CherryLatte

when I'm with u

She heard the incoming messages on her phone. She didn't even need to check. She walked right over to her door and opened it.

"All this time you have been home? Why didn't you tell me?"

Sigh.

"What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you I was busy?"

"How long have you been home?"

"A couple hours now"

"A couple --- you could have told me"

It seems like it's inevitable so Tash decided she might as well get it over with now. She was not really the kind of person to prolong something if it needed to be done. They both knew this.

"Why? I don't have to inform you of everything I do"

"But you knew I wanted to see you"

"Maybe I didn't want to see you"

Keva paused. Both his words and his body halted. Tash lowered her head, in an attempt to avert his eyes. She did not mean for her words to hurt him. She didn't even mean it like that. When she steeled herself to look up again, she saw him taking a step towards her.

"How can you say that?" he said, taking another step.

His eyes had changed from puppy to lion. It was a look she saw sometimes. Not often, but she was very well aware it was in his repertoire of expressions. Though, she had never seen it in this context, not really. She would not back down now. It was not in her to do so.

"With words. How does one say anything?" she scoffed out, turning her head away so she wouldn't have to look at his face, and those eyes.

He took another step towards her in response. "Are you mad at me?"

Tash had stood her ground, so by now he had walked right up to her, leaving but a few inches between them. Her arms were folded in front of her chest and her cheeks had puffed up.

"What do you think?" she spared him a glance.

"I think I don't know why you would be mad at me," he took a step back in an attempt to look her in the eyes. She met his eyes, and he could see the fire ignite in them.

"Then if I don't have any reason to be mad at you, maybe I'm just mad then. I must be a frigging mad woman." Keva reached out to take her hands with the intent of soothing her anger, but she only slapped it away. "No!-" She had balled her hand up into a fist and was pointing her finger right at him as if issuing a warning. "What exactly is your relationship with that woman?"

He wasn't expecting this turn. "What woman?"

"What woman??" she sneered at him. "What woman do you think I'm talking about?... Goo. Oh! I'm sorry, Mr. Goo"

He had to control his expressions. "Laryn?" He certainly wasn't expecting this.

"Yes. Laryn. Professor Laryn. Are you two in some sort of relationship?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Or I don't know...were you in a relationship?"

"It's 10 o'clock at night and I'm sitting in my car outside of your house. And you think I'm in...or want to be in a relationship with someone else!?" He had raised his voice ever so slightly which earned him a stare. "You're right. You are a mad woman" This earned him a glare.

"Then why does she talk to you like that? Why do you let her just say things that you obviously don't like?" Tash's tone indicated anger but her words suggested something totally different. "And why does she look at me like I robbed her in broad daylight?"