Inked

by untouchable hexing witch

Jubilee needs a summer job before starting her college life. As an aspiring artists to be the idea of a tattoo shop isn't so bad. With the perk of having good looking co workers with interesting tattoo's that maybe have interesting stories to go with them, why not? [Jubilay][Amarto][Romy][Xietro][Jonda] [AU No Powers] In shorter Words: The X-men Evo Tattoo AU no one asked for.

23. Sunny Disposition

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X-Men Evolution and its Characters do not belong to me. I'm writing this for pure fun and selfish reasons; those being that I want to see all my crack ships do very very naughty things ;)

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Hello my beautiful readers! So, I wasn't going to update this month but considering that it is this fics SECOND BIRTHDAY, I felt like it was a must. Thank you for all that asked me about and wished me good luck on my surgery! Everything went well and I am healing nicely :)

Before we get started on this chapter I'd like to thank the amazing Clamchick (Hope you're ready for another adorable chapter!), Book of Lilith, and Guest (Romy and Jonda are life so I am happy you enjoyed all their moments! I guess you'll just have to wait to see but I'm not promising you that it'll be anytime soon :P) for staying with me on this journey and supporting me and this little baby. Here's hoping you keep enjoying it to the end.

This chapter has some smutty elements so reader beware :P

I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and again, I'd like to wish Ink a very Happy Birthday. Thank you to anyone who's reading it, I really appreciate you!

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Jubilee's eyes snapped open and she looked around frantically until she found her phone on the floor. The light blinded her for a brief moment before she was able to read the time, 7am.

She inwardly cursed to herself. She hadn't meant to fall asleep the night before but there she was wrapped in the dark blue sheets still naked.

How in the world was she supposed to explain this to Laura or Roberto if she happened to bump into them outside? She knew that fooling around this much would eventually catch up to them and bite them in the ass and here they were…

Her head turned to Ray. He was motionless and the dim light from his window caused his face to be seen clearly. His features were soft and serene and she felt a slight twitch of regret to have to leave but she had to do what she had to do. One of her legs slid over the edge of the bed but before her foot could make contact with the floor she froze in place as his hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her closer into him.

His face dug itself into the crook of her neck before pulling away to look at her. Her breath hitched in her throat as the grayish blue eyes opened to stare at her.

"Where are you going?"

Her consciousness came back to her and she managed to let her mouth hinge open before answering, "What do you mean where am I going? I'm getting the hell out of here! It's 7am! Roberto and Laura are probably…"

"At the gym working their full shifts," he interrupted her heated whisper.

Her mouth opened in surprise. After a few seconds she blinked, "What?"

"It's Monday, since they're not working at Scarlet, they're at the gym and they have early shifts because of the morning classes."

"But…I left my door open last night wouldn't they have…"

"I closed it while you were doing the dishes."

"…wow that confident I was going to agree to come in?"

Ray moved his head back on the pillow so he was facing the ceiling, "No, I always knew it was fifty-fifty but it doesn't hurt being safe."

She let a small giggle escape her and the small shakes of her body caused some of the cover to slide down her body exposing her shoulders. The action caused goosebumps to bubble on her skin and she found herself putting the blanket up her shoulder but the damage had been done and she was now feeling cold.

To help fix the problem her small frame pressed against his. The arm that was wrapped around her waist moved to her arm to rub up and down its length to try and give her some warmth. The action in reality had a different effect, she shivered but this time more in pleasure at how smooth his skin felt on hers.

In the new position she was in, her head was turned downward and it wasn't long before she saw the tent in his sheets. One of her hands which has been pressed up in between them moved, her fingertips sliding over the tight muscle of his abs and skimming over his belly button to make its trek downwards.

"You have morning wood," she commented and poked the engorged organ.

"You don't think too well of yourself do you?"

"What? Why? "

"Why are you automatically assuming it's morning wood?"

"Cause it's the morning and you just woke up."

"…Ok, I mean you're not wrong about that part but I can safely say that it is not morning wood."

"Why would you be aroused right now? We're not even doing anything!"

"Dude, your tits are pressed up against my side and every time you breathe your nipple pokes at me. I'm literally caressing you and you have soft skin, how am I NOT supposed to be getting turned on ?"

"Should I stop breathing?"

His head turned to look at her and he couldn't help the twitch of his lips or his dick at the innocent serious stare. Slowly her own lips started to curl up and he laughed just as she let a giggle out.

"Cause I can keep myself from breathing if that's what you're telling me."

"That's not what I said, keep breathing it's really hot you being alive and all. I was just answering your question as to why I'd be fucken hard right."

"Fine fine I guess we'll agree to disagree. You say you're hard cause of me and I say you're hard cause it's the morning."

Ray found himself smiling, rolling his eyes and shaking his head all at the same time. "Just shut up and help me make it go away."

"You want me to tell it to leave?" Before waiting for an answer she put her head under the blanket while sliding her body downward .

"Excuse me, you gotta go…"

Ray smirked as he felt her breath as she spoke, "You're so dum…" He didn't get to finish the word as his eyes shut close and let a loud exhale out as her hot mouth surrounded him.

Fuck. Now this was an amazing morning call.

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Anna popped a pop tart into her mouth and made for the wall hanger to grab her keys to make her way to work when she heard the front door open. Her eyes went to her phone, prompting the screen to light up to show the time.

7:30.

She made her way to the door to see who she was bumping into. She for sure knew it wasn't her mother or Eric who would have left for work an hour ago. It also wasn't Kurt because it was a well known fact that he loved Monday's so he could sleep in, so that left one of the twins.

She wasn't sure if she was surprised or not to see Wanda walking in wearing the same clothes she had been wearing the night before.

"Wow, walk of shame?" She asked, making the sapphire eyes turn to her.

Wanda looked at her from head to toe, "I'm surprised you're up and ready. I would have thought I'd bump into Pietro at the door instead."

"It's a work day," she answered while going to the coat rack to grab a jacket. "So…were they any good?"

"Nothing happened. He left me the bed and slept on the couch."

Anna perked a brow "What idiot would offer to take the couch instead of sharing a bed…" her eyes widened before looking down at her step sister's hands now that she had taken her own jacket off. No band. An idiot that had too much to lose to make a move. "Holy fuck."

"Like I said nothing happened. Now leave or you'll be late to work…"

"But…"

Wanda did not let her finish as she nudged and pushed her towards the door. "Bye, have a good day…see you later…"

Anna would have loved to resist and bother her but knowing she was short on time paused before opening the front door. "Details later."

"This from the person who hid months from me? Yeah, okay…"

Anna managed to stick her tongue out before closing the door behind her leaving Wanda alone to shake her head and let a hand slide down her fire tattoo.

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Laura eyed the metal ceiling deep in thought. Her eyes were going from line to line on the blocks separating the squared tiles but her mind was far away from actually counting them. She was so lost in her mind that she hadn't realized she was no longer alone until the gruff voice echoed in the room.

"You alright kid?"

She blinked and let her head move to the side, not bothering to sit up from her lying position. His dark eyes were watching her carefully,"Logan…hey, did you need help?"

He shook his head and continued walking, his arms were full with new ab mats that had the familiar encircled x in a bright yellow color. He placed them on a rack at the corner of the room before turning back to her.

"I called out to you a few times, you're pretty out of it. Is everything ok?"

The question did make her move and she sat up to sit with her legs crossed. "Yeah, sorry I hadn't noticed you walk in."

"How was your yoga class this morning?"

"Good, you know, a lot of the same things. Downward dog, hold, child pose, hold, cobra, hold…rinse repeat and don't forget to breathe."

Logan let his lips twitch upwards at the lack of excitement in her voice. "Sounds like a good time. Is that why you're here? Trying to get your heart pumping."

"Pretty much, yeah."

"You do know that it's not going to happen in the position you were in when I came in here right?" The comment made her give a small smile, and nodded. When she didn't add anything else, Logan found himself propping down besides her with a small grunt.

"This gotta do anything with Magento's kid?"

Her eyes widened at the question And her head snapped towards him, "No, why would it be?"

His shoulder shrugged upwards, "Heard you've been spending a lot of time together."

"From who?!" Her eyes narrowed in suspicion.

"There's 23 of you…" as he said the words he tapped the hand that held her X-men tattoo, "There's no way things don't reach our ears, whether they're true or not." Laura's jaw dropped at the words but before she had a chance to say anything he added, "So, he treating you alright?"

She stared at him, hesitant to answer the question. The man before her was one of their managers, the idea of sharing this type of detail with him should have felt surreal and odd but then again Logan was one of the first adults that she really took a liking to. There had been a familiarity when Ray had first introduced them when he had set her up for recruitment and ever since Logan was one, if not the top supporter of her performance style.

So after another beat of silence her lips parted, "It's me, if he wasn't I think you definitely would have heard about it."

He smirked at the answer and nodded approvingly. "Ok, so what is on your mind?"

"Nothing."

"Nocturnal madness is right around the corner, you know that right now is not a good time to be distracted. So if you want to get it out…"

"…recently I've been thinking about finding out where I come from."

Wolverine knew her history, he had known most of the members of the X-dolls for years now so he knew all about their pasts. So after a bit he let out a small hmm of acknowledgement allowing some time in case she was going to add anything to the confession. When she didn't, his gruff voice filled the silence with, "Personally, I've learned that it's best to leave the past where it is, but at the same time I think it's very natural to question where we come from, especially when you know nothing about it. So if it's really weighing that much on your mind…go find out."

"What if I don't like what I find?"

"Easy, you can just leave it where you found it. Finding out about your past isn't going to change who you are now, not if you don't let it anyway."

Laura pursed her lips as the words processed, after a slow nod her lips parted, "Thanks for that."

"No problem kid, now let's go…"

"Go where?"

"You're still on the clock right?"

"Yeah…"

"Let's find someone for you to beat up…oh I mean train to keep you busy in the meantime."

Laura found herself grinning at that and propped herself up, "that sounds like something I can do."

"I bet, can you just remember to stay out of trouble and…"

"Yes yes yes, I'll avoid the nads…I mean I can only promise that as long as they don't get handsy." Logan shook his head at the comment and started making his way out of the Danger Room with her following behind, a smile replacing the serious look she had originally worn on her face.

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Roberto stretched one arm over his head letting his other hand grab at the wrist and pulled so that he could feel the stretch in his lats while his eyes wandered over to the time. It was almost time for his class to start which meant that Amara would be walking into the danger room any minute now. He knew this because he had confirmed that she was in fact going to be there but what he had failed to mention was that he was actually canceling said class.

Professor Xavier and the other X-Men admins had called in a last minute meeting, most likely to remind everyone of what they're expecting from their team ups at Nocturnal Madness and what it could mean for their future. The meeting wasn't for another two hours but he didn't want to be rushing out of his class so he thought it would be best to cancel it. He couldn't cancel on Amara though, he wanted to look over her food log and knowing how close her pageant was he knew that training was really important to her at this time. He was also ignoring the little voice inside his head telling him that that wasn't the only reason he hadn't canceled.

As he heard the heavy metal door open his eyes drifted to watch her walk in. Seeing that he was the only person in the room he watched her freeze mid step. "Oh no, did I come on the wrong day? Today Is Tuesday right?"

Roberto didn't say anything, momentarily stunned by her. It had only been a week since he'd seen her but the changes to her diet already made a positive impact on her body. Her outfit didn't help in deterring his attention either. She wore a workout skirt in a royal purple color, its bottom designed open and flowy swaying with every step. Her top was haltered showing a good amount of her tummy area and to make it even more intriguing there was an oval shape opening at her chest giving him a good view of her cleavage line.

Her hair was down, the beautiful brown locks flowing down like a waterfall. She finished the ensemble with a headband matching her skirt, it seemed to help keep the small hairs on the top of her head out of her face. Her lips were moving and it wasn't until he noticed the tint on her cheeks that he realized that he was not processing a word she was saying and just ogling.

"Yes! Sorry ya it's Tuesday. I have an X-doll meeting in a while today and decided to cancel my class."

"Oh, well that's ok I can go do machines…" she started turning to leave.

"No, I didn't tell you on purpose. We're keeping your training session."

"Are you sure? I don't want to press you for time."

One of his hands raised and waved her off dismissing the comment. "Let's stretch before we get started…"

She nodded and made her way to him. A few minutes later they were both on the floor with a leg in front of them and their chests forward trying to get as close to it as possible.

"So how are you feeling now that your family's stuff is over?"

"Relieved. I never realize how anxious I am about it until it comes around."

"What do you guys do that you pretty much have to isolate?"

"It's a secret."

Roberto nodded, "Virgin sacrifices. Got it."

Amara laughed, "No, not that."

"We'll as long as you can't tell me that's what I got to assume." Amara shook her head amused.

"Believe me, it's nothing that exciting," as she said the words Amara stopped her stretch and went into her bag bringing out a clear sheet protector. After giving it a last glance her hand outstretched towards the dark skinned male.

"If you say so," Roberto answered and took the sheets inside the transparent item out to review as she went back stretching. "It looks really good. I see you have an addiction to apples and peanut butter…"

"You're the one who said it was healthy and to indulge."

"I did. I like it." The comment made her turn to him and she fought the warmth that wanted to overcome her face as he locked eyes with her.

"So when are you supposed to meet the others?"

He tapped his phone to look at the time, "About an hour and a half."

"Oh wow, that's not a lot of time. You know you didn't have to keep our training session, I don't want you to be rushing because of me."

"Don't worry about it. I wanted to see your log and aside from that I thought you might want to go over with me so you can see Jubilee, Pietro's letting us use the lounge for our meeting. It's been a while since you've seen her, right?"

"Pretty much since she's been staying at your place."

"Might be a nice surprise for her."

"Sounds like it would be…but I should really get my workout in, especially with what I'm eating nowadays."

"Be a rebel, stop by after."

"I…yeah, ok. Maybe I will."

"Cool…" the room was quiet for a few seconds, the two different shades of brown connected before he blinked and looked away, "Hey, have you thought of a song that you'd like to do with the new moves you've been working on?"

"Not really. I've just been playing that playlist you recommended and making up some moves that go to the rhythm. I'm so nervous my mom will catch on so I've been listening on my earphones before bed and practicing the moves in my room."

He smiled and turned back to her, "I have some ideas if you are interested."

"Of course! I could use all the help you're willing to give, the pageant is coming so fast now and I just don't know if I'll have a full routine down."

"You can do it."

"How do you sound so sure?" She asked as she finished her last stretch and stood up dusting her skirt making sure it hadn't gotten dirty.

His eyes made a slow trek from her ankles up to her face. "Cause we just started messing around with these ideas a couple of weeks ago and you already have the moves down. You got this…."

She blinked repeatedly, surprised by the praise before one of her shy smiles overcame her. She whispered a small thanks and just as quickly as it came it disappeared as she clapped, "Alright, show me these songs…" her hand outstretched to help him up. He took it and they both ignored the small flutters as his thumb caressed the back of her palm on the way up, eventually parting so that he could retrieve his phone so they could start their practice.

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"So I guess I'll talk to you later?" Amara asked as they walked towards the locker rooms, her expression turning into one of surprise when he kept walking past them.

He smiled at her expression and nodded at a door ahead of them, "Trainers have a special shower, but yeah, I'll call you later when I'm done with my stuff and um…I'll for sure see you this weekend right?"

"Oh yeah, the drive in fair!"

"Yeah, We can pick you up at 5. The movie starts at 7 so we'll have some time to hangout and look around."

Amara smiled, "Yeah that sounds like a lot of fun! I can't wait…"

He nodded, "So I'll see you this weekend then."

"See you then..."

Roberto nodded and watched her snag her lip at her bottom teeth, looking as if she wanted to add on to the statement but deciding against it she smiled and said "bye" before turning away. He watched her disappear around the corner before going into the trainer's private bathroom.

The door didn't lock but the staff had a system that notified them when someone was in there, then again the sound of the shower was usually indicator enough but if for whatever reason someone still wanted to come in, there was a wall hanger near the door. They had signs with their names on them and while inside you just have to hang your name up.

There was currently no one in there so Roberto put his sign up and walked further into the room. The way it was designed had the lockers in the corner in a squared area by the door. A little ways from it was a hallway that led to the private shower. In the small passage there was a towel rack attached to a wall and a small two drawer cubby designed to hold the clean and dirty clothes during one's visit. The only thing separating all of that to the actual shower was a black curtain with a big yellow X on it.

After putting his clean clothes into one of the cubby's Roberto walked past the curtain into the shower area. He undressed fairly quickly and once he was under the warm water he let out a long exhale. He could feel the tightness in his muscles, most of it caused by his workout sessions but he could also feel the stress of Nocturnal Madness approaching. There was a lot of work to do and it almost felt like there was no time to do it in with both his jobs, his classes and the extra training time with Amara.

But he wasn't planning to let any of those things go so it looked like his muscles would have to stay sore and tense, at least for the next month anyway.

He stood under the water letting the warmth soak into him and losing some of the strain he felt. He was so into his relaxation that he didn't realize he wasn't alone anymore until he felt the soft touch to his tattooed arm that nearly made him jump out of his skin, or more accurately in place which would have been just as bad if he slipped.

His head quickly moved to the side and his eyes widened as they looked into a lighter shade of brown.

"I guess I can be somewhat of a rebel today…"

He felt like he stopped breathing all together as he looked at the petite dark skinned girl. His eyes moved away from her eyes to her frame, she was still in her gym wear. The royal purple became deeper in color and her white top became translucent where the water drops were bouncing off him onto her.

He swallowed hard, and it was at that point that he realized that if he could see her she could definitely see him and much more of him at that. He refused to glance down at himself knowing what he was going to find. True to her word about being more daring, her own eyes did in fact travel downwards to look at the erect member in between his legs.

When she looked back up at him her irises were blown out.

"You don't have to prove anything to me," he remarked as the air became tense around him, having nothing to do from the steam of the water still crashing into him.

"I'm not trying to prove anything to you," she responded. "I want to prove something to myself…" and with that she took a step towards him being fully submerged by the shower head.

Her purple skirt turned a dark shade as her top became completely see through, having her brown areolas pop out against the contrasting color in a very delicious way that had Roberto licking his lips. Her hands went in between his own so that she could wrap her arms around his waist and pull him close letting his erect member press against her stomach. Not being too sure where to put his hands Roberto let them hang to his side and resisted the shiver that ran up his spine as she slid her hands up his back.

His eyes stayed on her as she tilted her head up and he found himself meeting her half ways. His eyes closed and he groaned, the only thought in his head being that her lips were so soft against his own.

The kiss started out slow and timid. The softest press of skin against skin before his lips semi parted, capturing the plump flesh in between. Soon he wanted more, his tongue licked at the space in between hers asking for entry and seconds later his heart would skip a beat as he got what he wanted.

Her moan when his tongue found hers vibrated against the walls of his mouth and brought his hands to life. His arms wrapped around her waist bringing her as close as possible before sliding down her soaked skirt to feel the plumpness of her behind.

The action caused another moan which then caused his dick to twitch against her abdomen. In response to his own action Roberto squeezed at her ass and pulled her even deeper into him as his hips thrusted against her.

His lips in the meantime had moved on from her lips to peck at her cheek, her chin, her neck. Her breath was warm and heavy as he kept moving downward.

At this point in their interaction her hands had made their way around to his neck but they didn't stay there long as his lips closed around a pert nipple. At the new sensation Amara's fingers moved up into his wet hair pulling unexpectedly on the brown locks. The action didn't hurt him though, he was too spurred on by every little sound she made when he touched her. All he could feel was the burning ache at his cock as he took one breast into his mouth while one hand pinched and pulled at the other and his free hand made its way under her skirt.

There it found the lining of her tight sports shorts, hooking onto the end of it to pull it away from her skin letting him find the fabric of her thong. The hand slithered deeper trying to find her sweet spot. Seconds later his middle finger found the slick opening and he couldn't help the groan that escaped his own lips as she dug her head into his shoulder muffling her whimper.

His breathy whisper brushed against her cheek, "You ok?"

She gave a small nod, "Don't stop…"

He pushed against her and let his finger continue its onslaught, letting the other fingers press against her butt cheeks to control the movement. As he slowly added a digit his hips kept crashing against her, his cock twitching ever so often when the friction hit him a certain way.

It was when he moaned out a small fuck that she finally decided to address his poking device, surprising him as her hand went in between their bodies to grip the harden erection.

He let out another fuck as she squeezed it and did a timid stroke downward before going back up the length. He swallowed hard and opened his eyes to look down at her, her cheeks were beautifully flushed as her eyes looked away from him.

"I don't know what I'm doing…" she murmured meekly.

His parted lips twitched into a full on smile. The hand that had been playing with her breast moments earlier went to her face, tilting her chin towards him so that she could look him in the face.

"Baby, you can do no wrong right now…" she smiled back at him and moments later he closed the gap between them.

The kiss as she stroked him was tentative. His mouth stayed parted, letting his ragged breaths escape while her hand sped up its actions. Not planning to be left behind, his fingers moved at her tempo causing sporadic shakes from her. They continued for a few minutes, Roberto feeling closer and closer to the edge when she suddenly stopped. His eyes lazily opened to look at her and he swallowed hard at the hungry look she conveyed.

"Are you ok? Did you want to stop?"

She shook her head, "I want more," the whisper was almost inaudible with the sounds of the water crashing on them but he heard it loud enough and twitched in her hand at the implication.

His face leaned into her and placed a chaste kiss on her lips, "You sure? We don't have to. I think you already proved your daring enough."

"I want to," she repeated and returned an even softer peck.

He nodded. By her disposition and their earlier conversation it was obvious enough to him that Amara was a virgin. If she really wanted to do this then he wanted to try and do it as easy and painlessly as possible. He eyed the small bench right beneath the shower. Most of the time he used it to place his soaps and shampoos and other times he would just sit and let the hot water pound against his sore back. It was safe to say that he would be using it for a different purpose today.

"Alright," he finally answered. "First we should um…make you a little bit more comfortable," He eyed her skirt.

Her lips pressed together in a shy manner but she nodded and her hands went to the waistband of the soaked garment letting her thumbs go into it to press the material down. Roberto watched with fascination at the exposure of her skin, mouth going dry as his desire for the young woman before him grew even more.

His hand reached out to take hers to steady her as she completed the task. When she was done his eyes roamed her legs and the area in between. His hands went to her waist and he hugged her close letting their heated skin make contact, an act that made both of them let out a small sound of satisfaction.

His hands once again moved away from her waist and palmed at her exposed cheeks. Going an extra measure to give it a small tap making the sound echo in the tiled space.

He then turned her around switching places with her and took steps back until the back of his knees hit the bench. He sat down, the new position causing his hardened member to rise up giving Amara a full view of it. He motioned for her to come closer and when she was right in front of him his hand went to the back of one of her thighs and gave it a small pull so that she placed it to the side of his leg.

"You're going to do the same with this one…" he tapped her other thigh and she did as she was told. In her new position she was towering over him causing him to look up at her. Their eyes connected causing yet another pulse in between his legs before his gaze started a slow trek downwards. It momentarily stopped at her chest, her nipples were pebbled and popped out begging for attention. His tongue came out of his mouth to go over his top lip, promising himself he would definitely give them the attention they seeked but at the moment something else needed his attention. His gaze dropped even lower, stopping at her exposed core.

A small patch of hair was at the tip of her glossy slit, but the rest of her was neat and maintained. He licked his lips again and one of his hands slid off her thigh sensually towards the front of her sweet spot wanting to verify that the wetness shining through was due to him and not the water being sprayed on her .

He let yet another fuck escape his lips, she was warm and dripping proving that she wanted him just as much as he wanted her. He swallowed hard again as his fingers moved in and out of her and let his eyes travel back to her face. "You're on top so you have all the control. Stop whenever you want…" she nodded and he took his fingers out. One of his hands went to her side to help lower her hips while his other hand went to his dick. He pumped himself a few times before placing the round head underneath her swollen entrance brushing against her slightly causing a shiver to ripple through her body.

"And let me know if it's too much…" She nodded again and let her body lower slowly and steady, his hand helping guide her.

He held his breath as she entered him and although he wanted nothing more than to look into her beautiful eyes as she impaled herself on him the sensation was too much. She was tight and warm and it was going to take all his self control not to cum already. When she was in as much as she could she sat there for a few seconds getting used to the pressure. He let her and didn't push her to move waiting for her to be ready.

When she was, she moved up torturously slow and repeated the action. By that point his other hand had gone to her other side to start gently guiding her speed. His eyes were open now watching her softly bounce off him, his gaze going from her parted lips which whimpered every few seconds to her breast. The nipples through her top were too tempting to pass up as they moved up and down in front of his face causing him to move forward taking turns nipping at the buds.

Their speed stayed steady until her body collapsed into him. Her chin rested on his shoulder, her ragged breath at his ear. Her legs tightened around him and in the most sensual voice he had ever heard from her she whispered, "More Roberto…"

His hands immediately left her waist, sliding down the curves of her ass to grip at the bottom before harshly thrusting himself against her. He was a gentleman after all, how was he supposed to reject such a delicious request from such a beautiful princess.

Her hips started to match his pace, bouncing off his thighs, letting him in and out. It wasn't long before he had to close his eyes and tilt his head back. He was so close now…she was so tight…she was so warm…her ass fit perfectly in his hands…and her voice was the greatest sound he had ever heard as she whimpered, cried and moaned his name.

He grunted and felt his hot seed spit out. His breath was haggard, chest moving up and down dramatically as he tried to slow his accelerated heartbeat. After a few seconds he opened his eyes and breathed out a heavy sigh as water continued to fall on him. He looked down at his hand to see that he was still hard, his fingers wrapped tightly around his cock. He swallowed hard before letting himself go and closing his eyes again, letting the water eventually clean off the evidence of the best fantasy he had ever had.

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Fifteen minutes later Roberto was dressed and ready to go. He gave a last glance in the direction of the shower before shaking his head and going towards the door. He was so lost in his head, looking straight ahead at eye level that he could have easily been tripped if it had been her sole desire.

"You and I have a completely different definition of a quick rinse off."

His eyes widened and he looked down to the floor. Amara was sitting by the door crisscrossed smiling brightly as he finally responded. "Amara! You're here…what are you doing here? How long have you been there?"

"That's a lot of questions and not enough time in between for me to answer them," she teased as a hand stretched out towards him, a hint that she wanted help getting up. Without hesitation he took her open palm. Her skin was soft and warm, just how he had imagined it to be moments earlier.

"Sorry, I just wasn't expecting to see you…" he drawled as he pulled upwards and mentally hoped he hadn't been loud during his shower.

She sprang up easily, a compliment to her many years of dance. "I can't blame you, I did say I was leaving to workout on the machines…" as she stood there was hardly any space in between them causing swirls inside his stomach.

"What happened?" He asked.

Her shoulder shrugged up and as if figuring out that they had been holding hands too long she blushed and hastily let him go, "I was thinking about what you said and decided that I should be a little daring…"

The swirls inside of him moved more frantically.

"So yes , I will go to Scarlet Ink with you to say hi to the others. Nana's had me for an entire week…an extra hour out won't kill anyone."

The swirls calmed down. Of course she wouldn't have meant being daring any other way…

He let his lips curl upwards into a grin, "You are a mad woman! Let's go."

Not waiting for her to say anything else he took her hand and started dragging her towards the entrance of the gym, not catching the beautiful color in her cheeks or failing to feel the racing pulse believing it was his own.

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Laura arrived home to find that the apartment was eerily quiet. She had stayed after her shift at Scarlet Ink to go next door to the lounge, squeezing in some hangout time with Pietro. She had been expecting everyone to be home by now but found the living room empty. This prompted her to walk down the hallway to her room. She went in and out and still didn't hear a peep out of anyone so she made her way to the kitchen deciding to get some cereal before binge watching something.

As she neared she noticed that the light was actually on, which meant she was definitely not as alone as she had previously thought. When she walked into the room she found Roberto towering over the table with his face on one of his arms and the other sprawled out in front of him. She wasn't sure whether he had noticed that she was in the room until his eyes moved to her.

"Hi…" his sprawled out hand moved so that two fingers could go up in the air. Peace.

Laura perked a brow, "Alright, I'll bite…what's wrong?"

"I'm in trouble."

This made her eyebrows scrunch inward and walk towards him, "What kind of trouble? Do you need money?"

Roberto shook his head, "No, nothing like that." He paused and sat up while she moved to sit in the chair opposite him. "I…uh…I like Amara."

Laura blinked a few times, "uh…obviously."

"No," Roberto answered quickly right after. "You don't get it!"

"I think I do, she's cute! You love cute girls so why…"

"No no no…I meant like…like like. Like I message her every day, and I want to talk to her all the time and I care about what she does during the day…and… I just can't stop thinking about her." At the moment of that admission a quick flash of his earlier fantasy came to mind and he brought a hand up to his face to rub his eyes.

Laura watched him carefully, after a few seconds she gave a small smile, "Wow. I don't think I've ever heard you make that kind of declaration so it must be like like." She watched him put his head back in his arm. "Is it really that bad though? Cause honestly I feel like she's crushing on you too…"

His lips pursed at the comment, "You think?"

Laura rolled her eyes, "How do you not think?"

"I don't know. I kind of asked her to the drive-in thing this weekend and she hesitated until I mentioned other people going…"

"You probably worded it all stupid."

"Hey!"

"I'm just saying. Why don't you just, I don't know, tell her."

He thought about it for a few seconds before shaking his head, "Nah. She has too much going on right for me to throw something new like that at her."

"What? That pageant? It's almost over anyway isn't it?"

Roberto nodded but avoided eye contact letting his eyes go to the fruit bowl they had on the counter.

"I think you should tell her," Laura added again after a long pause.

He finally sat up straight and started getting up from the table, "We'll see how it goes this weekend."

He started making his way out but stopped mid step when she asked, "Where are the others?"

"I don't know, I kind of assumed you were all together."

She shook her head, "I was at the lounge."

"And Ray and Jubilee weren't there? It didn't seem like anyone was home when I got here."

Laura shook her head, "I haven't seen them."

Roberto frowned and looked at the time on his phone. It was past eleven and the next day was a work day. It was unusual for Ray to be out so late and if Jubilee wasn't with him that would also be something to worry about. He unlocked his phone and went to his contact list looking for his roommate's name, in the background he could hear Laura getting a plate and grabbing a cereal box from the top of the fridge.

He gave her a glance as he put his phone to his ear. Ray picked up after five rings.

"Hello?"

"Hey, where are you?"

"...Uh…in the living room?"

Roberto perked a brow, "In the living room? Our living room?" 'He wasn't there when I walked in ten minutes ago,' Laura remarked before taking a spoonful of food.

"Yeah, why where am I supposed to be?"

Roberto hung up and started making his way towards the room in question, Laura hot on his trail. When they got there they did in fact find the dual haired male lounging around on the long couch, his phone in hand.

"You weren't here a little bit ago," Laura commented as she looked at his sportswear attire.

"I was at the gym."

"Have you seen Jubilee?"

"No, she's not home?"

"I haven't seen h…"

"Oh hey! You're all home now, I knew it had gotten noisy all of the sudden."

"You're here!" Laura announced as Jubilee came from the hallway that led to the bedrooms.

"Yeah, I was in my room doing yoga since no one was home," Jubilee answered as she moved a sweaty bang behind her ear.

Laura perked an eyebrow remembering the time she had stretched with the younger girls, Jubilee definitely hadn't looked like a fan of the exercise. Then again, they did say practice made perfect. "Oh, ok. I guess we were worried for nothing," she answered and moved to go inside the room to sit on the other couch. "You guys want to watch something?"

Roberto looked confused for a moment but after a few seconds shrugged it off and went to sit besides Laura. Jubilee however stayed in place. "Actually I'm going to go take a shower and head to bed. That yoga really tired me out."

At the words Ray looked away from his phone and made eye contact with her. His teeth subconsciously bit at his lower lip which caused a nice red flush to taint her cheeks making her squeak out a 'Good Night' and walk away.

"Night!" Laura called out.

"Is it just me or was that a little weird?"

"It's just you," Ray answered, eyes back on his phone not bothering to turn to Roberto.

"Ohh, maybe your love problem is making you perceive things weirdly. I mean you didn't even realize that Jubilee was home."

"She was probably really quiet, and what love problem?" Ray asked, the new information tempting him to turn to his dark skinned friend.

Roberto turned and glared at Laura, "No problem…especially not a love one…let's move on, so what are we watching?"

Ray perked a brow at him but was ignored as Roberto stared at the TV causing him to turn to his best friend. Laura shrugged and did a zipper motion across her lips.

O-o-O-o-O-o-O-o-O Saturday O-o-O-o-O-o-O-o-O

Jubilee eyes were wide as she looked at the surrounding area. It looked nothing like it had a few weeks ago when Ray had brought her here for the first time. The huge parking lot that had been filled with cars on their first visit was half at its capacity with the back half where they had parked to avoid being seen being filled with stands. Many of them were selling food, while others were selling little trinkets that were associated with certain classic movies and there were shopkeepers dressed as major movie characters as well.

"Well I feel cheated." The three other individuals with her turned to her, curious as to the meaning of the words. "I would have dressed up if I knew it was an option!" Jubilee answered everyone's unasked question.

"You'll still get your chance soon," Roberto answered, making her eyes light up.

"Why do they have a costume selling stand?" She asked and started looking around.

"No, Nocturnal Madness is costume encouraged."

It was Ray who answered, making the Asian girl turn to him. "Really? What's the theme?"

"I doesn't have a specific theme, the point is just to dress up."

"The X-dolls will be wearing matching outfits though," Roberto remarked looking around.

"What are you going to be?" Amara asked.

"It's not a theme like a movie theme. We're all just going to be matching. Kitty and Jean have been working on the designs for months now."

"Original! That's neat."

"Yeah, so if you really want to dress up there you go. So we have about 45 minutes before the movie starts. I say we just walk around, look at everything and get snacks during the last 15 minutes before the movie starts?"

"What about food?"

"We can grab something if you guys want. As far as drinks go, Laura forced her Strawberry Lemonade Kool-Aid on me."

"When did she do that?" Ray asked, surprised.

"While you were getting ready. She said that her Kool-Aid would be better than anything here so…"

Amara and Jubilee giggled, easily imagining the short girl's confidence in her words and nodded. "Alright, that sounds like a plan."

"Which way should we start?" Amara asked, looking back and forth between two paths.

"Let's go this way. I've read before that when choosing between two paths the one with the wider path tends to bring more luck," Roberto remarked pointing to the larger path.

"Where would you have read something like that?" Ray asked, being genuinely curious.

"I did research on many different cultures before getting my tattoos done," the dark skinned boy answered with a nonchalant shrug.

Before Ray had a chance to give any type of answer back Jubilee loudly exclaimed, "Well that settles it, let's go that way!" The orange banged male moved his attention to her and watched her grab on to Amara's hand dragging her along the way Roberto had pointed to.

They stayed in their group of four for the first few stalls but as they went deeper into the movie faire they started drifting.

Amara found herself deeply emerged in the Disney Princess tent. Her fingers skimmed through the clothing eventually stopping on a dress, dark purple in color with shiny gems.

"That's nice. You think you want to be a princess for Nocturnal? You said you're going right?"

Amara's eyes widened as she looked over her shoulder, she hadn't realized that Roberto had followed her. After a bit of letting the surprise wear off, her lips curled slightly upwards. "That's the plan, it's after the pageant so I'm hoping my parents will let me but they're super over protective."

Roberto nodded and the look her mom had given him that initial day when he had walked her made sense. "Well I think you'd be a really pretty princess."

Amara felt her cheeks go warm, "You're just saying that."

"What? No, I'm not! You can ask Ray when we find them, I always mean what I say…" the way he said the words were hush and low and made her heart start racing. It wasn't until seconds later that the sentence processed all the way through and her expression turned into one of confusion.

"What do you mean when we find them?" Her eyes looked over his shoulder and sure enough there was no sign of Jubilee and Ray in the surrounding area.

"I thought they had gone into that candy tent over there but when I went to check it I couldn't find them." Roberto replied and shrugged.

"Oh…I don't have my phone so…what now?"

"I left mine in the car too, it should be fine though, we know what the plan is so we can keep walking around and if we find them cool, if not we'll meet up at the car."

Amara could feel butterflies start swarming in her stomach in excitement. It was weird to be feeling this way, she spent plenty of time alone with Roberto at the gym before but the change in environment made it somehow more intimate.

She pursed her lips before smiling and nodding, "Yeah, ok…" and with that her attention moved away from the dresses to the table nearby displaying tiaras, necklaces and jewels.

Though she wanted to pay attention to the beautiful gems she couldn't help her eyes from flickering to the reflection of the dark skinned male next to her who's gaze didn't seem to leave her own figure.

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Ray let the small hand in his drag him further and further away from the princess tent. They didn't slow until they were at the other side of the small faire and when they did he expected her to let his hand go but instead she surprised him as her hand slid up his arm going in between the space of it and his body. He eyed their intertwined arms before turning to her.

"What's that about?" He asked not being sure himself whether he was talking about their link or the fact that they had pretty much ran away from Amara and Roberto.

"You might think that playing matchmaker is more trouble than it's worth but…I don't mind a little trouble," she answered, turning up to look at him with a smile. Her glance didn't linger and she looked away to look at their surroundings.

His eyes stayed on her, catching her small head tilts when they passed certain booths. The way the ray's of the sun hit her were making her black hair have streaks of light bounce off them. Her nose would scrunch inwards ever so often when they passed by food stands informing him of what foods she didn't care for and her lips stayed in a delicate curve as she happily took everything in.

He ignored the small flutter inside of him and moved his attention to the upcoming booths. A couple minutes later he couldn't help himself though and he turned back to her. Her smile was gone and she was attentively watching an upcoming booth. He turned to see what had caught her attention, looking past the tent where her attention was, he took a quick scan of the area and felt that it was definitely familiar.

After gauging the distance between them and the large screen ahead of them he smirked, "Get your head out of the gutter?"

"Hmm?" She hummed and turned to him.

His head tilted to the tent she had been looking at, "I said get your head out of the gutter…that's where we were parked last time." The first time… he realized after he had said the words.

It was Jubilee's turn to grin at him, "Maybe you should be the one to get your head out of the gutter," she responded and started walking him over to said tent.

As they walked over he noticed all the metal designs hanging on chains and strings. He looked up at the name, MetalSmith, the pictures on the walls were of movies that took place in medieval time periods. From his experience playing video games like Elder scrolls and Dragon Age he could identify the gothic atmosphere of it.

She stopped in front of some of the chains and he watched her hand raise to touch one of them. It was a metal necklace. From where he stood it looked like multiple umbrellas were connected and flared out. They were Fireworks. She eyed it for a few seconds before calling over the attendant and asking for the price.

After being told she took her money out from one of her pockets and they waited patiently for her change but before the attendant could hand it back to her something else caught her eye.

"Oooh…go ahead and keep it, I'm taking this too…" the attendant nodded, prompting her to grab something off the table in front of them. She then thanked her, rewrapped her arm with his and started moving him to another booth.

"What did you get?"

She brought her hand up, the chain she was holding was half the size of her necklace. It had multiple lighting bolts connected at the spiky ends with identical clips that could clip together. "Here it's for you…" He took it hesitantly eyeing the sharp edges carefully. "Something to remind you of me when I'm gone…" one of her eyes closed and she stuck her tongue out at him while giggling and turning away from him to look at the upcoming stands.

Ray ignored the small ping he felt at the word gone. He nodded before putting the bracelet in his back pocket and continuing to walk beside her, allowing his arm to move closer to his body so that her own would press closer into him.

O-o-O-o-O-o-O-o-O

"You said there were drinks right?"

"Hmm…oh yeah yeah…they're at the back. I'll go get them real quick…"

"It was really cool of Pietro to let you guys borrow the jeep."

Ray looked through the rear view mirror to look at Jubilee who was putting a meat filled nacho into her mouth. "He was paying me back for a favor."

She chewed the bite a few times, "What's the favor you did for him?"

"Technically I still need to do it but I'm helping him with something that has to do with Nocturnal Madness. I'm glad it worked out though, we could have come in my car but this is way better since it's open top. That way we all have a good view of the screen…"

Before either girl in the back seat could comment Roberto came back to the front with a black backpack. He undid the zipper and took out four similar insulated bottles.

"You got to give it to Laura, this was thoughtful of her," he murmured and made to give the purple one to Ray.

Before he could take it the action was interrupted with, "He's going to want the blue one…"

The males shared a look before turning to look at Jubilee who was putting another nacho in her mouth. "What?" She asked, looking from one to the other after she was done chewing. "You want the blue one don't you?"

Ray pursed his lips before grinning, "I don't like being called predictable. I'll take…the yellow one." Jubilee's mouth dropped as she watched Roberto pass the yellow container to the blond.

"That one was supposed to be mine…" she whispered, making Amara turn to her and shake her head while smiling.

"I guess he's not the only predictable one," she remarked.

Jubilee made a raspberry sound, "Fine, if we're doing that then I'll take the red one…"

"Oh, I thought you were going to pick the blue one," Roberto remarked as he started stretching his hand with the blue one.

"No, that would be predictable," she responded and took the red one.

Roberto looked at the left overs, the blue and the purple one. He then glanced at Amara who was watching him with a smile, "Well I guess if the goal is to not be predicated." He handed her the blue one.

"Hey shut up guys this is my favorite part…" Ray called out and watched the screen.

They all got quiet but after a few seconds of silence there was a whispered, "I can't believe you took the yellow one…"

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An explosion of laughter made Roberto glance at the seat next to him. Ray was leaning on the door frame of the jeep. One of his legs was grounded while the other was bent and resting on the dash on his side. As another wave of laughter erupted his blue gray eyes turned to look at him, perking a brow at him with probably similar thoughts.

What in the world had gotten into her? Sure the movie was funny but, well it wasn't that funny.

They shared puzzled smiles and looked away. Ray's eyes went back to the screen but his own went to the side mirror. The way it was positioned put Amara dead center. At the moment she was facing the movie with a big smile on her face while ever so often turning to shake her head at Jubilee.

The original thought had been to sit back there with her but when they had arrived at the jeep, Ray and Jubilee had beaten them and chosen their spots. It was much easier for Amara to sit beside her best friend then for him to ask her to move.

A vibration in his pants made him look away from the dark skin beauty. A few seconds later he was holding his phone to see a message from Laura.

How's the double date going?

Perked eyebrow emoji in order for it to be considered that someone in this car would have to be dating someone else in this car.

Have you confessed your undying love yet?

eye roll emoji no, why would I?

Cause you're an open drunk. Once you're nice and tipsy it all comes out.

You're not wrong but why would that matter?

Didn't you drink my kool-aid?

Yeah, it's good…

…and you're fine?"

Roberto's eyebrows rose in curiosity, Yeah, why shouldn't I be? He asked and turned to the purple container.

Wtf! Cause I spiked it with strawberry lemonade vodka!

Roberto's eyes widened. He took a deep breath and analyzed how he was feeling…there was no way he was drunk, he would have felt the effects by now. The movie was pretty much over so they had been snacking and drinking the kool aid for a while now. Not to mention that it was true that if he had been drinking it, he would have already let it slip how he couldn't stop thinking about Amara.

So what had happ…

Jubilee laughed hysterically in the back seat interrupting his thought. His eyes then widened even more and he eyed the purple flask thinking back to the comments made earlier about the predictability of them and colors.

He quickly tapped out, you spiked the red one?

Duh!

"Fuck," Ray turned to him at the whisper.

Roberto tossed his phone at him and then took a look at the back seat where both girls were watching the movie intently. Jubilee with the silliest expression on her face. When Roberto looked back at Ray he was looking intently at the phone and after a few more seconds he handed it back to take out his own.

It wasn't long before his phone vibrated again.

Are you telling me we accidentally got her drunk?

A loud laughter erupted again and Roberto didn't answer the text, just turned and gave him an incredulous look.

When he did text back it was, What do we do?

I'll get her some water. Might as well let her finish watching the movie and we'll take them elsewhere after for her to chill

Are we going to tell her?

-_- of course

Sweat dropped emoji

The next thirty minutes were a whirlwind. Ray handed them all a water bottle which Jubilee refused to drink because the kool aid tasted much much better. When he had attempted to take away the container from her she had retaliated by chugging the rest of the liquid.

Both males watch in shock and somewhat horror.

"Alright we gotta get you out of here…" Ray mumbled, "Go get more water, take Amara with you…"

"What are you going to do?"

"Break it to her, what else? At least by the time you guys get back most of the cars should be gone so traffic won't be so bad."

Roberto nodded and got out of the car, "I'm gonna go grab some last minute snacks, keep me company?"

Amara turned away from her giggling best friend, "Alright…You want anything?" she asked, turning back to the black haired girl.

"Kool Aid!" was the excited answer.

"Maybe I should stay…"

"She'll be ok, I'll take care of her."

Amara turned to look at Ray who wasn't staring back but had his focus on the Asian girl. After a bit of staring at his intense expression she nodded. "Behave!" She remarked, tapping Jubilee on the arm.

This just made her giggle more. As Amara got out of the car Ray did as well and started making his way around the car to take Amara's place.

"You want anything other than water?" Roberto asked.

Ray started to shake his head, but after a bit reconsidered. "Get me a bag of jawbreakers."

Roberto nodded before him and Amara started making their way towards the concession stands. Ray watched them before sitting besides the giggling girl and closing the jeep door. "Hey…"

"Hi!"

Beside himself Ray smiled at the excitement in her voice, "You feeling ok?"

"I feel great!"

"I bet…so…" he watched Jubilee move her head side to side to the music of the end credits. Her eyes peeking around at the other cars. "Laura tried to play a little trick on Roberto and it kind of backfired…actually you probably would have loved it if it worked being a troublemaker and all."

"Mhmm…" Jubilee answered, still moving around and looking everywhere but in his direction.

"Are you really even listening to me?"

"Yeah yeah," she answered back, looking outside of the jeep.

"Hey look at me look at me…" at the words Ray moved closer to her until their legs touched. His hand went to her chin and tilted it so that she was facing him. She didn't put up a fight, and let him guide her until their eyes connected.

Her lips were curled upwards in a sweet smile, eyes bright and cheeks flushed. As she eyed him her eyes dropped to his lips. "I didn't mean, look at me like that…" he whispered after a few seconds.

"Why not?" She asked back, her whisper grazing his lip as her head moved forward.

"Cause this isn't the time, and you're kind of drunk."

"If I enjoy this when I'm sober, why wouldn't I drunk?" she answered and let her lips touch his.

His immediate thought was that he needed to pull away, but she was so warm and welcoming that it was hard to back off. He let his lips put pressure against her own and his mouth parted letting her tongue slide into his mouth. It was a quick exchange, ending with her teeth biting at his, grazing over his piercing.

She smiled even brighter and moved away from him, "So what did Laura do?"

"She was trying to get Roberto tipsy so he would spill his guts to Amara. She put vodka in the red flask."

"Mmm…he was supposed to get the red one, Amara the purple, me the yellow and you the blue…so much for not being predictable," she teased, letting one of her hands go up towards his face so a finger could gently poke into his cheek.

He let her finger linger while his hand went down to the half drunk water bottle Amara had left. "Drink…"

Her lips pouted, "Party pooper…"

"Maybe if you hadn't chugged the rest I would have let you ride it out."

"I wouldn't mind riding something out…" she murmured her lips curling back up.

Before he had a chance to answer there were approaching footsteps and soon a water bottle went flying into Ray's lap making both of them turn to the side. Amara was shaking her head while Roberto chuckled behind her, neither seeming to notice the moment they had interrupted and Ray found himself slowly inching away from the petite Asian putting space between them.

"I can't believe she wanted to do that to you! She's so bad!"

"She's feral," Roberto answered and took a glance at the other two, "did you tell her yet?"

"Yup," Ray answered and handed her the water.

"Well I think it's been a fun night," Jubilee remarked while taking the water. "What's next?"

"With you like this, nothing."

"Puh-lease, I've been messed up worse than this," Jubilee answered, rolling her eyes. "Let's do something else! The night is still young!"

Roberto turned his gaze to Amara, "Do you still have time?"

She took a glance at her phone before looking at him and smiling, "I have time…"

Ray shook his head at all of them but got up and maneuvered himself over the center to go into the driver's seat.

"Oh I want to pick the music!" Jubilee yelled out excitedly. At first she thought Ray had ignored her but after a few seconds his hand reached over his head to hand her his phone.

She looked at it surprised and timidly took it. He had already opened the Spotify app so she just searched for the first song that popped into her head.

As the sounds of a solo guitar riff started, Ray turned the key bringing the Jeep to life. His foot went to the gas pedal, the pressure of his foot light to get the car moving but before he could go anywhere he stopped as a sound he had only heard once before echoed directly behind him.

"Now that I have captured your attention…" His eyes automatically went to the rear-view mirror. He could barely see the hint of the brown iris he was starting to get very familiar with through the haze of fuchsia pink, but even though he could not see them completely he felt their gaze. "I wanna steal ya for a rhythm intervention…" he looked away as he saw Roberto turn to him from his peripherals.

His friend's eyes were wide and blown out in surprise making him fake a curious look back. Before he could comment on it, Ray pressed the gas lightly starting the drive. He kept his eyes forward but through the side saw Roberto turn his body to look at the singing girl in the back seat.

"Sh-sh-show me how you make a first impression…Oh oh can we take it nice and slow, slow…" After watching her for a second Roberto moved his attention to Amara who looked as surprised as he felt. Her mouth was slightly agape as she watched her best friend and he couldn't help the word 'cute' from running through his mind.

His distracted thoughts went back to the Asian girl as she dipped low into her seat, her mouth parting to sing, "Break it down and drop it low, low…" a milliesecond later she sat up fast and straight startling Amara and making her lean back. She giggled after the words and as Jubilee kept singing shared a smile with him. "Cause I just wanna party all night in the neon lights 'til you can't let me go…"

The smile didn't last long as Jubilee did something none of them expected. She stood up, her feet going to step on the seat she was previously sitting on while her hands gripped onto the top rails of the jeep propelling her head above them.

"I just wanna feel your body right next to mine…" Both Roberto and Amara's jaws dropped open as their eyes looked up to move along with the swaying hips as the car did a small serve as well.

"Please tell me I'm not seeing what I think I'm fucking seeing?" Ray asked as he steadied the car.

"All night long…Baby, slow down the song."

"I don't think you have vision problems," Roberto muttered.

"Get her back inside the fucken car."

"I mean she's 85 percent in if we're being realistic," Roberto ignored the side glare he received at the words and quickly added, "Amara's working on it."

"And when it's coming closer to the end, hit Rewind…"

And she was. Her hands were on her friend's waist trying to pull her down while clearly saying, "Jubilee! Sit Down!"

"All night long! Baby, slow down the song…"

She eventually did, grabbing Amara's hands in the process and bringing both of them up into the air, waving them back and forth. "Oh oh oh oh…Yeah, baby, slow down the song…"

When she let go she sat back down in her seat and propped her sunglasses back up into her hair. She let one of her legs cross over the other and continued the song as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. "If you want me I'm accepting applications so long as we can keep this record on rotation…" feeling eyes on her she moved her gaze to the rear-view mirror letting her brown orbs meet with grayish blue. Her lips quirked into a sly smile, "You know I'm good with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation…"

Ray shook his head but let his lips curl upwards despite himself as his eyes went back to the road. Jubilee bit her lips and looked away too, letting her gaze go to outside the window, "Breathe me in, breathe me out…So amazing…"

Amara looked at the back of Jubilee's head, still in shock about her little musical outburst. Her attention moved away when she felt a tap on her knee making her look back towards the front where Roberto's body was still twisted so that he could face them.

"I think she still needs some of this…" he remarked, tapping her again on the knee with a water bottle.

She nodded and smiled at the gesture, "She does, wish me luck getting her to drink it though, she's having way too much fun…"

/Oh, oh
Can we take it nice and slow, slow
Break it down and drop it low, low
Cause I just wanna party all night in the neon lights 'til you can't let me go/

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Thirty minutes, many songs and a lot of giggling later the four teens found themselves at a park near the apartments. Ray watched the girls intently as they barely swung while sitting in the swings.

"Well tonight was an interesting night." Ray nodded agreeing but didn't verbally answer, making Roberto add, "Damn, it wasn't bad."

"Hmm?" Ray asked, watching Jubilee's head tilt back to drink more water while taking a break from pushing Amara on the swing.

"Her voice, she would actually be a really good addition to the team."

"She would be," Ray agreed and after a few seconds added, "if she was staying long term…"

"Mmm...that's right."

"And I think she gets stage fright…I think that's the reason she keeps dodging doing anything for Karaoke night. The way she sung right now shows she likes it, I think it's the multiple people watching that's the problem."

"Mmm, I think you're right. Wow, when did you become so observant," Roberto teased but when he didn't get an annoyed reply back he added, "well it doesn't seem like she's upset about getting accidentally drunk."

"…I don't think she's as innocent as we give her credit for."

"They do say it's the quiet ones," the dark skinned boy joked as he watched Amara. Ray's eyes stayed on the black hair girl beside her thinking that his friend had no idea.

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"I can't believe they're actually letting you spend the night!" Jubilee murmured excitedly.

"I know. I must have played my part well this last week. I deserve this…"

"I'm sure it helps that they liked Laura…and that they have no idea that there's boys here."

"I'd be dead." They both giggled after the comment. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine."

"Most of your extra pep is gone."

"Too bad, it was a good feeling," Jubilee answered with a smirk.

Amara shook her head, "Why do I feel like you've been in a similar state of mind before?"

Jubilee made a raspberry noise, "I've been worse…"

Amara made a small hum of acknowledgement but then remained silent as both girls looked up at the ceiling. At the moment they found themselves on Jubilee bed, their feet dangling off the edge as they sat vertically on the twin bed.

After a few minutes Amaras lips parted, "Should we take your stuff back to my house tomorrow?"

Silence filled the room again, this time the air shifted to something tense as Jubilee refrained from answering. After a beat longer Amara turned her head to look at her and feeling the movement Jubilee mimicked it. There was a sadness to the brown almond gaze staring back at her and after a few seconds Amara couldn't hold it and moved her eyes back to the ceiling.

"You want to stay."

"I…" Jubilee went quiet after the word as her thoughts started running wildly in her head. She did want to stay, for more reasons than the one that Amara was probably thinking but at the same time she did want to spend more time with her friend too. Her lips parted to speak but nothing came out…

"It's alright."

Jubilee's hand went to her face, "I'm a horrible friend aren't I?"

Amara gave a small smile at the words, "I wouldn't say that. I think you're infatuated and that feeling…is kind of nice but it's also consuming."

Jubilee tried to study her but from the angle she was at she couldn't see the look on her friend's face. "I still want to spend all kinds of time with you, you know?"

"I know."

After a brief silence Jubilee blew air out of her mouth making Amara turn back to her. "Why are we talking like it's a done deal? They agreed to let me stay two weeks and here we are talking about me staying without permission …"

Before Amara could respond there was a knock at the door. "Come in" Jubilee responded while getting on her elbows to lean upwards and see who it was.

The door slowly opened and a head tilted inwards, "Hey, can I come in or do you want to kill me?"

Jubilee smirked at the words, "You can come in."

Laura made her way in and didn't bother closing the door behind her, "My bad! Me and the guys some times do some stupid shit and I didn't mean to get you in the crossfire."

Jubilee managed a giggle, "It's ok, I was just telling Mara that I've had it worse before…"

Laura perked an eyebrow. "Really? You do like to surprise…"

"My parents put more trust in me than they should."

Laura shrugged, "Doesn't seem like a horrible thing."

"It is…hey…actually now that you're here…" Laura perked a brow at the change in her tone. "Amara was asking when we should move my stuff out but…I was kind of wondering what the possibility would be of letting me stay until I have to go back home."

Both of Laura's eyes widened in surprise but after a few seconds she smiled, "I mean I don't have a problem with it as long as you guys are cool with it."

"And the guys?"

"Those two idiots probably forgot this was only supposed to be a two week thing, I mean if you really want me to ask I will but I'm more than confident that they'll be fine with it."

"Thanks."

Laura nodded and dropped beside her on the bed and turned to Amara, "I have a feeling that it's a rare occasion for you to spend the night over somewhere…you guys want to have a girls night?"

"That sounds fun…what should we do?"

Laura's shoulder gave a shrug, "Let's bake, drink and marathon something. I'll go get the oven ready," and with that Laura sprung off the bed and ran out the room.

"I guess you weren't kidding when you said the night was young," Amara commented as she sat up ready to follow.

Jubilee managed a smile and sat up as well, her mind wondering if it really was a good idea to stay. Amara's words about how infatuation could be consuming repeating over and over again.

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/I just wanna feel your body right next to mine
All night long
Baby, slow down the song/

Ray's nose twitched as the smell of something sweet invaded his senses. He felt his head move sideways to the other side of the pillow where the scent seemed stronger. It wasn't until he felt something soft against his lips that he recognized it as Stella Rose Black wine.

His lips parted to reciprocate the kiss and soon a tongue was inserted inside his mouth as he felt the pressure of weight being added on to the bed. Seconds later that weight was on top of him straddling his waist.

Thoughts that he might be having a really good, realistic dream went out the window as a low throaty moan exploded next to his ear when he decided to attack the crook of the neck of his assailant.

His hands automatically went to her sides and pushed her hips against his, causing another moan to escape the perfect lips he was getting addicted to. He repeated the action over again, the friction being caused by her jeans rubbing his cock making him ache in a delicious way.

After a quick nip at her neck he whispered a low "What are you doing?"

"I think it's pretty obvious," was the quick reply.

"Shouldn't you be taking care of your friend? What's the point of a sleepover if you're not hanging out?"

"She's sleeping, can't hang out if half the party is knocked out. Plus, Laura's wine made me horny…but I guess if you want to sleep instead I can finish myself in the sho…" she didn't get to finish the sentence as his hand wrapped around her waist and in a quick flash she was on here back, his body nestled in between her legs.

"You already woke me up, I might as well stay up." His lips found hers after the words and one of his hands wrapped around her thigh bringing it over his waist. After a few times of running his hand up and down the side of her leg he let his knee dig into his mattress and thrust his hips forward causing a sharp intake of breath to echo in the room.

"Mhmm, more…" The whispered command was accompanied by her hands wrapping around his chest. Her hands slid down his lower back, going into the back pocket of his jeans to give him a squeeze but before she could she let out an unexpected "ouch" out and hastily pulled her hand away making Ray stop his actions to see how she had gotten hurt.

"What's wrong?"

"Something poked me."

"Isn't that what you wanted?"

Her hand went up and slightly smacked his arm, "It's in your back pocket."

He put his weight on the right side of his body letting his left hand dig into the pocket to see what had hurt her. A few seconds later both of them eyed the glittering silver lighting bolts, the edges glinting in the moonlight.

"I would apologize but technically I think we should consider this your fault," he teased.

Her eyes narrowed while her lips pursed, giving him a snarky look before taking the bracelet and putting it on the bedside table. She then dug into her own pocket and the sound of metal making contact with metal was heard before she asked, "so where were we?"

"You were begging me to grind into you but personally I think it'd be better if we had less clothes on."

"Begging is a bit of a stretch…"

"Was it? Should I keep dry humping you until it's not a stretch?"

Jubilee rolled her eyes, letting her hands go to the bottom of his shirt and pulling it upwards exposing the the hard muscle underneath, "I think you should just shut up and Fuck me."

He let a chuckle out as the shirt went over his head being thrown across the room. The next few seconds being a shuffle of clothes being taken off before doing as she commanded.

/And when it's coming closer to the end hit "Rewind"
All night long
Baby, slow down the song/

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Jubilay- I really love how they're starting to act like bf/gf without noticing. Ignorance is Bliss ;) I really enjoyed the conversation that they had in bed at the start of the chapter (Also I can totally see her being goofy in bed and talking to 'little ray') and I loved him telling her not to look at him like that in the Jeep XD I think it's definitely showing that it's becoming more than attraction and sex…thought they're really enjoying that perk XD

Amarto- If you're one of my usual readers (like you've read my other works) and didn't know the smut scene was a fantasy I don't know what to tell you XD If you're new to me…I'm sorry…kind of XD Roberto is realizing he is all in and he is adorable! I love his conversation with Laura and how she's a little trouble maker herself. They were fun to write this chapter :)

Romy- MIA

Xietro- Xietro itself was MIA but there were mentions of them hanging out…and someone who brought it was Logan…he's such a nice dad like figure isn't he ;)

Jonda- MIA…well I mean it was mentioned that she spent the night, but nothing happened :P

The song used in the chapter was: 'Slow Down' which is by Selena Gomes BUTI actually went with the TeraBrite cover which has more of an electric rockish sound to it.

Announcement- So, like I said at the start of this chapter, I wasn't planning to update this month but here I am. Because of that, I am not updating next month to continue my break and I will definitely see you in January where we will go back to our monthly update schedule. I'm going to try and post an Amarto commission inspired by that shower scene on my Tumblr, if it gets blocked then you will be able to find it on my twitter: U_H_W_88

As always thanks so much for reading and supporting me and this fic. I hope you have Happy Holiday's and I will see you in the New Year!

-UHW