It had only been a few hours that had passed since their little zoo escapade. Marta was still buzzing from whatever was in that joint, those fruit pebbles thingies really did a number on her. So much so that a sporadic Las Vegas trip was upon them, it all happened so quick that they didn't even grab clothes, they went straight to the airport exactly how they were. 

Willie parked the car in a parking lot adjacent from the airport, this way they didn't have to walk too far. It was well worth the couple extra dollars a day, at least in Marta's mind. Willie on the other hand wanted to park what felt like a country mile away and hoof it down to the airport. Though it didn't take much convincing on her part, especially when she used Roscoe as the excuse. 

Roscoe of which was already sitting on her lap and eager to get out of the car but he knew he wasn't to go anywhere without the one of them. Yeah that's right, the monkey was that well trained right off the bat. He was definitely someones pet at some point, without question. Made for the perfect stolen monkey. 

Marta opened the door to the car and stepped out onto the pavement. Roscoe bounced on the front seat excitedly waiting on the word to get out of the car himself.

Marta patted her shoulder. "Roscoe, come on buddy." He jumped out of the car and quickly took a spot onto her shoulder. "Good monkey!" She said in a joyful tone. Willie got out of the car and gave a look at the pair, he only smirked and gave a slight head shake before muttering a few words. 

"You know, we went to that zoo to get ME a monkey and here I think he is more fond of you. Stupid monkey...."

Willie stuck his tongue out towards Marta and Roscoe, both of which returned fire and stuck their tongues out back at Willie. 

"What, you two even act like each other. Maybe we should have left you in the zoo Marta in place of Roscoe, I'm not sure anyone would have ever noticed."

Marta scowled at Willie and debated at taking her shoe off and throwing it at him but decided against it. Knowing him he would have taken her shoe and tossed it into the sewer or something, then she would have had to go through the airport with only one shoe and and the thought of that didn't sound pleasant whatsoever.

"Willie, don't be jealous of MY Roscoe!"

"I'm not jealous... well maybe... never mind..."

Marta chuckled a bit before starting to walk towards the airport. The place wasn't that busy, then again the sun had just come up onto Chicago. Not many people liked catching the super early flights and Marta didn't blame them. If it wasn't for them not sleeping the night before she sure as hell wouldn't be up this early to fly somewhere. 

Though the few people that were about gave the pair a couple really odd stares. It's like none of them had ever seen a monkey on a woman's shoulder walking into an airport before. She could feel the people glaring at them, which was starting to bother her a bit. Marta gave Willie a nudge with her elbow getting his attention.

"You know most of these people would be better taking a picture, CAUSE THAT SHIT LASTS LONGER!" Her tone got loud and angry, which shook a bunch of people as they fumbled back to doing what they were doing. Willie though was kind of oblivious to it all. 

"Huh? Picture? What the hell are you talking about Marta?"

"Really? Never mind!"

Marta made her way up to the counter, the receptionist lady gave the monkey a bit of a stare before directing her attentions back to Marta. 

"Welcome to TWA, what can I do for you?"

"Uhm yeah, I need two ticket to Las Vegas. First flight you have."

The woman looked at her log book. 

"We have a flight that leaves in 45 minutes but you know you can't take that monkey with you, right?"

Marta looked over at Roscoe then back to the lady. 

"Uhm, yes I can."

"No ma'am, you can't."

Marta leaned over the counter and with a sweet tone bargained with the lady. 

"Well you see, we need to take him with us. He is a flight support pet for my friend over here, he can't fly without him. How about this.."

Marta reached into her bag and took out a wad of cash. 

"How about we buy a third seat, pretend he's a child. Ok?"

Marta gave the lady a smile and wink, she was reluctant to do it but with the amount of money that was just thrown at her it was hard to say no. The receptionist shrugged her shoulders and went back into her log book, took her a few moments but handed Marta three tickets. 

"There you go, now you all have a safe flight and thank you for choosing TWA."

Marta smiled and thanked the lady then looked back over her shoulder at Willie who was staring at the ceiling. Marta took his ticket and slapped it into his chest which took him by surprise."

"Whoa! What the hell..."

"Come on Willie, we have a plane to catch." 

Willie, Marta and Roscoe made their way over to security but as they got to the line Willie quickly realized they had an issue.

"Ah, Marta? I know you talked the ticket lady into letting the monkey come on... but there is no way he is gonna get through security. I bet there is a store here somewhere that sells baby clothes! We are gonna have to make Roscoe look like your baby...."

They turned around and headed back into the air port to search for a clothing store, but they were having no luck at all. There was restaurants, convenience stores... no baby clothing though.

"This is useless... this way Willie come on, we are gonna run out of time!" Marta yelled as she began to speed walk towards the arrivals section of the airport.

Marta gave Roscoe to Willie and headed over to the suitcases that were waiting to be claimed by whatever plane had just landed. She headed straight over and started opening and ripping through the suitcases one at a time, cursing at each one that didn't contain baby clothing. On the fifth suitcase she was ripping through Marta must have found a what they needed because she held a handful of clothing above her head and yelled.

"I got it!"

This not only got Willie and Roscoe's attention but also airport security who came rushing over to where Marta was standing. 

"Hey! Stop right there... what do you think your doing!" One of them yelled as him and his security buddy jogged over towards Marta.

Willie knew he had to do something, he immediately started to think of all the other times Marta had needed help in situations like this but that was no good. He couldn't shoot the security guards, he didn't have a back seat for her to hop into and he couldn't knock him out with a flashlight either...

"Damn" Willie muttered as he realized this was gonna require talking...

Willie headed over and stood between Marta and the security guard and held up his hand...

"Calm down it's not what it looks like!" Was all he could come up with, hoping they would stop and not just trample over him.

"Really, because it sure looks like your friend here was stealing from peoples luggage! Also... are you holding a monkey?" ​​​​​​​Said the guard as he surprisingly came to a stop and tilted his head at the monkey in confusion.

"Um, well... yeah it's a monkey..." Willie responded, unsure of how to explain the luggage part.

"Oh my gosh, he is so cute! Can I hold him?" The security guard asked as both of them starred at the monkey with huge smiles.

"Ah, sure... yeah you can hold him. His name is Roscoe!" Said Willie proudly with a big smile.

The two guards took turns holding and petting the monkey for several minutes before Willie noticed the time.

"Oh my, we really need to get going! We have a flight to catch soon!" Willie said as he took the monkey back from the guards.

"Okay, you guys have a good trip!" The two guards both said as they watched Willie, Marta and Roscoe head back towards the security line.

"Ah, what the... did they just forget about me?" Marta asked sounding confused, as she slipped Roscue into a diaper, then a little jumper with a hood, and finally popped a soother in his mouth.

"I guess Roscoe was a good distraction? More importantly though... did the monkey really need a diaper?" ​​​​​​​Willie asked looking down at the little outfit Marta had him in.

"Hey... it has to look real okay?!" ​​​​​​​She answered defensively.

Surprisingly they got through security pretty fast and with no problems at all. As they headed over to the boarding area on the other side Marta stopped walking and turned to Willie...

"Really? To be honest I assumed you would end up getting busted for having drugs on you... hmm..." 

"Well I assumed they would have noticed your 'baby' has fur on his face... oh well... TO VEGAS!" Willie shouted as he raised both arms in the air in victory before turning back to Marta.

"Oh and about the drugs, we actually smoked the last I had after the zoo... gonna have to find some when we land..."

Marta just shook her head and laughed, both at the memory of her 'fruity pebbles' experience the night before, the fact that Willie 'needed' more as soon as they landed, and the fact she was standing in an airport with a monkey dressed up as a baby. Things were definitely not boring when her and Willie were together...

They arrived to the gate just on time for boarding, they headed on and found their seats. Roscoe insisted on getting the window seat... after a short argument with Willie which he somehow won. Apparently not sleeping the night before was starting to catch up with them, including Roscoe. All three of them passed out before the plane even took off. They were awoken a few hours later by a bit of a rough landing in Vegas.

"Oh yay! We are here!? That was like a two minute flight! This pilot is good!" Willie said to Marta as they both woke up and realized again where they were. ​​​​​​​

The plane jolted as it hit the runway, which made Marta spring up. She was expecting for the worst, gripping onto the arm rests at the same moment she glanced out the window. The plane immediately began to slow down and could be felt turning off the runway which made her grip from the arms rests release. 

She glanced to her left towards Willie, who was yawning in the midst of talking. Something about the short flight and good pilot, Marta wasn't really paying much attention to him though and directed her attentions to her right again where Roscoe was sitting. Roscoe though was not there but in her waking up state it took a moment for her to grasp the situation. 

"ROSCOE!"

She blurted out and tried to stand up from her seat but her seat belt wouldn't allow it, she tried again but still she was buckled in. With a bit of frustration she fumbled with the buckle until it finally released from the clasp. At this point Willie was sitting there giving her a bit of an odd look, he wasn't quite sure why she was in such a panic. 

"Marta! The plane hasn't even docked yet, chill out."

She looked down at him then turned her head around to take a look behind her, then back down at Willie.

"Roscoe is not in his seat!"

Willie thought she was kidding so he decided to be himself and come up with some smart ass answer. 

"He probably just had to use to bathroom or better yet got get a drink from one of the stewardess."

Without hesitation Marta hauled off and smacked Willie upside the head. She wasn't in the mood for the smart ass comments. She din't even bother to comment further, just pushed her way past Willie and stood in the aisle. At this point everyone's focus was onto her, including the flight stewardess. 

"Ma'am, please be seated until the plane has stopped. Ma'am......."

Marta paid her no mind, which didn't sit well with the stewardess. She stood up from her seat and stomped down the aisle, getting right into Marta's face. 

"MA'AM!"

Marta took a step closer to the woman, their noses almost touching. 

"If you don't get out of my face we are going to have a problem, well you are going to have a problem. So I suggest you back the fuck up."

The stewardess took a step back, she could tell Marta meant business. 

"Ma'am, you just can't be up right now."

"I realize this but my monk... my son is missing from his seat. I need to find him, do you get it?"

"Oh... Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh." The flight stewardess gasped. "By all means, please go find him. I'll make sure no one leaves the plane when it docks."

She scurried to the front of the plane and manned the door. The plane docked and people started standing up, trying to gather their things. That's when Marta heard the shriek come from the back of the plane. 

"Ahhhhhhhhhh, it's a Moo Monnn... Monkkkkey...."

Marta's eyes lite up as she reached behind her, grabbing Willie by the shoulder. 

"Roscoe, back of the plane. Your monkey, your problem." 

"Oh sure NOW he's my monkey! I thought he was YOUR Roscoe!?" Said Willie as he rubbed his head where Marta had smacked him a few moments earlier.

Marta gave Willie a look that seemed to suggest she was going to smack him again if he didn't go get Roscoe, so he decided he better just go get the monkey. 

Willie slid out of his seat into the isle and headed towards the yelling at the back of the plane, making sure to beat the stewardess back there. There was an older lady standing there pointing and repeatedly screaming 'monkey!'. Roscoe was hoping up and down outside the bathroom waving his diaper above his head like a lasso.

Willie hurried above and scooped up Roscoe hiding his face and tail in the process before turning his attention to the screaming lady.

"This is my son! It's pretty rude to call him a monkey!" He said defensively. 

"Son? He has fur on his face!" She said, still pointing at Roscoe.

"Ah, he was born with a rare condition..." Said Willie shrugging and holding Roscoe against his chest.

"HE HAS A DAMN TAIL!" She yelled, waving her still pointed finger around like a crazy person.

"He does not! That's just rude! We are leaving..." Said Willie as he turned and headed back towards their seats.

Willie was careful to keep Roscoe as hidden as possible as he walked back over to Marta, there was a lot of people starring at them. As he got back he cleared his throat to get Marta's attention. She was sitting in the window seat starring at the cotton ball shaped clouds. He bent over and whispered over the empty seats...

"They are pretty cool right? We need to go though!" 

Willie stood back up as and turned to the stewardess as Marta grabbed her bag.

"Um, excuse me miss? We need to get off... our baby is sick."

"We will be docked at the airport in a moment, please sit back down" She replied pointing back to their seats.

Willie gave her a glare but didn't have much choice, so he went back and sat down beside Marta again, still clutching and trying to hide Roscoe. After a few minutes they were docked and they hurried off the plane. They didn't have any suitcases with them so they just headed straight out to the street. When they got there Marta stopped and turned to Willie.

"Ah, this was kinda as far as we planned... we can grab a cab, but where do you wanna stay while we are here?" She asked.

Willie just pointed over Marta's shoulder to a large billboard that red 'The Flamingo'

"I wanna go there!" He said excitedly as she turned around to look.

"Ah okay.. any particular reason? Or its just the first sign you saw...?" She asked.

"I don't know, it looks pretty cool, it has a cool name... and for some reason it looks really familiar. Almost like I have been there before, although I have never actually been to Vegas..." Said Willie with a shrug.

They eventually got a cab and told the driver to take them to the Flamingo. Marta didn't really seem to care which place they went to so she just went along with it. Once they began to drive Marta took Roscoe back from Willie and put him on her lap. 

"Before we do much else... we need to find some more Fruity Pebbles Marta! Or maybe something even better, you think Vegas might have something even better!?" Willie asked as he starred out the window at Las Vegas.

You could tell from his voice he was really excited about The Flamingo and this whole Vegas place...

The cab driver pulled up to The Flamingo, was a driver that only took a few moments. Though when you're going what felt like 100 mph things seem to happen quickly. The cab driver tossed the car in park and turned around to Willie and Marta with his hand extended. 

"We're here, it's time to pay up!"

Both Marta and Willie glanced over at each other, each one expecting the other to pull out some cash to pay the man but neither budged. 

"Any day now." The cab driver piped up. 

Marta still looking at Willie just shook her head then took a deep breath before digging into her bag. She pulled out a couple of dollars and handed it to the cab driver. She then swung the door opened and stepped out, Willie did the same thing but on the other side of the car. The moment they both closed the doors the cab sped off down the road.

Without saying another word Marta walked straight into the hotel and casino, she could here Willie's footsteps closing in on her and the squeaking from Roscoe getting a bit closer. 

"Hey Marta, slow down!"

She paused for a moment letting him catch up. 

"What? What do you want?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to walk into the place with you. Not sure why you were running to get inside, this is a vacation we are supposed to be chill and laid back."

"We are here to have fun and party, I'm half expecting to be more tired when we leave. Will probably need to take a couple days off when I get back to Detroit."

Willie looked at her with a bit of a puzzled look on his face. 

"Detroit?"

"Uhm, yeah... That's where I live now, remember? Don't you remember driving to Detroit to find me before the whole zoo escapade?"

It took him a moment to remember everything, almost as if he spaced out there. 

"Ohhhhhhh, yeah ok. Never mind me..."

With a shake of her head and nothing more Marta continued through The Flamingo doors and right up to the front desk, Willie just beside her. 

"Welcome to The Flamingo hotel and casino, how can I help you today?" The lady at the counter stated.

"Yeah wondering if you had any rooms available."

The lady glanced down at her booking log then back up to Marta. 

"Yes we have a couple rooms available, we have one with a single queen sized bed will that work?"

Marta looked over at Willie then back at the lady. 

"Do you have anything with 2 separate beds?"

The lady looked back through her log book then back up at Marta. 

"The only other thing I have is a penthouse suite but it's really expensive and well you guys probably can't afford that."

"Excuse me?" Marta stated with a stern but inquisitive voice. 

"Well you see ma'am those suites are for the well off people, like I said they are quite pricey a night."

Marta glanced over at Willie then back at the lady, then once more back over to Willie.

"She must not have the slightest idea who she is talking to, huh?"

"I guess not! Though I'm gonna let you figure this all out, I'm going to go look for some party favors."

With that Willie walked off, leaving Marta and the front desk lady alone. 

"Well see this is where you're completely wrong, you have judged a book my it's cover."

Marta pulled out a stack of cash from her bag and placed it on the counter, the front desk lady was speechless and fumbled for some words. 

"Oh... I'm soooo sorry ma'am, pardon me for being so rude. Uhm, I can get you set up in the penthouse suite if you like. I'll even comp you a night if you plan on staying more then one. Just as an apology, I'm so a shamed right now."  

Marta gave the woman a smirk as she tucked the cash back in her bag. 

"It's ok, book it for two nights. If we need longer I'll let you know."

After a few moments of information gathering and signatures the lady handed over the keys to the room. 

"Enjoy your stay with us and if you need anything please let me know personally."

Marta nodded then took a couple steps back into the front lobby, giving the place a look around. Really she was looking for Willie who was no where in sight, she really wanted to head to the room and check it out but knew if she did that that Willie would never find her. So she took up a seat on the pink bench and waited for him to return. 

Marta seemed to have the whole, 'getting a room' thing under control so Willie decided now would be a good time to wonder off and find himself some more drugs for the evening. He exited the hotel and took a right onto the side walk. He didn't really know where he was going or where to find anything as he had never been to Vegas before, but he had a knack for finding stuff like this when he needed it. 

After walking a few blocks Willie heard a lot of loud happy screams up ahead, curious what was going on he hurried up and headed over towards the noises. What he saw made Willie smile, there was a huge water fountain up ahead in front of a rather fancy looking hotel. It was what was going on in the fountain that made Willie smile.

There was at least twenty people dancing and singing in the fountain, there was even two men laying down waving their arms and legs around in the water yelling "snow angels!" and a few that were holding buckets of paint and appeared to be getting frustrated that they couldn't paint the water. 

Willie ran over and jumped into the fountain and headed over to the dancing section. He began to dance with them as he yelled to them to get their attention.

"HEY! THIS IS FUN!" He said.

They kept dancing but stopped with the singing and screaming and turned to Willie. They didn't say anything so he continued. 

"Do you guys know where I can find some pot?" Willie asked as he kept dancing in place.

"Oh I have a party bag you can have, $2000 dollars though dude!" said one of the dancing party people, a large shirtless man.

"Whoa, $2000? What's a party bag? Is there pot in there?" Willie asked the man as they both finally stopped dancing for a moment. 

"Ah well yeah.. pot is definitely one of the things in there. You want it or no? Your killing the party dude!" He screamed to Willie as he started to dance again.

"Sure I guess!"  

The man waved his arm indicating for Willie to follow him out of the fountain. He grabbed a backpack from the edge of the water fountain and held out his hand for the money. Willie was kind of worried he was being ripped off... but he was also extremely curious what all was in this bag so he grabbed a wad of cash out from his pocket and handed it over. To his surprise the man handed Willie the entire backpack.

"Have fun man!" The big guy yelled as he tucked the money into his pants and danced his way back into the fountain. 

Willie checked inside the bag before heading back towards the hotel. There was pot in there for sure, along with every other drug Willie had ever seen, and some he didn't even recognize. Figuring that he had just hit the jackpot Willie hurried back to the hotel. Marta had mentioned that she wanted to party and this would definitely accomplish that!

As Willie got back to The Flamingo he saw Marta sitting on a bench in the lobby starring at the floor. 

"Marta, why are you just sitting there? That doesn't look like much fun!" Said Willie as he walked up to Marta wearing the backpack.  

Marta just sat on that bench on the Flamingo lobby for what seemed like forever, time always seemed to slow down when you were waiting for someone or something in that same manner. It wasn't that terrible though, the foot traffic through the hotel lobby was quite heavy giving her a lot of people to look at. No she wasn't a creeper like that but she definitely liked to people watch, enjoyed making up stories about them in her head. 

She was just about to diagnose the couple in front of her when she heard a squeak come out of Roscoe, he was looking towards the entrance and getting more excited by the second. 

"Roscoe! What's up buddy?"

It's almost as if he knew what she was asking him as he turned his head back towards her then back towards the door. He lifted his little hand and pointed then started jumping up and down excitedly. It was quite the cutest thing, it instantly put a smile on Marta's face. She looked up to see what he was pointing at but all she saw was random people. 

"What is it Roscoe? 

He jumped on the bench then climbed up Marta's arm to sit on her shoulder. He took his little hand and placed it on her head and with the other continued to point towards the door. This time Marta decided to stand up and take a look, still not seeing anything. That was until a group of people moved out of the way. 

It was Willie, he was just standing there with a huge smile on his face and a backpack draped over his left shoulder. He was looking around, she wasn't sure if her was taking in the sights or actually looking for her. Marta decided to just sit back down until he realized where she was sitting, only took a matter of seconds for him to lock onto the excited Roscoe. 

The squeaks from Roscoe tipped off Willie, he knew that sound and immediately locked onto their location. Roscoe jumped off of Marta's shoulder and scurried over to Willie, he ran up his leg then up his side until he reached his shoulder. Marta could see Willie talking to him but couldn't make out what he was actually saying. 

He finally made his way over to Marta and being Willie asked her why she was just sitting there. Like it wasn't obvious that she was patiently waiting for him. 

"I was sitting here waiting for you, duh!"

"Now why would you do that and not go to the room?"

Marta looked at him a bit dumbfounded. 

"If I would have went to the room would you have known which room it was?"

Willie paused for a moment to think on that.

"Uhm.... I would have just knocked on every door until I found you, duh!" He said with a smile.

Marta shook her head and stood up from the bench. 

"Yeah cause that wouldn't have taken you ages, there's a lot of room here you fool."

Willie just shrugged his shoulders, he wasn't really sure what else to say in this instance so instead he turned his shoulder to show Marta the backpack he had picked up. 

"What's in the bag?"

"EVERYTHING!"

"Everything? Is there a fancy hat in that bag?"

Willie paused and looked at her then opened the bag just a bit to glare in. 

"No, there no hat in there... Hey... I see what you did there." He chuckled then zipped the bag back up. 

"So really what in the bag?" Marta asked in a serious tone. 

"Well like I said everything, though since you want to be a smart ass I'm not telling you! So what room we in?"

Marta laughed 

"I'm not telling you!"

The two stared at each other for a moment with serious faces, that was until Willie stuck his tongue out and made a silly face which made Marta chuckle which in turn made him chuckle. 

"Will you tell me what's in the bag once we get to the room?"

Willie nodded. "Even better, I'll show you."

"Well then let's go, we have a penthouse on the top floor. The room should be amazing, the best one they have."

Willie, Marta and Roscoe headed over to the elevators and got on, Marta inserted a key and pressed the button for the top floor as they got on the elevator. 

"Wait, really? You actually got the penthouse? Oh this is exciting!" said Willie when he noticed what button Marta had pressed.

Marta just nodded and watched as Roscoe and Willie both smiled and high-fived. 

"When do you teach him that? She asked when she saw the high-five.

"Teach who what?" Asked Willie not understanding what she was referring to.

"He gave you a... oh never mind lets go" Said Marta laughing as the elevator door opened. 

The three of them stepped out into the amazing two story penthouse suite of 'The Flamingo'. There was a bar stocked full of expensive liquor to the left when they stepped out of the elevator, to the right there was a living room type set up with expensive looking leather furniture and a stair case leading up to a second level. Straight ahead was first a pool table, and behind that a giant balcony with a hot tub on it. 

Roscoe immediately ran up the stairs for some reason but neither Willie nor Marta bothered with him.. they were busy checking out the room. Willie was searching through the bar looking at all the different types of booze they had, Marta headed straight out to the balcony. They searched a round for a few more minutes before anyone spoke. 

"Whoa! This is awesome Marta! Where are the bedrooms though?" Willie asked.

"Ah, upstairs I guess? Maybe that's where Roscoe headed... lets go have a look up there, but then your showing me whats in that damn bag!" She answered.

As they headed over towards the stairs they noticed that the room continued behind the stairs, there was a giant kitchen, a huge bathroom and a sauna. After having a look around they headed up stairs. There was another living room type set up at the top, three bedrooms, and another bathroom. 

"This is quite the suite Marta!" Willie said as they headed over to check out the bedrooms.

The first bedroom they walked into was surprisingly occupied. Roscoe had tucked himself into the bed and was snoring away. So Willie just shut off the light and closed the door before tuning to Marta.

"Well, I guess all the excitement must have tuckered the little guy out! Guess that room is his! Anyways follow me, I'll show you what I got here!" Said Willie motioning to the bag on his shoulder.

Willie walked into the next bedroom over and Marta followed. Willie headed straight over to the bed and took the bag off his shoulder. He unzipped it and flipped it upside down dumping the entire contents onto the bed. 

"Willie what the hell!?" Marta yelled, clearly surprised by the giant pile of drugs that were now piled up on the bed in front of them.

"Hey it was a good deal!" Willie responded with a shrug.

"Well, what are these? And these? And what the hell is that?" Asked Marta as she rifled through the pile. 

"Well that's Heroin... that's, um, well I don't really know what that is... and those, not sure either, they look fun though!" Said Willie as he tried to contain his laughter.

He thought Marta's reaction was hilarious... the pot back in Chicago had done a number on her the night before so this was pretty much the exact reaction he was expecting from her. 

"You said you wanted to party Marta! Don'y worry it'll be fun!" ​​​​​​​

As Willie dumped the contents of the backpack on the bed Marta's jaw dropped a bit. She really had no idea what any of that stuff was, well anything but the bag of weed and she wasn't completely sure that nothing else was in it but weed. Seeing the contents of what came out of it she wouldn't have been surprised if it were laced with something or everything in this matter. 

Marta looked over at Willie looked back at her. 

"You said you wanted to party Marta! Don't worry it'll be fun!"

Marta chuckled a bit but it was more of a nervous laugh then anything else. 

"Party yes but I'm not looking to die tonight Willie."

"You you'll be fine, here look."

Willie dug through the pile and pulled out a bag of blue looking pills. He opened the bag and took out two pills, handing one to her and keeping one for himself. 

"Take this, it will come your nerves a bit."

She glanced down at the pill then back up at Willie. 

"Well ok as long as you're gonna do it with me. Though I need some water to wash this down."

Willie burst out laughing.

"Oh Marta, don't be silly. That needs taken with a shot of some hard liquor."

Willie walked over to the mini bar and grabbed a bottle of vodka for Marta and a bottle of whiskey for himself. He made sure to take the tops off before making his way back to Marta. 

"Here you go this one is yours."

He handed her the bottle of vodka then took his pill and put it in his mouth. She watched as he took a swig or the whiskey to help swallow it down then just looked at Marta. It took her a moment to get up the nerve to do it but she finally did. Placing the pill in her mouth and bringing the vodka bottle to her lips. She took a big swig and swallowed it all at once. The vodka burned the entire way down but it wasn't a bad thing. 

It only took a few moment for the pill to kick in as Marta caught herself a couple times just staring aimlessly at the clock on the wall, it wasn't anything special just a normal clock but for some reason she was fixated on it. That was until Roscoe came over to her and sat on her lap, he had the bottle of vodka in his little hands and pushed it towards her. 

"You want me to take another sip?"

Roscoe squeaked a couple times, she took that as a yes. So she took another swig of the bottle then brought it back down to Roscoe who decided to lick the little bit of a stream that missed her mouth on the outside of the bottle. 

"Oh you like vodka, you bad monkey."

Marta looked left then right to see if Willie was anywhere present, he wasn't in her line of sight so figured now was the time. She tilted it towards Roscoe and just before he was about to take a drink Willie yelled from behind her. 

"MARTA!"

Willie took the blue pill, but that just made him want to try more of the mystery drugs. He wandered back over to the pile on the bed and grabbed a pink pill, and the bag of weed. He quickly swallowed the pill and washed it down with some of his whiskey and then headed back out to where Marta was sitting to roll up a joint. As he got back out there though he saw Marta sitting on the couch trying to pour her vodka into Roscoe's open mouth. 

"MARTA! Roscoe can't have vodka! I thought he was sleeping!?" He yelled as he ran across the room and scooped Roscoe up off of Marta's lap.

Neither of them said a word, Willie figured they must both be feeling pretty guilty. Surely they both knew better. Roscoe started squirming in Willie's arms though until he was forced to drop him on the floor.

"Roscoe what the hell..." Willie said as he watched Roscoe run back over and jump back on Marta.

He looked up at the two of them and they were both starring back with identical expressions on their faces... looking all pouty with their bottom lips stuck out. 

"Oh fuck off..." Willie said attempting to look stern.

The pouty faces continued for a few minutes though until eventually Willie started too feel bad about being a party pooper.

"Oh fine, get the damn monkey drunk... but your taking care of him! Also.. your smoking this with me!" Said Willie holding up the bag of weed.

Willie sat there rolling up a few joints for them while Marta and Roscoe took turns sipping on the bottle of Vodka. Once he had several joints rolled up and ready to go Willie hurried back to the bedroom and scooped up an arm full of miscellaneous drugs from the bed. He hurried back out and ran right past Marta shouting to her and Roscoe as he passed them...

"Onward! Too the balcony!"

Willie pointed straight ahead with his one free arm as he ran. Marta and Roscoe eventually followed him out to the balcony where Willie had the pile of drugs laid out on the table. He handed Marta one of the pink pills he had taken a few minutes earlier.

"Kinda wish some of this shit was labeled.. try this one though it made me really happy! The elephant liked it too!" Said Willie excitedly holding out the pill for Marta.

"Elephant, huh?" Said Marta looking distracted and confused. 

"Shhhh, enough about the elephant.. take the pill!" He said waving it around in front of her.

Marta reluctantly took the pill from Willie and washed it down with some more vodka. Meanwhile Willie uncovered the hot tub and did a cannon ball into the water with all of his clothing on. Roscoe followed and did the same, minus the clothing... Roscoe was naked. Noticing Marta giving him a strange look he sat in the tub and faced her.

"What? Why the weird look? Pass me those two of those would ya? Oh and the matches." Willie said pointing to the pre-rolled joints he had left on the table. 

Marta grabbed them off the table, walked over and handed them to Willie. He dried off his hand on her shirt before taking them, putting them both in his mouth, lighting them and handing one to Marta.

"No sharing with Roscoe this time!" 

Without a thought Marta took the joint from Willie and took a big puff in, she tried to hold it in but couldn't and began coughing within moments. She coughed for a good two minutes straight before she actually was able to catch her breath, Willie on the other hand had already finished his joint and was pointing and laughing at Marta. 

"You really are a rookie at this, aren't you?" He laughed some more. 

Marta was a bit determined at this point, she knew if she didn't finish this joint Willie would make fun of her the entire trip. Then again he was probably going to do that anyways but nonetheless she was determined. She put the joint back up to lips and took a small puff, held it in and exhaled without coughing. 

She turned her head towards Willie, stuck her tongue out him then smiled before smoking the rest of the joint. It did take a little bit though with the size of the puffs she was taking but it was ok cause she was able to do it. Once she had finished Marta and Willie just kind of starred at each other aimlessly, everything was starting to take effect and for Marta she really didn't even realize she had been zoning out. If it wasn't for Roscoe jumping on her shoulder she probably would have stood there for a while. 

Roscoe squeaked then gave her a pat on the head, which made Marta giggle to herself. 

"Does Roscoe want to go out on the town?" He patted her on the head once more before jumping off her shoulder and running back into the room. Instead of following him Marta made her way over to the balcony edge and took a look at Vegas. The lights were a bit mesmerizing, very flashy and very colorful. It was then she knew the city was waiting to be explored. 

"Willie, get your ass out of that hot tub. It's time to go out."

He gave her a bit of a look as if he didn't want to get out of the hot tub. 

"But... The water is perfect and I just got in."

"Well it will be here when we get back, either way I'm going out. If you wanna come then let's go."

He wasn't sure if she was serious but with a lack of a smile and a walk off to the other room, he kind of figured she was serious. He got out of the tub and back into the room. Marta was already at the elevator door, dressed up nicely and bag in hand.

"Whoa! You wasted no time at all."

She turned and gave him a look. 

"I told you I was going with or without you."

"Ok, ok I'm coming. Sheesh woman, calm down."

Willie quickly got changed and made his way over to the impatient Marta who at this point was petting the wall. 

"Are you... what the fuck are you petting the wall for?"

"It's so soft and fuzzy, whoever thought the idea to put a rug on the walls is a genius." She chuckled then grabbed Willies hand and forced him to pet it. A smile instantly went onto his face. 

"Whoa! It's so fuzzy...."

"I told you."

The elevator finally made it's way to their floor as the doors opened up. It took the two a couple more seconds to stop petting the wall before getting on the elevator, Roscoe was the last one to get in. Marta reached over to the controls and hit the button for the casino floor. The door closed up in front of them and the elevator began its decent downward. 

Willie began to rub the wall of the elevator with a huge smile on his face as it took them down to the casino. His smile quickly turned to a frown though when he realized it wasn't fuzzy, didn't feel cool, and pretty much just wasn't any fun at all.

"Well this is a shitty wall Marta!" He said as he stopped rubbing and turned back to Marta.

The elevator door opened and they got out and headed straight out to the street and onto the strip. 

"Let's just walk this way, its Las Vegas after all, I am sure we will find somewhere neat in no time!" Said Willie as he turned to the right and headed down the sidewalk.

A few blocks down from The Flamingo Willie spotted a building with a giant neon bottle on the sign, he couldn't make out the name of the place but that was likely more due to his current state than the sign. 

"Oh that place looks cool!" He said pointing up ahead to the sign.

"Looks like a bar Willie..." Said Marta squinting at the sign.

"Yeah, a bar with a neon sign! Have you ever been anywhere with a neon sign that wasn't fun? Doubt it! Neon is always fun Marta!"

Marta seemed a little skeptical but she was alright enough with it to head in and find a table. As they entered the bar there was a song by 'The Allen Brothers' blasting through the speakers. Willie started to smile and sing along as they walked in and found a table. When Willie finally stopped at a table Marta wound up and smacked him in the back of the head.

"Country music?! You brought me to a country bar! I don't know how long we can stay here!" She said with a surprisingly upset expression on her face.

"Sorry Marta! I didn't know I just saw the neon sign! I'll get us something good to drink, maybe the music will grow on you!"

Willie got back up from the table and hurried over to the bar before waving the bartender over. 

"Hey I want a bottle of whatever the strongest liquor you have is!" 

"Well we have..." The bartender started to say but Willie cut him off....

"Don't care what it's called, whatever the strongest you have is!" Said Willie as he pulled out a couple hundred dollar bills and put them on the counter.

The bartender went out back for a few minutes and returned with a bottle of green liquor that didn't have a label and placed it on the counter before scooping up the two-hundred dollars Willie had put down.

"Gonna need two more of these for that actually..." He said motioning to the bottle.

Willie grabbed a few more bills and handed them over before taking the bottle and two cups with him back to the table where Marta was. He placed the bottle and glasses on the table in front of Marta before sitting back down. 

"Well Marta, I don't know what the hell this is, but based on the price it must be amazing! We will drink this and then find a better bar!"

Willie opened the bottle and poured them each a glass of the green liquor. 

A cold drip of water could be felt dripping on her foot as she slowly came back to a conscious state. She was awake but her eyes still closed as her mind slowly kicked back on. It was a slow reboot which immediately went into a fierce pounding inside her head, she let out a slight groan before shifting herself. The hard cold surface sent shivers up her body as she began to slowly open up her left eye. Where ever she was, was super bright making her close her eye for a moment before trying it again. 

It took a couple of minutes for her to actually being able to focus out of the one eye. Straight ahead was a tile wall, it was a simple stacked pattern but the cross section of the grout sucked her in as she starred aimlessly with the one eye. It wasn't until another drop of water hit her foot that she peered up ever so slightly. It was a shower head, that's when it clicked she was in the shower. She sat herself up a bit more to give her surroundings more of a look, she was definitely in the shower. To her left was a bottle of liquor, was tinted some sort of green. Just the look of it made her stomach churn as she felt herself about to be sick. 

The thought of standing didn't even cross her mind, crawling seemed more of a viable option. The only issue with this is she had no idea where the hell that was, this bathroom was way too big for her to even wrap her head around. Taking a stab in the dark she quick crawled out of the shower and hooked a left, thankfully for her and the cleaning staff she picked right. She lifted the seat up to quite a surprise as there was a lobster in the bowl. It made her jump backwards a bit but the churning in her stomach got way worse and she wasn't sure she was going to make it anywhere else. Luckily there was a waste basket sitting just off to the right. 

She quickly grabbed the basket and brought it up to her face before letting loose. It was terrible, absolutely terrible as she felt her insides tense up in agony. She tried to stop but it just kept coming and coming until there was nothing else left in her system. It felt like forever but in fact was probably only a minute or so. Once she felt confident she was completely done she placed the basket back next to the bowl and pushed it back as far as she could then gave another look at the lobster. 

"How did you get in there?" Marta said out loud while trying to figure it out but she had nothing. 

Almost instantly her head began pounding once again, making her close her eyes. She raised her hands to her head and tried to massage her temples but it did nothing. One thing she did know was that she needed to rinse her mouth out and now. Marta crawled her way over to the vanity and sat up against it, at this point she had still yet to get to her feet and wasn't quite sure she'd be able to. She took a couple of deep breathes before flipping herself around placing her head against the vanity door before reaching her hand up to the sink. 

Slowly she pulled herself up to an upright position while keeping her head facing downward, trying to keep her equilibrium in check. Although her legs felt like jello she was able to keep herself standing, locking up her knees definitely helped. With her right hand she reached to the cold side handle of the faucet and turned it on, she let it run for a moment before cupping her hand under the running water. She brought the water to her mouth, swished around the liquid before giving it a spit in the sink. Instantly the taste of yesterday was washed from her palette, she took another couple sips swallowing them just for hydration purposes before turning off the faucet off. 

She slowly raised her head directing her gaze to the mirror, a mirror that was cracked from corner to corner. The reflection she saw wasn't what she was expecting at all. Her hair was a wreck and a shade of pink but it wasn't even just the hair. On her head was a pair of mickey mouse ears, she reached up to try and take it off but it was entangled in her hair so she figured just to leave it for at least the time being. 

Her shirt...

"Where the hell is my...?" 

She looked down at then back in the mirror. She had on just bra but it wasn't any ordinary bra, it had rhinestones covering most all of it. The outline was bright pink along with the strings. It was a flamingo showgirl bra. It looked good on her but where the hell did it come from... That's when she heard the splashing sound of water coming from the tub. At first she thought she was hearing things as she went back to looking at herself in the broken mirror. That was until she heard it again. She slowly guided herself to the tub and peeked in, there were two penguins splashing away having a good ole time. They noticed Marta glancing down at them but didn't care as they kept on doing their thing. 

They looked content so Marta made her way back to the vanity using it as a prop to make her way to the door. She had to take the Mardi Gras beads off the handle to be able to grab and instead of tossing them on the floor she put them around her neck. With a turn of the handle she opened the door slowly. Her jaw dropped at what she saw, she did the only thing she could think of at the time and that was to yell for Willie. 

"WILLIE........ WILLIE!"

"Ouch, ouch, ouch.. what the hell?"

Willie could feel something pointy poking him on his backside and it hurt enough that it woke him up. He rolled over and opened his eyes only to see that he was laying bare ass naked on the balcony of the of the hotel room and the pointy poking was a flamingo pecking him. 

"What the actual fuck?!"

He leapt to his feet only to fall back down again as a sharp pain shot through his forehead.

"Ah my head!" He grabbed his forehead with both hands and close his eyes for a few moments.

When he finally opened his eyes back up he saw six Flamingo's starring back at him. Wondering if he was seeing things he blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes. When he opened them again though, they were still there.

"What in the name of god happened here last night?" He asked the Flamingos.

None of the birds answered his question but one of them did peck his foot. Willie gave the pecker a glare as he stood back up, successfully this time, and realised once again he was naked. His head still hurt but determination took over as he began to search the the balcony for his clothing. 

After a few minutes of weaving in and out of the flamingos and fighting the urges to sit back down and puke he found his clothing. It was floating in the hot tub. Willie quickly scooped it out and threw it all back on, deciding that being wet was better than being naked.

Once he was dressed a loud squeak got his attention from somewhere behind him. He recognised it right away. He spun around only to see Roscoe come zooming out onto the balcony on the back of yet another flamingo. He was riding the bird like a horse and waving around a tiny cowboy hat with his free arm. The sight made Willie immediately forget about his headache and nauseous stomach and being laughing so hard he had to sit back down. Roscoe and his little pink friend did a few laps of the balcony before disappearing back inside.

Just as Willie was catching his breath panicked shouts came from somewhere inside.

"WILLIE........ WILLIE!"

It was Marta's voice, and she sounded like she was in trouble. Willie ran inside and towards the screaming, it sounded like it was coming from the bathroom on the lower level. He ran through the hotel room and over to the bathroom door, passing Roscoe and his bird along the way. Marta was standing in the doorway of the bathroom wearing a white and pink bra and Mardi Gras beeds around her neck.

Willie stopped in his tracks completely forgetting about the screaming and pretty much everything else around them when he saw Marta and her outfit. 

"Willie! Snap out of it! Look!? Do something!" She screamed waving both her hands around and pointing down at the floor.

Willie gave his head a quick shake before finally managing to look down at what she was pointing at. There was a ginormous snake coiled up on the floor between them, just outside the bathroom door. Willie didn't know much about snakes and didn't know what kind it was but it was yellow and brown and at least fifteen feet long.

"Wow! Oh and look a giant snake too!" Willie said when he finally spoke. 

Willie carefully grabbed the snakes tail and started to pull, it was kind of slippery though and surprisingly heavy so his hands just kept slipping off.

"Um, one second... stay there." ​​​​​​​He said as he turned around and headed to the kitchen.

He dug around under the sink and found a rubber mat. He wasn't sure what it was but it felt grippy, so with a shrug he headed back over to the snake. Using the rubber mat he managed to slowly drag the snake by its tail through the hotel room and out onto the balcony. He snuck back around the snake carefully staying as far from its head as he could and slammed the door shut behind him as he went back into the hotel room to find Marta again. 

Marta had her back against the bathroom door and was in sheer panic, it was the biggest fucking snake she had ever seen and it was right there on the floor in front of her. She had no idea what kind of snake it was, if it was poisonous or not but either way it didn't matter the bitch was big. She was frozen in place, the only things she could feel were her heart beating out of her chest and her head pounding inside her skull. 

That's when Willie rushed around the corner, he stopped in his tracks with eyes wide open and stared at Marta. She immediately knew it was the outfit but had no idea where her clothes were to change. Though that wasn't top priority at the moment, the snake looking up at her was priority number one. He didn't even notice the snake though, that was until Marta mustered the courage to wave her hands back and fourth then slowly motioned downward. 

That's when he snapped out of it and realized what the yelling was actually all about. Willie made a move towards the snake but was too slippery to grab but the touch made the snake on edge as it hissed in Marta's direction. She reached for the handle of the bathroom door and gave it a jiggle but she must have locked it somehow as the handle didn't budge one bit. The snake made a move towards her just as Willie was able to get a handle on it, pulling it in the other direction. 

Once out of sight Marta slid down the door and into a seated position, she placed her hands on her forehead then slide them back into her hair. Until she felt something hard, she felt up to two round things. That's when she remembered the mickey mouse ears. She gave it another tug, trying to get it out of her hair but failed once again. 

"Is this damn thing super glued in there?" She said out loud thinking Willie was still in the room but he wasn't back yet from doing whatever he was doing with the snake. 

"Willie?" She wondered if the snake had gotten him and was about to go get up and check on him when Roscoe went flying by her. He was riding a flamingo and waving around a little cowboy hat. The flamingo was zooming, was running so fast that a gust of wind rushed against her as he passed. She was about to call for him but at the point it all registered he was out of distance, they were off into another room. 

"Well, that's something you don't see everyday..."

It actually made her laugh, that was until she took a look at the main room she was in. The couches and end tables were all upside down in the middle of the room. The furry wall was now a furry face wall as two eyes a nose and a mouth had been cut out of it. There were records from the record player stuck in the ceiling like ninja stars in a wall. The counter for the mini bar was lined with empty bottles and what seemed like a broken vase. The worst of all was the floor which had been painted too look like a race track. 

Marta took her eyes and looked at the starting line and followed the track until it went into the next room which she couldn't see. 

"What in the actual fuck happened last night?" She said to herself while getting herself upright once again. Willie was finally making his way back to the main area. 

"Took care of that snake." Willie rubbed his hands together like he had done good, which he actually did. Cause without him Marta probably would have died out of fear. 

That's when Willie noticed Marta in her outfit again, his jaw dropped ever so slightly. 

"I'm not sure where you found that outfit but Willie likey."

Marta shook her head and gave a quick look around for her cloth but couldn't find anything.

"Willie a bit of help here, any idea where my clothes are?"

He turned his head to the left then the right before shrugging. 

"Not a clue, mine were floating in the hot tub. Don't you have extra's in your suitcase?"

"Suitcase? We didn't bring any suitcases..."

"We didn't? He paused for a moment to give it thought. "Ohhhh, yeah I guess we didn't."

"Yeah, so I need to find my clothes. Can you go check the bedrooms?" 

Willie figured he should probably help her out and find her clothing, against his better judgement. So he headed around the race track making vrooming noises and took the exit ramp to the staircase. He headed up the stairs and into the first bedroom, it was surprisingly untouched and still looked like it had when they arrived, minus the little monkey sized in print in the sheets from Roscoe anyways, but there was no clothing in there.

He headed over to the second bedroom next. This one wasn't so lucky, it was destroyed. The bed was flipped upside down, all of the draws were taken out and piled up in the corner with sheets draped over them. Willie starred at the corned for a few seconds trying to figure out what was going on over there.

"Oh a fort! Cool!" He said to himself as he headed over and crawled in through the sheet.

It turned out Willie didn't require drugs or alcohol to enjoy a good fort. Just as he was admiring how cool it was though he was interrupted by more yelling from downstairs.   

"Are they up there? Still can't find them!?" Marta was yelling from the foot of the stairs.

"Ah, haven't found them yet!" Willie yelled back down as he crawled out of the cool fort. 

Willie continued searching all through the bedrooms, the bathroom, and the area outside the bedrooms but there was no sign of Marta's clothing anywhere so he headed back downstairs to break the bad news to Marta. 

When he got back down to the lower level Roscoe came running over and jumped on Willie's shoulder.

"Oh hey bud! Done with your ride?"

Roscoe shook his head yes and adjusted the cowboy hat he was wearing. The two of them found Marta in the kitchen digging through all the cupboards and drawers. She didn't even notice them enter the room she was so bust ripping through the kitchen. 

"Ah, Marta, they are not upstairs either... but now that I think about it, you must have taken them off when you put on that outfit, where ever that was probably wasn't in our room..." 

Marta stopped digging and sat down on the counter, it looked like she was trying to think so Willie let her be for a few minutes.

"So... do you remember anything from last night?" She finally asked. 

"Not a damn thing, looks like it was fun though!" Willie answered.

Marta went back to thinking for a bit, probably racking her brain trying to remember anything she could that might lead her to her clothing...​​​​​​​