When Sky and Kole made their way downstairs at just before one am on that still warm first night of October; they found that the girls had now absconded to the dimly lit pool patio with the leftover Chinese from the dinner hardly anyone had touched that night, considering. The two young men who were now both simply dressed in a snug pair of black trousers, glanced out at the patio and then shook their heads at each other before going to join the girls.

As there were only two chairs at the patio table, and they had each been claimed by the two young ladies who were now smiling back toward their lovers, the boys took seats on the patio itself, near the table.

“And I thought you two were all about sharing” Sky smirked at them as he nodded to the food.

“Oh we are” Star smirked back as she offered he and Kole each a still half full container. Of course, as she did, she had to turn in her chair, making it more than obvious that she was still completely naked under that t-shirt. Both boys’ eyes couldn’t help moving downwards to take in that fact, more than glad of the high fence that surrounded the back yard and pool right then.

Noting the boys’ gaze, Crista smirked and turned in her own seat to allow them an eyeful of her exposed skin underneath her shirt as well. Kole then let out a ragged breath as he and Sky distractedly took the containers from Star, “it’s so fucking hard to concentrate on food right now, no matter how much of an appetite I worked up earlier tonight.”

Sky smirked as his eyes couldn’t help moving between the girls’ now exposed bits, “you’re having a hard time concentrating?” he asked Kole with a bit of playful sarcasm, “unlike me, you did actually get laid tonight... twice” he had to put in.

Then Kole pulled his eyes away from the girls’ bodies to smirk at Sky, “counting what you were doing to me during that second time, I’d say I got laid two-and-a-half times.”

Sky shook his head, “my point exactly.”

Star then giggled at the young men, “ah, is poor little Sky feeling neglected?”

“More like frustrated” he teased.

“Well, we can’t have that” Star giggled again as she moved from the patio chair, took his food and set it aside, then took a seat astride his hips, regardless of her lack of anything beneath that shirt.

She then moved to give him a more than passionate kiss as Kole and Crista looked between each other with disbelieving smiles. Kole then had to speak again, “I’m already amazed their parents didn’t come upstairs earlier, but if these two actually do it right here on the patio and their parents still leave us be? Then I’m so moving in.”

“Me too” Crista let out her own ragged breath as she watched the kiss between Star and Sky continue.

However, as that passionate lip-lock continued, right before the eyes of their flamboyantly maned friends, Sky and Star simply blinked out of existence. “What the...what?” Kole asked with more than a bit of shock on both he and Crista’s faces as they looked around in the dim lantern light of the back yard.

But before either could say another word, Sky and Star were suddenly back before their eyes again, still seated in that same position on the patio floor. Though, now their hair was even more disheveled and damp with sweat, as was their now flushed skin, their breathing ragged, as both were trying to recover from much more intense pleasure than would have been caused by only a kiss.

“What the fuck?” was all Kole could say.

“Did you miss us?” Sky replied, obviously much more content than he had been previous to their disappearing act.

“What... just … what?” Crista repeated Kole’s own shock.

“Guess that still works” Star smirked as she gave him another brief kiss, forcing herself off of his lap and back to her feet shakily, despite her still somewhat trembling body.

Star then reclaimed her earlier seat as she made another attempt at catching her breath as well as taking a large sip of her soda. Sky then tried to force his attention back to his food, while he was still having a few issues recovering his normal heartbeat and breath as well.

“Explain please?” Kole asked, his own food still nearly forgotten as he looked between the two of them.

“Yeah, you two nearly gave me a heart attack; and not the good orgasm inspired kind like before” Crista scolded them worriedly.

Star and Sky couldn’t help chuckling as Star offered Sky a drink as well, figuring he may also need it. Star then took a breath, “that? We just stopped time, went to our home-world, had really amazing sex for a couple hours, then came back to finish dinner here one second after we actually left. What’s so confusing?” she answered them with a playful sarcasm as Sky couldn’t help another little laugh of his own.

“So that’s how you guys have been able to have sex for three years without ever getting caught?” Crista had to ask.

“That’s how” Star confirmed with another smile.

Kole just shook his head, he and Crista both continuing to wear their shocked looks of disbelief. “Fuck witchcraft. This alien shit is much better.” Of course that statement did cause all of them to laugh then as they finally managed to continue their meal, all wearing smiles for once.

Though no one in the house got much sleep that night, Brie still insisted on calling up to the teens from downstairs at around noon. For some reason, she really didn’t wanna have to see what the sleeping arrangements really were. At least then she could still pretend that the boys stayed in Sky’s room and the girls in Star’s; after all, they still hadn’t broached the subject of their bisexuality with their parents yet in this life. Although, after the earlier part of the evening, she somehow doubted that all remained PG-rated throughout the rest of the night; though pretending was nice.

“Kids? Who’s awake up there?” Brie called to them from the bottom step.

“What?” Star asked a moment later when she appeared at the banister, wiping sleep from her eyes.

“Is Crista awake?” was Brie’s only response.

“Probably now. Why?” Star called back down to her.

“Because, if her parents won’t take care of it; I’ll be taking her to get those pills today. Mr. and Mrs. Sampson will probably be pissed, but if she’s sleeping with my son, I’d say it’s also my concern. Go get her” she instructed Star as she moved away from the stairs to get her purse and keys.

“We’re going now?” Crista asked with a bit of nervousness as she had since exited Star’s room at the sound of the conversation.

“Pills?” Sky asked as he and Kole exited his room after the conversation had woken them as well.

Star let out a breath, “mom wants Crista to start taking the pill” was Star’s brief explanation.

“Nice” Kole smiled as he gave Crista a head to toe glance.

“You really don’t like condoms, do you?” Sky smirked back at Kole.

“No, I really don’t” Kole admitted plainly as they all just smirked then.

“You better go with her, Star” Sky stated after Crista went back into Star’s room to dress, though now wearing a grin inspired by Kole’s reaction.

“I’m already on the pill” Star retorted with a furrowed brow.

“But do you really want mom and Crista to have to make conversation with each other all afternoon, really?” Sky pointed out.

“Think I’ll go get dressed too” Star replied, easily convinced of how bad an idea that was.

Once the girls disappeared to Star’s room to get ready for the afternoon excursion, Kole pulled Sky back through the doorway of his own room and gave him a playful kiss, “what shall we do while the girls are busy?” he smirked as he ended the kiss.

“I didn’t hear them say dad was going along. Chances are he’ll still be here all day” Sky stated, though couldn’t help his eyes moving over where Kole was still only wearing a tight pair of trousers.

“You sure? I figured your dad would be at his new place; somewhere called denial?” Kole smirked again.

“You hope, anyway” Sky smirked.

“Hey, they left us alone last night” Kole reminded as he traced a finger over Sky’s nipple, as he too was only dressed in his own snug pants.

“I think they were in a bit of shock last night. It may have worn off by now” Sky warned, though still wore the smile, his nipple hardening at the touch.

“But if we’re soul-mates now?” Kole teased as he moved to place a kiss over Sky’s nipple then instead.

“We tried telling our parents about the whole equal opportunity friendships in our other lives, and they got a little hung up on the ‘you’re only seventeen how can you know that already’ part” Sky informed, “so we kind of haven’t mentioned it yet in this life. So if dad were to hear anything going on up here after the girls leave? It may just knock him right off that denial train, with a thud.”

Kole smirked again, “only seventeen? Didn’t you tell me you were letting other pretty boys have their way with you when you were only fourteen?”

“But not in this life, virgin slayer” Sky smirked at Kole again.

Kole just returned the playful grin as he finally stepped back and shook his head, “so you honestly think your dad would be shocked if he found out you like boys too?”

Sky couldn’t help a laugh, “actually he was more shocked when I told him I liked girls” Sky admitted.

Kole laughed then too, “good enough for me” he teased as he tossed Sky’s door shut behind them and led him back to the bed with him, his mind obviously made up.

After a rather silent car ride, Brie driving, Star in the passenger seat, and Crista in the back seat; the three of them finally turned onto the street where the free clinic was. Star sighed softly, never imagining that she would be here with her mother at all, let alone her mother and Crista.

But all their levels of discomfort increased tenfold when they pulled up in front of the clinic to find a large group of protesters there, taking advantage of the still warm Sunday afternoon to make their opinions blatantly known.

All three of the women in the car swallowed nervously as they pulled in not far from the shouting crowd with picket signs. The three of them grew even more wary of the crowd when they saw what happened when a few other young women tried to enter the building. The girls were greeted with shouts of ‘slut,’ ‘whore,’ ‘baby killer,’ and other colorful terms. A few of the protesters even dared to spit at the girls or throw something that at least looked like blood at them.

“Seriously?” Star looked back at Brie with a silent plea, thankful that she and Sky had managed to avoid this group the two times they had been here in this life as well as the previous one.

Crista just shook her head fearfully as she watched and listened to the crowd, “I just had sex for the first time less than a week ago, and now I’m a slut and a baby killer if I want to keep from getting pregnant?” she asked the two in the front seat with obvious upset.

“They’re on the sidewalk. They’re technically allowed to protest” Brie stated, though she was obviously not happy with having to walk Crista through that crowd either. After all, she’d heard the stories of protesters going so far as to bomb clinics such as this, and seeing a large angry group of them there just a few feet from the car, between them and the door; it was hardly comforting.

Then when a few of the protesters noted the women in the car, looking toward the building, they spat at the car window with another shout of ‘whore’ and ‘baby killer.’ Star just glared through the window, more than infuriated that she and Crista and other girls like them would be subjected to that just for trying to be safe and responsible. After all, the reason they were trying to take the pill at all was to avoid having to use any other services the clinic might offer; such as those now being protested so vehemently.

Brie then sighed with further discontent as she turned back to Crista, “I suppose we can just try and take you to your regular doctor to get you these pills. But of course, that would involve your making an appointment and of course, then your parents would know about it as well..”

“What? They’ll probably be more likely to kill me than these assholes!” Crista argued with panic.

“Well, do you really wanna walk through that?” Brie asked with a sad sigh and a cool look back at the crowd.

But before the discussion could continue, Star’s glare at the crowd intensified with her anger. Then the sky above grew almost pitch black as heavy rain and hail and nearly fifty mile an hour winds suddenly picked up all around the crowd who quickly headed for shelter to avoid the now painful hail cascading down on them from above.

Once every last protester had scurried away, Star let out a shaky breath and the wind, rain, and hail stopped, and the sky once again became bright and sunny above them as she took a few more short breaths.

“Did...you just do that?” Brie asked, her own breath shaky then.

“But Sky’s not here” Star stated with a bit of her own shock as she looked back at Brie.

“But I am” Crista smiled up at Star, who then let out her own wide grin in return.