Chance Avaritia "Greed" (better_than) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2013-02-21 21:59:00 |
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Entry tags: | greed, zoe hansen |
Who: Greed and Zoe
When: Saturday morning
What: Greed's 3 a.m. texts
Where: Gas station, Greed's car.
Status: Complete
Amanda curled up into her pillow as Greed rotated his phone in circles against his chin, waiting for Zoe to respond to his 3 am message.
He had to get out of this bed. It was suffocating him. He still couldn't figure out why his replacement Zoe didn't work. Maybe she was broken before.
It was about 4 am when he left Amanda's to fish Zoe from her apartment. He started by honking the horn with a pleased grin on his face. He texted her again.
Outside. Aren't you ready yet?
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It was a minute or two later that Zoe came out of the building, bundled up in her coat because the weather was not pleasant at 4am. He was crazy for wanting to go dancing at 3am, she was crazy for actually responding to him. She didn't respond to his arrival text, just rolled her eyes at the horn. Great, if any of her neighbors see her getting into his car she'd be hated for months.
She was stressed still with Mike's little proposal and she hadn't told Greed yet. She wasn't happy with him either but she missed him and wanted to see him. It'd been days so... she got in the car, flopping into the seat with a yawn. She hadn't been sleeping well either but that didn't mean she wasn't tired. She looked at him and narrowed her eyes a little at the grin on his face, "You know it's illegal to smile in New York before 8am." she rested her head against the window and closed her eyes for a moment.
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When she stepped into the car, he could see the rings under her eyes. She looked as if she hadn't slept for days. "Well don't you look like a zombie." He pretended to nom on her arm, but she still looked as if she would fall asleep.
"Do I need to pump you with energy? Coffee of sex, take your pick." He had texted her the last few days randomly, even during his experiment with Amanda. He was thinking he might need to test a few more entrants before getting the results he expected.
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"Why are you so hyper...." she whined as he pretended to nom on her arm. He was like the energizer bunny on crack. She didn't move from against the window, "If I pick sex does that mean you'll blow up and I can go back to bed?" she turned her head before he could answer that, giving him a look, "Coffee."
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"Aww, so cute when you're cranky," he pinched her freckley cheek which he could actually see for once. It linked under his touch. "Alright, you're loss!" As if she were passing up a million dollars. The only coffee open this late were at an all night gas station. At least they had a spotlight, a perfect spot to pull her out for a dance.
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Zoe made a face and glared at him when he pinched her cheek, slapping his hand away and rubbing her cheek afterwards. "Why did I agree to meet you right now.." she was clearly insane. That and she had missed him. Which was ridiculous, it'd been days since she'd seen him, not even a week. And she was still upset with him. She closed one eye and looked out the window as they pulled up at a gas station. "You spoil me." she said in a flat voice.
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"Because I was going to drag you out anyway." He jumped out of the car to throw open her door and drag her out. He picked up her arm tugging it like a rope, but she turned it into a tug of war. Eventually, he git her out of the car, grabbing his leather jacket from the back seat to put on her shoulders. He pointed to the lit sign. "Coffee!" Ingenious moment, she should have been thrilled.
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"I hate you.." she said grumpily and when he finally managed to yank her out from the car she huffed. She blinked, completely surprised when he put the jacket on her shoulders. She turned her head to the side to look at the jacket as if to see if it was really there... and then it was gone. She frowned as Greed took the jacket right back. She couldn't help but look disappointed and looked at him like what the hell?
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Greed put the coat on looking at get confused. "Thanks for holding that." As soon as she wrapped up in her own arms he tackled her into a hug. "Jacket doesn't come for free." He waddled them towards the door. "Coffee right? You sure? Last chance to change your mind. I'm a lot warmer than coffee."
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Zoe was going to make a crack about him being a gentleman but he was mauling her like a bear, "No no no no!" but her no's ended on a unmistakable laugh. "Ugggh, hate you so much." but she didn't fight him off.
Even when when they got inside and to the counter, she just leaned back into him, "Coffee tastes better and doesn't give me migraines like you do." her hand reaching back to lightly push at his face.
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"Mmmmm, nom nom," he gummed her shoulder growling like a bear. She was warmer than the test subject he'd been trying out for three nights. His arms circled, practically elastic when they stretched around her. He kept her close, keeping his chin snug on her shoulder.
When she shoved him he laughed, waddling her forward until she nudged the counter topped with fresh coffee. "Awww, did you miss me?" He cooed in her ear. She was being stubborn, but she wasn't acting angry.
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It was amazing that for how often she yelled they were just friends, they always ended up looking like a couple. She didn't want to but she smiled a little when he nommed on her. He was so ridiculous but her life was so serious, he was such a welcome addition. She hated that.
"No. I'd miss you like I would the plague. As in not at all." just so they were clear. Though her lashes lowered for a second when she felt his breath on her ear. "I'm still upset with you." she said so he didn't think just because she wasn't yelling that everything was kosher. She picked up two cups for coffee, one for her and one for him. There was something else that was a little off.. she turned her head a little towards him and sniffed.
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Greed stepped back sniffing his shirt. It was a little more fruity, perhaps he should have taken a shower before leaving Amanda's after rolling around with her in her sheets. He shook his head with a shrug. "Perfume?" So it was a little stronger than he'd realized.
He quickly stirred his coffee swallowing down a good gulp.
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Zoe stirred her coffee slowly as she raised a brow, "Perfume?" she stepped closer to him again and sniffed again, "Very girly perfume." she added some cream to her coffee until it was almost the same color as her skin, "You know we could have met tomorrow if you were.... busy." since it was pretty obvious what he'd been up to.
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"It is a little fruity," he smelled it again, his nose crinkling at the the inhale. The coffee was a good coverup because he could practically taste it now.
He stirred some more sugar into his cup. "I wanted to see you now." There was no waiting with Greed. She knew that.
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Zoe sipped her coffee and leaned against the counter, watching him over the rim of the cup. "Mm." was all the response she gave him. She was sorta feeling gross that he'd snuggled her while having the sex of some other girl all over him. He was definitely not getting near her again tonight. Not that close anyway.
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He bumped her with his hip. "Did I interrupt something? I know it wasn't sleep because those circles under your eyes are practically hanging like a sack of balls under your eyes."
He pulled her hair back with his finger so she couldn't hide behind it or her cup.
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Zoe swatted his hand away and stepped back, "How sweet, no. But it seems like I interrupted something." she shrugged, trying to be okay with it and even offering a smile, "Did she at least buy you dinner first?" making a joke about how he liked to be used by women.
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He swatted back at her, mimicking her playfully. He poked her this time in the side to see of she squeaked. "I texted you!" He pointed between them. She was catching on to his experiment wasn't she? He clasped his coffee cup close and stepped back, squinting her over. Little mind reader. "Whatya think I was doing?"
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Zoe made a face when he swatted her and she jumped with a small squeak when he poked her and gave him a look.
Zoe looked to the side without turning her head and then looked back at him with a 'duh' look, "Uh... having sex?"
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His mouth twitched, moving from one side to the next. "Maybe." He hid behind his cup this time, bright blue eyes starring her down. "I was searching for that paradise you talk about."
He grunted into his cup setting it down. "It didn't work." He hated her for that.
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Zoe kept her composure, "Ahh, paradise. Well... how did you go about it?" she blew on her coffee a little not knowing why the hell she was asking. He probably picked up some random floozy and wham bam thank you ma'am'd her and expected to see heaven.
"Also.. isn't it great for you every time?" he was supposed to be amazing at sex so wasn't it paradise already?
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"She's a nice girl. Shy." He hadn't gone for the typical choice, the one that flaunted herself at him. His usual kind of girl wasn't going to work for his little experiment. "I'm trying a new angle." He propelled his finger around in a circle. "It's an experiment."
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Zoe looked surprised, "A nice shy girl.... what kinda experiment?" she asked curiously and took a sip of her coffee.
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He shuffled his feet on the floor. "I've got this theory that if she's the opposite if what I normally take home maybe it'll feel different." He shrugged. "After three nights my hypotheses isn't working," he tapped his finger against his lip. "Maybe I need more test subjects."
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Zoe choked on her coffee when Greed mentioned he'd been with this girl for three nights and she wasn't a floozy. She coughed and then looked at him with wide blinking eyes, "You're.... you're dating her?" shock wasn't a strong enough word for what she felt.
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"Ew god no. Does fucking her for three nights constitute as dating?" Though he'd gone a little further than that. He'd played the good boy card. The girl was sweet and had no idea she was nothing more than a lab rat for him.
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The look of mixed horror and shock was hard to get rid of from her face but she was trying, "Uh... yes? For you that's amazing. Wait, are you only sleeping with her or did you spend time with her? As in share a meal or anything that was done outside of the bedroom." part of her hoped it was only sex and she kicked that part of her.
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"What do you mean spend time with her? I sorta watched a movie I guess..." He didn't really care as much what happened to her though. Not in the way he did who was standing right beside him with that dumbfounded look on her face.
"Her name's Amanda and she's a year younger than you." He poured more sugar into his coffee, his voice dropping low, "she's still not you..." He tossed the stir stick into the trash in a frustrated manner. He didn't like her questions anymore.
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"Then yes... you are dating her." she stirred her coffee idly, "You must like her, I mean if you're spending time with her." Greed didn't really seem like a wasting time with doing things that weren't sex unless he enjoyed them kinda guy.
She frowned a little, "Well.. that's good. I'm kinda a handful." she tried to smile, the corner of her lips lifting for a moment. "And look at that, you know her name and age and everything. I think that shows a very promising start to a relationship."
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He knew better than that. He knew dating wasnt what he could count on his fingers, or even her smile. It wasn't as god because it wasn't Zoe. But it wouldn't stop Greed from himself.
His face turned upside down, his grim. "It's not a relationship." What was she doing? She was making this worse!
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"Well no... not yet. I said it's the promising start to one. Relationships take time. You get to know the person and... and discover them." which is what she and Greed did. There was a spark there between them from the start but he was planning on just stealing from her and then... well they got to know one another and feelings entered the picture. There was no denying that Greed was a good looking guy but Zoe really adored him for his non-physical attributes, his humor, his protectiveness, his wit, his surprising compassion.. things she wouldn't have known unless she'd spent time with him.
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Was she actually giving him advice on keepingthis girl? He had yet to find anything about her that he actually could fall for. Her eyes were too small, her skin too pale, and she needed some heels to hoist her up a few inches. She wasn't ugly, she was cute, but not cute in the way he wanted. She also had not a lick of freckles on her cheeks, so after kissing he found himself just rolling over in bed. She did have a nice smile, and once he got her clothes off, a nice pair of tits. She was good at sex, but it was nothing like Zoe described. She howled a little which was funny.
"She's cute I guess." He shrugged again. "I've discovered her. Three times. It's like plunging the same ship." He'd slept with one person more than once before, but only when he had an ulterior motive. This one was with the hope that he would be able to recreate something.
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Zoe wrinkled her nose a little, "No... not like that. Discover her in like little things. What kinda food she likes, whether she's ticklish, or likes to cook. You know.. more about her." She cupped her hands around the coffee to warm them, keeping her eyes on the liquid, "You should talk to her... be you. Not.. you know, your..." she wiggled her fingers in an up and down motion at him indicating his Sin face.
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"I don't know what to talk about." It wasn't like how it was with Zoe. It came easy, natural. What he gave others was nothing like that. He repeated what he knew worked, but Amanda was more innocent to what he was capable of. She had already formed her own picture of what he was like, so he was exactly what she saw. Not who he could be.
"She sees what she wants." Like the rest of the world saw Greed.
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Zoe shook her head and reached over and took his hand but kept her distance. "She sees what you show her." she squeezed his hand, "You showed me the real you and I liked it a hell of a whole lot better than your thousand other faces."
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"She sees this," he whisped a hand past his face. "She doesn't see this," he pointed to his chest, "because its not natural. What you see comes easy to me. With others its just a show." It had always been fake before, but somehow Zoe had unlocked something new. It was so cliche to think that, something that could be read out of a bad romance novel, but it not only sold copies---it was true in this case.
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Zoe squeezed his hand again, "She doesn't see it because you're not showing it to her. These things take time. You didn't show it to me when we first met either, remember? It took a while. This is the same thing with.. with Amanda." she fell silent for a moment, trying hard to be a supportive friend.
She took a deep breath and gave a smile but it didn't reach her eyes, "This is... I think this is great. This is good for you to actually invest in someone, you'll get more out of it than just a random hookup. You can build something." maybe this girl would be more accepting of his lifestyle and he could have a real relationship while continuing his fucking around and his sister.
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"But I don't build things, I tear them down." He kept her hand though, in the same way he'd clung it days ago in jail.
"Why do you say this is good? What are you hiding? What has you stressed?"
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"That's not true, you can build them. We're friends and that takes time and building and you did it." they must look ridiculous, not standing close together but holding hands.
She was taken aback, "I.. what.. no, I mean it's good because I told you before you should date and have a girlfriend. I'm not hiding anything, I'm just-- a lot is on my mind. It's been a stressful couple of weeks in general and it's--" she was flustered and rambling, "I just-- stuff." she ended lamely and frowned as she sipped the coffee and tried to take her hand back. "We're talking about you right now. Stop trying to change the subject."
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"I squeeze them!" He tugged her forward once her cup was within safe distance to press her to him. He wanted arms around him, hugging not just gripping his sides like he was a horse to ride. Amanda's arms didn't do that. Not yet at least.
He let up his grip after a while, laying his cheek on her shoulder with a heavy sigh. "That means more movies, and dinner and all the usual stuff. Would reading women's magazines help?" Amanda was not the last of this experiment, there would be more Amanda's to truck through this competition he was in with himself.
"What stuff? Me stuff or limp dick's stuff?"
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It took a moment but Zoe's arms went around him in a hug and she squeezed him tight briefly. "That's all the fun stuff and you can try but I don't think they really know what they're talking about. I never seem to get any good advice from them anyway." she wriggled in his arms to get loose, "Just remember to be yourself and the right girl will be the one that accepts you for you. And someone you can have fun with in and out of the bedroom. But it takes time."
"Just... stuff. Don't worry about it." she looked highly uncomfortable and tried to pry him off, "Chance.. I'm sorry but this is weird and kinda gross because you.. ya know." she made a face and kept pushing at him gently to get off. She didn't like the idea he was rubbing all over her when he'd just been rolling around in the sheets with Amanda. He smelled like her and Zoe didn't want to think of everything they'd been doing.
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He picked up his collar with another sniff, running down one of the aisle with an air freshener. He took it out of the plastic and rubbed it up and down his coat, shirt and pants and then waved it in the air. "Now I smell like fresh pine."
He hadn't forgotten about what she wasn't talking about. He handed her the air freshener crossing his arms. "It's about limp dick isn't it?"
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Zoe smiled a little and pressed her hand to her brow, "Chance..." but he was already making love to a cardboard pine tree. She stretched her lips thin and took the air freshner from him, "Fantastic. But it's still... on you." she wrinkled her nose and shook her head while she waved her hands. It didn't undo what he did and what was crawling on his skin and clothes. Amanda and sex was all over him still, now it just smelled like Amanda, sex, and pine.
She ignored his question and held up the air freshner, "We need to pay for this with the coffee. You know what I want? Gummy bears. Let's get some gummy bears." she started to move down the aisle towards the candy.
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All he could get a whiff of was solid pine. "Maybe its your coffee. It does taste a little funny." Then she was gone scouring for candy. He picked up a pack of twizzlers too, laying them and the open freshener on the counter. The clerk looked at Greed with a weird eye. "Did you bathe in this?" He fingered the little piece of cardboard towards Greed so he could scan the plastic. He didn't want to know where else he'd put that. There were a few wind up toys on the side counter that he swiped into his pocket when the clerk turned to rip off a few scratch off tickets Greed had asked for.
Greed grinned like a cat clutching his bag and stealing a lone penny from the 'help hungry kids' jar to scratch off his cards.
He stomped his foot when the first one ended up empty. He went for the next, watching Zoe out of the corner of his eye. "Stop. Turn. Speak. I know you're hiding something already." His smile broke records now he had so many teeth glaring.
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Zoe didn't comment, she didn't know how to explain to Greed that he could douse himself in cologne and it wouldn't make a difference. It was weird touching him knowing he had some other girls sex all over him.
She gave a bemused smile to the cashier that was having the conversation with Greed and paid for her gummy bears. She did stop. She did turn. But when she spoke, she raised her brows, "I. Am not. A dog." she popped a gummy bear in her mouth and headed outside.
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He scratched off another card. He'd only won a dollar in it but he slapped it down on the counter for the clerk to give him. "Seriously?" The clerk said with a groan. Greed took that dollar and stuffed it in his pocket like it was a million.
He then stomped out after Zoe, pulling out a twizzle stick and poking her with it. "What's going on?" She was his toy---"did he do anything to you?" He looked her over, circling like a lion until he couldn't physically pick up on anything. Then he went for a handful of gummies.
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Zoe looked annoyed, "No, he didn't do anything to me.." she didn't know why she didn't just tell him but something was holdingher back. She turned to keep up with him and closed her hand around the bag of gummies before he could smuggle some out. "No, these are mine. But I'll trade you two gummies for a twizzler." She kept her packet close to her chest and held her other hand out to him.
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Greed stuck the twizzler in his mouth, chewing on the end. "I like the yellow ones," he mumbled between chomps. He held up two fingers, reinstating that she was to hand over two as he pulled out another rope to hand over. He had it almost in her hand when he snatched it back, his own twizzle stick still in his mouth. "Two twizzlers, two gummies, and you tell me what's going on in there--" he poked his temple and pointed at her. He pulled out another twizzler, holding two in his hand waiting for her answer.
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Zoe looked at him and then gave a nod. She fished out two yellow gummy bears and held them out in her hand to him. She didn't know how else to say it and it wasn't a big deal really, right? He was moving on now.. he was finding a new girlfriend so maybe this would be a good thing for them both. Her thoughts crashed into each other and she blurted out, "Mike asked me to move in with him."
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Greed took the candy out of his mouth, the taste not appealing anymore. He tried the gummies but it still left a foul taste in his mouth. He flapped his tongue around and then shifted through his bag where he had stashed a few other things the clerk didn't know about. A few drinks and random stuff that now didn't seem so random. The coffee, the candy, now he was practically tasting pine. He popped out a bottle of listerine from the bag and started to drink it. The whole bottle.
"What was that?" The words she just vomited out of her mouth hadn't helped either. His stomach felt a little queasy just thinking about it.
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Zoe looked startled, "Ohmygod... Chance.. Chance, I don't think you're supposed to drink..." and then he downed the whole bottle, "...that." she moved closer to him to see if he was okay, "Do you feel okay?" meaning if they should call poison control or something. "I said Mike asked me to move in with him.. maybe we should get you some ginger ale or something?" her primary concern really was for him.
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There it was again! It was grating on his ears that whole sentence. He gripped his stomach. "I feel like I'm gonna puke." Maybe it was the listerine, or just a bad reaction to the fact that she was driving a nail right into his stomach. He was bleeding from the inside out now.
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Zoe looked close to a panic and put the candy in her pocket so she could grab his hand and put the other hand on his back, "Why did you drink that!?" god, he was like a kid you had to watch that stuck garbage in his mouth if you took your eyes off him. She helped him over to the side where it was clear and rubbed his back, "If you feel it coming.. then just go. I think it's probably better to get that stuff out of you." but she kept a grip on his hand.
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"Because my mouth tasted funny with that bullshit you just fed me. Moving in? Are you---" his sentence was dropped short when he started to puke out listerine and coffee. "Shit that burns." He stood slumped over with his hands gripping his knee with the hand she didn't cling to.
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Zoe looked away feeling queasy herself at the smell and sound of his vomit. She didn't need to see it too. She kept rubbing his back, letting him get it all out. Maybe he'd be too tired to talk about it when he was done. "Come on, let's get you to the car and I'll get you some ginger ale to sip. She closed her eyes and sighed, she had no idea her telling him that would make him endanger his health.
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It wasn't the worst thing he'd thrown up, or the worst hit, but there was a fit of jealousy swarming around. "Are you gonna marry him too while you're at it?" He held himself down feeling that last surge of upchuck reflex but it was a false alarm. He stepped back giving her the evil eye before getting in his car. She could get whatever, he was pouting.
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Zoe frowned and stepped back from him, she had a stern look on her face and didn't answer his ridiculous question. She let him sulk off to the car and went inside to purchase a bottle of ginger ale for him.
It wasn't long before the car door opened and she got in the passenger seat. She handed him the bottle of ginger ale, "Sip this."
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He clutched the ale tightly, still glaring over his shoulder at her while he took big sips. "What did you say, Zoe?" He actually sounded crushed. And he was. She had already wrung out his internal organs back in Kansas, now they were being dragged out with a surge of feeling he didn't know what to do with.
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Zoe didn't know why she felt guilty.. she looked at the dash to avoid looking at him, "I didn't say anything... he gave me till next week to decide. He said he's serious about us. And this is... a big step. If I don't move in with him, he's going to leave New York." it was more than a commitment on Mike's part, it was an ultimatum to shove her in the direction Mike wanted, a dirty move right out of Greed's playbook.
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That was an underhanded move. He was proud of it honestly, but what he wasn't happy with was the fact that it had Zoe in knots. "You going to let him shove you into that?" It was a way to keep him out. This boy was determined to steal her away, this time he was the kidnapper. Only Mike wasn't giving her a way out.
"Fuck." He pulled a blanket out from the backseat throwing it over them both.