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WHO'S RUBY?;

Poppy Moore/Freddie Kingsley

A phone call from Ruby is easy to ignore, but the feelings of nostalgia that follow aren't quite so simple to deal with. Poppy has fallen in love with her new life, and a certain young man involved in it too, but is he enough to help her let go of her old life, memories and all?

This was a one shot idea that I got after watching the end of the film 'Wild Child'. I'm not sure why, but I just felt the sudden urge to write something quick along these lines. It set at the end of the film, when they're all in Malibu and sunbathing? Yeah, so it starts there. It was originally going to be one chapter, but I've decided to make it a little more for the mere fact that I really do love this pairing. I could never write a genuine story about them because I don't have the imagination. I suppose its smut, but...there's a purpose behind it, emotions involved and all that crap, lol. I just want to give them a real happy ending after all the stress that occurred in the film! I've actually decided to make it a little longer than planned by involving Poppy's friends a little more.

"Oh my god." Drippy was the first one to speak, her eyes wide as saucers, possibly even wider as she simply stared at Poppy, her mouth hanging open ever so slightly in shock.

"Yeah." Kate, Josie and Kiki all seemed to breathe out at exactly the same time.

Silence followed; their response was what was expected, but Poppy found herself a little irritated. She needed more than that! She hadn't actually intended on telling them in the first place. They were her best friends, but she figured her and Freddie needed some privacy. However, the second she had become a little too persistent about sending them out to see a film without her, they had known something was happening and they were going nowhere until they knew what it was – nosey bitches. Of course, after some nagging, Poppy had finally cracked, spilling her idea out, telling them about earlier, about the slight twinge of rejection that now needed healing, though she decided to miss out the part about her being upset over Ruby. There were some things her friends didn't need to know and that little factor was one of them – she didn't want them to think they weren't good enough or anything like that. They were ten times better than Ruby, even more than that. This thing with Ruby was just a little...screwed up and she couldn't quite explain it.

More seconds of silence ticked by until finally, Drippy broke it once more; "You and Freddie are going to have SEX?!"

It was Poppy's turn to widen her eyes and as Kate slapped her hand over Drippy's mouth, Poppy quickly shushed her with a hiss. Her eyes darted towards the door, almost terrified her sister was going to be standing in the door way, phone in hand, ready to ring their father and call him back home from his trip because his innocent daughter was about to shed her 'dignity'. Thankfully, the doorway was empty and she breathed a sigh of relief. Standing up, she rushed to close the door, before turning back to face them, leaning back against it. "Keep it down, Drippy!" She demanded with a roll of her eyes.

With a forceful lick that made Kate wrinkle her nose in disgust, Drippy finally released her mouth from the prison of her friend's mouth and just smiled innocently. "Sorry." She breathed out in her English accent. "It's just...wow." She shook her head in disbelief, pouting her lips forward. "It's so unfair! You get to have sex with possibly one of the hottest people alive while I can't even get a man to open a door for me. What happened to all those American hunks I've read about? I haven't seen a single one since I've been here!"

Poppy couldn't help but laugh; she could always rely on Drippy to completely miss the point and make a drama sound totally normal or revolve it around her. She watched as Kate, Kiki and Josie just stared at their little blonde friend in disbelief. It would appear that they didn't exactly see things the way Drippy did and Poppy found she was actually nervous. She cared about her friend's opinions and even their approval and she was worried they were about to tell her that this was a stupid idea. Maybe it was. She didn't know! All she knew was whenever she became determined, it was incredibly hard to change her mind back and earlier, when Freddie had pulled her off of his lap, she had become very determined. Poppy Moore always got what she wanted after all; even when she had been shipped off to England, she'd gotten what she wanted in the end. Granted, she'd had to make mistakes and learn the hard way, but still; the outcome had been what she wanted – great friends and an amazing boyfriend. An amazing boyfriend who was, whether he liked it or not, going to take her virginity tonight. Okay, so maybe she wasn't going to be that forceful but still.

"Poppy, are you sure about this? It's a big step." Kate commented, lifting her eyebrows and glancing at her best friend, looking slightly uncertain, possibly even concerned that her friend was rushing into something a little too soon.

"Well, I don't see how." Poppy responded with a faint shrug of her shoulders. "I mean, okay, so sex is a big thing, I get that part, but...everyone does it eventually, right? And at least I'll be doing it with somebody who loves me and I love back. It's not like Freddie is one of those boys who only stick around to get one thing and when they get it, they run away. He's a gentleman." She smiled when she said this, her eyes glistening with the happiness that they always glistened with whenever she spoke about Mr Kingsley. She was smitten; there was no doubt about that.

"It's true! Besides, how else are we going to find out what it's like? It's not like any of us are going to be losing it any time soon!" Drippy added, causing Poppy to laugh once more.

"Speak for yourself! I happen to be getting pretty close Jonathan back at home." Kiki was quick to defend herself. "Before we came here, he touched my breast. That counts, right?"

"Kiki...it was an accident." Josie commented with a slight wrinkle of her nose. "He was opening a door for you and as you walked passed, it rubbed against him. He spent five minutes stuttering out an apology before running away; literally, running."

"Well, that's not the way my imagination wants to remember it." Kiki mumbled, though seconds later, she just sighed in defeat and slumped her shoulders downwards.

"Guys; can we return to the fact that I'm about to deflower myself here?!" Poppy asked, pointing at herself with one finger as she pushed herself away from the door and walked forward, plonking herself down upon the floor with the rest of her friends, crossing her legs and flicking some brunette hair over her shoulder. "I'm totally ready for this." She told them, though her eyes were fixed mainly on Kate. "We've been together for a while and...I think it's about time we started getting a little more physical. It's not like we haven't done other stuff, right? Remember what I told you the other night? That thing he did?"

"Oh, the mouth thing." Drippy whispered, sounding amazed and secretive at the same time, possibly even a little zoned out as if she was imagining somebody doing it to her. Drippy was weird like that.

"Yeah. The mouth thing." Poppy gushed, her cheeks flushing ever so slightly at the mere memory of his tongue being...well, down there. "And I so returned the favour, which by the way isn't as gross as it sounds!" She added with a cheeky smirk.

"Ugh – no matter what you say or how many times you gush on about it, there is no chance in hell that I am ever putting my mouth on a boy's...well, you know." Kate made a face, crinkling her nose up and shaking her head, as if she was truly disgusted by the thought, but then Kate was quite a prude like that. Not in the sense of she wanted to stay a virgin until she was married, because, hey, she wasn't that prude, but more in the sense of 'God put our mouths on our faces for a reason' sort of person. Sex was about as good as it got; foreplay wasn't exactly something she wanted to even think about, unlike Drippy who was about as kinky as you got, despite her lack of experience.

With a roll of her eyes, Poppy merely stuck her tongue out at Kate in a provocative way, only to then duck a pillow that was launched in her direction by her friend. Laughter echoed around the room for a few short moments as the girls teased Kate, before the brunette female clapped her hands to get everyone's attention. Rearranging herself on the floor to get comfortable, she offered them all a smile of mischief. "Sooo...what do you guys say? Are you up for the films tonight or what? If it helps, I know a lot of hot guys who totally dig the English accent..." She trailed off, attempting to black mail them and it sure worked – it wasn't long before Drippy was clinging onto her arm, demanding to know the names, the looks, the personality; pretty much everything about every single male that Poppy knew and Poppy told, though she was careful to leave certain facts out. Like the fact that most of them were complete jerks – it was only for one night and her girlfriends were more than capable of looking after themselves, especially with Kate there to keep everybody in line. Besides, if she knew her girls – which she was certain she did – a night at the cinema to them meant snogging the guy sat next to them in the back row and when you were a teenage girl, you didn't have to like somebody's personality to snog them. And she wasn't wrong because eventually, they were all agreeing to leave for the night and give her some private time with Freddie.

Poppy should have felt relieved – and part of her did, but the second they all agreed to leave, her heart sunk a little. It wasn't out of disappointment, but more out of nerves. Now, Poppy Moore was quite a confident person but Freddie had this way of making her stomach twist over the stupidest of things. It wasn't as if she knew what she was doing – she had no idea how to go about this. Did she set candles around the room? What sort of music did she play? She'd lied about so many sex stories in the past to make herself more popular with Ruby and the girls, but none of those stories had any truth in them. She made out she had experience when really, she had barley any. She had no idea what she was doing and as Kate and the others rushed off to get ready, she found herself panicking; worried that she wasn't going to be good enough. Perhaps this wasn't such a good idea after all, but...there was no going back now. Drippy was dying for a night out with some hot hunks and that meant Poppy had some phone calls to make so for now, she would focus on that and worry about later on...well, later.

A/N; Okay, so this wasn't the best chapter, but InivisibleA left me a lovely comment asking me to try and make it past two chapters, suggesting I include the girl's too. I was so pleased somebody actually liked the story so figured I would give it a go for the reader's sake I'm not really sure how long this is going to be, but it won't be much longer. I'll see where the next Chapter takes me!