Jason looked at his watch. 1:30am. He turned to his friend Mark and let him know what time it was. They had been out at the pub and decided to hit a club afterwards. It had been a few months since they managed a night out together, but Jason was starting to wilt. Mark finished his drink.
"Right, let's head back to mine. Toni is in and she has some friends over. You never know, you might get lucky." Said Mark.
"Yeah, yeah. Come on, let's go." Replied Jason.
On leaving the club, both guys lit a cigarette and started walking until they waved down a taxi. They each took a final draw of their smokes, dropped them to the ground and stood on them. Mark told the taxi driver where to take them and both sat back and enjoyed the ride home.
Marks home was about 10 minutes away, and when they pulled up outside they could see the lights were on and sillouettes of people inside. Jason paid for the taxi and they both headed indoors.
As Mark opened the door they could hear music blaring from the living room.
"Sounds like the party is in full swing." Said Mark as he took his jacket off and hung it up.
"Let's get the drinks poured then." Jason said as he slipped his shoes off and left them by the door. They headed into the kitchen first and grabbed a bottle of beer each from the fridge, opened them and headed into the living room. Marks fiancΓ©, Toni, greeted the boys with a loud cheer and made her way over.
"Hi boys, you are in earlier than I thought." She said as she planted a lingering kiss on Marks lips.
"Yeah, we were missing you lot so much we thought we'd stop home early." Said Mark as he pulled back from Toni's grasp.
"You're looking lovely as always Toni." Added Jason. "Having a good night?"
"Yeah, it's been fun. Things are starting to wind down now though, a lot of folk have already gone home." Toni said.
Jason was looking round the room. There were 4 people in total, not including himself, Mark or Toni. A couple were sat cuddled up on the couch, another girl was falling asleep on the armchair and a third girl, a rather lovely and curvy brunette, had just put out her cigarette and was getting up to her feet. Jason went over and extended his hand. The gorgeous brunette looked up, smiled and placed her hand in his and stood up. Jason flicked his blonde locks from his face as he introduced himself.
"Hi, I am Jason, it's an absolute pleasure to meet your acquaintance." He smiled as the words left his mouth. It seemed to have worked as the brunette smiled back.
"I am Marion, it is lovely to meet you." Replied the curvy brunette.
As the night went on the music quietened down. The other couple who were cuddled up on the sofa had long gone home, the girl who was falling asleep on the armchair suddenly had a second wind before deciding to call it a night too. Mark and Toni had now occupied the couch and were cuddled up. Every now and then they would kiss, sometimes quite passionately too. They both stood up. "Hey you two, Mark and I are gonna call it a night. Jason, you know where the spare room is if you and Marion want to go to bed at any point." Suggested Toni.