A/N: Somehow the chapter ended up totally different from what I had planned. But when I started everything just happened automatically... Hope you can bear with me. I needed at least just a little fluff after the last episode. I couldn't bring myself to write the horrible evening now. I promise the next chapter will be waaaay darker. Last but definitely not least, I want to thank everyone who reads, reviews, favorited or followed the story. You are awesome. When I first posted this story, I've never expected such a positive recognition. So thanks, I'm still happy about every feedback I can get.
Joony

Chapter 3.2 Me Lurve some Bubbletea

„Loooori" the brunette squealed when she jumped into her bigger sisters arms. Laurens lungs were still burning from her jog (more of a sprint) here. She had just made it in time. Usually Ivy took the bus home, but on special occasions Lauren took the time to pick her little sister up from school and spend the afternoon with her. The brunette adored her big sister and enjoyed every minute she could spend with her. Their togethertime had gotten sparse over the last year.

When Lauren wasn't studying at home she usually was in the library. You rarely saw the blond without a book in her hands. Her face always stern and in concentration, notebook at hand scribbling down her own ideas and notes, she seemed to crave for wisdom, absorbing every bit of knowledge she could grasp and reciting it without any difficulty. She was like Wikipedia, but more reliable people mused. It was a trait she got from her mother. People always wondered why the genius blond didn't go to a private school and was homeschooled instead. Her mother did a formidable job before she passed away and her father was a good teacher too. But most wondered why the blond lived so secluded and was shielded from the outside while the little Dumas was attending the local elementary school and danced in a ballet group two times a week.

Lauren would be lying if she said she didn't envy her sister a little. She was so outgoing always making friends. Everybody loved her. Who couldn't? She was way to adorable to not like her. Lauren had never much contact to children her age. While never having any problems dealing with adults (she was always very polite and her educated appearance made them often respect her) her dealing with children her age was always a bit awkward.

She was a geek, a nerd, a know it all, what made her unpopular most of the time. She became exceptionally shy and distant, always being the misfit, the outsider. She long gave up on fitting in, accepting to be alone, it was easier that way, to be the cold and strange girl nobody knew than to always struggle and fight for attention she didn't wanted in the first place.

Then there was the encounter with that Bo girl. Lauren had been her awkward self, demonstrating how lost she was in such a situation, but Bo was different. She had smiled and laughed and... seemed to care even though they were complete strangers to each other. A smile flashed over her face thinking about the brunette. It felt so good to let go for once, to be herself, to be excepted and liked and not being treated like an alien. She wanted to see her again although she totally geeked out. A strange set of feelings flooded her body thinking about the brunette. The thought about her dream made her blush. She wasn't sure what it meant and decided to inquire in that field. It was still a mystery for her that she was so open with that girl, talking about things she never told anybody before, especially not a stranger. She never let her guard down, it was what kept her safe and protected from the hurtful truths. Being strong, being distant was always her weapon of choice. She had to be for her own and Ivys sake. But then there came Bo and cast a spell over her. Lauren couldn't believe that she fell asleep in the other girls arms.

„Lori, look I draw something for you" Ivy proudly held up a piece of paper. It took a moment for Lauren to react after being pulled out of her thoughts of Bo.

The blond kneeled down, took the picture and smiled at her younger sister.

„Look, there is you" she pointed at the blond figure holding a book.

„And daddy and me.." a brown haired, bride shouldered man holding a brown haired smiling girl in his arms.

„And Paul and mommy" Lauren felt a stung in her heart when Ivy called the black haired figure in the drawing mommy. The blond would never call that woman her mother. She had no idea what her father saw in this woman. She was nowhere as beautiful or smart or kind as her mother was. Helen, the name of her stepmother, was plump. She wasn't dumb, no she was quite intelligent researcher in an automobil factory , but compared to the sheer endless wisdom of her real mother she seemed... dull.
Lauren couldn't blame Ivy for calling that woman her mother. The girl was so young when their real mother died and didn't really remember her, how sad it may was for Lauren, Helen was the mother who raised the brunette, who loved the little girl like she was her own. Ivy was loved.

But Lauren couldn't shake off the thought that Helen hated her. Their interactions were cold and distant and was confined to absolutely necessary ones. Since the older woman came into her life there was a mutual dislike between them. Lauren could swear Helen was jealous of her. The raven haired woman clung to her father, defied him, adored everything he did, was in thrall of him. It was scary sometimes. The blond wasn't unaware of her looks of disdain. Sometimes it looked like her eyes were shooting pure venom whenever Lauren spent time with her father.

Things changed a lot when she hit puberty, everything got a little harder than they already were. She knew she had a remarkably resamblance to her mother, she looked like a younger version of her, her brown eyes the only thing that differed from the blue ones of her mother.

Ivy was loved so deeply by her father and Helen it hurt for Lauren being the outcast since her mother died. Her little sister didn't know about the subsequent tantrums their father went through since their mothers death. Lauren did everything to keep them a secret. Those outbursts happened suddenly and only when they were alone. She shuddered thinking about those moments. Moments she begged her father to return, when his eyes seemed to glow blue, his breathing became heavy. There were accidents she called them. When she wasn't able to bring him back fast enough and he hit her. Once, twice, thrice... His punches were strong, leaving her bruised and battered, but she let him. She knew it wasn't really him, that there was something wrong with him. That she had to help him.

Things got worse when her body started to change. Hormones, her body, her desires changed and so did her fathers outburst. He still hit her, but it seemed to get more sexual. It disgusted her, made her sick when he touched her like that. Her mind tried to grasp at the happy moments they had shared, but there was only so much happy thoughts could do. She knew he was seeing her mother in her in those moments when he whispered her mothers name over and over again.

It haunted her every dream. Almost every night she cried herself to sleep until exhaustion let her finally close her eyes only to send her into her nightmares. Her rational mind told her to go to the police, but she couldn't. She was afraid for herself and for Ivy and Paul. She had to pull herself together. Lauren couldn't take their father from her siblings, couldn't be selfish. Sometimes you had to make sacrifices, her mother once told her.

„Lori?" a tug at her sleeve pulled her back in the now, away from those gruesome memories. She looked in the questioning face of her little sister.

„It's really pretty my little munchkin..I'm sure daddy is going to pin it to the fridge" she smiled and patted her younger sisters head which earned her a happy and proud smile from the smaller Dumas.

„Can we go to McDonalds?" Ivy asked hopefully.

„You know that stuff isn't healthy."

„Pretty please?" Ivy tried her puppy dog eyes that usually worked on everyone, except Lauren.

„Nope, not a chance." Lauren stayed hard. Ivy's smile faltered, tears were about to fall.

„Don't look at me like that... I promised mom to take good care of you. She hated fast food.." Lauren sighed and looked in the disapointed face of her sister. She counted the money she still had with her. It wasn't enough to buy something to eat. They had to go to the bank first.

„I've got another idea. How about we grab something healthy to eat" Lauren hold up her finger before Ivy could protest „...and then we get some ice cream,hmmm?"

After the heavy rainfall earlier the sun shined beautifully. People streamed through the streets of the town. The only ice cream parlor in town was filled to bursting point with sugar hungry people who yearned for the first ice cream of this year. She hated crowds. They made her uncomfortable. When an older man, accidentally or not so accidental groped her she almost panicked and punched him.

It took her an eternity to get to the shopkeeper and even longer to finally getting served. She finally got hold of two ice cream cones. She hold them across her chest when she scrambled through the crowd. It seemed like the whole town had the same idea. She almost made it when someone barged into her, the ice cream marking itself in her shirt and finally falling to the ground. Her mood already on edge from dealing with those people and the perv.

„God dammit! I've waited 20 minutes, got groped for nothing. Now I have a ruined shirt that isn't really mine and a sad 6 year old waiting for her ice cream..." she growled without even looking up.

„Sssorry... I didn't mean to." that... voice. Lauren looked up and saw in those expressive brown eyes.

„Bo...I..erm... It's ok.. I'm sorry... I didn't want to be so mean, I usually don't freak out like that.. forgive me.. please?" the blond rambled.

„Forgive you? I am the one who bumped into you. I told you before it's ok to let your feelings out some time. I really am sorry... Just wait a second, ok?" Bo disappeared in the crowd only to come back a really short time later with three ice cream cones. Lauren looked at her jaw wide open.

„How..."

„My secret" Bo winked and handed her two of the cones.

Lauren breathed a sigh of relieve when they were finally out in the open. She spotted Ivy on the bench where she left her, still animatedly talking with an elderly woman.

„Thank you a lot for keeping an eye on her Mrs. Marston"

„Of course my dear. She's such an adorable and endearing child and a polite one too." the elderly woman smiled genuinely. Ivy, like their father, had an endearing personality. Drawing the people around her in.

They said their goodbyes leaving Ivy, Lauren and Bo at the bench in front of a fountain at the townssquare.

Ivy smiled from ear to ear while she eagerly licked her ice cream.

„You are pretty" Ivy said to Bo after Lauren introduced her.

„Thanks. But I'm not as gorgeous as you, little princess" Bo smiled.

„You noticed" Ivy squealed.

„Of course, only a princess would wear such a beautiful pink dress"

Lauren inwardly cursed. With all the things going on in her head today she totally forgot that Ivy's class were dressing up today for the medieval fair this week. She could be dense sometimes.

While Ivy sat on her left Bo took a seat on Laurens right side, leaning a little against Lauren while she talked to Ivy. Why had Bo to sit so closely? Was she doing that on purpose? The dream sprung in her mind, making her blush. What the hell was wrong with her? It was like Bo was oozing out some pheromones. Lauren concentrated on licking her ice, but when her brain was sending her inappropriate images including Bo, she almost threw the ice against the next wall or against her flushed forehead making her look like a unicorn. She was to damn young for this. She didn't understand why her body was yearning for her to kiss the brunette. She never kissed someone before and felt never the urge to do so until now.

„I'm sorry about the shirt" Bo said. It took Lauren a moment to snap out of her thoughts. What was wrong with her today? She usually didn't spaced out like that, but today it happened way to much.

„It's your shirt, so I should be sorry"

„Nah..I was the one who bumped into you so I am sorry. I already told you I don't need that shirt anymore. But you can't walk around like that now, can you?"

„Well...It kinda looks like my breasts are leaking..." She felt Bo's eyes focusing on her cleavage wide eyed.

„Oh god... I'm sorry.. sometimes.. sometimes my mouth says things I don't mean to say... It's not possible for breasts to leak... By the way. At least I think so. Usually the breasts only start producing milk after childbirth, but the colostrum is produced just prior birth. It's high on proteins and helps to build up the imunsystem of the newborn..." her cheeks flushed a dark shade of crimson.

„Aaaaand for the second time today I embarrassed myself by totally geeking out. About this... in front of my little sister" Lauren shook her head.

She looked so adorable. Bo could not hold herself any longer and laughed heartfelt, Lauren joined shortly after. The whole situation was just to absurd.

Ivy didn't really understand what the two girls were talking about, but it made her happy to see Lauren laugh after such a long time.

Deciding that Lauren really needed to change her shirt, they entered the only clothes store in town. Not wanting to stay to long in the stuffed store, the blond quickly chose a plain white T-shirt, that hugged her in all the right places. She paid and they discarded the ruined shirt in the next trash can.

The whole day was surreal for Lauren. She was sitting here on a bench next to a girl she barely knew, at a playground while watching her little sister happily playing with other children, who was already making new friends. The one thing that scared her was how natural, how normal it felt for her to do this with Bo. Lauren smiled and felt like she could relax. For a short time they just sat there in comfortable silence, only hearing the laughing of the children and the slurping sound of their bubbletea. At first the blond was strictly against drinking one, reciting several newspaper articles how dangerous that beverage was, but Bo's pleading and puppy dog eyes melted her reluctance and she gave in.

Remembering earlier she felt an urge to snuggle up on the brunette, but dismissed that thought as totally not appropriate. Without warning the dream popped again in her head. Lauren choked on a bubble of the bubbletea she was drinking at that moment. She coughed and started to flail her arms around helplessly. Not really knowing what to do, Bo remembered something her mother had always had done and started slapping carefully Laurens back. After a short while the blond stopped coughing. Tears stained her face when her breath calmed down.

„I told you it was.. dangerous" she choked a little.

„Ok you convinced me... Is everything okay now?" Bo asked concerned, slowly rubbing Laurens back.

The asked just nodded and struggled a little with her self. She decided to be daring for once and leaned against the brunette and snuggled up. Her heart was beating one hundred miles an hour. Her confidence seemed to pay of. Bo laid her head on top of Laurens who leaned against her shoulder and tightened her arm on the blonds lower back.

God. Bo's scent was intoxicating. It took all of her self control to not dig her nose in the long, wavy, dark curls. She didn't care what others might think, she just enjoyed the closeness when she slung her arm around the other girl. She was so content. She felt like nothing could happend to her. This day seemed perfect right now, like nothing could change that.

She had never been so wrong.

A/N: 2 I know you maybe want to say „they are a little bit to young to feel that way" but... well when I think about me in that age *coughs* I say it is not way beyond possible. And by Bo being a Succubus and the teenage years being the years where the powers seem to surface... You know... am... well... yeah. So I thought it was a good point to stop the chapter. Next chapter: drama baby! (I hopefully don't get side tracked this time, you probably want to have a little action and plot progression, but be warned, the clusterfuck in my head is biiiiig and this story not even really started. There is lot about to come, a lot to reveal ;) )

stay tuned =)