Old Friends and New

"Blame Jace for that one." Zack pointed at Jace.

"Hey!" Jace protested. "We were just unpacking all of our stuff at a fast, consistent rate."

Heather looked back and forth between the two boys and let out a heavy sigh. "You two are idiots."

"Hey, blame Zack for that." Jace said, shaking his head sadly at one of his closest friends.

"Just get up here." Heather sighed. Jace and Zack climbed up the stairs, and Heather slid her arm around Jace. He grinned at the curvy brunette, who winked back at him as the trio walked the short distance to Heather and Dana's room, which was open.

"You girls ready for the Moving Party?" Zack asked, glancing between his sister and his best friend. Jace's twin sister Dana was sitting on the edge of her bed, kicking her feet idly. She looked up at Jace and smiled. Like Jace, Dana had blonde hair and bluish-green, basically teal eyes. Unlike Jace, she was small and petite. She was a cheerleader, meaning she was fit and flexible, and she also sported a large bust that looked oversized on her petite body.

"Hey, guys." Dana said brightly. "Yep, I'm ready. I can't believe this is our last one."

"Me either." Jace shook his head. Heather bumped her hip against his.

"Then we'll be having college parties at Glimmer Glade. No more stuffy uniforms, I can finally wear the clothes I wanna wear." Heather said eagerly.

"I don't mind the uniforms that much." Zack shrugged.

"Of course you do, you're a guy. You don't have to worry about fashion, or emphasizing your titties." Heather informed her brother.

"You do a great job at that." Jace told Heather, looking down at her pale, very large tits.

"Thanks." Heather smirked.

"Really?" Zack asked at the same time Dana started making gagging noises.

"So!" Dana interjected loudly. "Back to party prep."

"What's there to prep?" Jace asked. "We just show up to the party, don't we?"

"Boys." Heather rolled her eyes at Dana, who laughed. "As seniors, we're meant to help throw the party."

"Oh." Jace frowned. "That doesn't sound like a good way to enjoy our last Moving Party."

"Who did you think threw them?" Heather asked him incredulously.

"I mean, it's a few tables in a big room. I always kind of figured it just happened." Jace shrugged.

Dana opened her mouth but they were interrupted by two girls coming up to the door. Heather grabbed Jace's arm and tugged him out of the way of the doorway, making space for the two girls to enter.

"Hey, AC." Zack grinned. Adrianna Cabot, more commonly known as AC, had long red hair, green eyes, and a slender body. She also sported large breasts and a curvy ass. Jace had always had something of a weakness for gingers, and AC was no exception. Neither was her sister Elsa, but Elsa was a different story altogether. Unlike AC, Jace and Elsa had actually had some fun together in the past. Beside AC came her roommate, Gabrielle Barnes. Jace didn't know Gabrielle all that well, she was more of Zack's friend. She and Zack actually had a similar relationship to what Jace and Heather had, friends with lots and lots of benefits. Gabrielle was gorgeous, though, with hair so dark brown it sometimes looked black, and eyes that were incredibly vivid blue. She had large breasts, a full ass, and flawless pale skin covered in artistic tattoos. Her upper left arm had a full sleeve going on, sporting designs of trees and cherry blossoms.

Gabrielle sidled up alongside Zack, and AC went to plop down onto Dana's bed beside her. AC was the third in Zack and Dana's best friend relationship. Jace knew AC pretty well because of that, as growing up, it was usually Jace, Amy, and Chloe hanging out with Zack, Dana, and AC. Sometimes Heather, Elsa, and some of their other cheerleader friends like Ashley Woodsen or Whitney Diamond would tag along. Jace's real guy best friend was Scotty Driggers, though, as they'd caused plenty of chaos over the years. Jace and Zack were very close friends, but Jace and Scotty had sat side by side getting chewed out by multiple teachers and the principal on several occasions, and that created a bond. Jace and Scotty also shared a fondness for girls. Zack liked girls plenty, but he was more of the charming casanova type, not so much the horny pervy type. Scotty and Jace often came up with some scheme or another to score them dates, with varying success rates. Despite Scotty's... everything, he actually succeeded most of the time. Jace's status as star quarterback helped him out some, but he wasn't too bad himself.

Jace had slept with a number of the school's hottest women, as had Scotty. Scotty often lamented that Jace was scoring all the big fish, but Scotty had plenty of hot women in his bed, too. Jace, admittedly, had had Heather Ravers, Elsa Grayson, and Elsa's gorgeous best friend Juliet Clark in his bed, though, so he could see Scotty's point. Not to mention, his very secretive hookups with Hazel Hightower, but Scotty had no idea about her, no one did. Hazel was not at all a public girl, she kept everything they did buried deep. If you only saw Jace and Hazel interact in public, you'd think Hazel hated Jace. There were days that Jace questioned that himself, actually, but she was really fun in bed, so he didn't mind all that much. Elsa and Juliet were rare hookups, definitely not the norm. Heather, though... well, Jace slept with Heather all the time. The voluptuous, busty brunette was stupidly sexy, and well, Jace could never tell her no. Why would he want to?!

"You guys ready for this party?" AC asked.

"Just about. I think Dana and I might need a little more time getting dressed, though." Heather mentioned, and all the girls in the room turned to look at Jace and Zack pointedly.

"You girls invite us over and then kick us out?" Jace asked incredulously.

"That hurts, Heather. That hurts." Zack chimed in. "You, too, Dana."

"I'm sure you'll live." Heather said, giving Jace some pouty lips before putting her hands on his chest and shoving him backwards. Gabrielle gave Zack an unceremonious shove, too, and both guys exited the room shaking their heads as the door closed behind them.

———

Jace and Zack glanced at each other in the hallway, chuckling to each other at the way they'd been abruptly shoved out of their sisters' dorm room. Jace checked the time on his phone, and couldn't resist a small grin.

"Right, well, we've got a bit of time before the party, I think I'm going to meet up with a friend." Jace said, and Zack raised his eyebrows.

"The same 'friend' you were texting back at the room?" Zack asked his dormmate, who shrugged with a grin.

"Perhaps. Who's to say?" Jace said innocently to an unimpressed Zack.

"Uh huh. Who is she?" Zack asked curiously.

"A gentleman never kisses and tells, I'm afraid, good sir." Jace chuckled. Zack laughed loudly, maybe too loudly, waving a hand and pretending like he was dying laughing.

"That's funny. You, a gentleman." Zack kept fake laughing.

"Oh, come on. I'm perfectly gentlemanly." Jace huffed, making Zack laugh harder.

"Can it!" Heather shouted through the door, and Zack stopped his fake laughing and it was replaced swiftly by real laughter.

"Hilarious." Zack chuckled to himself, wiping a fake tear from his eye.

"If I had something to throw at you, I'd throw it." Jace told Zack dryly.

At that moment, one of the doors a little ways down the hall burst open and out came Scotty Driggers, the third guy in their trio of friends. His shirt was on inside out, his auburn hair was a mess, but he was grinning. Jace and Zack both had closer girl friends, Jace with Chloe and Amy, Zack with Dana and AC, but they were their own trio, the three of them. Scotty had a tendency to cook up some hare-brained schemes that Jace usually went along with and Zack sometimes went along with depending on how outrageous the scheme was.

Behind Scotty in the doorway stood a gorgeous dark-skinned girl with long black hair, dark eyes, and a smirk on her face. Her large breasts and fit body were loosely covered by a bedsheet, and Jace grinned at Scotty, who waggled his hands in the rock on signs out of Tanya Jones' view.

"Show him a good time?" Zack grinned at Tanya.

"Well, I tried." Tanya shook her head, putting on a pouty face. "He just couldn't stay up long enough."

"Oh, hold on-" Scotty protested, but Tanya laughed and swung the door shut. Scotty looked back to the guys.

"She's lying, I swear. I was doing awesome but she just kept going and going. We've been fucking for hours!" Scotty told them.

"Dude, we don't care." Jace said, holding up a hand to stop his friend, and Zack nodded emphatically, shaking his head.

"That is your business, man." Zack chuckled. Scotty looked back and forth between them.

"I swear she's lying-" Scotty burst out.

"Jesus, we don't want to know about your bedroom abilities." Jace shook his head, and all three boys started laughing.

"I've got to defend my reputation! You never know who's listening." Scotty said.

"It's me, and I wish I wasn't." came Heather's voice again through the door, making Scotty jump. Jace banged on the door.

"Stop stalking us!"

"Can't! I'm stuck back here against the door while they're changing." Heather called back.

"Who's changing?" Scotty asked eagerly, perking up like a dog with a bone.

"Down, boy." Zack shook his head. "Come on, let's go get you some electrolytes."

"Is Jace not coming?" Scotty asked as Jace started walking the wrong way.

"He's got a 'friend' to meet up with. He's keeping it secret like a middle school girl with a crush." Zack grinned.

"Indeed I do." Jace nodded, flipping Zack the bird. Zack chuckled as he and Scotty turned away towards the stairs. Jace, meanwhile, headed further down the hall, into the belly of the beast. He kept going and going until he was probably 3/4 of the way down the long hall, and then he knocked on the door number he'd had memorized for a long time.

But the person who opened the door was... not who he was expecting. It was a gorgeous blonde, in a green tank top and some tight light blue jeans that hugged her rather amazing curves. She had wide hips, thick thighs, and what looked like a very impressive ass from what he could see from this angle. She also sported some nice large breasts, along with beautiful emerald green eyes.

"Uh, who are you?" Jace asked, confused. He leaned backwards and checked the number by the doorframe just to make sure, even though he knew this was the right door.

"Who am I? Who are you? You're the one knocking on my door." the girl shot back.

"I'm Jace Holland." Jace answered, and the girl looked unimpressed at his answer, but she sighed.

"I'm Victoria Walker. What do you want? Hey, how'd you even get up here? These are the girl dorms!" the blonde, Victoria, exclaimed.

"I know that, I was visiting my sister." Jace said. "And I figured I'd stop by to see my friend."

"Oh, no. Don't tell me you're friends with her?" Victoria groaned. Jace chuckled.

"Ah, I see you've met her. I guess you're her new roommate?" Jace raised an eyebrow.

"I can't believe anybody is friends with her. She called me the b word!" Victoria shook her head. "And you seem decently nice, how on earth did you two become friends?"

"Well, it's a long story." Jace shrugged.

———

Three Years Ago...

Fifteen year old Jace Holland came into one of the studios at Grayson Global, holding a bag of food from one of his mother’s favorite restaurants. He walked through the studio, craning his head around every which way looking to see a familiar blonde head, but he hadn’t spotted her yet.

He did spot his mother’s friend Mera Grayson though, wearing a tight gray dress.

“Mrs. Grayson!” Jace called, coming up to her. She gave him a smile.

“Hi, Jace. Looking for your mom?” Mera asked him in a friendly tone.

“Yes, ma’am.” Jace nodded politely.

“I think she’s down at the end working with one of our new models. She’s quite young so Dani wanted to oversee the shoot.” Mera explained.

“Ah, ok. Thanks, Mrs. G.” Jace said with a wave.

“Don’t mention it!” Mera replied, waving back at him. Jace carried on down the long warehouse, passing shoot after shoot until he got to the end, where he spotted his mother sitting down on a chair.

“Hey, Mom.” Jace said, and Danielle turned and smiled at him, looking surprised.

“Jace! What are you doing here?” Danielle asked, standing up to hug him. Mother and son embraced, and then Jace hefted the bag of food, grinning.

“Oh, you didn’t!” Danielle exclaimed happily. She leaned in and pecked Jace on the cheek.

“Thanks, hon.” Danielle said, and took the bag eagerly, setting it down on the nearby table, opening the bag to reveal containers of food.

“The cupcake is mine.” Jace told her sternly, making Dani laugh.

“I’ll leave it to you, then.” Danielle said, grabbing her own food and going back to her chair to dig in. Jace turned towards the shoot, and saw one of the photographers talking to a very familiar girl. Said girl had her hands on her hips, eyes practically rolled back into her head in utter annoyance. What else was new?

Hazel Hightower was in a green one piece swimsuit, and was very clearly not listening to the photographer.

“Ben! Let’s take five. I don’t think Hazel is interested in listening right now.” Danielle called as she finished up the last of her meal. Hazel and Ben had been arguing for several minutes, but Jace hadn’t heard a word of it, they were too far away.

The photographer, Ben, held up his hands and backed off. Hazel stomped off the stage and marched over to Danielle and Jace. Her striking brown eyes flitted across Jace once, before she began studiously ignoring him, talking only to Danielle.

“I don’t like that photographer.” Hazel said impatiently.

“Ben’s great.” Danielle said mildly. “Maybe you just don’t like this photoshoot.”

“I thought I’d get to do whatever ones I wanted as a model.” Hazel said crossly. “I didn’t think I’d be **** to take a million shitty photos while being absolutely starved.”

“We can try to find you some food afterwards, but we’ve already got everything set up, I’m sorry.” Danielle said.

“You could have my cupcake.” Jace offered, and Hazel looked at him, face blank.

“What?” she asked icily.

“My cupcake. It’s chocolate.” Jace said, holding up the cupcake in its’ plastic clamshell. Hazel stared at him for a minute, then sighed.

“Fine.” she said, and stalked forwards to grab it from Jace.

“I’ve got a fork, too, if you don’t want to make a mess.” Jace offered.

“You think I can’t eat a cupcake without making a mess?” Hazel scoffed. She rolled her eyes at him. “If it’s so damn important to you, fine, I’ll use the fork.”

She grabbed the fork, taking a very exaggeratedly prim and proper bite of the cupcake. To Jace’s surprise, when the chocolate touched Hazel’s tongue, she moaned in enjoyment, then froze and glared.

“She hasn’t had chocolate in a long time.” Danielle filled in. “Model diet and all that.”

“This stupid diet is the worst.” Hazel snapped.

“So you’re not supposed to be having chocolate?” Jace asked, and Hazel gave him a fierce look that very clearly meant ‘Take my chocolate and I’ll kill you’.

“Obviously.” Hazel rolled her eyes.

“I’ll make sure I sneak something to you next time then.” Jace grinned conspiratorially. “What’s your favorite candy bar?”

Hazel stared at him, her eyes unreadable.

“I don’t have any preference.” Hazel answered.

“Cool. I’ll keep it basic. Simple Hershey’s.” Jace said, and Hazel nodded slowly.

“Alright, well, I’m gonna be heading out. Chloe’s got a game in half an hour. Bye, Mom.” Jace waved at her.

“Bye, sweetie. Tell Chloe good luck from me!” Danielle exclaimed.

“Will do.” Jace laughed, and he glanced at Hazel. “See you at school tomorrow.”

Hazel didn’t respond, so Jace turned to leave. He’d made it nearly ten steps before Hazel called after him.

“Holland!” she called, and Jace looked over his shoulder. “Thanks.”

At that, she turned on her heel and completely ignored him. Jace shook his head as he walked, utterly baffled.