So the super busy tax season at work has me so discombobulated I didn't even realize that next week is Clew one shot week. Which means no long stories next week, I've been saying Until the Moment I Found You, Falling Faster than Anyone Should and Tear Stained Shadowland would be updated next week and they won't. I apologize to everyone who reads those that you'll have to wait an extra week for updates totally my bad I was not paying attention to the date or my own calendar how terrible is that? Thankfully tax season is almost over and my brain should be working again. Next week will be a lot of great Clew shots with many other favorites making appearances in various shots. Again so sorry for the oversight on my part apologies to all my wonderful readers and I hope you all enjoy Clew one shot week.
Ch. 3 This Night will Slip on by
(ADAM)
"Hi Adam," Maya smiles letting me into their apartment and giving me a soft kiss, I know their mom is at work and Maya locks the door behind me.
"Hey how's K.C. feeling?"
"He's a lot better, he can move now but Mom still wants him to stay home for a couple of days," she tells me and we walk back to K.C.'s room.
"Hi Adam," Jenna and K.C. say at the same time. K.C.'s lying in in his bed, he's got jeans on but no shirt so you can see his ribs taped up. Jenna sits next to him on the bed.
"Hi Jenna, how you feeling K.C.?"
"Ready to get out of the house, at least I've had my ray of sunshine here to keep me company," K.C. comments picking up Jenna's hand and kissing the back of it. "And my sister," he adds as a sort of afterthought.
"Gee thanks K.C.," Maya says in a snarky tone and rolls her eyes.
"Hey I would have gone insane these last few days if not for both of you," he replies and Maya smiles. "So what's going on in the world outside this apartment, hopefully Mom will let me out again after my appointment tomorrow," K.C. comments.
"Julian's having a party tonight, most of us are going. Spin, Paige, Sean and Emma are going out tonight so they won't be there. Clare and Bianca are picking out their outfits and Drew's supervising, pretty sure he intends for Clare to go dressed like a nun," I remark.
"I wouldn't be surprised, I heard about the last party," Jenna says.
"I know you can't go out and I'm sure Jenna would rather be here with you but I came to take your sister to the party," I tell them.
"Sweet I'm going to get changed tell Mom I'm sleeping at the Mason's," Maya says leaving K.C.'s room to get changed in her room.
"Tell everyone I said hi," K.C. requests.
"Me too, is the bonfire still Saturday?" Jenna questions. Every year on the last weekend of summer all the teenagers, and sometimes twenty-something like Spin and Jay, in our neighborhood get together on the beach for a huge bonfire and BBQ.
"Yeah you guys will be there right?"
"Yeah we'll be there," K.C. nods.
"Okay I'm ready," Maya says skipping back into the room. She's wearing a pink skirt, black scoop neck tee and a yellow belt with black shoes. "See you guys, good luck at your appointment tomorrow," Maya tells her brother and kisses his cheek, waves to Jenna and grabs my hand pulling me to the front door.
"Eager to leave?" I tease her as we leave the apartment and she locks up.
"I've been in the apartment for two days and K.C. whines when he's hurt. I need to get out and party," Maya tells me.
"Just don't drink so much this time you missed the last party," I remind her.
"I know I know, at least we haven't heard from dad again," she replies.
I'm not old enough to drive, even though sometimes Spinner lets me take the car, so we walk the few blocks back to my house. Since Spin and the others don't work tonight they all took off already. They wanted to have as much time as they could and may spend the night. I unlock the door and hear my brother's voice from down the hall, he's not quite yelling but he's angry.
"No you are not wearing that!"
"What's wrong with it?" Clare asks.
"That's not clothes," Drew argues.
"I better go see what's going on," I say to Maya. She keeps hold of my hand and we walk back to Clare's room together.
"Hey Maya's pink, yellow and black and I'm red and black so you should be black and white," Bianca comments.
Clare's wearing black denim shorts and a long black t-shirt with the sleeves cut up a little. Other than the denim hot pants being a little short I don't see what's wrong with the outfit.
"Oh I have a white lace top that would go great with these shorts," Clare smiles.
"You can wear jeans and hoodie," Drew tells her.
"Drew it's sweltering outside she's going to bake in clothes like that," Bianca remarks.
"You're not helping," Drew responds twisting his face at Bianca.
"What gave you the idea I was supposed to help you," Bianca shoots back. Drew growls and smacks her ass lightly.
"I think you look nice Clare," Maya says.
"Thanks Maya," Clare grins.
"The outfit isn't that bad," I agree.
"You know how teenage guys are and how she is," Drew argues.
"How's this?" Clare asks pulling a white lace teddy from her drawer. Drew growls again clenching his fists and Clare starts laughing.
"She's joking Drew," I assure him.
"I just like to make that vein pop out on your forehead," Clare giggles. Bianca and Maya are also laughing and even I'm smiling.
"Why do you even have that?! When did you get that?" Drew demands taking the lingerie from Clare.
"Alright obviously she's not going to wear that, let's go change and let Maya and Bianca help Clare find something to wear. We're all going to this party we can all keep an eye on her," I say to Drew letting go of Maya's hand and putting my hand on his shoulder to take him out of the room.
"Not if I can help it," Clare calls as we leave her room and Drew growls again.
"She's just teasing," I remind him, "she just likes to annoy you when you treat her like a baby."
"She says she doesn't want to find one of us dead again but she tries awfully hard to give me a heart attack," Drew complains and I shoot him a look. "Okay maybe she's not trying but she…"
"She's rebelling Drew, she's the only girl in this family and she feels isolated. She's treated different because of it and not just by us, by everyone. She's a fifteen year old girl she's going to be a pain in the ass for at least the next few years and she doesn't have a mom to help her. She's got Em, Paige and B but it's not quite the same."
"Yeah well you didn't rebel," Drew responds.
"I was born in a girl's body I've been rebelling since I was six. Besides you have to admit we have a double standard with her because she's a girl," I point out.
"What do you mean?"
"If I came to you tomorrow and said I did anything sexual with Maya what would you say?"
"I'd say awesome way to go," Drew replies with a smile.
"And if Clare told you she got to second base with a guy?"
Drew's posture changes, he stiffens up and clenches his fists, "Some guy would be dead meat!"
"How old you were when you lost your virginity?"
"Fifteen you know that," Drew responds.
"And how old was Bianca when you swiped your V-cards together?"
"Fifteen same as me you already know this Adam," Drew replies getting annoyed with my line of questioning.
"Yeah and how old is Clare?"
"Too damn young to do anything including kiss," Drew says with a growl.
"She's exactly the same age Bianca was."
"But it's different, Bianca's my girlfriend and Clare's my sister," Drew counters but his voice starts to get soft at the end as he realizes the double standard. "Yeah well she's your sister too are you telling me you want her to let her be sexual any guy?"
"No of course not if she told me that she had any sort of sexual encounter I'd have the same reaction as you. I'd want to the kill the guy and it's not just us and Spinner, she's our little sister but she's become the gangs little sister. I think it's why we didn't even blink when we knew Fitz was with her all night the other night. Because we think they all think of her like a little sister but they don't, I'm certain Fitz doesn't I don't think even Owen does. If I wasn't transgender and didn't want to be physical do you think K.C. would be so happy that I was dating Maya?"
"No he'd probably kill you. Great so what do we do because I see how guys look at her and I want to cut all their eyes out," Drew comments.
"Dude I don't know I feel the same way you do and if it were up to us we'd probably lock her in a tower with a chastity belt to keep her safe. Clare's not stupid, she's not reckless well not usually, she's not going to go to a party dressed in lingerie. She doesn't want to attract that kind of attention; she just doesn't like it when we try to control her. Tell her no and she'll want to do it more."
"You know it sucks being the older brother sometimes," Drew remarks.
"Well it's no picnic being the younger sibling either, now I'm going to go change for the party," I tell him and go to my room.
I change into jeans and a black t-shirt with a red button up over it, which I leave unbuttoned. Drew changed too but he's just wearing black jeans and a black t-shirt. The girls are also ready to go; Clare is wearing a black and white striped dress and white wedge sandals. Drew smiles when he sees her relieved that she's not dressed in lingerie. The six of us squeeze into Drew's car and head to Julian's house. Julian lives on the other side of Riverdale with the wealthy people; he's got a big three story house with a huge backyard.
"Let's go get something to drink," Bianca says pulling Drew away.
"Hey guys," Jay grins walking over with Fitz.
"You look nice Clare," Fitz smiles.
"Thanks," she smiles back and looks at me, "I'm gonna mingle."
"Hey be good," I tell her.
"We'll watch her," Jay assures me.
"I'm thirsty," Maya says when they walk away.
"Then let's go find the bar and I'll get my lady a drink," I smile putting my arm around her.
Maya grins and turns to me pressing her lips to mine for a happy kiss.
(OWEN)
"Hey Joey's opening the gate to his yard and we're gonna get in the hot tub want to come?" Julian offers. I've been at his party a couple hours now; I saw Drew and the others when they arrived. Drew and Bianca disappeared upstairs a little while ago. Maya and Adam were dancing and now she's sitting on his lap in the gazebo and talking with Fiona and Imogen. Not sure where Clare went but last time I saw her she was with Fitz and Jay.
"Yeah sounds good you got an extra suit?" I ask.
Julian nods and we go up to his room, ignoring the couple going at it on his bed. Julian gives me a pair of black board shorts and we take turns in the washroom to change. Joey will be in tenth this year with Clare and Adam and he has the house right next to Julian, they have a gate that opens between the two yards and Julian's party is already bleeding through to Joey's yard. It's the middle of the week but Joey said his parents were out and Julian's parents are gone on a vacation.
"Hey guys help me get this cover off," Joey requests.
We go over and help him get the cover off just as three girls come out of Joey's house wrapped in towels. Marisol is one of them, she came prepared wearing a yellow string bikini, another cheerleader is with her but I don't remember the girl's name. The other girl is Clare and when she takes off the towel my mouth drops open, she must have borrowed a suit. A little black thing with silver and black beads on the strings over both hips, and the same beads on the string between the cups on the bikini top, there isn't much material and I don't know if her breasts are going to stay in.
"Holy crap Clare looks g…"
"Don't even finish that sentence or I will have to kill you both," I tell Julian.
"Why are we standing here while the three hot girls are getting into the hot tub?" Joey asks.
We run over and get in the tub, Julian sits next to the chick whose name I don't remember and Joey sits with Marisol. I sit next to Clare, right next to her putting my arms on the back of the hot tub so no one else gets in.
"What are you wearing?" I inquire.
"Marisol brought an extra suit do you like it?" She smiles.
"It looks like floss on you," I reply.
"Yes well I was going to just wear my bra and panties but Sally didn't think it was a good idea," she informs me and I realize Sally is the other cheerleader.
"I think that might have been better, not that you don't look good because you do it's just…just that you…"
"Don't look so much like Drew's baby sister just now?" She asks with a definite flirtatious purr in her tone.
I look over at the other four but they aren't paying any attention to us. I look around Joey's yard, I see a lot of people I know but I don't see Drew or Adam, or even Jay and Fitz.
"Yeah," I nod.
"Owen Milligan I do believe you're turned on," she grins salaciously and licks her lips.
Before I can even think of a reply Clare gets up and straddles my lap, her arms around my neck and she captures my lips. Okay so my lips surrender the second she's on my lap but it's not my fault I'm a guy and there's a hot girl on my lap. My hands go to her waist and I open my mouth for her, she moves in my lap and her fingers brush through my hair. Her tongue slides into my mouth, probing around and I become certain this is not the first time she's done this. Her tongue wraps around mine, massaging it in a way that sends tingles down my body to my growing erection and I know she feels it poking at her. Clare withdraws her tongue and pulls at my bottom lip as she pulls away; sitting up suddenly gets off my lap.
"You might want to hide that Adam's coming," she tells me looking at my erection. She puts her arms on the back of the hot tub and lays her head back. I cover my erection with my hands and look over my shoulder just as Maya and Adam come through the fence to Joey's yard.
"How'd you know they were coming?" I whisper to Clare.
"It's a twin thing," she shrugs.
"Wait does Adam know we were just…"
"Probably not," she answers but that doesn't make me feel much better.
"You know I think I'm going to get out," I comment grabbing a towel and wrapping it around my waist as I jump out of the hot tub.
"Hey look a hot tub," Maya smiles.
"Yeah uh you can have my spot," I tell them and Adam gives me a look but then he sees Clare's swimsuit.
"Get dressed," Adam tells her.
"But I'm in the hot tub," she replies
"Clothes before Drew sees you and that vein in his forehead bursts," Adam asserts.
"Fine," she huffs getting out of the hot tub. This vision does not help my erection, she stands and the water trickles down her curves. "My clothes are upstairs Owen come with me to get them," Clare says.
"No I'll get them Owen stay with her," Adam instructs.
Clare gets a towel and I stand behind her hiding my erection while Maya starts laughing. Adam comes back with Clare's clothes and hands them to her then she follows me back to Julian's to change. I left my clothes in Julian's room and it's empty, now that the couple is gone, and Clare follows me in.
"What are you doing?" I question.
"Changing," she responds closing and locking the door to Julian's room.
"Clare you can't just…"
"You weren't arguing in the hot tub," she cuts me off.
"And then Adam saw and nearly killed me," I remind her.
"You're not afraid of Adam," Clare counters.
"By himself not so much but you have two older and bigger brothers not to mention their friends, who also happen to be my friends," I point out.
"They don't need to know," she replies dropping her clothes and walking over to me. Her arms go around my neck and she overtakes my lips, only briefly before tugging at my bottom lip as she pulls away, "They never found out about the others."
"Uh others? What oth…uhhhh," I choke on my word as Clare's hand gropes my erection through the board shorts.
Clare unlaces the board shorts tugging them down and then she grabs my cock. I start to moan and she takes my lips again, pushing me on the bed she sits on my lap. She continues kissing me and giving me a hand job, I've lost all my train of thought. I don't care one little bit that she's Drew's little sister or that I'll die if he ever finds out. Clare rubs my length and circles her thumb around the head. She bites my lip lightly and strokes me harder and faster until I explode; my sperm shoots up between us getting on my stomach and her hand. As soon as I'm done she hops off my lap and cleans her hand with the towel. Then she changes right in front of me so I sit there and watch the show.
"About these other guys," I comment as I grab the towel to clean up and she's just finishing getting dressed.
"Never mind about them, you don't need to know either and there have only been a few. Now next time," she says sitting on the bed to get her shoes on, "you think about me as Drew's little sister," she pauses getting on her other shoe and then stands up with her hands on my shoulders, "think about what we just did."
With that Clare leaves the room, I don't even have a reaction for what just happened. I clean up and dress as quickly as I can leaving Julian's room just as Lucas leaves the washroom, I didn't even know he was here.
"What's wrong with you?" Lucas questions.
"I…" I stumble pointing into the room behind me, "Clare…uh…never mind let's go enjoy the party."
"What were you doing with Clare in the bedroom?"
"Nothing we did nothing, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. That way no one has any reason to kill me," I tell him as we go downstairs.
"Uh huh so how was it?"
"You know how we like to think of Clare as a little kid and like a nun or something so we never think of hitting on her?"
"Yeah," Lucas nods.
"She is so not either of those things and I'll never be able to think of her that way again," I reply and Lucas laughs.
(CLARE)
"Everyone grab something," Spinner says as he parks at the beach.
It's a small hike to the beach; the beach itself is surrounded by a strip of woods. It's the last bonfire of summer, school starts on Monday. Owen parks next to us and when I smile he looks away.
"Do I want to know why Owen can't look at you anymore?" Paige inquires as we each grab a tote and start walking to the beach.
"Let's just say he doesn't think of me as a little kid anymore," I respond and Paige laughs.
"I'm surprised your brothers haven't said anything," she comments.
"They like to pretend I've never done anything and as long as they like to pretend that they don't ask questions."
It's late afternoon so the bonfire isn't going yet but I see all the wood stacked up for it. Paige and I put down our totes in the sand claiming a spot for the gang. We spread out the towels and I sit down leaning back on the towel. I take off my flip flops and set them in the sand. Owen puts his stuff as far away from me as he can get. Adam and Maya sit on the other side of me. Lucas is tossing a football with Jay and Emma comes over to sit with us, I see Zig and Johnny near the food but no sign of Sean or Fitz.
"Where are the Fitzgerald boys?" Paige asks Emma.
"They're mom got drunk and got in a fight at a bar last night and she's was in the hospital last night. She's been arrested for the fight so they're bailing her out and Sean is trying to work off the damages she made at the bar. I told Sean we could help but he said to come and enjoy the bonfire. They won't make it tonight," Emma informs us.
"Well that sucks," I sigh.
"I'm thirsty, you want a drink Maya?" Adam questions standing up.
"Yeah a pop please," she says.
"Clare you want something?"
"Root beer please," I reply.
Adam goes off to get our drinks and I look around the beach to see who is here. Looks like just about everyone is here, except Fitz and Sean it seems. There are a few people I don't know which either means they're new to neighborhood or visiting relatives, there's a few every year. Adam returns with our drinks while Owen and Drew go to play football with Lucas and Jay. I sit on the towel for a bit and then Maya and I decide to go into the water. Adam won't go swimming but Spin and Paige come with us. I went to the mall and got a new swimsuit yesterday; when I showed Spinner how I'd outgrown the one from last year he agreed I needed one. It's lilac in color and a bikini, only not as small as the one I borrowed at Julian's party. Maya and I take the beach ball to play in the water and Adam comes down to watch us, he and Tris sit in the sand with their feet in the water. After swimming and splashing around a couple of hours I'm starving. I get out of the water and go back to our stuff, grabbing my red skirt and putting it on before walking to the food.
I grab a plate and start looking at the food and I notice a boy, a boy I don't know but plan to by the end of the night. He's across the table pouring more chips into a bowl. He's tall and has bleach blonde hair, his hair is short but he has side swept bangs which are long enough to hang over his eyes a little. His gorgeously soft brown eyes are behind glasses which only serve to accentuate their almond shape and lovely color. He's tall, as tall as Drew at least maybe even a little taller and he's leaner. He sees me and smiles; he has an incredibly charming smile.
"I'm starved, what is there to eat?" Maya asks coming over.
I look at her and away from the hot blonde, and she starts getting food, when I look back to where he was standing he's gone. He's over talking to Liam and Dave now, sigh oh well it's only afternoon yet I still have time. Paige and Spinner get food, so does Adam and we all sit back on our towels. Hot blonde is now playing volleyball; he's on a team with Anya and Liam. They're playing against Dave, Sav and Holly J. Hot blonde is now shirtless and watching him play volleyball makes a nice dinner show. I get rid of my plate after eating, get some water and watch the rest of the game. When it's over I go to the washroom, you have to go through the trees to public washrooms which are gross but better than a port-a-potty. I put on my flip-flops to walk through the trees and go to the washroom. On my way back I get grabbed suddenly and pulled into a deliciously salacious kiss. It's the hot blonde and I smile, closing my eyes, linking my arms around his neck and parting my lips.
"I'm Jeff by the way," he tells me when he breaks the kiss after several minutes.
"Nice to meet you Jeff, do you always go around pulling girls into kisses? I mean how do you know I don't have a boyfriend?" I question while slowly dragging my finger down his chest.
"I did my research, you're Clare Mason, fifteen, single and you have 3 older brothers who would kill me if they saw me kissing you. Which is why I chose to do it in the cover of the trees," he replies and I smile.
"Very clever now who do I ask to find out about you?" I query.
"Jeff McPherson, I'm seventeen and I'm only visiting have to go home tomorrow. But home is Guelph so it's not far," he replies.
"McPherson so you must be related to Anya."
"Cousins," he responds.
I smile putting my hand on his shoulder and crushing our lips together again. We keep making out hidden in the trees for a few minutes.
"CLARE," Adam calls.
"I think you're being paged," Jeff says breaking the kiss.
"Yes that would be my twin, if I don't go out there they'll come looking," I sigh.
"Well you know sunset is in about 45 minutes and most of the couples will be watching that and making out. I think we could sneak away at that point," he says and I grin.
"I know the perfect spot; meet me back here in 45 minutes."
"CLARE," Adam calls again.
"Here, I'm right here Adam," I call back stepping out of the tree line.
"We're going to walk down the beach a bit you want to come?" He asks.
"Sure," I shrug.
Adam puts his arm around Maya and we start walking, it's not just the three of us Drew, Bianca, Zig, Tris, Jay, Jenna and K.C. are with us. We walk down the beach a bit and then the guys start climbing on the rocks and the girls sit on a log, Tris sits with us and draw pictures in the wet sand. When I notice other people approaching I look up and smile when I see one of them is Jeff, he smiles back and I bite my lip.
"Mmm and what was that look about?" Jenna questions.
"What look?" I respond but I'm trying hard not to giggle.
"The look from the hot blonde," Bianca says tapping my arm with the back of her hand, "spill Clare we want details."
Next week is Clew one shot week so this and all other long stories won't be updated until the following week. The update on Saturday the 11th will pick up from here, include more of the party and probably the following day.