I woke up the next morning from a restful sleep with the sun shining brightly through my bedroom window. I sighed, remembering the lovely interlude I had shared with my best friend's brother last night, wondering if he had taken off in the middle of the night like a guy with regrets about the situation would do. I rolled over in bed and smiled as I saw that he was still sleeping beside me, snoring lightly and mumbling to himself. I couldn't resist wanting to touch his sweet face delicately, softly brushing his fair hair from his eyes. He stirred a little and opened his eyes, looking at me. A smile began to spread over his face as he sat up a little.

"Good morning. What a nice way to wake up, next to an incredibly beautiful woman." Joey said.

"Good morning, Joey." I said, smiling.

"I know this sounds cliche', but I hope you don't have any regrets, because I definitely don't. I guess I've always had feelings for you, Serene, ever since we were little. It's been awhile since I've been with another woman, so it was nice to be with someone that I know, even if it has been ten years." Joey said.

"I don't have any regrets, Joey. It's been awhile for me also. I've always had feelings for you too, Joey, we were just too young to do much about them then." I told him.

"I guess there's no time like the present then, huh?" Joey chuckled.

Before I could respond, he smiled at me as he leaned in towards me to give me a long, passionate kiss. I melted eagerly into the kiss, feeling the desire I felt for him the night before. He wrapped his arms around me and I did the same as we continued to kiss, just enjoying being close to each other. I stroked his soft blonde hair, my hands roaming down his back. He moaned a little in satisfaction as he stroked my face gently, parting from me.

"As much as I would love to make love to you again this morning, it's probably very rude of us to isolate ourselves from our friends for the day. We should get up and join them for breakfast." Joey said.

"I'm up for that." I told him.

We parted from each other reluctantly to get dressed to join the others. I couldn't help but watch him as he dressed. I had only felt his body against mine in the dark the night before and hadn't actually seen him in the light of day. Even slightly aroused, he was still a fairly good size and I smiled with approval. He was just as lean as always, but fairly muscular with no hair on his chest whatsoever, I liked that. I changed into a black tank top and shorts, and looked up as I saw Joey walk up to me and put his hands on my waist.

"We keep this up, we'll never leave this room." I teased.

He smirked. "I just wanted you to know that I really enjoyed last night and I hope that you and I can get to know each other better." he said.

"I would really like that, Joey." I told him.

He nodded in agreement as we finished getting dressed and walked out to where the others were. My best friend and her friends were all huddled in front of the fireplace, drinking hot chocolate.

"Serene, good morning. Good morning, Joey." Serenity said.

Joey yawned and grunted a greeting to them all, going into the kitchen to make his own drink. Serenity smiled and stood up, grabbing my hands.

"Serene, come with me. You and me, we've got to talk." she said.

We walked out to the patio outside and sat down on the cushy floral patio furniture.

"I waled by your room this morning to wake you so you and I could have some girl time this morning and found you and my brother sleeping in each other's arms. You sure didn't waste any time. I knew the two of you would hit it off." she told me.

"You've always known about my feelings for Joey, but I never expected I'd actually get to be with him. It's scary how well you know me, Serenity." I told her.

"I look at it this way. If two friends can maintain a friendship after all this time, we must be doing something right. Just promise whatever happens between you and Joey, that you'll be good to my big brother. I love the two of you so much." Serenity said.

I embraced my friend. "I promise, Serenity." I said.

"Well, it's the day before my wedding to Tristen, I am so excited! He and I are finally going to be married. We haven't known each other as long as you and Joey have, but I knew from the moment I met him, I wanted to be with him. I am so happy, Serene, and I'm so glad that you're going to be here to share this day with me." she said.

"There's no place I'd rather be than here with you, Serenity. That's what friends are for, right?" I asked.

"Definitely! I'm still up for some girl time if you want. We can invite Tea too, if we can pry her away from Yugi long enough." she said.

We rejoined our friends and asked Tea to join us for some private girl time away from the guys. Yugi smiled and looked up at his two taller male friends.

"No problem. Joey, Tristen and I will go out today and have some fun on our own too. You girls have fun today and stay out of trouble." Yugi said.

"We should be telling you guys that." Tea laughed.

We seperated off into two groups and went our seperate ways that day. Tea, Serenity and I had a fantastic time together, gossiping about life and the guys, painting each other's toenails and dancing to some rousing dance music. Tea shared her secrets about Yugi with us, about how despite how short he was, he made up for it in other ways, and that with his darker half, it was like getting two guys in one, considering the differences in the two boys. I hadn't met Yugi's older half yet, a boy he called Yami, but I'm sure I would when the time was right. Anytime Tristen was mentioned, Serenity would get all starry ended and couldn't stop telling us how wonderful he was and how she couldn't wait to spend the rest of her life with him. The two girls hounded me to tell them everything that happened between Joey and I, and I told them afterwards that even though I didn't know where it was going, I was just going to enjoy being with him.

"We are all so lucky to have met such great guys and the fact that they're all friends makes it even better." Tea said.