Sorry, I Love You.

2.26

TW : Mentions of r*pe

"How did you get a tattoo at sixteen? Aren't you suppose to be an adult for that?" Zoe asked from her big cafe chair that Teddy left her in.

"My uncle's a tattoo artist," Howl explained as he tried to look down at the art piece on his chest that he had lifted his shirt for Zoe to see. "So after years and years and years of begging my moms, they finally caved and let me get one for my sixteenth birthday."

"Would you put your shirt down already? There are other people here." Fisher groused with a slight blush to his cheeks.

Howl snickered at Fisher's bashfulness and shifted his attention back to Zoe as he pointed to a faint mark above the tattoo. "And this little purple spot is from Fisher's attempt at giving me a hickey when I took his virginity a few days ago."

Fisher's face and ears turned a deep shade of red now as he stared at Howl in shock. Howl laughed and finally dropped his shirt to wrap his arms around Fisher and make sure he didn't run. Taking Fisher's virginity was something that Howl was very, very proud of and wanted to brag about to everybody he spoke to, since he had such a big mouth. However, Fisher was a very private person and was even more bashful so discussing sex and his virginity so casually was not his favorite pass time.

"You guys did it?" Zoe perked up in her seat, her brown eyes full of interest and curiosity.

"Oh, hell yeah." Howl bragged with a cocky smirk. "Multiple times. Over and over again."

"Jesus Christ, Howl!" Fisher exclaimed as he slapped both of his hands over Howl's mouth, sitting twisted and awkward in Howl's lap. "Don't you ever shut up?"

"Can I ask you a personal question?" Zoe whispered as she scooted forward to sit at the edge of her seat.

Fisher and Howl carefully studied Zoe, who looked very serious and invested. Fisher turned to face forward and slouched into Howl's embrace, allowing himself to relax despite the warmth in his face.

"Shoot, princess." Howl said.

Zoe pulled her lips into a fine line as she search for the right words. "Uh-Uhm... How?"

Howl's eyebrows gently pulled in above his nose as he tried to decode Zoe's very weird, very broad question. Even Fisher sat in silence as he tried to put Zoe's stumbling words together. It wasn't like she was asking a very difficult question but, if she was asking what they thought she was asking, then neither of them really wanted to answer.

"What do you mean, Zoe? Do you need me to explain gay sex to you?"

Zoe's eyes widened and her mouth fell agape. She definitely didn't mean that, although, she was incredibly embarrassed when she realized that's how it sounded. "N-No! That's not what I meant! I just meant, because Fisher has always been very reluctant with you.. it's hard to imagine he'd agree to something like that..."

"Oh!" A knowing grin spread across Howl's face. "You mean, how did I seduce him?"

"He didn't seduce me! Don't listen to him!" Fisher blurted before Howl could say anymore. "It only happened because we made a deal and he actually followed through with it so I graciously decided to reward him."

"You made a deal? What kind of deal?" Zoe asked.

"Howl was instructed not to touch anybody when he went out to a bar, and he says he didn't, so I agreed to finally have sex with him. I just needed him to prove that he's capable of being loyal to someone." Fisher said with his chin held high.

"Oh..." Zoe frowned and sunk into her chair.

There wasn't anything in that story that she could apply to her own situation. If she made that deal with Teddy, he would probably laugh at her and walk away. Her only competition was Kim, and maybe Jennie, yet neither of them had really been a problem besides the one incident. Maybe Teddy was still talking to Kim and Zoe didn't know, but she didn't think he would. He said he wasn't interested in Kim and Zoe would take his word for it, since they promised not to lie to each other.