All These New Beauty Marks

Chapter 2

We caught the unsub. Turns out it was one of the suspects sons who was bullied by the kids. Such a shame he was only 15. Reid walks up and we are having a conversation when I get a call. "Kent😍😏❤️" the screen reads. Spence look down at it and laughs.

"Well looks like you should probably take that." He says through a smile. I consider it but I was having a good conversation with Spence.

"Nah I'll call him back later." I say hanging up the phone. He shrugs and continues talking about this new fiction book he's reading. It actually seems kind of interesting so I actually listen. I feel my phone vibrate a bunch in my pocket but my phones on silent so Spence can't hear. All the sudden he gets a call and unlike me he actually answers his calls, so I check my phone. I have 7 missed texts 6 of which are from Kent and one is from Henry. That's odd, Kent never texts me more than twice. I check Henry first because he is dependent on me. His text is:

"Mom Leo's mom wants 2 know if u can pick me up tomorrow but she says it's  fine if you can't and she's fine to drive me." I answer him telling him his grandma will pick him up at lunch time tomorrow. She is wanting to take him out. Henry has a PD day tomorrow. I open the rest of my texts from Kent:

"Hey babe are you okay?"

"I'm worried you've hung up the phone twice now?"

"Did I do something?"

"Haha sorry forgot you had a case and you're probably just working. Wanna order a pizza tonight?"

"Actually can't tonight I just made plans."

"Okay well I'm gonna be on out for a while so text you later ❤️ love you"

That's weird. He usually doesn't text me so much. Who else would he have made plans with? Probably just someone from work but he isn't really a people person, oh well.

"Hey Jayje you look confused." Emily was approaching me. I look up from my phone and turn it off without answering.

"Uh yeah just texting my boy." I laugh half distracted.

"Which one." She asks jokingly pretending not to notice my absence.

"Henry." I say laughing at her question. She laughs as well and goes over to her desk to work. I take my case files and bring them home with me. Guess I get the house to myself tonight. Fine with me. I walk into the elevator and Rossi follows. We ride down most of the way in silence until he says something.

"Brutal case huh?" He says sort of asking a question.

"Yeah." I agree. "Glad everyone's okay now though." I say. The elevator opens and we both part our separate ways. I get in my car and drive home.

Once I'm home I immediately smell something odd. Alcohol. I walk in and see Kent on the couch with an entire vodka bottle in his hand, half empty.

"Kent what are you doing, I thought you had plans?" I say.

"Cancelled." He says simply while taking another swig of the beverage.

"Oh okay well are you okay why are you drinking so much?" I ask him. I've never seen him with more than a slightly alcoholic whisky.

"What? Can't a guy drink for fun?" He asks. I laugh at this.

"You're gonna have one hell of a hang over tomorrow." I point out. I act okay but this actually really bothers me. "Why don't you put that down it's not good for you." I say soothingly.

"What?! You don't tell me whats good for me!" He yells. I'm shocked and he can tell. I've never heard him yell.

"I'm sorry I'm so sorry." He says.

"Maybe you should go." He nods and stands up. He starts walking out the door but he turns around to face me right after he passes me.

"Can I just have one quick kiss." He says. I am about to decline when I decide he hasn't really done much wrong and it's not like I'm not used to kissing people with alcohol breath. I agree and give him one quick peck. All of a sudden he pulls me closer and starts kissing me harder moving his hands up and down.

"No." I say simply and push him off me. Not hard like I'm mad, just slightly. He smiles which is not what I was expecting.

"Oh come on baby you did say you would." He says.

"Yeah I didn't know you were gonna be piss poor drunk." I say back defensively. He grabs me and kisses me again. "Stop! I said no." I say pushing him off me lightly again. "I don't want to."

"Whatever ugly whore." He says while walking out of the door.

"Excuse me?! What the hell did you just call me?!" I yell back. Kent has never acted like this and I'm not gonna let it slide.

"I'm sorry." He says again turning around and grabbing me.

"Um no. You're not." I say pushing him off a little harder.

"Did you just push me?" He asks with almost daring eyes.

"Yeah because I said no to something and you're trying to do it anyway." I say angrily. All of the sudden he slaps me. Not hard but it'll leave a mark. "What the hell?!" I yell even louder and push him.

"Oh god. I'm so sorry he says. Please oh my god." He says.

"Okay we will talk about this when you're sober. You can sleep on the couch." I say gesturing to it. I'm still mad but he's drunk we just have to talk through it and make sure it never happens again. He walks toward the couch and flops down. I grab a blanket and throw it on him then walk upstairs. I put on my pyjamas and climb into bed. This is not how I was planning tonight to go. But this was just a one time thing. Definitely.