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snapped. Being a man who shaved his head, you could see the blood vessels on his crown as they forcefully pumped the blood through his veins. I watched him trying to keep his emotions under control after Victoria’s insinuation. For the moment, the spotlight was taken off of me and my indiscretion this afternoon.
“Alright, look guys. We need to keep level headed about this. Fighting with each other will not do you any good. We need to stay together in this if we want to get past it all,” Toby said interrupting us.
I leaned over the pool table, lining up the cue ball as I stroked the smooth wood of my pool stick. I gave it a few priming swipes between my fingers before pulling back and ramming it into the white ball, sending it barreling down and colliding with the triangle stack of balls at the end of the table. I couldn’t help but watch as it hit the stack, sending each ball flying off in opposite directions and how much it reflected my life at the moment. One ball—one object that sent the others off into motion upon impact. Ashley was the white ball, and each colored ball was a piece of me, that was now left scattered upon a landscape of green felt.
Knox approached and put his hand on my arm.
“Nic, what happened?” he said in a low voice that Toby and Victoria couldn’t hear. I turned to the living room to find them clearing the mess of food containers off of the table. I couldn’t look Knox in the eye, so I busied myself lining up my next shot.
“I went to get answers, Knox. I’m going fucking crazy. I can’t stop thinking about her—I can’t get her off my fucking mind. I can’t stop hating her, but worst of all I can’t stop loving her,” I admitted as I shot the cue into the three ball letting it fall into the corner pocket.
“What did she say?” he asked me curiously. This was not going to go over well.
“Not much. I really didn’t give her much of an opportunity. I-I kind of lost control and then went off on her before we…” I trailed off not wanting to admit what I had done. I lined up the ball once again to take my next shot. Knox’s hand came down on the stick stopping me from completing my task.
“Before you what, Nic?”
“Before I fucked her.” I admitted as I leaned my forehead down on the smooth velvet of the pool table.
“Jesus fucking Christ, Dominic!” Knox roared. I threw the pool stick down on the table as Toby and Victoria both looked in our direction.
“What is going on?” Toby asked.
“Oh, nothing. Our boy here may have just sealed our fate by going to visit Ashley today and fucking her!”
Toby just sighed and Victoria looked half disgusted. I stood there with my hands on my hips as I remained under scrutiny from my friends.
“Ugh, enough of this crap. I think we need a break. What do you guys say we go out tonight?” Victoria asked us all.
We all looked at each other, and I nodded in agreement. I wanted to get Ashley off of my mind even if I had to go out and get shit faced drunk to do so.
I walked statically into the studio for class with a heavy heart. Dominic’s presence still felt like it lingered on my body and I involuntarily touched my hips to feel the marks that I knew existed there. It was bad enough seeing him this morning, knowing how angry and closed off to me he was, but also to be reminded by my best friend, who was also mad at me, that it was my birthday.
The studio was already abuzz when I entered. Rownan was already there in a robe talking to Ginny, and I chuckled because I knew that was the reason why everyone was talking at once. I took a brief moment to pause and examine his profile. His soft wavy dark hair was a tad too long, but somehow worked on him. Even from a distance I could make out the beautiful length of his eyelashes; eyelashes that any woman would kill for that made his blue eyes even more prominent. He was tall, so tall in fact, that Ginny looked like a child next to him, barely having the top of
“Alright, look guys. We need to keep level headed about this. Fighting with each other will not do you any good. We need to stay together in this if we want to get past it all,” Toby said interrupting us.
I leaned over the pool table, lining up the cue ball as I stroked the smooth wood of my pool stick. I gave it a few priming swipes between my fingers before pulling back and ramming it into the white ball, sending it barreling down and colliding with the triangle stack of balls at the end of the table. I couldn’t help but watch as it hit the stack, sending each ball flying off in opposite directions and how much it reflected my life at the moment. One ball—one object that sent the others off into motion upon impact. Ashley was the white ball, and each colored ball was a piece of me, that was now left scattered upon a landscape of green felt.
Knox approached and put his hand on my arm.
“Nic, what happened?” he said in a low voice that Toby and Victoria couldn’t hear. I turned to the living room to find them clearing the mess of food containers off of the table. I couldn’t look Knox in the eye, so I busied myself lining up my next shot.
“I went to get answers, Knox. I’m going fucking crazy. I can’t stop thinking about her—I can’t get her off my fucking mind. I can’t stop hating her, but worst of all I can’t stop loving her,” I admitted as I shot the cue into the three ball letting it fall into the corner pocket.
“What did she say?” he asked me curiously. This was not going to go over well.
“Not much. I really didn’t give her much of an opportunity. I-I kind of lost control and then went off on her before we…” I trailed off not wanting to admit what I had done. I lined up the ball once again to take my next shot. Knox’s hand came down on the stick stopping me from completing my task.
“Before you what, Nic?”
“Before I fucked her.” I admitted as I leaned my forehead down on the smooth velvet of the pool table.
“Jesus fucking Christ, Dominic!” Knox roared. I threw the pool stick down on the table as Toby and Victoria both looked in our direction.
“What is going on?” Toby asked.
“Oh, nothing. Our boy here may have just sealed our fate by going to visit Ashley today and fucking her!”
Toby just sighed and Victoria looked half disgusted. I stood there with my hands on my hips as I remained under scrutiny from my friends.
“Ugh, enough of this crap. I think we need a break. What do you guys say we go out tonight?” Victoria asked us all.
We all looked at each other, and I nodded in agreement. I wanted to get Ashley off of my mind even if I had to go out and get shit faced drunk to do so.
I walked statically into the studio for class with a heavy heart. Dominic’s presence still felt like it lingered on my body and I involuntarily touched my hips to feel the marks that I knew existed there. It was bad enough seeing him this morning, knowing how angry and closed off to me he was, but also to be reminded by my best friend, who was also mad at me, that it was my birthday.
The studio was already abuzz when I entered. Rownan was already there in a robe talking to Ginny, and I chuckled because I knew that was the reason why everyone was talking at once. I took a brief moment to pause and examine his profile. His soft wavy dark hair was a tad too long, but somehow worked on him. Even from a distance I could make out the beautiful length of his eyelashes; eyelashes that any woman would kill for that made his blue eyes even more prominent. He was tall, so tall in fact, that Ginny looked like a child next to him, barely having the top of
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