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As she wrapped herself around David she glanced over at Richie and winked. It was perfect, David was stammering and trying to convince Lexi he had no idea who she was and Lexi? She was playing into the whole thing by refusing to believe. Biting down on David’s ear lightly she simpered, “Awww come on Curly, I’ve been waiting for days and days for you to get here and you can’t even kiss me back?”

David’s blue eyes went wide as the girl didn’t let up. “Honestly Lexi babe, I’ve never seen her before in my LIFE!” He watched Lexi’s arms cross and that exasperated look that didn’t bode well for his sleeping arrangements. “JON FUCK call the cops or hell, do something!”

Richie tried to not laugh, laughing would ruin the joke, but when Lindsay’s hands went to roam along David’s back he winced. Ok enough was enough, it was time to lay the final track in this song. Standing up swiftly he moved over to David and chuckled. “Where’d you find this sweet little lady Joker?”

David glanced up at Richie as he tried to fight off the hands and lips. “Man, I have no idea who she is.. fuck help me out here shit!”

Richie grinned and leaned in his lips brushing over the wiggling woman’s ears. Within seconds she’d hopped from David’s arms into Richie’s. “Richie Sambora!!! I’ve heard about you! Fuck yeah who’d want curls when they can have…….” She blew a kiss at David as a killer smile lit her eyes. “Sorry Curly, better man done and made me an offer!”

David frowned as the girl slipped over to Richie so easily. Shit that Sambora Charm was freaking lethal and thank God for that. He moved over to Lexi and pulled her into his arms his mind working overtime on how to prove that little piece of fluff was a stranger. Glancing back at Richie he shook his head to see the girl laughing and Richie’s hands already roaming along her back like he’d been doing it for ages. He turned, his eyes narrowing as Richie and the girl both started to laugh hysterically. “Ok I don’t get it.”

Jon nearly choked on his drink as David’s eyes shone with a cross between relief and annoyance. He didn’t want the girl all over him, but didn’t like how easy she’d thrown him over for Richie either. God this was priceless and it was up to him to throw the punch line. “So what don’t you get man?” He turned to Lexi and winked, “Seems your paramour has decided to move on.”

David turned to Jon, confusion rising, as Lexi started to laugh. “Man the only paramour in my life is this beautiful blonde. Why don’t anyone believe me?”

Lindsay pressed a kiss to Richie’s cheek and stood to sashay over to David her eyes twinkling. “Cuz they aren’t supposed to Jokers… wild.”

David leaned back his eyes narrowing. “How’d you……”

Richie stood and moved to Lindsay, his arms wrapping around her securely as he called back towards the house. “You get all of that Dot?”

Dorothea wandered out of the back door the small camcorder in hand. She winked at David as she stepped up to Richie and handed him the small silver camera. “Every single second of it.”

Lindsay grinned and leaned in to David, her voice soft against his ear. “Ya see Joker, I know how to get a video made too.”

David’s lips started to flap uselessly again as Lexi and the rest of them started laughing. “You, you.. How’d you know about that?”

Richie’s big hand clapped on David’s shoulder his voice rumbling with laughter. “Maybe I should introduce you to the sweetest lady on the earth? Her name is Lindsay Waters, but some idiot Jokers might know her by RosaryD.”

His brain stopped full halt as Richie’s words settled into his brain. This was Rosary Darlin? Well fuck him if that didn’t blow to hell and back his theory of everyone online being a plain Jane. She was absolutely stunning, with her satiny soft dark hair and dancing blue eyes, gorgeous but in a fresh all too real way. She was definitely not a Hollywood Blonde bimbette, she’d be good for Richie, hell if the look of utter rapture in his eyes was any indication she already was. “So tell me Lindsay, what induced you to go roaming about in that huge rolling tin can with my man here?”

Lindsay glanced at David then at Richie a sweet innocent smile on her lips. “Oh I guess I’m just a glutton for punishment.”

David’s eyes went wide as his mind hit the gutter with a big resounding Whap. “Uhhh.”

Richie and Linds both started laughing, the look on David’s face was priceless. “Man not THAT kinda punishment. Fuck man, get your mind outta the gutter!’ Richie thwacked David beside the head. “She didn’t mean it like that.”

She leaned in close to David, her finger tapping him on the nose gently. “I meant the lure of punishing wicked friends who do things without thinking.”

David stepped back his hands hitting the air in an “I surrender” motion. “I give, I give, but you gotta admit, it didn’t seem to hurt things any.”

Her eyes rolled as she looked over at Lexi, “and you put up with this?”

Lexi chuckled and nodded, “Yeah cuz I’m a real glutton for punishment.”

David turned to look at his girl, a tiny frown on his face. “Well hey! I resemble that remark!” It hit him then that not only was his Lexi not mad, but she’d taken part in the joke. Hell he just wasn’t safe anymore. “Please tell me we are all friends now. Jokes over right?”

Lindsay’s eyes widened comically. “Is it EVER really over with you guys?”

David winced as he watched the shimmering wickedness in her eyes. Hell no it wasn’t over, not by a fuckin’ long shot. When one of them got going there was no telling what might happen next. He was in for it, there was no doubt about it, he just hoped he could survive whatever those two came up with next, and with Lindsay being an unknown in this new equation, he wasn’t so sure he would.