~𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕖~

Respect

After the funeral we kept our word and went to the studio, which I had figured out was now mine due to a paranoid Izzy making her first will after her granddad passed; but it would need to be read out at a will and testimony office for the final time, in a few days. But right now we were heading up to the main office and I noticed that Demi was being a lot more protective over me, I knew it was because of Luke, but I honestly liked her being this possessive over me so I just sat back and let it happen.

"So, Sydney. Did you and your dad ever finish the mural?" Luke asked, causing a shift in the mood a little. "Uhhh.." "it's okay Syd you don't have to answer" Demi reassured but I continued to answer anyway "my dad... Died, a few years back. And we didn't really have time to finish before he passed, but I did it on my own." "Oh.. s-sorr-" "don't say you're sorry. It means you feel the need to have pity on me, I'm not pitiful." I said, cutting him off. We sat in an awkward silence for about a minute before Trav stood up and headed over to the bar; pulling out 4 shot glasses, 4 regular glasses and a bottle of vodka followed by a bottle of apple sours "right. No more sad. Let's get absolutely shitfaced" we all laughed at his very blunt comment as he poured straight vodka into each of the shot glasses, handing them out one by one. "I don't drink vodka.. I'll do whiskey." Demi said as he held the glass out to her. "Are you an old man Demi?" Trav asked sarcastically to which demi shook her head "no? Then you're drinking vodka girl" she rolled her eyes at my friend and took the glass from him. "right, A toast, in honour of the sweetest, most caring, craziest person I ever met" I began, standing up with the shot in hand "awwe babe thank you" trav joked, standing up to hug me "sit down boy!" I smiled; chuckling at his fake disappointment "to, and in honour of, the greatest girl to ever enter all our lives, Isabelle McAllister" I raised the shot further and everyone followed; drinking them simultaneously.  

*time skip*

we had spent an hour, talking, remembering, and living in the past for a bit, just to take everything in. I could tell that the more Luke drank, the more confident and boisterous he became, which wasn't helping considering the fact that Demi was already pretty jealous of him trying to flirt with me; she hadn't touched a drop of alcohol since she had the shot so I knew that she wasn't drunk angry, this was just severely pissing her off. "Dem, if you wanna go, we can go" I whispered to her while Luke was trying to tease me by grabbing at my arm. "no, it's fine, you're having fun" she replied, but she wasn't looking at me, she was looking at Luke. As much fun as I was having, it wasn't fair leaving her to suffer. "hey, Luke, I'll call you a cab to your hotel, it's getting pretty late so I think it's best that we all go home. Trav we'll drop you at your place" I said standing up and taking Rhea by the hand. She slowly Rose to her feet and pulled the back of my dress down when she caught Luke staring, I was proud of her, she was keeping calm and not losing her temper, which a lot of people would have done by now, but she was staying together and gritting her teeth, she was stronger than a lot of people both physically and emotionally and I adored her for that. Travis immediately read the room and caught on that Demi was breaking and so they agreed with my suggestion, Luke however, in his drunken state was very reluctant to leave, unless I held onto him until we got outside. I was open to do it, because I couldn't lock the door until the place was empty, and I knew that he probably wouldn't even remember this. "no, Syd, can't you see that he likes you?!" "I know, but we can't leave him! I promise this is strictly to get him out of the building" "absolutely not, Syd come on, I've held myself together for so long and I don't want to snap at you, because of him!" "just, trust me on this one. Okay?" I stood waiting for her answer and although it wasn't verbal, it was a nod and that's all I needed. "okay Luke, c'mon, let's go" I said holding my hand out to him. He was quick to grab onto my hand and I walked him outside while calling him a cab. Once he had left I immediately turned back to rhea and began to apologise, but she reassured me that she was okay.

As much as I wanted to believe her, I couldn't, because she so clearly was not fine. But. I had a plan to make her confident that I only loved one person. Her. After dropping trav off at his apartment I began to take my plan into action. She was driving but she always glimpsed over to me, so when I began to pull at my dress and reveal the black, lacey bra that hid under it, she immediately began smirking and knew what I was doing. It didn't take long for us to get home and I noticed her face sadden a little when I pulled my dress back up, but it was only so I wasn't flashing anyone on the way up to the apartment. Her arm wrapped around my shoulders and she held me extremely close to her until we stepped inside and our door shut behind us. She pushed me against the door and waited for me to pull the dress back down. "I think... that we need to show Luke exactly who you belong to." she said; her eyes filled with lust, and her hand gliding over my collar bone. I immediately melted into her touch and allowed her to kiss and bite and suck on my neck; which began to leave red marks that would deepen in time. She was still pulling at my dress until it slipped off completely. I watched as her eyes glided over my body and her mouth curled into a smile. "I know you were close, but respectfully, Luke, can suck a dick" she said with a smile; causing me to chuckle and roll my eyes at her before pulling her back in for a kiss...