Maya’s POV

Matt and I walked together to the kitchen, the card game had been nothing but an excuse to drink the entire time, which had worked pretty damn good, and now we needed more to drink!
Matt said something and sounded astonished and I frowned looking past his broad shoulders.
Seeing Jess together with Zack, I had to grin. So Zack found an interest in the little red head? That was interesting…

It looked like Zack was showing something to her, his phone in her hands and she stared down on it frowning. Zack stood so close that their bodies were touching, was that a conscious move?!
When Matt announced our arrival with his question, Jess looked up surprised and Zack made a pissed off face as if we interrupted something important.

“Nothing is going on.” Zack said “I just showed Jess the new collection ideas for VU, I thought maybe she could model for me… I mean look at her, she is exactly what I need.. We.. We need.” Zack corrected and I chuckled, nice Vee, very nice.
“Oh and by the way, how about you and Ave doing the same?” Zack asked me and tried to save his little slip and Matt shook his head before I could even say something.
“Why not?” I asked Matt my voice slurring a little.
“He just wanna see you naked. I won’t have any of that, then he will only design underwear or bikinis or shit” Matt shook his head again making Zack chuckle.
“Great idea”

I rolled my eyes “That would be an amazing combination” Zack’s eyes were now having this faraway look as if he had an idea and I saw Jess taking a step to the side, when a long arm landed around me and Jimmy’s head suddenly appeared next to mine.
“What’s going on here?”
“I was searching for you my Qu.. I mean.. all of you.” Jimmy grinned was that a small blush on his face?
Then he held his hand out to Jess, but not before throwing the still thinking Zack an angry look. What was that about? But I guess I knew already!

We all walked back towards the main area of the party and when we sat back down I had to smile looking at Matt from the side, who was pretty damn drunk and high and I wasn’t that far behind, I gotta admit.
I think none of us was behind, Jimmy’s parties were the best there was no question about it.
And now that I was drunk and sitting next to the man that could bring my heart to race and my body to crave more I had so many thoughts of what we could do tonight in my head.

Maybe a little sneak peek at what we would do later on, when we were back in our room?
I let my hand wander down from Matt’s thigh towards his crotch but just before I reached the fun part he grabbed my hand and held it still, then he turned his head to the side and showed me wicked grin, he knew exactly what I was thinking.

He was about to grab me and pull me onto his lap, if that hadn’t got interrupted from Jimmy, who wouldn’t have any of that, he kept a close look on me and Matt and the little Gnome and Brian.
We weren’t allowed to leave the party early; I don’t know how often I had to promise him that today.
Did I mention that we were already getting smashed on our way back from the grocery store?
And did Jimmy even realize that he had let something slip?
Something I bet he wouldn’t have said if he wouldn’t be drinking and smoking weed so early?
And was too damn excited about?

I grinned at the memory, I knew it before or sensed it but… that he confirmed it was even funnier, now he acted all nonchalant about it, spending some time here and there, but not with her… not that anyone of the others would notice, but I bet we all knew that he had a HUGE thing for the red head that joined our family.

But why had Jess been eyeing me so weirdly when Jimmy and I arrived? Did she have a problem with me spending time with him?
But she didn’t have to…
Maybe I would find a quiet minute to talk to her later on?!

“Would he notice if we slipped away into the bathroom for a while?” Matt’s low growl sounded in my ear and I chuckled, shivers running down my spine.
“He notices everything tonight, big guy.” I patted Matt’s cheek and let my fingers run over it feeling a light stubble since we didn’t have much time this morning to get ready so he didn’t shave.
“Bummer” Matt sighed and pressed his cheek firmer into my hand, while he grabbed my hips and tried another time to move me closer to him, his head moving down until his lips were only inches from mine.

“Don’t, I said don’t! That’s how this starts, how this always starts!” Jimmy pushed himself between me and Matt.
“Fuck off, Jimbo” Matt groaned and shoved Jimmy away but not before he could grab me again.

“I am done with this! You-” Jimmy pointed at me and dragged me up from the couch and away from Matt who groaned “-will be staying on this side, and you-” He placed me next to Matt Berry who sat on the wall his legs stretched out before him “-Will take a look at her”
“My pleasure” Matt Berry announced holding his arms open for me and I sat down beside him meeting my Matt’s eyes “No funny business Berry!” Matt said and MB just grinned.
“At least I can stay with the same name” I chuckled making Matt narrow his eyes on me.

“And you-” Jimmy searched the room for Avery but she wasn’t there “God damn it, where-” Then Avery just appeared in the room followed by Brian and they looked a little disheveled, Brian having this huge satisfied grin on his face, while Avery blushed since all eyes were on them.

“Don’t tell me you just did what I think you did!” Jimmy threw his hands up in the air, walked over to grab Avery’s hand and sat her down beside Jason.
“You stay here, stay put!” Jimmy demanded and Jason got this huge smile on his face, but that disappeared again when his eyes landed on Brian who planned to sit down next to Avery “Oh yeah, we did” Brian grinned and I think this was meant for just one person here in the room, but then again, I was drunk so what do I know.

Brian’s plan go disturbed in the end because Jimmy wouldn’t have any of that “You, my friend, gonna sit here. No couples for the rest of the party!” Jimmy placed Brian next to Matt on the couch.
“What the hell? What’s wrong?” Brian asked his eyes moving from Jimmy to Avery and back.
“Party not any of the dirty things you have in mind” Jimmy announced and grabbed the whiskey from the table.

Jason’s POV

I could kiss Jimmy right now, really kiss him. He placed Avery next to me and far away from Brian, so the couples wouldn’t be hanging over each other the entire time and damn this looks like my lucky evening. A dance, now another moment between us, how could it be any better, huh?
I mean I did stay away from Avery for quite a while, knowing she was with Brian and she chose him, but lately those lines were getting blurry again.

I accidentally run into her more and more often, we could laugh again together and it didn’t feel weird, not at all. It felt good to have her around me, I just didn’t like to have her and Brian around me.
And the way Brian was staring at me from the couch now, was making it pretty hard to ignore his presence.

Jimmy was describing a new game, but I decided to not listen and get back to my conversation with Avery, if I had to drink someone would point that out, right?

“What do you think should I organize us some of your favorite ice-cream? For maybe tomorrow? We could meet at the booth? I could ask Dan to cover for me at the last part of the show?” I asked Avery and she rolled her eyes.
“Even though you have someone to cover for yourself, I don’t…” Avery tease and I chuckled “Since you got now two girls helping you I think you could spare me and your favorite ice cream 10 minutes don’t you think?” I asked her and I think she glanced over to Brian.
Couldn’t she forget about him for a second? I mean we were friends, she could spend some time with me, too right?!

“I don’t know” Avery shook her as if she wanted to deny me the time with her and I pouted “I thought you liked me and we were friends?” I asked and Avery sighed.
“I do, and we are… but I can’t let the girls do the work” Avery said but I knew it was just another excuse.
“If you gotta decline then be honest, Ave.” I said and she frowned at me and then sipped on her drink.
“Your turn, they said your number” Ave said after a while of silence and motioned to my cup and I sighed, what were we even playing? And which number?

I took a long drink from it and heard Jimmy’s approval yell and then another round started.
“I will think about it okay?” Avery said finally and I nodded “I’m your friend.. we did have fun today, right?” I asked and Ave smiled, finally that smile appeared back on her face which made my heart race a little more.

“Yes, but my shirt and pants are ruined” She said and I grinned “That’s your fault not mine, I just wanted to get you wet” I had to suppress the grin on the double meaning statement and Avery must have noticed it as well slapping my shoulder and right now I was glad Brian was sitting too far away to hear us.
“You made me stumble and then made me fall all over you” Another double meaning in the end, because she did made me fall for her…

And I hated the fact that she was still unreachable for me but maybe if we would just get the chance to be closer friends again, maybe then she would realize just how good we were together or was there just the alcohol speaking in me?
Was it planting thoughts in my head that weren’t there?

“Ave, I’m sorry I wasn’t really there for you when you had the problems with your Dad. I didn’t want to get you in any more trouble so I better stayed away.” I said finally, shit where had that come from?

I didn’t mean to say that… I had planned to go to her when she had been with us again, and I had her number on my phone a couple of times when she wasn’t with us, but I refused to give in to that little demon wanting to comfort her and hear her voice when I wasn’t the one she wanted to hear.

And now more and more often did she call me for help and ask me to help her or hear my thoughts about something. Like today at the booth, she didn’t have to call me for help Maya could have just called my brother to tell him to bring me along, so that does mean something…

I was glad for that because this way or the other I enjoyed my time with Avery and even as little as it was right now, I would cherish it and grab it for as long as I could, maybe I would regret it in the end maybe I wouldn’t, only time would tell…

Brian’s POV

This evening had been going from good to better and down to pretty damn bad. So a rollercoaster ride of events if you ask me.
I could at least convince Ave to a small time out for just her and me in bathroom while everybody had been busy or gone.
What do I know, I just took the chance when Jimmy had been distracted and had kissed Avery and dragged her into the bathroom, locked the door and then she had been lost to me and my fingers, lips and everything I could give her.

I smiled remembering how she tried to be silent, but I could get some moans and groans out of her. Now I stared at her profile from the side, while she was talking to Jason.
They laughed at something and I knew I didn’t have anything to worry about and I wasn’t the jealous type but with her I realized that my brain would just shut down and tell me to hell with it, behave like a caveman and drag her over your shoulder out of this room and show her who she belonged to.

But to her and our relationship sake I stayed calm and friendly and tried to pry my eyes away from them to listen in on the conversation Matt and Zack were having.

“Tell him Gates!” Matt said that instant and I frowned, great another information I missed.
“What?”
“That you agree!”
“About?” I asked and Matt shook his head in frustration.
“See, he doesn’t see it like you, he is more of a man then you are”
“I give you more of a man, asshole!” Matt shoved Zack off the couch.
“It’s a decision the girls will make, so none of you fuckers have anything to decide anyway. So fuck off!” Zack said and I didn’t like the way this was going.

“What are we talking about?” I asked again and Zack looked annoyed “My VU Collection, I’m planning to have Ave, Maya and Jess modeling for me. That will look amazing, maybe I can make some special things just for them to show off!” Zack sounded excited again and moved over to Maya to get her in on that.
“I thought we shouldn’t drag them in the limelight?” I asked Matt who just shrugged “Their decision, not mine…”
“I’m getting tired, I will grab my girl and call it a night” Matt said and when his eyes landed on Maya they didn’t look tired at all.

“Jimbo, I’m calling it a night. You guys can keep on partying but we still got a show tomorrow, right?” Matt said and got up form beside me and I could only think that if he could go, so could I.. and that meant I could finally go over to Avery and take her away from Jason, to satisfy this primal stupid part of my brain and to have the end of the night alone with her to satisfy the rest of me.

I grinned following Matt’s example who was trying to soothe an out of control Jimmy again, “We have a show tomorrow, calm down. We can party again on the way to the next location? How does that sound? And maybe some of the others wanna stay?” Matt looked around and I guess most of them would shortly join us to leave, but he could try… We would all have a hangover tomorrow anyway and staying up even longer wouldn’t make it much better… rather worse.

I walked over to Avery when Jimmy had finally calmed down and sat beside Jess who apparently planned to stay with Jimmy, and I had to grin, she was right about them. How could I not realize that before?
Of course he had a thing for that girl, hmm… how could I use that to my advantage?!

“You will think about it, Ave?” Jason just said when he helped Avery get up and I narrowed my eyes on him.
“Sure.” She nodded and went straight into my open arms, there… that’s where she belongs, JB, don’t forget.
Oh man, my inner caveman was on a roll tonight, wasn’t he?
“About what will you think?” I asked before I could stop myself.
“Nothing… really” Ave said and smiled up to me, “So we finally get the rest of the night to ourselves?” Avery asked and I knew she wanted to distract me, but I was too drunk and too lazy to get after what really was behind that, that would be something for tomorrow to figure out.
“Yes, just you and me.” I pulled her closer and gently kissed her lips.

We walked out of the door and I guided Avery to our room “I’m gonna wait in bed for you” Avery winked when I turned to go to the bathroom first.
“Can’t wait to join you, love” I said and vanished into the bathroom.

When I was done I nearly stumbled over the clothes lying on the floor, what the hell? Why would she just let them lie around here, she normally put everything back right away, or packed into a bag for washing…
I picked it up and noticed the muddy and partly still wet pants and shirt, what the hell? Where had she been with that?
And why did this look so familiar? Hadn’t Maya said something about her getting clean after being full of mud? What was that about and why didn’t I know about it?
Had she slipped and fallen? And if that’s the case, why wasn’t Maya muddy as well?

Wait a second…

At the concert Maya had said it’s our roadies fault and when I stood in the elevator who came in all muddy and grinning like an idiot? Finally my brain was putting pieces and pieces together and I didn’t like at all what was coming out of it!

That could only have something to do with: Jason!

What the hell had been going on between those two? And why wouldn’t Avery tell me about it?!
I was getting pissed and my evening was not only going downhill pretty fast it was nearly crashing into the ground.

I opened the door and Avery sat on our bed waiting for me and I narrowed my eyes “You don’t wanna tell me something, do you?” I asked and her smile turned into a frown.
“I-I.. what? No, what do you mean?” Avery stuttered and I didn’t know what to say, I might be too drunk and frustrated right now. I was afraid of doing or saying something stupid so without another word I headed to my side of the bed and turned around, my back to her… I would have to get to the ground of all this tomorrow, when my head was clear again and I could figure out what was going on behind my back!

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