Divide [Luke]

[Zoelle Heroux]

Zo felt sick to her stomach. 

Things had been going so well, or at least that was what she had thought. Had she been wrong? 

Luke and her always had fun together. She had been hesitant to trust him - truly trust him - but in the end she had done just that. She'd put aside her fears and they had become an official couple, more or less. That was really weird for her. After all, in that regard, he was her first. But she thought it had been going well. 

At least until she had seen him earlier that day, cuddling out in the grass with some blonde. Shirtless no less.

Surely that had to mean something. Right?

There had to be an explanation. That's what she kept telling herself. That's why she had walked away rather than confronting him then. Because anger hadn't been her first reaction. Instead it was fear. She was afraid of losing him. He had convinced her that her worries that she couldn't be enough for him were wrong. That he wouldn't get sick of her. That he loved her. 

That hadn't been a lie. It couldn't have been. 

The worst part though, was that she felt the same. She did love him. Which made the idea that he might rather be with someone else - or that he had been with someone else - truly petrifying. He had all the power to hurt her. Still, she refused to believe that of him. Sure, they had started with him hitting on her for casual sex, but he had realized that was a mistake. So there was no way he'd do that again... Unless that meant that he cared more about this other girl than he did her...

No, it couldn't be that either. 

Her mind wanted to go to the worst case scenario, but she hadn't given up hope yet. She was in way too deep to just give up that easily. 

So she had showed up at his room to meet him. She'd just ask him about it. There had to be an explanation. So she'd give him a chance. She had to do at least that much. Besides, he wouldn't break his promise. He couldn't...

It was with these fears and doubts swirling through her mind that Zo walked across the hall from her dorm to his. He wasn't back yet it seemed - was he still with her? But one of his roommates let her in. They were used to seeing her by now. So she simply sat on his bed and waited, trying all the while to focus on the love she felt for him rather than the fear that her heart had been mislead. 

[Lucas Blacke]

Driving. Why in the name of hell was Luke out driving? Well, te replenish up on snacks he could eat, obviously. That and to clear his mind a bit. What he said to Anthy wasn't what he'd meant to say.. or, was it? He wanted to, just not like that. Most of the confusion about it came not from what he said but when, if that was even a viable question. He was with Zoelle and happy! He wouldn't.. would not.. repeat.. the Karalie thing, right?

With a bag of carrots next to him and him munching on one while driving, Hammel came into view and he sighed. He knew he couldn't stay away much longer. He needed to do stuff anyway, like practice with his guitar. Make sure some other stuff bled through like that martial arts thing had done. He had one project he was proud of though, one that he wanted to talk about and with Zo because he knew she would appreciate it.

He parked up and took the bag with him as the one in his mouth slightly resembled a cigar to him. Walking in to the main building he nodded at the people he knew were there and made his way up to his dorms with the carrot clenched between his jaws, he arrived at his required floor and walked over to the door that belonged to his room as he hummed the theme to the Godfather. Slowly he took out his keys to open the door and find that there was someone for him as his roommates told him just as they were leaving. He had little guesses as to who it was.

He broke out in a smile and tossed the bag of carrots onto the kitchen counter and stuffed the keys back in his pocket. He thanked his roommates and walked over to his room, opening the door swiftly and seeing the main door close behind him, if it was who he thought it was they now had the entire room to themselves. He started a grin.

''I've been lookin' at some porn an' I got some new moves I wanna tease ya with.'' He said as he turned and saw it was indeed Zo sitting on his bed. ''Anyway, 'sup?''

[Zoelle Heroux]

Waiting was harder to do than it seemed. Especially with something so potentially awful eating away at her. It left her with not much else to do but sit and worry, making that knot that was forming in her stomach feel worse all the while.

In truth, she didn't have to wait that long. Perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, but it felt like far longer. She just wanted him to reassure her that it was nothing. A cousin maybe. A lesbian best friend. Something. She didn't want to think that he could be so disloyal so soon after swearing he would never be.

Finally he burst into the room though, all enthusiasm. Was it sex that had him seeming so happy, or was that her influence? Zo hated to think that it might be some other girl who made him feel good, even in a nonsexual way. Actually, especially in a nonsexual way. After all, Zo knew better than most that sex could be truly meaningless. Like an itch to scratch. That sort of straying she could forgive far more easily than knowing that he cared for someone else who could make him happy.

He was staring at her expectantly now, waiting for an answer, but all she could do was stare up at him blankly from where she sat on the edge of his bed. "Who is she?" she finally managed to say. "The blonde."

[Lucas Blacke]

The question came, the one he hoped she would never have to ask and he would never have to answer. Was she jealous? Was he.. doing the same thing he did to Karalie? If this all was an anime the camera would zoom out and his world would shatter all around him in shards of glass. Why so soon? Because he knew who she was talking about and he knew she was likely right to be jealous.

..was he ever happy? Or was he just going around seeing who he could land? The mere idea was stupid, but perhaps held more truth than any excuse he could come up with. He was a sad little bugger, wasn't he? He even slumped a bit as she asked and swallowed hard before even thinking of just answering the question. She deserved an honest answer, and Luke deserved to.. he didn't deserve anything really. But.. he wanted it to be as painless as possible. He loved Zo, and sometimes you would need to do things you wouldn't like, like letting someone you cared about go. It would be difficult, and he would most likely break down, but he needed to do this.

''Anthy.'' He sighed. ''She's been my friend since before ye an' I even met.'' That was both true and a lie. Anthy probably saw it as a friendship, but Luke had wanted more for a very long time. ''She's been helpin' me through some rough times.''