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“Do I have everyone’s attention?” Ashley asked, with a quick glance around to make sure everyone else was quiet, with their eyes on her. “Okay. Rather than arguing about who’s fucking who, I think our time would be better served preparing for Heather’s party tomorrow. Heather did a really great thing inviting most of us up here for Spring Break," Ashley said, her eyes darting to Amber at the word ‘most’, though neither Kendra, Madison nor Trent had been invited either. “Even if it hasn’t always turned out exactly how we wanted, or expected.”

“You can say that again,” Madison agreed, having never expected on the last day of term almost fourteen days ago that she’d get a call from her brother after his break up with Ashley and end up fucking in the backseat of his jeep in a tight sleeping bag. And that was just the beginning.

“Okay, so you want us to help out?” Gavin surmised. “How exactly? Heather isn’t here and we don’t know what she’s got planned.”

“Not much of anything, I would think. She’s been so busy with her dad…and the business,” Ashley added the last three words quickly for Amber’s benefit. “Not to mention, she only came up with the idea yesterday as a way to have a big summer blow out with all of our friends and everyone from school. I don’t think she’s thought it through much further than who she’s going to invite. But I don’t think that means that we can’t do anything while she’s gone.”

“Are we sure this is a good idea?” Victoria asked, sharing a look with Kendra. “Like you just said, nothing has really gone smoothly for us over the last several days, and dozens of teens in a forest getting drunk seems like a recipe for disaster.”

“Sounds like a hell of a party,” Trent countered with a wide grin. You can take the hetero out of the bro, but you can’t take the bro out of the hetero.

“Hell yeah it does. Just think about it Bran, all the dancing and drinking, and maybe a little stripping down by the lake?” Amber purred, gently undulating her body against the quarterback’s firm frame.

“Well, just how many people are you intending to invite?” Kendra queried.

“I don’t know,” Ashley admitted. “I sent the message to everyone in Heather’s contact list, barring parents.” With the exception of Robert Ravers, but Ashley didn’t want to try and explain that one to Amber and end up perpetuating even more rumors. “Specifically she mentioned Trent and Amber, but you guys are already here, along with Tanya and the basketball team. But I also saw Sharon, the other football players and the Honeybears on the list, and Heather did say she didn’t care if the whole school came.”

“Those stupid dancers?” Amber balked. “Why’d she invite them?”

“Because no one actually cares about cheerleaders verses dancers. It’s silly,” Madison insisted. “I might have even joined the team, if Ashley wasn’t a cheerleader…and volleyball wasn’t so fun…and drama wasn’t so rewarding…and…”

“Yeah, we get it, you do a lot of shit,” Amber rolled her eyes.

“I said no more arguing.” Ashley put her foot down. “It doesn’t matter who’s coming. Heather wanted them here, just like these two weeks at the cabin, so if anyone has a problem with anyone else who has been invited, frankly they can leave. And this party is going ahead, and we’re going to make it the best party ever. For Heather.”

“Alright, you clearly have a plan,” Brandon said, having seen the same excited, determined spark in his ex-girlfriend’s eyes many times before. “What do you want us to do?”

“Well, first off, it’s not us, it’ll just be you guys,” Ashley admitted sheepishly, feeling the wind taken out of sails slightly. “I have to go into town.”

“Why?” Amber was quick to ask, nosy rather than concerned.

“Uh, Ms. Griffin asked me to come see her at her home,” She looked at Madison. “Might have something to do with when we crashed school yesterday.”

“Ms. Griffin? Yeah, she saw us on the way out, but Heather told her we were just there to show Peter around his old High School and didn’t realize there was a teacher training day going on,” Madison kept one hand on her skirt, flattening the material to hide her pantyless center between her legs, while she raised another to her chin, remembering hard. “I don’t remember if anyone mentioned you though, sorry.”

“You guys have two weeks of vacation and you decide to go back into school?” Amber tittered smugly. “That’s so lame.”

Ashley refused to mention that Mr. Ward had spanked and almost fucked her ass. Madison chose not to divulge that Chloe had flashed and propositioned Coach Mueller. And neither volunteered to tell her about Ms. Moreau and Peter. Their trip to school had been anything but lame, but it was a bad idea to let Amber know too much.

“Yeah? And what have you done with your Spring Break?” Madison fired back. “Got really wild sexting Trent and bitching about us to Tanya I bet is all.”

Amber feel into a morose silence, pouting at being bested, and Ashley took the opportunity to continue, glossing over yet another disagreement between the two fellow cheerleaders.

“So, I have to go, as soon as possible, actually. The one thing we’ll definitely need for the party is beer. The cabin still has some ****, but it’s rather fancy stuff and I don’t like emptying all of Robert’s bottles after he allowed us all to stay here with Heather.” Ashley said. “So, I’ll order a keg, or two, when I go into town.”

“Alright, so what do you need from the rest of us?” Brandon asked.

“Well, I don’t know what state you left those camping grounds in, so go tidy that up. Then build up the campfire there into a bonfire, and get enough sticks to keep it going tomorrow. No one is gonna want to stop partying to look for firewood,” Ashley directed the other teens. It wasn’t a role she took often, being low on the hierarchy of cheerleaders below Heather and Sharon, but being Hannah’s little sister, she still had the confidence to pull it off. “Besides that…I’m not sure. What’s the weather to be like?”

“Sunny and warm, like the last few days,” Trent relayed, only elaborating when the others looked at him strangely since Trent and meteorology weren't topics commonly associated with each other. “Uh…I like to be able to plan when I can do my morning runs in advance.”

“Well, I don’t expect any problems anyway. Just divvy up the tasks between yourselves and get it done,” Ashley ordered.

“After breakfast,” Trent added the addendum, with a slap on Gavin’s shoulder. “I dunno about you but I worked up an appetite.”

“Yeah, food does sound great right about now,” Gavin said, holding grumbling stomach as he followed Tent to the kitchen.

“Ok, well, if that’s everything, I need to get going. I told Ms Griffin I’d be there right away and that was nearly thirty minutes ago,” Ashley confessed with a sigh before turning to Kendra. “I think I’ll take Heather’s car. You and Kurt were the last ones driving it last night. Where are the keys now?”

“Oh, um…probably still in the pocket of his jea-”

“No, they’re right here,” Kurt announced, entering the living room with his hand above his head, two fingers pinched around the key ring, dangling them noisily to attract the attention of everyone. Following the shower, he looked much fresher and alive, the lack of sleep that weighed on his eyes before now much less obvious.

“Oh my, who are you?” Amber said, detaching from Brandon who watched with a peeved frown as the blonde sauntered up to Kurt and placed hand lightly on his chest, feeling his muscles pulse and his heart beat beneath the thin maroon t-shirt. “You’re definitely not from our school. I’d remember seeing you around.”

“No. I’m not from Azure Rocks at all actually, but I’m Heather’s cousin so she invited me up here for Spring Break since a lot of people at Green Hills were going away or going back home for the holiday and I was left alone with nothing to do,” Kurt explained to the perfect stranger.

She listened intently with large, round eyes, sliding even closer when he didn’t seem to object to her touching him. “Oh, you poor man. How could anyone leave you alone when you’re so hot?”

Kurt laughed at her unexpected candidness. “Thanks, I guess.”

“I mean, I was just across the room and when I saw you, I had to come over.” Amber flirted with no restraint. What was better than a high school quarterback? A college man. Heather always did say they were much more fun and knew exactly what they were doing. Tying down a man like Kurt might finally put her on level ground with the likes of Heather, Ashley and Sharon.

“Yeah, I noticed,” Brandon grumbled.

“Do you actually care?” Madison dropped her voice to a whisper. “You really want that bitch’s attention?”

“No, but it doesn’t feel great to be dropped just like that as soon as someone else enters the room,” Brandon replied, folding his arms in defiance.

“Well, you have my attention, and if I can have yours, perhaps we can sneak off and talk?” Madison subtly nodded her head in Amber’s direction. “While no one is looking.”

Brandon nodded and followed his twin sister down the hall, watching the back of her skirt bounce up with every step and flash the firm, tight globes of her ass. Though Madison had said ‘sneak off and talk’, his cock hardened at the thought that 'talk' might mean something else.

Back in the living room, Victoria teased Ashley. “Just think, if you left when you wanted, you might have walked in on him in the shower.”

“That wouldn’t be such a big deal,” Ashley shrugged casually, and briefly forgetting who was in the room. “It’s not like I haven’t even everything already.”

“You fucked him?” Amber’s jaw dropped as her head snapped from Kurt to Ashley and back. “You fucked her? Does that mean you’re the Zack guy Brandon mentioned?” She looked for confirmation from Brandon, only then noticing that he, along with his twin sister, were gone.

“What? No,” Kurt corrected, slightly amused at yet another case of mistaken identity he was involved in, though this one was much more minor. “My name is Kurt Johnson.”

“So who the fuck is this Zack kid you ruined a relationship with Brandon for?” Amber interrogated Ashley.

But it was Victoria who replied, “You probably know him better as the guy on KAZR-NWS that Robert Ravers handed his entire company over to instead of Heather.”

“Ooooooh, him,” Amber’s face brightened as the picture of Zack came to mind, remembering photos of the handsome young man standing, speaking from the podium at a Charity Gala at the Ravers Lake Hotel. “He’s cute.”

“You only think that because he’s rich and powerful now,” Ashley growled.

“What can I say?” Amber shrugged, completely unrepentant about her incredibly high standards. “Social mobility is hot.”

“That’s it, I’m getting out of here. Kurt, keys,” Ashley said, grabbing the keys from the air when Kurt lobbed them past Amber. “She’s your problem now,” she told the three still in the living room.

Ignoring Ashley’s departure and both Victoria and Kendra, Amber turned her body back into Kurt’s, resting both hands on his strong chest as she pressed her hip into his leg, letting him feel the soft warm curves of her body, just as she had to Brandon. Looking up at his face with terrifyingly adorable brown eyes, she said, “So, Mr. Johnson, hows about we get better acquainted?”