Leo's Gold

Twenty Six | Parker...

"Parker?"

The black-haired man tilted his head to the side, his eyes studying the image in front of him. "Sage." He said quietly, moving closer to them. Parker's eyes adverted to Leo who stood close to Sage, as he tightened his grasp around his girl's waist. No longer was she Parker's and Leo knew what he had done to her, there was no way she would ever fall for the asshole again. "What are you doing... with him?" Parker asked, snarling his nose up at Leo. They were two polar opposites; one was dressed in a leather jacket with his hair slicked with gel so it would stay in place, the other with joggers and a grey Guns and Roses t-shirt on, his hair falling in his face messily.

Sage swallowed hard. So hard that Leo could hear it. "Parker... he's my boyfriend." Parker moved closer to Leo, Parker's fists clenching so hard his knuckles turned white. "Boyfriend? Really? This guy, is your boyfriend?" Sage's eyebrows furrowed as she looked at Parker trying to let him get under her skin. "Yes, he's my boyfriend."

Parker laughed without any humor in his tone, the loud animalistic laugh horrifying both Leo and Sage. "You've really missed me huh?" His voice was laced with sarcasm, "I mean, it didn't take you very long to just move on." Sage leaned closer to Leo.

"It hurt me what you did, I didn't move on for a very long time, Parker. But I have now, and whatever we had, it's over. I don't love you anymore, I-I don't even think I really loved you to begin with."

"You loved me." Parker muttered, trying to reach and caress the side of her face. Sage backed up, scrunching her nose in disgust.

"Oh yeah? You think I loved you? If I loved you, then why didn't it feel like my relationship with Leo? I actually feel the love back this time, I'm not scared to make a wrong move anymore. I'm not scared that he's going to fucking kill me if I piss him off."

Leo looked down at Sage, knowing that there was more to the story than what she had told him. "I never loved you, Parker. And I never will, because unlike you, Leo actually loves me and he has shown me more in just a few months than what you showed me in three years."

Parker stayed silent for a while, as they all looked back and forth at each other. And that's when it happened, when he snapped and lunged at Leo, throwing a hard punch to the side of his jaw. "Parker!" Sage screamed, watching as Parker jumped on top of Leo, bringing them both staggering to the ground. Parker continued laying punches on Leo's nose, jaw and mouth, the fist brutally torturing Leo's face.

"Parker! Fucking stop it!" Sage yelled, trying to get Parker off of Leo, who was fighting back just as hard. And as Sage laid on a hand on Parker's back, Parker leaned back and swung at Sage, hitting the side of her body so hard it made her fall backwards onto the pavement.

The anger and rage that surged through Leo was something he had never felt before. Seeing Sage hit the ground in pain, made him want to kill Parker. As Parker looked back at Sage, Leo flipped them over, throwing countless punches on Parker's face. Sage looked over in horror as she saw her boyfriend with his nose bleeding and blood coming out the sides of his mouth, brutally punching her ex. "Leo." She whispered, her voice coming out hoarse. "Leo, you're gonna kill him." Leo still continued, his ears deaf from what Sage was saying. "Leo."

"Leo!" She shouted, finally getting his attention. Parker laid unconscious on the pavement as Leo looked over at Sage who's ankle was bleeding from hitting the pavement. "Leo." She whispered, her lips trembling at the sight before her.

Leo looked down in shock to what he had done. Below him laid Parker completely knocked out, his face bloody and cut up from the pavement. He looked back at Sage, "Sage, I-I, are you alright?" He asked as he got off of Parker and rushed to Sage.

Sage looked down and nodded, letting Leo sit beside her. Luckily, no one was around and no one had witnessed the fight. Leo groaned, wincing as he felt his jaw bleeding. "I'm sorry." He whispered, his mouth agape and already swelling from the punches. Sage shook her head, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have pissed him off."

Leo could see how their relationship was like now. Still, even without Parker in her life, Sage still felt as if everything was her fault. He could tell that Parker abused her, and he couldn't let him get away with that. "Sage, it's not your fault. Nothing has ever been your fault with him, okay? He deserves to be dead right now for the way he had treated you, how he broke you. I-if you wouldn't have stopped me... I think I could have killed him."

Sage sighed, "I know." She leaned against him, sniffling. "And... I should have let you."