Yin: Well, this has taken way longer than I hoped but I am happy to say today is my last day of pretty much everything in my life that keeps me from being able to actually sit down and focus on projects like One Love. Thanks for all the support for this story, were finally at 20 whoo and there is still so much more to come…

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The Russian sighed and smiled forgetting Ginn's earlier words as he lay his head down and let the warmth of his two best friends surround him and lull him into a sweet heavy slumber.

Chapter 20:

Sea Salt Stability

The air was thick with humidity, a normal thing for this time of year in this type of seaside city. Yet, at this current moment the sun was trying to slide silently behind a rather large group of dark grey clouds. A small figure could be found making her way down a tiny path leading to an abandoned part of the city's seawall.

Ginn roughly pulled the hood of her deep red sleeveless sweatshirt up keeping the blustering bay winds from throwing her long pink locks in her face. Her bare feet found their way through the large broken rocks expertly till she came to a flat slab of crumbling concrete that lay between the manmade cliff and a tiny beach of sand, ivy and trash.

She looked around the spot, it was secluded and only a few blocks from her apartment. Ginn hadn't been here in a long time but it was all too familiar. It was the same spot she and Tala had retreated to in times of stress since they were children, the same place she had her first joint, and the same place where she decided she needed to go to college to find her purpose in life.

The wind whipped the ocean's mists into the air around her, making her wonder if the little droplets of water landing softly on her cheeks was from the ocean or the sky. It felt so calming with the endless water stretching out before her toes, it was as if all possibilities laying somewhere out in that vast blue expanse of liquid.

This single body of water connected the whole world, it could go anywhere, touch anything and all it had to do was let the nature's currents guide it. It was something Ginn truly admired and yet hated about this town, the endless expanse of ocean that was at her doorstep and still mocked the fact that she couldn't leave to find out what the other side of the water held.

Her fingers found themselves still clutching the edge of Kai's T-shirt, which she was still wearing from last night underneath her hoodie. Both boys had left early the next morning, Tala said he had an interview for some kind of job and Kai had some kind of "date" with Hailey.

She hated thinking of Kai and the blond bitch fucking each other and she knew that what they were doing whether Kai would admit it to her or not. Though, really she had no right to get angry with him; she still hadn't settled things with her own "boyfriend." Her nostrils caught the musky sent of his cologne that still hung to fabric mixing with the ocean breeze. His fragrance was the root to her current emotional torture.

The more the Russian crossed her mind, the harder it was to keep her heart from pounding faster in her chest. She didn't know what to do; she didn't know what or whom she wanted. It was as if her mind and heart just didn't have any opinions on anything happing in her very own life. She was just numb inside.

She watched the tiny pink strands of her hair dance in the wind amongst the faded cried of the sea birds and crashing waves around her. Silently she signed as she wished she had brought a joint with her. A pair of footsteps muffled in sand behind her brought her from her thoughts; she twisted violently to catch the sight of her red headed best friend.

"I thought you may be hanging around down here Dollface… and from the looks of it, you'll be glad I brought this." As if by magic Tala produced a perfectly cylindrical joint and a lighter from his pocket and handed them to Ginn.

"Well, you know me so well don't you." She mumbled half sarcastically. Ginn wasn't sure what mood Tala was in right now, but she was definitely not in the mood to be played with. She lit the joint and took a heavy drag, drawing in the solace the weed could grant.

Tala smiled almost sincerely as he took a position next to her. He breathed deeply for a moment, allowing the sea and salt to soak into his skin before he looked her over. She looked like she had a pretty bad hangover; it was like the darkening sky was mirroring her posture.

" So, I have a job now." His words rang through the ocean's chorus with almost a question behind them, as if he wanted her to ask what it was instead of flat out telling her. She raised her eyebrow suspiciously at him as she handed him the joint.

"Really now. Well to play alone, since you'll never tell me outright, what is it." She didn't want to beat around the bush with him, not today and especially, not right now. He handed the joint back to her as he let a large lung full of smoke mix into the air around them.

"As a bouncer." Tala smirked at her over his shoulder, as if he was waiting till she had taken a deep hit, "At a strip club." Smoke billowed violently out of her nose and mouth as she choked and coughed in surprise and shock. Ginn heard Tala's laughter through her gasps for air.

"You looked like an angry dragon! That was a way better reaction that I could have ever dreamed of." He giggled uncontrollably trying to catch his own breath from laughing as Ginn gained her posture.

"You asshole!" She yelled as she threw the still lit joint at his bare arm, hitting him lightly on the skin. "I hope that hurts too! Fuck I think I have a goddamn nose bleed! You can't just come up to people's relaxation spots, offer them weed and then try to kill them! That's called a Trojan horse bitch move!" Her screaming only made the red head laugh more.

"Well, at least you seem more normal now, and you got your breath back really fast." He said from his position on his back in the sand. His long fingers grabbed the joint and dusted it off. "I'm not kidding either."

"Okay, well that's a bit of news I suppose." Ginn didn't have anything against strip clubs or that kind of thing, sex was a huge industry and she wasn't too naive to know it. It was the way Tala seemed to be testing the waters on the subject with her that made her uneasy.

His cerulean eyes sparked with mischief as he handed her what little was left of the now resin stained cylinder. "So, I have an idea." His words came out of his mouth like little shards of sugar. Ginn narrowed her golden eyes at him, studying his sharp features carefully as if he was hiding a secret from her.

"Shut up and Talk already." She snapped at him not wanting to drag this subject on for too long.

"They wanted to know if you would want to work there as a waitress." Tala said the words faster than she could comprehend. "And before you hit me, the money is really good and I know you need a job that's close to school and pays good and still lets you go to your classes… and you get to hang out with me at work."

What. The. Fuck. That's what she wanted to say, but for some reason it wasn't coming out of her lips, for some reason, the idea seemed to linger a little longer in her mind than she felt it should.

Ginn had heard jobs like the one Tala was offering paid better than most other jobs college students could have. There were several girls in her classes that were putting themselves through school with the money from their "nighttime" jobs.

"What do I have to do exactly?" She chose the words carefully; Tala knew how to manipulate her into doing what he wanted better than most and she didn't want to commit to anything too early.

Ginn felt his body move closer to her as he grabbed the now roached joint from her fingertips. This is where it started with him every time, he would snuggle up to her and then start playing to her affections and she would eventually give in, it was just how they worked.

"Nothing you don't want to." His voice was husky and heavy in the salty winds whipping around them. Which meant in Tala's own way meant "anything she wanted and more." His fingers found their way to her thigh and lowly traced their way up to trace circles around her jawbone.

His touch sent shivers down her spine, and just like she predicted she gave in. It was as if the motion of his fingers on her flesh was an open invitation to his lips. Ginn felt herself falling forward, deeper into his soft touch as their lips met each other in a desperate clashing kiss.

Ginn pulled away quickly after the few moments of passion subsided; her fingers traced the tiny burn mark on his muscular arm that she had caused from hitting him with the joint earlier.

"Is it wrong if that feels good?" Tala asked referring to the slight pain Ginn was causing from the burn. She smiled up at him.

"Tala, I would be worried about you if it didn't feel good." She laughed lightly and let her golden gaze trail out to the horizon line of the blue expanse before them, wish that her eyes could just see a little further.

"Okay, I'll do it as long as you swear to me you won't tell Kai about this." Ginn took his hands into her own and looked deep into his crystal eyes to make sure he wouldn't lie to her.

" Why don't you want the Russian to know?" Tala smiled slyly at her.

"Seriously, do not tell Kai." Ginn's stern voice made him laugh loudly as pulled her into an embrace.

"I promise." Tala leaned his head in close to her ear and whispered to her softly, " Oh, and don't think I didn't notice you're still wearing his shirt."

Yin: Well there's that, and so much more to come! Untill next time read it, review it and thanks again!