Hiiya, did you miss me? Sorry, been busy saving my grades this semester, heheh. Though I hope this makes up for the wait.
I also want to give you guys a few recommendations, but I'm sure you've already read them since they're quite awesome. But if there's one or two lost souls out there, you definitely need to check out When Words Fail by PlatinumRosewood and The rules of attraction by KayEff.
But now, let's get it on, shall we?
Week 3, Day 1
Schmidt comes out from the bathroom after shaving and bathing himself in perfume before breakfast, all the while scowling at the bacteria trap, or also called the bathtub. He sees Pandora standing in front of him in something horrendous.
"Please take that off, you look like a homeless pencil." he says seriously.
Miraculously he survived one night with the crazy girl, but if she's going to go around looking like a christmas tree, a make over is in store.
"What, do I need more colors?" Pandora looks down on herself.
"Definitely not." he raises his eyebrows, going straight over to her suitcase, digging through it. "Do you own anything normal?"
"Well, my mum bought me most of it, but I think it looks very cute."
"This is the worst thing I've seen." Schmidt mutters to himself as he holds up a dress, patched together by different squares of colours.
"Oooh, my favorite! Maybe I should wear that!" Pandora exclaims as she sees him holding it. She wants to look good at breakfast. Look unsuspicious. Because she's been feeling quite bad after what she did yesterday, after her urges took over her brain. Still she can't really find it in her to regret it, because Cook gave her something she wanted, something Thomas did not.
"Are you crazy? Here, wear this." Schmidt throws over a white t-shirt with a pink cat on it, the least extravagant he can find in her clothes.
"Okay, you know best." Pandora smiles at him, before bouncing into the bathroom to change.
Schmidt sighs defeated to himself. How the hell is he going to get through anymore of this?
"Oh no, you got to be fucking kidding me." Naomi exclaims as she walks into the breakfast room. It is decorated like there is a wedding taking place there, and not enough with that, in the far corner stands a white wedding dress as if on exhibition.
"What's got your knickers in a twist now, blondie?" Cook hollers as he comes in behind her. "What the fuck, man!" he grins.
But before they get the chance to explore it more there comes a large scream from behind them. They cringe and turn to see Katie with an enormous grin on her face.
"It's fucking wedding weeeeek!" she calls out before running over to look over everything. "Did I ever tell you that my mom organises weddings?" she asks with glee.
"Don't think you have." Naomi grumbles. She doesn't want to dress up or act happy family or anything as she is sure this week will bring.
"Ooooh, wicked." Schmidt grins as he enters the room, soon followed by Pandora.
Pandora goes over to read the blackboard. "'Till death do us part, what does that mean?"
"It is something the priest says as the groom and the bride get married." Effy smirks as she walks smoothly into the room, the air of mystery reconciled around her again.
"Unleash the doves!" Felix exclaims amusedly as he comes in behind her.
When everyone has arrived and talked and asked about the theme for the week, they finally settled down for a legendary breakfast, complete with lots of choices for food. Almost like a buffet.
"Why are you looking so glum, Emily?" Katie asks as Emily face fell as soon as she entered the room and hasn't lifted since.
"Well, it's not exactly brain surgery, but what are the chances I'll actually end up with a bride instead of a groom? I'll just end up with Mr Fringe here." Emily says back, gesturing to Felix, and still not smiling.
"Oh come off it Ems, you gotta sacrifice some of it. This is like a dream week!"
"Yeah if you actually got to be with someone you fancied." Emily sighed to herself, casting a sideways glance at Naomi.
"Don't worry Em, I'm in the same boat." Felix winks at her.
The sound of clattering fills the air as Katie chatters excitedly of what's to come, Schmidt following everything she says, seemingly the only other as thrilled about the week to come as she is. Freddie tries to follow, but finds he falls short in knowledge, and what the hell anyways, he's not up for commitment and such, at least not with Katie.
"Did you know," Cook suddenly speaks, "that in China there is a law that if you don't visit your parents they could send you to jail? A criminal I am." Cook grins.
"Interesting." Effy smirks.
Naomi laughs out loud, "well, my mum would personally send me to jail if I stayed away for too long anyway."
Katie looks nervously towards Emily, not saying anything until her twin voice it out herself. "Guessing I would be sentenced to a lifetime." she shrugs, not catching the look Naomi sends her way.
"Bloomin' 'eck, that's terrible!" Pandora voice out loud, looking wide-eyed towards Thomas.
"What the fuck, Cook, that's so random, how the hell do you know that?" Schmidt asks.
"JJ man told me, he was like the human wikipedia, I'm telling you. Ah, I'm gonna miss that lad." Cook answers, getting an agreeing murmur from Emily.
"Well, I guess I should just give out a collective apology, I'm sorry I sent him home. That being said, if I lived in China I would be a locked up man for the rest of my life because A. I'm gay and B. I don't even know who my parents are." he shrugs, and a deafening silence fall over the table, as everyone is unsure of what to say.
"Well, anyway," Katie clears her throat, eager to loosen up the awkward mood, "as I was saying Schmidt, the tailored sleeve with four buttons would look so handsome on you, and further up on the jacket..."
Katie keeps babbling, her wedding craziness thankfully getting everyone out of the difficult position Felix unawarely set them in.
Everyone gathers in the large sofa in the lounge, sitting between cushions and on the back of it as Cherie walks down the stairs. Since it's monday, everyone is excited to see who the new guest will be.
"Good day everyone." Cherie greets, "I'm guessing you've all seen the theme for this week?"
"Yes, and it's spectacular I must say." Katie grins, still not over how great it is.
"Everyone else feeling the same?"
Someone smiles while others shrugs.
"I'm definitely not the one for dress-up." Naomi frowns. Emily looks suspiciously at her, because whenever she sees Naomi she looks amazing. And undeniably so, at least on the couple ceremonies where she is always wearing dresses. But then again, it might be the marriage thing.
"I'm all for dolling up." Felix grins. "Though it would be quite the better wedding night if I got to share it with one of the males." he laughs.
"I'm sure." Cherie grins back at him. "Well, today I have two announcements to you that might shock you a bit."
The contenders look nervously at each other for a moment.
"Okay, firstly, there will not be a new contender checking in today."
"What, a monday without check-in!" Schmidt exclaims. "Oh man, shit's about to get down."
"And lastly, the pairs as you stand as today, I'm breaking you all up. So yep, no one is partners anymore."
At this, most people drop their jaw as they hears the news. Effy just merely raises her eyebrows a tad though, never the one for emotions. Freddie is the only one that hides a smirk as he looks down on Effy. This might just be his chance...
"What do you mean?" Cook asks as he looks helplessly to Naomi who is looking as shocked as him.
"I mean that you and Naomi are currently not a pair." Cherie answers him, before addressing everyone. "Girls, will you come up to me?"
They nod and moves up to her, and she instructs them to stand in a line before the boys. They all look very wary. Pandora is looking alarmingly towards Effy, but she just smiles faintly at her, as to still her fear.
"Everyone knows that before the wedding, there is the proposal. So, it's engagement day!" Cherie exclaims, and suddenly the boys grins widely. Naomi rolls her eyes, because as they're standing surely that must mean that the boys are proposing to them. And she's not exactly all up in the traditional way of doing things, gender roles and all.
"Okay, guys, you will in turn come up to me and get your ring," Cheire magically produces five rings from god knows where, "and propose to the girl of your choice. She has the power to say no, of course. You cannot propose to a woman who is already engaged to someone else. Is that understood?"
"Yes, ma'am." Schmidt grins.
"Okay, so the first boy who gets to propose is... Cook." Cherie reveals.
Cook laughs as he grins at the other boys, wiggling his eyebrows before striding over to Cherie to collect his ring. He straightens the collar of his shirt as he stand in front of all the girls, free to ask whomever he wants. He looks at Effy, thinking of how hot she is and how keen he is on her, but then thinks better of it. Effy is dangerous, and this is a game. He looks to Pandora and thinks about the good time they had yesterday. But no, social suicide that would've been, Thomas would've killed him. Best to keep schtum about that one.
He grins and gives a wink to his current partner, getting a roll of her eyes in return. He really just wants to stand with her, even while being presented with all the others. He likes Naomi and thinks she's rad. And he can trust her, so of course he kneels before her.
"What do you say Naomikins, want to make me the happiest man alive?" he asks cheekily. Naomi can't help but grin at his antics, though feeling embarrassed by how open he is and his lack of inhibition. She doesn't notice Emily scowling over at how she's giggling over his proposal.
"Fuck's sake tosser, stand up will you. And yes, but I won't hear a word of it!" Naomi points at him. He laughs his boisterous laugh and kisses her sloppily on her cheek after putting the ring on her hand.
"Aww, how romantic." Effy teases from the side.
"Jealous are ya." Cook winks back at her.
"Incredibly." she only answers sarcastically.
"Alright, one engagement down, four to go." Cherie says, turning back to the remaining boys.
Freddie sits at the edge of his seat, hoping it will be him. He has a whole speech ready in his head on how to vow Effy into standing with him. But no, of course he isn't next.
"I think we'll have... Felix."
Felix goes over to get the ring before looking at the girls.
"Never thought I'd do something like this." he says and everyone laughs. "Well, just gotta get on with it." he shrugs and goes over to a girl and sits on his knees.
Everyone gapes at his choice.
"Effy, will you do me the honour of marrying me?"
Emily looks on from beside them, a slight frown on her face. Wasn't he her partner just then? Why the fuck did he send out JJ if he is running straight to Effy? She shakes her head at his logic.
But Felix chose of the simple reason that he feels she is the only one he can trust, and the one he wants to stand with. And it did help that she was kind of hardcore and cool. He'd always like those kind of people, like her sister. It isn't that he doesn't like or trust Emily, he just wants this more.
Effy on her part is contemplating the proposal. On one part she doesn't want to accept because she'd rather stand with Schmidt, put on the other hand... What if she by some way end up with Freddie? She can't take that chance.
"Yes." she only says, accepting the ring on her finger.
Freddie is almost oozing of anger from the sofa, but he still have Katie left to play on, luckily.
"Schmidt, you may play your charms with the ladies now."
"Most certainly a thanks to you." Schmidt smiles as he gets the ring.
It isn't a hard choice for Schmidt to choose who to kneel before, and Katie is absolutely glowing as he does so.
"Katie, will thee marry me?" he says nonchalantly and she grins even wider, getting lost in the illusion of it all. And to be fair, Schmidt is so handsome.
He kisses her on the mouth before standing behind her, looking proud of himself. It looks like it wasn't such a burden loosing Effy to Felix when he has Katie. And Katie... no one is beaming more than her.
Freddie is clenching and unclenching his hands in the sofa, thinking how fucking unfair this is to him.
"Thomas." Cherie calls out, signalling that Freddie is the last to propose.
Thomas moves over to Pandora, of course, and looks incredibly proud as he kneels before her.
"Pandora, you're the most beautiful girl in here, and I would've chosen you anyway. If you accept you will make me very happy."
"Oh of course I accept Thommo!" she exclaims, looking very excited about getting back together with her man.
"Okay, so Freddie, you're last." Cherie says and Freddie forlornly comes up and collect his ring, before shambling over to Emily, who herself is looking very sceptical to this. She does not for the life of her want Freddie as her partner.
He goes down before her. "Emily?" he only asks, not having the energy nor wants to word out everything you're supposed to.
Emily looks over to Cherie. She said before that one could say no, right?
"Sorry, Emily." Cherie says, sensing what Emily is wondering about. "You're the last girl, so I'm afraid you have to say yes."
Emily sighs and lets Freddie slide the ring onto her finger. Two new partners in two days. Getting worse by each. Not Emily's week indeed.
"Okay, congratulations on the engagement everyone! The boys will move into the room of the girl they proposed to, and later there's a surprise for you all." Cherie waves as she walks out of the hotel.
The boys drag their suitcases over the hotel once again as they change room, all except Cook who only hangs around them grinning about how he doesn't have to move anything.
When everyone is settled in, they decide it's time for a long and well-deserved dinner, so they leave for the food-room, getting very excited when it's steak and other stuff you find in restaurants, probably in honour of the girls' rings on their fingers.
When they return to the lounge, it's quite a sight that awaits.
"Woah, it looks like Valentine's Day exploded in here." Cook says as he prods a heart balloon.
And he's right, the whole lounge is decorated in everything red, with lots of hearts and other symbols of love hanging about.
"This is so cute!" Katie squeals and leans into Schmidt who has his hand around her. Freddie has been scowling at them all afternoon, not overly ecstatic that Schmidt stole his partner, and that it looks like Katie doesn't have anything against it. And on top of it, he didn't get Effy like he desired.
"There's a letter." Effy remarks as she looks to the table.
Felix goes over and picks it up, opens it and reads it out loud for the others.
"Cupid has shot his arrows and hit the guests on Paradise Hotel. Congratulations on the engagement and enjoy your romantic evening. There's surprises in everyone's room."
"Wicked!" Pandora exclaims, soon followed by a squeal by Katie who leans up to nuzzle Schmidt's neck before they stroll down to their room. Emily sighs heavily as she looks to Freddie. And Naomi looks to Cook with a scowl, as if to say I'll cut your balls off if you try anything tonight.
And then everyone is headed back to their respective rooms to see what is set up for them.
"Wow, this is wicked romantic!" Pandora exclaims as she enters her room. There is rose petals scattered over the bed, along with towel figures and a bucket full of ice, storing an expensive champagne. She drifts into the bathroom, smelling something nice in there.
"Bonkers!" she says as she sees the bathtub. It's filled with warm water and bubbles, and even more rose petals.
Thomas comes up behind her and smiling down at her of her excitement.
"It is very lovely, indeed." he answers.
Pandora drags his face down to hers, their lips locking in a tender embrace. Her hands skims down his body, her mind filled with memories from last night. She wants it to happen again, but with Thomas. He is so hot she might just combust.
"What are you doing." Thomas stalls her, grabbing her hands that started unbuttoning his pants.
"You know what I'm doing." Pandora says, red in her cheeks. "We are reunited, and you know what that means." she leans in again to kiss him devotedly.
"Pandora. No." he protests in between kisses. She steps back, looking at him hurt. Doesn't he want her?
"What is it? You said we could surf and turf when we became partners again. Well, here we are, and with a bubble bath." she points to the bathtub.
"Yes, but Pandora, I don't think it's wise just yet." he tries to take her hands again.
"What? Why?"
"I want to wait, make it special."
"It can't get more special than this." she flails her arms around. "Is it because you don't want me?" she whispers insecure.
"No!" Thomas exclaims. "Pandora, I always do this with girls, I jump in too fast, and have sex with them just after I met them. But I want this to be mature, I want us to get to know each other beforehand this time. I want this with you to be mature, as opposed to my other relationships. Because I think you're worth more."
Pandora sighs out languidly of his words. Yes, it is a reasonable explanation but they also stab Pandora. Because here he is talking about commitments, while her head is entirely somewhere else.
"Okay." she says defeatedly, giving him a small smile. He breaths out in relief, grinning at her.
"So what do you say Pandora, want to cuddle for tonight?" Thomas offers, looking cute.
"Um, yeah, I just..." Pandora panics. She needs to get out of there now. She can't handle Thomas being so lovely to her. "I need to run over to Effy for a tick, you know, girl stuff. Don't go anywhere, I'll be right back."
Pandora starts to walk backwards and out of the room.
"Are we okay?" Thomas calls out after her uncertainly.
"Yes, sure, whizzer good, I just forgot to ask Effy something before. Wait for me." Pandora gives him a last forced smile before she's out the door, leaving Thomas to collapse on the bed in await of the girl he is so fond of.
"Cook!" Pandora whispers as she stands under the porch of the rooms on the upper floor. She sees Cook leaning against the railing, smoking in silence and tries to get his attention.
Cook frowns as he thinks he hears someone call his name, so he sees around him in bewilderment before he looks down, discovering Pandora.
He is about to yell out a greeting but then she puts her pointy finger to her mouth, signalling for him to be silent. He looks down on her in puzzlement, thinking that he might know what that look mean, but he can't be too sure.
"Can you get Naomi out of your room for a while, so... well, you know." she whispers up to him again. His eyebrows raises in acknowledgment, as he is never the one to turn down a shag.
"Sure thing, Pandapops, give me a minute." he grins down at her.
"Naomikins!" he turns and yells into their room, getting a grunt in reply from where Naomi is lying on the bed, tasting the champagne. "Will ya be a goodie good girl and bugger off for a while while I do my duties?" he asks, knowing that he going to the shitter definitely will scare her away.
"Ugh, you're so disgusting." Naomi wrinkles her nose.
"Exactly, might smell a bit if you know what I mean." he shrugs, thinking that if he plays it like this, she won't be suspicious.
"Shut up, fine I'll go. Don't want to stay around for that. Might pop down to Effy for a bit, and I'm bringing the booze if you're going to infect the whole room."
"No worries and thanks babe." Cook grins at her.
Naomi scowls at him for a bit, wondering why he said thanks as he normally don't bother with ushering her out, but then shrugs and is off out the door. She doesn't notice Pandora standing behind a pole, waiting for Naomi's departure as her sign that the coast is clear and she sneaks up the stairs and into Cook's room.
"Yes, more alcohol!" Felix toasts Naomi in greeting as she enters their room by the pool. He is lying, shirt open, on the bed, drinking champagne as Effy is rummaging around him.
"Alcohol is the word." Naomi widens her eyes dramatically at him, before addressing Effy. "What you doing?"
"Sorting my stuff." Effy answers, "and suffering through his nagging."
"Oh don't be like that, you love having me as a partner." Felix grins drunkenly.
"Why are you here?" Effy asks, directing Naomi and ignoring Felix.
"Oh well, Cook said he needed some alone time with the toilet, but I'm thinking that he just needed to get me away to wank in peace."
"That's an interesting visual." Felix says from the bed. "You think he would like some company?"
"Wouldn't risk it. He might just have the great flood running out his arse this minute."
"Well, that's another visual indeed." Felix scrunches up his face.
Effy stops doing what she's doing for a minute as she stares into the air. Cook, she thinks. So different from Freddie. Actually someone she can feel in control with, not someone that will hurt her. Some fun. She smirks to herself.
"Well give it here." she reaches out for Naomi's bottle, "it's a fucking party, drink up."
They laugh together and drink their alcohol on the bed, gossiping about the others. Soon there are noises drifting through the wall from the next room, making Naomi and Felix burst into laughter.
"Fuck me, look like Schmidt and Katie has got it on." Felix snickers.
"Lord, this is priceless." Naomi giggles as she hears what they're crying out from the other room.
Effy just shakes her head, thinking that Schmidt scurrying over to Katie's side is not ideal. She is still kind of certain that she owns him mentally in this game though.
"Oh come on Eff, you gotta admit this is funny." Felix grins at her. She spares him a small one in return.
"Didn't know Katie could be so vocal." she only smirks, setting off the two others again.
"Hi guys." is heard tentatively from the doorway. They turn their heads to see Emily standing there, holding her own bottle of champagne. "Room for one more?"
"Freddie throw you out?" Naomi jokes.
"Not really. He's a sad sod, no offence, so I was going to go down to have a chat with my sister, but she's kind of busy. Some sight." Emily says, and it actually looks like she is kind of mentally bothered of what must have been a sex craze walk-in.
"Oh, poor you, terrorized by your sisters sex life." Felix answers, "come and join our little clique. And more champagne is always welcome." he grins lazily.
"Thanks." Emily grins, giving Naomi a smirk as she moves into the room.
"Well, four's a crowd." Effy suddenly stands up.
"Isn't the saying 'three's a crowd'?" Naomi wonders out loud.
"Whatever, you two need an ice breaker in the form of Felix right now anyway."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Naomi asks indignantly, only receiving a wink from Effy. Emily is grinning secretly behind her.
"Where you going Eff?" Felix asks.
"I'm thinking to maybe pay Cook a visit." Effy smiles, resulting in cheers from the others. She told Naomi and Felix about Freddie un charming pursue on her yesterday, and they totally agree that there is something weird about him. And if Effy is wary, then of course that calls for them to be too. So Effy and Cook is definitely a better idea.
"Why are you cheering?" Emily almost whispers.
"Tell you after." Felix winks at her.
"Don't ride him too hard, gotta have him working in the morning!" Naomi calls out after her friend's leaving back, getting a raised middle finger in return. She chuckles to herself, thinking finally as the sparks have been flying around Cook and Effy for days now.
Cook grunts out in pleasure as the naked form of Pandora collapses over him, their sweaty bodies sticking together.
"Fook me, that was nice." Cook grins, putting his hands behind his head.
"Yes." Pandora grins breathlessly. She rolls onto her side, her hands drifting up and down his muscular stomach.
"Ready for round two?" Cook asks.
"I think I should be getting back to Thomas, kind of left him hanging." Pandora grimaces.
"Oh, alright." Cook shrugs.
"Though I think he'll start to wonder if I show up looking like this and smelling like a flippin' sex house." Pandora looks down herself. "Can I borrow the shower?"
"Course ya can, birdie." Cook answers.
Pandora is up and about, moving naked around the room as Cook's lazy eyes follows her around. He leans up on his elbow just before she goes into the bathroom.
"Hey, want me to join?" he asks mischievously.
She turns around and only gives him a flirtatious look back. He knows what that means and is soon up and about, chasing her into the shower, lifting her up against the tiled wall as he indeed gets his round two.
After a rather steamy shower where they actually managed to clean each other in the end, they stand in front of the door to the room. saying goodbye. Pandora is dressed in her clothes again, smelling freshly showered while Cook is just sporting a small towel barely hanging around his hips.
"It was wacker fun." Pandora grins as she leans up to kiss him gently on his lips. "But it's our secret, yeah?"
"Yes, see you later." he smacks her arse as she escapes out the door, turning back to his room with a grin on his face.
Outside, Pandora is about to descend the stairs as she sees a figure coming up. She recognises Effy instantly, and just manages to sneak behind a wall to hide from her friend. She doesn't want this thing with Cook to come out to anybody.
Effy walks past her and thankfully doesn't spot her. Pandora quickly walks silently down the stairs after Effy is out of sight, thinking up an excuse of how to explain to Thomas why her hair is wet. She doesn't even think about why Effy was up there or which door she is about to enter, Cook's or Freddie's.
Effy walks up to the door with the sign Jupiter. She doesn't even bother knocking, just silently walks in the door, very pleased when she finds a hot and steamy Cook in only a small towel.
"Well, well." Cook says after his initial shock. "They all come to the Cookie monster in the end."
Effy just walks over to him, gripping the front of his towel while looking deeply into his eyes. Then she rips it off, pausing only to let her gaze fall down on his manhood before it strays upwards again, revealing an impressed smirk.
Cook grins wider and wider at her actions, knowing what's coming. Not bad, he thinks, getting more and more turned on with every action the dark haired girl does, two in one night.
Before he knows it, she's roughly pushed him on the bed, climbing on top of him as he starts to discard her clothes.
There comes another grunt from the other room, making the three in Felix's and Effy's room laugh again. They're all pleasantly buzzed on the alcohol by now.
"And here I am, a lesbian and a bottle blonde in my bed while they're having the time of their life. Brilliant, why don't we invite Freddie too, so we can cuddle up together and watch Grey's Anatomy together or whatever you lesbians watch these days." Felix says.
"Lesbian" Naomi corrects, earning an eye roll from Emily.
"No thank you, Freddie is such a party pooper. Doesn't say a thing, just being all sad and pining for Effy."
"Thought you liked him, with your sister and all," Felix comments, still a bit miffed.
"No, that's her. I don't really trust him. He doesn't sit well with me for a reason. Oh well." Emily shrugs.
"I bet he's just a marshmallow under all that exterior. Freddie the Teddy. Oh that's actually good."
"Don't tell him that nickname." Naomi laughs.
"And you!" he points at her in his haze, "Naomi my homie."
"Oh god, you're drunk." Naomi laughs back.
"No seriously, and then we have Katie who was my Matie in the other room. And Schmidt the clit, or Schmidt trying to find the clit..." Felix wonders as the other laugh at him. "And Cook the... oh wait, that just needs changing one letter."
"What about me?" Emily asks.
"Sorry, your name doesn't give me anything. Not one thing!" Felix exclaims.
"Still, you should've proposed to me today..." Emily suddenly says, "so I didn't end up with Freddie the Teddy."
"Yeah, sorry about that. No offence though, I do want you in here and not with him." Felix explains.
"Yeah..." Emily agrees.
"Do you think they've stopped?" Naomi suddenly asks from beside them.
They all strain their ears for sex noises from the other room.
"I think they have." Felix whispers back. "Sorry Emily, can't actually be the best time hearing your sisters love life up close."
"Oh no, it's not, but it's alright, I'm used to it." Emily shrugs.
"What do you mean you're used to it." Naomi frowns.
"Well, back home, we share an apartment together. She often brings guys home, and unfortunately our rooms is next to each other."
"And you tell me you never brought anyone home." Naomi smirks in return. Her impression of Emily is that she's kind of forward with the ladies, and surely they must be attracted to that. Not that she, herself, is.
"Well duh," Emily answers, "but not quite as often, and I actually take that she's living there too into consideration. If not, I definitely hear it over breakfast."
"How cozy, twins in an apartment. I have an apartment myself, quite big actually, back in Toronto. More like a loft. Filled up with my canvas. Ah, how I miss them." Felix thinks out loud.
"An artist, are you?" Naomi questions.
"Sure am, painting is my life's call."
"You any good at it?"
"Well, that's up to the individual, isn't it. Nothing wrong with my creativity though."
"What do you mostly paint?"
"Naked people, but enough about my wonderness, Emily, what is it that you do?"
"I'm a bartender."
"Oh really, and where does this bartender hold fort?"
"In Manchester actually. Earning my gold through mixing up liquids. Quite a life." Emily winks.
"Sounds like it." Naomi quips.
"Oh, you wouldn't know. I work at a gay bar. Brings in the chicks too."
Naomi snorts. "Like they would fall for your pervy remarks."
"They all do in the end." she gives Naomi another meaningful wink. "What is it you do, then, Naomi?"
"Nothing special." she shrugs.
"Oh come on, here we bare our lives and you're as closed up as Thomas' pants." Felix slurs.
"I mean it, I don't work. I just mainly hang around with friends and do fuck all." Naomi shrugs.
"Really, and how do you get by?"
"Well, I might still be living with my mom." Naomi smiles bashfully, earning amused laughs from the others. "Oh shush! I wanted an education but it's so bloody expensive, and who cares anyway, not like anyone takes life seriously. A painter and a bartender, hah!"
"At least we're doing something." Emily answers the rudeness, before softening. "So where are you from? Near Manchester I hope, could pop by my bar."
"Bristol, actually. Don't really hang around the lesbian community head quarters that much though."
"Oh that's a good term." Felix grins, settling himself between the two girls in the bed, nearly dipping off.
"He's so out of it." Emily remarks as she watches him.
"Well, might as well follow his example." Naomi says, before lying down beside him, almost cuddling into him. She figures it doesn't matter since he's gay. And either way they're all drunk, so she just needs some body heat, just for tonight.
Emily lays down on the other side of him, they're both lying in the crook of his elbow.
"But really, Naoms," Emily says, unsure of whether the other girl has fallen asleep. "you just gonna live with your mum for the rest of your life? Don't you have any plans?"
"Sure I do, if I win this I'm taking the money and moving to London. I'm going to study."
"Study what?"
"I don't know. Something smart. Something meaningful." Naomi whispers softly.
They lay silently for a bit, just hearing the others breathing.
"It's funny.." Emily says quietly, "I was actually planning on moving to London myself if I won." she only gets an acknowledging murmur in reply, so she continues. "Expand my horizons, find some new work. Maybe even study myself. Well, if I can get a serious job after being on Paradise that is."
"Hmm, coincidence that." Naomi answers sleepily, not really picking up on how fitting it is, her head too blurry.
"Yeah, it really is.." Emily says, her hand reaching over Felix's chest, coming in contact with Naomi's slender hand unexpectedly. She halfway expects Naomi to shy away, but when she feels the limpness of the hand, she gets that the blonde has fallen asleep. With a coy smile on her face, she shifts until their hands interlock, on top of Felix's torso.
The weird trio falls asleep drunkenly and in each other arms. It is true, three is a crowd. But for now, for now it will do, Emily thinks.
And the chinese law is true, by the way.
So, new pairings again, huh! Hope you liked the chapter x
