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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 16:14:38 GMT -5
Danica appeared only moments after the other two left. Tears were streaming down her face and at first, she walked like someone in a fury. Then she sniffled, wiped her cheeks, took a slow breath, and looked around. "Oh, um, hi," she said. Her voice was soft, not at all like someone ready for a fight, and she looked little more than mildly curious now. "You're the guy that was onstage just now, right?" she asked.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 16:18:57 GMT -5
Jory turned his head, worry etched into every feature, to see who had spoken. "Yeah," was all he could think to say. Yeah, there was officially no way he could keep Indigo in the dark about this. Vivid, erratic images of himself desperately seeking out somewhere to live after being kicked out fled through his mind. Confusingly enough, they were occasionally interrupted with memories of Jai and, to be entirely honest, old fantasies he'd had of the guy. "Who are you?"
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 16:40:35 GMT -5
"I'm Danica," she said. "Jai's girlfriend. Sort of. Don't worry, I'm not mad or anything, I just had to for the crowd." Damn. She wasn't supposed to talk about that. But the guy seemed so sweet and so worried! Danica glanced over her shoulder, then crossed toward Jory with quick steps. "Okay, don't tell anyone, but we're not really together right now." There. The right now bit covered her arse, right? "It's kind of a publicity thing. Are you and Jai..." She gave a vague wave of her hand to finish the question.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 16:43:27 GMT -5
Jory shook his head emphatically. "No. I mean, we slept together a couple times but that was like years ago and I've had a boyfriend ever since. I didn't mean to do this!" And Jai had a girlfriend, did that mean he'd ruined two relationships? Maybe Jai had just used him as a way to break up. No, no, that didn't sound right. Sure, Jai had an ego and was all famous and stuff, but he'd been a nice guy, as far as Jory knew. He really needed to stop thinking.
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 16:50:44 GMT -5
Danica stopped just in reach, but kept her hands to herself. "Don't worry, Dismas will figure everything out. He figures out a lot of stuff." She owed him a lot. She'd been in a bad place, emotionally and financially, when he'd found her. He was some kind of amazing talent scout/manager/entrepreneur/anything else that came up. She had faith in him.
"I was just asking because..." She wasn't supposed to talk about that either. She bit her lip slightly in indecision. "Jai likes guys more," she settled on. That wasn't outing him. "We're more like friends and we get together sometimes." There. That was what she was supposed to say. This was why she wasn't on her own yet, why she wasn't taking interviews or anything. Lying wasn't really in her nature.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 16:55:05 GMT -5
"Dismas can't take away the fact that I kissed a guy I'm not dating!" Jory said, but that wasn't even the worst of it; when he forced himself to think about it, he actually kind of did want to kiss Jai. A guy couldn't be like Jai and not be a brilliant kisser, could he? "Sorry," he mumbled, and looked down at his hands, where skin was red in places from his nervous motions. "I'm just panicking, because if I wasn't with Indigo...and I've made some really, really bad choices before." That was an understatement.
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 16:58:51 GMT -5
"Oh," Danica breathed. Her gaze dropped and for a long moment she looked at the rings on her fingers. She knew about bad choices. She pulled a breath and looked back up. "Really he kissed you, right?" she asked. That was what it had looked like. "Maybe it'll just get played off like a publicity stunt." That last had a bit of question to it. She didn't know what to tell the guy about his boyfriend.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 17:03:13 GMT -5
"I didn't stop him, though. Indigo isn't just going to accept publicity stunt," Jory insisted. Telling Indigo would eventually lead to Indigo finding out they'd slept together, and Jory didn't know how his boyfriend would react to learning those two things together. Maybe if he went down on him Indigo wouldn't care. "I mean, how did you end up with Jai? He's kind of hard to resist. I couldn't manage it when I first met him." Which was saying a lot, he thought, considering his history of horrible relationships.
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Post by Danica Mandisa on Oct 2, 2015 17:08:06 GMT -5
"Um, we kind of..." No, not that. She thought for a moment. "I met him here. I like, came to see Dismas and he introduced me to Jai. We were together pretty fast!" Though she gave a little laugh, she looked down at her hands. It was the truth. Not the whole truth, but the truth. Technically they'd been together for a week before they'd actually met, but no one needed to know that.
"So, uh, is your boyfriend out there somewhere?" she asked, trying to push the conversation off herself.
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Post by Jory Addison on Oct 2, 2015 17:11:07 GMT -5
The shake of his head felt more like a confession than a simple answer to a yes or no question. "I got a note from Jai, and I asked if Indigo wanted to come, but he wanted to stay home doing some muggle stuff instead," Jory said. "But I have to tell him. If I don't, then someone else will." Which would be even worse. If he had made one different decision a couple years ago, he could have ended up dating Jai and enjoying all of those spotlights and attention and excitement-no. He loved Indigo.
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Post by Dismas on Oct 2, 2015 17:24:20 GMT -5
"Jai, have you forgotten that you're currently in a relationship?" Dismas asked. The boy cringed a little. Dismas only ever called him by his proper name in public.
"Despite the crowd being marginally smaller than you're used to, quite a few people saw your little display. Danica was in the crowd. You put her in a difficult place. You put yourself in a difficult place. You put the entire band in a difficult place.
"After Lonan, the Billywigs were nearly forgotten. It is more than your talent which has endeared you to new fans, and more than your voice. You see, you appear to be a uniquely sympathetic sort of frontman. From some angles your face appears purely masculine, your body art extensive. From other angles you have a slightly feminine bone structure and a boyish charm."
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Post by Jai Peacock on Oct 2, 2015 17:24:40 GMT -5
Jai's head hung, and his brows drew together. He didn't like being picked apart like this. He didn't like hearing that there was anything feminine about him, anything childish. He didn't like that Sunset had called him Jai. He was in far more trouble than he'd been in since this had started, and though he didn't see what the big deal was, he remembered that Sunset had pulled him off the streets and Sunset could leave him there again.
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Post by Dismas on Oct 2, 2015 17:25:12 GMT -5
"It is difficult for the sympathetic, mainly female fans, to dismiss a man they feel can be redeemed. The Billywigs has grown an enormous female fanbase since your entry into the band. What you have done to Danica will alienate many of them."
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Post by Jai Peacock on Oct 2, 2015 17:25:47 GMT -5
"She's not really my girlfriend!" Jai complained. He looked up at Sunset (Dismas) with tight-lipped anger. "We'd probably be breaking up again in a week anyway, and I actually like Jory!" He liked what he remembered, anyway.
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Post by Dismas on Oct 2, 2015 17:26:24 GMT -5
"Silence, Jai," Dismas snapped, and the boy bit his lip. "Your breakups have always been amicable," the vampire went on. He began to move, very slowly rounding Jai from several feet away. "There is quite a difference between an amicable breakup and one caused by what some might see as cheating. Though the kiss was brief, there are publications which will blow the entire thing out of proportion and, in the end, the proof which will exist are likely photographs of the two of you kissing."
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