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Today's adventure wasn't anything spectacular, some kind of ballroom murder mystery. They hadn't gotten to the murder part of the mystery yet, so everyone was just enjoying the party.

Jax and Pomni stood next to each other as they viewed their surroundings. Pomni got to wear a sparkling red cocktail dress and heels to go with it. Jax got to wear a black tuxedo with a yellow tie.

Jax was about to say something snide to Pomni when a familiar face approached them.

"'Scuse me, miss," Gummigoo said with his charming accent, taking off his signature fedora and bowing. "But may I have this dance?" Gummigoo was dressed not unlike Indiana Jones, albeit tidied up.

Pomni blushed and smiled, she curtsied for him. "I'd love to," Pomni said, her eyelids lowered halfway.

Gummigoo held out his elbow and Pomni held onto him. As soon as they got to the dance floor, Gummigoo started dancing with her.

Jax rolled his eyes and headed over to the bar. "Whiskey sour," Jax ordered, taking up a bar stool.

Jax turned around on the stool, drink in hand, and watched Pomni and Gummigoo intently.

***

Jax was four drinks in at this point, and in a fairly short amount of time too.

He noticed Gummigoo had lowered his hands on Pomni's hips, and Pomni was pressed right up against him while they danced.

Jax twitched, his face flushed and turning into a scowl. What was so great about this Gummigoo guy anyway? He wasn't even real.

Gumigoo whispered something to Pomni and they held hands as they left the dance floor.

Jax gritted his teeth, he turned around back to the bar and slumped over.

He held his head as images flashed through his mind. Pomni and Gummigoo laughing together, kissing each other, him on top of her-

He slammed back his fourth drink and stormed off from the bar, looking around for them.

***

Pomni and Gummigoo had found a secluded little corner in the outdoor plaza. Pomni was straddling Gummigoo as he sat on a bench. He was massaging her hips, nuzzling the side of her face.

"You're so pretty, miss," Gummigoo whispered, causing Pomni to blush.

"Hey suitcase," Jax's unmistakable voice rang though. Pomni and Gummigoo glared at Jax, Gummigoo tightening his grip on Pomni.

"Can we help you, mate?" Gummigoo asked

"You know you're an NPC right?" Jax said with a strained grin. He looked trashed.

"JAX!" Pomni snapped.

Gumigoo looked skeptical, as if it was something worth asking further about. Then he remembered the cute girl in his lap and connected the dots. Gummigoo had a smug smile, holding Pomni closer against himself.

"Get lost, kid," Gummigoo brushed Jax off coolly, immediately kissing Pomni.

Pomni was caught off guard, she blushed and kissed him back, melting into him.

Jax's pupils shrunk, he didn't know what he was feeling, but he didn't like it. So he did what he always did when he felt like shit. He grinned, crossing his arms.

"Pom, if you're that desperate-"

"This is just sad, mate," Gummigoo said, turning to Jax with a look that made Jax actually question what he was doing.

"Huh?" Jax said.

"I saw you come in with all your little pals, Gummigoo started, "this one," Gummigoo gripped Pomni's hip and tugged her against him, "caught my eye. You've got other friends here, and this is the one you want attention from?"

"I don't want anybody's attention," Jax deflected. "I just wanna have some fun."

"So do I, Jax," Pomni said sternly, glaring at him.

Jax glared back at her, "He's not even real Pomni."

Gummigoo looked between them, he attempted to say something before Pomni spoke up.

"What do you care?" Pomni snapped "Let me enjoy myself."

"If you're gonna do that, just rub one out," Jax teased, "it's basically the same thing."

Pomni couldn't take her eyes off Jax. She was frustrated, she was flustered, she needed Gummigoo for this. It wasn't like she had anyone else she wanted.

Pomni turned back to Gummigoo. She kissed him deeply, open mouthed, grinding down on him. Gummigoo moaned into her mouth, grabbing the back of her head and her ass as they made out.

Jax looked away, trying not to seem as defeated as he very obviously was. "Whatever," Jax turned to leave, "enjoy him while he lasts Pomni." Jax said over his shoulder.

"I WILL!" Pomni snapped, continuing her make out session.

Jax stopped for a moment to look back.

Gummigoo had laid Pomni down on the bench, their hands all over each other, Pomni's dress hiked up and her legs on either side of him.

Jax sighed heavily, holding his head and looking for literally anywhere else to sit down.

***

Jax had taken his tie off, tossed aside somewhere. The top couple buttons of his shirt were unbuttoned, he needed air. He held his head in his hands, sliding them down his face as he sat up.

"What were you thinking?" Jax sighed, looking up at the artificial stars. He closed his eyes and sighed heavily, opening them again slowly. "She doesn't want you," he said to himself.

***

Pomni and Gummigoo had moved behind some bushes. Gummigoo was lying back on the grass, Pomni riding him. She threw her head back as she came on him. Gummigoo followed right after, and Pomni collapsed on him.

Gummigoo chuckled, caressing her back and kissing her head. "You're something else, Pomni." Gummigoo smiled at her.

"That was," Pomni was catching her breath. "That was so hot." Pomni sounded absolutely blissed out.

Their clothes were wrinkled messes, they were sweaty, and they were spent.

"Can I see you again some time?" Gumigoo asked hopefully.

Pomni paused, with a sad look she nodded. "Of course."

Gummigoo kissed her softly, then tapped her hips. "Alright, my mates are probably wondering where I ran off to." Pomni hopped off of Gummigoo, retrieving her discarded panties and sliding them back on as she tried her best to clean herself off.

Gummigoo stood up, tucking himself back into his pants and zipping up. "I'm sure your little bunny friend would be happy to see you too." Gumigoo teased.

"God that was so embarrassing." Pomni slapped a hand on her head.

"I mean, I can't blame him," Gummigoo went up to Pomni and caressed her cheek, "You're quite the catch."

"Oh wait, no," Pomni laughed, "he was just being a pest."

Gummigoo stared at her for a second. "So he's not like, an ex or something?"

"Jax? And Me?!" Pomni laughed harder, "Yeah that's a good one."

"But, you know he likes you right?" Gummigoo laughed awkwardly, "like clearly he's crazy about you."

Pomni stared back at Gummigoo, her laugh gone and just an awkward silence. Then Pomni laughed again.

"I think he just wanted to spoil my fun." Pomni said.

Gumigoo didn't say anything, just leaned down to kiss her gently, then tipped his hat to her. "See you around, Pomni."

"See you, Gummigoo." Pomni waved goodbye with a forced smile. As soon as she was sure he was gone, she fell to her knees. "Oh god," she hugged herself, "What've I done?"

***

The adventure had moved onto the murder part of the mystery. All of them were exploring the grounds of the adventure separately for clues.

Pomni was going down a hallway, opening up every door. She jumped when one of the doors swung open on their own.

Jax came out of the room, he was still drunk, he clearly didn't see her in the corner of his eye. He looked disheveled as he zipped his pants up, then he turned a corner and went wandering around another part of the hallway.

Pomni scrunched up her face, she felt terrible. She'd never been in this situation before, not that she could remember anyway.

She didn't have the strength to follow him. She didn't even know what she would say to him.

***

As Jax made his way down the hall, Gummigoo came out of a room and bumped into him.

"Oh, sorry mate-" when Gumigoo realized who he was talking to he made a concerned face. "Uh," Gummigoo looked around, then placed a hand on Jax's shoulder. "No hard feelings, alright?" Gummigoo winked.

Jax punched Gummigoo in his eye, immediately bruising it. Gummigoo held his eye, then glared at Jax.

"Don't start a fight you already lost, rabbit," Gummigoo huffed out.

Jax yelled and then tackled Gummigoo, immediately grabbing him by his shirt collar and punching him in the face again.

Gummigoo grabbed Jax's fist when he went to punch him a third time. Gummigoo then kneed Jax in the stomach, causing Jax to fall over. Gummigoo got back up, brushing himself off and breathing heavily.

"If you wanted her so bad, you should've told her," Gummigoo snapped at him. "You're acting like a child!"

"Shut up," Jax huffed out, "you're not even-"

"Real or not real, mate, whatever that means, I f--ked her. It's done. Anything else is between you and her, and if you ask her, you certainly didn't make any effort to impress her. And that is on you. Mate."

Gummigoo adjusted his hat, turned around and walked away from Jax, leaving him on the ground.

***

Pomni made her way back to the ballroom. It was empty, save for one lonely purple rabbit in a disheveled suit sitting at the bar. Pomni took a deep breath and made her way over him.

She sat down beside him. "Whisky, on the rocks," Pomni said quietly.

Jax just kept staring down at his glass of water. Neither of them saying anything to the other.

"I don't know a lot of girls who like straight whisky," Jax mumbled, still somewhat drunk.

"You don't know a lot of girls, period." Pomni smiled at him, but he just looked so defeated. She circled the rim of her glass with a finger. "Jax," she sighed, "Why didn't you just tell me-"

"Tell you what?" Jax snapped at her, his pupils small, bags under his eyes.

She looked away from him, putting her hands in her lap. "I didn't think you thought of me that way," she said quietly.

Jax didn't say anything, couldn't say anything, too nervous to even deflect. He sat still, hugging himself.

"If you'd have said something, just, anything-" Pomni was cut off.

"There's nothing to say!" Jax bit. Pomni glared at him.

"You know what, fine," Pomni downed her drink, slammed the glass on the counter, hopped off the stool and walked away.

'Why are you doing this?!' Jax thought, he shut his eyes and held his head. He suddenly turned around and went after her.

"Pomni-" Jax called out. He couldn't see her anywhere, couldn't tell what direction she'd gone in.

***

Pomni was back outside, sitting near a fountain and crying to herself.

"Hey," Pomni heard a familiar voice and felt a gentle hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see Gummigoo, now with a black eye.

"Wh- what happened to you," Pomni wiped her tears away.

Gummigoo laughed, shaking his head. "Your little rabbit friend-"

"WHAT?!" Pomni was furious, "That's it, I am done with this! I am done worrying about his feelings." She started crying again, "he only cares about himself anyway."

Gummigoo looked sad for her. He sat down beside her, wrapping an arm around her.

She immediately hugged him and cried onto his shoulder. He hugged her back. There wasn't anything necessarily romantic to the hug, just safety and kindness.

***

Jax ended up outside, hands in his pockets, now fairly sober. He could hear Pomni crying, and he immediately started running towards the sound.

He found her by the fountain, with Gummigoo. Jax backed up a bit, hiding just out of sight.

"I'm sorry," Pomni said, pulling away from Gummigoo. "This isn't your problem."

"I mean, it kind of is," Gummigoo laughed. Then he smiled down at Pomni, putting his hand under her chin. "What with you being so cute and all that."

Pomni sniffed and smiled, moving his hand from her chin and just holding it, snuggling up to him.

Pomni sighed heavily, she sounded so tired.

"You like him eh?"

Pomni sat straight up, a blush on her face. "No, Gummigoo, it's not-"

Gumigoo pressed a finger to her lips and took her hand, shushing her. "I don't know what's stopping you two from getting together, but it seems like you'd both be a lot happier if you did."

Jax scrunched his face up at that, turning away. He felt a pang in his chest.

"I just don't know why he won't talk to me about any of this," Pomni sighed.

"Maybe he's been burned before?"

"But... I wouldn't... not unless he pushed me away..." Pomni said, tearing up again.

"Sweetheart, if anything has been made clear to me tonight, it's these two things: you're a great f--k and your friend is wild about you."

"But I've tried to talk to him," Pomni cried. "I've tried to let him say-"

"Maybe you need to be the one to say it," Gummigoo said. "He seems... inexperienced, we'll say."

Jax's face turned red at that and he huffed, even if it was true.

"He also seems like a tw-t, if I'm being completely honest," Gummigoo added.

Jax glared from behind his hiding spot.

"He is," Pomni laughed, "but he... he makes me feel..." Pomni's face turned more red, as did Jax's. "I get so warm and happy when I think about him, when he spends time with me."

"You need to be telling him that," Gumigoo said, rubbing her back.

"Yeah... yeah, you're right." Pomni said confidently. She turned to give Gummigoo a thank you kiss before she suddenly returned back to the Circus along with everyone else, back in their regular clothes.

"WELL DONE, EVERYBODY! YOU SOLVED THE MURDER MYSTERY!" Caine yelled. He started prattling on about the steps the group took to solve the case.

Pomni noticed Jax, sitting on the ground, knees pulled to his chest, not far from her. She got up to go to him.

"Jax?"

"Y- yeah, yes." Jax said as he stood up, crossing his arms and pretending he couldn't feel the blush on his face.

Pomni smiled at him, holding out her hand. "Can you come with me so we can talk?"

Jax let out a shuddering breath, staring at her hand. He nodded, taking her hand and following after her.

***

Jax and Pomni were sitting on Pomni's bed, both of them sitting stiff and with their hands in their laps, both of them blushing.

"Why didn't you tell me about your feelings, Jax," Pomni wanted to rip off the bandaid, but couldn't look him in the eye while she did.

"I don't need anyone," Jax said stubbornly.

"Jax, please," Pomni exasperated, "just meet me halfway here."

Jax scrunched up his face, holding himself tight. He mumbled something so quietly and with his lips so tight together that Pomni couldn't understand at all what he was saying.

"Uh, could you repeat that?" Pomni asked.

Jax made a groaning sound, like he was in pain, his face getting more red. "Umnuhfhdfn."

"What?" Pomni was so confused.

"I LOVE YOU," Jax screamed out, taking deep breaths, squeezing himself tighter. He looked so scared, he had tears in his eyes. He looked like he was afraid of getting physically hurt.

Pomni's face was red and her eyes were wide, "You love me?"

Jax grabbed his ears, pulling them down and letting them spring back up. He groaned like he was going to be sick, "Yes, god d-mnit, I love you!" He covered his face.

"Jax," Pomni said breathily. She took one of his hands in hers, holding it tight. Jax looked at her almost in fear.

"I want you, Jax," Pomni whispered, bringing his hand to her breast.

Jax's face was entirely red, his pupils completely dilated. His mouth somehow gone. He glanced down at his hand, then back to her eyes.

Jax pounced on her, kissing her frantically. Pomni kissed back with just as much desperation.

They ripped off their own clothes in a hurry.

Then Jax stilled, staring at Pomni's body. He was breathing heavily.

Pomni smiled at him, lowering her eyelids and laying back in her pillows, spreading her legs.

Jax's mouth started to water, he crawled carefully between her legs. His cock just touched her pussy, and his whole body shivered.

"Jax," Pomni whispered, caressing one of his ears, making him shiver again. "Is this your first time?

Jax's face was just dilated eyes, he was so embarrassed. He shook his head 'no' slowly.

Pomni giggled, shifting herself so she could wrap her legs around his waist. "That's a shame," she teased, "I'd really like to be your first."

Jax let out a guttural sound from his throat, then covered his mouth. Pomni giggled again, rubbing her pussy along the side of his cock.

Jax was shaking so much, his hands gripping the mattress.

Pomni took his hands and placed them on her tits, squeezing his hands gently. She arched her back and moaned at the feeling of her breasts being squeezed.

"Jax, f--k me!" Pomni moaned out.

Jax shakily slid into her, all the way to the hilt. Both he and Pomni gasped, Pomni at the size of him, Jax at just everything.

Jax started humping her, fucking her as hard as he could. He was sliding in and out of her so fast. His mouth hung open, his eyes shut tight, making so many pleasured sounds from his throat.

"Jax," Pomni said gently, taking his hands into hers again. "Stop."

Jax stopped immediately, panicked, eyes wide, "D-Did I hurt you?" He was straining not to just keep humping her.

Pomni leaned up, kissing him softly. Jax's eyes slipped closed, and he melted into the kiss, moaning into her mouth.

Pomni let go of his hands and grabbed his hips. Jax wrapped his arms around her to hold her against him.

Pomni pulled him out of her slowly, then slammed him back in with her legs. She did it again and again, setting a better pace for both of them.

Jax couldn't help the shuddering breaths and broken moans coming out of him. He was close, and he was worried he'd come any second.

"L-Let me pull out," Jax said.

"No," Pomni sighed, "I wanna feel you come in me."

Jax stared down at her, thrusted hard into her three more times, and then arched his back as he came in her, yelling her name.

Pomni cried out at the feeling of him releasing inside of her. She had a long, incredible orgasm, humping Jax's cock until she was done.

Jax collapsed onto her, and she wrapped her arms around him. He was breathing so heavily, snuggling against her.

"My Pomni," Jax whispered.

Pomni smiled and blushed, kissing the top of his head.

"For the record, Jax..." Pomni said.

Jax stared intently at her, hanging on her every word.

"I love you, too."