" Murr added.

"Well don't make a mess of this guys. I like her. And Murray she has a friend. So don't F this up and we both might be happy!" Sal kept taking.

"Sal you added her to the chat bud" Casey pointed out.

Faith decided to finally say something

"Yep I'm here. Can't wait for tonight! Sounds like it's going to be entertaining to say the least."

"Oh and I like you too Sally" Faith added.

"😂 oh I like this one Sal!" Chá added in.

"💯 dude keep this one. She doesn't let you get away with shit. And Hi Faith!" Joe said.

"Hi back Joe. Heck, hi everybody!" Faith adds "Nicole says hi as well. Especially to Ferret".

Faith's phone kept going off for the remainder of the afternoon as she and Nicole got ready.

They both decided to dress to impress and packed for cold weather. They both knew the only two places the guys would take Sal within the 3 hour travel time would be either Tahoe or SanFran. Both of which were cold this time of year.

"Ready?" Faith asked Nicole

"Yeah. Would you do my eye makeup in the Uber?"

"Yeah. I can." Faith yelled from the bathroom.

"How's it going in there?"

"EVERYTHING'S GOING GREAT!"

"CRUTONS! That will never get old. He's so funny!" Nicole managed through laughs as they referenced Sal's stand up line.

"I'm just finishing my makeup and we can leave"

Faith walked out wearing a Burberry dress that hit her mid thigh. She had on her black Tom's heels from the night before, arguably the most comfortable shoe ever created, and a mid calf black coat that looked like a trench coat but warmer.

"Well he's gonna want to take that off." Nicole looked at Faith.

"Good. That's the point. Give him something to gawk at while the guys punish him." Faith said fixing the last piece of her long curled brunette hair and spraying it into place.

"You look great. Murr's gonna have a hard time focusing too" Faith added noticing the dress Nicole had put on. It was her black long sleeve dress with subtitle white polka dots. The dress that made her look like she was the CEO of Chanel or Gucci.

"Good. That's the point. Give him something to gawk at while they punish Sal." Nicole said mocking Faith's enthusiasm to win Sal over. She twirled her hair just adding to the mocking.

"Shut up" Faith joshed as she hit Nicole's shoulder.

They got into the Uber and arrived at the bar roughly 20 mins later. They were just in time to see Sal walk out of the bus and come over to the door.

"Hey" Sal said to Faith.

"Hi there. Thank you!" Faith got out of the car and Nicole slid over to get out of the same door.

"Thanks Sal" Nicole added.

"Sure thing" He said.

"Well why don't you follow me and I'll show you the bus?" Sal grabbed Faith's hand and led her to the bus with Nicole not far behind them

"This is Chá. That's Casey. That's Jo..." Sal started.

"Aww, we know them! Hey everybody! Woah you're all here. Wait where's Murray?" Faith asked

"I'm right here" Murray stated as he walked up the steps behind Nicole.

"Oh my..." Nicole tried to talk and turn around but instead tripped over the lip on the carpet and stumbled right into Murray's arms.