Perish: Book Three (bxb) ✔️

22. Excuse me?

August Luna
Eight months later...

"I told you that we can't do that right now. I understand you're frustrated, but it doesn't involve you."

I started pacing around my apartment floor, pulling at my hair for the millionth time. "Kayax, you are cutting it very close to when you want to talk to my parents and when your re-debut date is. And it does involve me, or did you somehow forget it was me you were dating?"

Kayax scoffed as if he was offended. "I know who I'm dating."

"Truly? This isn't some small thing, Kayax. I asked you to move in with me. They finally finished renovating the house I'm moving into. You keep telling me a date as to when we're going to talk to my parents, and then you push it back; I understand that you are nervous, I do, but why do I get the feeling that you are trying to break..." Break up with me, is what I don't say. "Never mind. I have to get back to work. Make sure you eat something."

I hung up the phone before I could even get a response, pushing a stressed hand through my hair. I knew our relationship was going to hit some high, rocky waves, but I wasn't expecting it to drag us down this far. The past week, all we'd done was argue, and we hardly argued before it. Now, I hadn't seen Kayax in four fucking days. 

Kayax was finally becoming what he always wanted to be. He had a fully functional staff and company again. He'd recorded his re-debut song and filmed the music video last month. I watched as confidence started pouring back into him with every passing day. He went from this sensitive, healing being back to true Kayax fashion—not the evil part, but he sure had some fire to him.

And I fucking loved that about him. 

I loved him. 

Six months ago, Kayax sat down with me and told me about his concrete plans to hire a fully functioning staff. He had budgets, and plans, and he laid them all out, and we spent hours talking about it. At the end of the conversation, he then said he decided he was going to tell my parents the truth about himself and apologize. Then told me he wanted me with him so we could stand next to each other, but begged me not to pick him if it came down to it.

I told him that if my parents ever dared to make me pick, I would pick him because he was the one who didn't make me pick. However, while I didn't think my parents would have a good reaction to the news, I never thought they'd ever make me pick. And we managed to spend the last eight months narrowly avoiding my parents.

We'd sneak to Kayax's apartment, but we couldn't do many overnights because I always had someone coming to check on me, and I didn't want them to be suspicious. For Kayax's sake. I'd sneak over and have lunch with him on an occasion, or I'd visit him during the evening. But our time together was severely cut when he had a fully functioning staff because no one could see us together apart from Salem and Raven.

It was getting hard, but I didn't mind because he was mine.

Kayax then started telling me that he'd tell my parents on this day, and then he wouldn't. And then it was another attempt to talk to them with me, and then he backed out. And the cycle kept spinning, and I kept understanding because his re-debut was still far off. But now, it was only a little less than two weeks away. 

On top of that, I was moving into my Dad's former house in a couple of days. So, because I had faith in Kayax, I asked him to move in. We argued. That was the argument that constantly started flaring the ones we kept having now. And he started getting a little distant—more than a little distant. And I couldn't help but think that maybe he decided I wasn't worth the mental energy I was taking away from him.