#rekindling fire

[lentendays]

Ask box open for any of my fics!

[teejaystumbles]

He is kneeling on the stone kitchen floor of the Dreaming's castle and the Lord of Dreams is standing in front of him. Hob can see flames dance in the fringes of his coat. Was that him? Has he set Lord Morpheus' mantle on fire? Is that why he is being punished? He bows his head to the floor and pleads, "My Lord, forgive me, please don't put me back in there, I beg you, please-" "Hob. Calm yourself." Hob gasps and stays where he is, not daring to look up, breathing raggedly. He's not choking. He can breathe. He tries to focus on that. The Dreamlord moves and Hob sees his mantle fringe sweep over the floor. At a closer look the flames don't seem to feed on it, they dance along the black fabric without damaging it at all. Hob feels a strange desire to reach out and touch them, find out if they are his kin or if they are somehow as cold and untouchable as their master. "Hob," Lord Morpheus says again, "it was not my intent to bring you discomfort."

[berryyjello]

WYNN DOODLES AND ALSO BOB'S CRUSHED SOUL ART BECAUSE THAT SHIT MESSED ME UP GOOD (i picked yellow and white cause he was a light.... to wynn....... during the war.........)

ft. wassupimE's wynn oc suffeeing from the voices with me (yes echo is on wynn mika's playlist)

[markets]

girls covered in blood homosexually and they bite each other or something. Its yuri and yaoi at the same time. ok i think i can clock out for the day after that see you guys later

[genericpuff]

i hope y'all know that we're making good use of that massive brush list provided by our resident superhero anon and it's pretty evident in this week's episode ╭( ･ㅂ･)و

[skelerangart]

an oldie i drew back when mark played help wanted

[ah-finally]

i just wanna say…

if you are currently in the business of writing buggy x reader fanfic where it starts off with reader taking care of buggy’s disembodied head despite the rest of the strawhat’s despising him, feeding him, gaining his trust to slowly washing his hair, his face and doing his make up, stroking his face as reader falls asleep with his head cuddled to their body to creep into dirty jokes and sly winks from him to buggy eventually eating reader out like a starved animal under their covers at night…

you’re doing the lords work and i love you oh so very much.

[megmeg-chan]

You have no heartbeat. Perhaps it just needs to be rekindled. Van Helsing 2004 (14/?)

Bonus:

[blmpff]

GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THE NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS ENTIRE SCENE WHAT IS THAT SO DISTRACTING

[lentendays]

Hi!! Here's a fic-related ask: Do you have any deleted scenes/plot ideas from any of your fics that you feel like sharing? Personally, I'm a big fan of your BNHA fics, but this question can apply to any fic you want!

Okay YES I have MANY

Here are a few for the BNHA fics:

Breaking through the storm clouds: Kurogiri time travels to 17yo pre-nomu Oboro's body and raises Tenko

BTTSC Chapter 5/The Flashback Chapter/keep your face to the sun:

OK it definitely didn't fit anywhere in there with the angsty tone but I *really* wanted a scene where the league are doing Smash Marry Kill and Kurogiri, immediately and with no hesitation, says smash Midnight (or Eraserhead). He's been quiet the whole time. They almost forgot he was there. They all turn to him. "What the fuck" Shigaraki says, his innocence shattered.

More seriously, I was initially planning for Oboro to go back to school for a bit in BTTSC.

Scrapped that idea, but there was one scene where he gets stuck in combat class and goes lethal.

There's the one classmate in the Vigilantes flashback who kept mocking Aizawa for having a useless quirk (and I think the rest of the trio? Don't remember exactly). Good natured past Shirakumo shrugs it off. Kuroboro does not hahahaha. They get matched up.

He can't cut people up with Black Mist anymore, but he can apply much the same principles. Cover the eyesight, immobilize the legs. And once they're down, he brings his staff down on the kid's head. The instructor stops it just in time, redirecting the worst of the blow (though it does still land and give the kid a concussion) coz they realized Oboro was going for lethal force, zero hesitation. (He of course deeply regrets it later, but in the moment it's all instinct.)

Everyone's horrified and Oboro's just like, cool, we done here? I won, I'm leaving, I'm a teen dad I don't have time for this.

Rekindling fire: In the Hideout Raid, Endeavor dies trying to save Dabi. Dabi, who has now time traveled to his middle school pre-bbq years, finds this confusing. Also Hawks.

RF has many more comedic moments than I planned for, because the Todorokis make me very sad and I cope with humor.

At the start, before chapter 290 etc. were out, I like most of the fandom, thought Endeavor was the one who kept pushing for Dabi to be a hero at the cost of his health. So there was supposed to be this exchange:

"No? I don't want to be a hero anymore."

"You said you did last week??"

"I'm 11, I don't know what I want to be."

"....You're 13."

"Shit rly?"

In Chapter 6, where middle schooler Dabi gets arrested for alleged prostitution while he was trying to bait a guy to a secondary location to kill him. All Might is the one to find him at the station, but I had fun with a lil what if it was Endeavor:

Endeavor walks past. Doubles back. Stares from across the precinct.

"Touya? "

Several emotions flash across the kid's face in rapid succession: Panic, anger, resignation. Then he breaks into a shit-eating grin that Detective Cato will learn to dread in the next ten minutes.

"Hey there, daddy. Fancy seeing you here!" He pitches his voice to carry and if there were people who weren't already staring, they were now.

Endeavor is suddenly looming over Cato's desk, bewildered.

"Why are you here? What are you wearing?" His eyes trail down to the handcuffs. The fire flares around his face. "Have you been arrested?"

The kid - Touya - shoots a smirk at Cato. Oh God. Why is the number 2 on a first name basis with a preteen hooker.

"I'm sorry," And Cato really is, moreso for himself. Obaka is watching goggle-eyed from the desk over, surreptitiously filming Cato's pain, the fucker. "What's your relationship to this boy?"

The kid gets up, leaning into the man's side, unbothered by the flames. Grins at Cato's future therapy bills. "I'm his baby boy. Right, daddy?"

Endeavor. Doesn't refute it. He kind of glances down in confusion but doesn't push the kid away. His sidekicks, on the other hand, stare at his back with frozen expressions.

The hero breathes out a frustrated sigh. On fire. "What happened, exactly?" He addresses Cato, who blanks.

"Um," he says. The flames grow hotter. "Um, uh. Your relationship?"

Endeavor looks irritated. "He's telling the truth." Cato mentally writes out his resignation letter. "This is my son, Touya Todoroki." Which wasn't at all what the kid had said, no matter what Endeavor seemed to think.

The kid snorts and moves away, falling back into his chair.

"We, uh, we've arrested him for underage prostitution." Cato winces.

"What?!"

.

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This was fun, might add more later. Thanks Anon :)

[teejaystumbles]

I don't think I'll work any more on this so I thought I'd share

lyrcis choice is hard for this one - it was drawn for Subway to Sally:

Flackernd steigen Feuersäulen Blutig rot hinauf ins All Und wie Glas zerspringt der Himmel Sterne fallen überall

Der Mond ist rot vom Sternenblut Und auch in mir ist Fieberglut Es glüht das ganze Firmament Das kommt weil meine Seele brennt

but "Every night I burn, every night the dream's the same" also fits very well - The Cure's "Burn" is the other song I always have in my head when I look at it now

[best-ghoul]

Fun fact, I've started getting ID'd again since I started HRT.

[saudade-scribbles]

fun fact - a poetic short story

my phone pings with a text from you: "I LOVE THUNDERSTORMS!!!" it says.

i smile to myself as i type my response: "ME TOO!!! Is it thunderstorming over there?"

"Yesss!"

"Fun fact: I've never forgotten that about you"

"Aww, I love you too baby"

my heart tugs at me just a little - something about you knowing that was an i love you makes me feel good.

but i don't think you know just how much i've never forgotten about you.

fun fact: i've never forgotten that you're claustrophobic, and as such, can't deal with anyone touching the front of your neck.

fun fact: i've never forgotten that you get hypersensitive about people being behind you, so no hugs or kisses from behind without announcing yourself first

fun fact: i've never forgotten how much you enjoy anime, or elden ring, or star wars.

fun fact: i've never forgotten that you studied japanese

fun fact: i've never forgotten the time you accidentally said "with my fibre" instead of "with every fibre of my being" and your friends and i all cracked up.

fun fact: i've never forgotten that you have a brother you have a difficult relationship with.

fun fact: i had a panic attack once because the smell of my storage unit was too close to the inside of the car you used to drive.

fun fact: i used to tell myself it was irrational to fear you showing up at the school with the recruiters, until you did.

fun fact: i used to dream about seeing you again, just to see your reaction, and have a dramatic one of my own.

fun fact: no one's lips have ever felt like yours do on mine.

fun fact: no one's hand has ever fit the curve of my jaw like yours does.

fun fact: i subconsciously compared everyone i loved after you to you, and found them lacking.

fun fact: i still don't know what made me follow you after two years of no contact.

fun fact: maybe it was God.

fun fact: talking to you at first scared the shit out of me.

fun fact: i knew you were going to say i love you first.

fun fact: i started listening to "My Favorite Part" again long before you said it.

fun fact: part of me knew you were saying it to me in japanese first because you were scared.

fun fact: i love you more now than i ever did then.

fun facts i've since learned about you:

fun fact: you used to garden with your dad as a kid, and now it's a big part of who you are.

fun fact: you also can't have your hands tied up because of your claustrophobia

fun fact: i'll collect these pieces of you until i die.

[ryebunny]

Vent in tags because I have nobody to talk to but need to get some feelings out. Sorry. Just ignore please ♡

[whathappenedtodess]

anyway with noelle's section in chapter 2 being as big a deal as it was, i cannot wait to see the other classmates/major characters' arc in future chapters (catti, jockington, etc). if kris and noelle's divorced childhood best friends arc is that insane then i cannot wait to see what toby has in store for their other friends. even the teenagers aren't safe from the Hometown Divorce Web (TM)

[stucknthemiddleff]

Difficult 1.17

Ro James - A.D.I.D.A.S (All Day I)

Wild Thoughts - DJ Khalid Ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller

Stuck N The Middle

July•

Dana

The light wind coming from the shore felt so warm on my bare legs, it was truly relaxing. That and the fact that Calen and I had talked everything out my first day here and it was slowly coming to an end.

Felt really foolish at all the anxiety brewing inside upon arriving to the small island with its own mysterious calm. It honestly did feel like we were chopped off from the craziness in the world.

Now here I was sitting next to Calen on his home beach, and the sexual tension between us couldn't even be cut with the sharpest knife in the world.

Every so often though he tried to hide it, I could see the look in his eyes that he wanted to do or say something very un-friend like to me. Just waiting for the word, or no words at all.

The waves crashing on the shore was so calm and just added to the relaxing feeling and vibe that I could feel between us. How he was going to teach me how to swim without slipping himself inside me I didn't know.

But he looked like he was ready at any minute to try and do it. If he did, i honestly didn't think I would try to push him off. It had been three months since he last touched me and he was the only one I wanted to in that way.

Something inside me hoped that he wouldn't push it, even though he gave me his word. Yet something inside me hoped that he would.

Calen began to stand up out of the water not looking down at me he started to walk out further. He had me stretch a bit, just so I wouldn't get any cramps in my arms or legs.

"When you're ready, I'll be out there waiting Dana."

Giving me his soft, chiseled and wet tattooed back to analyze as he went further in the water, I couldn't think of a more perfect sight in front of me.

Taking a deep breath I looked back towards the huge estate to see if anyone was watching like an idiot. I'm sure his father knew just like everyone else did that I didn't know how to swim, he probably volunteered Calen to teach me.

Finally standing up out the warm water I wondered out of all people why Calen. The sand squished under my feet as I walked, it was getting harder and harder to keep my footing. Every time the wave pulled back towards the ocean the sand dissolved from my beneath my feet.

Made me feel kind of like an outsider, considering that I'm sure Cassie knew how to swim. I made it to Calen seeing his body just floating on top of the small waves passing us by without a care.

I would be lying if I said that I wasn't curious on whose he's been with while we were separated. Calen was attractive and I so badly wanted to ask him had he been with anyone.

Didn't I deserve to know?

I mean, he did have to break up with me and supposedly act like he moved on. On top of that, he was a full out player before meeting me.

Raising my hand I splashed him a little to get his attention since his eyes were closed, he peeked one brown eye open at me.

"You don't want to start a match with the splashing King." He warned, getting out of his floating state he stared me down with a challenging glare. The water barely covered the top of his chest piece of ink. He was truly beautiful in his own way.

"Sounds like you are already trying to start one." I replied standing almost on my tippy toes, letting me know I was on the deep end.

"You are innocent bait right now, don't test me." He grinned widely with a seductive stare in his brown eyes. If the lower part of my body wasn't already submerged in water...

"Whatever." I shook my head of his threats and my wild thoughts, looking out to the far distance of boats on the water, "So how come you're my teacher anyways?"

"Well since we've met, I showed you a lot of different things that your body can do..." He stated making my heart beat pick up, a small sinister smile in his stare.

"Calen..." I warned him looking down at the water in front of me. My face I could feel was getting hot, he knew just what to do without even touching me.

"I taught Cari and Cooper how to swim." He finally told me with no teasing in his voice, "My father showed me."

"Clay is really nice." I told him, he remained silent, "He just let you take the big brother lead."

"You ready to begin?" He asked playing with the saltwater in his hands pitch black, which was probably so clear in the day.

"Yeah, I guess. But I dunno, how you think you're going to teach me in such short time." I let him know, wondering what kind of powers he thought he had.

"You let me worry about that, all I need for you to do is let your feet of the last little footing you have right now go and come out to me." He commanded, and I was a little taken aback. Is he kidding?

"What?" I scoffed at him looking at the open water in front of me. Calen looked unmoved waiting for me, with a smug expression.

"Dana." He spoke softly, I stared in his brown eyes, the lights from the house dancing on his light toned skin.

"Huh?" I asked getting lost in his stare on me.

"Do you trust me?" He asked gently. He was using the power of attraction on me right now.

"Yeah." I breathed moving my arms back in forth in the water to keep my balance. Didn't mean I trusted the water.

"Then come to me, I won't let anything happen to you that you don't want." He told me in a sincere way with a nod. Calen could probably make jumping off a building sound like it was a good idea.

"Calen...I." Not being able to finish my sentence, my anxiety of drowning was starting to creep up on me.

"I won't let you go, but you have to come to me if you really want this." He spoke like we weren't talking about a swimming lesson anymore.

Want this? Had I known I would be coming all the way to Puerto Rico for a swimming lesson, I probably would have declined.

Biting my bottom lip, I fought after counting to ten I let my footing go not feeling a damn thing beneath my feet. My arms stretched out in the water towards Calen as I pushed off towards him.

"Cae!" I yelled as he grabbed my hand pulling me towards him. Holding me close he remained calm as I started hyperventilating a little moving my hands out of his to the tops of his shoulders.

"You're alright, I got you." He whispered softly in my face, immediately I started to calm my heart. My feet swayed in the water, If I wasn't having Calen hold me I would have a full on panic attack right now. Drown and die. Shit.

With him being taller he could reach the sand beneath him, it annoyed me that I couldn't and we weren't even that far out. Our foreheads connected a little as I closed my eyes trying to calm down.

"Did you have an incident with water before?" He asked cautiously bringing me back to the fact that I was so close to him, distraught from the water.

"Yes, I was eight. My father had took me and my cousin out to the lake during the summer. One of my cousins friends played a prank on me thinking I could swim and pushed me in the lake." I told him of the worst day of my childhood ever.

"That's fucked up." Calen commented as I started to finish up the nightmare.

"When my father pulled me out of the water, I knew then, that I would never be the same when it came to being in too deep. I couldn't stop crying for the rest of the day."

"Hmm." Calen muttered quietly.

"Yeah." I breathed placing my chin on the side of his neck, "Crazy thing is, is that I am a certified CPR certificate holder."

Calen laughed so loud at that, he made me laugh also. Our bodies rumbled against each other, it was contagious yet calming. My anxiety slowly drifted away the more I talked to him. He had a knack for calming me down.

"You can save someone but not yourself." He pointed out.

"Something like that." I sighed, feeling a little bit better with him being my teacher in this.

His muscles flexed and even with the saltwater surrounding us I could still smell his scent. He was so warm, warmer than the water it made me tingle a little. Playing it safe he kept his hands gently on my back.

"Well, it's time for you not to be scared anymore don't you think?" He asked in an encouraging tone, I did a nod.

He felt so good next to me, I never thought I would get to be in his arms again. Leaving just enough space between our bodies, he still felt so close. Nudging his lips on the side of my neck, he remained quiet probably waiting for me to tell him when I was ready. I'm sure he probably would wait forever with us being this close.

"Calen." I finally spoke after about two more minutes, "I'm ready to try this, no more being scared."

"Yes ma'am." He chuckled, I squeezed his shoulders a little, feeling his hands moved from my back slowly down to my waist. They felt so strong on me, butterflies rumbled inside me from him taking control.

Making eye contact again, he moved us a few inches away from each other. Calen looked so sensual staring in my eyes.

"Take my hands yeah?" He asked breaking our eye contact, I took a deep breath. Doing as I was told I held on to him.

"Okay, I want you to try and lay on your stomach. I'm going to guide you with my hand to keep you flat, alright?" He asked in explaining and I understood with a swift nod.

"Okay, on the count of three." He told me with a determined look.

"One, two, three..." His right hand made contact with my stomach as the other still held my hand. I did a small gasp, from the contact. His hand was so close yet so far away from my center, my heart beat quickened I hope Calen didn't notice.

"You okay?" He asked softly looking in my face, he was lower in the water, in to his neck, using the support of the sea floor for balance I suppose.

"Yeah." I told him, he nodded.

"Okay, I'm going to let your other hand go and hold you with both my hands. We're almost there." He assured me.

I let his hand go as it was painfully easy for us to adjust so now he held me with both hands flat, holding me halfway above the water. My backside felt a little cold and it was probably because my shirt had raised up a bit showing the bottom half of my bikini.

Calen kept his focus on my face though, with a smile that I was doing good so far. At least I thought I was.

"Alright time for the easy part, start moving your arms in a reaching pattern back and forth while kicking your legs." He commanded with assertion, so I did.

"Good, your moving Dana." He smiled as we begin to go back towards the shore. My arms were getting a little tired but not too much.

"Alright I'm going to let you go while we make it back, until you can feel the bottom again." He told me, I stopped breathing briefly.

"What?!" I screeched, "No don't let me go! You said you wouldn't." I yelled trying not to take in water as we still were moving. Then he was gone as I still continued swimming.

"Calen!" I yelled, and stopped swimming, my feet touched the bottom in realizing what he did. Slowly his head poked up from the water, droplets falling down his chiseled face and a goofy smile.

"You ass." I yelled laughing at him.

"I'm a swimming teacher ass king!" He yelled back laughing at me, "Swim to me beautiful."

"No." I stuck my tongue out at him and his slight head slant at me, he raised a pointer finger motioning for me to come to him.

Getting in the position he taught me I kicked my feet, and swam towards him effortlessly, until I felt his hands grab mine as I outreached during swimming again.

"Viola." He spoke with a small smile looking in my eyes triumphantly, "My dad taught me the same method, as did his father and so on."

"Thank you." I hugged him instantly, shocking him I guess, because it took a few seconds for him to wrap his arms around me.

"You're welcome lil princess." He breathed evenly, hugging me tightly. My heart clenched in not hearing him call me that in so long.

"You are truly amazing." I spoke, not realizing I was speaking my mind, my heart began to thump as he held me tighter.

"Thank you, so are you." He spoke gently, a little unsureness in his tone. Backing up some I looked into his low brown eyes, seeing nothing but love, sex and lust all mixed together in one.

"Um, what's next?" I asked, before something popped off between us. The sexual tension had built as tall as the the empire state building.

"Erm, well probably swimming underwater but it's really just the same concept just with your body fully submerged underwater." He told me, and I nodded.

"Guess we can save that for tomorrow right?" I asked and he did a head shake.

"Sure, if that's what you want." He told me, letting it hang in the air.

I want you.

That's what I wanted to say, so why couldn't I?

Maybe I was scared of getting hurt again.

Calen and I slowly made our way back to the shore, my hair was drenched. From my side view I watched that beautiful tattooed body show from under the water since he was a few steps ahead of me.

My t shirt clung to my body from being soaked, the wind picked up a bit making me shiver. I closed my arms around my torso.

I mentally kicked myself for not bringing a towel out here, could be that I was anxious to have a swimming lesson with Calen.

"The air conditioning is going to kill you with that soaked shirt on." Calen told me as we made it back to the steps to the patio of the back of the house.

Looking up at him, he analyzed me before picking up his shirt off the railing handing it over to me.

"Here." He spoke looking in my eyes.

"Thanks." I smiled gratefully taking it, gripping it between my knees, reaching for the hem of my black soaked shirt, I lifted it up over my head. The one of many bikinis that Cari had never used showed now in the open, being all black.

The soaked shirt, made a squish sound landing on the hardwood patio floor. Placing his spliff between his lips, Calen's eyes never left my body while he flicked a lighter, lit up, taking a deep inhale.

"What you staring at?" I challenged him, as I began to put his shirt on. It smelled just like him, I don't think I would take it off.

"I'm not staring." He mumbled, blowing smoke as his shirt covered my torso. A smile played on his lips while I picked up my shirt off the floor ringing it out. I kept it hanging on my arm so I could take my bathing suit off next.

"Sure you weren't." I smiled at him while he took another pull from his blunt with a smirk on his lips.

Unhooking the top of the bikini I slipped it from under his shirt, and slipped the bikini bottoms down my legs. They pooled by my feet, while I tried to keep the shirt straight.

"You're being a fuckin' tease right now." He growled staring me down with his bottom lip clenched between his teeth. I smiled at him batting my eyelashes at him slowly, putting on my best clueless face I had.

Calen walked closer to me, blowing smoke from his pink lips slowly. My heart beat quickened, not knowing what he was about to do.

"Gimmie that." He demanded taking the soaked shirt from me, walking away he rung all the water out the shirt on to the sand. With his back slightly to me, I watched his muscles of his back contract, making me hot.

Still in only his boxers, I could see his manhood and it didn't look erect but still.... I bit my lip, at how toned he was, wondering when he had time to workout.

"What you staring at Dana?" He asked surprising me, he never turned around.

"I'm not staring at you," I looked away, "You done with my shirt?"

"It will be fine out here drying." He assured me hanging it on the patio railing, turning back my way, "Along with your bathing suit."

He cleared his throat, noticing me scanning his body, I wondered what he was going to wear inside the house.

"What?" He smiled watching me watch him, he was enjoying this somewhat eye raping game as I was.

"It wasn't that bad right, not painful." I asked him and he just shrugged his shoulders picking up my bathing suit.

"I should be asking you that." He replied, "I see you're used to only wearing my shirts and nothing else now."

"Calen." I laughed, he winked at me hanging the bathing suit next to my shirt. I underestimated his self control, he was good at this.

"I wasn't talking about swimming, I was..." I trailed off while Calen looked at me with confusion. Just forget it, if he wasn't thinking about our attraction for each other, why was I?

"You're not coming inside?" I asked him beginning to walk to the sliding glass doors that led to the kitchen.

"I'll come inside you whenever you want me to." He spoke softly but I didn't think I heard him all the way.

"What?" I asked him, he scratched the back of his head taking a pull of his spliff.

"I sleep in the guest house a little further down on the estate." He told me.

"Oh, well goodnight." I smiled sliding the door open.

"Night lil princess." He departed, his vibe of electricity leaving with him.

Am I hearing things?

How were we going to do this friends thing?

Or I guess it was just me.

~

Constant nudges on my head woke me up out my slumber, it was Cari trying to wake me up. I tried grabbing an extra pillow to put over my head but she just took it from me.

I groaned opening my eyes slowly, "Five more minutes Car."

"No, not even five seconds. Everyone is getting ready for the trip and you're still in bed." She told me while I peeked my head around to look at her.

She was dressed like she was going to the beach in a black see-through cover up. Sunglasses laid on the front of her head.

"What time is it?" I asked her, slowly sitting up.

"Eleven-thirty, you missed breakfast so my mom just packed you some to take on the boat. You don't get seasick do you?" She asked, like I would even know.

"I don't know." I shrugged my shoulders, as she finally climbed off the bed.

"Guess we will find out. This is what you're wearing?" She asked me in a disbelieving tone. Her green eyes stared at the capris and white plain t shirt I had picked out before going to bed last night.

"Um, you said your mom, not Cassie." I tried changing the subject, definitely didn't need Cari knowing that I didn't want Calen to see me in bikini again.

"Yeah, we talked, "She nodded looking back over at me, "Why aren't you wearing the swim suit I loaned you?"

"Talked about what? And I'm not swimming." I told her while we had two conversations in one.

"That she just has been difficult and she promised to change a bit. Yes you are bitch, you're the reason we are even getting on the damn boat." She demanded at me with wide eyes.

"Cari." I huffed, hugging my legs.

"I'd love to go Clay, I've never been on a boat before." She mocked my words from last night.

Rolling my eyes I shook my head, "Look your dad looked really excited to do something fun with all of us."

"Right, so your ass is going to put on the swim suit I gave you and put on a cover up that I have." She told me, not asked.

"I'm just gonna wear my shirt with some shorts okay?" I tried persuading her, she shook her head.

"Whatever. Is this because of your swimming lesson last night with Calen?" She asked, and I automatically started blushing.

"No." I squeaked standing up out of bed.

"You know I'm like your best friend and know when your lying to me right?" Cari asked, as I tried to ignore her looking through my suitcase.

"Um, I'm not lying the lesson went fine. I learned how to swim end of story, bye bye." I laughed at her, looking over she held one eyebrow up at me.

"You're still into him aren't you?" She asked, and I gave up, shaking my head up and down.

"Then what's the problem? He's obviously still googly eyed over you." She muttered making my heart stop. Does that mean everyone in the family peeped also.

"I told him, that I just wanted to take things slow. So we're just friends right now." I told her, she smiled shaking her head gazing down at her manicured nails.

"What?" I asked and she looked back over at me.

"I suggest, "She spoke standing up off the bed going into a drawer, "That you take one of these."

Taking my hand to spread my palm, she placed a small little pill in it.

"Cari, is this birth control?" I asked her, she began to walk out the room ignoring my question.

"You'll thank me later, get ready please. If I come back and you're in bed I'm throwing cold water on you." She warned closing the bedroom door back.

What did she think Calen and I were going to do?

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The weather was so beautiful along with the crystal blue of the ocean surrounding us. It was worth waiting to see just how exotic and enticing the island was. I followed Cari out the house behind everyone else to look at the water on the boat or should I say yacht.

Once we everyone was on board, Clay let the anchor from around the dock unhinge. With the motor started we were on our way out into the ocean. A monitor made sure we made it out safely. Not even being hungry I smiled that I was on boat for the first time.

"Look at you." Cari smiled at me, probably because I looked like a little kid.

Cassie went down to the lower deck I guess with Cooper helping her settle everything inside.

I heard Clay talking to Calen up overhead, and wondered what I would see out at sea.

Music started to play from some speakers, and I saw Cooper come walking towards Cari and I with bottles of Coronas with lime in them.

He handed Cari and I ours before yelling out, "Calen!"

"Coming Coop!" He yelled back and came down to the middle deck, he was shirtless in some all black swimming shorts barefoot. Our eyes interlocked while he took his beer taking a swig.

"Ready to show off what you learned last night?" Cari asked me and I gave her a look while she took off her cover up.

"I'm ready to swim, lets go." Cooper said, he walked to the back of the boat, Cari following.

"You coming?" Calen asked me, I nodded taking a sip of my beer.

"Just gonna go change real quick." I told him, he nodded walking away to the back of the boat. I went down the stairs to change my clothes.

Cassie was in the mini kitchen coming as I was going and she smiled.

"Enjoying yourself sweetie?" She asked looking me up and down.

"Yes, thank you. I'm just going to change." I told her and she shook her head in understanding.

"There's rooms to the back, where you can change." She told me. Her eyes lingered on my neck a little making me uncomfortable.

"That's a pretty necklace." She commented, making me not realize it was viewable now that I had on only the cover up that cut low on my chest.

"Thank you it was a gift." I told her, she smiled at me.

"Whoever gave you that loves you very much." She plainly spoke of the chain. Calen's gift to me.

"Yeah." I swallowed, hoping she wouldn't ask who it was from, I was a bad liar. That and the fact I wasn't ready to tell her I was in love with her son without him being present.

"I'll go let you change." She nodded beginning to walk out the cabin, "See you outside."

Walking in the room, I took off the cover up doing a deep breath. Closing the door I sat on the little cot, knowing things were starting to look suspicious on my end. Maybe it was just all in my head. Cassie didn't miss anything, I knew that Calen and I needed to talk.

Standing back up I took another deep breath, hoping the sexual tension between Calen and I simmered down a bit with everyone present. Opening the door back there he was, standing just as innocent.

"Cari was wondering what was taking you so long." He told me.

"Cari, or you?" I asked looking up into his brown eyes.

Not saying a word, he used his pointer finger lightly pushing against the middle of my chest back into the room closing the door behind him. Those charming eyes scanned me from head to toe as he licked his bottom lip slowly.

"I can't do this anymore Dana. I want you too much." He told me in a begging tone, with so many emotions in his eyes. He broke before even seeing me good in my bikini again. It made my body turn so hot, from my bathing suit making him cave.

"Calen your family is right out there, they will wonder where we are." I breathed not shocked at all by his words. Reaching his hand out to me, he slid his hand gently across my right cheek.

"Later." He promised, with desire in his brown eyes.

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