Strange Tales to Astonish

Zack paced back and forth at the foot of the stairs. How long does it take to just to unpack your clothes and throw them in a drawer or closet? The young man wondered for the third time already in exasperation. Zack refused to go into the main room where the older adults sat in front of the fireplace. Ms. Goose continued to stare at him and touch herself when no one was looking. The fucked up thing is that as much as she scares me, I wonder how she would be in bed. Yeah, that blowjob was painful as fuck, but I've never cum like--no, don't even go there. I'm not meeting her. Zack physically shook his head to dismiss the idea, earning a smirk from Kimberly across the room, as if she knew the internal conflict in his head.

Waiting in the kitchen was out as an option too. A surly Brandon wasn't his idea of fun company. Normally, being near Victoria would be high on Zack's list of things to do, but he couldn't bear to look at her at the moment. The thought of her and Jared together in any way sexual made it almost hard for him to breath. If that wasn't enough, then there was Owen. Heather's boyfriend appeared to be growing increasingly agitated with Zack as dinner went on, his glares hardening. Whatever Heather must have told him about the hot springs doesn't seem to have calmed him down for good. At this rate, if Owen doesn't take a swing at me on this trip, I'm one lucky guy. Bad enough I have Brandon's dickish--finally! Zack thought until he saw his mom descending the stairs.

"Wow, you really meant it when you said you wanted to talk to Chloe," Monica said with a grin at her son.

"Zack has a lot of things to tell I bet. Okay, Mrs. Bishop let's begin your tour," Heather teased her classmate with a smirk as she led his mother into the main room. Chloe, the last one down, walked over to stand by Zack who was now in entryway just outside the main room. Curious as to what was so important, the redhead looked at her best friend, waiting for him to start.

"Stop right there you two!" Kimberly loudly snapped out, surprising everyone on the first floor. Pointing upwards about the two teenagers, "You know the rules, Mr. Bishop. Get to it!"

Zack groaned when he looked up to see a twig of mistletoe. He had forgotten to look over the cabin for the other twigs Mr. Ravers had brought up. When Chloe realized what was being implied, she blushed a deep red in shock. "Bu-but we're just friends. You can't be serious?"

"Oh, I'm very serious," Kimberly stated in a firm voice, one that made her look sinister to Zack. The older woman had waited for just the right combination to be under the mistletoe before speaking up. Heather had been very tempting after the scene in the cave with Zack. However, that would've likely enraged Owen, something Kimberly didn't want; at least not yet. Monica and her son? Kimberly badly wanted to **** that as a nasty form of **** but knew the others certainly wouldn't have encouraged them. Making Zack and his best friend kiss could easily help advance her seduction of the boy. If the kiss made for an awkward situation between the two, then Zack would be further alone and ****. It would be like a hunter separating its prey from the herd.

"Sorry, Chloe. We decided earlier that almost everything goes under the mistletoe," Robert informed them. "And this isn't one of the exemptions."

Sighing, Chloe quickly gave her best friend a kiss on the cheek. Surprised at her sudden move, Zack felt sorry for her as he braced for what he knew was coming.

"Oh, sweetie, that sort of a kiss doesn't count. You're required to give a full kiss on the lips, not a short one either," Mrs. Lockett told her somberly, shaking her head in the process.

"Gabs, let them be. They're best friends, don't make things awkward for them," Monica warned her friend.

"Sorry, Mon. Those aren't the rules we laid down for this stay. So what if they're best friends, it's not like you never kissed your best friend," she noted in a teasing tone. "When Ashley and Victoria gave a half-hearted kiss earlier, Skye and I showed them how it should be done. You want to help me put on a show for your son and his BFF?"

"No, no, that's okay," an embarrassed Monica answered quickly. Zack was looking over at her in surprise at the revelation his mother had kissed at least one of her close friends. After a glance at him, she couldn't meet his eyes. What must he be thinking of me right now? Oh Gabby, maybe I should air some of your dirty laundry in front of Jared.

Resigning himself to this fate, Zack turned back to face Chloe. His redheaded best friend looked ready to run out of the room, so he gave her a sympathetic smile. "Let's just get this over with."

Noticing Chloe taking a step back, Zack reached out with his hand and gently cupped her cheek to stop her. Leaning forward he brought his lips to hers. A squeak sounded from Chloe just as their lips met for the very first time. A soft, gentle kiss followed. Zack wanted to make sure there no complaints from the others, so he pushed his tongue forward slightly as if asking permission to enter her mouth. Her mouth opened, more in shock than desire, and their tongues did a couple of quick swirls around one another before they broke off the kiss.

It's happening. It's really happening! What I've always hoped to see. Maybe this will be the moment they realize they are meant to be together. Monica cheered in her head. Maybe I should give Gabby a big kiss for making this happen. Unfortunately, Monica in her excitement failed to hear the follow-up conversation by her son and his best friend.

"That was..." Zack started.

"Weird," Chloe finished.

"Yeah, maybe that's what the saying it 'felt like kissing your sister' means," Zack remarked thinking how awkward it would be to kiss Taylor.

"You might be right," Chloe responded thinking of her sister, Holly.

"I think that kiss was perfectly fine, right everyone?" Robert stated, noticing the awkwardness between the two.

"Yeah, it was fine. Lacked any passion, but it will do," Gabriela noted. The rest of the adults just shrugged, none of the teens who had peered over from the dining room to watch had anything to add. Only Monica and Kimberly appeared gleeful over the kiss, for much different reasons.

"You know what, how about we take a walk, Chloe?" Zack suggested, in hopes of some privacy and to get away from the scheming adults. Chloe, happy to get the hell out of the room, nodded. They moved over to the front door to grab their coats.

"Make sure you grab one of those flashlights on the shelf over there. Those trails can get pretty dark until the moon rises," Robert told the two teens.

Walking outside, Zack turned them westward, as he thought Lookout Point might be a good spot to walk too. "Sorry about that. They seem hell-bent on embarrassing us this week."

"What's so important that you can't wait to tell me? Is it about with you and Victoria?" Chloe asked, making a point to ignore his apology over their kiss. If she had her way, they would never bring it up again.

"What? Victoria? No, no, that's not what I need to talk about," Zack said surprised at her thinking that even though the redhead was the second of the three people he had told about his crush. "I feel like I'm losing my mind."

"What? Why?" Chloe asked in her own surprise.

"I-I just can't stop thinking about sex. I keep having these visions...daydreams, whatever you want to call them about the women in the cabin," Zack told her, becoming agitated in recalling the scenes. "Most of them are about my mom's friends too."

"Um, okay...so you're just noticing they're pretty women. There's nothing wrong with that, Zack," his best friend tried to assure him.

"Oh, Chloe, it's way more than that! I pictured Mrs. Woodsen naked with me sucking on her big tits. I imagined Mrs. Lockett in some dominatrix outfit at breakfast this morning. Even just before at dinner, when they were talking about getting girls pregnant, I pictured myself knocking up the women at the table," manically rambled Zack. "And I'm always fucking hard! I know Mrs. Lockett felt it pushing into her when she arrived. I had to jack off yesterday just to get through dinner!"

Chloe stopped walking and stared at her best friend. This was turning into a very uncomfortable conversation. Sure, they had talked about girls Zack liked or his relationship with Lisa, but never had Zack discussed his sexual fantasies. Gavin did say Zack was messed up; I guess this is what he meant. How the hell am I supposed to deal with this?

"Uh, okay...so you're having these weird daydreams--," Chloe started before she was cut off.

"Oh, it's just not during the day. I had this insane dream while sleeping last night. I was finally making out with Victoria and Lisa showed up. They got into a catfight before making out and announcing they would both be my girlfriends. I started fucking them, and they morphed into Sarah and Gabriela. Jared and Ashley caught us, and they were told I was their new dad!"

Holy shit! He's thinking of getting the women pregnant, and now being the stepfather to people our age! Chloe exclaimed to herself seeing the wild look in Zack's eyes as he shared far too much information over his dream.

"Zack, I want you to be honest with me, okay, I won't judge you, I promise," Chloe calmly informed him before asking her question. "Are you high?"

"What? No!" Zack shouted, looking at her like she was the one on ****.

"It's okay to tell me if you are. If Heather's college boyfriend or this woman Jared told me that Brandon thinks is a stripper brought some **** and you gave in to peer pressure, I would understand," Chloe soothingly suggested, but Zack started laughing madly at her theories, scaring her even more.

"Hahaha! That's a good one Chloe. Owen might have done **** in the past, but he's a real straight arrow now, or least trying hard to be one. And Skye...she's not like that at all. She's really nice and sweet," Zack explained as his laughing stopped and he calmed down slightly.

"Are you sure? You're imagining some strange things here," Chloe dubiously asked. Maybe I should talk to his mom about this. What the fuck has Gavin's lazy ass been doing?

"I'm not just imagining it all. They are making it far worse with their behavior, their teasing and touching me," Zack revealed.

"Teasing and touching you?"

"You know Mrs. Lockett's always been a tease, but she's far worse these last two days. I know she felt my hard dick against her, and I think she liked it. And she's brought Mrs. Woodsen into her teasing, they both want to help find me a girl. They want to know all the stuff I like in girls so they can decide if I need a nice girlfriend or a slutty fuck buddy," Zack reported, as he noticed the doubt on her face. "I'm serious. You better hide or they might drag you into it. They suggested asking Ashley, Heather and my mom for tips. Luckily, Mrs. Woodsen sounds sorry for the teasing so it might calm down a little."

"Okay, that does sound like teasing, I'll give you that. What about the touching?" Chloe asked, now getting curious that he might be telling the truth, at least somewhat. Finding Zack a girlfriend might be a good thing. If he's this crazed with hormones, he might need an outlet.

"Oh, that didn't start up until the hot springs. After the ranger caught Heather and Skye making out, with me taking pictures, and I went back to the hot spring."

Heather and this Skye were making out while Zack was taking pictures, and a ranger caught them. What the hell is going on up here? Chloe wondered in bewilderment but didn't interrupt him.

"That's when Ms. Goose started to give me a footjob under the water," Zack revealed. He then went on to talk about discovering Phillip Zander and Skye having sex, Kimberly catching him and giving him a painful blowjob, that Heather walked in on and stayed to watch. "And if you don't believe me, you can at least ask Heather about it. She'll back me up," he pointed out as he finished his strange tale.

Holy fuck! Zack's day at the hot springs sounds like the start of a porn film. And now this crazy bitch, Ms. Goose, wants him to come to her room tonight. Not to mention what his mom and I walked in on earlier. Maybe I should have stayed home; this cabin sounds insanely fucked up. Chloe stood staring at Zack in astonishment.

"Uh, that's...quite a story. I don't know what to say. Maybe there's something in the water?" she said attempting a joke.

"Shit, you never know. I thought it might be because I finally had sex with Lisa," her best friend said seriously considering her joke. "I just don't know what to expect yet. Heather's boyfriend seems to suspect something more happened based on how he's looking at me. I don't know what to do about Ms. Goose."

"You're not seriously thinking about going to her room?" the redhead asked in shock. What is wrong with him?

"No! Well, I don't know. She scares me, but then I think about how wild I bet she can be at sex," Zack said, while Chloe shook her head at him. "I know, I know, it's a bad idea. It's just I've been getting so horny that I don't trust myself."

"I never liked that woman either. Whenever I met her, she always seemed to treat Prof. Hoffshutt poorly. You need to avoid her, or tell your mom if it gets too bad," Chloe replied to his confused thoughts.

"My mom? I don't want her to know any of this. Gawd, that would be even more embarrassing," he cringed at the thought of his mom knowing her frenemy gave him a blowjob. Looking around at how little a distance they had walked before stopping, he brought up an idea. "If you don't care, how about we just head back to the cabin? I'm feeling kind of exhausted after all this."

Chloe agreed, and they turned around on the trail. Walking back both teens were lost in their thoughts. Zack now worried that his mom would find out what had happened, or even worse that he'd been fantasizing about her friends. Chloe ran through her mind any ideas that could help her frazzled best friend.

"Um, Zack, I think you need to get laid."

"What?" he exclaimed.

"I think maybe you're right about your Lisa guess. I've never...you know, did it, but it seems like your brain is consumed with thoughts of sex. Maybe going without more since the breakup is what's driving you crazy," Chloe wonder aloud while throwing up her hands. "I don't know; I'm just throwing out ideas."

"Say you're right, but with who? It's not like I can just walk up to someone ask them to screw me," the dark-haired teen noted.

"Yeah, they would need to be pretty slutty to do it. Hmm, maybe throw yourself at Hannah when she gets here, ask her for a mercy fuck." Chloe tried to but couldn't hide her grin from Zack's shocked face, before she broke into giggles.

"Very funny. I'm shit out of luck. Almost everyone up here is either married or dating. I'm so screwed," Zack moaned out in anguish.

"Wait, what about Victoria?"

"I'm not walking up to the girl I've had a crush on for years and asking for her to fuck me. What's wrong with you?" he responded, surprised she would even suggest it.

"No, that's not what I meant. I wanted to know what's going on with your plan to finally tell Victoria you like her," Chloe explained. Damn, you must be messed up to think I would suggest that. Victoria's about as likely as I am to screw some guy that just walks up to her and asks.

"Oh, that. I think she likes Jared," Zack started to explain, looking over at Chloe for the surprise on her face, but it wasn't there. "Gavin went hiking with her, Heather, and Ashley this morning. He said they were teasing her about Jared and it must have struck a nerve, as she got mad and pushed Ashley. It doesn't surprise me after she spent all last night in the hot tub asking him questions."

"Wait, Gavin went on a hike?" Chloe asked in surprise at that revelation.

"Oh, yeah. Heather said it was his punishment for skipping out on the hot tub last night. She's got some bug up her butt about him having fun this week," he explained but was distracted by another thought. "Uh, Chlo, what did you see when you got here? You know with that fight and all."

"I think we walked in pretty far into it. Ashley and Brandon were naked," she informed him, blushing at the thought of the first penis she had ever seen. "Him and Jared were definitely going it at. It was kinda brutal. Um, Victoria wasn't doing much. She seemed upset...and she had her pants pulled down a little." Chloe hadn't wanted to tell Zack the last part but felt he had to know.

Sighing, Zack nodded his head. He had expected news along these lines. Once again, I pussy out and waste my chance. It's going to be just like when she got with Dustin. Only this time she's with a guy that's going to expect her to put out. Why do I even bother?

"But there could be a perfectly good reason for that not having anything to do with Jared. It sounded like Victoria was in the doorway watching Ashley and Brandon for a little bit before Jared showed up. It must have been a decent amount of time since Ashley saw her but not when he showed up," his best friend speculated in an effort to lessen the heartbreak she could see him suffering through.

"Maybe," Zack barely got out, as he kicked a small pile of snow in frustration. "Hey, was that light on in the garage when we left?"

They two teenagers had reached a point where both the cabin and its garage were in sight. Light shone out through side window of the garage nearest to the cabin.

"I'm not sure. I don't think so, but I wasn't paying attention," Chloe admitted.

"We better check. I don't think I left it on when I pulled the car in, but I was the last person inside before we left," Zack pointed out, although he knew he didn't turn a light on. It was possible it had been already on from before he parked his mother's car inside. Walking over towards the window, Chloe abruptly stopped in her tracks.

"Whoa," she softly uttered.

Coming up behind her, Zack saw the sight that had startled his best friend. "That seems about right for today," he sarcastically remarked. Inside a woman was bent over a workshop bench, getting fucked from behind by a man.