Reverie [The Distortionist x reader]

Chapter 28

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TRIGGER WARNING: sexual innuendos

In all this madness

It's madness

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It's been two years since things have been set in place, since your life has been truly set in stone. You remember that as you're playing with Esther, and it makes you doleful. You even stop talking as the doll you're interacting with her as.

"Auntie..." she whines. Oh, her voice is so much more mature than back then. "Are you alright? It's like you're not having fun."

"Oh, dearest..." You inevitably smile. "My fun is a bit different. I'm doing this for you! Are you having fun?"

"Never mind that. It's like you are obsessed with me to the point you only have fun with me, huh?" Chris says mischievously.

Tiredly, you remind yourself that it's not supposed to be Chris, it's supposed to be Esther. You down one of the savory pebbles Stia gave you and everything's back to normal. "So, what were you saying, dearest?" you smile, now a tad forcedly.

Esther doesn't respond, only looking down at her doll despondently and unenthusiastically shaking it like it were talking. She then sighs.

Right before you can prompt her again, [S/N] and Henry waltz into the room, stopping before you two. "We're going on a date," [S/N] says, losing her energy just by looking at you, like you were another chore she had to take care of. "I've hired a nanny since you'll be gone all day today, alright, [N/N]?"

Henry and [S/N] had started courting in these years, just a friendly reminder that you had been left in the dust. If you thought about it a little more, you'd done the same to them, but you didn't want to think more. It is the way it is.

"Alright, [S/N]," you say tiredly.

"Just be careful when you visit Pierre, alright?" Henry reminds, nervous. You'd be out today because you were going to visit Christopher, so of course Henry had to be overprotective of you for something you three already agreed was alright. It just stoked the embers of displeasure toward your former best friend.

"Alright, Henry," you answer, not paying much attention.

The door closes until there's an audible slam. You continue playing with Esther even though she's not really into it, just to keep her busy until the nanny arrives. Once she does, you immediately leave, almost without greeting the caretaker and definitely without saying goodbye to Esther, and go to Stia's house.

The walk over passes by in a whir of anxiousness to see her and to see Chris.

You expect the warm "Welcome!" you hear as you enter her house. You now have a copy of her keys since you come over so often anyway. The key ring around one of your fingers jingles as you rush over to kiss her fervently. You'd continued seeing her romantically since your first kiss, like you had continued to see Chris romantically, both at the same time and both without Henry or [S/N] knowing. They are both fine with that - at least, they don't speak up about it because they know their reasons don't hold up for you and they both still want you. At least they know about it, right? In any case, there is no way they can't know.

The kiss you and Stia exchange is one of a husband coming home to his beautiful wife, but in your case, you'd both be out of the house pretty soon. And you want to make that sooner. "Stia," you start, breaking the kiss and looking lovingly into her eyes. "We have to go to Chris now. He's expecting us."