Eva smiles. "The wall now appears to be dancing." she says, taking her eyes away from the pulsating wall and moving carefully forward, swaying slightly, to stand in front of Hayden and Deirdre. "You are my very good friends. I feel very good right now and I think you are both very lovely people. I would like a drink with some fizzy bubbles." she then addresses Deirdre directly, still swaying gently in time with the heavy beat of the music. "And then I would like to dance with you again. I enjoyed the sensation of you rubbing your body against me and kissing me. I especially enjoyed it when you put your tongue in my mouth and I would like to do that again. I suspect that it would be even more enjoyable because of the special gummies."
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"My... tongue..." Deirdre goes pale as Eva describes their previous interactions. She can still taste the foreign girl's lips, and is admittedly curious if they would taste as good a second time. But in front of Hayden... in front of everybody...
She starts to clam up again, eyes darting around as if looking for a place to hide.
Gavin hesitates, considering your words for a moment. "F*ck it." He gives you his hand with a brave smile, though you can feel his fingers trembling slightly. "Bring it on." He seems to think of something and his smile wavers. "You've, uh, been tested, right?"
Hayden steps in to rescue Deirdre before she actually runs away. Off-kilter was all fun and good, but she didn't want to traumatize the girl.
"Okay Eva, let's start with heading outside and getting some air and that drink. There could even be someone else more fun to dance with, hard to believe as that might be."
Group in the living room: Behind the house, there appears to be a patio area surrounded by more shrubbery where a few of the partygoers are hanging out in a more relaxed setting. There's a water feature in the center of the area, a fountain modeled after the Birth of Venus.
Fahed smiles a crocked half smile, "of course, don't worry I'm clean, my desires might be primal and unconventional, but I'm not a g+~!!&ned savage," he says with a sense of bemusement moving the sanguine tipped finger to Gavin's lips. Taking Gavin's hand and positioning his mouth over the young man's wrist and presses his lips against it, feeling the heart beat of a moment, once the pulse was found Fahed sinks his fangs into wrist. Fahed feels Gavin wince and caresses his cheek to comfort him.
Okay... not really good dancing to distract Eva with, and Deirdre still needs to come off her boil...
Haydne made a face, then turned to Deirdre with a hopeful smile "Dee, would you mind grabbing us all a few drinks? Unless someone wants to go swimming with Venus, we look pretty dry out here. I don't need a whole one if you want to share again."
As they emerge onto the patio, Deidre's eyes are drawn to the fountain. She stares at it, for some reason imagining Hayden's face on the body of the naked goddess. Perhaps it's a lingering effect from the gummy...
Hayden's words startle her out of her reverie. "Huh? Oh, y-yeah. I'll be right back." She heads back inside to get drinks for everybody.
Great
"Hey Eva, could I get your number? I think it'd be fun to hang out some other time.
"Oh, damn. I left my phone in Deirdre's purse, I'll just add it once she's back."
She led the Icelandic girl over to the fountain, kicking off her own boots to dip her feet in the water. "Mmm. Feels nice - you should try this. So, Eva, could you do me a favor? I think Dee's a little embarrassed about kissing you earlier, and she could use some time to stew that one over. It should still be fine to dance with her, but could you not kiss her or do anything more, at least for tonight?" Hayden's smile turned devilish, as she inched her bare feet over towards Eva's calves, "It'll be worth your while..."
Gavin gasps and braces himself against the chair, allowing you to drink.
Returning to the drink-dispensing machine, you happen to notice Jaime and Nina in a corner of the room. They're standing very close to one another, and Jaime is laughing at something Nina is saying.
Curious, Deirdre tries to subtly move a little closer to eavesdrop on the girls' conversation.
Eva lets herself be lead downstairs, stopping occasionally to examine a particularly interesting painting or potted plant every few steps, but eventually emerging into the garden with the others. Once outside, she turns to look back at the building. "Curious. The outside does not appear to be melting like the inside." she giggles. "Yes, I will give you my phone number. I think it would be fun to hang out too." when Hayden slips her feet into the fountain, Eva joins her, first taking off her socks and shoes, before putting them in. This feels very pleasant" she says, watching the statue carefully until her attention is caught by the strange swirling patterns created by the rippling water. "I will not kiss Dierdre if you think it is inappropriate. Does dancing not always include kissing?" As Hayden's foot brushes over Eva's calves, she smiles, savoring the sensation. "That feels very pleasant and I like the feeling of the water on my feet too."
"Dancing and kissing can go together, but they don't have to. You can dance without kissing, and you can kiss without dancing too..."
Slowly she ran her hand up Eva's back and drew her in close for a long, thorough kiss. Hayden gave her plenty of time to turn away, but she was pretty sure Eva wouldn't.
She gave a little half-shrug and a dazzling smile as she pulled back. "I think Dee could use a little break, that's all. You promise you'll help me out with that?"
Hmm, it seems we do things differently in Iceland." Eva says, as she had been instructed to do when being instructed on common understandings. She shivered as Hayden ran her arm up her back, the drugs enhancing the tactile sensation and eagerly leaned in to meet the blonde's kiss. When Hayden pulls away, she sits blinking for a moment. Yes, of course," she answers "I will help you with whatever you need."
"Perfect." Hayden's smile stayed warm and inviting.
"You ever thought about going blonde? We really do have more fun, and remembering it afterwards is overrated."
She looked up at the fountain with a bit of a smirk that turned quite wicked as she continued. "It's quieter out here than I was expecting. There's gotta be a pool hidden somewhere, right? Or a hot tub or something? A house like this, there's gotta be a pool.
"And once Dee gets back maybe you can show me how you do things in Iceland."
JJ:
Shortly after you send the text, you get a response that simply says:
As promised. >:)
Your vision suddenly goes bright white and you're forced to shut your eyes. When you reopen them, everything seems normal at first, but you soon realize that certain people around you (of varying genders and to varying extents) appear to be glowing with a soft yellow light. For some, the light is faint and barely visible, while for others, it is quite strong. You instinctively sense that the intensity of light is linked to the individual's potential to be attracted to you.
Deirdre:
You manage to get close enough to catch a bit of Jaime and Nina's conversation.
Nina: "...absolutely hideous. Like, Jim Henson's Creature Shop hideous."
Jaime: "Oh my God, Nina, you're terrible!"
Nina: "I call it like I see it."
Jaime laughs again, and touches Nina's shoulder.
Deirdre frowns at the interaction between the girls. Jess wouldn't be happy to find out about this, but is it Deirdre's place to say anything? Uncertain of the right course of action, she heads back out to the porch and joins Hayden and Eva at the fountain, handing each one of them a drink. "Here you are. Did I miss anything?"
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"I would have to ask my parents to change the color of my hair." Eva responds, "What is more fun about alternative hair colors? I do not know whether there is a pool. Perhaps we could look for one? If 'a place like this' must have a pool then we will find one. There are many houses like this in the area."
"Thank you for the beverage Deirdre," Eva thanks her. Since you have been gone, we have taken off our shoes and bathed our feet, which is pleasant. Hayden has asked for my phone number, we have discussed dancing and kissing, Hayden has asked me not to kiss you, Hayden and I kissed, and Hayden would like to find a pool or hot tub because a place like this has to have a pool. Also, the ripples in the water seem to be forming unusual geometric patterns although I suspect this may be an effect of special gummies."
Hayden purses her lips and nods along continually at Eva's explanation, a profoundly serious expression on her face as she sits side by side with the girl.
As Eva finishes, Hayden breaks into a wide grin, her eyes sparkling with mirth. "Yep," she rolls her eyes, still grinning in amused disbelief, "A whole lot sure happened while you were away. Barely seems like you were gone long enough for all of that to happen, Dee."
Hayden reaches out, her hand brushing Deirdre's as she takes her beer. After a long, slow sip she leans the open mouth of the bottle back towards Deirdre, "That was a good idea about the pool though. You up to explore?"
JJ: There are two brightly-glowing guys in the immediate vicinity whom you find attractive, one with long blonde hair and one with a beard and baseball cap.
It takes a moment for Deirdre to parse everything Eva just said, but one part stands out like a sore thumb. She looks at Hayden with a hurt expression. "You kissed her?"
To be fair, I kissed her first. And it's not like me and Hayden are a couple or anything. I haven't even told her I like her like that. She must have some idea though, right? Perhaps it's time to be more assertive.
Deirdre takes the bottle back from Hayden and chugs its contents in a few gulps. "Yes, let's find the pool. Just you and me, Hayden."
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Still smiling, eyes briefly rolling to the sky, Hayden replied in a deadpan voice not quite dripping with irony, "Yep. We kissed. Exactly the way Eva described it. Were the walls still melting then, Eva?"
Hayden leans in close to Deirdre, lips brushing against her ear as she whispers, "You seemed like you probably weren't up for an encore performance with Eva, right? Well after Someone got her all worked up, she would probably have just wandered off to someone stranger. But a quick peck in this oversized bird bath, and here she is, safe in her nest. Don't worry, if I were really gonna go to town on her, I'd return the favor from earlier and make sure you had a Front Row Seat." She leans back a bit to see Deirdre's expression, but their faces are still close. "Every great show deserves an appreciative audience."
She leans back farther, a sad smile forming on her face, slightly undercut by her dimples. "Tonight though, I am the Shepherd of Dreamers; I can't just flock off and leave a drugged out girl in a fountain at a party full of strangers.
"Besides, brilliant as that pool idea is, leavin' Eva'n heading off solo won't clear the water for us.
"No way have other people not found it already, but if we want to all follow the sounds of splashing, I bet we could still find a good time"
Fahed had his fill and helped Gavin to the couch, he appeared a little weak in the knees. He then grabbed a washcloth that was laying on the table, where the cocaine was being used, to help stop the bleeding. The bite wounds tend to stop on their own fairly quickly, but the marks are quite noticeable for a while. Fahed sat next to Gavin and draped his arm around him, "See I told you it was exciting," the faint stain of blood that still lingered on his teeth made his fangs all to obvious now.
Deirdre merely blushes when Hayden reminds her that she started this whole Eva business. She lowers her eyes, shivering a bit at the sensual brush blonde's lips on her ear. "O-okay, I guess you're right. Let's all look for the pool, then. Together."
Eva looked up from the water of the fountain, having been momentarily distracted by the swirling patterns. "No." she replied, "The walls were melting inside. The outside of the building appears somewhat more stable. She returned her gaze to the water. "I am currently trying to calculate the number of goldfish. It appears there are either no goldfish, or an infinite number, at any given moment. However, it is hard to tell. I have decided that both may be true simultaneously due to quantum indeterminacy." she nods, satisfied with her answer and looks up from fountain, which contains one large goldfish. "Now I will come with you and look for a pool.
Hayden smiles and reaches out to haul both girls to their feet.
"And who knows how many fish there will be in there!"
You and Xavier are lying on the moose-antler bed, having just "entertained" one another. Xavier abruptly sits up. There's a distant expression on his face.
Gavin exhales deeply. "Well, that was certainly inter-" He notices your fangs and jumps backwards off of the couch with a look of shock. "What the f*ck?!"
The bearded guy seems to be a having a friendly chat with a female friend (she is glowing very faintly). They seem to be talking about some sitcom they both watch. He's of average build, wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
He finishes his drink and moves to get himself a new one.
You ask around and someone points you in the direction of an indoor pool, located on the first floor of the house close to the patio. There's also a small hot tub in the same area. Only a few people are here; nobody seems to have had the foresight to bring a bathing suit, so it's just the people adventurous enough to swim in their underwear.
Ashton:
"I thought it would be enough. I thought it would keep me..." There's a brief pause. Xavier laughs a bit, and a tinge of desperation is detectable. "I told you. I'm not supposed to be here."
At this point, if Ashton looks back, he will see that Xavier is no longer there.
"Told you there had to be at least one pool!"
Hayden had already worked her leotard over her shoulders and started to roll it down her torso, when a thought struck her. "Hey Dee, Eva, give me just a sec, okay?"
She quickly scanned the group, looking for a guy who wasn't swimming, but was still at least a liiitle bit drunk, not too big...
Perfect!
"Hiiii. Derek, right? I'm Hayden, I think we're in the same English Lit lecture? So this is going to be a little weird, I know. But... I didn't know there was going to be a pool here, and I really want to go swimming with my friends." She turned to wave quickly and demonstratively at Deirdre and Eva, "but I didn't bring a suit! I'd just go swimming in my underwear, like they will, but..." she leaned in to whisper, "I'm not wearing any..." Hayden gave him a sheepish grin. "So, since you're not swimming anyways, I was wondering if we could duck into the other room there, and I could 'borrow' yours? They said they won't swim without me and that would be So Sad!"
Deirdre looks at the other people swimming in the pool nervously. Even with a couple drinks in her system, she's a bit reluctant to strip down to her underwear in front of everybody. But if Hayden wants her to...
As Hayden walked up to the guy, Eva remained standing next to Deirdre. "We did not say we wouldn't swim without her." she said to the other girl as she curiously looked at the people already in the pool. Noting that they're all stripped to their underwear, she placed her shoes and socks, which she'd carried from the fountain, carefully on the floor with her hat. Then, without pausing, pulled her 'nice' shirt over her head, folded it precisely, and placed it on the floor with the rest of her clothes. Having dealt with her clothes, she straightened up wearing only her utilitarian plain white briefs and bra, and turned to face Deirdre. "Are you going to take your clothes off too?" she asked, apparently unconcerned at her state of dress.
Deirdre's eyes are drawn to Eva's half-naked body. Despite herself, she can't help but admire the pale flesh on display. The Icelandic girl's skin is flawless and creamy, almost too perfect.
"Yeah, I guess that's the thing to do," Deirdre says. She lifts her dress up over her head, exposing her own caramel skin. If she had known there would be swimming involved, she probably would have chosen more practical underwear. Instead, she stands there in a lacy black bra and low hip-hugging panties. She neatly fold the dress and places it nearby, then takes a deep breath and tries to ignore all the eyes on her.
Of course, she doesn't realize the unintentional effect her stripping has on Eva...
Eva blinked as she watched Deirdre reveal her body, feeling a flush of hormonal signals flood her circulatory system, and prompting a physiological response throughout her body. "I like the way your body looks." she said, tilting her head to the side, and examining the other girl. "I find your physical appearance very attractive and I am experiencing a similar feeling to when you kissed me when we were dancing with our bodies together. I would like to do that again, although I have promised Hayden that I will not kiss you. Hayden told me that dancing does not necessarily involve kissing. Perhaps we can dance here?" Eva stepped forward so that she was standing just in front of Deirdre, her pupils dilating and a flush spreading across her skin. "There is no music, but I am confident the sensation would be equally pleasant."
"Shhhhhh shhshhshh, it's okay, they're just cosmetic. Honestly they seen like a silly choice now," Fahed stands from the couch hands up with an open posture. "I'm sorry I should have warned you, come sit, please."
Deirdre blushes when Eva flat-out announces her attraction to her. She can see the other girl's obvious arousal, her blunt and unashamed approach keeping Deirdre off-guard. She silently pleads for Hayden to come rescue her from this awkward situation, but the blonde is still engrossed with Derek. Deirdre's going to have to try to save herself.
"Um, okay, Eva. We can dance for a little bit before we go swimming." She reaches out and takes one of Eva's hands, then she puts her other one on Eva's hip. She then leads the foreign student through a few basic movements. A little waltz, a little boxstep. Perfectly formal and chaste.
Deirdre meets Eva's gaze and smiles wanly. Surely this will be enough to placate her. Surely the fact that their bodies are only a few inches apart, that Deirdre's juicy lips are so close to Eva's, won't be too much for the redhead to resist...
Eva concentrated on Deirdre's actions and copied them as best she was able for a few moments, strangely aware of the proximity of the other girl's body to her own, but increasingly frustrated that they did not connect, except occasionally where their respective anatomies protruded forwards. The feeling of contact when they touched was extremely pleasurable and Deirdre's physiological responses seemed similar to her own. Nevertheless, Eva was certain that more direct contact would be more pleasurable still. "I am enjoying dancing with you." she said to the darker girl, "when we danced earlier though, I particularly enjoyed the sensation of your body against mine, like this." she said, pulling the Deirdre towards herself so that their bodies touched as much as possible, their legs almost entwined, and their lips precisely 4.28 cm from each other. "Interesting," she said, "Skin to skin contact is provoking a more intense feeling of pleasure than when we were fully clothed. I would very much like to kiss you now, however,I have promised Hayden that I will not do that tonight. Perhaps you can suggest some alternative that might be as pleasurable? Perhaps further skin to skin contact? We could remove our remaining garments? Our primary erogenous zones remain covered."
Deirdre gasps as Eva pulls her closer, both girl's half-clothed bodies pressed against one another. He flush deepens as the redhead basically propositions her to get naked together. This is starting to go too far. Where was Hayden?
"I don't think this is really the appropriate time or place for that sort of thing," she says, trying to extricate herself from the redhead's embrace. "Besides, we've only just met. Maybe we should try to get to know each other better first?"
"If it is inappropriate to remove further clothing then we should remain clothed. Eva replies, maintaining her contact with Deirdre, and continuing to dance. "I would like to get to know each other better as well. Then we will remove our remaining clothes. I come from Reykjavík in Iceland. Because I am from Iceland my behaviour my seem unusual. Where are you from?"
Deirdre lets out a soft sigh of relief that Eva has at least pumped the brakes slightly. She tries her best to ignore the warm feeling of the other girl's skin pressed against hers.
"I'm from a small town not too far from here," she says. "There were only a hundred people in my high school's graduating class. You can imagine it was quite a big change coming here to Summerwood. There are so many students from so many varying backgrounds. I've never met anybody from Iceland. What's it like there?"
"Iceland has a temperate climate and is geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains, and glaciers, and many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Icelandic culture has its roots in North Germanic traditions." Eva replies. "What was the name the town you are from? Do you enjoy being in Summerwood? Do you enjoy dancing with me?"
Deirdre blinks at Eva's dry description of her homeland. "The town's called Pleasantville. But 'Boringville' is a more apt name for it. I'm enjoying Summerwood quite a bit so far, even though it's only been a few weeks."
She glances down at the other girl's last question. "Yes, Eva. I do enjoy dancing with you," she admits.