Wonder if Zac brought home any souvenirs for his best girl from his Hawaiian trip? Just curious! As usual, I own nothing of Z & V other than thoughts, hopes & prayers for their futures together. Thanks for all your reviews, PM's and all your notes about ZV sightings, pictures, etc. You really do know how to feed my addiction and continue my obsession! Thank you! :) Special thanks to cncgrad02 & jerrysgirl for your continued support & much love!
Now, hope you'll enjoy the Hawaiian Homecoming.
KTZLF! -adc
Flowers had been bought. Food was ready for tonight and for Sunday's Father's Day lunch for both of their dads. And, most importantly, Zac and Dylan were home safe and sound meaning that in about ten minutes the older of those two young men should be opening the door to Vanessa's house and wandering in to see her after a week apart.
Good thing #14 on the list of reasons to continue owning two separate houses: Guests can stay at one house while Vanessa and Zac could be together, alone, at the other location. Besides, Zac's little brother would be doing one of two things over the next 48 hours until their parents arrived. He'd either be sleeping off the jet-lag from the Hawaiian vacation or he'd be stationed in front of the tv playing video games. Enough said.
And, as much as the two brothers loved each other, a week together – just them together – was about all that either could stand. So in addition to the thought of simply getting home, both were absolutely thrilled at the thought of Zac going home to Vanessa's house.
Vanessa put away the last bit of laundry that she had been folding on the bed when she heard the door open downstairs. She waited for the inevitable and smiled a content grin when she heard his voice.
"Ness? Baby, I'm here." Zac glanced around the spacious living room.
"I'm just puttin' laundry away. I'll be down in a minute." Her voice practically chirped at the knowledge that he was finally within reach again.
"Stay put. I'll be up in a second." Zac looked at the small bag and the suitcase he was dragging behind him. He quickly pulled one thing out of the bag, unzipped the top of his suitcase and stuffed the tiny article and the bag inside. "Hope you're decent cause I'm coming up." He laughed as he took the stairs two at a time.
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The smile plastered on her face was enough to make him think that his homecoming was simply enough to make her happy. He walked to the bed, gently dropped his suitcase on the floor, then wrapped his arms around his longtime girlfriend and pulled her as tightly against him as he could without suffocating her. "I missed you." he revealed the obvious line. "Hawaii wasn't the same without you."
She smiled and wrapped her arms upwards, around his shoulder blades to grip tightly to his shoulders as she breathed in the scent of salty air that he carried with him from the islands. "Mmm, I missed you too. You smell nice." she added as she buried her nose against the faint stubble that was making a presence on his neck and chin.
The lovers pulled apart to gaze in each others eyes...him expecting a 'welcome home' kiss from the beautiful woman in front of him; her thinking something totally different. "So, what'd you bring me?"
"What did I bring you? I brought you me!" he held out empty arms as though presenting himself to her.
"No, seriously." Vanessa pressed on. "What'd you bring me?" she asked, nothing but a serious tone to her voice.
Zac began laughing and leaned down to kiss her the way he'd only dreamed of doing in the past week. His attempt was quickly stopped when she put her hands on his chest to keep him from coming any closer.
"Zac…" she said warningly.
Sighing, he lifted himself up off the bed and grabbed his suitcase. Picking it up he placed it on the bench at the foot of the bed. He opened it and pulled out the black plastic bag and handed it to Vanessa. She grinned widely and clapped her hands together excitedly like a five year old.
The beautiful, dark-haired woman reached in and pulled out a very skimpy, black string bikini. Zac watched her closely as she held up the thong bottoms. Neither of them smiled until she reached for the bag again and began to rummage through it.
Zac stood at the edge of the bed watching her with his mouth covered by his hand. He took note of the flimsy black piece of material, if you could call it that, that she discarded beside her legs on the bed. His mind quickly returned to the shop where he bought the swimwear, and his immediate thought of Vanessa wearing this one piece of the sexy swimsuit.
"Did you lose the rest of it?" her sarcastic voice finally broke the silence as she looked up at him still minus a smile on her face.
"I'm sorry, hmmm," Zac cleared his throat. "Is something wrong?" he did his best to hide his smirk when his eyes grew wide and eyebrows raised in innocence.
"Tell me you brought me a bikini from Hawaii...and that you only made it home with the bottoms. Where's the top Zac?" her pout was irresistible, yet Zac forged on.
He picked up the bag and pretended to look into it himself. "Well I thought they put it in here. I swear I had the whole thing...well there isn't much to it...but I had both pieces in the store. Where on earth could I have put that?" he lazily looked around him.
Vanessa watched, unamused, waiting for Zac to give up and just present her with the other part of this bikini that was obviously meant to tease her. Wait a minute. Her mind finally moved to the same place that Zac's obviously was. She quirked an eyebrow at her boyfriend who was making no move to actually find the lost item. Then she moved her head and donned the sexiest grin she could muster.
"Tell ya what." She winked at him. "While you look for the top, I'll just go put this on and head out to the pool. Once you find the bra, just bring it out with you. K?" She scrambled somewhat to get off the bed and out the door, closing it quickly behind her before he could stop her.
Zac took two steps toward the door and then stopped. He tilted his head back and forth as he played a couple of various little scenarios over in his head. He wanted to see her in just the bottoms of that sexy suit. Was she saying that she was going to go topless to the pool? Sounded like a win-win situation to his jet-lagged mind and to his week-deprived libido.
And...if he got what he wanted in the pool...then he would provide her with the lost top and another few items that he had actually bought for her as mementos of his most recent trip across the Pacific.
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Zac went back to his suitcase and dug out his swim trunks. He pulled out the strapless top of the bikini and two or three bags that were littered throughout his clothing. He tossed the bags on the bench and moved his suitcase into the closet just to get it out of the way. The actions only took a couple of minutes but he hurriedly stripped and hopped over to the window with only one leg in his trunks when he heard a splash in the pool.
His eyes shifted from the calm, easy baby blue to the darkened version of those irises when he caught sight of his love standing neck deep in the pool, the reflection of her naked chest barely visible under the ripples in the water. Dear God Hawaii had not been the same without her.
Zac somehow managed to put his other foot into his swimwear and practically fell down the back steps of Vanessa's home in his rush to get out the door and into the pool.
"So you get to wear your swimsuit, but I only get to wear part of mine?" she eyed him with a devilish look on her face. She watched as his glazed eyes attempted to dig through the water to see if she truly was topless under the chlorinated liquid.
Vanessa swam forward just far enough to stand up again, this time with the water only waist deep, revealing her bare breasts and a hint of her belly button ring. "This what you're looking for?" the right side of her lip turned upwards as she watched Zac's eyes hesitantly move from her excited nipples upwards to her eyes.
"Hmmm?" the guilty hum reverberated through Zac's lips. A week without seeing her…a week without touching her…a week without his lips on that smooth skin and his tongue running across her…
"Zaaccc?" her voice called out and she stepped closer to the concrete stairs that could bring her completely out of the pool. Vanessa noted that his breath quickened and she could practically see his heart beating in his chest when she climbed up to the second step revealing the lower half of the bikini that he had given her.
Zac's throat went completely dry at the sight of her. She looked just as he had imagined while choosing the item in that Hawaiian shop. The reason he had been forced to make the purchase and leave that shop as quickly as he could with small beads of sweat running down his temples. Only now, seeing her actually wearing the thin string around her hips with the 'v' shaped material barely covering her most private area, she was sexier than he could have imagined.
Instead of climbing on out of the pool and coming toward him though, his lover proceeded to turn her back on him and gently pushed herself off the step to glide through the water. That was the sight that brought the absolute throbbing to Zac's crotch. The same feeling he had endured throughout the past week without her near him. Only this time he seemed to be in some sort of trance watching her.
The thong gracefully split her backside into two perfectly rounded shapes of smooth, tanned skin. He watched her practically naked body skim to the middle of the pool and then roll once more to give him a view of her saturated body.
His last ounce of willpower and patience was taken away as she floated on her back and dipped her dark curls backwards into the water, jutting her breasts into the air.
But before he could move she straightened herself to stand in the water again and stared at him. He could tell she was moving under the water but was so dazed he couldn't realize what she was doing, until she held up the tangled piece of black material and threw it at him.
"You really don't need the swim trunks Zac. I'm just going to take them off of you. So why don't you do the honors and then come in here with me." The invitation was a command that Zac quickly began to follow.
He somehow found the strength to step to the edge of the pool and then quirked his index finger at his girlfriend telling her to come toward him.
Zac couldn't help but look around to make sure no one was watching him as he loosened the string on his low-riding trunks and gingerly let them drop to the concrete. It was his turn to watch Vanessa's eyes drop hungrily to the hard flesh that she had been craving for the past seven days.
"So are you coming in the water or not?" she asked in a near whisper as they stood there.
Zac bit his bottom lip in a teasing fashion and held Vanessa's gaze as he sat down on the top step of the pool and beckoned her toward him. As she started up the steps he spread his legs apart to accept her body against his.
"You know we've been apart for a week Babe." Vanessa started as she reached forward and put her hands on his shoulders, allowing Zac's hands to rest on her shapely waist. "If you wanted me topless, or naked," she looked down at her nude body and then raised her smoky chocolate eyes to meet his, "all you had to do was ask."
His hands slid around to her behind, grasping lightly at the muscular area to pull her closer to him. Vanessa smiled at the familiar touch and moved her hands to latch behind Zac's neck before she bent her head to kiss his lips.
Her body began to melt against his when Zac slid down to the second step and leaned backwards pulling her practically on top of him. Vanessa's hands began to wander down Zac's chest and over the pec's that had come into her view numerous times over the last week via the internet.
She pulled from the kiss to watch her hands. "Mr. Sexy Chest." She stated and bent to kiss the light chest hairs that lined the area just below Zac's collarbone. "Do you know how hot you look in those surfing pictures? Gah…everytime I turned on the computer there you were looking…soooo…sexy." She punctuated her thoughts with kisses that moved across his tight nipples to the surface of the water.
Vanessa looked back up into Zac's eyes and licked her lips as the two began another steamy liplock. Zac slowly urged them farther and farther into the water in order to press their bodies closer together with only the sheen of water between them.
Vanessa let her hands and lips wander over his upper and lower body taking possession of his every nerve. "My lips." she followed with a kiss. "My neck." A gentle nip... "My pulse." A burning lick with the tip of her tongue. "MY gorgeous chest. And MY sexy nipples." she finished by raking her fingernails over the mentioned body parts. Just before connecting their lips again Vanessa reached down and guided his stiff penis between her legs to slide against her heated lips. "Just mine." She emphasized with a smile as Zac groaned against her.
"Did I mention that I really, really missed you?" Zac moved them to the wall of the pool and pushed her body against it. "You don't seriously need any other Hawaiian trinkets do you?" he nibbled at her ear as he whispered teasingly.
Vanessa moaned lightly and accepted him inside her body more than willingly. "As long as you brought back the chocolate covered…" Zac covered her words with his mouth and began moving inside of her leaving only the sound of the water lapping around them.
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Back in Zac's arms Vanessa didn't care that they were still completely naked and skinny dipping in her backyard pool. That's what the privacy fence was for. Even if the sounds and splashes from their lovemaking had drawn attention from the neighbors she didn't care because Zac was home and holding her.
"I'm never letting you go back to Hawaii without me again." Vanessa proclaimed as she caught her breath. With her back pressed against Zac's front she practically floated until he wrapped his arms around her breasts and held her in place.
"In that case you have to be ready for more pictures. You know the cameras would be hounding us anytime we're on the beach." He bent and placed a kiss on the shell of her ear. "Or we can just stay inside the entire time."
Zac's excitement was hard to hide as he began thinking about spending an entire vacation on the islands with Vanessa wrapped in his arms just like this. As his hardness became more and more evident Vanessa turned her head and reached up to run her fingers through his hair.
"Well that was a quick recovery." She grinned and accepted his kiss. "But I need a little something before we do anything else."
"And what would that be?" Zac asked becoming lost in her body with the soft touch of his fingers.
Vanessa pointed her lips toward his face. "Souvenirs." She whispered.
"What?" Zac asked with a touch of disbelief.
"You owe me Efron." Vanessa pulled away from him and swam to the middle of the pool. "Showing off that body to the entire world without me next to you to enjoy it? That's gotta be a crime in some Hawaiian law book, I just know it is." She grinned as Zac began to come after her.
"And you forced me to come into my back yard, to the pool, topless. What if the lawn service had been here? What if one of my neighbors was watching? My embarrassment would be completely your fault cause you wouldn't give me the top to my new bikini." She turned on her side and glided away from him just as Zac started to take her hand.
She gave a wink in his direction and watched the frustrated sigh leave his lips. "Back in the house, now. I want my goodies." She ordered.
"Thought I just gave you some goodies." Zac wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Sure sounded like it felt good at least." He watched Vanessa roll her eyes as she drug her lazy, naked body out of the pool.
She grabbed Zac's trunks and held them over the front of her body as she began to walk backwards toward the house.
"Nessa…" Zac's voice began to plead. "What am I supposed to put on?"
Vanessa bit her lip in a playful tease while Zac began to climb the steps. She admired his body completely and eyed him up and down. "Why don't you just follow me in the house, just like that. And after I have my gifts we'll get back to what you want." This time it was her eyebrows shifting up and down.
Zac sighed and and held his arms open to make sure she could see every inch of him as they made their way toward the back door. He even turned around a couple of times giving her a tempting view of his near-perfect toosh.
Vanessa stopped in her tracks at that sight. "Booty dance." She instructed. Her eyes danced as she licked her lips making Zac stop and laugh.
"You like that Baby?" Zac turned his back again and bent over slightly wiggling his butt in plain view. "I call it the Efron magnet you know."
Vanessa laughed with a slight snort as she enjoyed his temptation. "Well bring your magnet, and my thong, and we'll see if the souvenirs that you picked will attract anything that you're interested in."
Her seductive grin made Zac twist his head in near defeat while he casually followed her into the house.
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The blue and red flowered beach towels hung around both of them as they made their way up the steps and back into the bedroom.
"Sit." Zac ordered and waited for Vanessa to position herself on the bed. He held up the strapless top that he had dropped onto the bench before making his way outside. "Huh, look at that. It was right here the whole time." He chuckled.
"Hey!" Vanessa pouted. "See, I'm tellin' ya…you owe me big time."
Her focus shifted when he picked up a couple of the smaller bags and tossed them to her. She sat with legs cris-crossed on the mattress like a child on Christmas morning.
She bit on her lip as she carefully opened the first bag. Vanessa reached in and pulled out a bracelet with light wooden beads and a wooden fish hook hanging from it. "A hook?" she grinned knowing Zac would have some meaning behind it.
"Yeah, cause you know, like, I'm hooked on you." He answered less than sheepishly. "And I figured, when you wear it you can remember that you've got your hooks into me so deep that you just can't let me go."
Vanessa's smile reminded him of the first time their eyes truly met, the youthful gaze showing just how appreciative she was…more of his thoughts than the gift itself. She leaned toward him and offered a kiss on his cheek in thanks as she slipped the bracelet onto her bare arm for safe keeping.
"Next." Zac handed her another small bag. This time she pulled out a keychain in the shape of a surfboard with the hand symbol for 'hang loose' painted on it.
She looked at Zac with a curious grin this time as he flashed her his own 'hang loose' sign with his right hand.
"Remember those surfing shots that you seem to like so much?" he asked with a hint of timidity laced in his voice.
"Mmm-hmmm" she raised and lowered her eyebrows in a more than eager symbol of how much she liked them.
"That," he pointed at the mini surfboard, "is to help you remember how much you love the waves in Hawaii." He tried not to grin with his lying answer.
Vanessa reached to smack his bare chest but instead felt the spark of fire that flashed when her hand made contact with his skin. The burn was enough to keep her hand stationed there and forced their eyes to meet for his true meaning behind the cheap gift.
"Or maybe," she swallowed, "it'll remind me of moments like this." She scraped her fingernails through his hairs and moved herself closer to Zac for a thankful kiss on the lips this time.
Zac sucked in a breath and turned back to the three gifts he had yet to give her. "This one is pretty self-explanatory." He mentioned as he handed her the Hawaii motif photo album.
Inside Zac had already placed one of his favorite shots of them playing in the ocean surf, from their first trip to Hawaii together. "Use this one for some of our favorite shots from the first trip. Then, next time we're there we can pick up more albums and just fill them up as we go along." He smiled with the instructions.
Vanessa grinned back at him. "We're going to need a lot of albums Babe. Do you remember how many of those little disposable cameras we went through on that first trip? Not to mention the CD full of shots from our anonymous, personal paparazzi person."
They both laughed at her truthful answer. Zac thought for a minute. "I bet I can order the same album online. Remind me tomorrow and I'll see if I can get a case of them delivered."
Her next to last gift was the one Zac knew she was trying to refer to in the pool earlier before he had, well, taken the plunge. Chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
"I knew you wouldn't forget!" Vanessa practically threw the lid off the box and popped one of the delicacies between her lips. "Oh my…these things are almost as good as sex." She exclaimed causing Zac to raise one eyebrow while watching her slide another morsel onto her tongue.
"Good to know I measure up to a bunch of nuts." He laughed and then leaned back as Vanessa closed her eyes and moaned lightly as the sweet and salty mixture made its way down her throat.
Zac widened his eyes and shrugged a shoulder. He let his view widen to take in her entire body as she enjoyed the treat. "So, well, ok. Yeah…maybe I'll have to remember these little babies in case I have trouble getting you in the mood sometime." He smirked.
Vanessa let her eyes drift open and purposefully placed a chocolate bite into Zac's mouth, waiting for him to give his own moan of pleasure at the taste.
He simply crunched into it and sent a wink toward his girlfriend that caused her to stick her tongue out at him.
"And?" she asked as she picked up two more of the chocolate covered nuts and held them in her hand.
"And?" Zac repeated while staring at her.
Vanessa tossed one of the nuts in the air and watched with a hearty laugh as it bounced off Zac's nose.
"That was a bad throw!" Zac attempted and then followed with, "I'm out of practice and those aren't grapes."
"Excuses, excuses." Vanessa pointed at him. "Here, one more try." She lobbed the nut into the air and was pleasantly surprised to see him catch it and suck on it to remove the candy coating before enjoying the protein too.
"Very good!" she grinned at him. "Now, I'm still waiting."
"Really? For what?" Zac teased.
"Zaaccc…I see the other box on the bench. I know it's for me. You never bring anything home for yourself in a box." She whined.
"Fine. Geez." He started to hand the box to her and then pulled it back for a second. "Wait. You should know that this one was kinda Dylan's idea. He doesn't really know that I got it for you, or why I got it, but it's his fault."
Vanessa took the box from him gingerly with a worried look on his face. "What exactly…" she eyed Zac cautiously as she lifted the top of the box. The green strands immediately made her smile yet she still kept a close eye on her boyfriend. "What did Dylan do that caused you to get a grass skirt for me?"
Zac ducked his head momentarily as she lifted the item out to examine it closer.
"Well, you know, at the awards ceremony they, of course, had Hula dancers. We were watching 'em dance and Dylan just kinda leaned over and said 'Hey, I bet Ness can dance better than that.' And it made me start thinkin'." Zac explained with a somewhat childish voice.
Vanessa watched him with an amused look. "Go on."
"Well, so we're sittin' there and these girls are kinda belly dancing and I started thinkin' about what kind of dance you, maybe, did for the new movie…like, the one that you wouldn't show me while we were in Canada. And I was just wondering if you might show me part of it now, with the grass skirt on…and stuff." The pink tinge in his cheeks relayed to Vanessa the exact thoughts he was having about her grass-skirt dancing skills.
"You are so cute when you get embarrassed." She claimed as she leaned forward and placed a kiss on his lips.
"I know."
She held the dangling plastic material up in front of her and then reached for the top of the bikini that Zac had withheld from her earlier. "I think," she caught Zac's eye as he lay down on his side on the bed with his head propped up in his hand, "as punishment," she lowered her chin and lifted her eyebrows, "you only get one costume choice per day."
Zac pouted but continued locking gazes with the smirking brown eyes.
"You don't get the Sucker Punch dance until it hits theaters. But, if you're good, maybe tomorrow I can come up with another version of it just for you." She shook the skirt and then threw it over his head, laughing the entire time.
Zac scoffed at her as he enjoyed the shiver that ran - not down his spine, but down his chest and lower into his abdomen. He pulled the shredded strings away from his face and watched as Vanessa got off the bed and went to his suitcase. "You're evil Hudgens, you know that? I bring back gifts for you and you throw them back at me. First the wet thong, then the nuts, now this." He chided. "What are you doing in my suitcase anyway?"
She barely glanced up at him as she began to dig through his clothing. "Beating you to the punch…" she somewhat mumbled. "Hey, you've already reaped the benefits of the bikini. You'll eventually get what you want out of the skirt. And if I find what I'm expecting in here…a-ha!" she exclaimed pulling two strings of flowers from the side pocket of his luggage. "Then we can both enjoy one last island experience before you really start unpacking."
Zac puckered his lips and nodded in agreement as she put one lei around his neck and the other around her own.
"How did you know those were in there somewhere?" he questioned as Vanessa began to tug on the towel that was loosely wrapped around his waist.
"Simple." She stated after successfully opening his towel. Zac sat up on the side of the bed and pulled her between his naked legs as he began to remove the towel from Vanessa's body.
She grinned as she leaned toward him to whisper in his ear. "I wasn't there to enjoy these when you first got them. Now, I've missed you…you've missed me. And, I know how much we both enjoy getting lei'd."
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Thanks to everyone for reading and for your support! KTZLF! -adc
