Page 25 of Breathing Without You

“Nahh, you can follow me back. I already have your stencil drawn up, I can put it on you and we can let it dry while I set the rest of the stuff up for it,” I tell her as I walk back towards my office, looking back to make sure she’s following me.

“Cool thanks.” She follows me down the hallways and makes a left into my office with me.

This is the last thing I wanted to do today; I can’t believe I forgot about the fact that I scheduled this over a month ago. I was that booked up that I had to schedule over a month out. Which is good that I’m busy but fuck I don’t want to deal with her bullshit today. Or ever really. I wish I would have just listened to Carsten or thought about the bullshit he went through with Brynn before I got involved with Daisy. Hopefully she’s just not as psycho as Brynn is who faked a pregnancy with my best friend, more like a brother to me, to try and trap him into staying with her and loving her.

An hour and a half later I’m finally done with her side tattoo, she had me tattoo flowers connected with vines going down her side. Covering her whole left side.

“I’ll meet you up front for you to pay, I just have to throw all this stuff away real quick,” I tell her as I dispose of the needles in the hazard bin and throw the used paper towels and stuff away.

I walk up front to see her standing by the window waiting with a smirk on her face. I don’t even want to question it. So, I charge her for the tattoo and of course she pays for it withdaddy’s money, like everything else she gets to buy, daddy pays for. After she’s done, I walk out from behind the counter at the same time the door opens, making the door ding and Daisy rushes into my arms hugging me, too tight wrapping her arms around my neck and kisses me right on the lips. I push her away as fast as she kisses me, curious as to why she fucking kissed me, or even touched me.

“What the fuck Daisy?” I say the same time Emerald says. Shit this isn’t going to be good. What the fuck.

“What the fuck is going on?” Tears form in her eyes as I look at a smiling Daisy and a crying Emerald.

“See you later babe,” she says, winking at me. The amount of anger that builds up in me, she’s lucky she’s not a guy because I’d love to fucking punch her right about now.

“No, you fucking won’t. What the fuck was that about?” I yell at her as she walks out the door the same time Emerald sets the bag and coffees on the counter and runs out.

“No Emerald, stop,” I shout after her.

“I’ll be right back Kane,” I yell down the hall as I rush out the front door down the sidewalk to catch up to Emerald.

“Emerald… Emerald please stop.” She's opening her car door and now it all makes sense. She parked in front of the coffee shop across the street and walked over. Daisy probably saw her and that’s why she was smiling the way she was, because she knew she was coming here next. What a fucking psycho bitch, I can’t believe she would even do this.

“Fuck.” She speeds off in her car before I can get to her and I run back inside to get my keys and phone so I can go after her, I am not letting her leave here thinking I just cheated on her. Or that I was planning on cheating or have been cheating because I’m not that kind of guy, if I was going to cheat, I wouldn’t be in a relationship to begin with, I’d just sleep around and stay single. I run through the front door of Crazy’s and practically run into Kane.

“Fuck dude, sorry I gotta go, I can explain later.” I rush out running back into my office to grab my truck keys and my phone, rushing out the front door not even hearing his answer. I run to my truck, unlock it and get in. I feel like a dick for leaving without explaining more to him about what happened, but I can’t stay any longer, the further Emerald gets from me before I can get to her the more fucked I am.

I start the ignition and speed off, checking for cops in the town center where the speed limit is ten mph less than the main roads, but I don’t care. I need to get to Emerald to clear things up. I can’t believe Daisy did that, or how she even saw Emerald, but it must’ve been perfect timing when she walked up to the window. It all makes sense now as to why she was smiling that way she was when I walked out of my office, that fucking bitch. What is it with her and her friends wanting to ruin other people’s relationships?

I finally pull into my driveway eight minutes later, my heart racing like crazy. I’m scared she won’t believe me when I tell her what Daisy did. Now I sort of know how Carsten felt when he went through everything with Winter. I can’t lose her. I won’t fucking lose her; she means too much to me already to lose her without a fight.

I practically jump out of my truck after taking the key out and rush over to her front door. I knock a couple times before Winter comes to the door with a confused look on her face.

“I need to see Emerald. Daisy fucked things up and I need to talk to her. Please,” I rush out so quickly, I’m surprised she even understood what I was saying.

“Of course, fucking Daisy and Brynn, messing up shit for everyone. Stupid bitches,” she says, talking to herself like she forgets I’m here.

“Umm Winter, I need to get to Emerald please,” I rush out again.

“Oh, shit sorry, she’s through the kitchen, down the hall, first door on the left is her room,” she says pointing as I realize her room is like mine through the kitchen and down the hall. I run through their kitchen down the hall and knock a couple times not saying anything because I don’t want her to ignore me anymore.

“Come in Winter, gosh you’re so impatient.” I hear her laugh through her sniffles, and she freezes when she sees it's me instead of who she originally thought it was.

“Get out.” She might be tiny but she’s scary when she’s angry. “I don’t want to see or talk to you, Creedence. I can’t fucking believe you.” She sniffles as fresh tears form in her eyes. Her tiny fists balled up at her sides. She looks so sad it’s fucking crushing my heart.

“Please. I promise you Emerald, she planned that, and I can explain the whole thing, please?” I pause, out of breath a little from sprinting from my truck and through their house, plus rushing my sentences out without breathing. It’s kinda catching up to me now.

“No, I don't want to hear it, Creed. I saw what I saw and there’s no excuse for her kissing you. Her lips touched yours, what don’t you see?” she shouts. Her chest rises and falls quickly while she tries to control her anger. Her cute little fists now in front of her like she’s about to punch me or something. I try not to smile at her anger, Emerald is tiny so to see this adorablyangry, yet scary woman look like she’s about to pounce on me, fuck. Is a turn on. But she’s too tiny, she couldn’t hurt me even if she tried. I’m willing to stand here though and let her take her anger out on me if that’s what she needs right now. I’d do anything for this gorgeous girl right in front of me. So yes, even if she wanted to fight me right now, I’d stand here and take it if that’s what she needed to feel better about this situation. Then I’ll punish her for it later. I’ll be rough with her pussy and make sure she’s sore enough to remember everything I did to my pretty pink pussy and make sure she enjoys every minute of it.

“Listen to me, please. I pinky promise. Are you listening? You know I take my pinky promises seriously, Emerald.” And her head snaps up as she wipes her eyes, still sniffling.

“Fine, I'll give you five minutes to explain.” Her voice is so sad. It breaks my fucking heart, but the look on her face is fucking soul crushing. I never want to be the reason she has this look on her face again.

I come over and kneel on the ground in front of her, as she sits on her bed. I want her to see the sincere look on my face as I talk to her.

“Daisy had scheduled an appointment with me a month ago before you and I started dating and she had already put a down payment on it to keep her appointment. When she came in today, I completely forgot she was getting tattooed. I was originally going in to draw up sketches for my future appointments. But then she came in, reminding me that she had the appointment.” I pause taking a couple breaths since I got all of that out without breathing.

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