<b>Chapter Eight</b>

 

<i>i don’t know you

and i don’t want to

till the moment your eyes open

and you know</i>

 

Adriana rolled over groggily.  Her arm draped across Aaron’s stomach, and the sheet fell to their waists.  She fully planned on falling right back asleep, but Aaron began to tickle the palm of her hand.  She lifted her head and glared at him.  “What do you think you’re doing?” she asked, trying to sound menacing.  She hid a yawn.

 

He grinned at her.  “Bothering you.”

 

“Stop.”  She turned her head in the other direction and closed her eyes.  A minute later she felt a light breeze on her neck.  Her eyes opened and she lifted her head again.  “Will you cut it out?!  I’m so tired!”

 

Aaron laughed.  “I’m trying to get you to wake up.  You guys leave tomorrow afternoon.”

 

“Tomorrow is not for twenty-four hours, and if you don’t mind, I’d prefer to use those twenty-four hours to sleep, thank you.”

 

Aaron leaned close to her ear.  “I can think of better ways to spend it.”

 

She rolled over and looked at him, finding herself centimeters from his face.  She pecked him on the lips.  “No,” she said and rolled back over.

 

Aaron laughed.  “Come onnn,” he whined.  “I wanna <i>do</i> something today.”

 

“I wanna do something today, too,” she said, her voice muffled by her pillow.  “SLEEP!”

 

Aaron stood up and pulled on a pair of boxers and a T-shirt.  There was a knock at the door.  Glancing at the clock, he grinned.  “Right on time,” he muttered.

 

He opened the door.  “Will you help me please?” he said quietly to Taegan.

 

Taegan grinned.  “Close your eyes,” she whispered to Michael, who gave her a look but obliged. She went over to Adriana.

 

“Addy!’ she screamed in her friend’s ear.  Adriana sat bolt upright and then screamed, wrapping a sheet around herself.

 

“Jesus Christ!  Taegan Aislinn O’Reilly!  Don’t you sneak up on me like that!”

 

“Don’t you middle name me, Adriana Merideth Cruz.”

 

“Ugh.”  Taegan stuck her tongue out and stepped away.  Adriana laughed.  Making sure the sheet was securely wrapped around her, she stood up.  Taking a look at Michael, who still had his eyes closed, she laughed.  “It’s quite safe, now, Michael,” she said.  He opened one eye and then the other.  Adriana waddled over to her suitcase, as it is quite hard to walk with a sheet dragging all over the floor.  She grabbed some clothes and Taegan’s arm and went into the bathroom.

 

“Addy, I don’t want to see you naked.  I saw you that one time we decided to go skinny dipping at the Y and nearly got arrested, but I really don’t need to see it now, and especially fresh after sex.”

 

“Oh shut up.”

 

“If you’re going to be a bitch I’m going to leave.”

 

“I have a bone to pick with you,” Adriana said.  “And I’m going to shower, so you can feel safe about staying in here while I’m naked, as I will be behind the glass.  I don’t know what your problem is about that anyway.”

 

Taegan mumbled an answer that wasn’t actually an answer, just noise.  She closed her eyes while Adriana dropped the sheet and climbed into the shower.  “What’s this bone you have to pick with me?” she asked.

 

“How long have you been sleeping with Michael?” Adriana asked loudly as the shower went on.

 

Taegan blushed.  “Oh.”

 

“Yeah.  Oh.”

 

“Three days.  Wait, are we counting my stunning show of intelligence when I was drunk?  Because if we are, I suppose four days.  Not counting the days in between.  If we’re counting the days in between–”

 

“I get it.”

 

“Sorry.”

 

“When were you planning on telling me this?”

 

Taegan blushed even though Adriana couldn’t see her.  “I’m sorry.  You were so busy with Aaron, and I barely saw you.”

 

“You should have called me.  Taeg, I will always make time for you, no matter what I’m doing.”

 

“Or who you’re doing?”

 

Adriana laughed.  “Or who I’m doing.  Unless I’m in the middle of something.  Like sex.”

 

“Well, I’m not going to pull you away from Aaron just to tell you that I made up with Michael and we fuck like you and Aaron.”

 

“Taegan!  You don’t swear.”

 

“I know, I know.  And we don’t really ‘fuck’ anyway.”  Taegan sighed.  “He’s gorgeous.  And sweet.  And Jesus I love him.”

 

“Did you tell him?”

 

“Yes.  When I finally had that talk with him.  I told him.”

 

Adriana poked her head out of the shower.  “And?”  Taegan grinned.  Adriana grinned back before going back behind the door.  “So you go at it like there’s no tomorrow, eh?”

 

“We certainly do.  I told you I would.  But it’s just really...nice.  Like, he’s really gentle.  Except once.”

 

“Oh, spare me the details!”  The water turned off.  “Hand me that towel, would you?”

 

Taegan obliged.  “What are we going to do?”

 

“Go to the Magic Kingdom and spend all day on the teacups?”

 

“I mean tomorrow.”

 

There was silence.  “The panties?  And bra?  Please?”

 

Taegan handed Adriana her underwear.  “Did you know that Michael wears Ian Thorpe underwear?”

 

Adriana stepped out of the shower.  “You’re joking.”

 

“Nope.  I nearly died when I saw it.  He couldn’t understand what was so funny, but it nearly ruined the mood.”

 

“When was this?”

 

“When we were going to do it in our room and you and Aaron nearly gave me a heart attack when I went to open the door.  We went back to his room and we were all getting undressed and stuff and he took off his pants and I collapsed from laughing.  Luckily I think it’s really hot that he wears IT underwear so it wasn’t a big deal.  And then he told me later – luckily it was later or I never would have recovered – that he gets them free from The Man.”

 

Adriana laughed.  “Wow.  You have a <i>cheap</i> boyfriend.”

 

“Hey, I like that he wears Ian’s underwear.”  There was a pause.  “That sounded so bad.  I will never say that again.”

 

“Very good idea.”

 

Taegan nodded.  “I think so.”

 

Adriana pulled her shorts up and yanked on a tank top.  She sighed and sat on the counter of the sink, next to Taegan.  “What will we do?”

 

“I don’t know.”

 

The girls heaved identical sighs.  “Shall we go?”

 

“Yes, I think I’d like a run on the tea cups.  And then phenomenal Last Night Sex.”

 

Adriana nodded.  “Sounds like a fantastic idea.”

 

Both girls hopped off the counter and went into the room.  Aaron and Michael looked up from whatever conversation they’d been having.

 

“Her hair’s not wet,” Aaron said.

 

“I know, but you never know,” Michael replied.

 

Taegan and Adriana looked at each other.  The boys were speaking in hushed tones, but they obviously didn’t know what a hushed tone was, as the girls could hear them clearly.  “We did not shower together.” Taegan said, sitting next to Michael on the bed and putting her hand on his leg.  “Sorry to disappoint.”

 

Adriana sat next to Aaron and put her head on his shoulder.  “Now that you’ve got me up, and I’m dressed, let’s go do something.  I feel like Teacups,” she said.