INKED - poly!cashton

nine

- wednesday : week 4 -

Eve is in the shower when she hears the front door unlock and open. She smiles imagining the two men opening her apartment up with a key of their own. The bathroom door opens and she looks out the shower curtain to see Calum poking his head in.

"We brought dinner," he smiles and she breathes out a breath of relief that she wasn't going to have to cook anything.

She hurries up in the bathroom, walking out in only a shirt of Calum's he'd given her and a pair of underwear. Ashton and Calum are already at the table eating and talking amongst themselves.

Eve slips into her spot at the table, beginning to eat. "I don't know, she was just acting weird the whole session," Calum shrugs and Eve raises an eyebrow at the conversation.

"Yeah, I noticed," Ashton snorts, "Was afraid that if I didn't come to sit by you she'd start groping you,"

Eve cringes, "Ew what?" she asks and Calum chuckles.

"This girl came in today, some Instagram model who wanted a picture of me on her timeline I guess but she was just really touchy," He almost shivers as he thinks about it and Eve tries to not feel jealous, if Ashton isn't acting jealous it gives her no reason to.

After dinner she finds herself squeezed between the men on the couch. Some show plays in the background that none of them focus on. Eve works on some drawing practice that Calum assigned her, Calum finishes up a piece for later in the week, and Ashton just scrolls through his phone mindlessly.

Eve's phone buzzes on the couch next to her and she ignores it at first. In the past few weeks her Instagram had been blowing up due to Calum announcing her as his new apprentice and the other guys posting some goofy videos and pictures with her on their Instagram Stories.

When it buzzes a second time she picks it up and stares at the screen weirdly. 2 new messages from Ethan.

Ethan: Hey have you moved into a new place yet?

Ethan: Are you going to Dog House Friday? Would be nice to see you

She hadn't spoke to Ethan since the day she left with their last messages even being about when each other would be home. When Ashton notices her staring at her phone, leg beginning to bounce up and down, he looks over at it.

"Is that Ethan?" he asks seeing the messages and Calum looks up at the mention of the name.

"Yeah?" Eve responds sounding just as confused. "I'm not sure what he's wanting..."

"Are you going to answer?" Calum asks and Eve continues to just stare at the screen.

"I- don't know," she sighs. His contact picture is still a picture of both of them when they were dating. It was taken at his family's cabin, standing on the deck. His arms wrapped around her as he kisses her cheek. It was early in the relationship before anything bad began to happen and for a moment she misses it.

She types on the screen a few times, deleting message after message before just settling on:

Eve: Yeah i got an apartment