"Alora, get up." Joel gently shook her. She only groaned and turned over. Joel sighed. "Get up and get dressed."
"No." She moaned.
"C'mon. The trial is today. You have to get up."
Alora sat up. "Omigosh!" She threw off the blankets and searched through the pile of clothes next to the bed. "Where are they?"
"Uh, Lor. You might wanna find some other clothing before you find your nice clothes." He pointed to Alora not having on anything but her panties.
She looked down and blushed. "Yeah. Shouldv'e known that would come off during the night." She searched through the blankets for her bra. Joel was sitting on it. "How is it that you go to bed wearing your boxers and you wake up with them on, I go to bed with my... on and I wake up with out them?"
Joel shrugged. "I dunno, but it's a nice picture to wake up to."
"Pervert." Alora mumbled.
"I know." He said, walking to the closet. He threw a white shirt at Alora and a grey skirt. "They were right where you told me to hand them."
Alora sighed. " I knew that." She hurridly got dressed and found her fishnet stalkings. "Um... fishnets or plain?"
"Fishnets. They're sexy." Joel smirked.
"OK, no fishnets." She threw the stalkings on the bed and put on the plain black ones.
~
Kellie fingered Benji's tattoos. "I love your tattoos and peircings. They are so sexy." She smiled, kissing his shoulder.
"Yeah. But please, don't get your tongue peirced." He hated the fact that she wanted to peirce her tongue. That ment he couldn't kiss her for at least two weeks.
"Why?"
"Then we can't kiss. Can't kiss, can't make out. Making out leads to sex, but if we can't lead to sex can't have sex. Can't have sex--"
"Benji get very pained look on face and make me feel bad and then we do it anyhow. Then bad things happen to my tongue. So I won't get it pierced until you go on tour."
"Thank you." He smiled, kissing Kellie. He frowned when Joel knocked on the door. "Go away, Joel."
"No. We go to court today."
"We do?!" He sat straight up. "Get up Kellie."
Kellie hung her head. "The trial isn't for another three hours." She pointed to the clock.
"Actually about firty-five minutes. That clock is way off." Benji started throwing clothes from his dresser.
Kellie jumped out of the bed and fell flat on her face. "Ow!"
Benji smiled and helped her to her feet. "Clumsy."
~
Alora stood on the balcony thinking while she and Joel waited for Benji and Kellie. "How ya feelin'?" Joel asked, wrapping an arm around her.
"Human. I'm so glad my bandages are off. Now I just have to keep my fingers taped together so the stitches don't break or whatever." She leaned her head back on his shoulder.
"Yeah, so much easier." He smiled.
"Kellie!" Benji yelled from the bedroom.
Alora just laughed at Kellie's answer. "What the firetruck do you want?"
"You took my pants."
"Oh. Sorry."
Joel looked confused. "'Firetruck'?"
"Alternative to fuck. It starts with 'f' and ends with 'u-c-k'."
Joel laughed. "I see." He walked back inside and sat on the couch. Alora came in and curled up next to him, leaning her head on his shoulder. "You ready for this?"
"No. I'm sorta scared."
"Don't be. Benj and I'll be there."
Alora smiled and kissed Joels hand. "I know."
~
Joel opened the door to the court house allowing Alora and Kellie to go ahead of him and Benji.
They sat waiting for what seemed like hours. Alora sighed. "How long have we been waiting?"
"About five minutes." Benji laughed.
Kellie slouched in her chair. "This is boring."
~
"Miss Bergen. Can you explain what your father did to you and when it started?" The lawer asked, pacing the court room.
Alora brushed a lock of hair from her eye. "It started just after my mother died. At first he just locked me in my room for days at a time, then he started to hit me with books and dishes. When I was fifteen I was out on the back porch and his friends drunk son raped me, and he didn't do a thing about it, he just watched and laughed. When I was sixteen he broke my arm telling me I deserved it for letting my mother die. It's just been the same since then."
"Miss Bergen, do you feel it was your fault your mother died?"
"No. It was an accident." A single tear rolled down Alora's cheek.
Joel shifted in his chair. He hated to see Alora questioned like this.
Kellie was now being asked questions and she hated it. She snapped at the lawer every chance she got. "Miss Rooney. What exactly did Mr Bergen do?"
Kellie rolled her eyes. "I just explained it to you. He came to my appartment looking for Alora. When he didn't find her he threw me against the wall and started to bend my arm backwards. Then my dog, Casey the protector that she is, bit him. So then I ran to Benji and Joel's place."
The lawer sighed. "That's it?"
"Yes it is! Can I go now?"
~
Kellie fumed while she sat in the car. "I hate being questioned like that." Kellie told Benji.
"I noticed." He grinned.
"Do you believe he actually admitted to hitting you?" Joel looked surprised.
"No." Alora said, looking out the window. "He's probably gonna plead temporary insanity."
Joel put a hand on her leg, making Alora feel a little better. "But for right now, we're fine. You're with me, you'll be OK." He smiled.