Homecoming Queen (Such a Shame, Shame, Shame)

With a Lot to Prove

Ryan woke Bam at five the next day.

"Come on Bam, five o' clock. Normal people have been working for nine hours." Bam groaned and rolled out of bed, grabbing his clothes out of his suitcase and dragging himself to the bathroom, Ryan putting on a nicer pair of jeans and a button-down before grabbing his cell phone.

"Ryan! How's California!?" A girl's voice said from the other side of the line, over the screaming of children.

"Oh, sorry hon, didn't realize you were working."

"I'm not, I went with my friend to her son's birthday."

"Oh. As for the question, it sucks, I fucking miss you."

"Bam giving you trouble?"

"He wants me to meet a woman he's dubbed "Sex on Legs." so, yay I suppose." Ryan sighed and brushed his hair back, attempting to get the wild strands to lay down.

"Aw, poor Superman. Listen, when you get back next week I'm kissing you for an hour straight, got me?"

"That'll make two months of purgatory worth it. Look, gotta go, love you Astro."

"Love you too, keep your friend out of trouble; Okay?"

"Yes Ma'am." Ryan chuckled and clapped his phone shut, Bam re-appearing almost two whole hours later. He'd pulled out all the stops today. He brushed his hair instead of sticking it in a hat and his single pair of black dress pants were on top of his black tennis shoes. he had on a purple dress shirt, a black blazer on his shoulder. "Took you two hours to look like that?"

"Being this hot is an art form Dunn." Ryan shook his head and threw Bam the keys, hoping they'd go somewhere other than a bar until the night club opened with none such luck. Bam was doing that thing again, staring at a pretty blonde in a booth with her twin sister. "Dude, twins, one for me and one for you!"

"I have a fiancee you womanizing motherfuck. You also have a girlfriend, remember her?" Bam didn't listed and instead sauntered over to the girls, they were fans of his, so Bam deemed this an easy win.

"So, you ladies thirsty?" Bam asked, Ryan had finished his drink and was now heading outside, walking the five blocks to Wonderland, the night club Bam had named during his rant on the pretty bartender. Bam payed no mind, he knew Ryan would be nearby, he always was these days, his assigned watcher for these trips, though he never did a really good job, he kept Bam's drunk ass from winding up half naked in an alleyway, and this was good enough for Bam.

"What do you say we get out of here?" One of the girls asked after exactly twenty minutes, Bam grinned, his system was fool-proof, well, except with that bartender, but he was more concerned with the pretty blond, her sister talking to another guy, clearly deciding that her sister could handle herself.

"Sure." bam grinned cockily, they made it as far as the inside of his car. the familiar feeling of lips on lips, skin to skin and hands on hair the moment the door shut. He bet that he layed naked in the fogged up car for two more hours before a quick knock woke him up.

"Bam, It's me, get your ass out here. It's ten." Ryan was outside the car, as was the girl's sister, trying to get her sister to take her home, crying and puking on the sidewalk, clearly unable to hold her liquor. He struggled to get his clothes on in the cramped car and jumped outside, Ryan sniffing him and groaning. "Dude, you smell like sex and cheap perfume. Oh yeah, you also look like you went twelve rounds with a barber and lost."

"Shut up, you said it was ten?"

"On the dot." Bam groaned, Ryan was only on time after he'd slept with someone.

"Bye Bam!" The blonde smiled and waved, Bam smiling and giving her a wink. Ryan shook his head.

"Okay you womanizing asshole, the sooner we see this pretty bartender of yours the sooner I go home." Bam sighed and jumped in the driver's seat, Ryan shaking his head and hauling him out. "We aren't riding in your fucked up sex car. I swear to god I never want to see a blacklight turned on in there." Bam shrugged and walked back to Wonderland, the maids now wearing rabbit costumes consisting of  ears, a bikini, and a tail. Bam spotted her at the counter, an oversized top hat on her head, eyes lined heavily in black, her blue eyes masked by neon purple lenses. her lips were red yet again, but the line extended from her mouth and smudged. her hands were gloved black, the fingers cut off. Her top was sleeveless and purple, the jacket over it an equally bright green. Bam noticed that she was still wearing tall black boots, but instead of jeans she was wearing a short black skirt. Ryan recognized her outfit as that of a woman mad hatter.

"Welcome to Wonderland." A rabbit girl smiled and walked past Ryan, Bam walking to the bar and clearing his throat.

"Ahem."

"Hello sir what can I- Oh, you again, don't you have another girl to harrass? Not interested." Ryan sat down next to Bam, this girl was familiar, he just couldn't place it.

"Can I get a beer?" She nodded and slid him a cold beer, the glimmer of her nametag catching Ryan's eye. Had that said what he thought? whay was her coat over her nametag now when just moments ago it had been pinned to her coat? "Thanks uh- sorry, didn't catch your name."

"That's because I didn't give it." She stated, her tone telling Ryan to drop the subject. "Now onto you Mister Millionare, you gonna order or stare at my tits all evening?"

"Sure, I'll take a beer and your-"

"Phone number." They said at the same time, the bartender locking her eyes with Bam. "Listen up you cocky pretty boy, I didn't get a degree in the music field to have drunk assholes hit on me. But as that happened anyways, I've picked up a few things. I'll have you know something Calamity. I eat boys like you for breakfast."

"What did you just call him?" Ryan said, Bam picking up on it too. "You called him Calamity. Only one person ever called him that. Oh my God, RADIO?" The girl sighed and took off the hat, taking the contacts out, her blue eyes full of hardly veiled malice.

"It's Rikki now. and if you'll excuse me, I have to go get a plane ticket." Bam Caught Rikki by the wrist, trying to keep her from bolting. "Let go of me. You smell like sex and a two dollar whore, and I read the news Bam, you may be okay with treating girls like toys then throwing them away like a broken one once you've had your fun, but I'm not one of your whores Bam. I'm a woman who had the displeasure of spending the biggest part of my life with you. Let go of me, or I'll call security, they don't take kindly to people touching the girls, especially if they haven't run up a bill." Bam's grip loosened, and Rikki turned to Ryan. "By the way, congrats on you and Astro, Ryan. I hope you're happy together." She gave a smile, glared icily at Bam and walked outside.

"Dunn, what just happened?"

"Bam, you just found your one that got away. And now she's getting away again. Congrats, even Radio Savant, the girl who robbed Wawas for fun thinks you're a horrible homan being." With that sobering thought, Bam bolted outside, but Rikki was long gone, or, more exactly, in her beat up Camero, watching Bam look around frantically. She screamed and bashed her fists intothe steering wheel before starting the car and going home, questioning the whole time why the lipstick on Bam's shirt collar had pissed her off so bad, he was some other girl's problem now.