Starting Paranoia (Jay)

[Aponi Lebennon]

Aponi. Was. Livid.

She was like, absolutely fuming. She had just met her ather. her father. The man that had died when she was twenty seven and so she had kept her form to be of that age, and never any older/ Because he had died. And was dead.

Her mother had even said. She remembered her words distincitvely;

"Aponi, don't tell Charlie, but dad's... He's gone. I don't know why. I think he just decided to die, for some reason." Not the most sensitive thing she could say. By far.

She had also lost Aaran, and had been away for god knows how long, consuming vast amounts of alcohol to muddle her demon-brain into an oblivion which took the pain away. Which had worked, until she had run out of money for such a vast amount of alcohol.

Then she had crashed and burned. So she was ill-tempered, groggy, in desperate need of a slap in the face and several pints of water. She had actually built the entire digestive system of a human, just to get drunk in the first place. She was suffering the consequences. She didn't like having a digestive system. At all.

So, it seemed the perfect opportunity to visit her friend Jay. Not.

Nonetheless, she meandered along the corridors untill she came to the appropriate door and knocked loudly. She adjusted the shades that were sitting on her face (They helped reduce the light, which made her dehydration headache not so bad).

She knocked again, and knelt down on the floor and slipped her hand under the crack, and formed her fingertips into an eye. She looked around to see if anyone was in, which threre was, so she quickly retracted her hand and waited nervously.

She was "wearing" a tightly fitted dress that went down below her knees. She knew that Jay wouldn't care much for her revealing large amounts of her body. He already thought that she was a creepy perverted ancient hag-lady. Which, she was. So she didn't want to give him another reason to think so.

The door opened, and she froze, nerves shaking her tired frame.

[Jadyn Amethyst]

Bubble bath interrupted.

The days had started blurring as to what had happened on what day. So many strange things happening far too close to each other and far too many strange people. Well, he liked Ithica at least the half demon had been nice to him, even if he was strange. Was it that he, himself, was strange so he attracted strange people? He didn't view himself as strange, just a regular boy trying to get through being a teenager. Or at least that's what he was trying to be. Being a dragon with one eye at a school for special people did tend to put a huge damper on being normal.

Anyway, there he was staring at homework that was already two days late. The reason he was staring at it wasn't because he didn't understand, no, it was because he was debating not doing it at all. It was time consuming, boring, and pretty pointless. If he aced the next test, which he usually did, then it would make up for the fact that he missed a few assignments. At that thought he grinned wadding the papers up and tossing them into the trash. Being lazy had officially won out.

He decided to start off his lazy weekend by taking a nice long, steaming hot bath with fizzy bubbles. With music plugged in he cranked it up high and slipped into the bath with lovely oils to sooth the mind. Ruby lay snuggled up on his big, fluffy towel on top of the laundry basket enjoying the warm steam coming off of the water. Surprisingly, even though his tunes was jacked up way high he was still able to hear a distinct knocking that did not belong with the song. Eyes narrowing he debated not going to the door, but Ruby had already gotten up to see what the noise was. She skittered back quickly chittering loudly in what sounded to him to be squirrelie panick.

Jay scrambled out of the bathtub grabbing a towel as he went and wrapping it around his waist. What had she freaked out about? Not seeing anything he figured he might as well open the door now that he was here. Figuring it was just a dorm mate telling him to turn down the music he didn't think to put on his bathrobe. As soon as he opened the door he regretted that decision. Jaw dropping, face flushing bright red, and eyes narrowing he was tempted to slam the door shut.

"You. What do you want?" He was so not in the mood to have another emotional roller coaster ride, especially not in the nude.

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[Aponi Lebennon]

Aponi couldn't help but stare. She blushed a dep crimson, and was speechless for a second. He wasn't bad. Not bad at all... But she shouldn't be thinking that. She had at least a hundred years on him. His less than favourable reaction also didn't help her bad spirits. Not at all.

"Well, I was coming to say hello. I'd ask if you were busy, but that's apparent." She said, smiling. She wouldn't let him get to her. She wouldn't let him get to her. He sighed, and conceeded, her anger giving away to dreary melancholy.

"If you really want, I'll go, but not before a glass of water. I've had a crap week, and I've drunk too much wine. I am dieing of thirst." She said, her eyes rolling into the back of her head, and appearing back, after completin a full circle. This was absolutely true - she needed water. Ok, as a demon, she technically didn't need it. But she had made herself need it, and it as punishment for how awful she had been to Aaran, and for everything her good-for-nothing father had done.

She looked him up and down again and blushed. She was so awkward sometimes. She didn't feel her apparent age - this presented itself in her appearance, which had slowly changed so that she was a little younger than Jay, in appearance. Of course, this could never change her age. She sighed once again, waiting for a response to her statement. If she paused long enough, Jay could answer some before she started up again. But maybe not. Why could she not just be normal?

((I apologize for the shortness ))

[Jadyn Amethyst]

Awkward level ten.

After a few seconds of her staring he realized how completely bare he was and lowered his gaze in shame. Taking in that she wasn't just about to leave even with his less than friendly welcome he took a step back. If she wasn't going to leave then he might as well let her in better than standing there with only a towel around his waist. People ruined his life as it was without the lovely bonus of seeing him talking naked to her. He mumbled a 'come in' before going deeper into his room and into his bathroom listening vaguely as he grabbed his bathrobe.

"Crap week, well that seems to be going around lately." Still in the bathroom he slipped on the long black robe and tying it tight before coming out again. Her looking at him and blushing was majorly throwing him off and he continuously fiddled with his robe still feeling far too, well, naked. Was it just him or did she look younger? Staring at her then glancing over her dress and legs then back to staring at her. Wow, this was the definition of awkward.

Shuffling his feet he ran a hand through his dripping hair then remembering that she wanted some water he went to the small fridge beside his bed. "I hope bottled water is okay that's the only thing I have that's cold." He grabbed a bottle then went back to her holding out the bottle at arms length suddenly terrified to go any closer to her. She was a walking anomaly in his life one of which that actually occurred more than once. The fact that she had come to him when she was somewhat drunk and down was shocking.

"Um, are you ok? I mean what happened?" Tugging at his robe's sleeves he stared at her completely forgetting that his body wasn't the only thing bare to her, and that his eye patch was left on his bathroom sink. He didn't like getting thrown off like this especially by a crazy demon lady, but he could at least try to be nice. But dangit it was hard when she looked like that and just came barging into his life again. It wasn't like they were friends or something, for he was pretty sure they hated each other. And he was staring again.

Cursing he turned his back on her finding Ruby sitting on his desk staring at him her head tilted to the side with curiosity. Yeah, she tends to make me feel like that too. He thought at his squirrel before twisting a bit to glance at Aponi. "Why did you come to me of all people?" Because I'm pretty sure we mix as well as oil and water. But he had to know why.

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[Aponi Lebennon]

Aponi smiled and followed him inside, looking around. She sighed. These kids were too young for this. They should be together, at least, or with their parents. Not having to cope on their own. There she was, a fairly dangerous demon, capable of easily killing Jay if she felt like it, and she had just waltzed right into his room.

She snatched the bottle and clawed the lid off, gulping it down, and standing tall, and hydrated. She felt the liquid soak throughout her body, and she sighed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks, kid." She said, forgetting the golden rule. Never call jay kid. Jesus, she had pissed him off now. Oh dear. Maybe he'd be a little more forgiving this time. She rolled her eyes and continued, answering his questions linearly.

"long story short, Aaran got ill, I met my dad, who's been dead for a hundred years, and i spent the whole week drinking wine to make myself feel less depressed. Now Aaran's gone missing, probably in hospital, and I have no idea where my freakshow of a farther is. The worst thing is, he has two bodies and he's playing innocent. You might have seen him, actually. A Redhead and a Sombre-looking black haired dude. One of them's called Azazel. I don't know which." She said, all in one breath, before sitting down on the clostst chair, and folding her legs, a look of stark satisfaction on her face.

"You look good in a towel, Jay. I'm surprised I could keep my hands off of you." She laughed, and winked, stirring up a littke of the tiny dust and ash particles in the room. She folded her hands, and drawled on;

"And I came to you because I have no other friends, and I came away from meeting you better than when I found you. So there. I said it. I missed you." She said, oggling him a little. She hadn't really noticed his milky-white eye. She didn't particularly care, either. She was an immortal, immoral, demon. He was a dragon with a weird eye. They were both people. They both loved, and hated. They both sought friendship, and revenge. So it didn't really make any difference to her.

[Jadyn Amethyst]

Time to ride the roller coaster again.

Jumping as she snatched the bottle he stared in utter shock as she downed the water as though it was life force. Was she really not okay? Maybe she needed life force? Though they'd already been down that road before and she'd made it very clear that he was not her food of choice. He swallowed but didn't really have anything to swallow seeing as his mouth and throat were as dry as the Sahara. Jay stared at her some more before heading over to get a water bottle of his own. Just as he was about to bend over to get a bottle she called him kid. Gritting his teeth he grabbed a bottle and slammed the door of the fridge shut while he felt the flimsy plastic bend in his hand. Eyes going wide he almost dropped the bottle to keep from bopping the lid off from gripping it too tightly.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me a kid? I'm not. A kid." He growled not wanting to look at her as she had probably done it on purpose. Going over to stand near Ruby he held out his hand to her and she eagerly jumped to it to climb up his arm and stare at the woman. She explained her week to him and he wondered who this Aaron person she kept mentioning was. Did she have a boy friend? He fiddled with the bottle cap staring at the floor as she continued to talk about people that did indeed sound familiar to him. Small world they lived it.

Her next lovely comment made him blush up to his burning ears which was probably what she was looking for in the first place. "Yeah, right." He hated it when people teased him though he could honestly say the flirting teasing didn't happen much, well, barely at all, okay she was the first. A part of him didn't know if her faking to flirt with him hurt more than other teasing or not. But another part of him knew for sure he didn't like it one bit. It hurt for some reason and that confusion made him resort to his backup, anger. Jay faced her now giving her the look she deserved or at least in his head she deserved it.

"Like I'd let some crazy old hag put her paws on me." Stalking over to his bed he was about to sit on it when her most frequent statement went through his head again. He stared at the bed for a moment feeling a dizzy then whipped back around to hurried move over to the window seat. She was only kidding, messing with his head, why was he getting so worked up? Stupid crazy hag.

As she explained he turned slowly to stare at her from beneath his long bangs unsure if he should trust her or not. Was it just him or was she staring really hard at him? Swallowing air again he stared at her in shock and cautious happiness to hear that someone had missed him. She'd missed him? No one missed him, his brother maybe, but no one else. This woman had to be just messing with him. He dropped his gaze back to the floor feeling timid suddenly and not at all happy about it. "You don't mean that. And I'd appreciate if you stop messing with my head."

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[Aponi Lebennon]

Aponi rolled her eyes. Obviously this guy was such a loner that he couldn't even take a compliment. I'm not. A Kid. she mimicked, mockingly in her own head. She sighed and cracked her teenage knuckles. She was still feeling a little woozy, so maybe this visit wan't such a good idea after all. It definantly wasn't a good idea. But who the hell ever said it was. Jay could snub it, and abuse her friendly advances all he wanted but it was all fundamentally true.

"Fine. You aren't a kid. I get it." She replied, hurridly. He was a kid. He was barely seventeen, if that. So she had every right to call him whatever. She just ignored it, though, and moved on. She knew Jay had issues, and who was she to say that she was perfect?

She giggled when he told her that he'd never let an old hag get her paws on him. Just to spite him, she decided, that was exactly what she was going to do. She leapt forward, and mid-jump, re-arranged her leigion into the form of a cat, and leapt up onto Jay's lap, before gently pawing at his trousers, and purring contentedly. She looked up at him with wide eyes;

"But, Jay, if I don't have you, who am I supposed to tease?" She asked, innocently, before turning back into her not-so innocent self, this time appearing as she had when she was just over twenty. As soon as she had learned the fundamentals of shapeshifting, Aponi had always made herself look slowly older. Until her father had died, when she was twenty seven. Then she had stopped aging. But now, she didn't care anymore. She would make herself look however she wanted. Just. Not. That. Age.

"And, I really wasn't kidding about how you look." She winked, slowly and sneakily attempting to peel off his bathrobe, with elongated arms. Of course, he would notice, and of course, he would stop her. She'd make no reall attemt to continue, simply out of respect. But what if he didn't try and stop her? She'd be in lots of trouble then. One of her eyes suddenly became very long, and she quickly corrected the sudden strangeness in her physical appearance, before stepping back, blushing.

(Sorry my replies all took so long)

[Jadyn Amethyst]

You have me crawling up the walls.

Once settled in the window seat with Ruby he opened the water bottle and took a drink before glaring at Aponi. Where did she get off just barging into his life like this? Such a rude, selfish woman. Her words rolled off him like water as he refused to accept the fact that she meant that he wasn't a kid. She might be over a hundred years old but it didn't mean he was a kid. He was well on his way into becoming a proper adult. Just because she was ancient did mean she had the right to call him that.

Tucking his legs up and crossing them in Indian style he yelped when she suddenly shifted into a cat and jumped into his lap. Not having anything on other than the robe he jerked back from her claws eyes going wide. Ruby sitting on his shoulder let out a stream of loud squirrel noises puffing her fur up until she looked like a giant puff ball. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" He yelled his heart thundering in his chest as she shifted back into her humanoid form. "Tease someone else! I don't like being teased. Hell, I don't think anyone does." Cheeks red he stared at the floor feeling Ruby's claws deep in his shoulder.

His eyes slowly went to her as she told him she'd meant it then they dropped to her hands. "W-what are you doing?" Swallowing dry he stared wide eyed at her and her weird arms. Throat so dry it hurt now he lifted shaking hands to shove her away wondering why she continued to mess with him like this. "B-bull crap you weren't kidding. You just like messing with me. If I'm such a kid why mess with me? Mess with an adult...or..or something."

Clicking his tongue Ruby glided to his bed side table as he stood glaring at her as she backed up. "You seriously have a problem with personal space don't you?" The blushing only proved to confuse him even more if she was really just messing with him then why did she kept blushing like that? Did she mean it? No, she was kidding around. He growled rubbing his face turning away from her and her blushing face. "Dammit, you are so freaking confusing. I've never known someone who could screw with my head and my emotions more than you somehow manage to do."

He pulled the robe in tighter from her loosening it earlier nearly dropping his bottle of water again in the process. Setting the water down beside Ruby he stared at the sloshing liquid for a moment trying to calm down. "Stupid, crazy old, hag." If she could call him a kid then he could call her an old hag.

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[Aponi Lebennon]

Aponi slowly backed off. She was feeling... fear? No, not a fea of Jay. Maybe, she was feeling rejection?Despite ehr kidding, she did like him, he was very cute, and he was one of the first males in her life for a long time that she hadn't just seen once and then been away with, because they had "taken advantage" of her. She always though that they were wrong, and that they hadn't. But, maybe they had after all. She sighed.

But there was still a gnawing feeling in the pit of her stomach. Something was terribly wrong. Horribly terribly wrong. She felt like crying, like curling up. She broke into a cold sweat, and thick drops of brown pure-leigion appeared on her body. She knew exactly what was wrong with her.

When she and Aaran were deciding on the terms of the pact, she had promised to always be there for him, and mother him, and always protect him. Well, she had broken that promise, or, that was how Aaran honestly felt. And since she had been gone for a while, she had been slowly dieing. That was why she had felt so bad before.

But she had to come up with a plan. If she didn't get some life-force soon, she'd be toast. Worse than toast. She'd be... burnt toast. And who wants to be a charred piece of toast that no-one wants and, as an added bonus, is dead!? No-one! Everybody hates charred, dead toast. So Aponi had to come up with something. Which she had, in the midst of her thoughts about burnt toast.

"Jay!" She rasped, the "sweat" of Leigion gone. She shreiked. She could feel all of her "cells" shutting down, as her whole body started to die. This was the end, unless she could do something. "Jay, this... this sounds stupid, but you have to kiss me." Ok, maybe he didn't have to kiss her, a touch would be fine, but this was funner. Much funner. "My pact - it... Aaran... Jay - I'll die, and leave an orphan and an unavenged will behind, unless you..." She was milking it a bit, with groans and grunts, as she fell to the floor writhing in "agony". "Please, Jay, please...!" She said, her face changing into all sorts of different colours before settling on a deathly white with rosy cheeks. "Please..." She said, one last time, trailing off. If he didn't do it, she was screwed.

[Jadyn Amethyst]

The kiss of life.

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Was she retreating? He stopped advancing as she continued to back away from him. Was she scared of him? No way she'd never acted scared around him before always the big macho, annoying demon. She did not look well, maybe she'd had a worse week than he thought? Expression softening considerably he took a few steps forward worry spreading over his features. She really did not look good at all. Was she sick? Could demons get sick? Was she messing with him again? No this looked far to serious for her to be just kidding around.

"Aponi? Are you okay? What's going on?" She gasped his name and he was instantly hurrying over to her side. Then he spotted the weird looking brown liquid seeping out of her body and his eyes widened in fear. "Um, are you supposed to be leaking?" That had to be one of the stupidest questions he had ever uttered.

Then she started rambling and the very first words had him going pale. "K-kiss you? What? Why?" Pact? What pact? "The pact for life force?" He reached out for her gently grabbing her upper arms having no idea what was going on. As her face turned a variety of colors panic started to set in. Die? She was going to die? A crazy demon lady was begging for him to kiss her to save her life. Could his life get anymore insane?

"No, no, I don't want you to die. What do I do?" Kiss her you idiot she just told you what to do! Cursing to himself for continually being an idiot he did the only thing he could think of because he was not going to let her die. Even if it was his first kiss it might as well save a life. "Don't die."

Swallowing again he lifted a hand to hold her head gently and stared at her for a second before leaning in. Here goes He leaned in the rest of the way closing his eyes a second before their lips met. Please don't die. Please don't die. Please don't die. You're the only one who's come back to me. Please don't die. I don't care if you're a crazy old hag that torments me. Please, please don't die!

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[Aponi Lebennon]

Aponi felt Jay's lips press against hers, and she also felt the familiar throb of a body brimming with life. Jay was a dragon, so he had plenty of "life-force", but Aponi knew that she could not, and would not take too much. She did not intend to shorten his life-span any more than possible, so she slowly started to take only as much as she needed.

She wrapped her arms around Jay as she grew stronger, still slowly draining life from him. Her eyes were clamped tightly shut, however, she could feel the colour returning to her face, her cheeks still a light rosy colour. She pulled him closer, and kissed him even more, before rolling over on top of him, and pulling away. She felt... re-vitalized. She looked down at Jay, who she had placed below her. She wiped her mouth, not even smiling, just looking at him. She understood from their last meeting that it was Jay's first kiss. Maybe he'd kissed someone since then. Probably not.

"Thank you... Jay. That was... interesting?" She speculated, slowly and shakily standing up, and offering her hand to the young dragon. A slight smile played about her lips, her cheeks still flushed. "The brown stuff, by the way, was my leigion. It's what my body is made of in it's purest form. I could barely hold my shape, I was that low on life-force." She smiled. "You saved my life, Jay."

[Jadyn Amethyst]

All I am is a cheeseburger to you.

When she had asked for a kiss he had not been expecting this, well, he didn't entirely know what to expect seeing as he'd never done it before. But the point being was that he'd just expected a small meeting of lips and that would be it. This was far more intense than a small meeting, this was arms wrapping around him, fierce, and draining as well as energizing. He knew what she was doing and knew what she had needed him for, but knowing and feeling it was two completely different things.

Getting pushed onto his back was not something he'd expected either and let out a small yelp into her mouth. This was just beyond anything he'd imagined and he seriously could not believe that it was happening with her of all people. But then it was over and he was left chest heaving, eyes still closed as he tried to arrange his thoughts. Thoughts like: 'What does this mean? Does it mean anything? What do I do now? Since she fed from me does that mean we have to make a pact? If so what could she possibly give me? Dammit we've already been through this and she told me...but she kissed me. But it was for food...right?' Poor teenage dragon boy, so very confused.

Jay finally opened his eyes and stared up at her mind in a whirlwind, his skin tingling, and his heart was still thudding against his chest like a hammer. Thank you? Interesting? Dropping his gaze he nodded scooting back to lean against the wall before straightening his robe. He stared at his bare feet for a moment before realizing that she was offering her hand to him and still talking. He'd saved her life. That was it he was just food. At least he'd gotten his answer.

"Puh, you owe me crazy lady. And if you ever let yourself get that bad again I'm seriously going to kick your ass. I mean dude that brown stuff was gross." He ignored her hand deciding to stay sitting for now feeling just a bit drained from that kiss for more than one reason. Running a hand through his still slightly damp hair he gave her a look and a grin. "At least you don't look like you're melting like the wicked witch from the Wizard of Oz."

Play it cool, act like nothing is wrong, same ole same ole. She's the crazy, hag lady that you hate. He gritted his teeth and stood snatching the clothes he'd laid out earlier and headed for the bathroom. "Be right back." And with that shut the door on her and her stupid kisses.

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[Aponi Lebennon]

Aponi giggled. Jay seemed so weirded out, she couldn't help it. She was glad she had made this little detour, Jay was so much fun. It was better than getting an earful that would increase with each minute she was away by a little half fae kid. She did love Aaran, but she had been through almost as much as he had in the past three quarters of a year in a week. She kinda needed a break.

"I owe you? I owe you!?" She said, mostly to herself, smiling a wicked grin. He was only giving her more oppertunities to bully him. Ok maybe not bully... Yes, her teasing was undoubtedly bullying. But he didn't really mind did he? Whu... wait!? He'd kick her ass!? Jesus, he had guts.

"You really think you can kick my ass, kid?" SHe said cackling, puh, whatever. She was nearly a hundred and thirty year old demon of ash and by extension, basalt, and by extension granite, and by extension diamonds! And he was a dragon kid that could turn into a two ton dragon that could probably roast her alive! Hmph. She'd still bet on herself. Maybe. Not a lot! Maybe... a dollar. Or two. But that was besides the point!

She made a loud "hmph" sound and walked away, to face the window. Crossing her arms. Ooh, Jay thought he was so hard! So tough! ooh, well he'd jsut made out with a crazy old hag, so he couldn't say anything about something! Aponi didn't know. her mind was still a bit dazed. She turned to him, and then made her face melt off into a puddle on the floor, first revealing her muscles and veins then her skeleton, before building itself back up again. The leigion she dropped simply formed a puddle, which she put her foot in, and simply sucked it up back into the rest of her body mas.

When he shut the door, she simply walked right up to the frame, and changed into a white night gown, chosing not to have shoes, and her hair wrapped itself up in an elegant mass of curles with cascaded from the top of her head. She leaned against the door and waited to shock him when he came out.

"You're a real good kisser, especially considering it was your first." She caleld through, a slight smugness in her words. "That little noise you made was so cute." She jibed. It was cute. Very cute, and Aponi blushed. She quickly tried to stop it before waiting for a reply, or waiting for Jay to come out. Whichever came first, of course.

[Jadyn Amethyst]

Push me one more inch, I dare you.

He gave her a filthy look as she went on about her owing him. "You're darn straight you owe me! You fed off of me didn't you?" Crossing his arms he continued to give her the look trying his best to act like his normal feisty self. If he even acted a bit out of character she would know something was up and pester him until he blurted it out. She was just that annoying, just that bothersome, and he couldn't let that happen.

She was laughing at him, yet again. Why must she always laugh at him? Shouldn't she be happy that he cared enough to threaten to hurt her if she let herself get that bad? He didn't want her to die, didn't want her to even get close to dying ever again, and she couldn't tell that? He didn't threaten like that for just everyone. Most people he didn't give a rats behind whether they died or not, and thus would not threaten. However somehow she'd weaseled in enough that he cared.

"I'll start eating charcoal just so I'll be prepared to kick your ass. You let yourself get that bad again and you're in for it. Stupid, old hag, shouldn't you know better?" She was so freaking aggravating. when he finally got to his feet he found that he was a tad weak on his feet but did his best to make sure she didn't see it. He was weak, incredibly weak seeing as he was a dragon, but he didn't need to be waving that fact around all the time.

His gaze followed her as she stormed off to the window wondering what had gotten her panties in a twist. Wait, no he did not want to think about her panties. Then she was suddenly facing him and his eyes widened as her face suddenly melted. "Did you not feed enough?" Worry rushed to the forefront thinking she was dying again. But then she mended herself and acted as though nothing had happened. His hands had reached for her without his knowledge and he'd taken a few steps toward her. Emotions plain on his face he stared at her in shock. She was messing with him purely messing with his head.

As shame and feeling like a completely fool filled him he threw up his mask of anger dropping his gaze. "You're are disgusting, foul, vile, and just plain despicable." He bit out each word snatching his clothes and disappeared. Not much longer after he'd entered the bathroom did he heard the knock. A part of him wanted to just sit on the bathroom floor and wait for her to leave. He was feeling like a total fool and had no desire to face her again.

In no time that was just what he was doing he sat tucked in a corner knees pulled up to his chest, and his arms wrapped around his legs. Stupid hag. Her words stabbed at him making him feel even more belittled and foolish. Rage bubbled up and out of his mouth. "Shut up! Just shut the hell up! You manipulative, little pervert! I bet you weren't even dying. Just seeing how much you can push me and mess with me. Well, I'm done! Go f*ck with someone else's emotions!" Yelling he picked up his bottle of shampoo and threw it at the door.

"I don't care if your week sucked. That doesn't mean you can treat me like your little toy!" Such an idiot, he was such an idiot. She was a demon, an evil, conniving, twisted creature, and she just tricked him into giving away his first kiss. It was just a kiss why did it matter that much? Because he'd really wanted it to matter, really wanted someone...Stupid hag...

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[Aponi Lebennon]

"L.A. I never knew you."

"You're are disgusting, foul, vile, and just plain despicable.". Way to go Jay. He told her the exact same things she'd known for a while now. Each day she was reminded. Even her father had chosen to pretend he'd died, and lose his memories, rather than be with her. And it wasn't like any of the relationships she had ever had- friendly or intimate had ever lasted more than a night. Maybe two. Even her fans had forgotten her. She sighed, and continued leaning at the door.

She was a liar, too now? That was something she preferred not to be called. She didn't lie. Ok, maybe sometimes. But she didn't break her promises and she meant every work she said to Jay. She just, kind of, said the truth to hide the truth. She knocked lightly again on the door.

"You know, Jay, I really was going to die." She said, in the most sincere voice she could muster. "I got a contract in the end. With someone... a little different. But I haven't seen him... her in a while. And, she's annoyed at that fact. I mean, I saw my dad again,a nd fell into this drunken stupor. It was just a bit much for me. I couldn't face her." She sighed. "And by doing that, I broke the terms of our pact." A tear rolled down her face. The thought of Aaran all alone against the hardships of the world, made her want to run right to him, and cocoon him in love and warmth. But Aaran would have to do on his own for a while. And besides, Ithi loved him. Ithi could look after him.

She was determined not to make the longest relationship she'd had in a while with a guy that wasn't either her son, or his boyfriend, last. If she couldn't even stay friends with Jay - let alone any of the other things she was considering doing to him - then she probably should run out of life and die. So, she decided that she wouldn't leave him alone. She called through, her voice now filled with sorrow;

"Jay, I'm not going to leave you alone." She said before sighing. She creaked the door open and peered in to see him. She frowned. "Get up. You won't sit sulking because of me, will you?" She paused, before repeating herself. "Will you?" her challenge rang out through the room. She had no intention to really make him miserable like this.

"I'm not here to mess with your head. Or to toy with you. I'm here because I craved the company of someone familiar, that didn't totally shun me after our first meeting. Because that happens a lot when you were a sleazy club singer in New York, you know? Don't you think I'm trying my best?" She sighed, and slumped to the floor. he's probably thinks he was some sort of whore, and send her out. And she would wither and die.