All About Me Page 3

  ‘Don’t give Marco a hard time. And don’t fight with Nick, I mean it. Your mother will have a stroke and ruin both our trips.’ Mario said kissing her on the forehead, he had a feisty young woman on his hands here, he loved every inch of her.

  ‘Dad. It will be ok… I love you.’ Tessa whispered in her dad’s ear, she was a self-confessed daddy’s girl, and she didn’t care, her dad was her number one.

  ‘I love you too, be good.’ Mario gave her a pat on the back, he loved his daughter more than life itself. Tessa had been a delight her entire life, smart, sporty and beautiful like her mother.

  ‘Move it, the car is here.’ Marco was like a drill Sargent in Tessa’s direction as he bent down to hug his mum. He was tall, broad shouldered and athletic, and to Jackie he reminded her so much of his father when he was the same age. Jackie Marco’s got to person, his best friend in many ways, which he sometimes thought was a little odd. He found it easy to confide in his mother about life. Jackie had great ears and she always gave good advice as far as Marco was concerned, and where Jackie didn’t have the answers, Mario did. Each parent had specialties in life, business, personal and private, Marco felt very lucky he had such great parents. He felt like he was doing his parents a favor taking his brother and sister away with him, letting his mum and dad have a good time in Fiji. As for his siblings, he loved them all. Nick had been his shadow all his life before he moved to Melbourne. From a small kid, Nick had gone everywhere with Marco.

  ‘I need you to keep in touch, Coco.’ Coco was Jackie and Tessa pet name for Marco, Tessa couldn’t say Marco and shortened it to Coco when she was a toddler.

  ‘I will.’ He smiled and went straight to dad for a quick hug goodbye.

  Everyone except Marco slept the short plane trip to Cairns. He was the only one who had had a decent sleep last night. He was looking forward to his two friends Zack and Rory coming up to Palm Cove and showing them around. Zack was his house mate who played for a different team and Rory was a teammate. He hoped they didn’t mind his sister and brother now joining them, they seemed ok with it when he told them both on the phone, they were both happy to have been invited in the first place. They had heard about Marco’s family place in Palm Cove and it sounded perfect for a New Year’s getaway. The more the merrier…

  It was a fifteen-minute drive to Palm Cove before they arrived at the apartment, which was a penthouse. It had been prepared for their arrival. Six bedrooms, all with king beds and one with two doubles. Eve and Zoe were happy to share, Tessa and Marco took the master suites, the three guys took a king guest room each. All the bedrooms were upstairs, the two masters and the girl’s rooms looking out over the ocean with a huge balcony that went the entire length or the apartment. Each room with their own bathroom and walk in robe, everything was white and cream, it was relaxing at once. A truly fabulous penthouse, the girls couldn’t contain their excitement, they had all been here before, this was the first time that they had come here without Jackie and Mario… They were free, only Marco to keep them in line and tell them what to do, and Tessa had her Coco wrapped around her little finger anyway.

  Eve opened the sliding door that lead out onto the balcony. A daybed conveniently placed outside each room, with a central lounge for gatherings and a bar beside the hot tub. Eve could hardly contain her excitement, she was looking forward to seeing plenty of Marco in his shorts, shirtless with a bit of luck.

  The girls decide not to waste any time, they were free so why waste a precious second. The sheer white curtain flew up and out the door and into the soft sea breeze. The afternoon sun was inviting, and the air was warm. Eve had a great feeling about the next ten days ahead.

  Eve and Zoe had put their bikini’s on, and they went down to the living room, all skin and tiny bikini’s. Tessa was there with Marco, they had been having a little private brother sister chat about her wanting to move away to pursue a dance career, Marco was always so supportive of his little sister, he encouraged her and gave her confidence in only the way a big brother could. His friends would be arriving just in time to go to dinner, so they could all get to know one another over a meal, everyone was excited to meet each other and get into the holiday.

  ‘I’ve booked dinner just down the road for eight. I’m giving you heaps of notice, for your hair and makeup and stuff.’ He joked cheekily. It was at this moment that he noticed just how grown up his sister and her friends had become, young woman all standing there in their bikinis in front of him. It was fair to say he was almost shocked… Eve blew him away, she was shorter, and always had been, proportioned with great tits, her bikini left nothing to his imagination. Why had he never noticed this before? He had seen her a few times in the past few days at his parents’ house, was he blind? He thought as he now tried to not look. Eve’s hair was down hanging around her lower back, he could see her very feminine and curvy body, womanly… he pulled his eyes away from her again. She was his sisters’ friend, and he couldn’t help noticing she seemed to be all the sudden very sexy… And those tits. He usually liked taller girls; it made more sense him being so tall at six feet five inches. Wow, he thought, Zack and Rory would be on to her straight away, he knew she would make them think the kind of thoughts he was thinking. And what about Tessa and Zoe, he felt a rush of panic, the girls weren’t girls anymore...

  Marco made a conscious note to himself, the first thing he was going to do was remind the guys, these girls were only seventeen, four and five years younger than them, not of legal age, and one was his fucking sister. Now he had a problem, Zoe looked like she was twenty-two, when did this happen? Marco felt a tightening in his gut. And when did Eve grow those tits? Marco thought doing his best not to look at them being held by the tiny bikini she was wearing, it was hard not to look, he was definitely a tits guy and they were good tits.

  ‘You’re the best, Marco.’ Zoe said to him giving his arm a soft slap, he smiled to hide his shock, turned around and walk upstairs… Oh god, this was something he hadn’t expected, for sure the boys would be into the girls, and then he thought about Tessa... No, that was his sister, he didn’t want to entertain the thought of them thinking his sister was hot, they just wouldn’t do that. He hoped... As sportsman, it had been drilled into their heads about legal age, he was going to be spending the next few hours in an anxious state. Eve, why had he never noticed her? He had always thought she was quiet and cute, tiny and with that crazy hair, now she was a woman, a voluptuous, sexy one at that. Marco shook his head, trying to rid his mind of the thoughts.

  The water was just right, the girls sat in the shallow end of the large crystal-clear pool with a vodka cruiser in hand and a big smile on their faces.

  ‘Let’s do this every day, all day,’ Tessa said, dipping her head back into the cool water, she felt like she was in heaven. Not only was she in her favorite place, the girls were here with her too.

  ‘Yes, let’s do that,’ Eve dipped her head under the water, holding her cruiser above the water. She usually wouldn’t have put her mass of hair under the water, but her head was so hot, it felt absolutely amazing as the cool water covered her skull.

  ‘I have a confession!’ Tessa announced, a half serious face.

  ‘Does this have to do with a certain footballer who is about to arrive? Out with it.’ Zoe loved a confession, any gossip or secret scoop she was all ears.

  With a look of hesitation, Tessa confided in the girls about the crush on Zack, Marco’s housemate. Once she finished explaining her infatuation and her obscene sexual fascinations, she pulled a sad frown. How could she act on it, Marco would totally freak out at her, and they probably had some kind of guy code thing, that made sisters out of bounds, Tessa was deflated.

  ‘I realize he is like four years older and everything,’ Tessa was waiting for one of them to give her permission. If they did, she would feel happier. The legalities of the situation didn’t even pop into their little heads, not even Eve’s head, they were all for it.

  ‘It would be good for yo
u to sleep with someone other than Micah, get some experience,’ Zoe said matter of fact like she was a sexual therapist, it was music to Tessa’s ears.

  ‘Is he too old?’ Eve questioned sitting up out of the water.

  ‘No. Fuck it. Zoe is right, I need to fuck Zack.’ Tessa finished her drink in one gulp, like it was confirmed, she was going to give it her best effort.

  ‘You need to? Is that all you two have on your minds, sex?’ Eve joked with her two friends who looked at her with straight faces.

  ‘You need to pop it girl,’ Tessa splashed her.

  ‘No, I don’t. Although I did think about it with that guy Evan, from last night,’ she paused momentarily, ‘sex, that is’.

  ‘Yes, pop the cherry E, then you will know what we are talking about all time,’ Tessa’s mind went into overdrive. ‘It’s time you had sex, it’s time E…’ she burst out laughing at Eve’s horror.

  ‘Your eighteen-next month, and you will still be a virgin.’ Zoe tilted her head and raised one eyebrow. ‘Maybe this Evan could be the one, he is a little old though, or the other guy Marco has coming… Did you think of that?’

  ‘Not my guy.’ Said Tessa put it out there for all to take note.

  ‘You two are crazy.’ Eve laughed, her friends were practically arranging her losing her virginity, it was mildly weird, and somehow so funny.

  ‘Don’t act all virginal to us, E. Maybe I could ask Nick to do it,’ giggled Tessa, she had had two cocktails and was feeling silly.

  ‘Oh, my god. Tessa. If anyone is fucking Nick, it’s me,’ Zoe interjected, pretending to joke, but really meaning it.

  ‘Please, shut up. Your both creeping me out.’ Eve gasped. ‘I will not be fucking Nick or anyone else, I can assure you of that.’ Nick was not her brother of choice… Why couldn’t Tessa have said Marco, Eve fluttered inside at the thought. She didn’t really care to much about sex, she would do it when the right one came along, and not before. There did seem to be a little pressure at this age, she would wait, she had even thought she might wait until she got married.

  ‘You’ve done everything else; you may as well have sex. Rory could be a cherry popper,’ Tessa was laughing madly at her own jokes, teasing Eve. She had had two cruisers, a wine on the plane and a cocktail on arrival.

  ‘Shut up. I have never-.’ And just as Eve said this in her soft voice, Nick bombed into the pool. She was not having sex with Nick, ever.

  Since Zoe kissed Nick last year, she has been telling Eve in private how she has been waiting for Nick. So, no, it wouldn’t be Nick, and there was the fact that she didn’t find him attractive at all, she liked Marco.

  ‘How hot is it?’, Nick said flicking his hair water at the girls like the annoying child he was.

  ‘Not hot enough for you to flick us with your hair.’ Tessa splashed with her hand into his face as he came closer. Tessa and Nick looked similar, people always thought they could be twins, both had lighter hair than Marco and Thomas and they had similar features, more like their mother.

  ‘Do you think it will be ok if I invite a couple of people here for New Years?’ Nick asked as he did a small splash back to Tessa.

  ‘Who?’ Zoe said a little too quick.

  ‘Ask Marco. Who? and how many?’ Tessa said.

  ‘About six, there guys from Uni, they’re staying just down the end of the street. I’m going there after dinner and I thought I might ask them. I think there’s a couple of girls staying with them.’

  ‘Check them out tonight? don’t invite the girls if they’re hot’, Tessa began to laugh again. ‘We’re trying to get laid here you know.’

  All three of them just looked at Nick without saying a word, not one of them denied it or objected. Nick looked at them, he wasn’t sure if it was a case of too much information from his sister, he wasn’t sure if he should laugh or not.

  ‘Really?’, he checked if he had heard right,

  ‘Not me,’ Eve put her drink in the air like she was toasting the air.

  ‘Don’t act innocent E, you know you want it.’ splattered Tessa.

  ‘Your trouble,’ Nick told his sister. He had always thought Eve was a little hottie, he liked Zoe too.

  ‘I’m Ok,’ laughed Tessa, giving Eve a look for forgiveness. She didn’t mean to single out E. Tessa knew the last person she should be talking about Eve’s private business to was Nick, it wasn’t a secret that Eve didn’t think much of him, he was a little ‘in your face’ for Eve, and she didn’t like the way he was always at Tessa.

  ‘For the record, we are still looking to get laid.’ Zoe smiling, she too had Dutch courage at this point.

  ‘Is that a hint Zoe?’ Nick splashed her with a smile. He would remember that for later, Zoe had always been on his radar.

  ‘As if she would fuck you, loser.’ Tessa spat her disapproval at Nick. She did not like the idea of Zoe and Nick, no, not at all and she didn’t quite know why. Zoe wasn’t sure what to do, she wanted to say yes, yes, yes…

  ‘Right then,’ Eve felt the sudden change in the air, and before Zoe said anything to add fuel to the fire by saying, yes, she would love to have sex with Nick, Eve thought it would be best to change the subject. ‘I think that having some extra people around on New Year’s might be nice.’

  ‘So, do I,’ Nick agreed, it was unusual for him to agree with Eve, she barely ever spoke to him.

  ‘Just no hot chicks, because I’m trying to get laid.’ Tessa laughed to herself.

  ‘We know,’ both Eve and Nick said simultaneously laughing at Tessa.

  ‘I’m your brother. I don’t think you would talk like this in front of Marco or Tom, would you?

  ‘OH. Nick, please. I talk to Coco about sex stuff all the time,’ she tilted her head, ‘Don’t flatter yourself.’ And she took off after him through the pool like they were ten years old. The truth was they had only had two years between them, and they actually were close in an odd way.

  Zoe being Zoe, made everyone get out of the pool and head upstairs to get ready for dinner, she did everything on time and to schedule, she didn’t like to go off schedule, it upset her balance she claimed.

  ‘I can’t believe Tessa, put me out there like that, to Nick at the pool,’ Eve said as she and Zoe both got ready for dinner in front of the huge mirror in the bathroom.

  ‘I can’t believe, you are going to wear that top.’ Zoe stopped doing her mascara and looked Eve up and down. ‘That makes your tits look bad, like balloons.’

  ‘Everything makes them look bad. Thank you for pointing that out, I feel so much better.’ Eve said sarcastically, immediately taking the top off and heading out to her case for another option, giving Zoe and eye full. Eve knew if Zoe said it looked crap, it was crap, she had a fantastic eye for this.

  ‘I would kill for your tits, you know that.’ Zoe said. She was in awe of those babies; she craved the day she had something bigger than her A cup. It bothered Eve sometimes, especially when one of the girls made reference to her being the shortest, and having the curves and the boobs, she was yet to realize her own beauty.

  Tessa loved to talk about forbidden subjects and controversial things, she would have loved to have told Nick, that Eve was a virgin.

  ‘Nick didn’t think anything of it. Don’t worry about it,’ Zoe continued to perfect her make up. Eve came back in wearing a black tight singlet dress, surely, she couldn’t go wrong here. She had taken her hair out of its towel and it was curlier than ever, there was no point blow-drying it here, it would spring up again in this humidity. Eve continued to finish her basic make up, it was way too hot for makeup. Zoe on the other hand, she did her make up like she was going to a photo shoot, rain, hail or shine.

  As the girls came down the stairs to the lounge, Marco took a deep breath. The tight dress hugged Eve’s body like a glove, a glove he wanted to peel off her. Those tits with a small waist, that juicy little ass he wanted to slap. Fuck... He would have to stop this, it was his sisters’ friend, and she was seventeen, he was twenty-
two. You are supposed to be looking out for her, not thinking of fucking her, Marco thought blinking his eyes hard as if to erase the vision.

  Tessa was already down there with her brothers and the two friends from Melbourne. Zoe knew immediately which one Tessa was keen for, as Tessa had described him to a tee, for about an hour today in the pool.

  ‘E and Zoe, this is Zack and Rory,’ Tessa pointed to each of them as she said their name. ‘E, is for Eve.’ Tessa added before someone asked what E was short for.

  This was a pleasant surprise, Zoe thought, then she gave each of them a kiss and hug hello, Eve just said ‘Hi, unaware of Marco observing the situation closely, would either of his mates try and move in on one of the girls. He hadn’t mentioned the age thing yet.

  The restaurant was a five-minute walk down the road along the beach front, they all chatted amongst themselves. Tessa and Marco walked arm in arm, Tessa often did that with all her brothers. Marco was her favorite brother, they just seemed to be able to talk about everything, and Marco never judged her or belittled her.

  It was a mild night and the twinkling lights shone in the trees out the front of the restaurant, their table was on a deck that was surrounded with palms and ferns, it was a great atmosphere with the sound of the beach and the mild weather.

  The seating just happened, unintentionally on some people’s behalf, not others… Zoe sat next to Nick, Tessa sat opposite Zack, it had been her intention to be close to him. And next to Tessa sat Eve, which then put Marco and Eve next to each other. Everyone chatted and took in the great vibe of the restaurant; the menu was exciting, and Nick mentioned the seafood was really good.

  ‘Are you having a cocktail?’ Eve asked Tessa who looked extra super modelish tonight.

  ‘I think I should pace myself E. Sorry about the pool”, Tessa blinked nervously at Eve, she owed her that one.