A darker Lily

"Travis and me were not just friends", Ace began in a melancholy tone," We were a little less than a family".

After their session of letting everything off in a clearance, and carrying out a quick make out session of kisses, but not giving in fully to desires, finally Jay dared raising the topic regarding their history.

Him and Travis.

She is not dumb, nor she was when in a pitiful situation but still not unsuccessful to make out what they were talking about. Everything about their exchange screamed nothing but sketchy.

Friends? Do friends speak such things after a long-gone meeting?

Sha had not doubted Ace once, not even after several rings of him taking the life of a family member.

All she demanded, was Ace to reveal it himself. Because after all she had learnt one loyal and true thing, that was to trust him.

Currently, Ace had her imprisoned in a suffocating trap of his arms around her shoulders relaxing on the sofa with their legs dangling on the floor, Jay between his legs. His unnatural detest towards the cold was getting too warm for her, to the level that she started feeling the heat rush to her cheeks reddening them.

No matter how much obedient, she had never entertained him on things which would endanger her space of free zone. Not this time too. With the first drop of sweat formed on her face, when Ace had barely started speaking, she ended up breaking free from his arms with a very cold expression and sitting away from him on the furry chair …...earning a pout from the brunette leaving him hanging alone by himself.

But Ace didn't sulk, and just pulled his legs up from the concrete as he continued judging Jay's curious face from before, gaping at him.

"Me, him and sometimes Edrei"

- Edrei?

- His sister.

- Stereotypical change after her death?

Ace just laughed lightly," I can't compete with your sharpness". Jay stopped interrupting.

"But yes, Stereotypical change", Ace said with a less humorous face," Not like I had ever noticed any close relation between those two like actual siblings would have, rather than getting verbally abused by her. Well, family influence I guess, more like genetics", he cracked.

Jay's lips stretched a little as she looked down to hide it.

Ace didn't miss it, couldn't miss it. He paused on his words and stared at her like a fool. For this whole time, he hadn't remembered her smiling once. Even this time, she hid it at the very climax. Did the confession let out such a fucking drastic change???

Kind of intriguing!

"Ace!", Jay pressed on her second call when he seemed in a dreamland of his own.

He snapped out from the trance and diverted his gaze.

Get a grip, you hormonal fucker!!!

"And he said his family is living well", Jay exposed irritancy," Lies".

"Maybe I just overlooked the deeper part of it, where they actually had a bond. It was invisible or hidden, but had started revealing during Edrei's last moments in the hospital. I could see their valued family in each other's eyes", Ace concluded that part of the story," and as you said, things went just the way you had assumed it would. Travis changed".

"That was how he had metamorphosed", Jay pointed," Doesn't explain the toxicity".

"A blonde bitch, that's what I was ever called", Ace turned the page to himself," Blue eyes, blonde hair, a perfect blend and material to bully and fuck".

Jay lifted her eyes at his head full of dark chocolate coloured hair.

Ace, a fuck material? He can be anything, but that. The picture he carries along, seducing women like preying on ants, can only portray the image of a playboy or a fuckboy. His body doesn't seem something which anyone would be interested to bottom, rather than getting laid.

Ace caught her staring and smirked," Perfect workout and dye portion outcome, right? You feeling attracted? Yes?".

Jay rolled her eyes," I had confessed to that just a while back", she said bluntly.

And Ace didn't expect her to be that casual.

She didn't even deny or get shy. Instead got him blushing!

With an art of another sarcasm, Jay said," Care not to drop lame humour in between?".

"Sorry", With an apology Ace picked where he had left off," Travis, the fucker wasn't strong or a fighter, but had to intervene when I was approached. We would escape together with cuts and bruises, but at least I could ensure to not get raped alone".

The hint of disappointment didn't escape Jay.

"And after Edrei left, I had a hard time to keep dragging him out of depression. May be for selfish reasons, but unfortunately I didn't know that my nagging concerns would just lead him to discover his sexuality as an outcome"

This time Jay shifted in her position a little, lifting her face. She understood what was incoming, everything was making a little sense.

"Did you …...sleep with him?", Jay suddenly asked.

Ace was caught off guard with no prediction of that. He cocked one eye brow above smirking at the sudden out-show of emotion," That's your priority concern, eh! You kinda changed my perspective about you Jay, maybe you are not that innocent".

Jay immediately pulled on a poker face.

Ace didn't move his eyes from her, trying to get her flustered uselessly.

When he received no favourable reply, he said," I'm straight Jay, do you believe me?".

Jay nodded without hesitating.

Ace nodded back satisfied," But he kissed me once, I was so clueless and lost that I couldn't stop him. I thought maybe he'll come out of depression once after that. But it didn't help or harm him. It was me; it was after that phase when I ......",

"...…. entered the stage of chronic triggers", Jay finished.

- He took it so lightly, after all the shits I went through to save his ass during his depression. Believe me, else he would have been one of us by the time.

- I always had that vibe coming from him. But he is a normal.

- Right? Because I dropped my sanity for that. All he said me was that, it's all in my mind and it's nothing compared to what he had went through.

- Enough for me to lose it.

- But I didn't, I FUCKING didn't!

Jay flinched at Ace's voice. Travis has got some impact on him, and why wouldn't he! Ace practically preserved his mind only to get rid of his own. Their friendship was long gone and Jay was sure that Travis must have been only getting back at him for the rejection. She couldn't find it to blame it on him either, because he didn't get through easy himself. Turned away from his only friend, after losing his family and overcoming extreme tendencies.

Whereas Ace, he was a whole different case.

"That was the only time Jay ...", Ace had resumed," .... I was fabricated for something I didn't do. The sole reason of such a remedy in my life, was because I was forced in it".

Jay sensed the distress. He was unwilling to continue. This was where she had to re-enter again to cut him some slack. It was the climax.

Standing up gaining his sudden attention from the moment, she performed another act of déjà vu. Walked away, turned of the furnace, returned and sat beside him again. Allowing him access to physical contact, but to do it she had to decrease the surrounding heat. Else she can't risk a steamy night with him.

Ace was however quite flustered when Jay shifted her position and leaned her back on to him.

An act of energising him and bringing him out of it, so that he could continue. A very special and silent way which can only belong to her. He mouthed and pressed a shy smile, while Jay closed her eyes lazily against him.

"Nothing beyond that", she warned when Ace sneaked his arm around her waist, snuggling her closer.

"Okay", came the very satisfied reply with the allowance of the small affection, "Thanks".

"Can you continue?", she asked.

"Yes", Ace resumed with a more settled mind.

- A whole fucking year in the juvenile. Because an accident on the terrace which was what actually caused that fucker of a brother's death, which reflected as if I pushed him off. The level of trust I had in Travis, was enough to make me fight for him even if he would have committed any crime. But he? He didn't even hesitate to give his witness in the court against me for a moment Jay.

"Did he see it all?", Jay asked quietly.

"To save his ass, just the ending scene", Ace scoffed," And also, when I was actually in a very traumatic situation of a trigger".

"How did you survive there?", Jay turned her head a bit," The juvenile?".

"Self-harm"

"Ace!"

"No suicidal thoughts", Ace added fast," But I actually became what I was framed for after I was released", there was a raging tone in his voice.

- How long?

- 4 years till…...you!

- Alone?

- My family rejected me.

- Travis?

- You think???

Jay stopped her interrogations. Clearly the topic of Travis was very toxic for him. It's true that it's impossible for them to trust any one normal than them. They'll end up running all against them at the end.

The loop around her waist tightened more as she felt him stiffen against her, pulling her closer. His head fell on her shoulder as she discovered a brand-new side of Ace. He was exceptionally clingy for a reason and kept on trying to cuddle more to her, taking advantage of the allowed physical contact. Jay however didn't decline him and let him have his way.

After all, she had understood the burden of fragility he had been carrying this whole time. Easy to break quickly.

And He had made Jay his only sheltered salvation.

Leaving Jay drowned in thoughts, Ace was busy rubbing his head against her neck stealing warmth.

"But that doesn't explain your past with him now, does it Jaylynne?", Jay shivered hearing her full name from his mouth, right next to her ear," You've got some explaining to do".

His fucking dominance is back!!!