Chapter 5: The Dinner Guest
Summary: Kathryn invites James to dinner in order to make Sebastian jealous.
"So what happened?" Annette asked as they walked into his bedroom.
"Nothing" Sebastian snapped throwing his jacket onto the bed. They had just arrived home from school and Annette was already pumping him for information about what happened to his face. There was a small cut above his lip and a bruise by his eye that was vanishing. She knew about the fight between him and James, hell everyone knew. It spread around campus in a matter of minutes with everyone speculating about what started it. Some people said James started it others said it was Sebastian but no one knew for sure. Soon after hearing about it Annette found Sebastian and asked what happened but he had brushed her off just like he was doing now.
The truth was Sebastian wasn't really in the mood to share about his shitty day. He hit James, James hit back end of story he didn't feel like rehashing all the details with Annette. Besides just talking about it would just get his more angry about that asshole. How dare he call him a whipped puppy. Who the fuck did he think he was? Not to mention he had his hands all over Kathryn. His Kathryn.
As Sebastian realized what he was thinking he tried to shake the thought away. His Kathryn? Since when? Looking up he noticed Annette looking up at him with concern. "Sebastian you can tell me what happened?"
"That asshole James was just started saying shit and it didn't help any Kathryn being there" he told her as he took off his tie.
Annette shook her head at the mention of Kathryn's name "wait Kathryn? She had something to do with it?"
"Doesn't she always" Sebastian grumbled.
"Why are you letting her get to you?"
He turned around suddenly "I'm not! It's just we were talking and he shows up and...god I'm sick of thinking about it."
"Sick of thinking about what? Them together? God if I didn't know better I would think you were jealous of James because he gets to be with her and you don't"
"Are you insane? I am not jealous of him and certainly not because of Kathryn. I am not interested in her any more."
She looked towards the ground and said softly "but you did have feelings for her right?"
Sebastian sighed and pulled out his cigarettes "let's not get into this, ok?"
"Since when have you started smoking again? I thought you quit."
He lit one up and rolled his eyes "you thought wrong."
Annette was sick of his attitude "what is wrong with you lately?"
"Nothing"
"Oh its definitely something. Lately you've been acting like a complete-"
Annette was cut off by the sound of laughter coming from the hallway. One of the voices was most definitely Kathryn and the other one sounded suspiciously like James. Sebastian's eyes went large and he quickly put out his cigarette. "No way! No fucking way!"
"Sebastian" Annette warned.
He didn't listen and stormed into the hallway. Kathryn was heading into her room hand in hand with James and both turned to Sebastian smiling. "You get the fuck out of my house!" Sebastian screamed at him
Kathryn shook her head at her step brother "last time I checked this was my house to Sebastian and James is my guest. He's having dinner with us tonight."
Sebastian glared at her "like hell that's going to happen."
"Look I don't want to cause any trouble Sebastian. I'm willing to put aside our differences. What do you say?"
James extended his hand and Sebastian looked at it like he was diseased. "I say blow me dickhead."
Annette glared at him "Sebastian he's trying to be an adult about this why can't you?"
"Why can't you mind your own business?" Sebastian asked her.
That was the last straw for Annette. She was sick of him acting like a jerk, she couldn't be around him. "Fine, I'm out of here. I can't deal with you when your like this."
Sebastian was really in no mood to go after her so he just let her walk out of the house. Kathryn giggled "well she seemed a little perturbed. Trouble in paradise?"
"Fuck you" he grumbled at her.
Kathryn turned to James and smiled "I take that as a yes. Come on there something I'm dying to show you" she told him as she took his hand and pulled him towards her room. "See you at dinner Sebastian" she called over her shoulder.
As they left Sebastian was torn between running in there and going after Annette. In the back of his head he knew Kathryn was doing all of this just to piss him off and he hated to admit it was working. Just the idea that James got to touch her and she might actually enjoy it drove him insane. At the same time he knew that the way he was acting was tearing apart his relationship with Annette. He was going to have to make a decision sooner or later about which life and which girl he wanted.
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"So this is were princess Kathryn sleeps" James asked as he inspected her room.
Kathryn was taking a hit off her crucifix "yes just don't break anything."
He took a seat on her couch and watched her "so what's the deal here Kat? Is this all just to make your brother jealous?"
She had long ago stopped ordering him to refer to her as Kathryn when she realized he wasn't going to stop any time soon. She sighed "in a way yes."
"You want him back?"
"No" she said a little to quickly. "I mean I want you to help me break up him and Annette. I want him to suffer for telling that little virgin all my secrets and for..."
He studied her curiously "and for what? Breaking your heart?"
"Stop saying that! He never did that."
"Ok so tell me the story. What exactly happened."
Taking a deep breath Kathryn decided to tell him the whole story. Then he would realize how completely off base he was. "Before the start of the school year me and Sebastian made this little bet."
"About what?"
"Well you saw that article Annette did and so did Sebastian. He was so positive he could get into her panties so we decided to make a wager on it."
He raised his eyebrows "you bet on her virginity?"
Kathryn rolled her eyes "yes, yes, I know I'm an awful person. Anyway I told Sebastian that if he lost I got his car and if he won he got me."
"Got you as in-"
"Fucking my brains out."
Shaking his head he asked "well no offense but why would he agree to that? I mean didn't you two already..."
Kathryn looked towards the ground "no we never did, we never have."
"Oh. So he agreed and then what?"
She looked up at him a hard expression suddenly on her pretty face "the son of a bitch fell in love. Christ it was disgusting he was acting like a completely different person. After he nailed her I offered him his reward and what did he do? He turned me down. I tried to stop him from becoming a complete pussy."
"I'm afraid to ask."
She shrugged "I suggested to him that breaking up with her was the only way to save his reputation and of course being the self involved bastard that he is he did it. Then he had the nerve to show up at my room and demand that I fuck him. I mean I knew...I knew that..."
"That he still had feelings for Annette" James finished for her. "That must of killed you."
Kathryn was staring into space "Sebastian fucked a lot of girls but I was the only one he actually cared about. Then she came and everything fell apart."
"So you want to break them up so you can have him back?"
That snapped Kathryn out of her thoughts "no! God I don't want him back I just want to hurt him. To make him realize the supreme mistake he made by pissing me off. I don't want him back."
"Right" James said not buying a word of it. "So your going to use me to make him jealous then what?"
A slow smile crept on her face "phase two comes later. Come on dinner should be just about done."
Kathryn introduced James to Tiffani who found him quite charming. His million dollar inheritance didn't hurt either. As they sat down Sebastian soon joined them. Tiffani looked up as he walked in "it's about time" she said icily. "Have you met James?"
"Unfortunately" he grumbled under his breath.
"So James tell me about your family.
As James told her about his parents who were divorced and how he was the only child Sebastian glared over at Kathryn. She smiled up at him with a confident look in her eyes. It never ceased to amaze Sebastian that he could hate someone he wanted so badly. He could tell she was enjoying the hell out of how much this bothered him. Well he wasn't about to sit here and play nice with this asshole.
Tiffani asked James about his last school and Sebastian took it upon him self to ask a question. "So how many school's did you get expelled from?" He asked with a chipper smile on his face.
James looked up at him immediately with surprise. Tiffani shot Sebastian a nasty look "why on earth would you say something like that Sebastian?"
"Because it's true. James told me himself, what was it for? Oh yeah fucking the dean's daughter."
The superior smile was now gone off of Kathryn's face and she was glaring at him with absolute venom. "Sebastian stop it" she hissed.
He glared over at her "eat me Kat."
James was watching him the whole time curious were he was going with this. He didn't seem bothered in the least by Sebastian's allegations. He finally said "it's ok that is the reason."
Both Tiffani and Kathryn looked over at him curiously "what happened?"
"Well you see I was in love with this girl who-"
"Oh bullshit!" Sebastian called out. "Christ your full of shit."
"Sebastian!" Tiffani exclaimed "I will not have him treat our guest like this-"
"Fine I'm out of here" he said as he stood up. "Have a lovely dinner."
As Sebastian stormed out Kathryn looked at him with anger but inside she was quite delighted that her plan was working. Just like she thought Sebastian was complelty jealous of James and now he couldn't deny it. Tiffani sighed "I don't know what has gotten into him."
"I'll go talk to him. I'll be back in a minute."
Kathryn left the dinning room and headed into Sebastian's room. Without knocking she entered "what the fuck is your problem?"
Sebastian who had been sitting at his desk got up immediately and started for her with anger. "What's my problem? I'm not the one who invited Captain Kangaroo to dinner. What are you trying to do?"
"Nothing" she told him innocently. "I like James."
"Well isn't that special but I'm not buying it. Your up to something Kathryn you always are. So what's the deal are you using James in hopes of breaking up me and Annette?"
Kathryn shook her head "why does it seem so strange that I could actually like this guy. He's gorgeous, smart, and fun. All the things you use to be. I like James Sebastian deal with it."
He glared at her "why I acknowledge the fact that you usually whore your self out to anyone who you deem attractive enough to spread you legs for something it different here. And don't feed me that crap about you having feelings. I think we both know you don't"
Kathryn knew Sebastian was capable of saying nasty things to her but for some reason it got to her today. Her fists clenched and she screamed "fuck you!"
Sebastian snickered slightly "no thanks I'm not really in the mood."
His attitude and confident manor where getting to her. Who the hell did he think he was? Did he really think he was better at this than her? Kathryn raised her hand quickly and tried to hit him. Before her fist made contact Sebastian grabbed her arm and held in against the wall above her head. The two of them were now standing so close they were practically on top of one another. Kathryn half heatedly tried to struggle out of his grasp but he held her tight. Leaning close so there faces were only centimeters away there eyes locked and Sebastian placed at warm hand on her thigh. He smirked "then again..."
Kathryn hated admitting how nice his hands felt on her but she was angry about the way he was going about it. "If I were you I'd let me go and start acting like a good little whipped boyfriend."
Sebastian only tightened his grip on her and let his hand wander up her thigh "isn't this what you wanted? For me to start acting like my old self."
She tried her best mot to respond to her touches "too little too late."
His hand slid to the inside of her leg and his fingers brushed against her panties. Kathryn knew she was getting more than a little aroused by this but she could tell Sebastian was too. "You feel a little wet Kat" he told her with a smirk.
She returned it "and judging by the dick hitting me in the thigh your more than a little hard." Kathryn's free hand went down to his pants and began to stroke his hard shaft through his pants. "You know Sebastian your right you are starting to change. Yelling at goldilocks, starting fights, and now this. I wonder what you would do if your precious Annette walked in right now and saw you like this? Pressed firmly up against me, your fingers playing with my pussy, hard on raging, what ever would you do?"
Sebastian didn't answer he just pressed further into her until there lips all but brushed one another. Kathryn closed her eyes awaiting the inevitable when the phone rang. Her eyes opened and Sebastian murmured "saved by the bell."
As he pulled away and let her go Kathryn couldn't help but feel rejected again. I should of kneed him and left she thought but no I had to give in. Christ I almost let him kiss me. Sebastian stared at her a minute before answering the phone. "Well that was interesting but I better answer this."
Kathryn glared at him "Sebastian if I was planning something do you really think it would be to bring you back? The only thing I want is to destroy you and remember I always get what I want."
Before he could respond she left the room slamming the door behind her. She leaned against it for a second but left when she heard him say Annette's name.
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As expected Sebastian never came back for dinner. In fact he left the house all together and Kathryn suspected it was to run and make up with his darling girlfriend. Dinner continued on and afterwards Kathryn wandered out onto the balcony and looked out at the park. She tried not to but her thoughts kept racing back to Sebastian. How dare he treat her like that, like she was some sort of whore he could play with. Well she would hurt him back, when she was done he would have nothing.
All of a sudden she felt a warm hand on her neck and she turned around. When she saw it was James her smile fell somewhat and she cursed herself for thinking it was him. "Hey" he smiled easily "are you ok?"
She shrugged "fine, sorry about dinner. My mother can be a pain in the ass."
"It's fine so can mine. So where did Valmont run off to?"
"I assume after Annette, where else would he go?"
"And your pissed about that."
Kathryn turned to him "I am not. Look whatever you think is going on between me and Sebastian your wrong."
"Ok then why with all the head games? What exactly are you hoping to accomplish with the jealousy trip?"
She sighed "I told you I'm going to get back at Sebastian by breaking up him and Annette. I can't do it directly because the little witch has that god damn journal. However I can fuck with him until he does it all on his own."
James studied her a moment "so say you succeed...then what?"
"What do you mean?"
He walked up to her until they were close. "You break them up then what?"
"Then I'll reject and humiliate him." She smiled over at him "with your help of course."
James slid an arm around her pulling her closer "well I'm happy to help." He then leaned in and kissed her. Kathryn wrapped her arm around his neck pulling him closer. It was a nice kiss but she knew she was just using him to feel better. It almost worked.
When he pulled away he smiled slightly at her. "I do really like you...it's too bad."
Kathryn titled her head "what's too bad?"
"That your in love with someone else." He gave her a kiss on the cheek and pulled away before she could say anything. "I'll see you tomorrow Kat."
Kathryn watched him leave in silence and then turned back to the view in front of her. She wished to god she could tell him he was completely wrong but she found she couldn't. "Damn you Sebastian"
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Shortly after before James left Sebastian pulled his jag up in front of the Valmont townhouse. He sighed recalling the events of the night. It had been Annette on the phone as he expected. She called wondering if his mood had passed and he pretend that it had. He then left and went over there were he apologized for his behavior. Everything out of his mouth had been bullshit he wasn't sorry for what he did and said, he wasn't completely sure why he had made up with her.
In the back of his mind he knew why. It had to do will what Kathryn had said to him before she left. The threat about this all being about hurting him rather then getting him back. She wanted revenge as she always did and it made him angry. After there encounter he thought maybe she wanted him but as usual he was wrong. She was out for blood and he was going to be damned if he let her win.
But god it had been so good when he was pressed so tightly against her. Just recalling how she felt and the look in her eyes made him hard again. Maybe he shouldn't of answered the phone. Maybe he should of just thrown her on the bed and fucked her then all of this would be over. The head games would stop and they could both stop lying to each other. But no he had to prove he was better by pulling away. Yeah he was partly to blame for this.
Sebastian got out of the car and was starting for the house when he looked up and noticed Kathryn on the balcony. However she wasn't alone James was with her. They didn't seem to notice him they were too wrapped up in each other. Sebastian knew he should turn and walk in but he found he couldn't tear his eyes away from them. Slowly James leaned in and kissed her. He hoped and prayed she would push him away put instead she just pulled him closer.
As the sight Sebastian's heart sank. He remembered how close he came to kissing her earlier that evening. But I had to pull away, Christ I'm an asshole. Finally after what seemed like an eternity they pulled away. James muttered something to her then gave her a kiss on the cheek before leaving.
Sebastian said a silent prayer of thanks that they didn't sleep together. At least I have that he thought pathetically. Part of Sebastian knew he shouldn't care. He should just say fuck it and let the romance fizzle out like it would most likely do but he couldn't. The truth of the matter was that he wanted Kathryn. He always had and at that moment he vowed to get her. Fuck Annette, fuck his pride, fuck it all.
As Kathryn looked down she noticed Sebastian and there eyes locked. Slowly a smile came across his face. He would get her fuck the consequences.
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