House of ghosts

Your'e you and I like that

It was Monday already,
You felt horrible,
You felt broken
You felt like you were sinking in regret
Cliff doesn't like you like you thought he did
Fuck are you using like again?
Your like.. 23 year years of age
Not 12.
You knew it had only been 3 days ago that cliff had met you, awkwardly in his bed
You felt bad almost
For feeling guilty
You begrudgingly got yourself ready
and ate your breakfast at the table,
Cliff was nowhere to be seen
And you didn't really care.
He had free will, and he deserved to have it
You went to get up to leave for work,
But just as you did so,
You heard the house phone ring .
You got up and answered it
You heard your boss, max's voice
He wasn't angry, yet flirty?

"You wanna keep your job.."
he said on the other end of the line huskily,

You felt disgusted
"I'd like to have money, yes.."
you responded
Only to hear max let out a sigh

"Meet me at 4, let me fuck ya once.. and I'll pay you more, hell.. I'll promote you.."

His voice suddenly wasn't the voice of your boss anymore, he was a total creep to you.
And you had felt disgusted
Feeling yourself want to hurl at the thought of him even calling you up to say such a thing

He heard you go silent,
and then he said something else
you didn't bother listening to,
all you heard from it, was

"If you don't.. I'll fire you.."

you sneered at his suggestion

You sighed loudly until bringing the phone speaker close to your mouth

"Are you listening"

"You damn right I am whore"

"FUCK YOU!"
you screamed into the phone until you slammed it onto to holder for it, hanging up on him

You turned around, only to see cliff
He had heard the whole conversation.
Face red with anger,
His fists were clenched,
His knuckles were white,
He was pissed.
He was fucking livid.

"Cliff it's okay- I'm not going to work today-"
You stuttered out, not wanting him to be angry at you

"Does that asshole not know boundaries?"
He said through his teeth
his jaw clenched

"I don't.. he was a creep anyway-"

Cliffs hands were shaking from anger

"A-are you mad at me?"

Cliff looked at you,
his eyes were filled with a fire you hadn't seen before
And the fire faded away
as he thought about what you said

"No.. no I'm not.."
He still shook with anger
But he slowly released his fists
His knuckles weren't white anymore
Don't get him wrong he was still fucking livid
With whoever this asshole of a boss was
But he tried to hide his anger from you

He looked down at his feet
"I would never be mad at you for something like that."

He spoke through his teeth yet again,
"Your not a fuckin' whore."

"Calm down cliff, I just don't have a
job now, it's no big deal."

Cliff looked at you, his eyes still shaded with anger but he grabbed your hands gently in his

"It is a big deal.."
"And I'm going to beat the fuck out of him"
He turned around quickly,
speed walking towards the door,
feeling that adrenaline in his form again.

You grabbed his shirt before he could go anywhere
"Cliff, no."

He was extremely overprotective of you
And you had just now learned this.

You said you will let him protect you
But if you let him go at your boss
Lord knows how far cliff will go

Cliff grabbed your arm and pulled you to him
"I'm sorry." He said softly
He felt the anger leave him
"I act like an adult child sometimes."
Cliff said blatantly, hugging you to his tall form
You hugged him back, feeling hopeful
"Don't worry about it., seriously."
You said as you  smiled
Cliff looked down at you
And he smiled back
"I would've fuckin' killed him."
He said as he grinned
"I know."
You smiled at his statement

"Sorry for being overprotective."
Cliff said

"It's okay.."
you smiled at his face of relief

"Your'e you.. and I like that."