Despite her intention to be as much the voice of reason as possible in that whole tangled mess, Michelle couldn’t help but feel her blood boil at Gabby’s comment. It wasn’t that she didn’t appreciate the sentiment, and she did feel like the slick brunette actually meant what she said, but hearing such a nonchalant offer of friendship from the very same Gabby that less than half an hour earlier had blown both hers and her brother’s world apart with the implicit threat of revealing their secret was just too much even for Michelle to bear.
“Yeah right, we should have hung out more, Gabby, sure. If only you had blackmailed us before, you and I would have been bff’s ages ago!” Michelle sarcastically replied, taking full advantage of that chance to throw all her emotional turmoil back at the one person who had caused it in the first place and was now acting so breezily, just like it was nothing at all to her.
Much to the siblings’ vengeful joy, Michelle’s comment seemed to finally hit Gabby hard, for a change.
“Blackmail?!” Gabby said with an air of deep shock about her. Blinking and tilting her head questioningly, her eyes darting back and forth from Michelle to Tyler, she did appear as if she was seeing them for the first time only then. “Wait,” she finally said, appearing all of a sudden much more clear-headed and cognizant of their feelings, “you guys thought I was gonna blackmail you?”
“Uh, yeah,” Tyler curtly grunted, still far from being calm but somehow less furious. Indeed, despite his latent anger, there was something about Gabby’s surprise that appeared unexpectedly genuine, leading him to continue past his initial monosyllabic reply. “Isn’t that the whole point of this? Sending us the video, calling us hear and doing whatever it is that you’re doing right now?”
As Tyler’s words trailed off, Gabby furrowed her thin eyebrows and recoiled visibly, almost as if offended by those accusations. Looking intently at the siblings, the brunette took a couple of seconds to properly recover her proverbial composure and restore the hint of a grin to her lips before she spoke.
“Guys, I don’t know what you’ve heard from people in school, maybe something about my family’s business being kinda sketchy and stuff like that… Anyways, I won’t get into detail about all of that right now, but I can tell you one thing for sure: we’re not in the shakedown racket. And I have no intention of blackmailing you,” Gabby firmly concluded, giving Michelle and Tyler her most clear-eyed, truthful look so far. “I promise you,” she went on. “I’m not fucking with you: I really don’t plan to tell anyone that you two are having super hot Lannister style buttsex, okay? I’m not gonna reveal your sexy little secret, I never meant to. Besides, you guys know about me and my cousins, so it would be stupid to try to blackmail you when you got dirt on me like that… It’s, like, page one of the little mobster’s handbook, or something…” she added with an offhand chuckle, her proverbial smirk once more dancing on her tumid lips. “I guess you could say that we’re in one of those, you know, mutually assured distraction kinda situations, right?”
“Destruction,” Tyler tersely corrected. “Mutually assured destruction.”
“Yeah, whatever,” the brunette shrugged, rolling her eyes and exhaling impatiently. “Bottom line, it’s in everyone’s best interest here to just keep our mouths shut and keep doing what we’re doing without ruining each other’s fun. So don’t worry about this blackmail nonsense anymore. Your secret is safe with me, as long as my secret is safe with you. Deal?” she concluded, extending her delicate hand.
Baffled to find themselves actually believing pretty much everything Gabby had just said, Michelle and Tyler looked at each other for a long meaningful moment before he turned to face her again. Almost fully devoid of belligerence, Tyler nodded and shook Gabby’s hand, only to then let it go and allow Michelle to shake it too.
“Okay, we’ve got a deal,” Tyler said, taking a deep steadying breath and already feeling like he was finally standing on firmer ground.
“So…” Michelle began, eyeing Gabby with a lingering perplexity that was born more of curiosity than disquiet. “What is this all about, exactly? Why would you even send us that pic at all if you just want things to stay the way they are?”
Shrugging her slim shoulders and thus causing a stray droplet of water to escape her damp hair and trickle down right between her perky, barely-covered tits, Gabby casually said: “Oh, that! Yeah, I just thought we should even the score before we move on with things, I guess…”
“Even the score?” Michelle echoed her, scrunching her cute face dubiously. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means,” Gabby solemnly stated, meanwhile resuming her sauntering progress up the stairs and thus spurring the siblings into following her once again, “that I want to watch you two having sex, just like you watched me and my pet knuckleheads!”
“But you already saw us, in the security camera video!” Michelle squealed in protest, climbing the stairs faster to catch up with Gabby.
“Yeah, and by the way, that video is still super incriminating for us. If Mimi and I said that we saw you fucking your cousins, we wouldn’t have any proof. But you have plenty of proof against us!” Tyler insisted, stomping up the stairs beside Michelle and still feeling bothered by the fact that, despite her apparently genuine will to not mess things up, Gabby remained in a much stronger bargaining position overall.
“Oh my god, Tyler… Again with the blackmail thing?!” Gabby groaned as she reached the hallway that led to her room and kept walking leisurely along. Turning to glance at him over her shoulder with an exaggerated look of annoyance on her sculpted visage and noticing Tyler’s stubbornly broody countenance, the semi-naked brunette let out a scoffing chuckle as she conceded: “Jeez, fine then. I’ve got some vids of me and the twins on my laptop, I’ll give you those so you’ll stop being such a buzzkill, okay? Seriously, dude, I never thought you’d be so paranoid. Maybe it’s a good thing you didn’t wanna smoke pot after all…”
“Wait a second, are you serious?” Michelle mumbled as she sprinted up to Gabby’s side and shot her a penetrating stare. Suddenly excited despite everything else at the prospect of getting her hands on one or more clips from the brunette’s personal amateur DAP collection, Michelle was barely able to contain her anticipation as she tried to make sure she wasn’t imagining things. “Are you really going to give us some of your… I mean, you’d let us walk out of here with actual videos of you and…”
“… and my knucklehead cousins double-boning my ass? Yeah, girl, for sure!” Gabby breezily interjected, her smirk widening as she drank in Michelle’s attitude shifting from veiled mistrust to evident arousal. “I told you, I want things to be cool between us. And don’t worry, I won’t tell the twins anything about all of this either. Ah, here we are,” the brunette declared as the three of them reached her bedroom. Pausing a moment at the door, Gabby couldn’t help but snicker at the siblings and wink teasingly as she cooed: “Back at the scene of the crime, guys! Come on, let’s get you those videos so we can move on to the real fun part…”