sickeningly sweet like honey

“I know, baby, I know. I’m sure but it could have been a misunderstanding,” he replied, placating the girl and running a hand along her side gently. He knew Cece loved him and thought he was the most handsome boy in the world, but he was more grounded about himself and his looks. He knew he was objectively attractive, but everyone’s dream guy? Not as much. Which is why he was surprised when the girl actually made a move on him, with Cece right there and he had been saying that he wasn’t interested in anyone other than his girlfriend. He winced when Cece started to react to her touching him, not that he could blame or fault her. He would have been just as upset if someone hit on her right in front of him like that. And before he could react to stop her, Cece had already gone and thrown a drink in the girl’s face, making the brunette start to shriek at now being covered in a drink. “You psychotic bitch!” she cried at Cece. “Okay, time to break this up!” Tyler said, cutting in with a glare at the other girl, not appreciating how she was talking to his girlfriend. He lifted Cece up into his own arms, throwing the girl over his shoulder so he could carry her off without her trying to fight the other girl even more with the limited strength the blonde girl had. “And I’m not even going to apologize for that, because you deserved it,” he told the brunette who only spluttered after the couple as Tyler walked out of the bar with Cece still over his shoulder. “Okay, so maybe you were right…” he started now that they were out of the club. “But I am only going to let you down if you promise to not go back in there and try to pull her extensions out,” he said, warning in his tone. 

A misunderstanding? No way. Tyler was simply too good of a person and willing to give that girl the benefit of doubt, but that was only because he hadn’t heard what she said to Cece when he was in the bathroom. There was no double or hidden meaning behind her words. That ugly cow was quite clear in the fact that she wanted Tyler. She smirked when he told that girl that she deserved it and would’ve stuck her tongue out at her if she was facing her right now. People were staring at them when he carried her out, but for the two of them it was a pretty common occurence so she didn’t even notice it. Cece whined, pouting when he said he wouldn’t let her go back in to fight the brunette. That bitch totally deserved to have her ugly hair be ruined, it couldn’t look any uglier if she tried. “They weren’t even the same shade of brown and if I could see that in the dark imagine what that looks like during the day.” She couldn’t help but laugh a little, feeling better now that they were outside and not in that girl’s vicinity anymore. Back there all she saw was red and she knew that if Tyler wasn’t there to stop it she could’ve gotten hurt. He was always there when she needed him and she appreciated that. Plus he acknowledged that she was right, which she did always like to hear. While she was actually pretty comfortable with him carrying her like that she relented, trying to do the right thing and be mature like everyone always said she couldn’t be. Besides, she couldn’t kiss him from this angle. “Fineeeeeeee. I won’t do that. Even though she really deserved that. It’s so disrespectful.” Look at her using big words. Tyler was rubbing off on her. 

“Gotcha, can you just give this to him? I know it must be annoying but it’s not like I can drop it off into his room.“ She said digging into her back pack to give Cece her brothers sweater. A part of her felt bad it probably wasn’t easy having a brother especially when people bother her about him. 

Cece sighed at the inconvenience but extended her hand anyways and nodded once. She understood why it was too awkward for Ashley to go back there and she did symphatise with the situation the other girl was in. “Are you like, doing okay? With the whole break up thing? You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to.”

;; Sierra was nearby when she watched the interaction in front of her. She watched as the other girl scuttled away when she got denied a phone number. “You sound like you get that all the time.” She mentioned with a kind smile on her lips.

“That’s because I do.” It could be annoying. Well, it already was. “They always come and ask me to talk them up. It’s embarrassing.”

He knew Cece had a flair for the dramatic, but he hadn’t expected her to get into an argument in the short period of time that he had been gone. He looked at the girl that she was speaking to with a frown, trying to understand the situation so that he could find a way to diffuse it. He couldn’t see any spilled drinks or ruined designer shoes, so he knew it couldn’t have been anything along those lines. His eyebrows shot up when Cece told him that it was because the girl was going to try to hit on him. He shook his head at that. “I’m sure that’s not true, babe,” he replied, a chuckle escaping his lips at even the thought. “And if so, I’m only interested in you,” Tyler reassured his girlfriend, hand moving over her side gently and giving her a warm smile. The brunette girl only rolled her eyes at that and smirked, not about to give up and trying to rile the blonde up more, despite not even knowing her. “I bet I could change that,” the girl interrupted as she stepped forward and ran a cheap manicured over Tyler’s bicep. “Come on, baby,” she purred at the boy. “I bet I’ve got better moves than Malibu bimbo over here,” she added with a little scoff in Cece’s direction. Tyler frowned at that and took a step back, away from the way too forward girl’s touch. “Yeah, like I said… Not interested,” he told her, in disbelief of how she had actually tried that with Cece right there and hearing what he had said. 

“I know I can get a little overly jealous sometimes but she provoked me!” She whined when Tyler tried to dismiss her worries shooting another glare at the stupid bitch. Tyler didn’t know how good looking he was and was often unaware of the effect he had on girls. He was literally every girl’s dream guy. Tall, dark and handsome and nice and smart? Not many guys had all of that and every girl wanted some of that. Which is why it was important that everyone knew that he was hers. And only hers. She smiled at him when he spoke next, almost forgetting the brunette girl that riled her up like this in the first place. Until she decided to open her stupid mouth again. When that girl put her hands on Tyler, Cece saw red. “Get your filthy hands of him.” She had never been in an actual fight, too worried about one of her nails breaking, but she was close to it now. It was clear that the brunette was trying to rile her up and it was working. Cece wasn’t mature enough to stay calm and be the bigger person. So she did what anyone else in her position that watches a lot of reality tv would’ve done. She took her drink (which was still full) and threw it right into that girls face. “I warned you twice. I’m not warning you a third time. Step away. You heard him. He doesn’t want you.” She did her best authoritative voice, showing the brunette that it was best not to mess with her. 

@cececox

It had been a while since Tyler and Cece had done something fun or had a nice night out since he had gotten so busy with latest project. He had been so completely absorbed in it, and Cece had been nothing short of supportive and amazing all throughout it. He felt guilty and as though he had been neglecting her because of it. Which was what brought them out to the club that night, drinking and dancing the night away together. They were just walking off the dance floor towards the bar to get drinks, ordering for them both before excusing himself to go to the bathroom. “Keep an eye on my drink for me, babe,” he said and kissed her cheek before he left. He had only been gone five minutes. Five minutes. Only to come back to Cece and someone he didn’t know or at least didn’t recognize arguing. “Woah, woah!” he said as he cut into the fight, stepping up behind Cece and putting an arm around his girlfriend’s waist as he pulled her closer to himself and to his chest. “What’s going on here?” he asked over the music, shaking his head and frowning. 

This summer had been going pretty good for them so far, she spent a lot of time with Tyler, but he was busy with a new project so they didn’t have as much one on one time as she would have liked. However, Cece knew it would be worth it once he was done and she did her best to keep her whining and complaining about needing attention to a minimum. When Tyler surprised her with asking if she wanted to go on a night out she was overjoyed. It’s been a few weeks since she’s last been out and she loved to dress up and dance the night away. The dress she chose today was a bright orange mini that went great with the tan she had been building up all summer. Tyler had certainly liked it, judging by how long it actually took them to leave her room after she put the dress on. He asked her to keep an eye on his drink and she nodded, smile on her lips. “Sure, no thing.” Cece hadn’t planned to speak to anyone else but she saw a girl a few seats away staring after Tyler. Which wasn’t a surprise because he looked great tonight, but that didn’t mean she liked when someone else was staring at her man. Going over to the girl she smirked, her voice overly sweet. “Sorry honey. He’s taken.” The brunette raised an eyebrow and said something about being up for a challenge and that he needed a woman not a little girl. That was all it took for Cece to start arguing with her, making comments about how badly blended this girl’s contour was. Honestly didn’t she own a mirror? Having Tyler’s arms around her did make her calm down slightly, taking a few deep breaths, but she was still shooting daggers at the girl.  “She was going to try to hit on you.” Cece wasn’t going to just sit back and let that girl even try. 

“Do I have to ask your permission to tell him something?” she said not sure why she had to pass what she needed through cece. “I wasn’t calling him a hoe, can you just tell me where I could find him?”

“Well no, but I really don’t like your attitude right now. I didn’t even do anything to you.” Was she overly sensitive because she was on her period at the moment? Perhaps, but she wouldn’t admit that. “He’s probably in the gym.”

“Okay, fine. But it’s not like you have to worry about it, we made a deal and I told you that I’m not going to try anything… It’s not like I haven’t talked to him that much either these past couple of weeks…” Elijah said with a shrug, raising an eyebrow when Cece told the story about her phone. “Why would you take your phone into the shower with you? Anyway, Kyle always does that for me, I just need to call him and he’ll show up in my room. He’s nice.”

“Well you said that you wouldn’t, but I’m not sure if I can trust you yet. Jury’s still out on that.” Everyone always told her she was too naive so she was trying to be more careful in who she trusted. “I wanted Tyler to see my boob job.” She rolled her eyes, because for her it was obvious.”He likes to feel needed.”

Elijah blushed a little when Cece mentioned Tyler, shaking his head. “That’s not true, shut up…” Elijah said quietly, before raising an eyebrow. “I mean, I could if I got my old phone with me, but I dropped it in the pool while I was on vacation and there’s no way I’m getting it back… It would be a lot of help if you could get me Kyle’s number, who else is going to help me get stuff from the top shelf?”

“Maybe. But I  don’t really want someone to just sleep with right now. Thank you anyways.” Sophia shrugged her shoulders. “I’m not in the mood for a summer fling. Something long lasting would be nice for once. “ 

“Oh yeah, one night things are no fun. Being in a relationship is way better than being single.” Cece agreed. “Most guys need a lot of training to be ready for a relationship, so just be prepared to put the work in if you want something long lasting.”  The key word was most guys, some, like Tyler, were great at relationships. 

@knoxstarters

“Oh, okay… I don’t want to sleep with him, I just needed his number because I lost all of my contacts when I bought this new phone. I guess I’ll just have to find out where he is then… Thanks for the help either way.” Elijah said with a small shrug.

“Right, you just want to sleep with Tyler. I forgot.” Her tone was joking but there was an underlying warning laying there. “Can’t you just do with your phone what you did with mine and make the numbers go back into the phone?”

“I’m not trying to sleep with him, I’m trying to reach him,” she said shaking her head, she just wanted to be able to message him. “If I could get to him so easily I wouldn’t be asking you, and it shows what kind of guy he is if that’s your reaction,” she said with a chuckle.

“Well, what do you need from him?” She raised an eyebrow, waiting for the answer. She just got approached too many times getting asked to put a good word in for them with her brother, it was exhausting. “Hey, just because I can call him a hoe doesn’t mean someone else can.”

Charlotte knew that Cece was the reason why the dare had happened in the first place, but like she’d said to Kyle… as much as it hurt, it did get them together, didn’t it? There were a lot of points to consider when it came to the whole right/wrong aspects of their relationship and how they got together but Charlotte didn’t regret actually being with Kyle and falling for him. “I’m okay… busy, with the school year and ballet productions coming up. How are you? I don’t think we’ve talked since… everything happened.” she said, giving Cece a small smile to show that she wasn’t going to act like a crazy ex-girlfriend. “Does that… happen to you a lot?” she asked, gesturing towards where the other girl had just exited the room. 

Kyle hadn’t had too many girlfriends, especially not ones that have lasted long enough for her to actually have to make an effort with them, but she had liked Charlotte. She was nice. Her and Kyle looked good standing next to each other and her mother always said that that’s something a good couple had to have. “Yeah, I get that. I’ve been really busy too. Being Captain of the gymnastics team is a lot of work plus cheer practice and Tyler and finding time to hang out with my friends.” She didn’t have much time to herself, but Cece didn’t mind that-she hated being alone anyways. Cece grimaced, rolling her eyes. “Unfortunately. They think I’m more approachable than Cassie is, but it’s just easier for her to just say no to their face and I’m not really good at that.” 

“anyone? well good to know little ol’ me has a chance. but surprisingly, i’m not here for your brother. as hot as he is. actually i’m bored and wanted to see if you wanted to do something.”

“Well anyone that’s a girl. My brother’s straight. Sorry to disappoint you. Umm.. not really. My boyfriend is picking me up in half an hour and we’re going to get lunch and then I’m getting my nails done and he’s letting me buy him a new outfit.”

Liam shrugged. “I have no idea, just figured you’d want to know.”

“Well go and cross it out then, or change a few of the digits. I can’t go in there, it’s gross.”