Souls Tied: A Love Island Tale (Aaron x Rob)

Recouple Repercussions

"So, I just wanted to quickly talk to you..." Liv began.

Rob gulped. It had been a night since he told Aaron about his kiss with Leah. He hoped that Liv would be left in the dark since he had expressed very little interest in her, but there he sat with her, beneath the neon blue "All The Feels" sign on an orange sofa surrounded by ivy. As Liv instigated the conversation, Rob felt like his ass was being bitten by several venomous snakes.

She better not know about this...

"...like, obviously, like, I didn't really respect that, like, when you spoke to me, you were, like, still wanting to get to know the both of us, right?"

Sh*t...

Rob hesitated, "Yeah..."

"Which is fair, okay. I was also hearing conversations and people were very much clear that you were way more interested in Leah, which is completely fine. Your feelings are valid, 100 percent, but, like, everyone was clear that there was no kind of, like, chance here with us. But when I'm also hearing what other people said, plus I'm also seeing you, like, trying to get her attention, and then you take her to the dock for a conversation while we're all getting ready, it kind of comes across a little sneaky. I think it's kind of disrespectful."

"Well, can I say something?"

"Yeah."

"100 percent valid, and I respect the way you feel about that, but I feel like from our first chat, I told you that Leah is my number one."

"In the conversations we had, you were like, 'I still want to get to know both of you.' Well, you never said to me directly, like, 'I'm more interested in her.'"

"Yeah, I did. I said that the first chat. I said, 'She is my number one.'"

That did not come out right...

Rob froze once he heard those words come out of his mouth. He did not recall mentioning to Liv that Leah was his number one. She might have been in his head during the kiss, but ultimately, she was a safety net until he knew for sure who to envision a future with.

"Let's be real," Liv interrupted the silence, "I have no feelings against you going for Leah, there's none of that. It's just don't make me look like a f*cking idiot in front of a group of people. Don't do that. I don't like it."

Liv abruptly stood up and stomped away.

Yep, I deserved that... I'm such a dickhead...

After his five-minute pity party, Rob scanned the area to make sure Liv was out of sight, rose from the sofa, adjusted his overalls, and made his way over to Leah, who was on a similar couch a few paces away.

"I'm kind of upset tonight..." he admitted to her, "Actually, I'm really upset tonight."

"Do you still choose me over Liv?"

Um... neither...

Rob quickly changed the topic, "Why did Kaylor kiss Hakeem?"

He remembered the game of Vacation Vixens from earlier. After each islander got to playfully roast a few others, they had to throw a harpoon at a picture of one they chose to passionately make out with under a prop waterfall. Naturally, the whole island was shocked to their cores when Kaylor proudly announced that she intended to kiss Hakeem in the challenge.

"I have no f*cking idea," Leah answered, forgetting about Liv as potential competition, "I'm actually being dead serious, that was, like, the most random thing ever. Like, really random."

"Aaron..."

As soon as his name slipped from his lips, Rob's eyes scanned the villa for him. He finally caught a glimpse of him at the kitchen bar chatting with Kordell and Serena. As expected, he seemed pissed off from earlier.