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Trina and Maddy had been at the club, the under twenty one gay and lesbian club Jade had recommended, for just over an hour, and the Latina was finding she'd reached the point where she no longer was wazzed at the goth for suggesting the place. She did, however, notice an unusual feature that made it much easier to navigate. While there was nothing official, the club tended to self segregate by gender and age. Trina and her date were able to find a place where they were surrounded by others in that uncomfortable age where they were too young for the bar scene, but felt like creeps for being around so many kids. This group had commandeered a semi private spot that could be cut off by curtains, and as such weren't watching the under eighteen set following the commands of their hormones. Instead, this was a place for those who had the option of going someplace private if they wanted to explore their partners, so the section was calm, mostly people talking or playing one of the inevitable club games, or even dancing. It was also one of the few places integrated by gender. Near by, a bouncer who defined professional stood by, the obvious security needed to keep everything safe. The whole feel was nice.
The two found themselves striking up a series of conversations, ranging from offers to play swapping games to just discussing things to do in the queer community. Trina found that some things never changed, while others changed quickly. She had been hit upon several times before they left, while her date was only propositioned maybe half as often. "If they think you're unattainable, they don't bother." Maddy tried to explain. "Doesn't explain why they're talking to you so much, cause babe, you're hot."
"Yea, I get that." Trina replied. "I think it's cause, as embarrassing as my show may be, I am on television, and they can just look me up. Yea, this isn't unattainable, it's wanting to score with someone famous."
"Maybe, but I'm still jealous about all the attention my girl is getting." The rich girl said.
"Am I?" Trina asked. "Am I really your girl? I mean, sure, we've been acting like it's a fait accompli, but are we really dating? Exclusive?"
"Maybe we should discuss that." Maddy agreed. "Cause, just cause we're lovers doesn't mean that much. I would love it if we did get there, where we could be one another's one and only."
"Then it's time we agreed to meet up with each others friends." Trina decided. "You've met mine. It's just a mater of hanging out, letting them know we're together. However, I haven't met many of your friends."
"There's a reason I hung out with Beck's gang so much." Madeline said, sounding as sheepish as someone talking over music could.
"I was wondering why Beck was being such a jerk." Trina noted. "I mean, I'd think he'd love to get to know all your friends."
"He did." Maddy said. "That's the problem. I have like three friends, total, and one of them is Alyssa Vaughn. You know, the girl who introduced Beck and me. I, er, they.. We wouldn't exactly fit in with them."
"What about your model friends." Trina wondered.
"Hard to have any when you were raised to think of them as vapid baby makers." The taller girl replied. "Or think like my mom, where all of them are competition, or a means to an end. No, I have acquaintances, people I kinda know, and won't immediately stab me in the back, but as I got out of the business, I found too many of the girls I knew weren't my friends. I..." Her violet eyes teared up, just a touch. "I isolated myself, and don't have much in the way of friends. I found that I hated being so alone, making friends out of necessity, and not because I really liked them. I mean, Jax is my friend, and he's a user. Only reason we get along right now is I'm not dating him, and he's moved on."
"Beck is your friend." Trina pointed out.
"No, Jade is." Maddy corrected. "Beck will be my friend, in time. But right now, he's my ex, and we're not on good terms quite yet. But yea, I do have friends, I guess. Just, we don't get together, or talk, or do much of anything. That was one of the wonderful things Beck had that I muscled into. A solid group of friends."
"Kinda weird being friends with your Ex's Ex." Trina smiled, wrapping her arm around the tall girl.
"Not really." Some guy said, letting them know they were still in a public place. "Sometimes, the shared experience of being someone's Ex is what it takes to help you find that common ground." He smiled at the two. "By the way, I hate you in that cheese outfit. Not anything against you, but symbolic much? Anyways, I'm Chandler, like in Friends, but gayer." He flashed a smile. "Wish my dad was Morgan Fairchilds." A beat passed as he let that thought hang. "Anyways, I just felt, I don't know, that maybe you should accept that your girl here has friends, but their this Jade persons friends..." His smile faltered. "I met a Jade, auditioned for this summer play she was directing. Girl scared the living daylights out of me. I only mentioned that, cause I saw THAT Jade on your show, and...is that her ex's ex?" His eyes held something, an intense thought. "Cause if it is, then he'll probably try to get back with her, and your girl here will be down another friend."
"Yea, it's her, but right now she's dating my sister." Trina informed the boy. "So, not down a friend, just trying to figure out how to include my friends into this relationship."
"Take a day, like a Saturday, and have the one's you think can handle it over, do a hike, or a project, or something, and at the right moment, let them know. Just, make it like it's no big, and they'll react the same." Chandler said. He seemed more then relieved, while anxious to share what could well be hard won wisdom. He smiled, but then left, as he saw someone he knew, and somehow gossip took priority over staying any longer.
After that conversation, with it's unsolicited advice, Trina and her girl agreed to contact their friends, Maddy sharing some with Trina already, cause honestly, Cat was everyone's friend. But they agreed to contact their friends, let them know they were together.
"We are together, right?" Maddy confirmed.
"Didn't we just have that conversation?" Trina groaned. They were relaxing at Maddy's place the morning after their dance date, both feeling that a little snuggling was earned. Of course, as often happened between the two, snuggling escalated, and neither girl was wearing much more then a robe and a smile. "Yes, we agreed that we're a couple now, and I'm thinking, exclusive. No sharing, no jealously, no playing the field, looking for something better."
Maddy gave a humorless laugh. "Like I'd find better."
"You know, people'd expect that line from me." Trina noted as she looked at her girl, realizing that the blond meant it. "You're a treasure, and not just cause your daddy's rich. You're smart, beautiful, and you can make things happen."
"I wouldn't know." The blond once again said. "I've been handed so much…."
"Not gonna get into this conversation." Trina reiterated. "Gonna bite the bullet, and make that call." She pulled herself from the warm, inviting embrace of her lover, and found her phone.
Trina struggled with who to call first, then settled for a mass text.
Margo, Chloe, Cindy, Reba, Wendy (From Trina): I need to tell you guys something. Please log onto Video chat as soon as possible, and lets discuss something important.
Margo, Chloe, Cindy, Reba, Wendy (From Trina): Bottom line, I met someone.
From there, the Latina set up her computer and waited. It took about fifteen minutes for all of her friends to log on and log into the chat, then she was face to face (Kinda) with all of them. As usual for this kind of chat, one of the images had the big, half screen window, while the other four taking up one eighth screen windows, a necessity to fit everyone, while giving importance tot he speaker. Trina knew, in each of their screens, she'd be taking up the big window, cause they all needed to see what she had to say.
"Whats up, bitches?" Trina opened.
"Not cool." Chloe remarked.
"Chloe, let her speak." Wendy said. "Trina, you had something to tell us?"
"You know?" Trina asked.
"Chloe told me." Wendy said.
"Jax told me." Chloe added.
"Um, is this about Blondie Mcboobs?" Reba asked.
"Who told you?" Trina asked.
"No one had to tell me anything." Cindy said. "Suddenly your spending all your free time with her, including weekends at her place. I know, she's rich, so she has to have a kicking place, but lets be honest, that much time, your either screwing her, or managed to drug her and are holding her for ransom."
"I like spending time with her." Maddy interjected from over Trina's shoulder. The fact that when both girls had dressed they'd opted for bikinis didn't help.
"Do any of you have a problem with her and me being an item?" Trina cut straight to the point.
"Nope." Cindy said. "I think we all agreed that this was acceptable."
"Just," Wendy added, "Try to make some time for us. We're your oldest friends. We love you. We wanna spend some time with you. You can bring the girlfriend, just, lets get together again, have us some girl time."
"As long as you don't let that be your euphemism for sex." Cindy tossed in.
"You can come hang at my place." Maddy offered. "I have over two thousand square feet, and while that includes two huge bedrooms, it doesn't include the terrace.
"You had us at terrace." Chloe said.
Trina was nervous as she paced the apartment. It had been about two weeks since the party, and she was once again hosting her friends. Only, instead of fighting her sisters friends for use of the living room, she was sharing her girlfriends place. "Think this is too much?" She asked Maddy. Her outfit, just jeans and a top, wasn't what she was asking about.
"You look fine." The taller girl replied. Maddy had opted for simple, jeans and a tee shirt, wanting to be comfortable. "Besides, their your friends. They love you. No, it's me they're gonna be judging here."
"No, I meant, your place, is it too much?" The Vega girl clarified.
"Doesn't matter." The blond said. "I'm not the one being… Who am I kidding, of course I'm the one being judged. They see me, and all they see is the girl who seduced their friend. Of course I'm being judged. I… I have to change."
"NO!" Trina's voice was strong, stern. "What you wear makes a big impression, and for this evening, I think you're right, we need to keep things casual. Jax will be here, so you won't be alone. Remember he's on your side. Only, we don't talk about dating type things you may have done here. Instead, we just focus on the simplicity of the design, so that no one questions that he knows where everything is."
"Great, now I have to worry about what Jax told Chloe." Maddy groaned. "Maybe I can just sit there, be all quiet and unassuming. Think that'll work?"
"Almost six feet tall, with a killer body and huge knockers, and you think you can just blend into the background?" Trina asked. "Babe, why would you? I know, I get it, you've always been window dressing. Only, you're not. You are exactly who you should be, a vibrant, interesting, and intelligent women who's going to collage. You're gonna show your dad, and the world, that you're a hell of a lot more then your genetics. And that starts right now, with my friends. Besides, you've met them, and they like you. So deep breath."
"Guys I used to date often gave me that advice." Maddy noted.
"To relax?" Trina asked, walking over to check on the terrace. "Yea, you need your own Jacuzzi. That's a great place for one, in the corner there. We can kinda hide it, then we'd have it when we need to. You know, for private soaking."
"Right, near the guest bedroom." Maddy nodded. "So you can get your soak on while I'm busy doing things."
"Maddy, babe, you and I both know, in time, I won't be using the guest bedroom that much." Trina tried to reason with the girl. "Tori will. Tori means Jade, and Jade loves her a good Jacuzzi. So, lets stop worrying about my friends, and..."
"They wanted to look at my tits." Maddy tossed out.
"No, my friends don't wanna." Trina shifted, confused. "They're gonna, cause people do. Girls, boys, people who don't even want to admit they exist, they'll all be glancing, sometimes. But they're not plotting to see..."
"No, my ex boyfriends." Madeline interrupted. "The advice they'd give was to take a deep breath, so they could look at my boobs rise."
"I know." The Vega sister said. "I may not be as built as you, or Jade, but I know the value of a tight sweater." A devilish smile crossed her face. "Wanna see?"
"Don't have time." Maddy groaned.
"Not for screwing around, no." Trina agreed. "But who said you couldn't look?"
"Babe…?" Maddy stood there, eyes on Trina's chest, dirty thoughts streaming through her head.
"And with that, you can relax, cause no one is gonna be judging you." Trina said, slightly moving her body from side to side, like a hypnotist. "And after, we can do all the sweater watching we want."
"You're surprisingly good with those." The blond said, eyes still on her lovers chest.
"I've had occasion to use them to get what I want." Trina admitted.
"And now I'm jealous." Maddy whined.
"Baby, it's okay." Trina cooed. "It's noting you haven't done. It's like flirting to get out of a speeding ticket. Every reasonably attractive girls done it. Nothing sexual, nothing dirty. Just, they're looking anyways, so why not hypnotize them, let them get distracted, As long as you take precautions, make sure your safe, whats the harm?"
"Do you really hypnotize them?" Maddy asked. "As in put them in a trance, get them to act like a chicken?"
"Of course not." Trina laughed, realizing she made her girls jiggle for her girlfriend.
"I get it." Maddy said. "When it comes to sex, a lot of guys are half way in a trance. You just use your whiles, your desirability, and the guys desire to be liked, to get what you want."
"Of course you've done it." Trina smirked.
"Yea, but I get the feeling your way better at it then I am." Maddy groaned. "My mother worked her ass off trying to teach me how to do this chiz, and your better then I am. How is that fair?"
"Easy." Trina smiled, a more open, genuine smile. "You've spent your life rebelling against being just a pretty face, while I've had to use every tool I have to get whatever I can. Remember, it was only a couple of years ago my little sister was just way better then me at science, but I was the entertainer." Trina gestured. "Tori also has, like, perfect teeth."
"I could see how that'd be important." Madeline said, nodding along. "She has that great smile."
"So, when I discovered just how talented Tori was, I realized I had to use every tool, just to have the same opportunities." Trina finished. "I'd been manipulating the horny guys at school for a while now, mostly keeping them away. You know, so I'd be single when mister right showed up."
"That's misses right, thank you very much." Maddy said, smiling a huge smile.
"So I guess it's just about attitude." Trina amended. "I've always felt it's okay to use all my tools, cause that's what everyone else is doing."
"That's what mom always said." Maddy was smiling, stepping closer to her girl. "So, I'll let you feel mine if I can feel yours."
"Sure, we've got time." Trina replied, stepping in for a quick kiss.
There was a knock at the door. "Or maybe not." Trina groaned. "If I were a guy, I'd have a woody right now."
"Thank god it doesn't show." Maddy said. "Damn, I was gonna change, wasn't I?"
"Just open the door." Trina said, moving away from her girl. "Lets get this over with. Only need to introduce them to this place once. Then, they'll be old hat with it, and won't freak out so much about how nice it is."
"Yea, but will they ever wanna leave?" Maddy asked, then opened the door.
The whole gang had somehow managed to show up together. "You planned this, didn't you?" Trina asked as Margo pushed her way in.
"This place is huge." The blond noted. "So, where's misses boobies?"
"I'm right here." Maddy said. "Kinda tall, so I'm kinda hard to miss."
Cindy walked in. "This place is so… this is gonna be worth the occasional trip up here."
"Yea, but is it really?" Wendy asked. "I mean, Ron's place is kinda… Okay, this place is big."
Chloe smirked. "Jax, why don't you have a place like this?" She asked.
"Cause I'm at the Palm Wood." He replied. "If I was doing better, then maybe I'd move into a bigger suite. Only, I am, but I won't. They're pushing me to get a home, or an apartment, something appropriate for someone who's moved from future famous to currently famous. I'm thinking about it. Just, after I finish school. I'm not a brainiac freak like you people."
"Just because we study, it doesn't make us freaks." Reba scolded.
"Reba my girl, standing up for yourself." Trina praised the girl.
"Yea, well, I know him." The Hispanic girl fired back. "I couldn't be so bold with a guy I just met."
"You should." Jax said. "Reba, you're a catch. Maybe not a model, but think, many guys get tired of that kind of girl. They want a challenge, someone who they can talk to. Someone who's more of an equal…."
"Yea.. No." Margo said, her sarcasm only slightly coloring her response. "Guys don't like to be shown up. They wanna girl they can show off, show their friend that they're the man. Once that's done, all they care about is sex appeal. No one cares if you can talk until it's time to raise the kids."
"Bitter much?" Chloe asked.
"Just being realistic." Margo snapped back.
"Ron's not like that." Wendy said. She'd walked around the open space, the living room slash dining room area, ducking briefly into the kitchen, before heading back and settling on one of the couches. "Sure, he's the son of a minor celebrity, but he also knows that he can't just mistreat his woman. If he does, he winds up alone. Besides, his daddy, THE Venus Rising, taught him better."
"Ugg." Trina groaned. "Wendy, I love you, but do you have to point out that your dating a radio celebrity's kid. I mean, sure, we get it, he's a catch. Just… wait, why isn't he here?"
"Cause he and Jax haven't adjusted to each other yet." Wendy said, like that was the end of the discussion.
"Plus, I think he's afraid of Maddy." Reba added. "Boys cool enough, but you know how intimidating tall blonds can be to him. No idea why, but for some reason, tall blonds are like his kryptonite. Even Margo intimidates him a bit."
"He had an auntie, not related, but practically family, who intimidated him." Wendy added. "No details, just, he talked about her, tall, busty, blond, and intimidating as hell."
"Maybe it was just that his dad was intimidated." Jax suggested. "I've met the boy, and from what I can tell, it was early childhood experiences that caused his reaction to blonds. Then again, many guys react oddly to blonds. No idea why."
"We should ask Tori." Margo said. "Isn't one of her life's ambitions to be blond?"
"Regardless, your all here, but with only one boy." Trina said. "Where are the guys?"
"We're having a girls night." Chloe said. "Um, Jax is kinda an exception, cause he's all man, but so one of the girls."
"Mitch and Kevin are busy, somewhere in West Hollywood." Jax added. "I invited them. Heck, I don't care if their gay as legally allowed, we needed more guys here, and they're my friends. So..."
"I'm glad you have friends." Maddy said to her ex. For several tense moments, they stared at one another, looking deep into each others eyes. "Having friends, caring about things, it looks good on you."
"You realize, right now, I've never been less attracted to you." Jax told the tall girl.
"Yea, same here." Maddy said, breaking into a huge, relieved smile. "Chloe's been good for you."
"Trina's been great for us both." Jax said. "Um, still into her body. Love how good she looks. But, I love her as a friend a whole lot more."
"Wait, your into Trina's body, which I give you is kicking, but not Maddy's?" Margo asked.
"Let it go." Wendy warned.
"No, this could be interesting." Reba said, stepping closer. "Okay, explain."
"Whats to explain?" Jax asked. "Maddy here, she has a great body, but I've had it. I've been with her. Not bragging here, just saying. Trina, I've never seen her in less then swimwear, and don't expect to. Plus, her personality, that confidence, even if it's the fake confidence that's often the foundation for the real stuff, it's highly attractive. I'm into that. I'm just way more into Chloe, and everything she brings to the table. So, yea, physically, I'm into Trina, but I think personality has a lot to do with me and my fantasies. Maddy's more like a sister, someone to scold me when I'm bad, and to hold when her life falls apart." He smiled. "And I don't know about you, but I don't wanna nail my sister."
"Again." Margo said softly, smirking at the dirty implications.
"Oh, so close." Trina said, reacting to Jax.
"You don't have a sister." Maddy added, looking at Jax.
"Not the point." Chloe said. "Most people have troubles thinking of their siblings as sex objects. Parents, siblings, we have massive incest taboos that often get in the way. Also, we've known them their entire lives, and it colors our views."
"I like your brother." Cindy said to Chloe. "Even if he stole my bra."
"How many bra's did that kid get, anyways?" Trina asked, shifting them into comfortable conversations about the weirdness that was their family norms. It was necessary, changing the topic and allowing them to move past the awkward stage. It made the get together a success.
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Okay, their adventures in clubbing, as well as getting together with their friends, has brought us closer to the end. Thoughts on this chapter? What about Trina's friends reaction to visiting Maddy's place? And lets hear it for unsolicited advice. All kinds of fun this time.
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