"Stay safe." Helen ought to fly out there and drag her home, but Glen calmed her down. She's at the university. We'll be able to find her if something happens.

"Now, where were we?" Clare pulled Dale back on to her and he continued to rub her stomach as he nibbled on her neck. She moaned. "Don't stop. Keep touching me."

Dale's hands moved slowly up her sides and began to rub the sides of her breasts. She grunted and he moved until he got to her nipples. He teased them until they hardened in his hand and he rubbed her breasts, slow circles at first which became firmer and rougher. Clare was in heaven. She had never let Eli go this far, and she didn't think a guy's hands could be so magical. Dale made her want to be touched. "Can I go under your shirt?" He asked her.

"Please do."

His hands started at her stomach, but soon, he found her breasts and began to knead her tender flesh. She cried out as he pulled on her nipples and soon, she was completely on fire. He managed to kiss her as he was groping her breasts and soon, they were facing each other.

Jenny yelled, "time for body shots," breaking their concentration.

"What's a body shot?" Damn, Clare was cute.

Steve did a body shot on Jenny. He put some salt on Jenny's neck and a tequila shot between her breasts. He licked the salt off and took the shot with his mouth, pouring it down his throat.

"Do you want to do a shot off me?" Clare asked him.

Dale nodded. He put the salt on her neck and put the shot glass between her breasts. He spilled some of the tequila as he poured it, so he licked it up afterwards. Clare blushed, feeling his hot tongue on the valley of her breasts.

The boys did shots off the girls and Dale offered Clare a shot off of his abs. He took off his shirt, revealing his large pecs and 8-pack abs. He looked like a god. She licked salt of his neck and then put her tongue at his navel, and he poured the shot down, her sucking the booze from his body. She blushed, having never licked a guy before. Dale kissed her and the two began rolling about on the roof, tussling for position. Clare ended up on top, of course he let her win, and she began to cover his neck and chest in kisses and bites. Her eyes were stunning, and they cut right through him as she looked at him. He grabbed her and pulled her close. "I want to make you feel good."

Clare turned beet red.

"Can I touch you?"

She nodded and his hands found her breasts again, softly kneading them as he kissed his way down her stomach to her hips. He began to kiss her thighs, slowly covering them inch by inch as she widened them for him. He began to rub her through her shorts, and she was clearly wet for him. He grinned as he continued to add pressure, finding her clit through the fabric and making her squeal. She bucked her hips forward and he slipped his hands up her shorts and around her panties, finding her raw clit and stroking it. She gasped as Dale continued to rub her. He slipped a finger into her wetness and began to pump it in and out. Clare didn't care who was around, all she could see was Dale and she moaned and muttered as he added a second finger. He moved quickly and deliberately, finding her g-spot and making her squirm as he got her riled up just to back away. He did this a couple of times until she looked ready to burst and then he relented, giving her what she craved. She shrieked, "OH GOD!" as she came, collapsing onto the ground as he withdrew his fingers. She had never had an orgasm before. Eli had never tried to give her one.

Dale let her rest and rested his head on her shoulder. Her hand found his hair and she played with it as they lay side by side.

Kirk and his friends had seen the whole thing. "Damn, he has game," Kirk muttered.

Steve and Jenny were canoodling. "Remember when we were 17 and wanted to fool around all day?" She asked him.

"What are you talking about? I still want to fool around all day."

She kissed him.


Clare and Dale slept on Kirk's inflatable mattress. Dale took up most of the mattress, so Clare slept on him. In the morning, Clare took a shower and changed back into Friday's clothes which were now dry. She folded p the ones she wore yesterday, so they could be returned. She and Jenny went shopping, to grab Clare a couple of outfits. She got a pink dress with a low neckline, hoping Dale would like it. "He'll love it," Jenny told her.

Clare got a call from a new number. "Hello."

"Are you alright?" It was Lenore. She figured Clare needed space last night, but wanted to check on her.

"I'm fine. Some NYU students found me and let me stay with them."

"I'm so sorry about yesterday."

"But you didn't do anything wrong."

"I know, but I should have realized that something was wrong."

"It's okay. I'm okay. I'll be just fine," Clare finally believed it. She was just ready to go back when she ran into the girl from yesterday, speak of the devil. Clare hadn't seen her face, but she knew the earrings, peacock with a jewel in the middle.

Clare was ready to bolt when the girl grabbed her arm, "Can we talk? Please!"

Clare stopped. "If you want Eli, then you can have him."

"I don't want that jerk. He told me you were his sister. I believed him." The girl looked ready to cry. She told Clare about how they were film partners and when she asked him who you were, having seen your picture in his room, he said you were his half-sister, and you were really close. She didn't realize he was lying until you screamed and ran out. She thought that Eli really liked her, but she had just been played.

Clare felt bad for her. She seemed nice enough. Lenore appeared, having seen them in the window.

"What are you doing here?" Lenore seethed.

"It's not her fault," Clare told her. "The only bad guy here is Eli."

Lenore scoffed. "Maybe you're right."

Clare told Lenore that she and her new friends would be sight-seeing if she wanted to join. Lenore said she would be too busy thinking of ways to make Eli suffer. She gave Clare back her money, since all of the stuff she bought she still had, and then she left.

Clare and Meghan parted ways. She and Jenny went back.

"What took so long?" Dale asked as he pulled Clare in for a kiss.

"Oh, I just had a lovely chat with Eli's other girlfriend."

"What? Really."

"Yep. Guess NYU's a small world after all."


Clare, Dale, Kirk, Jenny and Steve went sight-seeing. They went to the Met, Central Park, the history museum. They had just stopped for ice cream, when Eli appeared. "Can we talk?" Lenore reluctantly told Eli where Clare would be that day. She didn't think he deserved another chance, and she hoped Clare wouldn't give him one. She hoped that Clare slapped him in the face.

Jenny looked ready to slap him. Steve wanted to punch him, and Kirk wanted to kick him in the nuts. Dale wanted to thank him for being a moron and sending Clare to him.

Clare gave him a chance to explain. They walked away from the group. He started saying he was depressed and he missed her and he just met Meghan and they got drunk when they were supposed to be working together and he didn't mean for it to happen. Clare wasn't having it.

"So you didn't tell her I was your sister?"

His face fell. How did she know that?

"Save it Eli. Meghan already apologized to me. She told me all about the little game you were playing with both of us."

"Clare I."

"Don't you Clare me? Do you have any idea what I did for you? I got a job at the Dot waiting tables, dealing with rude teenagers and their bullshit, so I could save enough money and fly down here for your birthday. I got candles and chocolate and wine and rose petals and lingerie. I was going to give myself to you, and then when I go to set up your room, I find you balls deep in another girl. How do you think that made me feel?"

Eli was stunned. She was coming here to have sex with him. SHIT!

"I..."

"I don't want to hear it. I was going to let you explain, but then you just gave me some lies. I don't want to hear anymore of them. We're done. Don't call me. Don't message me. Don't even look at me or utter my name. You don't exist anymore. We never met."

Clare stormed off. The hell with him!

"Are you okay?" Dale asked her as she returned.

"Never better, let's go team!" They were off. Eli just watched her walk out of his life. Who the hell was that guy holding her hand?


Clare had a great afternoon. They all went to dinner and got sushi. Then, it was time for a club. Clare didn't think she could get in, but when the bouncer saw her chest, he let her go by without showing ID. Dale looked 25 anyway and the others were either old enough or had fakes.

Dale bought her drinks over her objections. He didn't want her buying them because bartenders have a way of over pouring for pretty girls.

They danced aggressively on the floor. She pulled Dale to her by his collar and shamelessly ground her hips into him. He was starting to get very aroused, but when he tried to slow her down, she would speed right up. They played this cat and mouse game on the floor. Finally, they leaned into a kiss. Dale was slow and gentle, Clare eager and aggressive. He towered over her, the contrast between the two stunning the crowd. Finally, he broke the kiss, his back starting to got annoyed with him.

"Why are you so short?"

"Why are you freakishly tall?"

"I'm not a freak," he feigned being offended.

A couch opened up. Dale lead her to it, and they resumed making out. Kirk started dancing with a girl from his physics class. Her name was Amy. She was looking for Mr. right now, and Kirk would do.


Eli was on the phone with Adam. He called, knowing that Clare had gone to visit him for his birthday. "We broke up," Eli told him.

"Why? She was so excited to see you."

"I fucked up." Eli was sure that Clare would tell Adam all about it when she got back, so he decided to just tell him straight. "I started seeing another girl and …."

"You cheated on Clare! Why didn't you just break up with her?"

"It was supposed to just be a one time thing, but it just kept happening. Clare saw us together." He didn't mention what they were doing.

"What happened next?"

"She ran off and I tried to find her, but I couldn't. She got away too fast." Okay, Eli lied a little, but Clare doesn't know that he stayed put.

Adam was shaken. His two best friends had been through so much together; he was sure they figured it out this time, but here they go again. He just stayed on the line.

"Adam, say something!"

"What do I say? I don't know what to say."

The only thing worse than Adam yelling at him was Adam too freaked out to even yell. He was incapable of reacting; that's how bad this situation was. He just lost his girlfriend and his side girlfriend and his roommate couldn't stand the sight of him, and now his best friend was slipping away.

"Say that I can fix this. Say that we can get past this."

Adam felt stuck. He didn't want to lose Eli as a friend, but he didn't want to lose Clare either. Did he have to pick sides? He hadn't before, but this was different. Eli screwed up big. "Look. I'll talk to Clare when she comes home and we'll take it from there."

"You'll do that for me."

Adam was doing it for himself, but why not? "Sure. I will talk to her and see how she feels."

"You're the best."

Then why do I feel like shit? Adam hung up the phone. Drew saw him, looking annoyed.

"What's going on?"

"Clare went to surprise Eli for his birthday, but when she got there, she found him with another girl, and now Eli wants me to help him get Clare back."

"That's tough, man."

"What do I do? Eli's my friend, but he's put Clare through a lot. Maybe they should just stay broken up."

Drew was no saint himself, so he didn't have much moral high ground to stand on. "There's no harm in asking her, but I wouldn't try and push her into Eli's arms. She might just get mad at you too."

Adam sighed. "Why me?"

"Cause you're just unlucky."

Adam punched his arm.

"Not my fault. I was born lucky."

The night continued. Kurt and Amy were getting ready to leave. He had already given Dale his spare key, so they should be just fine. Steve and Jenny were getting ready to go to a new club.

Dale looked up and saw his friends ready to go. "Do we join them?"

Clare wanted him, and only him. "Let's head back to the apartment."

"You sleepy?"

"No." He didn't need to be told that twice. He and Clare headed back. When they got there, Clare realized they were home alone for the rest of the night. Kirk went with that girl and tomorrow, she would be in Toronto, thousands of miles from Dale. She started to get sad.

"Are you okay?" He asked her, seeing the distress in her eyes.

"I don't want you to go. I don't want to go. But tomorrow, this will all be gone."

"We're just getting started," he said. "I know Toronto is far, but we have Christmas break, spring break and a whole summer afterwards before we go to college, and who knows, maybe we'll be at the same one. UT-Austin has a great journalism program."

"It does?" Clare hadn't heard of it before Dale told her about it yesterday.

"Yeah, and Austin has great food, music, people. We could have a lot of fun."

"You won't get sick of me?" All of Clare's other boyfriends seemed to be.

"Never. I'm not going anywhere. I'm all in."

"Me too." Going from one long-distance relationship to another hardly seemed wise, but Clare couldn't see herself letting him go. He was everything right now.

"We can write to each other. We can even visit schools at the same time." This could make many more visits during the year.

"I'd like that."

They sealed the deal with a kiss. Clare started tugging at his hair again, and they went from the couch to the inflatable mattress on the floor. He started kissing her neck and shoulders and then her collarbone and chest. She moaned as his hands went up her sides. He teased her breasts and her stomach, making her hot all over. He found himself in between her legs, kissing her thighs and rubbing her calves. She grunted as he toyed with her. Soon, he was by her ear. "Can I please you again?"

"Please do."

He pushed up her dress and pulled her panties out of the way. "Can I use my tongue?"

Clare nodded, not really thinking about what he just asked until she felt his hot tongue on her clit. "Oh GOD!"

He slowly teased her with his tongue, moving around her folds like they were a maze. She squirmed and writhed beneath him, hoping he would just get to work. He grinned, not that she could see him. She was just where he wanted her, and he slowly sucked her clit into his mouth. She bucked her hips, harshly, and he let her go. His tongue found her hole and began to probe her. He explored her wetness, his tongue a nomad wondering inside of her. He used his fingers to trace along her pussy, and he had his fun, bringing her to the edge just to slow down and do it again. Eventually, she had enough. She started pulling on his hair, trying to get him closer, trying to get some type of relief. He liked her aggression and decided that she had enough torment for one evening. He pushed his fingers inside of her and sucked on her clit. It only took about 30 seconds of this for her to have an orgasm. He kept going, getting a second one and a third one out of her before she pushed his head away. He removed his fingers as she flailed on the mattress, gasping for air. Her mind was completely frazzled, her hormones in overdrive, as she panted. Dale liked seeing her undone. He went to wash his face. He came back and Clare covered him in kisses, taking off his shirt, so she could kiss his chest and stomach. Her hand grazed his trousers, and she could feel the tension.

"Is someone excited to see me?" she teased as she stroked him through his pants. He just grunted. She liked making him squirm. She unbuckled his belt and pulled him out of his pants and boxers. He was huge. She just stared at it for a moment. Her small hand wrapped around him, as she slowly began to stroke. He growled as she teased him, carefully moving at the same pace. She licked the head. He was salty, and her tongue made him jump. She grinned as she sucked the head into her mouth. Needless to say, she had never done this before. She sucked carefully, trying to avoid using her teeth as her hand stroked the rest. She just did what came naturally, which was to alternate licking and sucking and stroke his shaft.

Dale was trembling. He was very close. "I'm going to cum," he warned, but she didn't realize how fast it would come out. She tried to swallow, but she kind of lost control of him, and he ended up cumming all over her face. She giggled. He was very sticky.

"Sorry about that."

Clare couldn't stop laughing. Finally, she decided it was time to get up and wash her face. They went to bed.

In the morning, they watched the rest of "Howl's Moving Castle." Kirk came home and they went to brunch before Clare and Dale had to go back to the airport. Dale kissed her goodbye and told her too call him tonight. "It will take me about 6 hours to get to CA."

"I will." They kissed again and then she was off. She had to go through customs, yet again.