or you and Bentley?”
I turned on the couch so that I was facing her completely. “Look Scarlett, I’m not trying to make you feel bad or say this is your doing, but I was in a pretty shitty place in my life. I was head-over-heels for you and thought you were on the same page, and you just fucking disappeared. I’ve already told you that I don’t want to relive everything that happened ~ it’s the past, we both made some bad decisions, we both apologized, and we both want to try and make this work now.”
“It’s not that simple, Mase . You are sleeping with someone else and you are moving away,” she argued, however she had begun to calm down a bit.
“I’m not sleeping with anyone else.”
“As of when? Last Friday? When was the last time you fucked her?”
As much as I wanted to lie to her, I couldn’t. “Last Thursday.”
Scarlett stood up to leave, but I grabbed her arm and pulled her back down next to me on the couch. “I didn’t know if you were ever coming back. I was moving forward with my life; what else was I supposed to do?” I looked straight into her sad brown eyes. “The minute you walked back into my life, it all changed. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do, but it’s only been a week, Angel. Bentley has been on tour with VanderBlue since then and I haven’t had a chance to tell her, so when she showed up tonight, she didn’t know. Tell me you saw me. Tell me you saw that I was not responding to her advances… not even a little bit. I kept telling her to back off but she’s not a woman that’s used to hearing ‘no.’
“I promise you that I don’t want to be with her. My relationship with her has always been purely physical. I was just trying to fill a void…”
“Oh, well that makes me feel so much better,” she retorted. “And I’m supposed to believe that when you are living down the hall from her there and I’m living here, that you won’t get the urge to ‘fill your void’ every so often? I’m not stupid, Mason. I saw the way that she was acting towards you tonight; she’s not going to give you up easily.”
“I’ll take care of it,” I assured her.
I decided to press my luck and reach out to grab her hands. Thankfully, she didn’t tear them from my grasp.
“When are you moving?” The anger from her voice had mostly subsided, but instead it was replaced with sorrow and uncertainty.
“The beginning of November.”
“Do you have to go still? Can’t you do your music thing from here?”
“The entire band has made arrangements to move there; I can’t back out on them now. If it was just me, of course, I would just say fuck it, but I can’t do that to my friends.”
“So what happens to us then, Mase ?” Relief washed through me to hear her still refer to us as “us.”
I brought her hands up to my face and kissed each set of knuckles. “I don’t know, Angel, but we will figure it out. For now, I just want to make the best of the time we have together. I feel like this first week with you back has been such a roller coaster, and I know that’s to be expected as we work through everything that has happened, but now that everything is out on the table, we can move past all of the other bullshit and focus on building our relationship. I can’t make any promises about the future Scarlett, but I can promise you that right here, right now, I am crazy in love with you and I want to be with you ~ just you. Please stay with me.”
She smiled softly and stared deep in my eyes. “This is your last warning Mason Templeton. There better not be any more secrets or I’m done, no questions asked. I agree that we can figure out November when November gets here, who knows what could happen between now and then. I’m willing to fight for us to have a chance, so let’s see where the next two months take us. But I’m telling you right now, I’m not afraid to tell that bitch Bentley exactly where she can go and what she can do when she gets there
I turned on the couch so that I was facing her completely. “Look Scarlett, I’m not trying to make you feel bad or say this is your doing, but I was in a pretty shitty place in my life. I was head-over-heels for you and thought you were on the same page, and you just fucking disappeared. I’ve already told you that I don’t want to relive everything that happened ~ it’s the past, we both made some bad decisions, we both apologized, and we both want to try and make this work now.”
“It’s not that simple, Mase . You are sleeping with someone else and you are moving away,” she argued, however she had begun to calm down a bit.
“I’m not sleeping with anyone else.”
“As of when? Last Friday? When was the last time you fucked her?”
As much as I wanted to lie to her, I couldn’t. “Last Thursday.”
Scarlett stood up to leave, but I grabbed her arm and pulled her back down next to me on the couch. “I didn’t know if you were ever coming back. I was moving forward with my life; what else was I supposed to do?” I looked straight into her sad brown eyes. “The minute you walked back into my life, it all changed. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do, but it’s only been a week, Angel. Bentley has been on tour with VanderBlue since then and I haven’t had a chance to tell her, so when she showed up tonight, she didn’t know. Tell me you saw me. Tell me you saw that I was not responding to her advances… not even a little bit. I kept telling her to back off but she’s not a woman that’s used to hearing ‘no.’
“I promise you that I don’t want to be with her. My relationship with her has always been purely physical. I was just trying to fill a void…”
“Oh, well that makes me feel so much better,” she retorted. “And I’m supposed to believe that when you are living down the hall from her there and I’m living here, that you won’t get the urge to ‘fill your void’ every so often? I’m not stupid, Mason. I saw the way that she was acting towards you tonight; she’s not going to give you up easily.”
“I’ll take care of it,” I assured her.
I decided to press my luck and reach out to grab her hands. Thankfully, she didn’t tear them from my grasp.
“When are you moving?” The anger from her voice had mostly subsided, but instead it was replaced with sorrow and uncertainty.
“The beginning of November.”
“Do you have to go still? Can’t you do your music thing from here?”
“The entire band has made arrangements to move there; I can’t back out on them now. If it was just me, of course, I would just say fuck it, but I can’t do that to my friends.”
“So what happens to us then, Mase ?” Relief washed through me to hear her still refer to us as “us.”
I brought her hands up to my face and kissed each set of knuckles. “I don’t know, Angel, but we will figure it out. For now, I just want to make the best of the time we have together. I feel like this first week with you back has been such a roller coaster, and I know that’s to be expected as we work through everything that has happened, but now that everything is out on the table, we can move past all of the other bullshit and focus on building our relationship. I can’t make any promises about the future Scarlett, but I can promise you that right here, right now, I am crazy in love with you and I want to be with you ~ just you. Please stay with me.”
She smiled softly and stared deep in my eyes. “This is your last warning Mason Templeton. There better not be any more secrets or I’m done, no questions asked. I agree that we can figure out November when November gets here, who knows what could happen between now and then. I’m willing to fight for us to have a chance, so let’s see where the next two months take us. But I’m telling you right now, I’m not afraid to tell that bitch Bentley exactly where she can go and what she can do when she gets there
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