Chloe escapes

Chloe decided it was best to get out of there before she did something she would regret... or she heard something that would bring her down from her high. Entering her room she saw Ashley curled up again. She sat down on her own side of the bed.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Not really," the blonde responded hesitantly. "It's a mess.... I'm a mess. I just don't know what's going on with Brandon and me."

Chloe suddenly felt a little guilty for her own thoughts about Brandon.

"Are you kidding? He loves you. He came back up here looking for you."

"If he's looking for me, why hasn't he found me?" Ashley blurted out, then decided to quickly change the topic. "So what about you and Zack? Excited to spend a couple weeks together?" She asked coyly, patting the bed.

Chloe suddenly got wide-eyed

"Oh no, we aren't... we haven't..."

"But you have thought about it right?"

Chloe looked away, betraying her long held silence on her feelings for him.

"Are you kidding me? Girl, you have got to get on that!" Ashley recalled her own interactions with Zack earlier, and wondered if she had said those words for Chloe... or herself. "No," she thought to herself, "not happening, focus on Brandon."

"You two are going to be sharing a bed for the next two weeks. Tell him how you feel, seduce him, strip naked and jump him, whatever. But if you do nothing you will just be torturing yourself."

They both laughed at the thought of Chloe stripping and jumping Zack.

"I know," Chloe agreed, "but what I really want is for him to see me like..." She stopped herself from saying Kurt's name.

"Like a woman?" Ashley finished her thought. "I hear ya. Sometimes I wish Bran..." she stopped herself, remembering that time at the lake that Brandon couldn't resist taking her, and they'd nearly been caught. "Sometimes a girl just wants to be wanted."

They both nodded, silently, each slipping into daydreams of past and maybe future encounters.