#thread:sutton

sutton was admittedly pretty nervous to come over the next day. she was expecting the worst because she knew she wouldn’t be all that happy if she were in gretchen’s shoes. her hand held onto ellie’s and she walked inside slowly, taking in a deep breath and peering around the house. she spotted the couple in the backyard and joined them on the patio, “hey guys,” she started, her eyes darting between the two in attempt to see if there were any sort of tension. “there you are and there’s my favorite niece!” gretchen exclaimed and took the girl in her lap. she slowly sat down and glanced over at mateo, trying to figure out what happened or if anything happened at all. “how was last night after i left? you guys miss me?” she attempted to joke.

WHO: sutton heady. 31. script writer. PLOT: sutton had a relationship with your muse and caught your muse in bed with someone else, and then wrote a movie about it. think the movie something’s gotta give. OPEN: f/m/nb 30+

sutton wouldn’t miss her sister’s wedding for the world. despite the two of them living so far away from each other, she knew that she had to make this trip and with her daughter by her side. she still had yet to meet her sister’s mystery man and she was ultimately pretty curious to meet the man who had convinced her sister to settle down, especially when gretchen had never been the type of girl to want to do that. she’d always been career motivated and sutton had too. she supposed they both got that from their parents. 

she and mateo definitely weren’t in an ideal situation but had she or mateo known the entire truth then she assumed maybe the two of them wouldn’t be in this situation. each of them played a part in this. more her than the other two but they weren’t innocent by any means. still, she wished there was something more she could have done to avoid hurting her sister and if not her, then mateo. he hadn’t known about their daughter and sure, gretchen didn’t either but had she been more open about her relationship with sutton’s ex hook up then...they wouldn’t be stressing about the supposed consequences of their actions. 

sutton never thought she’d be in a fake relationship, let alone one for PR. she never thought she’d be in a situation where that was something she needed but they wanted to further put her into the spotlight, help promote the script she’d just written for the movie that was coming out and no, caleb wasn’t an actor in the movie but he was still someone that was in the lime light way more than she was and he was going to help push her out there. 

sutton knew the two of them couldn’t keep doing this and at first, it was fun. it was exciting. it kept them on their toes but now, it was something way more than that. her arms came around his neck as the two of them made their way into a room alone and her lips found his for a kiss. everytime she kissed her boyfriend, she thought of him and that wasn’t how things were supposed to me. she slowly pulled away, a sigh escaping her lips and her eyes meeting his. “we can’t keep doing this,” she started, her hands sliding forward and playing with the collar of his shirt, “we have to tell him. it’s not fair to him...”

losing her brother wasn’t something sutton expected she’d ever had to go through. at least, not now at such a young age and god, she missed him. every day he seemed to be the first thing she thought of, especially since she knew he was gone. her heart ached and she was spiraling out of control. she regularly landed herself in situations where her brother’s best friend would pop up and ‘look out’ for her. she was admittedly pretty horrible to him, “you’re not my brother!” she shouted every time and still, that didn’t seem to stop him from being there for her and later, she knew she’d appreciate it but for now, she was hurting.