A Man On Fire - part 52

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That's close enough" she calmly said as he kept on wanting to come as close to her as she would allow, she judded her hip pushing her hands even deeper into her pockets, this wasn't ok, he had too much time to think of a whole lot of excuses. "Coco..I.." he stuttered, "I know my own name, Jay, was there anything else?" she snarled, her patience was starting to run dangerously low "nothing happened.." he quickly said, his mouth awfully dry, "are you really sure about that? Because I'm not, if nothing happened then we wouldn't be here". A shiver ran down her spine as he waited too long to answer again "it's simple really, either you start talking or I start walking..and the truth this time, I need..no I deserve the truth". He bit his lip just a little too hard, this was ridiculous, fuck this, I'm out of here "Harper! no..wait!" he jumped in front of her wanting to head back to the door "I'm telling you the truth..nothing happened, she can say whatever she wants but I didn't sleep with her". Harper looked up at him, she could tell if he was lying right? she could see it in his eyes, he wasn't that good an actor or a liar for that matter, all she saw in those blue pools was a crushing sadness, give him the chance to explain "I'm listening"she backed down a little. To her surprise he walked over to the nightstand, picked up the phone and ordered some roomservice "sit down" he said as he put the receiver down "please" he repeated when she hesitated, "you need food and a drink? Really? It seems to me you're just trying to buy time, Jared" she was cold, the cold in her heart started to spread through her body. "I'm not..it was Shannon..that last day with you in New York, he sent me a text in the plane..she was there, apparantly just dropping by.." she sat down just watching him, was there a spark in his eyes when he talked about that trollup? Nope. "I'm not gonna lie, we were together for quite a while, she was..a groupie, you know, the classic story, model agencies send models to shows, benefits, thrive on the fame of..whoever they can get their claws into, were we exclusive? No we weren't, we'd hook up when we were in the same town and then stay together until one of us had to leave again" he blurted out, it sounded too credible "oh, so I was just a testdrive inbetween hookups with her, right? I should've known, goddammit I can be so naïve, I always thought that love..real love is as simple to everybody else as it is to me, just one on one, simple, beautiful, true" Harper sighed shaking her head "I don't care if I sound old-fashioned..". Jared couldn't hold back any longer and sat down next to her putting his finger over her lips "you're not a testdrive and Val is nothing to me alright? How many more times do I have to tell you that? You are..you..I would fly to the moon and back for you..what I feel for you is something I've never felt for anyone..". There was a knock on the door "just a second" he had trouble disconnecting his eyes from her mouth before he got up and let his roomservice being rolled in, "you hungry? I ordered everything you like..".


"Back and forth, back and forth, I keep giving my heart to you and every time I get it handed back to me, nicely diced and sliced on a silver platter, I'm done with that shit,Jay..isn't it too early in this relationship to constantly cheat? Obviously you're not 100% happy with me and I don't know what else you want from me" Coco took a sip from her latte and put it down again. "I didn't cheat..I swear! How many more times do I have to tell you? Yes I woke up naked with her next to me, I told her to leave over and over again, the last thing I know is that she did..I went to sleep and..the only thing I can think of is that she spiked my drink at the club..I mean she even stole the key to my room, she just can't be trusted" his heart jumped in his throat, please just believe me, it's the truth "if I wasn't competely happy and satisfied in our relationship, would I go to these lengths to try and explain, to try and convince you of the truth? I know you find it hard to believe, and I know that there's a lot of prejudice about the music industry with the sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll clichés, but I swear I'm telling you the truth?!". His question was met by her staring him down "if you are, then you've got a psycho on your hands.." she licked the milky moustache from her top lip "so what are you planning to do about it?" there, the ball was in his court now. Wait, did that mean that they..wowww "because I'm at the end of my tether with you, Leto.." she added "I'm not gonna keep doing this with you over and over again, so you tell me, what are you gonna do about it? If you wanna keep me you're gonna have to convince me that I'm the one you want, because let me be absolutely clear with you: I would absolutely leave you before I have to share you, so either you make a clean break with those past lovers or I walk". How did he even deserve this creature? She got up and straightened her shirt "so if you're not gonna talk, I am" she started making her way to the door, "wait! Where are you going?" he shot up as well, "I'm going to talk to 'your Val', see what she has to say,what room is she in?".

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