Chapter 8: After Ashes
Author: Snooglez
Disclaimer: IDOA (I Don Own Anything)
Rating: I guess R for language. Fuck is a very common word.
AN: What has it been like… 4 or 5 months since I've updated? Blame that on my brain, it kinda malfunctioned due to excessive alcohol poisoning and a period a deep depression. But… I'm alrighty now and paxil has become my bestest friendie. rolls eyes That's not entirely true. I was just lazy…err tired. I royally fucked my history final cause old moms wouldn't cancel my god forsaken dentist appointment!
She plans the appointment the exact day finals are due. I miss my 6th period history final, teacher couldn't stay after school cause he's a fucktard, told me to come in next day at eight, I come at eight-twenty on accident, I wait for 45 minutes in his classroom only to discover he was in the office putting in the grades before deadline which would fucking expire at nine. (it takes an hour to do the damn test) He comes in, tells me it's a lost cause and my B will drop to a FUCKING D. I start crying, tell my mom to pick me up. He feels sorry for me and lets me take the test but its not a guarantee I'll keep my B cuz ol' mr. fuck-my-face turned in his grades already! scream I'm such a failure to life. Someone please come and bury me alive…. sigh Needless to say I got wasted quite a lot after that, and puked…sry TMI And after that I did it all over again.
I'll be okay, I think…
I need a hug.
Well, here's your chap. Hope you'll enjoy.
To those who are still alive, that is.
…..
Eva had finally found peace of mind from her blazing headache and nausea attacks after a couple Tylenols. She wrapped herself up tightly in the blankets and had drifted off to sleep again.
Alex could very well tell she was sleeping well, on account of the series of snorting that came after every long snore. A quality she'd once pegged as adorable, but one that she definitely wouldn't miss after she left.
Her lips held a faint smile as she hovered over her sleeping form before leaning down to place a sweet kiss on her forehead. Eva smiled in her sleep, oblivious of her presence.
Alex turned to the drawer beside her and reached into it to retrieve her jewelry vintage jewelry box that looked like it came straight from the 60s, wielding its Andy Warhol pop art décor. Placing it on the drawer she opened it, taking out her heart necklace.
"I never let her wear it…" Alex said speaking her thoughts out loud. Eva stirred in hearing her voice, but Alex was too enclosed in her thoughts she didn't notice.
Eva opened her eyes, to see the blonde kneeled by her side, holding a necklace up in mid air.
Alex shook her head, piteous expression on her face. "I never let her wear it." She repeated.
Puzzled to why Alex was in her sights in the first place, however more interested to what she'd said, she spoke.
"Who?"
The blonde jumped at the sudden disturbance in silence that she thought only she was consciously in the midst of.
She didn't know how to respond. Eva had caught her off guard, and she didn't expect to even speak to her, having the though that Eva never wanted to speak to her again. The plan was to get her things and get the hell out of there. But she hadn't anticipated Eva to be so calm.
"Me?" Eva answered for her. Her voice was sleep ridden and overall tired and raspy. She honestly didn't have the energy to put up a fight, feeling exhausted as her body still found ways to get rid of the alcohol that had swarmed her system and made her pay for screwing up its natural balance.
Alex didn't answer. She wasn't sure where the conversation was going. She had expected what she thought was worst case scenario: Eva leaping out of bed and ripping her head off, but instead she remained calm… and actually speaking to her in a leveled tone.
It was a freaky kind of calm, and it made Alex nervous.
She also knew she was under the sheets of a horrible hangover, which may have prohibited Eva from trying to kill her.
Alex couldn't bring herself to make eye contact, vision focused on her a corner of her jewelry box.
"Alex please look at me." Eva pleaded, her arm coming out to touch her shoulder, warm fingers sliding down the blonde's fore arm before resting back at her side.
She sighed and obeyed, repositioning herself beside Eva on the bed.
Eva's finger tips danced over Alex's then trailing over the chain of the necklace. She looped a finger in between it and picked it up for studying.
"I always wondered why you had two of the same necklaces. I thought one was for me."
It was an open ended question, and she left it open purposely for Alex to pick up and explain.
"It's my heart. I always gave it to the girl I loved." Her smile was weak. She cursed under her breath knowing that didn't come out as right as she thought it would.
It was a double sworded statement, benefiting the truth, and endowing realization and renewed pain.
"Is that why you never let me… wear it?" Eva asked regretfully. Alex had opened up a whole new wound. "Because I didn't steal your heart." She swallowed, but Alex swallowed harder.
"I can't answer that Eva." She said, the guilt fleeting waves over her.
"God, I don't get this." She said placing the jewelry back in her hand. Her voice wavered, and she began to sniffle. An indication of oncoming tears.
Her eyes traveled up to the ceiling as if the answer to all her problems were inscribed on it. "You stole mine and just…"
Unshed tears swam in her deep brown eyes.
Alex wrapped her arms around her tightly into a hug. Eva was squirming in the embrace, wanting Alex to let go of her. The blonde was really doing more damage than good.
"Stop. Stop touching me. Please. Just, stop it. It hurts." She whimpered, her hands forcing Alex's arms to her sides. "You belong to her now. We can't do this anymore."
Alex remained silent, arms held down by Eva in fear she'd start hugging her again. If she did she felt like she'd fall to pieces without the ability to be placed back together.
Alex tried to speak but the lump in her throat was astoundingly high, and she couldn't quite squeeze words out. Instead she bit her bottom lip, sucking it tightly into her mouth.
"Leave. It's all you can do." Eva mumbled, tears streaming down her face.
Alex could feel her own tears trail down her cheeks. "You don't understand. I want to make it better. I don't want to leave it like this."
She was pleading with every last bit of hope inside her and Eva knew it.
"There's no fixing it. I have to cope with it. Just leave knowing I'd always loved you, and you had always meant so much to me."
"What about you? I loved you too." Alex choked out.
"Not as much as you love Marissa. That's just it. I'm not a Marissa. I'm not that perfect girl you loved...who you're still in love with." Eva finished.
There it was. The plain truth pushed out into the open, clear as day. Neither could deny it.
Alex wiped her eyes and lifted herself from the bed, heading over to the closet for her belongings. Eva numbly slid her back towards to the wall, watching Alex pack from the small distance of her bed.
Not another word was spoken between the two, and as soon Alex was done, she gave a longing look towards Eva before closing the door. She leant back on the closed door, heart feeling like it weighed a ton.
…
"So um, what's Alex doing… up there?" Marissa dared to ask. They could be making out, or doing other physical things to each other as far as she knew… and she hated it. The mere thought was pissing her off.
Katie flipped a couple more channels. "Eh. She has to straighten up some things with Eva. Alex thinks she cheated on her with some ex and… well, I don't know what the hell she's doing up there now." She shrugged.
"Oh my god. She told her about us?" There was a brief mixture of relief and happiness before the 'oh shit' expression rolled onto her features. She'd blurted it aloud, and to the one person who didn't know all the details of the situation.
Katie stared on. "What! Alex cheated… with you?" She kept her voice down to a minimum in fear of alerting her sister.
The lighter brunette shifted in her chair and remained quiet, her eyes stilled on Katie's expression.
Katie read these telltale signs of guilt, and her mouth dropped a second, but then closed.
"Marissa! No way! That's so Alex for ya. That girl was completely heads over for you, it's no wonder she chooses you over Eva."
"I uh…I-I.."
The darker girl could only sit there in solid awe. "Whoa." She shook her head in mixed disbelief. "This is like some crazy soap opera shit." She declared, her lips spreading into a lopsided smile.
Marissa scrunched her face up. "Are you mad at me?" She asked meekly.
Katie chuckled. Alex and her were truly one and the same. "No…no. Not mad, but really shocked. It's not my place to be pissed. I really don't have a say in it. Can't say the same for Eva though. She must've had a meltdown judging by how fucked she looked this morning."
"She must have known then…" Marissa said recalling the brief and graphic conversation she shared with Eva before she came over. "It's totally true, Alex must have told her."
"Told her what?"
"That we were trying to get back together. She said some real nasty stuff on the phone this morning when I called for Alex."
Katie smiled at the girl's explanation. "Yeah she's a little hot head. But then again who wouldn't be if some girl from long ago came back and snatched your girl from under your nose? I'd be kicking and screaming too."
Marissa felt uneasy. "I'm sorry." She said with haste.
Katie didn't know why this girl was apologizing. "Don't be, trust me. I've been through the whole sha-bang myself, being stuck in the middle between two boyfriends, and one heavy ass dose of lesbian experimentation back in Las Vegas." She took a moment to revel in deep thoughts. "…Jessica was soo hott though."
Marissa cleared her throat.
"Oh uh, anyways. All I can say is that you guys must really be in love. Case closed."
Her expression brightened at the consideration. "We are."
…
Jodie's eyes never left Summer's form as she came out of another store with 3 new bags.
"What the hell? Summer we already have 9 bags!"
Summer smiled innocently. "I wasn't finished."
"No shit."
"Well you might as well get used to it. I have about 5 more stores to hit up before I leave." Summer informed her, looping Jodie's already full arms with all three bags.
"A pack mule can only hold so much. Could you lay up on the load there princess?"
Summer grinned. "No. Now follow me." She instructed.
Jodie waddled behind her, all 12 bags in tow. "I don't like this. Look I'm waddling! Humans don't waddle, penguins do. How come you're not carrying any of these?"
Summer whipped around. "You still game for you kiss?" She dragged out casually tipping her sunglasses leg into the corner of her mouth.
Jodie expression melted into a smug one. "We agreed that I had to be civil, and I was-kinda. That's a big accomplishment for me. Then you torture me by watching you shop and carry all your bags like some slave. You're are out of your mind."
Summer knew she was right, and armed with good reasoning. "What do you want Jodie?"
"I want your pretty little lips on mine. Tongue and everything." Jodie stood there radiating like a light bulb.
Summer made her 'what the fuck' face. "What? No tongue!"
"C'mon! Tongue is fun!"
"I can't believe I'm debating with you over tongue."
"Hey it wouldn't even be debatable if you just let it happen. You know you want it." Jodie sung suggestively swaying her hips.
Summer saw this and burst into laughter. "Okay, no way in hell do I want what ever it is you're offering you dork."
Jodie winked. "But I'ma sexy dork."
"Anyways. Sit here and wait until I come out."
"What about the tongue!" she called after her. People were staring at her due to her loudness.
Summer backed into her favorite shoe store. "I don't know you... but um, see you when I come out!" She smiled and waved.
"The hell are you lookin' at!" She directed at a couple her were walking by. They shook their heads and increased their walking speed.
"What the fuck am I? Tupac? All eyes on me? Back to your play date kiddies!" She said to the remaining people who stared her way. They all eagerly resumed their previous actions.
"That evil little dwarf. Such a tease." Jodie thought flopping down on a nearby bench.
…..
"Marissa, what are you doing here?" Alex asked spotting the brunette from her current position up the stairs. She could feel her spirits lift instantly. She hoped she couldn't notice her semi red eyes. Her shoulder came up to wipe away her remaining tears.
"I came to see you, but if you're busy I-"
Alex cut her off. "Was, but now I'm not." She smiled and continued down the stairs, a couple suitcases in her hands. "Wait here a sec, kay?"
Marissa nodded mutely, and threw a puzzling glance at Katie. Alex went out the door to load up her jeep.
"She's moving out. More liked kicked out, but definitely moving out." Katie informed her.
A great load had been lifted off of Marissa's chest. Alex was finally free from Eva, and maybe ready to get back into the swing of things.
Marissa sat back down and silently watched as Alex transferred each load of her stuff to her jeep.
"You are so lucky that Eva hasn't come down here."
Marissa grinned and slipped into thought of what she imagined would've happened.
"What you don't think I could take her?" Marissa asked holding both fists in the air.
Katie laughed. "With those wimpy chicken arms, you're crazy."
Alex had packed the last of her things in the back of her jeep and was ready to go. Her dangling keys at the tips of her fingers attracted the attention of both girls when she came back inside.
Alex slowly breathed in and out. The tension and stress melted away. She turned to Katie who waited for her start first.
"It's been a nice year and a half living here, but as we both know I don't belong here anymore."
Katie pulled her into another hug. "At least I won't be hearing any freaky noises from her bedroom ever again."
Alex tightened her hold, choking her.
"No offense Marissa." She gasped quickly. Alex lessened her hold, and grinned an evil grin.
"Geez. You're such a meanie."
"Gonna miss you too, gorgeous."
With that Alex reached out and grabbed onto Marissa's hand, much to the lanky girl's surprise and dragged her out the door.
"Bye Katie." The blonde grinned.
"Dude, call me as soon as you get your ass to Jodie's." The darker girl ordered, closing the door after them. "Bye Marissa."
"Bye." Marissa tossed over her shoulder.
"Wanna ride with me?"
Marissa remembered that she did take her car up to the house.
"Um, but what about my car?"
"We can come back for it later." Alex said with a spark of hope in her lovely blue eyes.
Marissa was automatically swayed. "Okay." She replied a hint of bashfulness in her tone.
…
Jodie threw the bags into the backseat of Summer's car. Her arms felt like they were going to fall off.
"Phew. Sweet relief…" She huffed easing down into the passenger's seat. She was exhausted. Summer had made her hate to shop. She wasn't sure if she'd ever go again for her own sake.
"You're such a whiner." Summer grinned sticking the key into the ignition.
Jodie eyes swept over her in disbelief. "I think I deserve to whine, thank you very much miss slave driver." She leant back the seat and reveled at its softness. Benches were a bitch.
"Aww, you do deserve to whine. All babies do."
"Ha…ha. I carried bags all day and now I'm getting insulted by the evil dwarf from hell."
"Hey! Don't call me that."
"Would you like the name lawn gnome better? Aw, need some more phone books in that booster seat so that you can see over the wheel?" She mocked.
Summer was easily offended. "Quit poking fun at my height!"
"Quit poking fun of my whining."
She scoffed. "Then stop being a colossal baby."
"Then stop being such a midget." Jodie shot back.
"Okay, we sound like two five year olds. So over it. Can we talk about something else please?" Summer asked.
"How about how much tongue is going to be involved with this well anticipated kiss of ours?"
"How about none?"
"Oh we'll see." Jodie grinned returning her view out her window.
Summer took her eyes from the road to eye her passenger suspiciously. "What is this 'we'll see' business? Stick your dirty little tongue in my mouth and it's on!" She warned with a determined point of her finger.
"You can't fight." Jodie laughed.
"What ev. Clearly you've never seen me at a 75 off sale at Steve Maddens. I kick major ass."
Jodie continued to laugh at Summer's claims. "What, do you do? Gnaw at their ankles in defense?"
"You have one more time to insult my height and I'm kicking you out to walk home."
Jodie poked her lip out and snuggled up to Summer arm. "But I wuv-ded you!"
"Jodie!" She warned half laughing. "Get off my arm you freak!"
Jodie wiggled a bit like she was letting go before replying. "Oh no."
"What?" Summer nearly screamed in fear Jodie had ruined something.
"I…I can't seem to let go. It's like I'm stuck or something!" She murmured against her arm snuggling up to it like a kid to a teddy bear.
"Jodie! I am gonna kick your ass!"
"I'm sorry princess but it's a lost cause."
Summer was a great one handed driver. She had to be on account of all those times she'd multitasked with her one free hand either fiddling with her cell, or compact and what not.
Which ever way it blew… secretly she was liking Jodie there.
The feel of Jodie's warm cheek on the skin of her arm was comforting somehow. She could feel goose bumps rise when Jodie would breathe, the hot breath sending a shiver in her spine.
"God, make it stop."
Jodie reached over and began to playfully walk her fingers across Summer's forearm. In some spots she'd drag her finger back and forth. In others she'd drawn imaginary circles. Jodie was simply amusing herself, but it drove Summer crazy.
"O-kay. Seriously. Stop it." She said firmly.
Jodie grinned and shifted her position she was closer to Summer. The smaller girl could feel her heart hammer her chest like she was a caged bird as she moved closer. Jodie had drawn back the hair that covered her ear, and whisper a slow tantalizing whisper.
"I won't… because you like it. Don't you?" Her hot breath hit the sensitive nerves around her ear and she could feel all the blood draw to the center of her body. A lone whimper wanted to free itself from Summer's lips, but if she did she swore in her head she'd kill herself. She wasn't going to let Jodie win whatever type of competition she had made this into. Instead she calmed herself and rolled her eyes.
"Whatever." She spoke weakly. Her voice hadn't regained its strength quite yet and came out sounding as if she was a boy who'd just hit puberty.
Jodie leaned back into her seat, wearing the only smug smile that could drive Summer pass the point of insanity. She wore it well.
Summer hunched her shoulders in branching out her weight towards the steering wheel.
"Tha…that…tease!"
There was a severely uncomfortable silence that followed. However this only pertained to Summer, fore she was left to stew in her own pool of silent panic. Jodie was absolutely fine.
Cracking like an egg under pressure Summer turned and poked Jodie in her chest. "Aarghh!" She growled. Jodie nearly leaped out her skin at the sudden attack.
Her tuned to a fine low octave like she was trying to spill some unknown secret, but she was still loud none the less. Jodie meekly grabbed the door handle incase if she needed to jump out to save a life.
"This girl's a psycho. Hot, but still a psycho."
"And just so you know ….a-and everything…. I'm straight!" She blurted.
Jodie laughed as her small fear quickly dissipated. "What?"
"You heard me. You think you're sooo cool sitting there don't you! You're such a jerk!" Summer droned on her voice now irritated and unusually high pitched.
Jodie knew what was bothering her. She squinted her eyes at Summer as the obvious reason came to mind. "I got you hot." She leered heavily.
Summer's face turned beet red. She laughed nervously a bit in this humorously menacingly way that made Jodie want to laugh her own self. "You did not get me hot! It didn't happen now, and it'll never happen la-ter." She made sure she stressed syllables. She wasn't sure if it'd seep into Jodie's perverted little mind.
-Which it didn't.
She was quite alarmed that Jodie of all people was having this effect on her. Christ, even she had a boyfriend, and not to forget she was straight. She'd only agreed to do the kiss because it was innocent and there were no strings attached. How else do you reward a horny lesbian?
If Summer's actions hadn't cleared any air, her flaming cheeks clarified everything, and Jodie was the first to notice.
"You're blushing! I totally got you hott!" A smirk joined her revelation.
"No I'm not, and no you didn't!" Summer believed it until she actually felt the burning in her cheeks.
"Son- of-a-bitch!"
Jodie was doing a victory dance in her head. "Fuck yeah…Jodie: 1..Summer: 0"
"Go to hell!" Nothing else but this would make it from her lips.
"Why are you so pissed about it I was just fucking with you."
Summer gave her a look of disbelief. "No you weren't!"
Jodie relaxed in her seat once again and tuned her attention to a foggy portion of her window. Her fingers swiped zip zag through it. "It's not like I want you like that anyways. I mean… who would?" She casually rolled off her tongue.
"What!"
Summer couldn't believe someone would say something so horrific.
"You're a dick! A lot of people would want me like that. Like my boyfriend. I am so attractive." She said in defense. She stressed more syllables. This time in boyfriend.
That one ruffled some feathers on Jodie, and not at the word she used to describe her. It was the fact that she threw that she happened to have a boyfriend and she used it to bargain her straightness.
"I'm a dick? You're a dick! A very conceited one. What kind of answer is that? Why don't you kiss my ass miss I'm-so-straight!" She poked Summer in her shoulder.
"Touch me again, and I'll kick it!"
"Fuck you!"
"Fuck yourself!"
"You wish."
"In your dreams."
They continued to bark at each other all the way to Jodie's.
"So um… how's Eva?"
Alex smiled. She had one hand on the wheel, her other arm had rested on the side of the door, bent at the elbow to support her head. Her emotions weren't at rest yet. She still didn't like the way she'd left Eva like that. It wasn't her. It wasn't the way Alex Kelly did things and it was bothering her.
But this gorgeous girl in the passenger seat had drawn her away somehow wielding this super magical lasso-o-love. Alex smiled at the thought.
"heh heh, lasso-o-love…"
"She's okay, I guess. Katie'll make sure she's alright and….do nothing to your car, hopefully."
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah…" Alex licked her dry lips. "…she's a little menace… a brick throwing, menace." Alex shrugged.
"You mean that bitch is gonna throw one at my car!" Her mind began to play Eva heaving a brick over her head and chucking it through the front window.
Alex sunk a bit into her seat. "Might?" She squeaked.
"Why didn't you tell me this!" Marissa panicked fearing her poor car's life.
"Oh man, I totally forgot about that time she totaled her ex's car, and threw a Molotov though her girl's garage." She threw cringe Marissa's way.
"S-she set her ex's girlfriend's garage on FIRE!"
Alex glanced over at Marissa once again catching her whole 'oh shit, my eyeballs at gonna hit the floor in like 2.5 seconds' expression.
A lone grin tipped the blonde's lips. "Kidding." She breezed then eroded into fit of laughter.
There was a moment of silence on Marissa's behalf, and then she punched the blonde in the arm.
"Yow!" Alex wailed pitching a free hand to the patch of red that started to form on her arm. "You're gonna kill us. I'm driving here woman." She still smiled heavily.
"Two years pass and I forget how "funny" you were." She finger quoted the word funny.
"It was priceless."
"Well the part when I punch you made me feel better."
"Your spousal abuse episode?"
"Oh so now we're married? My-my Alex Kelly I thought you would've at least asked me out on a date first." Marissa tsked in faux southern accent.
"Okay firstly, marriage isn't on the agenda this early, and secondly your southern twang sucks major ass."
She whacked Alex again.
"Geez Marissa! What the hell did you mom feed you these two years? Spinach! So violent!"
"What, not man enough?" Marissa asked
"If I were I'd feel sorry for myself, cause you'd probably kick man-enough Alex's ass too."
"Damn straight."
"For my dignity's sake, don't tell anyone I ever said that." She pointed.
They both shared a laugh.
They enjoyed the feel of their atmosphere, no pressures at all as far as they could see. To Marissa, Alex was same old fun, sweet -n- sexy Alex. To Alex, well… likewise.
Alex eased off of the gas as she arrived at the house she was currently sharing. She parked the jeep in front lawn so the door could be easily accessible. They started to unpack, and just when Alex tugged out a random suit case to hand to Marissa, a car sped up to the house at a dangerous speed.
Summer hit the brakes and the tires came to a screaming halt, leaving a nasty tire mark on the pavement. If cops were around she didn't care. She was so furious she felt like she'd short fuse, let alone care.
"Summer?" Marissa asked tilting her head to the side in perplexity. She identified the car as Summer's because no one else in California had "Princess Sparkle" written in pink cursive on the top of her back windshield. "Why and how did she know how to get to Jodie's?"
Alex shrugged and watched as the driver side door flailed open. "Yeah, she came here this morning. Didn't exactly tell me why she was here. She seems to know Jodie so…"
"Summer's straight though." Marissa said this, but all the while questioning her assumptions that she'd once held to be truths.
"Yeah I know, and Jodie's a horny bastard. So you could imagine the look on my face when I woke up, and she's like right there in my living room shootin' the breeze with Jodie of all people like they were soul friends or something. Then I remember she has Seth-and I completely shudder at that thought."
Their eyes followed the smallest girl who lingered near her car shouting at someone.
"No your mom!" She yelled into the car afterwards slamming the door shut. She huffed and grumbled something else inaudible while stomping up to the two.
"That thing you call a friend is an asshole!" He finger pointed back to her car. "Do you know what she said about my mother!" She viciously asked Alex.
Alex backed up a bit from the flaming girl.
Marissa placed a calming arm on her shoulder. "Sum, you hate your mom remember?"
"Yeah, but I still want her to take it back! That's so…so… rude!"
Their attention was caught by the click of the car door.
Jodie stepped out still laughing. She shut the door. "I love you princess!" She directed at Summer from across the yard. She blew a kiss, and it was all Summer could take.
She growled and stormed inside.
"Aaaw… does this mean no kiss?" She asked out loud, but Summer was no where near her to answer.
"Soul friends huh?" Marissa asked Alex.
Alex placed a couple bags in her hands. "They were this morning, swear." She offered innocently.
"Hey Marissa nice to see you again."
Marissa cast a curious gaze upon Jodie before responding. "Yeah, um… nice to see you too." She gave her a lopsided smile before walking in to check on Summer.
Jodie never spoke to Marissa, not even when she and Alex were dating. She could tolerate her, but would never speak to her.
"I'll be picking my jaw off the ground now. That one was definitely a first." Alex spoke.
"What? Can't I be nice?"
The blonde scoffed. "I don't even think it's written in your DNA."
"I'm a good person when I wanna be."
"Which is never. So shut up and help me unpack demon child."
Jodie comically mimicked her last statement with the help of her puppet that happened to be her hand. She grabbed a box of what felt like lead and dragged it at snails pace towards the back.
"What the fuck is in here? Horses?" Jodie struggled. She let go of the box and caught a breath. "I'm breaking out in a sweat just looking at it."
"It's my vinyl. Lemme help you."
Alex grabbed a hold of the other end.
"Must be the whole damn record store."
They succeeded in making it to the back, and paused for another break.
"Uuuh, I think my spine is dislocated." Jodie said stretching her muscles. She relaxed her back on the wall of the house.
"Weakling." She took a seat on a spot of paved concrete on the ground. "So what's up with you and Summer?" Her lips spread into a sly grin at the mention.
Jodie rolled her eyes. "You had to ask Ms. Thang. Nothin'." Her shoe kicked an annoying rock that was trapped under her heel.
"Chasing the straight girl?" Alex teased.
"Look who's talkin' babe."
"But at least she's actually mine. Ooooh, need some ice for that burn?" Alex joked.
"You're so lame. What are you saying, go after Summer?"
"Hey. Whatever floats your boat dude. But hello, boyfriend?"
"It's not floating anything trust me. Summer's not the slightest bit close to my type, but I wonder what her boyfriend looks like."
Jodie imagined a beefy guy, packed with lots of muscles and one hell of ginormous ego. Then she imagined herself with a hammer and performing the nutcracker on him literally.
"He'd never be able to have kids…" She thought wickedly. She snickered to herself. Alex snapped her out of her fantasy.
"Mmmh. You could totally take him man. I've dated him before, and I even made him cry once. Geeky yes, but still cool and funny non the less. Over all he's a good guy."
"You're fucking kidding me. You made him cry? What's someone like Summer doing with a guy like that? She seems so prep girl meets dumb jock to me."
"Yeah, but she sees something in Seth. Whatever that is only god knows. So are you tagging or what?"
"For Summer! Told you, not my type. She's a psycho. She randomly freaked and poked me on the way here. It was nuts. Then she starts to sing 'I'm a little straight girl.'
Alex's blue eyes widened in amusement. "What? What's that?"
Jodie began to sing her own version of "I'm a little teacup" she'd made up for Summer in her head on the way to her house.
"I'm a little straight girl, hear me shout. I have a boyfriend, he has a cock. When he jacks off, sperm leaks out….tip me over and watch me pout."
Alex laughed, hard. She found it completely hilarious. Jodie wasn't laughing though.
"That's what she was preaching to me. She just made me so fucking pissed cause she was pissed because I got her a little hot."
"So you make up a straight girl anthem? Wow, that was a good one." Her finger came up to wipe away the tears that brimmed her eyes. "Why would she freak on you about how straight she is anyways? Did you feel her up or something? People don't all of a sudden blurt about how straight they are unless you made a move."
"No I didn't feel her up! I was joking around and started to hug her arm, then I whispered in her ear how much she liked it, still joking. Then like, two minutes after Mt. Roberts explodes all over on me."
"Ooh, that sounds a little dirty."
Jodie narrowed her dark eyes. "Mind out the gutter please. You're starting to sound like me."
"Nice. Was it a sexy whisper? Were you like a half millimeter away from her ear? Maybe that's why she freaked."
"But she was blushing her ass off. I think she does dig me."
"She blushed?" Alex frowned. Why would Summer blush at that? Maybe from embarrassment? "That throws me off. I don't know what to say to that. All I know is that Summer's a one track girl. I highly doubt she's into chicks. But that just me."
"Yeah I guess. I was just fucking around anyhoo. Not like I like her like that." It came out as a mumble. She kicked around more nearby rocks.
"Jodie why are you so bothered by it?" Alex asked staring her in the eye to see if she could read anything. Something was off about this. Summer freaked out, but Jodie was taking it to heart it seemed like.
Jodie tensed. "Huh? I'm not bothered by it." She snorted. " Stop being such a girl Alex, geez." She said quickly. A little too quickly.
She pushed off the house and stood before the brown cardboard box again. "Why don't we finish pushing this cart load-o-crap inside?"
Alex held her smile. There was definitely something off about Jodie.
…
Summer flopped on the couch, and hear something go: squeeeak! She'd landed on a fake bone toy and in came Spooge armed with lots of doggie drool. The dog jumped up on the couch with Summer in heavy search for his favorite toy. She held up the black and yellow plastic bone and threw it near the door. She didn't want to get slobbered on for the second time in a day.
"wroof!" The massive dog galloped for it, and he couldn't stop to a sudden halt because of his immense weight and the polished wooden floor so he slid… right into the door that Marissa happened to be entering through. The door popped back boinking Marissa in the face a great deal.
"Dammit!" She rasped dropping the suitcases she once held to soothe the aching side of her face.
Summer witnessed the whole thing and winced at how hard the door smacked her friend. "Ouch."
She ran up to Marissa who was cupping her sore face tightly. "Crap! Coop are you okay?" She asked striving to peer though Marissa's nimble finger to seek the damage.
"Aaw, Ib hink ib wheeding…" Her answer was muffled by her hands.
"What?"
Marissa released her hands from her face to examine if there was any blood on her palms. "I said I think I'm bleeding."
Summer sighed, her eyes scanning if Marissa had any cuts or bruises to tend to. "No, your not bleeding, thank god. Your face is really red though. I'm sorry Coop it was all my fault."
"What the hell happened?" Her hand kept traveling back up to her face to ease the stinging pain.
"Me and Spooge. I threw the toy and he did this weird slidy thingy cause the floor's slippery, then you came, and the door, and yeah, are you sure you're okay?"
Marissa slid the suitcases over with her leg. "I'll be alright. So. You and Jodie eh? That's weird." She joined Summer on the couch.
"Me and that maniac." Summer stated sourly.
"How do you know her? I'm sure you guys never met."
"Um, through Eva. They're cousins and stuff."
"You're friends with her?"
"I thought we were until she freaked with her weirdness-ness. Then she cracked jokes about my mom, who I know hate but I still didn't wanna let her win that little back sass contest we were having. By the way are you and Alex together-together?" Summer's lips were flapping a mile a second.
"Um, we're taking it slow this time. No rushing. We're gonna get it right this one around."
Summer nodded until the name Julie randomly popped into her brain.
"Holy crap!"
"What about your mom Coop? Remember what you had to do last time? It sucked and it was extremely depressing. I don't wanna go back there and I'm sure you don't either."
Marissa could feel a headache coming on. She didn't know if it was from the impact on the door or the mention of her mother. If she did decide to tell her mom, it had to be in a subtle and reasonable way. Julie was a hostile individual when it came to getting things her way. Both had witnessed it over and over again.
"Ugh. I don't know. I can't tell her Sum." Marissa' s head lolled back on the chair.
"If you and Alex are staring up the dating thing again. Mommie dearest is gonna find out sooner or later, and she usually has something up her sleeve."
"I know. I wanna wait. Alex means so much to me right now. After all that shit with Ryan I need some happiness. Just for a while at least." There was a hint of pleading in her tone.
Summer sighed, and took her best friend's hand. "Okay Coop. You know I worry. Be careful alright?"
"Sure Sum."
Spooge came back over along with his overly excited wagging tail. He kept squeezing his jaws together and the toy kept squeaking.
Marissa stroked the dog's head. "He's so cute."
"Careful, he's armed with lots of drool." Summer warned. "Trust me, don't wear foundation around this dog. He'll lick you clean." She drew her legs up on the couch with her remembering her first encounter.
"What kind of name is Spooge for a dog? Isn't that another name for…"
Summer stuck her tongue out in disgust mind joining Marissa's. "Gross." She said.
"He is also Jodie's dog." Marissa said with one last stroke. Summer rolled her eyes.
They heard the flop of a large box being dropped by the stairs to the basement. Alex walked into the living room.
"You guys are free to leave. Me and Jodie will take care of the rest. Unless you wanna hang around?"
"Uh I have to get my car and-"
Alex cut her off. "Oh, that's right. I forgot about your car. I could dri-"
"No, no that's okay. Summer will take me back. I'm fine."
Alex smiled and Marissa could feel herself melt into a thousand puddles. "Mm kay."
She showed them to the door. Summer trodded off to her car leaving them alone.
"I…" the blonde started. Her hand slid into Marissa's and she held it tight. Any contact was blissful no matter how small. "…will call you." She finished.
Marissa couldn't help herself gazing into those wonderfully intense blue eyes of hers and pulled their bodies together in a hug. Alex inhaled deeply, she'd always loved her scent. It was the one that lingered on her monkey print pillow. The one Marissa had always slept on whenever she'd come over. She never forgot it.
"Marissa." She breathed holding her closer.
Marissa's lips connected with the warm skin of her neck sending a shockwave up her spine. Alex gasped softly and she heard it, quite pleased. Alex pulled her back so that her face was in view, and leant in, her lips coming to rest on the corner of her mouth. Before she could pull back Marissa pulled her back in this time, their lips connecting. And when this happened, it triggered a point of no return. Blood pressures soared as they endured each wild and deliciously hungry kiss together. They were truly lost within each other with all the frantic tugging at clothes in effort to bring more skin to skin, more lips to lips, more soul to soul.
"Okay you two love monkeys, break it up. We have shit to move." Jodie harked dragging a bag into the house.
They broke, breaths labored and faces flushed, a large flame of lust hidden beneath each pupil.
Alex bit her lip. Her friend was such a mood killer.
Marissa laughed and buried her head in the crook of Alex's neck again. "Mmm. I've missed you so much Alex. You don't even know." She murmured. Her hands soothed up and down her back feeling the warm skin.
Alex toyed with a lock of hair amongst the many that cascaded down her back. "I think I can relate babe."
Marissa's head came back up so that they could make eye contact. Alex rested her forehead on Marissa's.
"We're supposed to be taking it slow." She intertwined their fingers.
Alex chuckled. "Yeah I know. As of now we uh… take things slow." She winked.
Summer blew her horn. "Mrs. Cooper-Kelly! Move it!"
Marissa shook her head. "Our friends are such b-holes." She pecked Alex on the lips and pulled away one last time.
"Bye."
"Bye. Call you." Alex said standing in the doorway watching her leave.
"The girl of my dreams, I swear it."
Summer and Marissa waved goodbye before driving off.
Alex's trance was broken due to a newspaper ball to the back of her head. She turned around to meet the guilty faced Jodie with the day's 'sports' section in hand. "I think you drool more than Spooge does."
"You're dead." Alex deadpanned.
Jodie cracked a laugh and took off running with Alex on her heels.
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AN: R&R puhleeze. Luv u guys, thx. Hopefully a new chapter will arrive soon. I've also realized how many people have jumped on the SON train for the Spashely love. holds up hand Yes I am a proud member of this club. Mandy Musgrave has become my new obsession. I've started this new fic that should be out soon. It's a spashely fic so spashely lovers should love it emensely. It's called "This Eyes Hold Memories" and will tie into this fic as well. A character on this fic is someone's big sis on that fic and will be visiting. Stay tuned!
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-Snooglez