I tossed my phone on the kitchen island as the alert came through. He posted again.
I cracked a smile at the photo. But she was there.
She was right there.
I shook my head locking my phone back up.
The black screen was a reality check for me.
He came so easily and can be gone so easily.
"I am just saying that isn't correct!"
I looked up as Sebastian came through the door with Harlow infront of him.
"No, I am telling you that is how it goes." Harlow shot back at him.
She passed the food container over to me as I caught it. "I am just saying that isn't how I am gonna play."
I flipped the lid as part of me was waiting for him to walk through that door.
Sebastian closed it with a laugh, "I don't like that."
Harlow glanced back at me, "Brooklyn?"
"I think I wanna take a walk."
"You sure?" Harlow asked me.
Sebastian looked back at me, "Is this about the photo?"
"What?" Harlow commented back confused.
"No, this isn't about that." I grinned back at him.
"Trust me, Scarlett is a bitch but I wouldn't worry about her. She doesn't mean a thing."
I nodded my head back at him, "So where is he? And why does he only talk to me at night. He comes in the back way of the building. You really wanna say something to me? Its been a month since the fight. Nothing has been ok."
Harlow looked back at me, "Brooklyn..."
"I am gonna take a walk. I will come back later."
Harlow watched me out the door.
"I am gonna call him." Sebastian picked up his phone.
Harlow reached over pushing it back down, "No, she needs to say it."
"Say what?"
Harlow looked back at him. "He needs to make a choice."
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My hood was pulled up over my head as the wind started to pick up around me.
My blonde hair was pulled into a braid that fell onto my chest.
His building was on the other side of town but that didn't matter.
The night sky was growing dark when I came up to his place.
The park across the street was emptying with children as the basketball courts were now starting to fill up.
I stopped on the other side of the fences as the guys ran around in the half circle yelling for the ball.
My eyes went to the black SUV that pulled up to the building with the door man.
His long legs came out of the building first.
The signature baseball hat couldn't hide his jawline for miles.
Somehow the basketball slipped of their fingers and hit the fence infront of me.
"Hey darling, you like what you see?" His lip curled up as he flexed.
I watched the black SUV pull away from the front of the building, "No, I actually don't."
The guy narrowed his eyes as I turned away from him heading away with my phone up to my ear.
----
Harlow sat on the couch curled up next to Sebastian when her phone went off.
"Hello?"
"Where the fuck is my sister?"
Harlow sat up as Elsa's voice echoed through the phone, "She went out for a run."
"Really? I am fucking looking at her doing shots at Purr!"
Harlow reached over taking Sebastian's phone. She went right to snapchat.
There it was.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck."
"Get her out of there now." Elsa snorted back through the phone.
Harlow scrambled up grabbing her pants from the floor, "Get up!"
"Why?" Sebastian asked back.
Harlow turned around hopping toward the front door, "Because our friends are about to make the worse mistakes of their lives tonight."
"What?"
"JUST PUT YOUR PANTS ON!" Harlow shouted back at him.
"I was comfortable." Sebastian remarked back at her.
-----
Purr was solid.
Harlow scanned the room. "Anything?"
Sebastian shook his head back at her, "Nah."
Harlow bit down on her lip, "If we can't find her, she will do something stupid."
"Stupid? I thought you had something better for me."
Harlow's eyes got wide.
Sebastian licked his lips as Harlow slowly turned around to face him.
His smile was wide, "Hello Low."
"What are you doing here?" Harlow muttered out over the loud music.
"I love LA like everyone else."
"No..."
"I got her!" Sebastian pointed across the way as my body popped up through the crowd. He started the crowd as Harlow stood there looking at him.
"I see Brooklyn hasn't changed."
"You sick bastard." Harlow mumbled back to him with her bottom lip trembling.
He cracked a smile, "She liked it."
Harlow pushed him back, "You hurt her!"
"She liked it." His smile turned wicked.
Harlow pushed him again, "You left marks on her!"
"SHE ASKED FOR THEM!" He shouted at her.
Harlow went to swing again when someone caught her hand.
Chris looked down at her, "What are you doing?"
"Oh Harlow, two guys?"
Harlow shook her hand at him as she rushed toward him. Chris wrapped his arm around her, "Wait, a moment."
"Fuck you Theo! Fuck you for doing that to her!"
Chris's head snapped over in his direction, "Theo?"
He looked at Chris, "Oh hello mate."
"Theo, the guy that touched her?" Chris released Harlow.
Harlow narrowed her eyes, "Chris, Chris?!"
His fist knocked Theo to the ground as the dancers backed up.
Another fist sent the snapping sound around them.
"Chris!" Harlow shouted as she tried pulling him up.
Another fist sent blood down his face.
"Christopher!" My voice broke the next down take.
Chris glanced up at me as Theo's head rolled over to me.
"Jesus Christ man, what the fuck..." Sebastian pushed me over to Harlow. "What the hell did we get into man?"
Harlow slipped her arm under me, "Theo?"
"I didn't know he was back." I whispered back to her.
"Chris knows about him?"
I found her eyes in the darkness of the night, "He does. He saw the scar."
Harlow's eyes dropped from me.
There are just some things that some people don't want explained.
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Sebastian stood outside the bathroom door rubbing his chin, "You just had to punch the guy?"
Chris looked up from the sink, "Don't question me."
"Really, I can't question you."
Chris tossed the towel into the sink, "I need to check on her."
"You need to get your story straight."
"My what?"
"She thinks you are fucking around with someone else."
"But I'm not."
"Really? I am here like all the time and where the fuck are you?"
"I have other commitments."
"Like what or who?" Sebastian asked him back.
"Fuck you man, you don't get to judge me. Didn't you fuck that one girl then come over and hang out with Harlow? I mean does she know about that?"
"I didn't but thanks." Harlow snorted back at Chris.
Sebastian turned away from her.
"Where is she?"
"In her room." Harlow crossed her arms.
"Can I talk to her, or do I need permission for that too?" Chris snapped back.
"You know about Theo." Harlow's eyes went up to his. "You know something only a couple of people know about. Don't destroy her like he did. Don't take whatever sunshine she has left and just burn it."
"I would never do what he did to her."
"She can't forgive herself for him after their death. She can't get over it. And neither can Elsa." Harlow looked over at my door.
Sebastian sat on her bed as Chris went across the apartment to my room.
Harlow sat down next to him.
"I didn't hook up with another girl then come see you."
"Shut up Sebastian." Harlow rolled her eyes back at him as my bedroom door clicked shut.