Written by: TVM (mrtvm@mrtvm.com)

Archive: www.asstr.org/~TheVertManArchive/Stories/Scent/Index.html

Summary: In the ALL NEW 84th episode of 'Scent of a Girl: Sophomore Year', Chloe's panic over what she percieves as mistakes in her and Molly's relationship leads her to a meeting with her best friend. A meeting that results in more than just a comforting few words as one realizes a long buried emotion has finally been awakened. Later, Cally and Paige go to dinner with Mr. Woods where Cally gets some unexpected news. Finally, a shocking twist to the Chloe/Molly/Mindy saga.

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"Thank god their door is shut cause that's the last people I wanna talk to," I said as I passed by my old room (Mintz Suite) on my way to Dakota's door a few feet down the hall. It was closed and I honestly hesitated for a long moment before I finally got up the courage to knock. Hoping that Dakota would answer the door but no such luck as Randi's head popped out. "Is Dakota here?"

"Oh yeah come on in," Randi said as she opened the door. "She's in our room I just got out of the shower so don't mind me."

"I won't," I said as I watched her walk off in matching thong and bra. Muttering to myself as she disappeared into the bathroom. "Gorgeous tan girl."

"Chloe?" Dakota asked as she looked up when I arrived at her bedroom door to find the room filled with people playing Monopoly on the floor.

"Can we talk?" I asked Dakota.

"Bout what?" Laney asked as everyone else laughed.

"Yeah about what?" Chi chimed in.

"She wasn't talking to you two nuts," Dakota said as she pointed to her friends and they giggled.

"I got the sodas...oh hey Chloe," Anisha said as she came through the door with an arm full of sodas. "Wanna play some monopoly?"

"No thanks," I said as Dakota came over to join me and I took her hand and practically dragged her out of the room and down the hall to the secluded little spot at the end by the large bay window.

"Chloe stop, stop, what is it?" Dakota asked as we finally reached the end of the hall when my resolve broke and I started to cry into my hands. "What the...Chloe what is wrong?"

"I think it's over with Molly," I sobbed. Thinking I'd hear Dakota's words of sympathy but all I heard was her sigh. "Didn't you hear me?"

"Why do you think it's over? Did she turn you down for sex finally?" Dakota asked in a mocking voice.

"No," I snapped. "I seriously fucked everything up."

"What did you do?" she asked as the mocking smile left her face. Then came a ramble of epic proportions.

"You remember at the fireworks show when you figured out Molly and I wanted Mindy? Well we did that and it was unbelievably good. So good that we couldn't keep our hands off each other for the last few weeks," I said in one long breath. "But here's where it went wrong. I let Molly do it with Mindy while I watched and it was the most intense love making I've ever seen. And now I think she's in love with Mindy. OHMIGOD I screwed my whole life up."

"WOW!" Dakota said with her hands going through her hair in shock at what I had just admitted. "What did do after you watched them make love?"

"Then I did with Mindy," I admitted as Dakota started laughing. "I was horny as hell after watching that."

"Your problem is you want Mindy for yourself," Dakota said as I glared at her.

"No I don't," I said firmly. "I wish I'd never done this."

"I don't see the reason for concern here," Dakota said. "You're just panicing because you and the girlfriend are horny for the neighbor."

"Stop making fun of me, Kota," I begged her as my tears came streaming down my face again. "Molly said if she ever did that with Mindy she'd fall in love with her and now I think she is."

"Chill, Chloe, it's not that serious..."

"YES IT IS!" I screamed as the panic really started to over take me. "I'm losing the girl I love most in this world."

"No you're not..." Dakota tried to say.

"YES I AM," I screamed back as I pushed her away.

"What the fuck is all the screaming for?" Melanie (Stockton) asked as she came down the hall. "I heard it when I got off the elevator."

"It's nothing..." Dakota started to say.

"It's nothing?" I asked Dakota. "My relationship being over means nothing?"

"Will you just calm down a little?" Dakota asked and then saying something that I believe was designed to throw me off for a bit. "Besides even if Molly does dump you can always hook up with me."

"Me and you?" I asked as she shrugged. Not that I'd never considered it, I had, but never seriously since we'd both always had other girlfriends.

"I can see that," Melanie remarked. "She loves you more than anyone else I know."

"Why don't you shut up?" Dakota asked as Melanie giggled and walked off back down the hall.

"You love me?" I asked as Dakota took a deep breath and tried to come up with the words to say.

"You're my best friend," Dakota said. "We've always been there for each other. So in a weird way I guess I always...yeah."

"But I'm with Molly and you dated Mindy for years..."

"Chloe I'm not saying I'm in love with you now I'm saying I'd be open to it if things were different," Dakota said. "All I wanted to do was to get you to stop crying. I did."

"Yeah you did," I said with a smile now on my face. Dakota wiping away my tears with the sleeve of her shirt as I giggled. "I love you Kota. Thank you."

"I love you too," Dakota said as we shared a hug. I felt the calmest, most peaceful feeling come over me as she held me in her arms. All the panic fading away in a few moments of bliss as I looked finally to see Dakota smiling at me. My best friend in the world, the girl who had been there for me through everything was now saving me from going crazy. "It's OK. Everything will be OK."

"You really think so?" I asked as she simply nodded and attempted to kiss my cheek but instead caught part lip. "UMMMMMM..."

I'm not sure why that partial kiss had the effect on me that it did but it did and...I kissed her back. A soft momentary kiss on the lips. It only lasted a split second before our eyes met again and she smiled at me. She gently touched my cheeks, seeing if I was real I thought, and then hesitantly kissed me again. This time their was no mistake as my lips fell into a rhythm with hers that was unmistakable chemistry. My knees went a bit weak the kiss was so amazing and soft and sensual and just soooo perfect.

"WOW!" Dakota said a moment later as we finally got the courage to look at each other. "WOW!"

"You're a great kisser, Kota," I said as she blushed but smiled. So freakin cute.

"I'm sorry..." she started to say when I stopped her by gently covering her lips and then kissing them again. The glazed over, dreamy look in her eyes fading in the following moments as reality set in. "So what does this..."

"I don't know," I said as I reluctantly slipped from her arms. "I have to go and figure this thing out with Molly."

"I know," she said simply as she watched me walk away and never once attempted to stop me. What the fuck did I just do?

"UMMMMM I have an annoucement to make," I said as I came to the door of my bedroom where everyone was involved in a game of monopoly. A goofy/dazed smile still plastered across my face.

"You're gonna buy me a new MacBook since Randi destroyed mine by dropping it in the toilet?" Laney asked as the laughter started.

"I did not drop yours in the toilet," Randi said as she pushed Laney's head as she lay behind her on the bed. Laney giggling as she jumped up and tackled Randi to the bed as the pair started squealing as the wrestling match ensued.

"I'M GONNA GET MY ASS KICKED IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES!"

"Huh?" came the collective response from everyone in the room.

"Molly, Chloe's girlfriend, is probably be over here to kick my ass," I said. "I just kissed Chloe."

"You kissed Chloe?" Randi asked from the bed.

"I sure did," I said with that same smile. "I wasn't intending to but I did. And she kissed me back. So if Molly comes by tell her where I'm at."

"Molly is not gonna kick your ass," Chi said as she passed go and collected 200 dollars from Anisha.

"Hey I deserve it I kissed her girlfriend," I said as I laid down on my bed. "And I'm totally not sorry about it."

"You like Chloe now?" Anisha asked in confusion.

"Yeah" I said. "It's just something that's been building the last few weeks. I can't help it...I'm in love with her!"

"Ha ha ha I was right," Melanie said as I groaned. "I told you so."

"No one cares," I said as I fired a pillow at Melanie's head as she ducked and everyone else laughed.

"I hate my hair," I said as I looked at in the mirror by the door. "It frizzes up like this all the time and makes me look like I stuck my finger in a light socket or something."

"It looks fine," Paige said from the chair across the room me where she sat reading a book in my favorite chair. Naked.

"No it doesn't," I said as I played with it. "Looks horrible. Maybe I should shave it off and start over."

"That would be one way to get rid of me," Paige giggled as I looked back at her.

"Will you get dressed already?" I asked.

"When your Dad calls and says he's on his way I will," she said. "I hate getting dressed and having to wait forever."

"So this is the way you run around when you're in your own room?" I asked.

"Yep," she said. "Nudist!"

"You're a nudist?" I asked.

"That's what this tan should tell you," Paige said as I smiled.

"I just realized that I don't really know a lot about you," I said. "We've never really talked a lot."

"I'm from Orlando, Florida, note the great tan," Paige said with a smile. "Born and raised, off and on, in a nudist community. My parents, my grandparents and practically everyone in my immediate family are nudists."

"I might like that lifestyle," I said.

"Means you'd probably get to see your old man nakey," Paige quiped.

"Oh god," I said as I covered my eyes and she cracked up. "I changed my mind."

Paige got a good laugh out of that one before my Dad (David Thornton Oliver) called and she was finally forced to get dressed. Dad arrived about fifteen minutes later and the three of us headed off campus to Eddie's. Though as we pulled up in front we saw someone else who had stopped for lunch on an invite from my father, Mr. Woods.

"What's he doing here?" Paige whispered in my ear as we crossed the road trailing my Dad. He shook hands with Mr. Woods as we joined then.

"Afternoon ladies," Mr. Woods said. "Paige I guess I'm surprised to see you but I'm glad to have this chance to talk to you and apologize in person."

"You don't have to," Paige said. "Cally explained what happened."

"I am still sorry for the misunderstanding," Mr. Woods continued. "I hope you'll except my offer to return to work in the office. We could really use your organizing skills."

"Sure why not," Paige as Mr. Woods extended his hand and Paige shook it.

"Now that we have concluded our business shall we sit down for a bite to eat?" Dad asked.

"We'll be on in Dad," I said as he nodded and walked off with Mr. Woods inside. "Feel better?"

"No I still hate him," Paige announced as I gave her a look of disbelieve. Thinking for a long moment that Chi was gonna end up being right. "Remember I'm a hate filled racist? According to your loud mouth friend, Chi."

"She does have a big mouth," I agreed. "But in her defense that text message that started all of this did seem to come in at a very odd time."

"It wasn't me," Paige said as she pushed me away and looked like she wanted to cry. "How many times do I have to say that?"

"OK, I believe you," I said as she covered her face with her hands and dropped a bombshell.

"I know who did do it," she said. "It was another girl on the squad."

"What? Why didn't you say anything?" I asked as she looked at me again.

"Because everyone would wanna know who it was," Paige said. "And the girl is stupid not racist. She just has a twisted sense of humor."

"Stuff like that is not even funny," I said.

"I agree but once Chi spread it all over campus that I was a racist I decided I'd rather rot in hell before I do anything to help her," Paige said.

"Great now I'm stuck between two friends who hate each other."

"Aren't you glad you met me?" she asked as I laughed at her innocent expression.

"If you weren't good in bed I'd say no," I said as she giggled and Megan came out of Eddie's to take a break.

"Who's good in bed?" Megan asked as she saw me and grinned.

"You are probably," I said as we exchanged horny smiles. "You still make my tongue hard."

"Even with this thing?" Megan asked as she pointed to her expanded belly.

"You're pregnant not mutant," Paige inserted as Megan looked at her.

"Paige Nash, Megan Lansbury," I introduced them. "Megan is Molly's ex-girlfriend and she works here at Eddie's."

"So you're avoiding the question?" Megan asked as she pointed to the stomach.

"No that would not stop me," I said.

"Me either," Paige said. "You know if you invited me."

"So what? Threesome? I still make your tongue hard, right?" Megan asked as I blushed and Paige laughed.

"I already said you did!" I countered. "And I am single now."

"My place is right there," Megan said as she pointed to the door beside the 'Redbox' rental kiosk. "Sarah's working and I'm off for the day."

"My dad and Mr. Woods are inside waiting on us," I said.

"Convienient," Megan said with a nod of the head. "You should be ashamed of yourself the way you're treating me."

"Why? What did I do?" I asked.

"Oh yeah like you don't know," Megan said with hands on hips as I looked to a confused Paige, she simply shrugged in confusion, before I looked back to Megan.

"I don't."

"You know as well as I do that this..." Megan said as she again pointed to her expanded belly, "...is yours."

"Go Cally!" Paige laughed as I gave Megan a dirty look as she started to laugh as well. Such a funny moment.

"MOLLY OPEN UP, MOLLY! MOLLY!" Mindy screamed in what sounded like a panic from the other side of my door. I was lounging on my bed reading and waiting for Chloe to get back. I jumped up and opened the door and saw Mindy standing there breathless with excitement. "I got a movie in a part!"

"You got what?" I asked in confusion. Mindy giggled when she realized how that came out.

"I got a part in a movie," Mindy squealed as she hugged me impulsively.

"Yeah right and I'm a Grammy winning musician originally from Russia," I said as Mindy laughed. "Be serious."

"I got a part in a movie shooting right here in Thief River Falls, I swear Molly," Mindy said as my face showed my shock. "Some guy met me at Mr. Woods office and said he needed someone to play a small part in a movie and I looked perfect. So he gave me a script and let me read for him right there in the office and I GOT THE PART!"

"How?" I asked in shock.

"I was in Mr. Woods office and met this guy named Patrick Thomason and he's the casting director for a movie," she explained as we sat down on the bed after closing the door back. "He said I looked like someone he wanted to cast and couldn't or something. I was so excited I bout peed my thong."

"What where you at doing at the office?" I asked.

"Visiting Hana," Mindy said. "And this guy comes in to see Mr. Woods."

"Don't you need your parents permission to do that?" I asked.

"Of course," Mindy said. "I called them and they said they'd call me back after they looked at the contract. Kimmy says Hi."

"I'll call her later," I said as Mindy nodded her agreement. "How much are you gonna be making?"

"500 bucks for one scene," Mindy said as I smiled. "I've only got like 3 lines but Patrick says it's a pivotal role in the film."

"What part is it?" I asked.

"I play the ex-girlfriend of the main character that appears in a flash back showing how I convinced her to break up with her old girlfriend."

"You play a lesbian?" I giggled.

"It's not really defined if I'm gay or not but she is dating the lead in the film, well she did at one point," Mindy explained.

"So what's the main plot?"

"This girl is on trial for the murder of her supposedly ex-boyfriend and her defense attorneys try and paint her as gay by bringing up all of her ex-lovers, one of them is me, but the prosecutor points out she dumped all these girls and it gets confusing from there," Mindy rambled. "I'm sure it's a great movie though."

"Of course it is," I said as she smiled so brightly and touched her forehead to mine.

"Will you go with me when I tape my scene? Please?" she asked softly. "I really need you there."

"Of course I will," I said.

"I knew you would," she said as she leaned in and kissed me. "Oh boy, what was that?"

"A kiss," I said as I scooted back and she jumped to her feet. "That's probably not a good idea."

"Not unless Chloe's here," she said nervously. "Then I guess it's OK."

"It has been the last few weeks," I said as Mindy nodded. "But when she's not here I think we need to cool it."

"Well Maggie said she saw her leaving earlier," Mindy said. "Maybe she's on her way back by now and we could get started and let her catch us?"

"I don't think she would like that," I said.

"Yeah you're right she might not like seeing you moan for me about that cumming sensation I give you," Mindy giggled and jumped back when I stood. "Didn't you say I was the only one who's ever give it to you?"

"Knock it off Scooby," I warned. "Chloe hears that and she's gonna think I want you more. Or something. Just cool it."

"No," Mindy giggled as she pushed my shoulder.

"Your gonna force me to whip your little tanned ass," I warned her as she grinned knowingly and pushed me again.

"That's not the only thing you like, I mean loooove, doing to my little tanned ass," she said as she tried pushing me again but this time I grabbed her and made her squeal when I pulled her to me. "Oh boy you gonna do it now?"

"No I am not," I said as I attacked her tickle spots as she squirmed and squealed and rolled away onto the bed. I chased after her to the top and we got into a goofy wrestling match that featured me pinning her down. Now over her as I rested on my knees and elbows. Which is what she wanted as now she was grinning victoriously. "Stop smiling like you won something."

"I did win something, I won a Molly," she said as we both laughed as I loosened my grips on her hands. "I wonder if my award comes complete with a...cumming sensation?"

"I should have never told you," I said as my hormones began to cloud my better judgment. "And no it (Mindy giggles as she kisses me) ...stop that!"

"Make me," she said as she kissed me again. "Cumming sensation!"

"Oh god," I said in protest as I kissed her this time and my rational thought got over taken by my hormones. "OHMIGOD you're such a good kisser."

"So are you," she said as she kissed me back and this time her tongue met mine for a brief moment. "I need that cumming sensation now so bad."

"MMMMM me too my horny baby," I moaned as Mindy slid her hands from my grip and immediately pushed down my shorts as we kissed again softly. Hers then went down as well as we slipped under the covers and well, bad idea or not, we soon had that cumming senesation we both needed so bad.

"Hey Chloe," Holly said as I passed by the office on the way to the elevator. "Wait up. What's wrong?"

"It's just been a long day is all," I said in hopes of deflecting the question. "What's up?"

"Oh yeah, you know Maggie went to film school in Los Angeles right?" Holly asked. Maggie having told me the story of that a while back. I simply nodded my head. "Well a friend of hers called a little while ago and offered her a job on his next movie as an assistant director."

"Cool," I said.

"The cool part is it's gonna be shooting in Hollywood over summer break and she wants me to go with her," Holly said with a huge smile.

"You taking Molly?" I asked and hoping maybe she wasn't so Molly could come home with me like last year.

"I think we can manage that," Holly said as my spirits fell. "Maggie's lining up an apartment and I'm gonna try and find a job to keep costs down. Maybe Molly can work too."

"Hey, we need to run," Maggie said as she came out of the office with her jacket on. "Patrick said he'd meet us at Fast Eddie's in 20 minutes."

"Patrick Thomason, that's her friend," Holly filled in as she slipped on her leather jacket. "Fill Molly in for me? Tell her I'll call her later."

"We'll do," I said.

"Patrick thinks he may be able to get you a job as gaffer..." Maggie said as they went through the big double doors leading outside.

"OH god," I said as I had just realized who also lived in Los Angeles, Mindy. "That means she's gonna be spending two and half months with her? I have royally screwed my life up this time."

I was sinking further into depression now with every single step as I boarded the elevator and rode up to the third floor. Wondering how and what to say to Molly as I exited. Macey passed by as I stopped and thought for a long moment. Running my fingers through my hair and walking the last few feet to Molly's room and putting the best smile I could on my face I cracked the door and heard...moaning. Intense orgasmic moaning. My heart nearly stopped in that instant. I forced myself to look and saw Mindy was on top as her and Molly softly kissed with the blanket covering them nearly completely. Grinding back and totally lost in each other as I saw them smile at each other before kissing again.

"That cumming sensation is really getting stronger now," Molly moaned.

"I love being the only one that makes you feel that," Mindy moaned back before they kissed again and I ducked out of the room and silently closed the door. Tears streaming down my face as I ran to my room and slammed my door. Feeling like screaming in frustration over the stupidity of my own actions which lead directly to this. "If I didn't keep bringing it up she would have never done this to me. This is my fault. OHMIGOD it's my fault. My life is over, my entire fucking life is seriously over."

"What the fuck?" I grumbled when I sat down on the bed and landed on my tablet. Plugged in and charging from this morning. I turned it on and wiped away my tears as I wondered how I was gonna face Molly ever again. I wanted to seriously go back in time before all of this happened and stop it but I knew now I couldn't. I absentmindedly clicked on my photo gallery and scanned through a few of my newest pics. All of Molly, Mindy and me except the last one which was of Dakota. Grinning into the camera over the arm of the chair as I was sitting in the floor at the time. "My sweet Dakota. Why did you have to kiss me you crazy girl? Even if it was a sweet kiss."

"Will you put that stupid tablet down and come help me make my bed?" Dakota asked on the video clip that I played a few minutes after that. "Are you taking my picture again? Do you secretly love me or something?"

"I don't remember her saying that," I said as I paused the video. "Weird."

"I bet your two girlfriends are bumping booties back at KMH you better hurry back and join in," Dakota said in a video clip after that. I realized then I'd taken a bunch of videos of her lately. Then it hit me. Why couldn't I just go and join in? So what if Molly was in love with Mindy she still loved me too. Who says you can't share? And let's face facts, I was as hot for Mindy as any girl I'd ever met. Maybe more than Molly. I wiped away my tears and was feeling that old vibe of hormones beginning to take over...when my world came crashing down. The phone rang.

"Hello..."

"Chloe? OHMIGOD Daddy is in a coma at Western Heart hospital and they don't think he's gonna make it," Mackenzie (my 13 year old sister) said in an all-out panic. "He had a massive heart attack and they might give him up to die or something. Can you come home?"

"Mackenzie what are you talking about?" I asked as I felt a panic attack coming on.

"Daddy, my daddy, your daddy is in the hospital..."

"I got that much but how did it happen?"

"I came in from softball practice and he was laying in the kitchen floor barely breathing," Mackenzie said. "They're still checking him out now. Can you please come home? Please? Hayden is gone on that cultural tour in Europe and I can't deal with this...please Chloe I love you so much. Please?"

"Calm down Mac, calm down baby," I said as I grabbed my suitcase and started throwing stuff into in a daze. "I'm gonna need a plane ticket. But I'll come home as fast as I can."

"I'll get Grandpa Max to book you one for tonight," Mackenzie said. "I'll call you back as soon as I can."

"I don't know if I can do this..." I said as I slumped to the floor and started crying in sobs.