Never forget you

Chapter 50: Knight

When I return to the booth my smile falters. We've got a guest and I'm not fucking happy about it and from the rigid set of Skye's shoulders neither is she. I slowly approach the table making my stop at Skye's side. I glare down at our unwanted guest.

"Maddie." My voice is stern hoping that she gets the hint to get the fuck up and leave but no dice. This girl has been one of the roots of our issues and I don't need her mucking shit up when Skye and I are finally getting on good terms.

Maddie and Skye are still staring at each other, a smug smirk on Maddie's face before she tilts her head up to look at me.

"Well hey there, nighty Knight. You look smokin'." Maddie gets up and before I know what she's doing she's got her hands wrapped around my neck and giving me a sloppy kiss on my cheek. She pulls back running her hand down my chest but I grab it before it can get any farther.

"What are you doing here, Mads?"

"Oh, you know, just grabbing some ice cream before the party at Nick's. You coming?"

I look down at Skye, her eyes burning into Maddie and man, oh man, if looks could kill I have no doubt that the blonde would be in a body bag right now. My eyes remain on my girl while she stares daggers at the girl who she thought I left her for. "Don't know yet."

Skye finally looks up at me, our eyes connect but she's different now. No longer do I see the girl who was beyond happy to be here. The girl with so much lust, desire and love in her eyes. Now all I see is anger, betrayal and hurt behind those aquamarine eyes and a pit forms in my gut. What in the hell happened while I was in the bathroom?

Looking back at Maddie I maneuver around her before taking my seat across from Skye at the booth again. "If that's all, Maddie."

She looks at Skye before looking back at me. Smiling she touches my shoulder, my eyes remaining trained on the girl sitting across from me. Those blue eyes narrowing for a split second before a masks comes down across her face. No!

"I hope to see you there." Maddie looks between me and Skye, smiling a fake smile, "Both of you I mean. I'm meeting a friend who's in town for the weekend. I think you guys would really like him."

"Mmm." Is all I can muster to say.

Maddie leaves us with another smile and a wave of her taloned fingers. The second she's out the door Skye sits back in the booth, her shoulders slightly slumping down while she plays with her ice cream.

"What was that about?" I ask trying to break the quiet tension surrounding us now.

Skye looks up, sitting up straighter in her seat before taking a spoonful of ice cream. Meeting my eyes she pulls the spoon out of her mouth, my dick twitching at the thought of her tight, warm mouth around my cock the way it's wrapped around the spoon. My eyes flicker down to her lips watching them move as she says, "How does she know your nickname?"

"Huh?" My hazels fly up to her blues.

"How. Does she. Know. Your. Nickname." She says the words slowly, annunciating each one as she guides a new spoonful of ice cream to her mouth.

I blink a few times thrown off by the question but then it comes back to me. Maddie called me nighty Knight. I hadn't even realized at the time because I was so focused on what the fuck she was doing here and how Skye was taking it. "I have no fucking idea."

"Mmm," is all she gives me.

I push the rest of my ice cream away, my stomach turning in knots making me feel sick. "Skye," I wait for her to look up at me. When she finally meets my eyes after a minute I continue, "I swear to you I have no idea how she knows my nickname. You're the only one who calls me that."

"Not anymore," she murmurs and it feels like someone just punched me in my stomach. All of the air gets knocked out of me at her response because I have no idea what it means. Is she saying she's no longer going to call me that? Or simply that someone else now knows her nickname for me? Or is it something more, some deeper meaning that she no longer wants us to be an us?

I stare at her for a moment. My leg bouncing as my fingers twitch. I look down at my hands, the new ink on my finger still sore. I smile down at it before deciding to use it as the perfect distraction.

"Wanna see it?"

"Huh?" Skye quirks her eyebrow at me which makes me smile. I separate my fingers, putting my pinky down to hold up the outside to her. "SED?"

"Mhmm," I smile, a twinkle in my eye I'm sure but Skye just looks at me like I'm crazy.

"What the hell does that even mean?"

I laugh. Full out, belly holding, tears building laugh. "You serious?"

Skye's eye narrow as she scans my face in question. "Um. Yes? Am I supposed to know what that means?"

I chuckle, looking down at the table and shaking my head. When I look back up at Skye's irritated face I can't help but smile. "Yeah, babe, you're supposed to know what it means."

"Well, I fucking don't, okay." She pushes her ice cream away and I let out a slight sigh. Maddie fucking ruined the mood and I'm desperately trying to get it back but it doesn't seem like it's working.

"You ready to get outta here? I can take you home if you want?"

Skye looks up at me before nodding. When we get in the car I let out another sigh before asking, "Where do you want to go?"

It feels like an eternity before she answers. "Let's go to that party."

My eyebrows pinch together as I start up the car. That is not at all what the fuck I expected her to say. Hell, I expected her to rip into me or leave a string of curses and smack talk about Maddie showing up and ruining our date but to my surprise she's been quiet. Moody but quiet. I feel like I have no idea what's going on right now but I'm not going to risk ruining this date anymore so if that's what she wants to do then I'm going to oblige. It doesn't stop me from confirming though. "You sure? We can just go back to the house and watch a movie or something."

"Yeah. I'm sure. I need a fucking drink."

I swallow over the thick lump forming in my throat and give her a nod before heading toward Nick's house. I don't voice that we can just drink at my place because I'm not a fucking idiot. Tension is running high and I don't want to risk it blowing up so instead I sit in silence while I drive to the party. I'm losing my girl-losing my chance-and I don't know how to fucking stop it.