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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 15:56:49 GMT -5
"That keep your pants on thing didn't end just because you came back! I didn't even let anyone touch me! You can't be pissed about guys looking at me when you went out and f~ed someone after! You did a hell of a lot worse than let someone watch you dance, f~ing hypocrite!" All he was hearing was I didn't do anything, it wasn't my fault, you knew it was going to happen, if you got hurt it was your own damn fault. This was why it was good he'd left, this was why he could never take back heartless, faultless Ariel.
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Post by Ariel Logan Callahan on Feb 15, 2009 16:10:36 GMT -5
"One thing, one thing, and I don't get another chance," Ariel pointed out, though he knew that his one thing wasn't worth being given another chance. He didn't so much as deserve to have Markise stay close for so long, but he wanted it. "I can barely be held accountable," he insisted. He had gone through such a swift change, surely he was expected to do something stupid like that!
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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 16:15:45 GMT -5
Markise's jaw dropped at that. "One thing?!" He pulled hard at one of his hands, not particularly caring if he hurt himself as long as he could have just that much distance. "You whored yourself out for money while we were on a date! You f~ed someone else while I was with you! F~ing a~hole, let me go!" This was enough to remind him why Ariel had been a bad idea in the first place. He wasn't going to apologize, not really, and he was never going to change.
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Post by Ariel Logan Callahan on Feb 15, 2009 16:27:39 GMT -5
Ariel pushed him away, not really caring if anyone around them saw, but they were mostly too caught up in their own dances to care. "Why am I even trying? Even before that night everything I said pissed you off," he said, shaking his head and narrowing slightly red eyes behind his hair. Nearly everything had made Markise mad or come close to tears. The majority of it was stupidity on his part, but how could Ariel have known about half of those things before Markise?
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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 16:38:53 GMT -5
Markise hadn't expected that push, and his eyes widened as he tried to catch his balance. He'd had just enough to drink that he didn't manage it, and before he even registered Ariel's words, he was on his ass. He glared through the f~ing tears he'd been failing to hold back, trying to summon up enough anger to keep him from hurting any more than he already was.
"You can't even admit you did anything wrong!" He was choking on the words, on being rejected by Ariel again. Markise started the process of getting to his feet again, something that would have been far easier if he wasn't just a little off-kilter from the fall.
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Post by Ariel Logan Callahan on Feb 15, 2009 16:43:34 GMT -5
"I know it was wrong! It was stupid, yes! But there's nothing I can do about it now, what do you expect me to do, go back to them and give the money back? Sorry, that isn't happening, I've spent half of it already." Ariel had admitted he was wrong, as far as he was concerned, and he thought Markise was just refusing to let it go. He was realizing that he wanted another chance more than he would admit, and it only helped fuel his frustration.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 16:54:14 GMT -5
Somehow he'd dragged an apology out of Ariel, but that didn't stop him from hurting, and he didn't know what to do now, didn't know what to say. He stood up, still shaky from all this, confused and hating the confusion. He hated how much it affected him just to hear Ariel say the words. He wasn't about to admit it, even if his argument had lost a lot of its steam. Markise pushed his hair back from his face. "I need a drink," he said, bracing himself for Ariel to blow him off completely.
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Post by Ariel Logan Callahan on Feb 15, 2009 16:59:17 GMT -5
Ariel sighed heavily through his nose and glanced toward the bar, then he reached up to put his hand lightly at Markise's lower back. "Come on," he said, then began to head toward the bar. He wasn't technically old enough, but he had talked to the bartender some, and he knew that if he just asked he could get Markise anything he wanted.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 17:13:24 GMT -5
Markise had to close his eyes a moment at that light, intimate touch. It brought him right back to the morning after, when Ariel had been so good to him that he'd almost been able to believe he cared. He couldn't bear to push Ariel's hand away, and so he pretended it wasn't there and enjoyed it anyway.
The bartender recognized Markise and didn't card him. He brought business with guys buying him drinks. Markise felt very uncomfortable letting Ariel buy him anything considering he knew where the money would have come from, but he didn't bring his own money and the bartender wasn't about to give him a freebie when there was a willing customer with him.
Markise swept a soft lavender curl back from his face and ordered one of the light, fruity drinks he liked so much, one he knew would have enough in it to set him along the path of being able to forget this in the morning. He'd be better off if he couldn't remember even having considered forgiving Ariel.
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Post by Ariel Logan Callahan on Feb 15, 2009 17:31:33 GMT -5
Ariel ordered a simple drink for himself, but one that he knew would help with some of his frustrations. He handed over the money and avoided the bartender's eyes before he took a seat on one of the seats at the bar by Markise. "You haven't been coming here," he said, then took a drink. Not that he stayed exclusively at Popstarz, but it was where he was most of the time. If he got kicked out of it, he could just move on to the next one.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 17:39:23 GMT -5
Markise glanced up at Ariel, then dropped his gaze to the glass in his hand. "I don't go dancing to think," he said. "There was too much to think about at the old building." He hadn't even been able to stomach the thought of going back. Markise curved his lips into a fake smile and looked back up at Ariel like it didn't bother him in the least. "But they moved, and I thought I'd try again." He followed those cheerful words with a long drink.
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Post by Ariel Logan Callahan on Feb 15, 2009 17:58:20 GMT -5
Ariel nodded and glanced around the new club. It had taken him a bit to get used to the idea that it wouldn't be in the same place anymore, but he rather liked the new area. "They lost a few people, gained a few, the move was interesting." He had stayed, mostly because he liked the people there, and he had created a bit of a network in the club.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 18:04:09 GMT -5
Markise didn't want to think of all the times Ariel had been here without him, and especially what he would have been doing with all that time. "I was... talked into coming tonight," Markise said, that vindictive little part of him that wanted Ariel to hurt the way he did hoping that maybe that would sting a little. He didn't think it would though. Markise had already forgotten the intensity of the dance for the argument that had followed, and he'd already decided Ariel had just been looking for a nostalgia f~.
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Post by Ariel Logan Callahan on Feb 15, 2009 18:14:14 GMT -5
Ariel looked over sharply at that, eyes slightly narrowed. "Talked into coming?" he asked, then immediately told himself he didn't care why Markise had come, or who could have talked him into going to the club. He pulled his eyes away and looked forward as he took a drink from his glass. It didn't matter why Markise was there.
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Post by Markise Sterling on Feb 15, 2009 18:22:32 GMT -5
Markise hadn't missed that sharp look, and it surprised him. Was Ariel seriously going to act jealous after cheating on him? After they'd been broken up for months? It cheered Markise up immeasurably to see it.
"Party friends I met at another club," he explained, as though it mattered. But it was true. As attracted as he and Robbie were to each other, he knew it wouldn't make it past the doors of the club for Robbie, and he hadn't been willing to do that. They weren't close, none of them even knew Markise's real name.
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