On The Rocks (Royce)

31

Jacob's P.O.V. 

"Are you fucking cheating on me?"

It took me hours to finally muster up the courage to ask the question. I decided not to ask Chresanto about the hickey the second I saw it because I was too exhausted to even keep my eyes open, so I couldn't possibly deal with an argument. I decided to just deal with it when I woke up the next day, but even then I couldn't ask Chresanto because he was off to work so I had to wait until five o'clock came around and he came home. I bit my lip as I stood at the island of the kitchen, watching Chresanto make dinner.

"Excuse me?" I watched him turn around from the counter, eyebrows raised in surprise. "Who are you talking to?"

"Are you cheating on me?"

He stared at me, eyes clouding with confusion before he seemed to realize why I had asked the question.

"I didn't give you that" I stated, shaking my head a little, "so don't try and convince me that I did".

"Jacob, listen, it's no-" "Chresanto, answer the question, please. Are you cheating on me?"

"No".

I stared at him for a moment before sighing.

"How'd you get it then?"

"The day before yesterday, when you were in the hospital. After I left, I went to Blaze because I wanted to just unwind and get away from the stress that seems to be hanging around. I got a bit drunk and the next morning I woke up with the hickey, I don't know who gave it to me or what really happened, but it was a one time thing".

"That's not considered getting a little drunk, Chresanto. You can't remember what happened so obviously you had more than enough to drink" I replied, frowning at him. "You let someone give you a hickey because you were drunk off of your ass".

"Watch your mouth, Jacob".

I glared at him, folding my arms across my chest.

"What do you expect from me, Chresanto? I'm upset! You have a hickey on your neck and you're acting like it's supposed to be the calmest thing in the world! For all I know, you could've had sex with someone at Blaze, and just drove home after. It could be so much more behind the story than you just going to Blaze for a couple of drinks".

Chresanto shook his head, "Jacob, I promise, that's not what happened".

"I can't believe you because you don't even know your own story".

"Do you not trust me? Because you're acting like you don't. Why can't you just believe me?"

We were yelling at each other and that's not what I wanted. I didn't want to get into an argument, but at the same time, why couldn't he understand that it was hard for me to trust and believe him? This wasn't just something that I could just let go of, anything could've happened at Blaze.

"Don't yell at me, Chres!" I shouted, "and stop acting like I'm the one that fucked up, because I'm not".

"Curse again and I swear you're getting a punishment".

Is that really all he was worried about? He was worried about a stupid punishment over the way I felt?

"You've got to be kidding me, right?" I asked, staring at him. I shook my head before throwing up my hands in disbelief. "Forget it, just... Forget it... I need some time to calm down. I'm going to Elijah's because I don't want to be here right now".

"How the hell do you think you're going to get there?"

"Bus, taxi, I don't know and I don't care".