that boy is corrupt.

Any minute now he utters to himself.

He’s got her schedule mapped down to the minute after spending whole week trying to find a perfect way to ask this girl out, yet it seems impossible to get a hold of you without being a creep waiting around, balancing venca, trying to fit in..

You make his palms sweat, knees lock sometimes when he is on the court, his heart thumping against his chest. Your screams when he scored, sticks out so much, like a sore thumb from your other cheermates, so much he wasn’t paying attention and got hit in the head by the basketball so distracted

Thinking to himself that asking you out this soon may have been a bad idea, especially when Max decided to break up with him after Billy died. Things fizzled out and everyone grew distant as he was trying to grow closer.

Come to think of it, every time he tries to talk to you words get caught in his throat and he ends up, saying nothing giving a soft smile and walking away leaving you feeling like something was missing. Like maybe he was trying to say something but then words flew out his brain.

Dustin snaps his fingers infront of Lucas’ gaze.

“So what do you think man?” Dustin asks Lucas, eyes narrowing a bit suspicious of his gaze of a empty locker.

“Yeah. sure. whatever” Lucas says, with the impatient tone.

“Great, so i’ll ask (Y/N) out tonight” Dustin replied, laughing.

Lucas blinks hard, his gaze now darts to Dustin, “What-“ his body stiffened slightly.

“I’m pulling your leg, dude! ” Dustin jokes and turns his direction to Mike. “Though Mike, I knew Lucas was going to ask her out this week…you owe me 15 bucks..” he mentioned, holding out his hand.

Mike rolls his eyes, digging in his wallet to hand Dustin the money. “He still might chicken out” Mike countered, handing it over.

“You guys put on bet on me-“ Lucas asked, looking at the both them. Dustin shrugs with a smirk on his face, snatching the cash from Mikes’ hand grinning as he counts through it.

“Ooo Lucas has a crush on Y/N” Will noted.

“Will you two please shut it? With every thing going on, it’s been hard to catch her lately, and I thought since today was her birthday it would be a perfect idea just to give her some flowers and ease into this..” Lucas quickly explained.

“So no “(Y/N) will you marry me into the sunset? We will spend our lovely life peaking in high school” .” Mike cuts in with this shit eating grin on his face.

“ I have never met a group of people so keen on making my life a living hell” Lucas expressed, rolling his eyes still looking around.

No luck still..

“Well I think it’s a sweet idea, though she may take nothing of it because it is her birthday… maybe you should slide in there that you can take her out tonight” Will supported.

“ Woah! Woah! Woah! Wait, what about the campaign tonight? Eddie will literally cut your head off if you miss this” Mike cuts Will off, eyes darting between the 3 boys.

“ I second that.. Like Don’t you guys see each other every day at like practice or something whatever the fuck you guys do at that-“ Dustin mutters off.

There she goes, walking to her locker in what feels like in slow motion fashion through Lucas‘ gaze.

He’s gotta make his move now.

He quickly cuts through Dustin and Will making his way over to her locker. As she open her locker, a loud pop of confetti jumps out causing her to jump a little.

“What the-“ Y/N mumbles, getting cut off by the cheerleading squad crowding her quickly with happy birthday cards and a crown for her to wear.

Lucas quickly pivots, just spinning into a random conversation with two strangers, who gave him a weird look.

His back is turned to her now, but he is still at a close enough distance where he can still hear their conversation.

The two strangers slowly walk away from Lucas and he pinches the bridge of his nose stressed on how he can make this move before she walk away from him again.

After the cheerleading squad left, she turns her head to an awkwardly posed Lucas against the lockers.

“Uhh do you always stand like that? Sinclair” Y/N asks, with a sight giggle under her breath.

He perks up at her voice, and so he turns around with flowers in his hand, squeezing them a little too hard.. his mouth opens yet nothing comes out.

Not again

She glanced down at the flowers and raised her eyebrow, “Are those for-“

“YOU!” Quickly, Lucas cut her off and slowly starts making his way over in front of her locker. “Happy Birthday, you look very pretty today, you do every day not just today..” Lucas explained.

Smooth Lucas smooth

Her eyes widen and blushes deeply slowly take the flowers from his grip..

“Thank you Lucas I appreciate these..” Y/N takes a second to smell them. “My favorite.. how did you know”

“Just a hunch i guess” Lucas lied. It wasn’t. “I’m glad you love them, i was meaning to as-“

The first period bell rings and Y/N places to flowers in her locker.

“Oh shit, I am going to be late. Uh thank you Lucas for these.. i’ll see you around yeah?” She inquired, shutting the locker door and begins to walk away.

No No No

“Uh Y/N” Lucas cuts in, quickly moving forward, lightly touching her elbow to stop her.

She turned around, looking at his hand, then her eyes scanned up to his face.

“I- Happy Birthday” Lucas utters and she tilts her head. He’s mentally face palming himself.

“ thank you... again. I have to head to class now.” (Y/N) giggles and takes another step backwards.

“Right Right but I-“ Lucas just spit it out. “I been seeing you around but it’s been hard getting in touch and and like life‘s been crazy lately and you have been making it crazier” Lucas admits.

She furrowed her eyebrows and brushes her coils behind her ear. “I have?” She inquired.

“ I didn’t mean it like that- I meant like I do think about you a lot and I wanted to ask you out tonight” Lucas finally gets out

“Ask Me Out? Tonight? On my birthday?” (Y/N) inquired.

“yeah this is striking kind of left field, but- and you may have plans, but,” Lucas takes a minute to open her locker back up, taking a flower and placing it on her ear. “I couldn’t let another day pass without at least-“

“Done” (Y/N) confidently agrees, blushing and biting her lip just as nervous but she carries it so well.

“Done?” Lucas’ eyebrows furrow, feeling his brain short circuiting.

“it’s a date. I’ll see you tonight at star court at 7 PM. Don’t be late. I like vanilla milkshakes with-“ (y/n) nods, relaxing in her stance, the other was playfully tapping.

“with whipped cream and Caramel Syrup at the top-” Lucas finishes her sentence and quickly shuts his eyes. Stalker much.. “okay I’ll see you at 7.” Lucas opens his eyes nodding, flashing a smile and placing his hands in the pockets of his joggers.

She gives him a soft smile before quickly leaning in, placing a kiss on his soft plume cheek. She then quickly curries away, heading to class.

Lucas lets out a low sigh of relief, dropping down on the floor is sliding down the lockers as the gang go over to him.

“That was-“ Will begins.

“Embarrassing, Hilliariously bold-“ Lucas cuts in.

“impressive, and hey, at least you got the date and you made me 15 bucks richer but Eddie will not let you live this down” Dustin adds as he reaches his hand out to Lucas, they all help him up off the ground.

“ yeah man you gotta teach me that behind the ear trick” Mike jokes as they all walk to the first period together.

The bedroom of his apartment being so dim and the only source of light is coming from the cinnamon candles Stack quickly lit to set the mood. Dark red rose petals scatter the hardwood floors with 2 glass of white wine waiting for the couple on the bedside table with a towel ready for any mistakes.

He mentioned alcohol helps with the pain.

A lacy pink lingerie underwear set is revealed to his eyes and he gently pulls her bra strap down her shoulder.

“You are so beautiful” He utters, sprinkles kisses down her arm, finally landing a final kiss at her soft fingertips. His eyes flash white orbs once as he takes a glance at her but blinks them away as her hand slips from his soft grip. “So intoxicating”, flashing a charming smile, laced with mischief and desire in every word he utters.

Walking away, her eyes never leave his brown ones as she takes a seat on the soft bed sheets. Taking a short sip of the white wine, watching him undress in front of her.

Never gets old.

His muscles just glistening before her eyes, abs good enough to lick. She groan under my breath and tilts her head backwards as her back gently lands on the cold mattress but he quickly leans over her body, closing the gap between them.

The lion over the defenseless lamb

He slips the drink from her hand and takes a sip himself as he stands between her legs.

He takes a second to take a deep breath, sniffing the aroma of the room,. Her sweet blood fills his nose, along with the cinnamon scent of the candles. He starts drooling a bit as he takes her panties off and lifts her leg over his shoulder.

Her eyes capture his every move as he lick his lips, kneeling at the edge of the bed and takes a lick between her folds. A soft moan escape from her mouth involuntarily.

“Elias” She breathed .

I’m not going to survive this, she thought to herself.

He hums in response, continuing to make a mess eating,while simultaneously taking his time making sure to get every drop of her cream.

“ I wanna try something.” he calmly speaks make sure not to scare her and his white eyes dart to her face, trying to scan for any uncertainty.

She slowly nods, trusting him and feels a slight pinch shortly after.

He lightly bites the inside of her thigh with his fangs and a tad bit of blood draws.

His eyes close in pleasure as he slowly licks the blood off her skin.

He was right the alcohol does help. She barely felt anything. He was fully in control of everything making sure not to bite too deep.

“Feel good baby?” he question as he returns back to her fold beginning to eat again.

“Oh Elias..” she groans, at the mix of pleasure and pain like his own special cocktail he whipped up just for her. “More bites please,” she pleads as she fastly approaches her peak.

Stack slowly nods, slightly surprised by her desire so he takes another bite on the inner part of her thigh.

Then another.

Then another.

Then-

“Ah” she hisses as the sharp pain on the last one makes her jolt backwards a bit.

Stack quickly pulls away, head perks up, looking at her for confirmation that she’s fine..

“I-I sorry angel. I might have hit a vein but are you okay? I can stop-“ he excuses himself while quickly starting to get up but pause his motion as her soft hands glide his shoulders.

“Please don’t stop, i need it” she utters breathlessly as her eyes lower a little, giving the notion that she’s drunk off the feeling of ecstasy and a bit of alcohol.

He slowly nods and continues to lick her up and down more often than biting her.

Their fingers intertwined with one another, hers tightly gripping his but he is unfazed by the tension.

“Fuck Stack, i am going to cum- fuck- ahh please-“ she cried out, as the worm sensation coats her body as her pleas fill the room over the low music.

“Just let it all out, I’m right here to catch every drop” he promises her and boy did he fulfill it

Her orgasm washes over her for the first time as stack lands one final bite to her inner thigh.

She probably marked up badly down there, but she doesn’t care.

He quickly grabs a towel and pets dry the parts that he bit, making sure that they’re not bleeding out.

She takes deep breaths, coming down from her high though she does look up at him as he undo his pants.

She quickly set up, eager to please him next, but he puts his hand up, stopping her in her direction leading her face to be scrunched up in confusion.

“I can’t?-“ she questioned.

“not tonight, darling. I want tonight to be all about you” Stack said having such a comforting smile that quickly ease her nerves.

She lays back down and Stack lifts her other leg on his other shoulder, positioning himself at her entrance.

He slowly enters, giving her a moment to adjust to his size.

Her back slightly arches at the slight discomfort, but she melts into the bed as she finally gets comfortable. Giving him a quick nod for him to keep going.

He starts to pick up speed, going at pace she can keep up with whilst the bed creaks with every thrust. His eyes roll to the back of his head as he groans lowly, hiding his face in the crook of her neck.

Their moans fill the room, “fuck, im not going to last” he groans, he slows down a bit and lands a hard powerful thrust.

He quickly pulls out and toss her on all fours. He enters again and things pick up again, hitting all her spots, leaving her breathless with nothing to do but utter moans under her breath. She feels herself letting go again being completely consumed by the mind numbing sensations washing over her mind and body like a powerful wave of water.

As he was hitting it from the back, he grips those hips, sending blows to her back. Her arch deepens as she takes it, he leans forward taking her neck in his grip and his lips mets her neck feeling her pulse under his finger tips.

His mouth salivating at the thought, but he tries to snap out of the animal instinct before he hears,

“Elias please ,” she is going through it, hair disheveled, sweat beads start to roll down her face, feeling Stack move her hair to the other side of her neck.

He takes the hint, biting his lip hesitating slightly before leaning closer to her ear, whispering, “I love you darling, I will see you soon”

With that, his bite was so gentle. The high of sex, mixed with alcohol makes the pain more tolerable. She groans softly as he holds her closer, one hand cup her neck as blood starts to spill onto the bed, the other hand cupping her breast.

A single tear runs down his cheek as his venom swims through her veins as they both reached their peaks together.

she starts to feel a little lightheaded, “Elias” she breathes and starts to grow a little weak, her grip on his arm loosen.

He quickly pulls out and pulls away from her neck with all the strength that is pulling him to keep going.

He grabs the towel, holding it to her neck, applying pressure to stop the bleeding but it continues.

His breath is caught in his throat as he listens in on her heartbeats start to slow down.

“Babe” he utters, quickly gets under the covers with her holding her in his arms. “Hey.. hey i am right here. I am not going anywhere” his voice cracks as the tears start to pool in his eyes. Anger slowly starts to creep up through the tears.

As he did understand that she wanted this just as badly as he did, seeing her in this state was something he used to have nightmares about.

Hurting her.

Being the cause of her pain.

Him ruining her chance to have a future, have kids, getting old, all that taken away with one bite.

“Elias” her voice cuts the noise of his overthinking.

“Yes! Yes babe… I’m not leaving” Elias pleas, he lands a kiss in her forehead, shaking slightly, trying to keep himself composed, but the tears leak out.

The first time she’s seen elias cry.

Her vision gets blurry and hearing goes in and out as she is losing consciousness.

“I love you” she breathes out for only him to hear, a single tear runs down her cheek, as her eyes don’t close steering to the blurry stack and everything faded to black.

I quietly walked to the bathroom and sit on the toilet, just rethinking what i saw.

I should’ve said something. I should’ve blew up right? My brain running with a million questions and none of them has his answers. One of them was;

How can i be so blind?

I wished it was over before it started. But before i knew it, I was out the bathroom. My feet as moving before my brain. I find him packing up quickly.

He found out.

The whole night was a blur. Honestly traumatizing.

“Who is she?” I asked

Why not me?

“I finally had peace” he said

Without me?

I was carried by the events of the world for 2 weeks, with no one to talk to and the imaginary events of what happened between them is replaying in my head, every responsibility became secondary.

It’s not your fault

i repeat it to myself…like if i say it enough times, i’ll believe it.

Yet this wouldn’t have happened if i didn’t fuck up,

yet he can move on like nothing happened and i just wish i could..

“we can fix this.” he says like a record player now after i brought it up.

like it’s something simple. like it didn’t change the way i see everything. like it didn’t change me.

i nodded sometimes. say i’m trying.

because i am.

but what i don’t say is that i don’t know how to unsee it.

i don’t know how to feel safe in something that already broke once.

“It didn’t mean anything, i swear. She was just a one time thing, i never meant to hurt you. I just didn’t feel at peace with myself. It was all me honestly” Stack quickly said. he sighed.

not annoyed…just tired.

“H-How- Why do it then?” I uttered. I wish someone had a manual for this shit. “Feel at peace? Really? Like like like i thought everything was fine.” It wasn’t. “I was just just talking about great we were us the other day and now this has been going on” i feel like such a idiot

Ding.

His phone goes off and my eyes dart over, stopping my body to dart over to answer it. That damn phone. I hate it. I’ve been staring at it for two weeks straight. It was low of me to look through it in the first place, something else took over. I take a deep breath and put my focus back on him.

“i don’t know… things weren’t good between us.” He said,

“so you cheated? You lied? You didn’t tell me anything?” I said with a monotone voice. 

“YOU SEEMED TO HAPPY” he yelled. My body joints at the volume of his voice. He talks a deep breath, “it felt like the only way this relationship was gonna work was that you were happy, meanwhile i am still here, stuck in the past pain of how you treat me. Honestly, have you not noticed? I have been telling you for weeks and no change so what was i left to do”

“So why couldn’t you just leave forever? Huh? Why couldn’t you just broken up with me? So you can finally have your peace… so you can finally be with her.. so you can be UNSTUCK. Honestly, were you ever going to tell me?!” I uttered the last words, in fear of the real truth

He silently shakes his head. “i didn’t plan for you to find out”

A kick in the teeth hurt less than this.

I laughed harshly, “well your secret is safe with me,” i was moving again, fast too.

I have got to get out of here

I swiftly moved pasted him and i feel a strong grasp on my wrist, like a reflex i quickly swiped my hand out his hold.

“Baby-” he whines. Maybe he wish this fight was over too. 

“Absolutely NOT!” I cry. I am a mess now. Face feels hot, I stumble through our once shared bedroom like I was drunk and i quickly go into the closet to grab a suitcase, dropping my hanged up clothes into it. My knees finally give out, and I dropped to the floor in front of my suitcase. My head in my hands and heart broken in 2. 

There was nothing but my cries filling the room with him on the bed in the same position stressing out how he can turn back time. I really wanted him to hold me right now.

I wipe my tears away and turn to him. His low eyes looked soulless, once brown were now black. “Was i not enough?” I said quietly.

That instantly caught his attention and he quickly gets down on the floor to my level, carefully scooting over to me. “n-no, it’s not like that, i was just not happy.” He takes a breath, to gather himself. “ i was unhappy in ways i didn’t communicate and i avoided conversations that I should’ve had with you but instead I chose to go outside of our relationship and go to something easier. I never meant to hurt you. I was only trying to cope with myself in the pain that I was dealing with. It’s not on you” he pleads

Easier

“You say that as if it’s supposed to make me feel better, like it’s something to help us. “ I stopped myself. This isn’t going nowhere. “Elias, we just gotta cut this off.”

every time underneath his touch she tells herself she’s done for… this is it.. that she die in the hands of the man i love so deeply yet she opens her eyes again into another morning and looks to her empty bedside, dreading to start again.

Her hands wave through the cold light pink sheets like the cold water of a pond searching for him, but it was almost like he was never here.. like last night never happened.. like it was all a dream she refused to wake from.

But he’s here again. Watching her like prey as she walks through the foggy streets into a crowded bar. Like an invisible shield, following her with a safe distance but still enough to draw the impression that she’s alone.

She moves her way through the crowd of intoxicated people and finds a stool at the tail end of the bar, hoping to be unnoticed by lingering eyes. Only searching for white ones she craved. Looking to escaping the stress, ordering a-

“Soft Bourbon River on the rocks” a deep, familiar voice rings through her ears as her shoulders relax to the sound.

She looks up as he swiftly slips behind her, gently placing a hand on her lower back, taking a seat next her.

“I hear that it’s a house favorite, please make that 2 for me and the lady” he replied, giving the waiter a small nod. Their eyes met for the first time tonight and the warm notes of gin and cinnamon of his cologne fills her nose.

“you’re a little late” she manages to sneak out under her breath, though she is sure he can hear her. She is confident that he can hear her breath if he wanted to.

“Ouch” he jokes, he flashes his famous smirk that as killed thousands. His right hand reaches over his chest where his still heart should be. “I do apologize for keeping a pretty thing like you waiting,” he leans forward and offers his hand, desiring to feel her warm soft one.

She takes a glance at his hand and slowly slipping her hands into his, where he carefully bringing it to his soft plump lips. Her breath is caught in her throat again, her eyes watching him carefully, taking in every moment of his appearance, like it the last time.

Can’t we stay like this forever

“You keep staring at me like that,” he said.

“Like what?” She inquires.

“Like you don’t know if you should stop.” He says, slowly guiding both of their hands onto the surface of the table.

“Unfortunately, I can say the same for you, each day you become later and later, and the bed..” she lets her hand slips from his, as a sour taste rushes through her mouth.

His smile faded — just slightly.

“ The bed feels so hollow as if you were never there and I’m not sure if I can live a life like that anymore, Elias” She admits.

He looks down, disappointed that his actions made her feel this way. His name rolls off your tongue so smoothly like warm butter on bread. His heart aches to expect this to be the last time he hears it from you.

“ i see..” he trails off.

She looks down at the menu, pretending to search for the next item as the waiter comes back with their drinks

“Is there anything I can start you with?” The waiter asks as they places their drinks down, and quickly pulls their notepad out with pen ready.

“No,” she politely declines, “just the drinks for now..”

The waiter walks off to service the another table and her eyes met Stack’s low ones again.

“If I had my way, things wouldn’t be like this. Truly, it does pain me to leave your bed in the morning, but I know that it was for the best-“ he addressed.

“If I had it my way, I would join you. To walk the night with you. I’ll do it over and over again if it means not leaving your side.” She buds in, not taking another excuse from him.

Stack looks down at his drink, clears his throat, toying with the tooth pick in between his fingers as his leg repeatedly bounces up and down, feeling a little unease for once. He swiftly takes a swig of his drink, trying to cover the anxiety slowly creeping over his shoulder.

And now, the tension feels worse. Every breath she takes feels like the last one as if she’s gonna burst any minute.

“I would want that too.. please believe me-“ Stack starts, leaning forward to try to close the space but she takes a deep breath moving back slightly causing Stack to stop.

“Then why have we waited so long, this distance is killing me, i grow impatient, restless, i never wanted nothing more-“ she admits, her eyes are glossy.

“what is wrong with what we have right now, this life- i-“ he looks around, searching for an answer, but his eyes eventually land on yours.

He screwed his chair closer to hers side, and he rest his tender hands on her knee. He leans close into he ear and she feel the heat radiating off his body as the tension grows stronger.

Her eyes meet his completely vulnerable to whatever reality unfolds behind his words.

“ this life is never ending pain and your presence makes it painless… i’ve considered what you’re asking a long time ago, but I felt selfish cause I will be taking a lot more from you than just blood.” He takes a breath, “your friends, family, the life you built for yourself, I haven’t had any of that for a long time and you are the only thing of a warm peaceful life I have. You’re the only thing that makes this bearable. I don’t want to change you. I love you for exactly who you are, and I will be damned if anything happens to you. I’m trying not to ruin you… You’re making that difficult”

“That’s not fair,” you utter.

Your voice didn’t sound like yours. Too quiet. Too steady.

“Fair?” he repeated, almost amused.

“You don’t get to protect me from what I want.” She sternly states.

He should’ve let go a long time ago. Should’ve treated this as a one night but he refused.

He’s so hard headed.

He dug himself too deep and should’ve created distance. Given her space to breathe. To think a little longer about this decision.

He didn’t. His hand was still wrapped around here.

Loose.

But not leaving.

“Say it again,” he murmurs.

“Why?” Her eyebrows scrunched up.

His grip on her hand tightens. “Because I want to hear you mean it.” He says softly.

“Elias Moore, I am deeply in love with you and I am ready to start forever with you, tonight.” She admits.

He leans in slowly, she joins in as their lips slip in each other, his hand slides up her neck feeling her pulse under his fingertips. His fangs slightly graze her bottom lip and she softly moans for only for his ears to hear.

“Then you’re smarter than I thought… to do this in public, wearing this dress you know i grow weak for, those eyes are so mischievous.” He smiles. “if we are going to do this, let’s do this the right way, but first,” he raises his glass.

“A drink?” She asks, confused by the sudden request.

“To more life, to endless laughter, to endless sunsets, to warm sheets,” he lightly laughs and takes the chance to look to her, “to more life with the love of mine”

Stronger.