With Vicky

Zack stepped out of the bathroom completely refreshed. Between the drive both to and from the cabin, the time spent supporting Victoria when she was upset, and the exhausting antics of the Walker twins at dinner, Zack was done with the day. A shower before bed was exactly what he needed. The sight of his secret crush sitting on her couch wearing plaid pajama bottoms and a tank top that was about two sizes too small for her frame caused Zack’s member to stir in the basketball shorts he was wearing to bed.

“Hey you!” Victoria smiled as she brushed her hair.

“What’s up?” Zack replied.

“Nothing. Just watching a little TV before bed. Anything you want to watch?” the blonde smiled as she offered Zack the remote.

“Nah. You pick,” Zack declined.

“But you’re my guest. I’m supposed to watch what you choose,” Victoria informed the boy as he took a seat about two feet away from her.

“But I’m here for you. Speaking of which, it’s been a trying day so far. How are you feeling?” Zack asked.

“A lot better. Mostly because of you. Thank you, Zack, for what you did back there. It was really sweet of you to stick up for me like that,” Victoria complemented her guest as she finished with her hair. After tossing her brush on the coffee table, she flipped through the channels until she found a documentary about life on a coral reef. The pair of teens watched the show, catching glimpses of it while they talked.

“Honestly, Vicky, there’s no need to thank me. I only did what a friend should do in that circumstance,” stated Zack.

“But we were in a room full of friends, and NOT ONE of them did anything even close to what you did. Hell, most of them were encouraging Hannah. Even the person who I called my best friend was pressuring me. Your sister was in on it too. I saw her lean over to you. What’d she say to you that got you all fired up to come to my aid,” the young blonde asked her savior.

“Actually she wasn’t saying anything negative at all. She was encouraging me to do what I did,” Zack informed the girl.

“AWW! You Bishops are two peas in a pod! I wish the Woodsen sisters were like that!” Victoria sulked.

“Listen, I’m sure Ashley and Hannah are really sorry about what they did. So is everyone else. I guarantee it,” he assured her. “But anyway, enough about what happened today. What do you want to do tomorrow?”

“I don’t know. You up for the mall, Zack?”

“If that’s what you’d like to do, then that’s fine with me, Vicky,” Zack grinned at the thought of spending the whole day at the mall with Victoria.

“Unless you want to do something else, Zack, then we could do that,” Victoria said.

“Nope. The next few days are all about you. Whatever you want to do, we do,” her guest informed her.

“Well okay then. What I really want, and need, to do is go to bed. I’m about ready to drop,” the blonde yawned.

“I hear ya! So does the couch open up into a bed?” Zack asked.

“It does, but it’s not very comfortable. Trust me, you don’t want to sleep on it,” Vicky stated.

“Okay then, the floor it is!”

“What? Do you honestly think I’d make a guest sleep on the floor?” she asked.

“Okay, then where am I sleeping?”

“On the bed, Silly!”

“Ahh, I can’t take the bed while you sleep uncomfortably somewhere else, Vicky!”

“Zack, look at the size of that bed! I could put my whole family in there and there would still be room for more people.”

“What about your parents? I’m not too sure they’d like us sleeping in the same bed.”

“If it bothered them then they wouldn’t have invited, no, **** you to stay out here with me. It’ll be fine. Trust me. I have to warn you though: I snore something terrible!”

With that, Victoria tossed aside the decorative pillows and crawled under the comforter. When she was set, she motioned to Zack and patted the other side of the bed. Still wary, Zack slid under the sheets rather slowly. When he was finally settled in, Victoria looked at him and smiled.

“There we go! Thanks again for everything, Zack.” The blonde hummed as she leaned over and kissed her savior on the cheek for the second time in twenty-four hours. “Goodnight!”

“Good night Vicky!” Zack replied as Victoria shut off the TV and tossed the remote in the general direction of the couch.

When the room went dark, Zack relished for a few moments at the thought of being kissed twice by the girl he wanted most. He then touched the spot where her lips met his flesh, smiled the biggest smile he had ever made, and then drifted off to sleep.