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"So, would you like to dance?" Roman asked.
Emery was surprised by the offer, but certainly wasn't going to turn him down. "I'd love to."
A few minutes later, as the pair was dancing together, Emery got up the nerve to ask, "So what kind of questionable decisions was Drake talking about exactly? …Am I one of your questionable decisions?"
Emery hadn't thought that Roman would be the dancing type, but it turned out that he was actually a surprisingly good dancer.
"Not exactly," he told her. "I mean, there's no question that I want to be with you."
Emery smiled as she finished for him, "But it's just too dangerous for me."
"Exactly," Roman agreed. "But you don't seem to care about that, so I figure why should I keep trying so hard to fight this when we both know that I don't want to? It's not like the way that I feel about you isn't obvious to everyone anyways."
"Oh, so I've broken you?" She questioned with a laugh. "Then I guess that makes this your speech of defeat."
"Something like that," he told her with a smile.
Drake decided to let Taylor walk away from him, at least for now, and turned to head back towards where he had left his friend behind. A smirk spread across his lips as he saw that Roman was no longer sitting by the bar and was instead dancing with Emery.
He scanned the rest of the room and noticed that Emery's human friend, Julia, had gone back to sit at a table with the other human friend, Lukas, and Sophia. Drake figured that they were his best option right now, so he began to head over to sit with them.
"Your plan seems to be working," Julia commented as he approached their table. "And surprisingly quickly I might add."
"The guy's pretty much wanted her since they were six," Drake pointed out. "But he also has an obsession with protecting other people, so I just gave him an excuse that he can tell himself. This way he can hopefully stop questioning every damn move that he makes."
"Well it worked, so kudos to you," Julia told him with a friendly smile.
Teri had shown up to this stupid party with the hope of making Roman forget all about that boring human that he had become irrationally obsessed with, so she was less than thrilled when she saw Roman laughing and dancing with that stupid Emery Whitehill.
Worst of all was that this party, which was supposed to be for Roman's birthday, was infested with all of these unmarked rodents that had no idea why the party was even being held. Ugh, she needed a drink. Or maybe three.
Teri hit up the bar and then searched the room for some decent company, or at least the closest that you could find in a dump like this, and then groaned to herself. Of course Drake just had to be sitting at a table with Sophia and the rest of the Emery Whitehill fan club, with the exception of Roman who was still too busy fawning over Emery to pay attention to anyone else. Gross.
Teri decided to head over there anyways and figured that she would rescue Drake from that train wreck.
"Hey, you're Teri right?" Julia asked cheerily as she saw the other girl walk up behind Drake. "I'm-"
"Some boring human that I couldn't care less about. Yeah, I know," Teri interrupted in a much less friendly tone than the other girl had used before she turned to face Drake instead. "I need you alone. Now."
Drake wasn't sure if he liked the sound of that. As he stood up to walk away with her, he silently prayed that she wouldn't be delivering him some kind of Trag mission. He really was not up for dealing with that right now.
Once they were standing in a fairly deserted area of the party where he was sure that no one would be able to overhear them, he asked her, "What is it?"
"You're the closest thing here to someone that I can stand to be around and I'm bored out of my freaking mind," she responded in an irritated tone. "That and I need someone to drink with so that I don't barf at the sight of Roman with Emery."
"So basically you just used a tone of fake urgency to get me over here because you're jealous of Emery?" Drake asked in an amused tone.
"Did you really want to hang out with a bunch of humans?" Teri questioned with a raised eyebrow. "…Someone needs to show them what an actual party looks like and I nominate us."
Drake figured that it might be fun and that he needed something to do while he let Taylor cool off a little from her earlier anger at him. Besides, he knew from experience that it was always a good idea to try and stay on Teri's good side.
He shrugged to himself before forming a smile and responding with, "Why not?"
"Good… Oh, and if you tell anyone else, including Roman, that I was jealous of a pathetic little human like Emery Whitehill then I will brutally murder you in your sleep."
"I'll keep that in mind," he responded with a mischievous grin. "…You look like you could use another drink."
Taylor was not going to pay any attention to Drake. Nope, she wasn't even going to think about him… Not at all. And she certainly wasn't going to look around and see what he was doing. Never. Not a chance. That would just be letting him win.
Just think of the stupid, arrogant smirk that he would shoot her way if he caught her looking for him or if he somehow figured out that her mind couldn't seem to stay on any topic other than him.
That wasn't working very well… Let's face it, this wasn't working at all. Even when she was trying her hardest to push all thoughts of him from her head, he was still ruining her night as her thoughts constantly turned back to him and then to chastising herself for her desperation.
No, she was not desperate and she certainly was not going to go looking for him after all that he had done to her and all of the ignoring that she'd had to deal with from him…
But maybe she could just look around for a few seconds… And then if she happened to spot him during that time, then maybe she could just take a little peek in his direction to see if he looked miserable without her or if he looked just as unphased as he usually did.
Okay, fine. She would do one quick scan for the sake of her sanity and then she would go back to ignoring him for the rest of the night.
As casually as she could, Taylor scanned the crowd until her gaze fell upon Drake, who looked beyond unphased by the fact that she was ignoring him. Apparently he had already moved on from her, since he was laughing, dancing and drinking with that other Atrian girl in the centre of the room.
And it was like he wanted her to see it. It was like they were trying to get the attention of as many people as possible.
"Maybe I should have rented a stage for them," she muttered under her breath before forcing herself to look away and strike up a conversation with the nearest person in a futile attempt to distract herself.
A/N: Please read and review! Thank you guys so much for reading and I hope that you liked the update. Hopefully the editing was okay because it's late and my brain is foggy. Oh, and I'm going to try to have a new chapter up every day or two, so hopefully that plan will work out.
