Alternative Character Interpretations

Zack looked up from the cooker just in time to see a flash of gold storm past. He turned and glanced behind, only managing to catch the back of that golden-haired head, a thin vest top draped over the body of a tall, slender woman, hanging just above her tight round ass, the two globes of smooth, creamy flesh fully on view thanks to her small, white thong. He stared as the woman barrelled through the glass doors to the outside patio area, so fast and so forcefully that Zack thought the glass might break. The pane stayed intact, and Zack kept staring, looking through the window to the outside where Victoria Walker paced back and forth, muttering and mumbling furiously under her breath.

Turning off the cooker, he eased the glass double doors and peeked his head outside without saying a word, waiting to see if Victoria wanted to be disturbed. She turned, walking back in his direction, abruptly stopping when she saw his face, her lips pursing shut. She glared back at him, but she didn’t tell him to leave or that she didn’t want to talk, and Zack got the sense that it might be alright to approach her. He opened the doors a little wider and stepped through, closing them tight behind him while she watched his every move.

“You look as angry as I feel,” Zack led with a joke, though it wasn’t untrue. He was still angry that attempts to prove Lisa’s innocence were fruitless and that Heather refused to allow him to join in confronting their suspect. He felt completely powerless. “But I’m guessing you’re not upset for the same reasons I am.”

“Great, we can be pissed off together,” Victoria growled with a fake smile. “No, your girlfriend has just been riding my ass for getting with Kurt of all people. Like seriously, what’s her problem?”

“Yeah, Gavin mentioned that you and Kurt were together. I think it’s just because he’s not the type of guy you’d usually go for. Or he is, but not the kind of guy you’d want to be with,” Zack folded his arms and leaned against the door frame. “Ashley’s your friend. She’s just worried about you. We all are. None of us know where this sudden change has come from.”

“Sudden change? You mean how I dress?” She looked down at her attire, posing with one leg bent to emphasise the abundance of flesh on show. Zack swallowed hard as his eyes instinctively followed the length of her bare legs right up to her panty clad mound. “Or the fact that I’m having sex with a single guy that I like? Wasn’t it more of a sudden change for me to lose my virginity to Gavin after years of being frigid after only a couple days of knowing him and getting drunk? I mean, what’s your idea of normal here?”

“I get what you mean. I guess that wasn’t challenged as much because we, or at least I, thought you might be good together,” Zack admitted, as he reminisced, remembering how he’d first developed feelings for Chloe and Gavin had come to talk to him about Victoria. “You know Gavin even came to ask me if he could date you. And maybe you two would have worked out, if I hadn’t cheated on Chloe and then she would never have jumped him that morning.”

“I don’t think it would have mattered. I spent a lot of yesterday thinking about might have happened if 'this' hadn’t happened or 'that' hadn’t happened,” Victoria replied, shaking her head, Zack noticing how her breasts jiggled freely beneath her top. “But Gavin is who he is. He would always have shown his true colours sooner or later. I liked him when I thought that he was nice, and kind and safe and I thought Kurt was just some horndog out for his next lay. I’ve just come to realise that Gavin is the jerk, and Kurt is the kind protector that I need. The kind of man who knows what I need, maybe even better than I do myself.”

“And that man is Kurt?” Zack asked, raising his eyebrows.

“R-right. Or maybe. I don’t know. It’s early days, but what I don’t need is people sticking their noses in, trying to tell me he’s not right before the relationship is even given a chance,” Victoria growled, turning her back to Zack and pacing again, giving him another clear view of her thong wedged between her asscheeks. “Or Gavin running around telling everyone that I’m fucking another man. She looked over her shoulder at Zack, smiling slightly as she caught him staring at her round buttocks. “Doesn’t that seem really petty and jealous to you?”

“He can’t be that torn up about it,” Zack remarked, thoughtfully. “He snuck into Heather’s room and fucked Ashley last night. Apparently, they stopped before either of them came and then masturbated on the couch together. So, if he was that upset, he moved on pretty quick.”

“First the foursome, now this? Remind me never to sit on that couch,” Victoria stopped, cringing at Zack. “Ashley is my best friend, Zack, but why are you still with her? She has no respect for you.”

“I…well, it’s not like we’re really together at the minute. After the thing with her pretty much pimping Lisa out to me to make up for her shit, we decided to take some time and re-evaluate, which we’re still doing,” Zack confessed as he rubbed his forehead wearily. “Though the fact that these accidents keep happening is trying my patience.”

“Trying your patience? Fuck, I dumped Gavin for less,” Victoria laughed, almost sneering. “And are they really accidents? I mean the first time with Kurt in the dark room, ok, maybe, but every single instance there after has included Gavin, hasn’t it?”

“Yeah…but are you really suggesting that Gavin and Ashley are having some sort of an affair behind our backs?” Zack shook his head, incredulous. “I mean, that first time, the time you both caught Gavin jacking off, she said that she was just trying to help you two get back together.”

“If that were true, she could have left while I was sitting on his face. But no, she had to jerk him off. She didn’t need to get involved, but she did, because she wanted to. And I was there. I was nervous because it wasn’t something I’d ever done before, but I could see it in her eyes,” Victoria insisted, stepping closer to Zack. “If I hadn’t sat on his face, she would have. She wanted to.”

“Maybe…maybe she did. I’m sure it was tempting, but she didn’t. And I don’t think it’s proof of any sort of conspiracy,” Zack countered, half frowning as Victoria’s implication ran and re-ran through his mind.

“I believe that was simply the instigating event. After she touched his cock, she wanted more. You know, Zack, I’ve known Ashley for a long time, and I’ve seen her when she’s drinking and when she’s drunk. Now, I’m a bit of a lightweight, I’ll admit to that, but Ashley has always been able to handle her drink better. She and Hannah, the Woodsens, even if they drank twice as much as the others would have been just as sober,” Victoria said, her eyes flashing with purpose, still and certain, making Zack believe every word. “So, if Ashley was part of a game of Strip Never Have I Ever and wound up fucking Gavin, I believe she knew exactly what she was going. She wanted to fuck Gavin and she used the game as means to that end.”

“And what? You think last night was just some continuation of that?” Zack asked, slightly amused. “That they decided to meet up and fuck intentionally?”

“What’s the alternative? That Gavin didn’t know that she was sleeping with Heather, when he knew she wasn’t with you or in the master bedroom where I was sleeping?” Victoria replied, her voice rising excitedly as she tried to convince him. “That he didn’t know the difference between Ashley and Heather? They’re completely different. What makes more sense? That they’re that unlucky or that they planned it, they wanted it and then they fucking did it, right under all of our noses.”

“This is insane,” Zack remained sceptical, tilting his head as he watched Victoria’s expression closely. “Let’s say that your theory is true. Then why tell me? If they wanted to do it in secret, why keep confessing to all of this stuff?”

“Because they’re not stupid. They know the facts will come out eventually. If I’m there, there’s the risk that I might tell you. Or Hannah or Chloe could tell you about the foursome. Or Heather might have mentioned about last night,” Victoria explained, spreading out her arms as if what she was saying was obvious. “All they’re doing is controlling the narrative. But, as I said, what’s more likely? That these ‘accidents’ just keep happening to the two of them, or that they’re really just fucking behind your back and making a fool of you?”

Zack’s forehead furrowed as he slowly began to admit to himself that what Victoria was said might be true. He trusted Ashley, despite all of the mistakes she’d made and how much of a mess their relationship was right now. She had always been honest and open with him, but that line was always followed by an incident where something had gone out of control or one thing just led to another. And until Victoria had mentioned it, it had never occurred to him, just how many of these incidents where things got out of control just so happened to involve Gavin.

He thought of his mother, and how her affair with Robert had started. Listening to her story originally, he could see a lot of parallels between their affair and his own relationship with Ashley, but now it seemed to fit so much better with Ashley and Gavin. The first time, the mistake, just as it had been when his parents accidentally went to a sex party thrown by Robert Ravers. But out of that one moment grew an affair, one his mother had kept from his father all these years. It could be possible that Ashley was now doing to him what his mother had done to his father, fucking around under his nose, and always making out like the innocent.

“Why?” Zack swallowed hard, fighting back tears. “Why would she be so cruel?”

Victoria laid a sympathetic hand on his shoulder, and he glanced up, not realising until that moment how close she was to him.

“She’s a cheater, just as Gavin is. She was never really happy with Brandon, but she didn’t want to be alone, so she stuck with him for a time. When she got bored, she jumped his best friend. And when you stopped being fun, she jumped your best friend too,” Victoria said with a soft, compassionate tone. “She doesn’t deserve a good guy like you.”

Zack choked, half laughing. “Thanks for trying to cheer me up, but I’m not much of a good guy. I’m a cheater too.”

“Really? Because apart from Ashley, and one little tryst with Lisa, it doesn’t seem like you’ve been nearly as active as Ashley or Gavin.” Victoria remarked, biting her lip and glancing down at her feet. “Which, I have to say is a shame. If you’d been single, maybe it’d be you Gavin would be complaining to Ashley about instead of Kurt.”

Blood rushed down his body, a tent rising in his shorts as his cock, already hard from the sight of Victoria’s body barely clothed, grew engorged at the suggestion. While his cock became thicker and harder, images of himself driving his cock into Victoria’s pussy filled his mind, imagining her large, perky breasts bouncing lewdly with every thrust. He hadn’t thought about Victoria like that for almost an entire week, and yet here he was, back where she started, though now it was him coming on to her, instead of him wondering how he was going to get his attention. He breathed, ragged and long, trying to remind himself that she’d said if he had been single.

“You never told me why Gavin asked your permission to ask me out…” Victoria half whispered, looking down at the obvious hard-on stretching the young man’s shorts.

“Oh, t-that’s because I, uh, um, had a crush on you,” Zack gasped as Victoria swung her body back and forth lazily, allowing the thick, hidden shape of his long cock in his shorts to bump against her tiny white panties.

“Oh, wow, I’m so flattered,” Victoria said, licking her lips, as she swung in again, her mouth inches from his. “But…there’s something else you should know, something that Ashley isn’t telling you.”