Break My Heart (part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hzB9qQENGA

Violet and Nick finish breakfast and see Pandora sniffing around the kitchen. "Dishes or Dog?" He asks, "Shoot for it?" She responds. They do a quick best of three, Paper, Rock, or Scissors. Violet wins. "Come on Panni, time to go out with mommy, while daddy does the dirty dishes." Violet rubs it in as she attaches the leash to the dog. Pandora barks, as if to say "Damn right."

A minute later, after they leave the apartment, Nick gets a phone call. Steve is on the line when he answers. "Hey Nick, what's going on?"

"Not much Steve, what's going on with you?" Nick responds, just to get him to the point faster.

Steve begins, "Well, since I haven't gotten any new content in the past week and a half, I decided to stay busy, by looking over the comment sections."

"I'm going to pour myself a drink and settle in for the long haul." Nick amuses himself.

Steve responds, "Like them or not, they are an interesting metric."

"That is the only reason I have these conversations with you. Charlotte hasn't given me an update on all this in some time. How are things going?" Nick adds to the conversation.

"Climbing, as always, but, slower. There are also some.... fetish people out there...." Steve adds. Nick gives a quick, "Uh-huh?"

"Well, one guy mentioned how cute her feet were; it got over 2000 likes and 400 sub- comments. Nick laughs. "Go on!"

Steve continues the report, "About 300 of them just want you to worship her feet, another hundred want you to tickle her feet, for as long as she can take it. Then like 50-60 'worshipers' said they wanted 'both', and there were about 30-40 other callers for 'both' as well." Nick pulls out his vape pen and starts puffing away on it.

There were some other requests, like water sports too, and Nick shut that down. "... however, I will entertain the rest, to Vi, and see what she has to say." He then drinks some of his Scotch.

"Great, there is also a contingent out there that remembers when you started with new models every week." Steve said, Nick was silent on the other end of the line. All Steve could hear is Nick vaping and drinking more.

"There were more votes on that, than the feet." Nick continues to vape and drink, he knows what is being said.

"Are you there?" Steve asks.

"I'm listening." Says Nick. "I'm not sure what you want me to say here?"

"Hey Nick, I get it, it's me, the guy who edits your videos. I see you caught feelings for this girl...." Steve is cut off by Nick, "Woman, don't let her size fool you."

Steve continues, "My bad, I get you caught feelings for this woman, but the numbers don't lie Nick. She just hasn't been the same since her mom died. I can't put my finger on it in any other way, but the numbers are not climbing like they were before." Nick continues to be silent. "If you aren't going to marry her, then what are you doing, man?"

Nick lashes out, "Dude, if I didn't know you for as long as I have..." Nick was confused as to why he was even so upset. He just didn't like what was being said. He slams his empty drink down. "... So, I'm gonna go now, 'cause if I stay on the phone with you, I'm going to say something, you are going to regret." as he hangs up the phone, on Steve.

Nick doesn't even like the idea of the conversation he was going to have to have with Violet. He starts asking himself questions as he does the dishes. What kind of future does he want for himself? Could it work with this, young woman? Should he be doing more with the business? That was the point of getting into this wasn't it? Nick is split, beside himself. How could he make a choice like this for her?

"Was it just a business relationship? Christ, I got a dog for her." He asks silently to himself.

"What would they be if he stops paying her? And if she goes, without being paid, then it wasn't real. How could it be?" Nick paid her so diligently. Every two weeks, since they began, he dropped a Bitcoin in her wallet. "She could do a lot with the money she already has." He keeps thinking about it.

"And how much of it didn't she even work for? He had over paid her by at least three or four BTCs if he looked up the numbers. "I didn't mind when her mom had just passed... but the sneaking pills.... it was such a small betrayal, and only the first one."

"Violet is young, she is just figuring life out, right? She can make mistakes, and still be trustworthy? Or has Steve just made him paranoid about Violet's intentions? Or was he already paranoid about all women now because of his ex? But not all women are like her, right?" Nick thinks about these questions and how it relates to his business as he vapes and finishes the dishes.

Violet returns from walking Pandora. She looks adorable in his hoodie, as she squats to take the dog's leash off her collar. He smiles as he rememberers the night she wore that, and nothing else. She was so beautiful, even with the new shiner, Nick could see past it.

Pandora bound off to her water bowl for a drink as Violet takes off the hoodie and hangs it on a hook by the door. Nick was staring at Violet, she could feel it. "What's up, Doc?"

Nick tells her all about the tickling and the foot fetish people. "Don't kink shame." He says when he is done explaining the situation.

Violet giggles and slips out of her sneakers. The cute little socks she has on ware laced with a dainty frill at the top, making her look extra cute; especially for this conversation.

Violet and Nick look down at them. The socks were damp in a few places from the rain. "I don't get it, people think these things are not just pretty or cute, but they get sexually aroused by them?"

"I'm with you. You do have very pretty feet. They are super cute, but they don't get my dick hard." Nick says blatantly, "No offense meant."

She grins "None taken."