One or the other??

For Vanishingact

It was late in the morning and Ainsley awoke to an empty room. She’d been slowly moving her stuff out of her room for the past 2 weeks and today was the last day. She was finally moving out of her dad’s home. She got out of bed and folded the sleeping bag she’d been using making her way sleepily to her bathroom staring in the mirror a moment before undressing getting ready to take a shower.

20 minutes later she emerged from her bathroom drying her hair off with her towel wearing an oversized burnt orange t-shirt tied at the hip and white terry cloth fold over shorts. Tossing her towel in the hamper she brushed her hair pulling it up into 2 loose pigtails putting on her glasses she packed the last few things to be taken and got ready to leave. Her dad was working, her brother and sister were at school so she wrote a quick note before making her way down the hall and out of her father’s home.

As she got outside her friend pulled up. She waved hurrying to the car jumping in, “Hey Momo.” She grinned as they were off. “So you excited about living with the Lerners?” Her friend asked and she blushed nodding. “Yea, it was nice of them to invite me. They’re 2 of my best friends.” She nodded happily. “Sure having a crush on them has nothing to do with it.” Her friend asked. She blushed not answering looking ahead of them as they drove.

Arriving at her friends home getting out she waved to her friend as she drove away. She took a breath heading to the door taking out the key they’d just given her. Opening the door she could hear music smiling she took off her shoes still marveling at the size of the home her friends owned. “Ari-chan, Ney-chan!” She called as she made her way through the hallway coming into the kitchen which was attached to the large living room.

The brothers had spent all week getting the house ready for Ainsley to move in. All the junk was moved out of the spare bedroom (mostly thrown in the basement) and that bedroom's adjoining bathroom was cleaned thoroughly, which Arima insisted on because "there's no way she's gonna want to live here the way we left it". In that same spirit, they'd made an effort to have the whole house spotless, and generally looking less like a 'bachelor pad'.

They were just lugging the last of the boxes up into Ainsley's new bedroom when the door opened. “Ari-chan, Ney-chan!”

Arima's heart skipped a beat. He'd always had a soft spot in his heart for Ainsley. Growing up, he'd always thought of her as a little sister, but as they both got older and she started to develop into such a beautiful woman, his feelings changed from friendly to something more. He'd never been able to bring himself to tell her about his feelings, though...he was too worried that it would ruin their friendship.

Gaff's feelings for Ainsley were much less complicated. She was one of his best friends, and she was totally hot! He never seemed to be the type to have any kind of subtlety or to be capable of romance. (In fact, Gaffney had very deep feelings for Ainsley, but they were hiding right under the surface where he'd never bothered to notice). He was excited about living with his friend...and maybe the possibility of catching her naked sometime!

Both brothers came to the door quickly, meeting Ainsley and both hugging her, then grabbing the last of her bags and carrying them up to her new room.

"Don't worry, we're glad to have you here!" Gaff assured her, smiling.

"Exactly...no need to thank us, just make yourself at home!" Arima added.

They carried the last of her stuff up to her room, talking and catching up a little while they did.

“What are you two up to today?”

"We were actually thinking about heading down to the beach. It's such a nice day today.." Arima said.

"--plus it's a chance to see you in a skimpy bathing suit, we were hoping!" Gaff added with a laugh, nudging Arima a little while he did.

Arima forced a laugh, while at the same time turning beet red. Why did his brother have to be such an ass? It didn't help that that was actually one of the reasons he wanted to take Ainsley down to the beach....

Ainsley smiled with a slight nod. "I'm glad you are." She said giving Gaffney a smile. "I will." She said to Arima giving him a warm smile as well stretching placing her arms behind her head as she looked at the 2 boys.

"Really the beach sounds like fun." She said with an enthusiastic giggle. "Could I go?" She asked just before hearing Gaffney's comments on seeing her in a skimpy bathing suit she blushed smacking him on the head playfully sticking her tongue out. "Sorry to disappoint no skimpy bathing suit." She said matter-of-factly. Giving Arima a look when he'd chuckled. "Your both pervs." She said feigning a serious expression till she had to chuckle ruffling Arima's hair.

"I'll try not to get in the way of your girl oogling." She said a stiff laugh escaping as she pushed them out of the room. "If ya want to get going I've gotta change." She said before shutting her door sighing loudly as she walked to her bags fishing out her bikini and some clothes to wear over it.

Slipping into her white bikini, and slipping on a long loose shirt and shorts adjusting her hair putting it in loose pig-tails putting her over-sized towel in a pag she slipped into her flip-flops making her way down stairs seeing Arima waiting by the door trying not to blush seeing him in over-sized shorts and sandles.

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Everyone seemed to assume that Gaffney wasn't all that bright, or at least that he didn't pay much attention to people. That wasn't true..for example, he knew full well that his brother was interested in Ainsley as more than a friend, and he was starting to think that Ainsley was interested in Arima too. He decided he'd give the two of them a little time alone to start their time as housemates. He offered Ari a quick excuse and left the house before any of them could think too much about it.

If nothing else, this would be interesting, he thought...

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Before he was sure what had happened, Arima realized that he'd be headed down to the lake with Ainsley alone, as his brother had left the house in a hurry, mumbling something about one of his friends needing him for something. Oh well...he and Ainsley had been hanging out together since they were kids. No big deal, right?

Wow...she really had grown up into a beautiful young woman. He tried to remind himself that she was his friend, almost more like a sister, and NOT someone he should be physically attracted to.

He smiled at her as she came down the stairs. "Well, my brother seems to have more important things to do, so it looks like it will be just the two of us heading to the beach...hope you don't mind" he said, with a small laugh.

Why am I so nervous?

Arima felt himself almost shaking a little as he walked with Ainsley down to the beach. Maybe it was because he wasn't used to seeing quite so much of his friend's skin...or having her quite so close...

Alright, calm down...just shake it off...

They made it down to the lake and spread their towels out on the beach. It really was a nice day today, he thought. The sun was out, it wasn't too hot, there was a nice breeze off the water. Not to mention he was all alone with the (all-grown-up, he couldn't help but noticing) Ainsley.

"So..you wanna go for a swim, or what?"

It took him a few seconds to realize he was staring. He finally dragged his eyes up to her eyes. They had been busy scanning her firm torso, her chest...

"I...um....I.....wow."

He laughed, and attempted to form a more coherent sentence. "I mean, um...alright. Let's go in!"

He ran down to the water, both to appear enthusiastic about swimming and in the hopes that the water would hide the embarrassing erection he felt was about to show up. Maybe the water would help him get ahold of himself.

He jumped, startled, then smiled as he felt her arms around him and her breasts pressed against his back.

"Water too cold for ya?"

He laughed. "Too cold? I don't know....let's find out!"

He quickly grabbed her legs, pulling her up onto his back piggy=back style, then ran and fell into the water, taking her down with him.

He was in the process of sticking his tongue out back at her when she pulled him under the water. He came up, sputtering, laughing as soon as he could breathe.

"Not fair!" he said. "You know I'll have to get you back for that, right?" he said playfully. He then proceeded to dive back underwater and start tickling her ribs.

He had almost reverted completely back to the way they used to play when they were kids, until he opened his eyes and realized they were an inch away from her breasts...

He blushed and backed away a little. He was embarrassed, worried he'd gotten a little too close.

"Well, you'd jumped me...what else was I supposed to do?" he asked, sticking his tongue out at her again.

"Hmm? I...I mean, no...nothing's wrong..."'

What should he say? He had no idea whether she had any kind of thoughts about him the way he thought about her.

"I guess...I'm just getting used to seeing you all...grown-up." He laughed. "You're not quite that little girl I used to play with anymore..."