The night starts

Zack stepped up onto the porch and rang the doorbell. A few moments later the door opened to reveal one of his sister’s best friends, Peter Zander.

Peter grinned, extending his hand. “Zachary, long time no see, man!”

Zack smiled and shook the older guy’s hand. “Indeed, how’s it going, Peter?”

“Same old, same old,” Peter replied good-naturedly before he looked behind Zack’s shoulders and waved. “C’mon in, everyone!”

As the eight of them entered the cabin, marveling at how nice the place was from the inside, Taylor walked up to them. Zack smiled as he saw his big sister, she was wearing a black shirt, jeans and black high-heeled shoes.

“Hey you, just in time for the drinks!” She joked with him.

“Nice, except that you know I don’t drink after the, uhn, incident.” He whispered, referring to what happened at Ashley’s birthday party all those months ago.

“Hi guys, hi brat!” Hannah greeted as she joined them at the entrance and hugged Ashley.

Zack mentally winced, seeing Hannah made him remember about his predicament on that night, girls he fancied at different levels everywhere. Hannah’s attire didn’t help his case either, the older of the Woodsen sisters wore a red shirt, jean shorts and a pair of red tennis shoes, leaving her toned, sexy legs on display. The two top buttons of her shirt were open, revealing the top of her big cleavage. Zack felt his dick fill with blood, the state that the poor appendage would probably stay in for most of the night.

At that moment, a young man with brown hair and eyes exited his bedroom near the entrance and his eyes widened when he saw the commotion happening there.

“Victoria?”

“Dustin?”

“Uhn, this was your surprise, Vicky.” Zack said in an awkward manner.

Dustin led Victoria to one of the couches in front of the fireplace and TV, which was showing a basketball game that his brother wanted to watch. He took a long look at her, she was even more beautiful than he remembered, having had seen the green-eyed blonde for the last time about seven months ago.

“I…,I….,” She stammered. “I can’t believe you’re here.”

Dustin grinned and decided to vocalize his earlier thoughts. “You haven’t changed much, still marvelous as ever,” He said. “Even more now, it seems.”

“Thank you,” Victoria smiled widely. “And you’re still a charmer.”

He shrugged. “Just stating what anyone can see.”

Victoria’s smile got even wider. “Tell me, what you’ve been doing?” She asked, prompting him. “Gods! There’s so much I want to ask.”

Dustin laughed. “Take it easy,” He said, thinking about how adorable she was. “We’ll have a couple of days to catch up.”

“Sorry,” She apologized, with a sheepish look. “It’s just that I’ve missed you so much.”

Dustin grinned again and cupped her cheek in his hand. “I’ve missed you too,” He said. “There wasn’t a day that I haven’t thought about you, Vicky.”

Victoria felt like crying, just when she had found a nice guy, who made it worth for her to move on from Dustin, he came back to mess up everything and make her life even more confusing. With Zack seemingly split between her and Heather, Victoria wasn’t sure of anything in her life right now.

Meanwhile, while she chatted with the other girls, Taylor made a point to sneak a glance from time to time to the couch where Victoria was talking to Dustin. The boy’s presence made everything so much difficult for her brother if he really wanted to get the blonde girl.

It made her recall that time earlier in the afternoon when she observed Zack interact with Heather Ravers. He didn’t have the opportunity to tell her who was the other girl he liked, but it was obvious that Heather was the one. They were so at ease with each other, even smiled when their eyes caught each other. In other words, exactly the kind of relationship Taylor wanted on a man.

Still, her brother seemed entranced by Victoria or he viewed her as an obsession he wouldn’t put to rest until he had her. That line of thought made Taylor worry for both of them, as Zack could end up hurting the blonde girl if he wasn’t really serious about her.

She sighed as she noticed Zack almost boring a hole into the back of Dustin’s head with the way he was staring at the guy talking to Victoria on the couch.

Zack wasn’t even registering what Peter, Kurt and Brandon were talking about as he couldn’t take his eyes of Victoria and Dustin on the couch. He seethed as he saw the guy touch Vicky’s face.

He squeezed the plastic cup in his hand until it crumbled, the soda inside it wetting his hand. ”Who the hell does he think he is, coming here and stealing Vicky away like that?!” He yelled in his mind. Zack thought it would be easier to deal with Dustin’s return, he even had tried to use him as a motive to convince Victoria to come to the gathering, but he could see now that it wasn’t a good idea, as Vicky seemed to be hanging to his every word.

Before Zack could try to enter the other guys’ conversation, he was distracted by Heather and Kendra walking over to them.

Another one who was looking at Dustin and Victoria with interest was Shawn. He sneaked a glance to them whenever the game he was watching stopped.

”Damn, she became hot as hell!” He thought as his eyes traveled up and down over Victoria’s body. It had been quite some time since he last saw his younger brother’s ex-girlfriend.

If back then Shawn already had entertained the notion of seducing the sweet blonde, now he was certain he had to have her screaming and bouncing on his cock.

There was a problem, though. Not his brother, Dustin he could take care of easily. It was the guy with whom Victoria had arrived to their cabin, Taylor’s younger brother. Shawn could see the guy ruining his plastic cup while observing Victoria talking to Dustin, and the sexy blonde girl too, tried to sneak a couple of glances to him whenever she thought Dustin wasn’t looking.

”It’ll certainly be an interesting night.” The older of the Lewis siblings thought, grinning to himself.

Peter had just finished a conversation with Kurt Johnson and Brandon Cole about the Silver Lake area and its best hiking spots when he noticed Hannah slipping to the kitchen, alone. He excused himself and went after the blonde.

“Hey!” He said, once he got there and saw Hannah rummaging through the cupboards.

“Hey, yourself!” Hannah replied, briefly turning back to greet him with a little smile.

“What are you looking for?” He asked, sidling up to her. “Can I help?”

“Sure, I guess,” Hannah said while looking inside one of the cupboards. “Taylor and Ash had a great idea, we’re gonna have a BBQ tomorrow.”

Peter nodded. “Awesome, I assume you’re checking on our supplies?”

“Yeah, we’ve got to check if we have everything we need amongst both cabins,” Hannah explained with a smile. “Otherwise, someone will have to go back to town and get whatever it’s missing.”

“Uhn, I don’t suppose you’d want…”

“Hey, Hannah!” Taylor interrupted his speech. “Do we have everything?”

The blonde turned to her friend with a grin. “I guess so,” She replied. “They’ll have to check on their place too, though.”

“Great, let’s tell Heather.” The brunette said as Hannah followed her out of the kitchen.

Peter leaned over the counter and sighed in frustration. He was never going to get Hannah back if there were interruptions every time he went to talk to her.

“Gavin, guess what?” Heather said as she and Kendra walked over to Zack and Gavin. “I found another assassin!”

Gavin almost spit out the soda he was drinking. “What?” He spluttered.

“Duh! ‘Fatal Tower of Doom’, remember?” Heather asked. “The game you play as a wizard, Chloe play as an archer and I used to play as an assassin. Well, I just found out that Kendra plays as an assassin too.”

“Uhn, that’s nice, Heather,” Gavin said, still a little surprised. “I guess.”

“Wait a sec, you never told me that Heather played the game too.” Zack piped in, looking at his friend with a raised eyebrow.

“Yeah, sorry about that,” Gavin apologized. “Chloe and I found out that time you went back to town with Victoria, but when you got back, I already had forgotten.”

“It didn’t cross my mind at the time, but I should’ve known that you’d play the same game as Gavin,” Heather said while looking at Zack. “Which class do you play as?”

“I’m a knight, of course.” Zack replied, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Heather giggled. “Figures.”

Kurt decided to stay out of that conversation, since he wasn’t much of a game guy. What he did, instead, was sneak a couple of glances to Kendra as he sipped on the beer in his plastic cup. The young woman had an elegant way about her, dressed in a cream colored dress and a pair of brown high-heeled boots.

At that moment, Hannah and Taylor came from the kitchen and walked over to them.

“So, Heather, we have everything at our end.” Hannah said.

“Cool,” The busty brunette answered. “I’ll have a look at our cabin later today or tomorrow morning.”

“Oh, I just remembered,” Hannah suddenly said. “Zachary, c’mon, I wanna show you something!”

Zack raised an eyebrow as the older blonde started dragging him by the arm on the direction of a stairwell near the dining table where they were gathered at.

“Aww, Han,” complained Taylor as she followed them. “Do you really have to show him that tonight?”

Heather and Gavin looked at each other and shrugged, following the trio as well. Hannah led Zack down the stairs to the room below the main section of the cabin. The younger Bishop widened his eyes when he saw what was there.

“You guys got a pool table here?” He asked, surprised. “Freaking awesome!”

“Don’t tell me you play pool too?” Heather asked, skeptical.

“Yeah, Hannah taught me about a year ago,” He replied. “Ashley and Brandon were there as well, but he didn’t want to learn.”

“That’s right, if something happens to me, my two apprentices will carry on my legacy.” Hannah said, imitating the voice of some movie character.

“Does someone else can play too?” Zack asked to the rest of the group. “We can play a game now.”

“Oh no, you don’t!” Taylor stopped him before the idea could go forward.

“Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Your sister, the party pooper, made me promise to not drag anyone to play tonight,” Hannah said, looking at her friend. “Don’t worry, tomorrow we can get Ash and a fourth person to play when we have another party.”

“Yeah, but that’s tomorrow,” Taylor said. “Now let’s go back upstairs.”