Nico came bounding down the stairs, widespread grin on her face and her waist length hair now pulled back from her face in a ponytail. The lights were set on the lowest setting in the underground room, so apparently the rest of the crew had the same ideas as she did about the afternoon. She waved to Rilee, who already had Al's hands up her shirt. She noticed Siren in the corner, and her heart leapt into her throat. Then she noticed Koga's arm snaked around Siren's waist and her face fell.
Sighing, she walked over to the darkest corner of the room where she knew she would find Ed waiting for her. He was slouched on one of the couches across from Vivica and Strife.
"Hey baby," he whispered, pulling her down into her arms and a kiss. As she felt his tongue brushing against her lips, begging to be let in, she thought of how lucky she was.
'Why,' she wondered, 'am I so unhappy? I mean (at this point, Ed's hands slipped up her shirt.), I have Ed here, who loves me and would do anything for me. Why am I so unhappy?' Accidentally, she let out a sigh against Ed's mouth, which he mistook for pleasure as his hands started moving downward.
"Like that, don't ya baby?" he muttered, pulling her between his legs. "Mmmhmmm," she mumbled, trying to keep her disgust hidden. "Not all the way though, Ed. Not yet," she said as his hands found their way into her pants.
Vivica heard someone come over while her body was entwined with Strife's. She assumed it was Nico, and soon found her assumption to be right as she heard Ed whispering and then Nico sinking onto the couch. Suddenly Vivica felt Strife pushing his groin against her lower body. "Mmmm," she mumbled. She wrapped her arms around his neck and then let them slide down around his broad shoulders and across his chest. "Since we're in a room full of other people, we needa keep all of our clothes on, baby," she murmured into his ear. He whined in objection, but didn't try to take her shirt off like he had been planning.
Vivica heard Ed saying something along the lines of, "Please, just a little more?" but couldn't be sure because it was hard to hear over the hard breathing of herself and Strife. Then she felt someone brush past her, and the lights came on suddenly.
"AARRGGHHH!" Vivica said, and was echoed by several others.
"Okay, we need to do something productive for awhile. Or at least something other than snogging for a bit," Nico pulled out a piece of paper and cleared her throat.
"Ed, Al, I've got some bad news for you two. You're needed to help with some form of business or another; being government and all, they gave no details. I hate to tell you, but you have to leave tomorrow," she said, somehow managing to sound regretful even though she was almost glad to have Ed leaving for a bit. It wasn't that she didn't want him around, it's that he was interested in aspects of their relationship that she wasn't. She truly loved him, but she didn't want to have sex with him, and that was what he spent most of his time trying to get at.
Everyone in the room let out a small groan. Al started making out with Rilee once again, despite the lights being on, while Ed stood up and headed for the stairs.
"I'm going to find out some more details on this," he said, pulling Nico into a hug and kissing her lightly on the lips.
"Don't forget to come back before you leave to say goodbye!" Nico called up the stairs behind him.
Nico turned back around to find that everyone had resumed their previous positions, only Siren wasn't quite as into things as Koga seemed to be. No longer wanting to witness this, Nico hit the lights and headed upstairs.