Spark / l.h ✔️

7

I knew I'd pissed him off just by the way he looked at me. "I swear to god, Luke, you don't fucking touch her. Don't even fucking think about it." He snapped out at me, his hands clenching into fists. Obviously I knew I wasn't going to actually do anything to Coralia, especially not out of spite for Romeo, but I decided to keep on pushing his buttons. I gave him a grin and shrugged my shoulders. "Why not? I'm sure I don't have to tell you how hot she is. Maybe I'd even take her a couple times." I grinned widely, watching as he shot up off of the couch and came storming in my direction. He was definitely pissed.

Romeo grabbed me by the front of my shirt and yanked me up off of the couch, an angry scowl on his face as he glared at me. If I didn't know any better, I'd have said he was about to beat the shit out of me, but he just glared at me like I'd said the worst thing he could think of, and perhaps I had. "Shut the fuck up." He growled out at me, fisting my shirt in his hands. I just grinned. "Don't fucking touch Lia, Luke. I'm not joking. If I even catch you looking at her wrong, I won't hesitate to—" He was in the middle of threatening me when the front door suddenly swung open, stopping him mid-sentence.

Both of us snapped our heads towards the door and saw Coralia and Quinn stood there, looking at us. Quinn looked unbothered whereas Cora seemed very confused. "What the hell is going on here?" She asked, placing her bags on the floor. I hadn't even realized that three hours had passed since she left, not until I glanced up at the clock on the wall. Where the hell had all the time gone?

"Nothing, little tiger." I said casually, purposefully pushing Romeo's buttons. "We were just having a little talk." I smiled, stepping away from him without even a glance at him. She gave me a confused look and slowly nodded, probably wondering why the hell I just called her a little tiger. "Right," She said, eyes narrowed and darting between us in suspicion. "What were you talking about?" She asked, raising a brow as she picked up her bags and kicked the apartment door shut. Romeo and I glanced over to one another at the same time, probably thinking of the same thing: tattling on one another. "Well, Romeo and I were talking about you, actually." I responded, sitting down onto the couch casually. Her brows raised in surprise and she looked over at him, frowning. "Really?" She asked. "Why's that?" She asked, setting her bunch of bags onto the floor by the couch as she sat down beside me.

As she sat down, her scent fanned into my face and I subtly inhaled her cinnamon scent. She smelled really good. "Um," I muttered, now feeling a little distracted by her scent and her proximity to me. "We were just talking about how he screwed up, you know, with the whole...sharing things that shouldn't be shared." I said, glancing over at Quinn, who was in the kitchen. I didn't know if Cora wanted this to be known by Quinn, too, so I was trying my best to keep it on the down low. She snorted softly and crossed a leg over the other as she leaned back into the couch, her arm brushing mine when she crossed her arms over her chest. "Yeah, I'd say so." She said curtly.

A heavy sigh left Romeo as he looked down at her, frowning. "Can we please talk?" He asked her in a hopeful voice, biting his cheek. She studied him for a second and then sighed, her skirt swaying as she stood up. "Fine. Let's go, then." She agreed, slipping past him and down the hall.

They both disappeared from sight and left me alone with Quinn, who came wandering into the living room from the kitchen. She sat down on the other couch and ate out of the bag of Doritos that she had in her hand, looking over at me. "You like Lia?" She asked, cocking her head to the side curiously. I paused for a moment, lightly nodding my head. "Yeah, she's nice." I answered, shrugging my shoulders. Quinn rolled her eyes and popped a Dorito into her mouth, shaking her head. "No, idiot." She said after she ate the chip. "I meant you think she's hot. You know, you'd like to take her to bang town. That type of shit." She clarified, as if this were a normal thing to be asking someone you hardly knew. I looked at her a moment. "Um, n-no? She's beautiful, yeah, but..." I trailed off and shrugged my shoulders. "Not really my type." I lied.

Quinn laughed. "Bull-shit." She grinned, popping another chip into her mouth. "That's not what you told Romeo, anyways." She said, causing me to freeze.

"How'd you know about that?" I asked, frowning. She shrugged and finished off the chip in her mouth. "I got to the door a bit before Lia did and I'm not above eavesdropping." She answered simply, giving me a careless smile. I scowled a little and shook my head. "Whatever. I just said that to piss Romeo off. He was being an ass." I responded, crossing my arms over my chest. Even if I had said that for that purpose, which I had, I'd be lying if I said that Coralia wasn't someone I found attractive.

"Are you really trying to tell me that you wouldn't hop into bed with her? You only said it because of Romeo?" She drawled, raising her brows at me in a manner of disbelief. She wasn't buying the utter shit I was trying to sell, and I couldn't blame her. "Fine, yes. I would, but I won't." I answered, rolling my eyes at her insistence. Quinn laughed and didn't bother to ask me why I won't try to get into bed with Coralia, probably already knowing exactly why. It all came down to Romeo. Sure, I'd purposefully pissed him off today, but I wasn't going to piss him off by actually doing anything. I also wasn't going to just use her as some sort of pawn to spite him.

The two of us fell silent, Quinn with a little self satisfied smile on her face. I merely rolled my eyes and waited patiently until Romeo and Coralia came wandering back out, clearly having resolved the problem, judging by the smile on her lips and the way they were chatting in a friendly manner. "You guys solved the issue?" I asked, raising a brow up at Cora as she came and plopped beside me on the couch. Romeo came and sat down beside her, purposefully pulling her into his side so she wasn't as close to me as before. "Yes." He said, stroking a finger over her arm as he eyed me coldly.

They had solved their problem, but I had a feeling I had conjured up a new one that Coralia was completely oblivious to.