A/N: Thanks for all the great reviews, everyone. It inspires me to get updates out quicker and I am off until Thursday, so I actually have some time this week. Hope you all enjoy!
Markko was so ready to be done with school. The best part of school to him was getting to spend time with Langston. Everything else just was mundane and got on his nerves. Langston could not stop talking about how excited she was that Lola was starting school with them. She was Langston's cousin and could be okay sometimes, but for the most part, she was Ray's daughter and that fact alone made him wonder if she was as genuine as Langston thought that she was. He went to his locker and put his books in there, and tried to decide if he should take his AP Science book home or not. He felt those all too familiar arms go around his waist.
"You know, my girlfriend really doesn't like when other women touch me." She whispered in his ear.
"I won't tell if you don't." He smiled and turned around and wrapped his arms around her waist as hers went around his neck and kissed her. "So, are we going to study for this stupid test tomorrow?"
"I hadn't even thought about that."
"I swear, he is such a tool. Didn't we just have a test like yesterday?"
"He's not that bad, Markko."
"Yeah, that's only because you think he's just so gorgeous," Markko said in a sarcastic tone.
"Is there some reason why you are being so moody?"
"I am not moody. He just bugs me." Markko let out a sigh. "Enough about him, what are we doing tonight?"
"We can hang out and stuff, but Lola's spending the night tonight."
"What is up with that? It's a school night."
"You practically spend the night every night so what's the difference?"
"There's a huge difference. I would hope so, anyway." She wrapped her arms around him tighter.
"Markko, she's just nervous about tomorrow. You know I love you."
He smiled at her. "Let's just not fight about it anymore. When is she coming over, anyway?"
"I think she said like nine."
"Okay, then let's get out of here so we can have time before you ditch me."
"I'm not ditching you, Markko. You know you can stay and hang out until your curfew."
"Yeah, but then I have to go home to my cold, lonely bed. Langston just rolled her eyes and they left school. She noticed Markko was pretty quiet the whole way to La Boulaie, and just ignored it. They walked in the kitchen door, and she was surprised that no one was around.
"We're alone. That's a good thing."
He tried to smile, and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm sorry, Langston. I will stop complaining now." She relaxed in his arms
"You get so moody sometimes. You're lucky I love you as much as I do."
"I am the luckiest guy in the world." She laughed and they went in the living room. "So, should we study for this test?"
Langston groaned. "We probably should, shouldn't we?" She went to open her book and he pulled her in his lap and kissed her. "Markko, shouldn't we be focusing on chemistry?"
He smirked at her, "I am totally focusing on chemistry."
She laughed. "You're so corny, babe."
He pulled her back into the kiss and they kissed for quite a while before he broke the kiss. "So, what do you think?"
She sighed. "I think we need to study because Dorian could come home at any second, and we don't need to deal with her seeing your car and finding you upstairs, especially in bed with me."
"I was just talking about cuddling. Here you are thinking about taking advantage of me, like always."
"Yeah, sure you weren't thinking about that."
He smiled at her and went back to kissing her. He didn't know why after how intense things had gotten with them recently, but he was really enjoying just kissing her, and did that for a few hours. "You know what I really want?"
"We already discussed that."
"Not that, you freak. Food, I am so hungry."
She laughed, "Are you ever not hungry?"
"Hmm, let me think. No, I'm usually hungry."
She moved off of him and looked down. "How is it that my shirt is half-unbuttoned without me noticing?"
"I don't know what you're talking about. You must have done it yourself."
She laughed, re-buttoned her shirt, and they went into the kitchen. "So, what are you in the mood for Markko?"
"Food."
"Really? I thought you were in the mood for poison or something."
He put his arms around her waist. "Ha-Ha." He pulled her into another kiss and pulled her up on the kitchen counter. She cracked up and broke the kiss.
"You always like me up here, don't you?"
"I love you up there." He kissed her again passionately for a while before breaking the kiss. "Where is everyone anyway?"
"I have no clue, and why is there a gong in the living room?"
Langston sighed. "I know these people are family, but they are really weird sometimes."
"Lucky for you, I am completely normal."
"Oh yeah, you're really normal. We still have never found you a snack, Markko."
"I'm okay."
"You know what, come on." Langston jumped down and pulled him up the back stairs.
"Where are we going?" She pulled him into her room.
"What about my snack?"
She unbuttoned his shirt. "Are you seriously complaining about us being up here instead of food?"
"This isn't happening with Lola here tonight, is it?"
"No chance in hell."
He kissed her passionately. "Okay, I pick this over food." He kissed her neck and moved them over to the bed and undressed her. They both made passionate love for what seemed like just a little while before they finally broke apart, completely spent. "That was definitely better than food." She laughed and kissed his chest.
"I thought you would think it was."
"I cannot believe I am actually going to be home so early tonight."
She laughed. "You know, I will miss you more than anything."
"I know. Even though I don't like it, it is great that you are bonding with your cousin."
She smiled at him and cuddled close to him and ran her fingers over his chest. "What time is it anyway, Markko?" He kissed her and grabbed her cell phone off the nightstand.
He sighed. "Like 8:30."
"Okay, good. We have a few more minutes." She kissed him and they heard the doorbell.
"Great, that's probably her. She's early."
"Maybe it's not her." They went back to kissing until they heard a knock at the door. Langston sat up. "Who is it?"
One of the maids spoke up. "Miss Wilde, you have a guest downstairs."
Langston and Markko both sighed. 'Tell her I will be right down." Langston kissed him one more time. "We better get dressed and get down there."
They both got dressed. "She better have a reason for being so early. She ruined my afterglow."
"Markko, please be nice."
"I'm always nice." They both headed downstairs and found Lola in the living room. Markko managed a smile. "Hey Lola."
Lola smiled big at Markko. "Markko, I didn't know you were here."
"Yeah, me and Langston were just working on our chemistry upstairs."
Langston smiled at him and tried not to laugh. "Yeah, we were working hard on it." She couldn't help but lean over and kiss him when Starr walked in.
"Lola, just tell them to stop or like hose them down." Markko rolled his eyes and was trying to hang out with Langston still but he just needed to get out of there. He didn't feel like dealing with all this right now.
"I was actually just leaving."
Langston looked at him sad. "You were?"
"Yeah, my mom needs me home tonight early." Langston nodded.
"I'm going to walk him out." She closed the living room doors and went out into the foyer with him. "Why are you leaving?"
He put his hand on her cheek. "Langston, I love you. But, I don't feel like being one of the girls tonight. I'm going to go home, do my homework, and probably get to sleep early"
She was disappointed but understood. "Will you call me later at least?"
"Of course. I love you."
"I love you too." He kissed her and left. Langston went back in the living room, and saw that they were both in there still. "Okay, sorry about that. His mom wanted him home tonight."
Starr smiled. "Well, it looks like it's just us. Do you all want to go up to my room or something?"
Lola smiled, "Yeah that sounds like fun." Langston had not heard what she said since she was still thinking about earlier with Markko."
Starr waved her hand in front of her face. "Langston hello. Earth to Langston."
"Huh? Sorry about that. What did you say?"
Lola explained, "Starr was just saying we should go hang out in her room."
"Oh, that sounds fun. I'm going to go change clothes anyway." Langston went to change clothes. She noticed Markko had left his t-shirt behind that he had on under his shirt. She smelled it and smiled. She decided to send him a text message.
Hey, you left your t-shirt here. She went over and found some pajamas and was happy he texted back already.
Yeah, I guess in the hurry to get dressed, I forgot it. Langston smiled and got dressed. She thought about wearing his shirt but didn't want to explain it to Dorian. She finally decided she didn't care. Dorian was on some spiritual journey right now and barely noticed her. She put it on with some pants.
I'm wearing your shirt now. I'm going to go hang out with Starr and Lola for awhile. Txt me all you want. Miss you and Love you.
Langston went in Starr's room. "Sorry that took so long." Starr noticed when Langston walked in that she had on one of Markko's shirts on.
"That's a new shirt, isn't it, Lang?" She smiled at her.
"It's Markko's. He left it in my room earlier.
Lola was really confused. "Markko leaves his clothes behind in your room? Aren't they normally on his body?"
Langston didn't know what to say. She was clearly busted. "Not always. Sometimes, he forgets part of them when he's in a hurry to put them back on."
Starr looked at her shocked. "Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying what I think you are?"
Lola looked at her strange, still not completely getting what Langston was saying. Langston laughed. "Okay, you two cannot say anything, Dorian would kill me. Markko and I have been sleeping together since this summer?"
Starr looked at her shocked, and Lola still just couldn't wrap her head around it. "When you say sleeping together, are you talking about having sex?"
Starr opened her eyes wide, trying not to notice Lola's inability to see it. "I think that's what she means. What I want to know is why you didn't say anything."
"It wasn't anything personal; we just could not risk anyone finding out." She smiled to herself. "It has been amazing just having something just about us and no one else. He normally stays here every night until three or four."
Lola didn't know what to say. "Do you and Markko have sex all the time?"
Starr could not believe Lola was actually asking Langston that when Langston responded. "For the most part, yeah. I didn't think we were going to today since you were coming over, but we actually finished not long before you came over." Langston laughed. "Markko was mad that you ruined his afterglow." Starr had to laugh at that.
"You two are being careful, right?"
"Of course. I am on the pill actually."
"That's good, Lang."
"You both have to promise you will never say anything to anyone though. It could really mess things up for us."
They both agreed and they continued to hang out and just talk about things in their life. Before going to sleep, Langston decided to call Markko. "Hey Lola, I'll be right back. I'm going to call Markko."
Langston went into a spare bedroom and called him. She smiled when she heard his voice. "Hi babe, I miss you."
"Did you have fun at your sleepover?"
"It wasn't bad. I miss you though. Markko, I told Lola and Starr about us."
"Lang, do you really think you can trust her?"
"Markko, she's my cousin. What could she do? We're family."
Markko had his doubts but decided to remain calm for now. "Maybe you're right. I'll see you in the morning? I love you, Langston."
"Of course you will. I love you too."
The whole time Langston was out of the room, Lola still was trying to figure it out. All she knew was that she hated watching them kiss and she really did not want to think about them sleeping together. The whole thing just annoyed her. But, at the same time, the fact that Markko was sleeping with someone already means he would probably be easy to make hers.
To Be Continued…
Markko and Langston's happiness is still evident to everyone around them, and what does Lola have planned for them?
