#weston.

“Whaaaaat? No no no no no — everything is — it’s great! It’s gonna be great, still, I can — I can tell.”

He appears behind Divina. His hands go up like he’s going to rub her shoulders in reassurance — then drop as he thinks better of it.

He has no idea what he’s looking at right now, what she’s just taken out of the oven. But it’s fine, right? It looks fine, and everything will be fine. If he wills it to be, so it will be. 

He hasn’t shut up about his ex-girlfriend, who loved this club, for most of the evening. He’s oblivious to Divina’s patience wearing thin — if she even had patience for this to begin with. 

And then he sees her — sequined dress, high heels, I-just-got-fucked hair. She was way out of his league — and that was the least of their problems, now that he’s had time to reflect on it. On the him of it all. On the lives with his mom and dad still of it all. Of the dreams that never come true of it all. 

But, yes, he sees her. And she sees him, and she sees Divina. Young and beautiful and, quite frankly, too cool for any of this. She’s decided she must introduce herself. 

“Look, Divina,” Weston says with the look of a man who knows he is about to jump from a very tall building, who knows he may not make it to the ground alive. “I need you to — I need you to trust me. Okay?” 

And he leans forward, too sudden, and kisses her passionately. 

"Whether or - or not I'm in any sort of position, I - I think that's what I'm doing. Why? Are you gonna stop me?" 

He's teasing — mocking, even — because he thinks, in some small way, he’s better than Ajay. Could take him, if this banter turned aggressive — and that is always where Weston’s mind goes. 

"Man — man, look, man — I'm fine. It's fine. I just — "

Need to be a forty-year-old man who complains about his parents like they're bad roommates. And he pays rent, and they're his landlords, and it's all a bit complicated and sad. He just needs to let off some steam, alright?

He looks like he has money — or, at the very least, knows people who do. And Weston is always intrigued by a potential investor.