Sapphire

I Cheated On You

Hesitantly, Drew pressed the doorbell on the wall. It was almost immediately answered. "Drew?" Reve asked, soumding rather surprised.

"You never returned my calls. You just left and you didn't show up! Do you know how worried I was?" Drew angrily shouted, although a large part of her felt relieved to see him.

"You should come in." Reve invited her in. She stood there with the cold biting at her fingers but still stubbornly refused. "Well then, suit yourself." He slowly started to close the door, knowing Drew would walk inside because she hadn't finished telling him off yet. In fact, she'd only just got started.

Proving him correct, she stopped the door with her right converse and stepped inside. As she was lead through the hallway to the living room, Drew looked around and took in her surroundings.

~Flashback~

"So, this is your home?" Reve questions in awe. "It's rather big." He earns a look from Drew. "I don't mean big as in lonely. It does feel homely, I just meant that it's not really what our salary would buy." He tries to correct himself.

"Okay." Drew laughs. She knows he's nervous and allows him to continue making a fool of himself, purely for her own amusement. "I had a big inheritance." She explains.

"Oh, me too." Reve stands in the centre of the kitchen. "Sorry to hear. What age were you when your parents passed away?"

Contemplating her words, Drew decides to go with the truth. "My parents are still alive, though, they're not much to do with me. I lived with my uncle until a few years back. That's how I became an agent. It's what he used to do. So what's your story?" She places two coffees on the kitchen counter and waits for Reve to take a seat next to her.

"I was seventeen and my brother, Logan, he was only fifteen at the time my parents died. They died here in New York." He holds the coffee cup to warm his hands. "We moved to South Carolina to be with some distant relatives and I took care of him ever since then. My dad used to teach us all about computing so me and Logan used to do a lot of hacking when we were younger. Then we decided to do it professionally as a job. He stayed there and I moved here."

"I'm sorry." Drew takes a sip of her coffee. "Well, at least you're not boring." She shruggs.

Reve lifts up his cup. "Why did you assume I drink coffee?"

"Because everyone drinks coffee." She replies.

"I don't. I guess you could say, coffee was never my cup of tea." Reve jokes, earning a shove from Drew.

~Present Day~

"This is your home?" Drew asked in a whisper. Reve nodded. "We used to have a home together. It never felt like a home again until you stepped foot into it a few days ago."

"Drew..." Reve seated himself on the couch next to her. "I'm sorry. It wasn't easy for me either. I had to leave you and it was the hardest thing I've had to do. The thought of you moving on was enough to make me come knocking on your door."

A short pause followed before Drew shook her head. "Then why didn't you?"

"Because you didn't move on." He answered. "I thought we were trying again so why have you resorted back to this? I don't need a guilt trip. It hurts me so much. Every single day was so hard without you. Knowing that you were just a few miles away..."

"Imagine thinking I was dead." Drew cut him off. "That's how it was for me. You could've told me. I grieved over you! I don't think you stopped to realise how I felt." She stated in a sad tone.

Reve swallowed the lump in his throat, a taste of sorrow. "Then tell me how you felt?"

"I suppose at one point everything in my life just shattered. I lost you and with that, everything else was also gone; The best part of me, my hope and most importantly, myself." Drew breathed in an uneven breath, as if talking about this was physicaly painful for her. "I wasn't myself for a very long time. That was until you showed up. So, please, don't leave me again because I don't think I could survive it."

Reve wrapped her in his arms and allowed her to cry on his shoulder. It was the first time she ever put it into words. She knew how she felt but she never said it out loud, not even to Finn.

A short while had passed before Reve spoke up and explained his absence yesterday. "I didn't want Skylar and Finn to see me just yet. It's not safe for anybody to know."

"Not even Sky and Finn." Drew scoffed.

"Especially not them." Reve said through gritted teeth.

Drew removed herself from Reve's embrace and took the tissue Reve offered her to wipe away her tears. "Stop being so paranoid. It's Sky and Finn!"

Changing the subject, Reve took the sapphire necklace hanging around Drew's neck into his hands and toyed with it. "Christmas present?"

"Mhm." She confirmed before adding, "From your brother."

"Logan?" Reve asked, overwhelmed with guilt.

Biting her lip and giving it thought of how to put it into words, Drew waited for a minute. "You know, maybe you should tell him that you're alive. He lost you too and I know that me and Logan didn't really mix much but you two were very close. After your parents died, he only had you and you left too."

"All in due time, Drew. Just give me a few more days, please?" He tried changing the subject once again. "So did he mail it or...?"

Drew laughed. "Get this, he just turned up at my door. Maybe that kind of thing runs in your family, just turning up at people's doorstep when they least expect you?"

"It's a Wilder trait." Reve agreed in a joking manor. "How is he doing?" From the twitch in her eye, Reve knew something was up and he was persistent to know.

Finally Drew gave up, "Fine! He seemed okay." Reve eyed her, waiting for her to continue. "We kissed." Her face had turned a strong shade of pink.

Reve doubled over in laughter. "You kissed Logan!?" He continued laughing.

"Why are you laughing!? I just basically told you I cheated on you!" Drew eventually joined in with the laughter, realising how ridiculous the situation was. "He's a better kisser than you, just saying." Drew tried to wind up Reve, the same way she just felt targetted.

"Ouch." He feigned hurt. "That mistletoe was meant for me and you."

Drew raised her eyebrows. "Well, look how that turned out. Then again, if you had bothered to turn up, it would have been different."

"Someone's being mean today." Reve sulked. "More mean than usual." He added.

Drew looked at Reve and in that moment, she wished that she could have seen the happiness sparkling in his emerald eyes and contentment. However, she could sense that he was no longer the carefree man she married, rather, he had something on his mind.

"What is it?" She asked, knowing the moment was going to be ruined.

Reve looked down for a mere second before deciding to tell her. "I think I know who it is but I can't tell you for your own safety." He sighed. "All I can tell you is that, it's black and white."