*Pt. 18*

At Bret & Rikkis, Bret explained what was going on, not that he was afraid of Jesse, but Rissa was concerned about the "friends" he was bringing with him-
They ended up staying the night, going back to Rissa's in the morning. He stayed while she got ready for work, then he went over to Bobbys-
Billy & Tish showed up that day, They came in to the record shop that Rissa worked at with Bret & Bobby.
They hugged & hung around talking about their "trip", both quite obviously with different points of view on the whole thing.
Bret was telling Rissa he'd see her after work, when Jesse and a couple of his friends walked in-
Billy nudged Bret & nodded towards them, the others turned to see what they were looking at, Rissa's stomach flipped, this wasn't good- She told them in a low voice,
"Let me take care of this- Wait here-" the guys looked at eachother, but stayed as she walked over to Jesse- Jesse looked at her,
"Still seeing this asshole huh ?" she sighed,
"Jesse, what I do is none of your business anymore, and I can't have any trouble here, don't mess my job up-" he gave her a look,
"Baby, get rid of the loser hair boy and things will be cool." she stared at him,
"That's not going to happen Jesse. You ruined this relationship, not me, not Bret-" he cut her off,
"Like hell ! We'd still be together if he hadn't filled your head full of shit ! My business with this fucker isn't finished...not by a long shot-" he started to move towards them, she put her hand on his chest to stop him,
"Jesse, come on, I need this job, and your problem isn't really with Bret, it's with me. Let's talk later-" he looked down at her,
"Talk about what ? How much you 'care' about this shithead ? Or about us ?" she swallowed, glancing at Bret, she knew if Jesse didn't leave soon, he, Billy & Bobby would come over, so she told Jesse,
"We'll talk about whatever you want, just don't do this. Please." he gave Bret a nasty look then before she knew it, he had his hand around her neck, kissing her hard- that was all it took for Bret & Co. to head over- Rissa pulled back,
"Jesse, please go-" he was grinning, motioning with his hand for the guys to come on over- Bret was pissed, he pointed at Jesse,
"Ok sucker, you want a fight, you've got it ! But outside, not in here-" Jesse grinned,
"I thought you'd run away again-" Billy was ready to kick some ass, he said,
"So move your ass Bitch ! Let's get it on already !" Rissa tried to protest, but the guys all went outside, along with some customers, Tish told Rissa,
"It's no use to try and stop 'em. Once Billy is pissed, that's it. And Bret is pissed, that only makes Billy all the more jacked up-" Rissa glanced outside,
"You aren't even worried..." Tish shook her head,
"I've seen Billy & Bret fight, they can handle it-" Riss couldn't believe Tish's calmness about the whole thing- She looked outside again, the guys were in the parking lot, ex-changing words, what, she couldn't hear- Jesse threw the first hit, and the rest was a blur- the fight broke up when they heard sirens, Jesse & his friends took off, the other guys came back inside, a little bloody, Rissa was near tears, Tish looked at Billy & said,
"Feel better now ?" he grinned,
"It ain't over baby !" she rolled her eyes, Rissa was hugging Bret, saying,
"I'm so sorry Bret, I tried-" Bret cut her off,
"It's ok Riss, it was bound to happen, he's been wanting it for awhile-" he looked at her, "And to fucking kiss you like that in front of us was a big mistake-" Billy nodded,
"This fight will continue." the cops came in then, trying to sort out what had happened, but everyone acted like they didn't know anything, even tho the guys had obviously been in a fight, they said they got hurt playing football. The cops knew they were full of it, but couldn't arrest or ticket anyone without knowing what had gone on-
After the cops left, the guys laughed- Rissa had to get back to work, Bret told her to swing by Bobbys after she got thru with work, they had planned on rehearsing, and had to have a party to welcome Billy & Tish back- he kissed her softly and they left-
After work, Carissa stopped at her loft to shower & change, then went on to Bobbys. Everyone was there, CC & Libby, Rikki & Gaby, Bobby & Dea, Billy & Tish, Bret and a few other friends that hung around-
CC got everyone's attention,
"Now that everyone's here, Welcome home B & T-" everyone drank to that, then he cont., "And, me & the little Woman here have some news for ya's-" Libby was smiling to beat all hell, CC said, "We're gonna have a baby !" everyone was silent, shocked, Dea came to first, jumping up & hugging Libby,
"Oh my God ! When ?" Libby, still smiling, said,
"I'm 4 weeks-" Rissa & Gaby went over to hug her too, the guys did their congradulations, Gaby asked,
"Is there going to be a wedding ?" CC looked shocked at that,
"We haven't talked about that one-" he looked at Libby, "We'll get back to you on that-" he kissed Libby, and the party continued-

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