𝔸 𝕃𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔻𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤 ➁

4. Dance To Stop

"Ayyyy!" Rhys shouts over the loud music as he walks towards me with some chick. "How's my best friend in the entire fucking world?"

"Yeah yeah, you want free drinks." I grab his favorite beer and hand it over the bar to him. "You're lucky my dad owns this place."

"And you, my friend, are lucky I'm going to let you stay at my place." He gives me a wink as he takes a sip from the bottle.

"Whatever. And what will this beau..." I stop midsentence because I realize the word beautiful was about to slip past my lips and the woman I was referring to is a woman that loathes me. I cough to cover up my almost fuck-up and more appropriately say, "uh, what can I get for you, Rae?"

She quirks a feisty eyebrow at me. "Were you just about to call me a bitch, Seth?"

I cough again, "nope, I was going to say the best sister in the entire world!" My tone sounding as thick with sarcasm as I can make it while giving her a hearty eye roll. Jesus, Seth, real fucking smooth. I might as well be eye rolling at myself.

"Whatever it is just make it dirty." I cock an eyebrow at her but don't say anything in return. I make her a vodka martini, extra dirty, and hand it over. She sips then looks at me with her hazel eyes filled with a look I've never seen before. Well, I've seen the look but never from her. "It's good, really good."

What the...

Before I have time to respond she struts away onto the dance floor and I can't help but watch her the entire way. Her long, naturally red locks are just above her rear-end and can I just say, her rear-end is looking mighty fine these days. Wait, no it's not. Her rear-end cannot look mighty fine. I cannot think anything about that particular rear-end.

"I'm going to get laid tonight. I really, really need to get fucking laid tonight" Rhys sighs in frustration and sips his beer again. I shake my head of those type of thoughts about Rae as I look over at Rhys. He's oblivious to the way I was just watching his sister and thank fucking god for that.

"Yeah, I hear you."

"How's Sarah these days?" I glare at him because he knows how much of a 'no-go' the topic of Sarah really is. "I take it she's well."

"I wouldn't know and don't care."

He chuckles and downs the rest of his beer. "So you say."

"Seriously, we're done." I deadpan.

"That's what you said last time."

I don't say anything else as I turn away from him to finish making a round of drinks. He knows how psychotic Sarah is but he also knows I've ended up back with her more times then I'd care to admit. But after the last time we're done.

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"Seth?" I hear Rhys calling my name at the end of the bar. "Seth!"

"Yeah?" I say as I walk over to him. "What is it, Rhys?" I already know what he's going to ask me as the girl in his arms is pawing the life out of him. I just know.

"Do you mind taking Rae home? I, uh, well..." This girl is all over him, it's ridiculous. "Carla and I would like to get to know each other better."

"Yeah, I got you." He heads off, kissing her as he does. I almost feel bad that Rae has to witness that. That girl is literally trying to devour Rhys right on the dance floor.

I spot Rae dancing with some guy as Rhys makes his way over to her. He's telling her I'm bringing her home and I know this because her eyebrows scrunch together unpleasantly. She watches him incredulously as he walks away and then her eyes flicker to mine. She frowns automatically. Wonderful.