Chapter Fifty

After an exciting day with the Tuffles you looked up at the sky and realized that it's getting late. "Oh shoot... Looks like time really flies when you're having fun."

"So... what now?" They ask.

"Well... I guess we go back to my old flat."

Making your way through downtown, you returned with the kids in tow. Raising a finger to the others you walked past them and into your old room where you then tucked in Lyn and wished her a good night. Then you turned to the others.

"Okay. You two can stay up for a while longer.

Here..." You point at the TV. "You can watch this. It's a device that broadcasts moving pictures with sound."bThen you patted the little PS2 under it. "And this is a game console. You can play on it if you'd like."

As you walk over to the wardrobe the jaws of the twins drops. "W-What are those?" They point at the numerous cases.

"This is my collection. You can play whatever you like, as long as you don't wake up Lyn."

They immediately go to town and start browsing what'd be considered an adequate amount of games to start your own retro game store. Judging by the look on their faces as they are drowned in vidya you'd guess they'll hardly get far enough to actually play any of them. Perhaps it's for the best. There is some stuff that's not suitable for them... Then again it wasn't suitable for you either when you played them.

Leaving the room you turn your attention to the others, especially Sam. "Okay. That should occupy them for... a decade at least."

Your friend then gives you a look that clearly shows that he's offended. "But when I ask if I could touch them you almost shouted my head off..."

"That's because you're a tool and they are my kids..."

"Waitwha-"

"Anyway-" You turn your attention to the girls.

"Are you guys good?"

"Yeap." Kale nods.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Caulifla also shows her eagerness.

"Good. Then-" You think for a moment about where to go.

"Let's get out of here! I know a good place."

The girls don't really see much point in arguing and blindly nod. Leading them out of the house you make your way to the streets where you hail a cab. Normally you wouldn't let yourself get ripped off like this but now that you are richer than god, it doesn't really matter.

After letting the girls in you gave the driver your destination and took off. It was particularly delightful to watch Kale and Caulifla stare at the many lights both of the street and neon variety as they all lit up.

"Whoa! So many colors!"

"First time in the city?" The driver asks them.

You laugh at this. "You could say that!"

Finally after a couple minutes through the city traffic you arrive at your destination. While you pay the driver the frankly horrific amounts of cash he asks for, the girls are just looking around in circles, taking in the scenery of the freshly illuminated streets.

Returning to them you pat the girls on the back and urge them to look forward. "I get that you like it but that's not why we came here."

"But this is amazing! There are so many lights!"

"Yes... You act like you don't have lights on your planets."

"Yeah but... We usually have one big light source. These are... much better!"

You look around, feeling confused about all this. But as you take a good look and try to imagine yourself in their place you have to agree with them. "I guess it is pretty.

Now... Watch this!"

You point them to a large, sign where the many lights surrounding the name serve to illuminate a large leprechaun. The girls give you a strange look as they read the words "Ole Irish Pub". "What's this cartoon figure?"

"It's a... figure from Earth folklore. Come! I'll show you what's it all about!"

Entering the place you greet the people working inside and they give you a nod back.

They don't know your name or anything for that matter but you used to spend enough time here for them to remember your face and your usual orders. None of them are Irish of course, not even the owner of the place but you don't really care.

Looking around you see that the place is not exactly bustling with activity, there are some people here and there but there are still plenty of free boxes. Leading the girls to one that looks good enough you tell them to wait there while you go and order a few things. As you leave them you look over your shoulder real quick only to see them taking in the very homey scenery of the place. They seem to have no clue about what this place is for or what they are about to do.

Approaching the bar you get greeted by the lady behind it. "Heeey long time no see!

Going to the gym are we?"

"You could say that."You chuckle.

"Soooo what can I get you? The usual?"

"Eh..." You take into consideration just how MUCH the Saiyans are capable of eating.

It must mean that their digestive system is working in permanent overdrive. Makes sense when they are a "warrior race" bred for combat. So in a moment of insanity you blurt out this. "I'll have everything."

"Wut?"

"Yeah. I think that's it. I'll have... every single snack you have. Pretzels, peanuts, nachos with cheese another with salsa, etc. Everything. Then I'll have your food items, pizzas, burgers, the whole nine yards.

And every single drink imaginable. Three pints of beer, wine, whiskey, then shots."

"What kind?"

"Any."

"That uhhh... that'll be... a lot."

You slam down your wallet and then take out a fat stacks of Benjamins you have available.

"I got it covered."

The lady then excuses herself for a moment to get her boss who comes out looking suspiciously like the stereotypical happy merchant rubbing his hands together.

"We heard your order loud and clear dear customer... However I must say that this amount is a bit... excessive. Are you sure it'll be okay?"

"Trust me. It will be. But if by any chance it won't you can kick us out."

"Well in that case we have no problem!"

He looks INCREDIBLY eager. "We'll pour your beers first then we'll bring everything to your table! Don't you worry!"

After receiving the three glass tankards you thank the owner and return to your table.

And just as you hand the girls their drinks a waitress comes over to deliver your snacks.

Almost immediately Cauliflas eyes begin to twinkle.

*GASP* "You can eat AND drink here?!"

"Y-Yes?" The waitress answers her awkwardly.

"Awesome!"

The initial doubt of the owner and the bartender dissipated as soon as they saw Caulifla and Kale going to town on the greasy, salty, cheesy, tasty snacks. Now they only felt fear as they gazed into the deep, bottomless abyss that is a Saiyans stomach. You on the other hand grew more and more afraid as things went on.

Kale who despite still eating a lot was acting really reserved, taking things one bite at a time opposed to Cauliflas ceaseless gorging, she too grew more uninhibited as she got progressively more drunk. Things were fine... at the start when she was only drinking beer.

But after a while you noticed her... chugging it.

And as she slammed the glass tankard hard enough to almost break it she shouted for "MORE". By the time you got to stronger stuff there was no sign of the innocent and sweet little girl. Now only the primal, rage filled persona was in full control.

Soon enough she found herself surrounded by the Irish patrons who found her antics endearing. "ALLRIGHT! WHICH ONE OF YOU WEAKLINGS WANTS TO ARM WRESTLE! I'LL BURY YOU!"

Meanwhile Caulifla had a similarly drastic but different in direction change. Instead of becoming more vulgar, louder and angrier than her friend she became the opposite.

Without Kale noticing she switched seats so she was sitting next to you. Leaning in she started whispering into your ears, her breath smelling like a brewery.

"Heeeeey Eric!"

"Er... hi."

She then leaned in and started rubbing herself to you while playfully licking your cheek.

"You smell sooo goood. Can... I hold your haaaand?~"

Without waiting for an answer she instead grabbed hold of you and raised your hand so she could rub it into her cheek. While you wouldn't say it's unpleasant, in fact you can barely contain yourself so you don't erupt in a laughter of pure joy, this... isn't normal. Looks like you fairly overestimated the capabilities of their liver.

You decide to... ignore any further drinks that might come your way. After all, SOMEONE has to keep their wits about. And on a side not you DON'T want to miss any of this. According to that you pull out your phone and start recording the events in secret. Not for the sake of blackmail, of course. More for the funnies that'll happen when you show them what they did.

Patting Cauliflas head, you ruffle her hair a bit to which she reacts by... purring. Or moaning but that sounds too indecent. "Mmmmmmm...more!" She looks at you with the biggest puppydog eyes you've ever seen.

Obliging her you then looked over to Kale who was just done dominating one guy who felt lucky. "THERE! I OWN YOU! KALE IS STRONGEST THERE IS!"

"Wowee lassie! You sure pack a punch for being skinny as a twig!"

Noticing her getting a bit... too excited with her new friends you decide to call her over before she'd inflict some actual harm on the squishy little humans. "Hey Kale!" She looks over to you. "Stop bullying the poor guys and join us."

Seemingly calmed down, or at least more collected now than ever she turns around to come back when she hears this. "Hey look at 'er lads! The crazy girlie listens to 'im like a puppy!"

Kale... didn't like that. She shoots them a look that freezes the blood in their veins."He's ten times the man than all of you combined! If he wanted to he could break you in half! And if you insult him I will destroy your world!"

You... can't tell if that's meant to be a hyperbole or a literal statement. Either way you're glad that the otherwise cocky and agressive irishmen collectively lost their pots of gold from her. She then walked back to you in a manner that was half stomping, half skipping before sitting in your lap and then flipping the other men off. Stunned by this brazen display of adultery as you literally have two girls eating out of your hands the other men shut up, feeling completely inferior.

And you can't help but laugh inside while trying desperately not to pop a boner with Kale in your lap. And failing...

Luckily for you Kale seems to be too inebriated to notice... still it's quite embarrassing. But you just don't care now.

Continuing for a while longer the girls keep drinking more and more until you finally start seeing that they are reaching their limit.

And while their antics while smashed are funny you'd rather not help them "cleanse" themselves. So after a round of shots you cut off the bartender and instead urged the girls to eat as much food as possible so that it might alleviate their drunkenness.

Once they gorged themselves on plenty of grease and water on your insistence they seem to be satiated and very, VERY happy.

And now that you've given to the owner of the establishment in a night what he'd make during a holiday season you decided it's time to go.

Paying your tab you help up the girls, neither of whom are comfortable standing on their own legs as they wobble around. "Whoops! Look Kale! It's all spinning round and round and round-"

"Okay Caulifla. That's enough. You'll get sick."

"Nooooway!" *hic*

"Yes way. Come, come. The door is over there."

After feeling like herding sheep around you finally manage to get the girls out to get some fresh air. Luckily you don't smoke and the girls "Probably" don't know what that is. Meaning now you only gotta decide where to go from here. Looking at your watch you realize that it's already close to midnight.

"Wanna come and watch the sunrise with me?" You blurt out and all you get are barely coherent mumblings from two drunkards.

"Y-Yeah!"

"Yesh!" *hic*

"Well... then it's settled. Gotta fly east. Maybe find ourselves a nice little island."

Looking around for a brief moment you then shrug and jump up with the girls following you. Maybe you'll make a few headlines. It'll be worth just for that. Flying through the sky you leave a few sonics boom behind yourself while making sure that the girls aren't lagging too far behind. And for the most part they aren't but they aren't exactly flying in a straight line either.

Using what geography you remember you navigate to the best of your abilities and head roughly where the Caribbean islands should be. Those are pretty scenic and you always wanted to visit one anyway.

After a couple minutes you arrive at your destination which seems to be a perfectly uninhabited little island with a white beach and palm trees only illuminated by the stars in the sky and the moon. "Right... This should be good enough."

You get some rocks for the girls because sand is coarse, rough and irritating and gets everywhere. Seating them down you go and grab a few coconuts which you proceed to skin and crack open with your bare hands.

Handing them each one to start with you start drinking the juice while waiting patiently for the sun to rise over the horizon.

But as soothing as the sound of the waves are the silence is still a bit too much and so you start conversing. First it's Caulifla, who in a moment of clarity looks up at the sky. "Wow. I've looked so much at the sky... but it never looked so pretty." *sip* Kale, unsure what to make of this looks up and gasps.

"I used to live on a farm... grew up as a village boy. After moving to the city... the stars in the sky were the only thing I ever missed." You also look up while drinking your juice. "I guess... I always looked up longing to be there. Strange how these things work out."

*sip*

But having enough of the nostalgia trip you turn to Kale in an attempt to derail the conversation. "By the way Kale..."

"H-Huh?"

"I'm really proud of you. The way you acted out there. How confident you were... It may come off as a bit dumb coming from me but... it sounded genuine, you know? Like you finally acted how you should."

"W-What?" Clearly confused, which is not helped by her inebriation, she has no clue what you're saying.

To make things clear you shuffle closer to her and hug her which causes her to drop her coconut. "You finally looked like you should.

Proud and confident!"

Speechless she only gasps as tears slowly start swelling under her eye. Parting from her for a moment you realize she dropped her drink and reach down to the literal pile of nuts you collected and crack another open. Sipping a bit from it, you then hand it over to her.

Nodding she takes it happily and drinks the whole thing in one go. Gone the harshness that she had before, now she returned to the innocent little girl you know and love.

Hugging for a little while longer you then part once you feel comfortable doing so and hand Kale a tissue paper. "Here. You don't need those tears anymore!"

She smiles and takes the "handkerchief" and cleans herself before nodding. "Okay... I'll make sure not to cry anymore!"

"Hehe... Thanks."

"F-For what?"

"I hate seeing you cry!" Giving her a wide grin you laugh as she gets flustered and turns away. But just as she feels embarrassed, so do you. There is only so much cheese you can take from yourself.

However as Kale is busy recollecting herself you turn to Caulifla who seems to be sulking.

Sighing in shame you slide your hand across the rock and touch hers which she notices.

"Hey... I'm sorry... This is... weird for me as well." She nods and... smiles.Thank god.

"By the way Caulifla."

"Hmmm?"

"I don't mean to impose but... I really enjoyed how you acted today!"

"Urk!" She reels back in shock. Looks like she's starting to sober up a bit as well.

"But tell me... Why are you so prickly with me usually?"

"It's... not you."

"Huh?"

"I get idiots practically every day orbiting me.

I gotta blow them off somehow. Guess I can't really stop that easy."

"I... see."

"But look-" She shifts her hand around so she could raise yours up to her chest. When she places your hand on her breast you feel like you're about to get a stroke. "Do you feel it?"

*doki doki*

"You're the only one that makes me feel like this. Pop-pop-pop. It goes crazy when I'm around you... I... don't know how to feel about that. When I'm around you I feel flustered, hot, awkward... Because you are a dork... my dork. You're the first guy that I feel like I could be around... And I appreciate that." She then turns around to look at Kale. "And I think I'm not the only one..."

"H-Huh?" Kale looks up.

Caulifla continues. "Look... there is no point in dancing around it. I like you. Kale likes you. We both do... And we've been inseparable for a while now... So it only makes sense if we... do this together as well! So what if it's awkward and crazy?" Caulifla grins. "We ARE awkward and crazy!"

"Heheheh... I guess we are."

"So what I wanna say is that... I think I... I l-"

But before she could finish you leaned in and gave her a kiss. There is no need to say it. Not yet anyway. You guess it's time to finally jump head first into this. If it works, great! If not... you tried.

The kiss however brief it may have been was... satisfying. Looks like there is nothing else to say, short of one thing. "Hey Kale-"

You turn around.

"Y-Ye-Uuuuum!" She tried to respond but you cut her off as well. After all you wouldn't want her to feel left out.

Unlike Caulifla however when you parted with her she seemed to collapse entirely, while her "sister" was merely frozen for a moment. And as she's trying to recollect herself through her muttering Caulifla dangles something in front of your eyes. "Hey..." It's the ear ring.

You take the earring in her hand and clutch it tight before putting it back where it came from. "No... Not now. I want to enjoy this moment with both of you. Because I'm not here JUST because of Kefla."

Staring into the girls eye you start to see it twinkle from the starlight. But before you could do anything you see something else as well and turn aside. "Oh... It's starting. Look!"

The girls both look over at the horizon and watch as the sun slowly rises beyond the calm ocean. Suffice to say the sight was enough to leave even you breathless, not to mention them. And as you were overtaken by the enchanting sight of the water changing color from the rays of the sun you barely even felt the two girls resting their heads on your shoulder as they leaned against you.

But as the moment passes and you start feeling the weight of the entire night of merriment you slowly drift to sleep alongside the girls. You wake up hours later with not many problems aside some mild discomfort from your poor "bedding". The same... can not be said for the girls, both of whom are waking up clutching their heads. Looks like your precautions were just not enough.

"Damn... What asshole clobbered me?

And did you write down his number?"

Caulifla asks.

"Ouch ouch ouch... Not so loud sis... It hurts."

Quite groggy from the hangover it takes both of them quiet some time to realize that they've been using your chest as a pillow. "E-Eh? Wow... looks like we got knocked out pretty hard."

Slowly rising up from the commotion you rub your eyes while greeting them. "Good morning."

"Morning Eric."

"Yeah yeah... Would you mind explaining how we ended up here?"

"You... don't remember?"

"Nope. I got... bits. But I can't string them together..."

"Heh."

"How's your heart doing?" You ask her to which she replies with a loud "EH?".

Then to make it clear for her you brought out your phone and started playing back the video and audio you recorded with it. At first they marvel at the capabilities of such a small and unassuming device but soon they realize how dreadful it can really be when it starts playing back their antics. Kale goes practically pale when she sees how aggressive and assertive she was and Caulifla literally can't even when she sees herself rubbing off on you.

You sit through the entire thing. Kales arm wrestling, Cauliflas attempt at karaoke when she found out how the jukebox works and realized it played music. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it she had no clue what they were singing so she was just making things up as she went along.

After the pub footage ended you showed them the few snapshots you took of the city and the land as you flew over it before you finally closed things off with the events of dawn. They don't know how to react so instead their mouths just hang open as they are forced to face their confessions. Finally the thing ends with the final audio recording of Caulifla telling you how she feels and how that whole conversation transpired.

They stare at each other for a moment before speaking up. "Suddenly... it doesn't bother me that I can't remember it."

"W-Was that really us?"

"Yeap. You got... pretty out of control.

The hangover is proof of that. Just drink plenty of water and it'll go away with a nice, long rest." You then carefully tuck away your phone before they'd get a chance to smash it. It's a good phone and has all the numbers you need in it. But perhaps it was an unnecessary precaution.

"Well... At least it's out of the bag. So we don't gotta deal with that." Caulifla speaks her mind.

"So... you aren't mad?"

"Why should I be? It's not like I was lying.

Any objections Kale?"

"N-No... I feel the same way. I just hope it won't ruin things..."

"Well... We just gotta do our best I guess."

You respond. "But uh... About the records. I can easily destroy them. If you want to."

"Nah... If you wanna. Keep 'em. I don't really care about it to be honest."

"Same." Kale agrees.

"Heh... Alright." Then you take out your phone and delete it yourself. "It's not like I wanted to use it to blackmail you. Just to show you.

Nobody else has to know. Because this is our moment."

They both smile despite their killer headaches and nod before looking up at the sun. "How long have we been out?"

"No idea. We probably passed a few time zones. But we'd better get back. Don't want to leave the kids with Sam for too long."