They're Interrupted.

A rap at the door caused both of them of them to jump. Chloe, with a cat-like agility she had gained from years of playing soccer, was already off of Zack, flying toward the bathroom. Zach noticed he missed her warmth on is body, remembering her soft flesh underneath his skin. The rapping on the door became louder, as a voice called out from the other side, “Chloe! Zack! Are you okay in there?”

Zach recognized Ashley's voice and called back.”You can come in,” she opened the door ad Zach was greeted to her sexiness in a blue bikini that matched her eyes. It wasn't the fact Ashley's bikini was anything particularly special, it was actually just a standard bikini, Ashley had this ability to turn nearly any outfit sexy for as long as Zach knew her.

Ashley looked around, “Where's Chloe?”

“S-she had to go use the bathroom,” Zach lied, hoping she would take it.

“Funny, I thought I heard someone getting up while I was knocking on the door,” Ashley, looked over Zach and her eyes seemed to focus on the noticeable bulge in Zach's pants. Then she noticed the red bikini laying on the floor. Zach was mortified as Ashley picked it up and examined the large cups. She turned back towards Zach with a knowing smile on her face while Zach felt himself blush under her gaze, “Well, it looks like the two of you had some fun in here.”

Before Zach could answer, Chloe had come out of the bathroom to defend the both of them, “We didn't “have fun,” Zach was helping me with my body issues,” Zach noticed Chloe had put her shirt back on, but still lacked her pants, with her toned legs sticking out from underneath the shirt.

“”Body issues,” right,” Ashley half- sarcastically, half-jokingly remarked, “And the fact both of you are blushing, and Zach here has a noticeable hard-on, and this," Ashely tossed the bikini at Chloe whose mortified face gave everything away, "leads me to believe the too of you were working on something more than “body issues,” she used air quotes for those last two words to emphasize them even more.

Zach and Chloe blushed and avoided each others eyes, Ashley had caught onto them. Ashley looked back and forth at the reactions and laughed. After she caught her breath, she reassured them, “Don't worry about it. Your secret's safe with me. The fact you two are having some sort of fun with each other doesn't surprise me one bit.”

Before Zach could explain, Ashley cut him off, “You two don't need to defend yourselves or give me the lowdown on your relationship. That's something you two need to work out on your own,” Zach and Chloe looked at each other and blushed while smiling shyly, Zach figured they would talk about it after Ashley left.

“Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Chloe, you might want to stay in here for a while.”

“What, why?”

“It's Victoria,” Zach leaned in in hopes of getting more information about her, “She has this issue with needing to be the center of attention.” Ashley pushed a piece of loose blond hair out of her face before continuing, “Her intelligence, her sweetness, all of her skills are just excuses to draw attention to herself.”

“So why me?” Chloe leaned back on the bed, using her arms to keep herself up. The movement of her breasts temporarily distracted Zach.

“When everyone was looking at you as you were going to pull off your clothes,” Ashley continued, “Victoria felt all of our eyes moving towards you. She couldn't handle it and lashed out with some bad humor, which pissed Heather off. Now the only ones still left in the water are Brandon and Kurt.”

Zach looked at Chloe who looked kind of depressed. Ashley, seeing this, hastily added, “It's not your fault!” She waved her hands I front of herself, “This is something Victoria needs to get over herself.”

Chloe sighed in relief, but began to wonder, “So, why don't you tell her?”

“It's not that simple,” Ashley sighed and leaned into the door, “I've tried thinking of ways to tell her and even asked Brandon and Hannah about it, but none of us could come up with anything that wouldn't come across as hurtful.” Zach agreed to himself, it was very hard not to want to hurt her.

Chloe sighed, defeated, “All right... As long as I can get some food in here. I don't want to starve and Zach to come in and find a half-naked skeleton in here.”

“Oh yeah, we will. In fact, I'll probably let you starve, so you won't have the energy to let Zach here take advantage of you,” Zach and Chloe blushed and looked away from each other again as Ashley chuckled, “I'll go ahead and leave the two of you alone,” she said and closed the door.

With Ashley gone, the awkward air and sexual tension came back in full ****. Zach and Chloe continued to look away from each other, but Zach knew one of them had to break this air.