Hello, back again! As you've noticed, things go really slow with writing this story now. It's because of work and social activities, I assure you, because I love this story and you guys so much that I wouldn't leave it. I have two weeks off work now, and are heading on holiday in three days. I'm currently at my grandparents, and here I found the peace to create this chapter. Hope you like it, I sure do.

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Chapter 23: And so it all began

Naomi PoV

It was such a scary, yet welcoming feeling - having someone to wake up to. And it was quite different to what I considered a normal waking up, which was senses slowly coming into focus and then realizing that you slept crooked and that your neck was bent in an horrible way, making it hurt the rest of the day. No, this was nothing like that, when an exasperated sigh escapes your lips and you come to terms with that it's a new day, but yet nothing about it is new. Now, everything is new.

Fingertips dancing over exposed skin. A warm breath tickling a flushed chest. Arms dragging her closer, because you can't stand distance in this confusing and blurry faze of the day. Eyes fluttering open, being met with the warmest color ever, situated in her eyes. Small smiles being exchanged when you suddenly remember. For the first time you'd rather be awake in the morning than sleep in. Because everything is better with her.

"I'm certain that I'm going to die." I huffed, blowing a damp strand of hair out of my face.

"Stop being a baby, you'll live." Emily complained from beside me.

"No, Ems, this heat is horrendous!" I exclaimed. She giggled from beside me.

We'd been laying on my bed for the most part of the morning, in just our underwear. It was a heat wave rolling over the islands, and with me not being accustomed to such in this moist sea environment, I was suffering more than her. Our bodies were wet with sweat, and it was the most uncomfortable I'd ever felt to this date. We couldn't even stand touching each other, as I almost panted at the temperature. Our fingers were playing with each other somewhere between us though, as no contact wasn't something I think I'd ever want.

"There's one way we could pass time…" Emily hoisted herself up on her elbow, trailing one finger from between my breasts down my stomach. I felt my stomach muscles shiver at the touch as Emily smirked.

"If we do that I'm certain I'll get an heat stroke." I groaned, but not stopping her suggestive movements. She snickered at my misery.

"We should really do something that distracts us from this high summer though." she mused.

"We could take another cold shower?" I smiled cutely at her.

"Well, the two previous this morning turned out to be anything but cold." she laughed. I pouted at this.

"But they were fun." I whined.

"That is true." she agreed, her eyes dragging from perving on my body up to my eyes, an amused twinkle in them.

"So?" I raised my eyebrows, eager to get a replay.

"So, we should really go do something other than being cooped in your room all day." she conceded.

"Argh, I bet even the sea is too hot cool down in." I groaned, and rolled my head to the side. She laughed again, and I smiled at the sound. I think it was my favorite. I turned around to face her, and as we layed side by side, I got lost in her eyes. They really was the kindest and most beautiful pair I'd seen. And I felt so incredibly good then, when I thought how she wanted to be with me. Here. Willingly. I grinned at her, and she grinned right back. But we didn't move or touch, we were just contended with studying each other.

But then the sound of my phone ruined the moment, and yet a groan escaped me. I reached behind me and retrieved it from the bedside. I rolled my eyes at the text.

"Who is it miss Popular? Your phone has been going off all morning." Emily asked from beside me.

"Effy." I sighed. "Where's your phone?" I asked her, glancing over. She shrugged her shoulders.

"Dunno. Probably out of power."

Typical. Emily and her phone, if they were at the same place at the same time, it was a miracle. That girl had no control when it came to keeping track of that thing.

"Figured." I smirked at her, while she just lightly swatted my hand before lying her head down on my chest to look at the screen of the phone with me.

"Ah, great idea, let's join them." she said happily when she'd read the message.

"Hell no, Emily! Playing volleyball today would most likely kill me for real. Are you guys immune against the heat, or what?" I looked at her with wide eyes.

"You're such a complainer today. Doing something physical like that will make you forget about the warmth. Plus, I've heard that you're suffering from great competitiveness. I'd quite like to see it." she smiled cutely.

"I don't" I sulked. "Also, this 'competitiveness' got crushed when you crushed me in that quiz." I stuck out my bottom lip. She leaned in and caught it in between her own, sucking on it in a way that made my head spin.

"We're going." she said firmly as she broke off our kiss. She raised from my bed, and started to walk into my bathroom. I looked with lustful eyes on how her hips swayed.

"Fine." I sighed, "but, we're taking a shower beforehand." I smirked as I practically ran after her into the bathroom and discarded my underwear in the process. She giggled as I helped her out of hers and guided us into my shower, my lips attached to her neck. Soon the giggles were replaced by moans.

"Girls!" I heard my mum call from the stairs as me and Emily was going out the front door hand in hand. Our hair was still wet and we were a bit hot faced after the eventful shower. We stopped and turned to face mum who had stepped down into the hallway. She was just wearing a small panty and some strapless bra. Typical mum attire when it's hot outside, not embarrassed about anything at all. I was nearly shocked that she didn't stand there in the stark.

"We're just going to Vader to play sand volleyball." I said, my hand still clasped in Emilys. I glanced at her, and saw that she had gone a little bit more red than before. Was she embarrassed about what my mum was wearing or what we'd just been up to? I had no idea. She looked adorable never the less.

"That's quite alright dear, I was just wondering if you two wanted to see that movie with me and Kieran later. Untouchable or what it was named. I know it's hot outside, but it would be nice cooling down inside tonight, don't you think?"

I looked at Emily, to see what her thoughts were. She smiled back at me, and nodded. "Alright, we're in." I said to mum, before dragging Emily off to the cafe in the store where we'd agreed to meet everyone before heading over to the other island.

Incredibly enough, me and Emily were the first ones to arrive, which I found weird since we'd used a long time in the shower. A long time. I smirked to myself as we walked hand in hand over to a table to sit down opposite each other. It was a bit early in the day yet, just older people sitting around on the other tables, talking and gossiping. We hadn't been into the store since we had that big kiss the other day, we'd been busy with other things.

"Hi Ems, you want some waffles?" I asked her as I saw there were some newly baked for sale. Her eyes light up.

"Yes, please." she said with a big smile and sparkling eyes. I went over to the counter and bought two waffles for her and a coffee for each of us. I took a lot of jam on for her, knowing how she loved it.

I went back and placed the plate in front of her, before leaning in and placing a chaste kiss on her lips.

"Thanks, Nai." she whispered, before smiling cutely. My heart did a double take at the sight and of my favorite nickname from her. She rarely used it, the most common one was 'Naoms', which I also loved being called. But the way she said 'Nai' sometimes, in a soft breath, it really set my stomach on fire. I really had the most delightful and attractive girlfriend.

She munched through the waffles in no time at all, as usual, and sat nursing the coffee like me a while after. She told me about who had skills in volleyball, and who did not, along with some hilarious volleyball stories from earlier years. After a little while our hands found each other on the table, her warm fingers trailing over my knuckles. I didn't think much of it, before the movement suddenly stopped and Emily looked sideways at some older people at the table beside us. They were watching us with dirty looks, their eyes primely trained on where our hands were linked. Emily was about to shy away, when I grabbed her hand firmly in mine, making her eyes jump back to me. I gave her a determined look, squeezed her hand and then turned to address the women on the other table who looked to be in their forties to sixties.

"You stuffy cows have a problem?" I raised an eyebrow at them. They visibly flinched at my words, and looked horrified.

"You're disgraceful young women. That's not natural at all." one of the ladies gestured to our handholding.

"Yeah? Well, neither is your awful facade either. Or your hair for that matter." I shot back. They all looked at each other with wide eyes.

"Oh yeah, just go on and gossip about us. I bet that your lives are so uneventful that you actually need a couple of lesbians to spruce it up. When was the last time your husbands gave you an orgasm, huh?" I snarled. I felt Emily move out of her chair and snapped my eyes back to her. She was biting her lips so hard not to laugh, while giving me a wild 'did you actually say that' look, before dragging me out of the cafe, our coffees still sitting idle on the table. The whispers of the ladies disappeared as the door shut behind us.

"Naomio! Emilio! There you guys are!" the remarkable voice of Cook echoed out loud before we even had the chance to look at each other. We turned to the left, and saw the whole gang sprawled out over a table, eating ice cream and tanning.

I gave them a small wave, before catching Emilys eye. She gave me a grateful look and a gentle smile, as to say thanks. I gave her a soft look back, before we went over the others.

Effy met us with a knowing smirk, she probably knew everything without we even having to explain. But I wasn't about to take it up now, Emily would tell it if she wanted. I didn't care anyhow.

"Ready for playing with some balls?" Cook grinned, grabbing his own balls. I rolled my eyes.

"In your dreams, Cook." I quipped back. He howled with laughter.

"Good thing you finally came out of hiding. Haven't seen you in days." Effy said.

"Yeah, well…" I scratched my neck, looking helplessly to Emily, but she had turned as red as a tomato. The previous events had maybe stole her tongue for the moment. I placed a comforting hand around her shoulders, and she leaned into me.

"Ya birds a couple, then?" Cook asked. I saw the rest of them smiling at us, and I felt myself go red too.

"They are, they properly snogged in the store the other day." Panda said excitedly before we could answer, "Guys, I told you!"

"We know Panda." Effy said, "we just want them to admit it."

"Yeah yeah, we surrender, can we play some volleyball now?" I frowned, too uncomfortable with all this attention around the status of me and Emily.

"Yes, let's go." Freddie said, and jumped up from where he was leaning against the wall. All the others followed suit to the cars.

"Nice save." Emily whispered in my ear, before we walked after them. I didn't know which one she was referring to, but I didn't really care as her breath tickled my skin and she had a permanent grateful smile plastered on her lips for long moments after.

Me and Emily rode with Effy, along with Freddie and Cook. Panda, Thomas and Lara rode with JJ. It seemed that JJ and Lara had become closer since the weekend at the mainland. It was good, it was all good.

When we arrived at the thankfully empty volleyball court Freddie and Cook, which was the greatest players, chose teams. I ended with Cook, JJ and Panda. On the other team were Freddie, Thomas, Effy, Emily and Lara. We started up straight away, ignoring the blasting sun, and just enjoying ourselves with the playing. It was a really even match, both teams fighting real good. In the end we ended up winning the first match with Cook doing a powerful smash that Lara didn't catch. We had a drinking break and then changed sides of the court. A few points into the match though, Emily decided it was too hot, so she wrenched of her tank top, leaving herself in just a tight sports bra with a pair of teeny small shorts. I couldn't take my eyes of her abs. It should be laws against being so incredibly sexy. It should also be laws against undressing in matches, as in the next second someone smashed a ball in my head so hard I toppled over. Damn those abs catching my attention.

"Oye! Blondie, you alright?" Cook came running from the other side of the court to drag me to my feet again.

"Yeah, fine." I said, brushing some sand of my clothes. I looked through the net to find Emily looking at me with a knowing smile, hands on her hips. I scowled at her, before declaring that we should continue. I saw Effy smirk while looking between us. Fucking typical.

I couldn't deny that seeing my sexy girlfriend playing in a so little attire was driving me mad. Every muscle on her body stretched when she hit a ball. It was mesmerizing, and it threw me off my game. And she fucking knew what she was doing to me. Like many times before, I wondered how she'd become so fit, and so so hot.

When I missed my sixth or seventh ball I groaned out loud. I was worse than Panda, and that was saying something. The other team was up by many points, and I knew that was partly my fault since I couldn't stop eye-fucking a certain redhead. But then I had an idea.

I flung off my top, which left me in a regular bra. Opposite to sports bras, this would not exactly stop my tits from jumping all over the place as I played. But the idea was to get back at Emily.

I saw her eyes comically widen as she saw what I was wearing, or not wearing. She was clearly checking out my chest, and I smirked in triumph. Until Cook whistled, that is.

"Ladies, feel free to let the clothes continue to fly." he said cheekily. I went over and swatted his arm, before getting ready to turn this match.

And God, did we turn it. Panda decided to do the same as me, which made Thomas play a bit worse than he normally did. But nothing beat Emily. She was so flustered that she couldn't even aim when she was serving the ball. Her eyes darting to me every time I moved, because it was a push up bra. And I was jumping after the ball which made things, uh, fly.

So, after we won our second match, we decided to take a long break, as everyone was dripping of sweat. Most of the others went to sit on the long bench that stretched on the side of the court, but Emily gave me an amused shake of her head before walking the other way and situating herself on an high fence. I gave one look at the people chatting away on the bench, before following my girlfriend. She smirked at me when i stood between her feet. It was a weird turn of heights, as I now was looking up at her.

We both knew the other was full of lust and dirty thoughts after what had just happened. And the tension built to such high heights where we stood perving at each other, that in the end we burst out laughing. I placed my hands on either side of her thighs and leant into her.

"You're such a sly one." she said as her hands went to rest on my neck and shoulders.

"Really, you're not exactly innocent." I said while I stroked down the front of her stomach. I felt her tremble.

"Well… it was hot." She shrugged. I was not convinced at all. My hands stroked down her stomach again, before further feeling the muscles in her arms and legs. I was driving myself into a frenzy just feeling her like this. I bit my lip as my libido was trying to take over.

"God Ems, you're so… you're so fucking fit and sexy. I just want to set my teeth in you." I said in a voice I nearly didn't recognize. All the warmth in my body was settling in one space. It was the hottest I'd felt all day, and the heat wasn't the main cause. Emily looked at me with black eyes, her breathing becoming shallower.

She let out a shaky breath. Eyeing me with so much hunger I thought I would combust. I wanted nothing more than to take her right there and then, but we were really public, and I was not particularly interested in being perceived as a creep.

"But how did you get so trained? Are you an exercise freak?" I joked, trying to get our thoughts away from that train. It worked, as Emily let out a surprised laughter, before starting to speak.

"No, my dad is just overly active and cares about that stuff. I guess it just transmitted. I'm not really a great fan of exercise in general, but if it's fun, like volleyball, football or hiking, then it's a great excuse for keeping your body in check."

"And you're keeping your body in check, alright." I smirked, not hiding my perving one bit.

"God, what happened to you? We've had sex like three or four times today, because showering together never works, and still, here you are like a slave to my body." she smirked right back, leaving me speechless for a second. Then I decided to keep on bantering.

"Well, I can't help myself." I said, my hand slowly daring to drift under her sports bra. "I've learned these past couple of days that you're borderline irresistible."

In a swift motion she tore my hand away from her boobs, jumped down and pinned me to the fence. It all happened so quick I didn't have time to react before she leaned into my ear and said "I hate you right now." I just smiled at it, knowing that I was driving her crazy.

She stepped back from me, gave me a strict and desirous look then licked her lips, before turning and walking back to the rest of the lot. I stood for a few minutes just watching her arse, imagining all the things I'd do to her later. I'd never thought my sex life would turn out to be so healthy and frequent as it had. But hey, who could resist Emily Fitch? Certainly not one inferior Naomi Campbell.

"Guys, let's cool down in the lake over there, yeah?" Emily suggested as I started to make my way back. I knew exactly why she needed that, but kept my mouth shut. There were murmurs of complies, and we took our things and went over.

It didn't take long before everyone was out in water, enjoying a bit of wetness even though the water probably was as hot as a bath inside. It wasn't an eventful bathe, but it was great for collecting out heads, which was almost draining away in the heat. Cook shot a few digs about me and Emily being lesbians, but it was alright, because he didn't mean any harm. I knew he really was happy for us, because he did care. I gave him a few sarcastic answer to keep him entertained and to reassure Emily. And my eyes never really left her since what happened on the fence either.

Me and Emily was sitting in the shallow water, just enjoying being there, when Cook came over once again to address us.

"Chillax girlies," he said when he saw our looks, clearly waiting for more digs, "I was just wonderin' Em," I gritted my teeth at the nickname, but hey, Cook had nicknames for everybody, right? "if it was alright for me to make a boat party or sumthin' on saturday for everyone. That's when Katie comes back right? Just want to make up for the trouble I've caused, and throw her a little 'welcome home'" he said, looking polite and decent, which is a rarity when it comes to him. The biggest smile took over Emily's face.

"Hell yes, I love boat parties." she grinned. Cook chuckled.

"Thought you'd like the idea."

"Hey, what's so special about boat parties?" I shot in, looking at Emily in puzzlement.

"Oh Naoms," Emily put a hand on mine, "your first boat party! This is going to be legendary!"

"Heck yes it will, blondie!" Cook said as he stumped away in the water, going to tackle JJ.

"Seriously Ems, what is it about them?" I turned completely to her, noting how good she looked with her cluttered, wet hair fixed to her face. I removed some of the strands gently with my hand.

"You'll see." she said gleefully, before leaning in and giving me a kiss. I heard Cook whistling and commenting about it from afar, so I just held up my middle finger to where I thought he was, resulting in a bawling laughter. But it didn't deter me, as I cupped her face and gently guided her so she was laying in the water, my lips still moving against hers. (Her head above water of course, I wasn't about to drown her.) But the stones was digging in to her back, ruining my vision of a romantic snog in the lake. But it was alright, we weren't alone anyway, so it's not like we could take it further.

After half an hour, we moved to dry on the shore, before taking the cars back to Burrhea. Emily asked me to go to hers for showering and such, because she had to pack some more things to keep staying at mine.

She led me up to the second floor and pushed me into the bathroom, saying that I should shower while she packed so we would be quick. She wanted back to mine to eat supper and watch that movie. I was about to protest and pout to make her come with me, but a quirk of her eyebrow told me she was serious. I sighed and went into the bathroom, finding towels and such before getting undressed. Then I took of my top and shorts, only to realize they were really dirty. I needed some new clothes after I showered. Emily's clothes were small… but they'll do.

I opened the bathroom door to find Emily and ask her to lend me some clothes when I heard it. It was some music coming from her room. I sneaked to the doorway, only to find her dancing away in her room while packing a rucksack. It was adorable and I couldn't help but smile. I recognized the song as Becky G - Shower. She smiled to herself as she bopped around to the blasting music, she even sang a little to herself. She looked so incredibly happy and cute that I wanted to eat her up. Well fuck, what was I waiting for?

She took a pirouette, turning around so she noticed me standing in the door. I laughed out loud as she got visibly redder. I wanted her so bad this minute, that my fingers were twitching.

"Oh god, how much did you see?" she asked embarrassed, her hands moving to cross in front of her stomach.

I didn't answer as I just walked up to her, my hands landing naturally on her hips. I smiled tenderly down at her, gradually turning her embarrassment into a beautiful smile.

"Really, that's all it took for you?" she asked, clearly meaning that she saw that I was so hot for her right now. I only nodded, my hands moving back to her arse, and then in a swift movement lifting her up, her legs coming around my middle and her hands held on tight. We giggled at each other.

"This was never going to be a 'quick shower and back to yours', was it?" she asked.

I laughed, my belly warm of being so close to her. Butterflies everywhere.

"No way, and now I'm going to have my wicked way with you." I said before walking to her bed and tossing her on, then toppling her while she was still laughing.

Yes, we had a very healthy sex life indeed if the last week was something to talk about.

When we finally got back to mine, it was already kind of late. Mum and Kieran had just eaten when we came, but politely sat with us as we chewed through steak and fried vegetables. My steak was of course vegetarian, made of peas and some other stuff my mum talked about. I didn't really listen, I just guffled it all into my mouth as I was seriously hungry. The activities of the day had taken on, and I was nearly ready to fall asleep when we were done. But we had promised to watch that movie with them.

We moved to the living room, my mum dishing up with sodas and some chocolate on the table. Emily and me got comfortable in one end of the sofa with lots of lots of pillows. She was laying on my shoulder, looking adorable and cozy. We had put on some of Emily's snuggie clothes, some of them being so big that they fitted me well. It was a nice change wearing her clothes. If more of them were fitting, I would end up changing to her wardrobe just so I could go around and smell her. Was that creepy? Nah, not when your girlfriend is as good smelling as Emily.

I looked at what my mum had placed on the table as I remembered what Emily had whined and complained about that she craved when we were walking over (she was quite hungry).

"Ems," I whispered in her ear, "want me to make some popcorn?" I asked, already knowing the answer. Her beaming smile was answer enough, so I left her to go into the kitchen and throw some in the microwave.

When I got back, I saw that someone had taken my place. Tiger was laying sprawled beside Emily, as she was petting her stomach. I coughed and got their attention. Emily smiled bashfully at me while I lifted up Tiger and sat her down with mum and Kieran which was sitting in two chairs.

"She was so cute." Emily excused herself with big brown eyes as I handed her her popcorn.

"You should learn her some manners, especially since you're her mother now." I said mock sternly to her before I could think of what was coming out of my mouth. Her questioning and slightly confused look told me that she had indeed heard it. I felt my cheeks heat up a bit.

"You are, I mean… I'm her mother, and since you're my girlfriend now it makes you her adoptive mum." I mumbled as I settled beside her. Emily smiled a thousand watt smile at me, her eyes gleaming with happiness at what I had said, but before she could reply I heard a squeal from behind me.

I turned to an equal big smile - my mum.

"Mum!" I complained.

"Sorry love, but you just said you were girlfriends!" she shrieked, "I mean, it's not that it's a shock or that I didn't understand, but you saying it so openly. Oh Naomi, I'd never thought I see the day when you were in a so romantic relationship!"

"Yeah yeah, she's my girlfriend, can we see the movie now?" I asked, a bit awkward with all the attention on the subject today.

"Of course dear." My mum answered and pressed play. I sunk down in the sofa, really tired after the day. Emily ate some popcorn before leaving it on the table, crawling closer to me and placing her head on my chest, her hands circling my waist. Naturally my arms went around her shoulders to keep her close. She squeezed me pretty tight, but I was beyond okay with it. Some minutes into the movie, she turned and lightly kissed my cheek before whispering "You say the best things sometimes." to me. I dragged her impossibly closer, lost in the smell of her hair as she was laying in the crook of my neck. If this was the reaction, maybe I should keep saying things like this, I thought, before the story on the screen captivated me.

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The ironic thing is that it's currently a gruesome heatwave in Norway right now. I certainly feel for Naomi as I'm suffering myself.

Next up is the boat party!