Late to the Party

"Oh my goodness! Lex! What has that horrible witch done to you this time?"

Barbie took the stone frog from April, stroked it lovingly and placed it where she felt its rightful home was, between her boobs.

"Thank you so much for taking such good care of her April. Lexie is extremely precious to us. You are of course welcome to stay here for as long as you want. And thanks to you both, Tania and Chelsea, for getting my best friend back"

"I'm happy to help. I loved Lexie on Naked Reality US" Chelsea answered proudly. Lexie was starting to warm to the shop assistant. She had irritated her at first, but seemed kind and loyal, and having been stabbed in the back and front by Mel and Tania respectively, she valued that right now.

"I'm just relieved she is back" Tania lied, already plotting how to get rid of Lexie again before there was any chance of her turning back "I should probably mingle. I'll leave you and Lexie to catch up"

Tania surveyed the room as she nursed the glass of champagne Lucy had thrust into her hand as soon as she had walked through the door. She planned to drink as little as she could manage without appearing antisocial or suspicious. This evening was the perfect time for her to strike, but she needed to get it right. Tania only had one target in mind to transform, and that was Lucy. That would get rid of the cameras and viewers and allow her to operate more freely in future. If anyone else got the spiked drink it would only raise suspicions and put her under greater scrutiny while the cameras continued to roll. Tania had excused herself to make a detour to her room when she felt someone grab her arm.

"Hey, Tania! You have some catching up to do. Take a tequila shot!"

"Oh, Tina. Um, thanks but I don't normally do spirits" Tania tried to decline.

"Nonsense! Get it down the hatch, girl! You can help me commiserate!"

"Commiserate?"

"I just got dumped in record time by James. He wants to fuck a married woman instead" a clearly **** Tina explained "So bottoms up!"

Tania reluctantly downed the drink, before Tina filled up two more shot glasses and handed another one to her.

"One more, for sisterhood. And fuck guys!" Tina proposed.

Not seeing how she could decline, Tania downed a second shot before hugging the clearly emotional Tina and heading upstairs.

As she shut the door to her room behind her, Tania realised that operating on two tequila shots and a glass of champagne was less than ideal. She was definitely feeling a little woozy already, but she figured she was still more sober than most of the glitches and this was still her best shot for getting Lucy. She squatted down in front of her bedside cabinet and fumbled with the key a little before opening it to reveal the four bottles of potion-laced soft drinks she had prepared earlier. Ordinarily, Tania would have been able to remember which drink contained which potion, but her memory was a little fuzzy right now. It didn't matter though, none of them would leave Lucy in a form the cameras would be interested in.

She took the Coca Cola bottle, since that mixed well with liquor, locked the cabinet back up, and headed downstairs. If she could get this right, Naked Mansion would be off air by the end of the evening.