Putting the Pieces Back Together

Putting the Pieces Back Together

Chloe almost slammed the door behind them when they entered her bedroom. She looked over at Zack and they both seem to come to the same conclusion.

"I'll take care of her," Chloe offered as she replaced Zack and wrapped her arms around her friend. Chloe felt that she had to help Madison even if she felt completely out of her depth. From what she had just seen Taylor was mad at Hannah again, so she couldn't ask Taylor for her help. And she also didn't know which of the other girls could help Madison. Chloe didn't even know if she could help her friend, but she felt like she at least had to try.

"I'll make sure nobody comes in," Zack said as he left the room and closed the door. He didn't know what had happened but it had to be bad. Standing there in the short hallway he barely noticed everyone gathered around the door trying to listen to Hannah and Taylor argue in their room.

After being stunned by the surprise of seeing Zack and Chloe scoop up Madison and run off with her, Brandon scrambled after the trio. Turning around the corner he came up with Zack spreading his arms out and saying "You can't go in there."

"Out of the way Bishop!" Brandon said as he tried to go around Zack.

"No," Zack said flatly as he blocked Brandon's path. The two teens stared at each other for a moment. Zack faced off with the hulking football player and wished he had followed the girls' advice about working out at the gym or even practicing some martial arts.

Brandon was again taken aback by someone actually standing up to him. He paused for a second and glanced around. He noticed that Ashley was right behind him with the rest of the teens listening in on something. He didn't want Ashley mad at him but he still wanted to talk to Madison and ask her why she said those horrible things.

"Maddie's in there," Brandon said sternly in a low voice as he pointed at the door.

"That's Chloe's room and you can't go in there with her." Zack protested.

"I have to talk to my sister." Brandon insisted.

Zack couldn't really argue the point, he couldn't really deny Brandon talking to his sister. Still, something bad had happened between them and he could see that Brandon was really troubled by it. "Maybe, Maybe you should cool off a bit before you start another argument in my house," Zack said more bravely than he felt.

On the other side of the hallway, the teens all scampered away before the door opened and a distraught Hannah came out, gave them a meek wave, and hastily followed the rest to Ashley's room. Brandon glared back at Zack. He didn't want Zack in the room with his naked sister but he also started to realize that tensions were really high all around when Taylor poked her head out and called in Heather.

"You're not going to go in there with her?" Brandon warned Zack.

Zack just shook his head and spread his arms, "I'm just gonna stay out here," he said trying to ease Brandon's worries. He also wouldn't let anyone into a room knowing Madison was naked in there.

"You better!" Brandon warned Zack and they stared at each other before he reluctantly went back to the living room. He gathered Madison's clothes from where she had thrown them and brought them to Zack. "Can you give this to her?" he asked but quickly warned Zack, "But don't look at her!"

Zack nodded as he took the clothes "Don't worry, I'll give them to Chloe."

The two teens faced off for a few moments before Brandon nodded, accepting Zack's words for now but still determined to keep an eye on Zack. Before he went to join his girlfriend he pointed a finger at Zack and said, "Tell Maddie I want to talk to her." He felt relieved when Zack silently nodded in agreement. He felt that Zack would keep his word.

Zack stood there for a few moments till Heather came out and saw him standing there alone. "What's wrong?" Heather asked

"Brandon and Maddie got into a fight," Zack shrugged and pointed to Chloe's bedroom "She's in there with Chloe." He avoided mentioning the fact that Madison had been naked or that he and Brandon had almost come to blows.

Heather frowned, another problem she couldn't do much about. She wasn't surprised, she already knew Brandon tended to be overbearing and stifle Madison's freedom. There wasn't much she could do about it right now. She only hoped it had nothing to do with the initiation. "Let me know if I can help," she said.

"Sure" Zack half shrugged.

"You ok?" Heather asked and then winked at Zack, "Everything okay with Chloe," Zack blushed and nodded. Heather grinned and gave Zack a playful punch "Good for you! Now don't let her get away! And don't screw up this time!"

"Never!" Zack said cheerfully and watched Heather walk off with a sassy sway to her hips that left him shaking his head.

Finally, Zack found himself alone. He wanted to know what the fight between Taylor and Hannah had been all about this time. But he was more worried about what was going on inside with Madison and Chloe. He knew something of Madison's problems with Brandon and her father from what Lisa and Chloe had told him. He hoped this new fight with Brandon wasn't because of him.

Zack sat there in the hallway thinking, he briefly wondered if he should have talked to Madison before Chloe but that thought was quickly squashed. Chloe was something special, very special. Like she was the missing piece he needed to fill his soul and make him whole. Still, he couldn't get rid of the thought of Madison. He wondered for the 100th time what had happened to her? He felt it was his fault, that Brandon was taking out his anger on his sister instead of him, and wished he could fix it somehow.

Zack sat down on the floor and leaned his head against the wall. His mind raced like a roller coaster, round and round, up and down. The guilt he felt for causing Madison's fight kept troubling him, tugging at the strings of his heart, the hidden sadness he sometimes saw in her was a mystery that kept calling to him. But when he thought of Chloe he felt his heart soar and his blood flow hot as he remembered her smooth, milky, white skin, her teasing pink nipples, and her delicious lips inviting him to kiss her. And his heart ached by being away from her, all he wanted to do was join her again to make up for the lost time.

Zack could barely hear anything coming from Chloe's bedroom and even less from Taylor's room. After a while, he closed his eyes from the exhaustion he felt and he drifted off to sleep in the hallway.

*****

Chloe guided Madison to sit on the bed. Something weird must have happened for Madison to be fighting with Brandon, and naked at that. Zack was worried about what could have happened to Madison and so was Chloe. Without Lisa nearby to comfort Madison Chloe realized that she was the close only friend Madison had to open up to. Ashley might have helped if she wasn't Brandon's girlfriend. And Chloe didn't think Madison would open up to Taylor as she might with her.

"Shh... it's ok." Chloe soothed softly as she held her friend. "Want to tell me what happened?"

Madison shook her head as she took a deep breath, her body shuddered one last time as if to shake off her nerves and try to calm down again. She repeated in her mind all the things she had just said and done. It seemed like it was some stranger saying all those things instead of her yet Maddison knew it had been her, her own pent-up anger and frustration all coming up to explode like a volcano. The brunette's body started to tremble as the adrenaline rush started to wear off and the realization of what she had done started to settle in.

"Brandon being an asshole again?" Chloe asked softly as she rubbed Madison's shoulder, Zack's jacket, the only thing covering the naked girl, slipped off without them noticing.

"Oh shit!" Maddison cursed when she realized what Brandon was eventually going to do. "Brandon's going to kill me and I left all my-."

"-Shhh... don't worry," Chloe said softly caressing the brunette's hair, "Zack won't let him."

"Oh shit!" Madison groaned with regret as she realized that Zack might have seen her fighting with Brandon, naked, Then she notices Zack's jacked and she cried "OH NO! Zack's gonna think I'm just some crazy whore."

"Shh... Don't say that honey," Chloe said as she hugged her friend tightly, "He won't think that. He's really worried about you. Me too."

"No! No! No!" Madison sniffled, "You don't understand. He won't want me now! Not after that! Nobody will want me when they find out!"

"That's not true. People make mistakes and get forgiven all the time," Chloe said soothingly, her own recent mistake glaringly vivid in her mind and also the way Zack had comforted her. With that same impulse, Chloe pulled a strand of hair away from Madison's face and kissed her forehead.

Thinking about Zack made her remember that they had planned to make love on this very bed. The thought aroused her and she felt a warm glow start to grow inside her as she remembered feeling his cock inside her. She suddenly realized that Madison was naked in her arms, soft and quite beautiful. Chloe briefly wondered how she would appear to Zack. Would he really look at her this way in the light? Would this be what he saw? She closed her eyes and **** those daydreams away as she focused on Madison.

"Shh, don't cry honey." Chloe said brushing a tear away, "Want to tell me what happened?" Chloe asked in the same soft hushed tone her mother would use when she comforted Chloe after a bad day. She cradled Madison close to her, and even though Madison was taller than Chloe, she seemed so small and **** in her arms that she just wanted to take the pain away. Chloe placed another soothing kiss on her forehead and rubbed her arm. Madison returned the hug as she started telling her story.

At first, Madison was hesitant to talk, but then the dam broke and her story poured out like water from a broken dam and told her secrets, secrets only Lisa had known up till now. She told Chloe of the way her father had practically caged her, how she felt he had turned Brandon from her being her best friend into being her jailer. How he had ruined her brief infatuation with Gavin and chased away all the boys that ever tried to get close to her. She even told Chloe about her crush on Zack and how Brandon had also chased him away. Chloe felt a pang of jealousy at hearing about that, their first kiss so to say, and then she felt guilty about even feeling something like that at a time like this.

"But that's not the worse of it," Madison said sadly. She briefly told her of Prof. Vickers, and a few others, she even told her about her tryst with Trent and how he too turned his back on her. Madison was too embarrassed to go into any of the details, something Chloe could relate to, she also was too embarrassed to tell how she watched porn.

"Now you see!? Zack won't want me now! Not when he finds out!" Madison sobbed as she ended her story. "Nobody will want me!"

"Don't say that, he's not like that. You know it." Chloe said. "I know he won't think bad about a mistake."

"Yes, he will!" Madison said.

"You want to ask him?" Chloe offered unconsciously tilting her head to the door.

Madison shook her head and asked worriedly, "He's... He's out there?" Her heart sank again when she saw Chloe nod. "Oh god he heard everything, he's going-"

"-SHH!" Chloe silenced Madison with a finger on her lips, "Don't worry honey, he's not listening, he's just making sure nobody comes in." Chloe assured her. "Believe me, he won't think bad about a mistake. "He even forgave me."

"You... You're together?" Madison asked with unease as she realized what Chloe meant, "With Zack?" When Chloe nodded Madison's face fell with dismay.

"I'm so stupid! I'm so stupid to think Zack would ever look at me!" Madison lamented herself and tried to get away from her embrace, "I should have known I could never compete with you!"

"It's not about competing," Chloe reassured her friend as she tightened her hold on Madison and even wrapped her legs around the brunette's waist trapping her close so she wouldn't leave.

"I should have known I didn't have a chance. You're his friend, and you have those big tits that all the guys like and... and you're beautiful." Madison whined as she tried to leave.

"Shh, it's okay. It's not your fault for liking Zack." Chloe tried to ease Madison's pain. 'She also thinks I'm beautiful? And her legs are so soft.' she mussed, as she absently rubbed her legs across Madison's leg and marveled at the sensation as she also unconsciously compared them to Zack's legs, 'No wonder guys seem to like to touch a girl's legs.' she thought absently till she refocused her attention on her friend. "I'm sure he would like you too."

"I'm so sorry! I didn't want to steal him from you!" Madison apologized. "I didn't know. I didn't believe those lies Vicky said but-"

"It's ok Maddie. I'm not upset," Chloe said as she leaned in to kiss a tear on her cheek. She saw Madison's lip nervously tremble and Chloe placed a tender kiss on her lips. The two girls rested their foreheads together for a moment. "We... we just got together, just now."

Chloe held her naked friend close, she listened to her soft whimpers as her fingers ran a few soothing caresses over her curves and she gave Madison a few tender kisses on her cheeks and forehead before she placed another kiss on her lips, 'they're so soft and tender, just like they say they are,' she marveled as she thought about kissing them again and maybe more. Her recent tryst with Zack made her feel more confident in being intimate. Only later would she realize just how much she had wanted his approval for her own sexuality.

"You know, Zack's mom likes to say 'Something good to forget the bad,' whenever we got hurt," Chloe said softly.

The two girls gazed into each other's eyes searching, looking for a sign. Madison didn't answer but with a deep sigh, she bowed her head and sank into Chloe's embrace, snuggled into the redhead. Madison rested her head on Chloe's pillowy breast and felt them warm and inviting, tempting her to surrender to the feelings. They almost felt like her own pillow back home only better and Madison wished she had felt this before.

Everyone said sex was supposed to be a deep emotional connection, something that Madison deeply wanted but also something she had never felt. Every time she had sex she was hoping for that connection but it never happened. She was afraid that it would always be like that and she didn't want to be disappointed again. She wanted the acceptance and forgiveness Chloe was offering, but she didn't believe she deserved it. Not after all she had done, especially not after telling her about how she felt with Zack. She felt she didn't deserve it, any of it.

Chloe seemed to sense Madison's unease "Everything will be ok honey." She said, just like her mother would say. Chloe placed another soft, soothing kiss on her collar, gently eased Madison onto the bed, and pulled the comforter over them. She spooned behind Madison, her arms and legs wrapping around the naked girl like a protective embrace. "I promise. Just stay with us tomorrow and you'll see. We promise everything will be alright."

"I-" Madison started to say but Chloe cut her off.

"-Shh honey, don't worry anymore, just rest," Chloe said again repeating the words her mother would sometimes say "My Mom says everything is better in the morning, we promise it." Madison whimper some noise in agreement and tried to relax. Chloe softly brushed Madison's hair and gently stroked her arms. She marveled at how soft the girl was. 'No wonder guys like it. Is this what Meagan likes about girls?' she thought as she tried to resist her growing arousal.

And while Chloe pressed herself against Madison's back she felt her nipples harden and her loins get warm. She wondered how much better it would be without her clothes on, to press her naked flesh against Madison or better yet with Zack. Thinking of Zack made her wish they could have spent this night together. She briefly toyed with the idea of sneaking Zack into the room. As she thought of Zack her hands gently drifted over Madison's side and down her smooth abs till she stopped herself just before reaching her waist when she remembered that it was Madison and how she must feel. Chloe settled for just wrapping her arms around her friend's waist as they entwined their bare legs.

Madison for her part wanted to believe Chloe, she wanted to give into that hope her friend was somehow offering, but she was too scared to believe or even hope that things would be alright, that something good would finally come her way. Feeling Chloe's hands gently caress her she could almost believe that things would be alright.

Cuddling with Chloe felt so nice to Madison. It was a warm soothing embrace, a relaxing sensation. It was comfortable, without any of the awkwardness she normally felt after having sex. Her final thought before she slipped into a deep relaxing sleep was that she hoped Chloe was right, that Zack wouldn't be upset with her, like he wasn't upset with Chloe, and that this sensation would never go away.