[Complicated] Bahama, Come On Pretty Mama

[Claire Jayne Madden]

Claire put her hair up in a ponytail a few times, each time lowering it and shaking her hair out. She gave a small sigh before she looked at Natalia.’ Help!” she screamed at her best friend, as though it was her fault that she couldn’t figure out how to do her hair in order to look her best. She dropped her hair back down to her shoulders before she laid back against the lawn chair set up by the pool. She’d rather be laying on the beach, but since they were on a cruise she’d use the opportunity to tan during the day. “ So how was your date with my brother?” she said as she turned her head on the chair and blew cheesy kisses in Natalia’s direction. She couldn’t help but smile at her friend. At least Natalia could have a conversation with Ethan unlike herself with Anthony, when he would say things to her and all she could think of to say was stupid shit like ‘cheese’. That was part of the reason she had drinks around him.She wasn’t a stammering idiot and could sort of relax after she’d had a few.

Claire picked up the cool,frozen cocktail she’d ordered and placed the straw between her lips lazily as she watched everyone else at the pool. She could already pick out the types of girls that Anthony would check out, and she was mentally trying to calculate everything that was wrong with them . “….Thanks for agreeing to come out. You and Stefan didn’t have to literally drop everything just because I wanted to do something to make Anthony happy, even if I played it off as a group vacation. “ she smiled slightly at her best friend and put her sunglasses back on before she laid her head back. A group vacation wasn’t a bad idea, at all. But getting to spend a vacation with all of her best friends hadn’t been her main motivation for calling everyone in order to come. She didn’t know what was going on with Anthony, but if he needed away, she’d do anything she could to make him smile, or at least to try and forget about what was going on in his life. Everyone needed a little escape now and then.

Outfit

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan took a drink from his beer bottle and leaned away from the bar counter on the ship. When he first found out they were going on vacation he was pretty damn stoked. Then he found out it was a cruise, and the only thing he could picture was geriatric women trying to pull off bathing suits that were way past their expiration date. But now that he was on the boat, he could tell that Anthony was a fucking genius. Tons of hot women; on the boat. It was like a traveling nightclub. He spotted Claire and Natalia, but didn’t see Hillary with them yet before he started to make his way over. The first thing he noticed was the fact that Claire was wearing a bikini. His features turned into a look of disgust behind his sunglasses as he came up to them. Ethan set his beer down on the small stand that was between Claire and Natalia’s chairs. ‘No one wants to see that shit, Claire’ he said, reaching down to lift off his shirt. He tossed it in her direction, watching it as it fell on her lap and waited for her to put it on. He shook his head as she pushed it off to the side and poured some of her frozen strawberry ‘drink’onto it. Ethan took his sunglasses off and took his wallet and hotel key out of the pocket of his board shorts before tossing it into Claire’s purse. “ Watch that for me,” he said before he picked his beer bottle back up and brought it to his lips.

Ethan was taking a drink when he finally turned and looked at Natalia, coughing instantly on the cool Budlight. He brought his fist to his mouth and cleared his throat. Yeah, she could definitely pull off a bikini. “ Hey Natalia,” he said, placing the bottle back down. A devious smile crept his lips as he stepped slowly out of his flip flops and he looked down at her. “ You know the point of a bathing suit is to go swimming, right?” he said as he smiled down at her. He waited for just a second before he moved quickly and placed one arm under her legs and the other behind her back. He jumped back quickly before pulling her into the water with him, holding her close against his chest as they both fell into the water.

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[Hillary Rachelle Jones]

Hillary walked out onto the deck of the ship,pulling her messy fishtail braid over her right shoulder and puffed out her cheeks tiredly. She had to admit that she’d been nervous when she agreed to come out on a cruise with Stefan. It wasn’t because it was with him, she was nervous getting to know his friends on a deeper level. She’d met all of them, and thought they were all great but it was sort of intimidating how close they all were and she was nervous that the more they got to know her, they might not like her as an option for Stefan. She cared about him a lot more than she wanted to let on, and though things had developed since they fought that night at his house, they still weren’t exclusive. Which she desperately wanted to be. However, him inviting her on a vacation when he could have used it as an opportunity to be single and carefree, was certainly a plus. If she had any weapons left in her arsenal it was how to wear a bikini and she was going to use every advantage she could to try and bring Stefan down, or atleast wear him down to the point where he just said he wanted to be with her.

Hillary smiled and waved to Claire and Natalia as she came closer to them. They were the main reason she was terrified of the trip. Girls could be vicious, and especially ones that were best friends. But they genuinely seemed like really sweet girls. Which was even scarier in her opinion, because if two insanely sweet girls who were close with Stefan couldn’t like her then maybe she wasn’t the right option for him. Ethan came over and it seemed just as quickly he had brought Natalia into the pool. Hillary smiled as she laughed, coming over to claim Natalia’s place. “ Some guy bought me a drink at the bar, But instead of asking for my telephone number he asked for my room number,” she said with slight shock as she looked at Claire. She placed the mojito down on the stand by Ethan’s beer and shook her head. “ Etiquette must be different on water,” Hillary crossed her right leg over her left as she laid back in the chair, opening the book she had brought, The Last Song.

Outfit

[Natalia Anne Richmond]

Natalia laid on the lounge chair, looking at Claire. She laughed when Claire asked for help. "Your hair looks fine girl. Just leave it down." She sipped on her fruit smoothie and then put it back on the table. "It wasn't a date. I told you that it wasn't a date and it wasn't, but it went well. I had a really nice time with Ethan." Natalia looked over at him leaning on the bar and smiled to herself. He was so cute.Natalia looked back at Claire, "You know I would not pass up a vacation cruise with my best friends." she smiled, leaned over and kissed Claire on the cheek. "Besides who else is going to dress you and help you talk to Anthony." Natalia smiled once more and closed her eyes and looked into the sun. She could feel the vitamin D soaking into her body.

Natalia opened her eyes when she heard Ethan's voice. His back was to her and he was talking to Claire. Natalia laughed when he said that no one wanted to see Claire in her bathing suit. She took another sip of her drink but quickly stopped when Ethan took his shirt off. Natalia looked at him and sighed quietly to herself. He had amazing back muscles. She smiled and then closed her eyes once more. Natalia opened her eyes when she heard Ethan cough on his drink, she realized he was looking at her. "Well hello Ethan." she said with a smile. Natalia watched him put his drink down and then the devious smile. "Do not even think about it Ethan." she said as she attempted to hold onto the chair. Ethan picked her up and then jumped into the water. Their bodies were close together. They cam out of the water, still together and Natalia smiled, looking at Ethan. Just then she splashed him and quickly swam away from him.


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[Anthony Marcus Owen]

Anthony leaned against the bar looking over all the people at the pool. He spotted Claire and Natalia and smiled. Those two girls were gorgeous. One was his best friend and the other was a girl that he had been attracted to for a long time. He just could never bring himself to do or try anything with her. She was too much of a nice girl to hurt and treat the way he treated other girls. He was ready to be in a relationship at this time and that's what she wanted, or at least thats what he thought she wanted. He looked at them one more time and smiled. He turned back to the bar and the bartender came over and he ordered a glass of Ciroc on the rocks. He gave the bartender his room number and she had his credit card on file for his drinks. "Can you put the girl's drinks on my tab too?" he said, pointing to Claire. "Sure." the bartender said with a smile. Anthony smiled and took his drink and drank most of it.

"Can you just bring the bottle of the berry Ciroc?" The bartender nodded and handed him the bottle. "Thank you." he slipped the bartender a 50. "Here's a tip for you." he said with a wink and a smile. He sipped the rest of his drink, poured more in his glass and looked over at the pool as Ethan grabbed Natalia and pulled her in. He smiled and drank some of his drink. His eyes focused back on Claire as Hillary took Natalia's seat. Just then Stefan met him at the bar, "Hey dude. About time you two joined us." he said with a small laugh.


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[Stefan Michael Thomas]

Stefan kissed Hillary on the cheek and they parted ways. She went over to the girls and he was going over to the bar with Anthony. He sat on the stool next to him, ordered himself a Corona and then sipped on Anthony's drink. Stefan laughed at Anthony's comment, "Dude, you know I like my sleep." he smiled, "Nothing happened, you know Hillary." he drank his Corona again and then looked into the pool at Natalia and Ethan, "Those two are actually cute together, even though I hate to admit it." he said with a laugh and a look over to Anthony. Stefan looked back over at Hillary, she was absolutely gorgeous. How did he become lucky enough to have this girl? He watched her talk to Claire and then pull out a book. He continued to smile to himself. He drank the rest of his Corona and ordered another one. Once he got it, he got up and decided to go see the girls. "Come on." he said to Anthony. Anthony just shook his head and went back to drinking. Stefan sighed and walked over to Claire and Hillary.

He stood behind Hillary's chair and leaned down to place a soft kiss on her neck, "Whatcha reading?" He kissed her neck again and then walked around to Claire's chair. "What are you drinking?" he said as he picked it up, took a sip and then made a face. "A fruity drink? Really Claire?" he said with a smile as he put it back down. "You two ladies look beautiful." he said as he did a mock curtsey. He smiled and sipped his beer again. Hillary seemed to be happy to be here, but he could tell there was something bothering her. It was the same thing that was bothering her the night of their big fight. He looked down at Claire, "You should go talk to Anthony, I think he could use that right now." he said as he nodded his head in Anthony's direction. "And you, "he said looking at Hillary, "should come swimming with me." Stefan put his beer on the table and took his shirt off. He placed it on the floor with his sandals. He took one more sip, kissed Hillary, and then dove into the pool.


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[Ethan John Fox]

It hadn't taken a lot to convince Ethan to come out on vacation with the rest of them . The only thing that was tempting him to stay home was the fact that he still had soccer practice and he had just been made captain. He didn't want to start off on the wrong foot by not being there,but come on.. how often was he going to get to go to the Bahamas with this group of people? Plus it was pretty hard to turn Claire down when she started pouting around the apartment. It was times like that when he wondered why in the hell he had let her talk him into letting her move out of their parents place, and into his own with him. It had been working out pretty well for the most part, for instance never before in his lief had he fully seen the appreciation to be held towards the concept of a teenage girl sleep over before. The idea that it was not kosher to date your younger sisters best friend,did not escape Ethan, but they were all growing up, becoming adults and able to make their own decisions. The only problem with Ethan at this point was he wasn't really sure whether or not he wanted a relationship.Sex, yes.Drama, no. But if looking at Natalia in her bikini didn't make you change your perspectives a bit in life, then Ethan wasn't entirely sure you were a man . But his issue was the fact that she was Natalia,not some girl he could pick up at a bar. As much as he wanted to sleep with her, he didn' t want to hurt her.

Feeling her against his skin hadn't been the smartest of all choices,since he wasn't really sure why he was starting to notice her. Was it because he himself was maturing,or the fact that she had gotten pretty damn hot as she got older and the immature sex addict inside of him was starting to take notice. Obviously he wanted to sleep with her, and the more he let her body cloud his judgment, the less he could think clearly. He whipped his head back and forth to shake the water from his hair and eyes as he surfaced from the water. He smiled as he watched Hillary sat down by Claire and saw that Stefan was on his way to the bar. Atleast someone was getting some this trip.Hell, that was obvious just by the way Stefan greeted her when he came back over to Hillary and Claire. He watched each of his friends for a moment before he decided to swim back after Natalia. " I didn't say we were done, yet!" he teased as he picked her up easily from the water. Ethan narrowed his eyes at her playfully before he lifted her up higher above the water and moved his arms quickly to drop her back into it.

[Claire Jayne Madden]

Claire turned her upper body to the side in order to avoid getting splashed from what Ethan and Natalia had accumulated with their horseplay. The last thing she wanted was to actually get in the pool. There was nothing wrong with getting a little sun. She couldn’t help but smile as she watched the way her brother and her best friend behaved around one another. Yeah, it was weir dbut they were both really good people,so why not? She narrowed her eyebrows as she looked at Hillary in her bikini and then looked at herself. Score 1 for Stefan, atleast. Claire adjusted the way she lounged in her chair, trying to not look too much like shit next to her. “ Hey,” she smiled at Hillary. “ Someone bought you a drink?Make sure it’s not laced with something.I don’t feel like breaking Stefan out of whatever cruise jail there might be, for attempted murder or drowning of someone,” ,she played with the ends of her hair as she tried to picture Stefan behind bars. He was too pretty for jail,only bad things would happen to him.

Claire watched Anthony as he stood at the bar and rolled her eyes. “ Do you see him flirting with the bartender? It’s so ridiculous” she said with a shake of her head. She narrowed her eyebrows from behind the safety of her sunglasses as she watched Stefan approach the bar and have a quick conversation with Anthony before he made his way over. She leaned her head back on her chair to watch the way he had greeted Hillary. Walking up to a girl and kissing her neck was a pretty intimate way of greeting someone; if they weren’t doing it now, they probably would be by the end of the trip. “ Hey!” she said with a slight frown as he picked up her drink, and then continued to mock it. ”Don’t pretend you don’t like the fruity things in life, we all remember your mesh tank top days,” she said sarcastically. Claire picked up her drink and finished it quickly,knowing that the chances of getting a brain freeze were pretty high.She held her hand against her forehead as she heard Stefan tell her to go talk to Anthony and sighed to herself. Yeah, because that would never be awkward.She smiled as she watched him take off his shirt, hell best friend or not…. He was gorgeous. “OOkay.” she drawled out before she placed her hands on her armrest and stood up. Stefan wouldn’t tell her to do something unless he really thought she should,so Claire decided it was best not to argue and made her way over to the bar.

“It’s my shift to babysit you,” she said with a sarcastic smile across her lips. Claire pushed some of her hair behind her ear and opted to stand by the stool next to Anthony instead of sit in it.She tilted her head to see what he was drinking and then placed her hands on the counter to lean on the bar and get the bartenders attention. “ Hey can I just get a glass?” she waited before she took the bottle away from in front of Anthony and smiled, pouring herself a drink. Claire looked up at the bartender who was still staring at Anthony and scoffed quietly to herself. “ He still wets the bed,” she said before she placed a cold smile at the bartender and waited for her to walk away. She turned to look at Anthony and shook her head slightly, resting her elbow against the counter before she brought the glass to her lips and took a drink. “Don’t you have an off switch?” she said before she placed the glass back down against the counter. “Come on I organized an entire vacation for you. You can’t sit at the bar and flirt with …cruise bartenders,”

[Hillary Rachelle Jones]

Hillary propped her book up against her knee and flipped a few pages until she found where she had left off and settled back into reading. But just as quickly as she had gotten into a rhythm, Claire had started talking to her. She turned her head to look at her and laughed. “ Stefan isn’t going to jail,” she said with an amused expression. She followed Claire’s eyeline when she questioned Hillary about some guy flirting with the bartender. Anthony? Hillary made a confused expression. “ Why does it matter if Anthony is flirting with the bartender? He’s a cute guy. He can flirt with who he wants..” she said, but clearly that wasn’t the reaction that Claire had been looking for because Hillary turned to look back at her, seeing a small glare in her direction.” …Sorry?” she said, though she had no idea why or what was happening. Thankfully there wasn’t too much time for an awkward silence or tension since Stefan came back over and kissed the side of her neck. She smiled instantly, tilting her neck to the side to bit since he had the effect of making her feel weak when he did that. “ The Last Song,” she said, but sighed again as his lips brushed against her neck once more. Apparently they could both play this game pretty well.

Hillary laughed as she watched the exchange between Stefan and Claire and smiled as he said they looked pretty. “ I had help picking out my bathing suit,” she said with a smile in his direction. She closed her book as she watched him take his shirt off; apparently reading was over with. It was funny how Claire seemed to always take direction from Stefan. And now that she was alone on the side of the pool, she figured she might as well take his offer and go swimming with him. Hillary stood up from the chair and stepped out of her flip flops. Diving in a bikini wasn’t really an option. She moved the end of her braid and took a quick drink from her mojito before she went over to the shallow end of the pool and made her way in, walking up until the water hit her waist. It was sort of amusing to watch the way women reacted to Stefan, and how gorgeous he was. Honestly, she was on vacation with a lot of beautiful people. If guys weren’t checking out Natalia and Claire, then their girlfriends were ogling over Stefan, Anthony and Ethan. She smiled as she watched some of the girls trying to get Stefan to notice them.

[Natalia Anne Richmond]

The water was really refreshing. It was cool against her hot skin. She could already feel the tan from the sun. That was one of the good things about being mostly italian, your skin tanned right up instead of burning. So far, this vacation was going smoothly, it was only the first day, but there had been no problems what so ever. Everyone was getting along. Hillary seemed to be getting along with everyone with no problems. This was going to be one great vacation. It had already started out that way. Ethan decided to jump in the pool with her and of course Natalia did not have a problem with it, it was Ethan. If Anthony had done it, she would have to drown him. Natalia watched Stefan walk over to Claire and Hillary. She smiled when he kissed her neck, she wanted that. No more being alone and what not. She was only 18 and she really didn't have time for a relationship, but she really wanted one. She continued to watch them until she heard Ethan say that they weren't done yet. She laughed and tried to swim away, but Ethan caught up to her.

Natalia laughed once more as he picked her up out of the water a bit. She smiled as Ethan narrowed his eyes and then lifted her higher. She got ready for what was coming next. She closed her eyes and held her breath as she landed back in the water. She swam away from Ethan under the water and then came up when she got to the side of the pool. She wiped the water off her face and up off of her head. She looked over at the bar and saw Claire sitting there with Anthony, She smiled to herself and then looked over to Ethan. "Come on slowpoke." she said with another small laugh. She went under the water once more and started to swim to the shallow end of the pool.


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[Anthony Marcus Owen]

Anthony finished the second glass of Ciroc and poured himself another, this vacation was going to be easy with this. He didn't have to think of anything, just the cruise. "Yeah, you're right." he said to Stefan about the Hillary comment. "You guys should just bone and get it over with." Anthony knew that Hillary meant a lot to Stefan. He turned and looked at Ethan and Natalia when Stefan said they look cute together, "You got that right. Too bad she's my best friend, I couldn't see myself with her romantically anymore." He watched them for a little bit longer and then turned back to the bar. He sighed to himself and then drank more of his drink "Slow down there, the day just began." the bartender said with a smile as she got another guy's drink. Anthony smiled and then Stefan said come on. Anthony shook his head and drank some more. He watched the people on the other side of the bar. He smiled as they smiled at him. He watched some girls walk by him. He looked down at his glass and began to think about home.

Just then Claire said that it was her turn to babysit, "Oh like you don't want to." he said as he returned the sarcastic smile. He took another sip of his drink and his eyes followed Claire as she poured the Ciroc into her own glass. He looked at her when she said he still wets the bed, "I already told her that, she told me she does too, so it's okay." the bartender smiled and then walked over to serve more customers. He poured more Ciroc in his glass and then replaced the cap after he took a drink. "I know you did." he said as he looked over at Claire, " and I really do appreciate it. I hope you know that." he smiled at her. He kissed her on the cheek and then looked at her, "Thank you. No one has done this before." he looked back in front of him and took another drink."And I can flirt with whoever I want to, even you." a sly smile crossed his lips as he looked at Claire.


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[Stefan Michael Thomas]

Stefan shook the water out of his hair and then looked over at the bar. Claire was actually over talking to Anthony. Stefan smiled and then swam into the shallow end to meet up with Hillary. He looked at all the guys watching her and he just smiled to himself. He got on his knees in front of her, wrapped his arms around her and placed his head on her stomach and closed his eyes. "Thank you for coming." he said with a smile. He placed a kiss on her belly button and then let go of her. Stefan swan around Hillary looking up at her, "You really do look beautiful." he smiled again. He went under once more, he opened her legs and them swan under them. He came back up and looked up at her smiling.

Stefan wrapped his arms around her once more. This time, he picked her up out of the water. He began slowly walking into the deep end. "Get ready." he said before he went under the water, bringing both of them under. He came back up, still holding Hillary. He placed her down in front of him and smiled again. "Refreshing? Isn't it?" he went under the water and came back up. He looked around again. "Look at all of these guys checking you out." he looked back at her. "Too bad they can't have you." he kissed her. "Having fun?"


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[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan had been friends with Stefan from school,and of course he knew Natalia through Claire. Through Natalia he had met Athony,and he had to say that those two guys were his best friends in the world. They were good men, whether they made mistakes or not. They all did. But he knew that this was a group of people he could count on no matter what. He couldn’t help but chuckle as girls checked out Stefan, mainly because that guy hardly ever seemed to realize how often they did. He watched Natalia as she came up at the other end of the pool and smiled as he watched her move the water away from her face “Slow poke?” he repeated with a hurt expression and shook his head. He let her swim for a bit, before he took off after her. Once he reached the shallow end of the pool he swept Natalia up in his arms again. “ Slow poke,my ass. Now we’re going to have to fatten you up and make you the slow poke”. Ethan gripped her tightly before he threw her over his right shoulder and held onto her legs.

Ethan waved at a slightly older couple as they watched him carry the girl over his shoulder and out of the pool. “ Got a good catch today,” he said, sarcastically giving them a salute as he stepped out of the water. Ethan shook his hair out again and wiped his hand over his face as he carried Natalia across the deck of the ship. He narrowed his eyebrows as he watched Claire talking to Anthony and made his way over to them. He set Natalia down so that she was sitting on the counter and smiled at the bartender. “ Triple berry smoothie for the gorgeous lady, and a Budlight for me,” he said quickly before giving her his room number. After taking his beer and watching as she started to make the drink for Natalia he clapped his hand against Anthony’s back. “ Hey man… not interrupting anything am I?” he took a drink from his beer and leaned back on the counter by Natalia.

[Claire Jayne Madden]

Claire watched as he continued to drink and could feel her heart sort of sinking. Yeah, she drank around him but that was only so she could function.It broke her heart to see him turning to alcohol for…whatever he was turning to it for. “ You’re right, I was secretly waiting for the opportune moment,” she said and rolled her eyes. He could be so full of himself sometimes. Then again, he had absolute reason to be. She ignored his comment to the bartender, figuring it was easier to ignore him jesting with a girl right in front of her than to pity in it. If they wanted to have a pissing contest on who was better at flirting with the opposite sex, he’d win in a landslide, but not before she gave it everything she had. Which would include kissing the guy a few chairs down. Claire shook her head slightly, trying to get that line of events from happening. After he replaced the cap on the Ciroc bottle she picked it up.”How about we do something with a little less alcohol?” she said as she held the neck of the bottle loosely in her fingers and held it behind her back. “ You’ll get it back based on good behaviors.Consider yourself on probation,”. She smiled as she looked over at him, trying to think of ways she could try and distract him without using alcohol. It was one thing if things in his life were falling apart, but she wasn’t going to let him do it to himself. He was better than that.

“Oh yeah, you know me. I go weak at the knees when you flirt,” she said as she sarcastically gave a serious nod. “But what is really amazing to me is that you amaze me so much more when you aren’t trying to be ‘Anthony Owen,.. ladies man of the ages’. You know when you’re the most amazing to me? When you let yourself be vulnerable and someday you’ll be able to admit to yourself that the only reason you hit on skanky bartenders, and sluts in tube tops.. is because you’re scared of what a real relationship could do to you. As long as you don’t have a relationship and have a series of one night stands, then you’re the one calling the shots and can’t get hurt.” she said,lifting her eyebrow as she looked at him seriously. “ But someday…you’re going to realize that you’re worth a hell of a lot more than some fleeting memory to a girl as she gets older. Someday, you’re going to realize that the only person you’re hurting is yourself. And that the people that see the good in you, were there all along,”. She shook her head slightly and gave a small sigh. “ But if you want to ignore that for now,and focus on the distractions instead because that’s easier.. then I can’t stop you.”. She lowered her left hand holding the bottle of Ciroc behind her back, bringing her right hand to his chest where she traced her finger against his collar bone. “ Some girls you never look at that way,” she said referring to herself, bringing her finger down from his chest to his stomach and against the hem of his boardshorts. “ Since when did you want to start pretending you could flirt with me the same way you flirt with some drunk sorority girl ?” she said, slightly angrily as she tried to exude more of the behaviors that he found appealing in other girls. If he wanted to sarcastically flirt with her like she was another one of those pointless skanks, then she could pretend to be one if only for the fact that she wanted to call his bluff, show him that the actions from her wasn’t the same, that she wasn’t the same as any other girl. Claire curled her fingertip along the inside of his boardshorts and pulled herself closer to him. “ And you’re welcome” she said, referring to when he had thanked her for the vacation. Claire looked over Anthony’s shoulder in time to see that Ethan was watching them and moved her hands quickly away from his lower abdomen and boardshorts before she took a large step back and picked up her drink.

[Hillary Rachelle Jones]

Hillary laughed at Stefan as he placed his head against her stomach and was on his knees in the shallow end of the pool. She brought her hands into the side of his hair and rested them on the back of his neck, smiling as she looked down at him. “ Of course, I’d do anything you wanted me to” she said as though it was silly of him to think that her coming with him was even an option after he had asked her. She’d do anything to make him happy, that’s part of what falling for him was all about. She tried not to arch her lower back as he kissed her belly button and shook her head as he complimented her. Hillary laughed as he moved her legs under the water to swim beneath her and then came back up. He was such a kid at heart sometimes. When he wrapped his arms around her, she threw her own around his neck quickly and held onto him tightly as he picked her up. Hillary kissed the side of his neck before she moved her lips up to the edge of his ear and nibbled against it gently. “You really need to be careful with all of these kisses, Stefan. We are in public and you’re making it very, very difficult to stick to my morals,” she said with a smile against the soft skin of his neck.

Hillary rolled her eyes as he said that guys were checking her out; which was hard for her to believe since she never really noticed men whenever Stefan was around. She lifted her eyebrow as he said that they couldn’t have her.” And you can?” she questioned him, clearly hinting towards the fact that they hadn’t slept together yet. She wrapped her arms around his waist and stood on her toes to kiss him and smiled. “ I am having lots of fun,”. She kissed him again quickly before she went under the water,swimming under his legs this time and came out from the water behind him. She wrapped her arms around his neck from behind and pulled herself up onto his back, holding to him tightly. She placed her chin on his shoulder and kissed his neck before she looked over at the bar. It seemed like Claire was closing the proximity between her and Anthony by a lot, and Ethan had certainly noticed. “ What’s going on over there? ” she said as she placed her chin back against his shoulder and watched all of them at the bar.