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Carson was sitting on his couch when he heard the door to his apartment open up. He looked behind him, knowing exactly who it was. Maddie was the only one who had the spare key. "Was it really that bad that you had to use me as an excuse?" He was referring to the date she had called him in the middle of to come and save her only for him to call her five minutes later as said decoy.

Payton: So that guy you asked me to grab the other night, remember him?

“Oh come on Carson.” He gave her a charming smile and grabbed her wrist, bringing it up to press a kiss against the inside of it. “You know that it wouldn’t be us if we didn’t end up together in the end.”

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Though it was unlike her, Jessa had remained mostly quiet on the way back to their room. Not intentionally, but she couldn’t seem to do anything more than fidget with the towel wrapped around her small frame and cast quick glances at Carson when he wasn’t paying attention. She didn’t know whether she was relieved or more nervous once they’d finally reached their room. She didn’t say anything until she’d discarded the wet towel around her body and grabbed a t-shirt from her suitcase, pulling it over her head afterward. “So...” She trailed off, sitting on her bed and running her fingers through her damp hair. “We said some things and we should talk about those things. I just... I don’t want it to be awkward. Although I feel like I’m already making it awkward by saying that, but whatever.” She huffed, blowing a loose strand of hair out of her face as she wrung her hands together. “I don’t know where to start, Car.” 

          Carson hangs up the phone without so much as a love you, goodnight, chasing the tail end of a bad conversation with another drink of his scotch. The club around him is lively, vibrant, a haze of smoke hanging down from the ceiling, but he’s focused entirely in on himself. 

“Hey! I am so sorry I disappeared, friend. I hope you don’t mind me showing up here?”, Zach spoke as the door of Carson’s place opened. The fae was holding a flower bouquet in front of him, but extended it to Carson as soon as he finished speaking. “Maybe you still want to take me to that place you mentioned before?”