Young Lust

18 - Superb Choice in Friends Mum.

"What the hell?"

A voice to the right of me stirred me from my horrible sleep. I looked around: it took me a couple of seconds to realise why I could see tiny windows at the top of the wall across from me, why the room felt stuffy and hot, and why there was a hand on my breast.

"Oh my God!" I squealed and tried to shake Steven's hand from my chest. Tom must've slept so well; I was still pinned underneath his arm and leg.

"T-... is that Tom?!" Steven seemed to completely wake up when he saw the positioning of his friend and his crush. "How drunk were we last night? What did we..." Steven sat up in bed, taking in the sight presented before him. "A three-... We didn't, did we?"

"Oh my God!" I gasped. I could still barely breathe underneath Tom's heavy arm. "We sure as hell didn't do anything! Just get this monster of a human off of me!"

Steven's eyebrows raised and he almost fell out of his side of the bed. He dragged himself over to Tom's side and freed my windpipes from the crush of his arm and my lower half from his giant leg.

When Steven finished moving Tom, he turned his attention to my shirt. I joined him in looking - only to look down in absolute horror. My shirt was down. And so was my bra.

"Could this get any worse?" I grumbled to myself as I rushed to fix myself up.

I sat up and escaped the bed in a hurry, double checking my apparel.

"Anyways," Steven dramatically put his hands on his hips. "Me, you, Tom, bed. Care to share?"

"Far out," I snapped at Steven, "I went to kick everyone out but I ran into Tom, drunk and kind of passed out on the floor! I wanted to make sure he found a proper place to sleep, so I was planning on forfeiting my beanbag-bed for him - I was gunna find somewhere else - but he fell onto your b-"

"Whoa, whoa." Steven interrupted. "Honestly, I don't care. I just wanted to know if there was some sort of gang bang happening in my bed last night."

"But you asked... wait, there was "some sort of gang bang" happening in your parents' room..."

Steven slapped his palm to his forehead.

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"Hey guys!"

"Hi, Katie," I smiled at the girl bouncing in through the front door of Steven's house. Steven had kicked her out because of the party, so she went to a friend's place for the night.

The guys didn't acknowledge her entrance, except for Tom who nodded her way.

By now, about 3PM, everyone had cleared out, and Steven, Tom, Joey and I had managed to make the place presentable.

"Mom 'n' Dad'll be back tomorrow," Steven told Katie without bothering to look at her.

"And Joel'll be over in about an hour. We're going to hang out at the park!"

I could almost see the happiness radiating from Katie's face. Does someone have a crush? I giggled to myself.

"What's so funny?" Steven asked.

"What? Nothing," I smiled.

"How about the fact that you three slept together?" Joe reminded us. "I thought that was pretty funny, if you ask me."

"No one asked you," Tom and Steven growled.

"Right. Well, who volunteers to take me home?" I looked at Tom and Steven.

"I will," they both answered. Awkward. But Steven was on his feet before Tom had a chance to think.

"Okay then. Later, everyone," I said, though no one - except of course Tom and Katie - replied in remotely understandable English.

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Mum was in the living room and heard me come inside.

"So, did you have fun? What'd you get up to?" she questioned.

"Hi, nice to see you too, mother dearest," I joked and sat down with her.

"Sorry, darling. But did you have fun?" Mum raised her brows.

"It was fun enough, I s'pose. Didn't get the best sleep though." Mentioning that brought on a yawn and I slouched into the armchair.

"Don't fall asleep now, I have a guest coming. I've made a friend at work," Mum announced, quite pleased.

"Good work," I teased, "when's this friend coming?"

"'Bout an hour's time. Go and, err, clean yourself up, darl'."

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Since I really couldn't be bothered putting effort into my appearance, after I showered I grabbed a simple, blue, button-up dress with two breast pockets on it from my wardrobe. I didn't even bother with makeup - not even my red lippy.

"Jade!" my mother called from downstairs, signalling that her newfound friend was here.

I almost threw up when I saw who was sitting on my favourite armchair.

"Jade, this is Theresa. I forgot to mention she was bringing her son with her. This is Johnny,"

Mum ushered me into the living room where I shook Theresa's hand, and nodded at her son out of politeness for the adults present.

"Pleasure," Johnny smirked.

"Jade," Mum said, "would you please make Theresa and I some coffee, and see what Johnny would like?"

"I'll help," Johnny offered, and followed me to the kitchen.

"Fancy that, eh?" Johnny teased once we were out of earshot. "Aw, come on," he continued, after I chose to ignore, "I promise I didn't know."

"Whatever. Just make coffee."

"Okay, okay," he shrugged and went about doing so. "How'd you enjoy Steven's party last night?"

"Shut up," I grunted.

"Don't be rude to your guests, now, Turquoise."

"You're right. What would you like to drink?"

Johnny looked surprised by my sudden change of mood. "A glass of water'd be nice,"

I turned my back, grabbed a glass from the top cupboard and filled it with tap water.

"Thanks," Johnny reached out for the cup, but instead of passing it to him, I emptied it on him.

"What the f-" Johnny paused to lower his volume. "That was a bit uncalled for!"

"I'll tell you what's uncalled for, and that's you kidnapping me," I snapped back.

"Whatever." Johnny went back to the coffee-making, and I left for the living room.

"...makes me think that Elle's having an affair with Michael!" Theresa was saying.

"Excuse me. It was lovely meeting you, but I must be off." I smiled at Mum's workmate.

"Uh, excuse me, and where might you be "off to"?" my mother turned to me and raised her eyebrows.

"Um," I didn't actually know, as long as I was somewhere else. "I've made a friend, too. Katie," I kind-of-fibbed.

"Well, alright, you know your curfew," Mum reminded me.

"Sure thing," I smiled again and left the house.

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A/N: Yay for bad timing! Not. I'm starting tertiary studies in a couple of weeks and I'm really ill at the moment. For your own sake, make sure you see a doctor as soon as you think something's wrong.
-Proceed beyond here if you have nothing better to do-
Me being me, I thought nothing of my symptoms when they first started (won't go into detail), then three weeks later I was curled up in a ball trying not to move due to other symptoms (also won't go into detail). Turns out I have something that could get serious at any time (still no details).
Anyway, hope you've all enjoyed the last few chapters!