Hey all, Mikki belongs to KikiJaunita, and she has given me permission to use Mikki for this story. If you wish to use her, you need to ask permission. Onyx belongs to me as does the others that you don't recognize, the rest belong to Glee and RM. Enjoy!
"What the hell, Onyx?" Seb questioned, rubbing the back of his head, where she slapped him on her way past. "Where you lying in wait for me?" He asked a teasing note to his tone, wondering what is going on with his friend and why she happened to be so pissed off at him for. He didn't do anything wrong.
"Don't what the hell me," Onyx hissed, placing her hands on the counter to look at him across from it. "Who gave you the stupid right to invite everybody you talk to?" She angrily questioned him, willing her anger to simmer down.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he flatly told her. "For being a teacher you're rather horrendous on explaining the whole situation," he told her with a playful smirk, wanting to bring her anger down.
"You can shove it," she snapped. "I can't revoke the invite you gave to them," she sighed, burying her head in her hands for a second, taking a deep breath. "Why did you think that it would be a good idea to invite Clint and his friends along on our 4th of July? You do know it's not going to end good, right?" She asked him, trying her hardest to reign in her anger over the move that her best friend went ahead and pulled.
"Honestly?" Seb asked, moving to the living room to have a seat on the couch. "I wasn't thinking about the consequences that it would bring; I was thinking about the fact that he is your friend and that he didn't have any other plans for the day and I like seeing my best friend happy," he explained, watching her take a seat on the edge of a living room chair. "And I know that you like him more than a friend, but you're scared to be taking that step because of Hunter," he finished with a shrug.
"So what you thought it would be best to push me into a relationship with Clint?" She questioned him. "Because that will go over oh so well," she hissed, taking a deep breath to calm herself down.
"I'm not pushing you into a relationship with Clint," Seb said, shaking his head. He knew better than to do something like that. "I'm pushing you into confronting your feelings for him." If he didn't do that move than she wouldn't ever do it, as she would push them away and lose the person that could be the one for her, if she didn't try. And he didn't want her to be second guessing herself after what she went through with Hunter.
"The last thing I need to be doing is confronting any feelings I have for anyone," she told him, shaking her head. "I need to be friends with him, until I know that I won't screw him over," she sighed. She didn't want to be hurting anyone in any way if she could help it. "And let's talk about Hunter for a moment here," she stated, a bit annoyed.
"What about Hunter?" Seb asked. "Thought we were all talked out of Hunter?"
"Until you went ahead and invited Clint and his friends to join us on Hunter's yacht for the day," she told him, rolling her eyes, curious to know how he forgot about that one little detail.
"Oh yeah, that one detail," he winced. "I am not going to say I am sorry for doing it," he told her point-blank. "You want to be friends with Hunter and this is how you are going to prove that; not only to you, but to everyone else as well. If you can get through one day with your ex and the possibility of a future boyfriend, than you know that you are completely and utterly free of the hold Hunter has on you," Seb stated matter-of-factly.
"I might actually agree with you on that, Sebastian, but I don't think it's a very good idea at all," she stated, rubbing her temples. "It's a bad move to be making and one that I don't agree on," she said, growing quiet for a few moments. "It's like inviting your latest ex-girlfriend to a date with you and Mikki," she said, looking at him. "It's not ideal to have them mix. You get where I am coming from don't you?" She asked with pleading eyes.
"I get it, because I would hate to be put in the predicament that I put you in with any of my exes and Mikki. And sure, maybe I was being a dick head when I went ahead and invited them without asking you first or even thinking about the consequences of it..."
"Ya think?" She snapped cutting him off. She was having a hard time in really getting over the move he had made, thinking it would be okay to pull such a stunt. "I don't get where your damn head was at, Sebastian."
"You're going to have to deal with it," Seb told her, getting up. He couldn't defend his actions any longer, because she wasn't going to see the bigger picture. And sure he shouldn't have done it, but it is done and she would have to make the most of it. He wasn't sorry that he had done it. Someone needed to be the bad guy and push her forward and no one else was going to do it, so it had to be him and quite frankly, he didn't mind one bit. "You can be the bad guy and uninvite him if you want too," Seb shrugged, heading to his room.
"Oh no," she yelled after him. "He'll be there and you will have to endure the hell that it will be and you best bet that it will be hell," she finished yelling, grabbing her purse and heading out, slamming the apartment door behind her. "Shit!" She cursed, walking down the hall to the stairwell.
"What has you so pissed off?" Jeff asked, leaving his apartment complex seeing his sister ready to enter the place, so he held the door open for her letting her in. Even though he is on his way out, he would always stop to check with his sister, if she came to him. He wouldn't turn her down in her time of need, like now.
"Not what, but whom," she said. "Best friends, suck royally," she stated, going to move past her brother.
"What happened?" Jeff asked with a sigh, preparing to shoot Sugar a quick text that he would be a few minutes late.
"Just be ready for a hellish 4th of July," she told him, heading to the stairs instead of taking the elevator. She needed to keep walking so she could walk her anger off. She didn't need to be directing her anger at the wrong party in this situation.
"Are you not going to tell me?" He questioned, following after his sister, dreading those few moments where he thought he would be okay if he didn't head out when he should have, thinking he had plenty of time, as the restaurant isn't that far away.
"Ever wondered how an ex and a potential boyfriend would fair if tossed together on a yacht in the middle of a lake?" She asked, pausing on the landing for the second floor.
"No," he said, shaking his head, leaving out any and all jokes, seeing that his sister wasn't in the joking mood and he didn't want to make things worse for her. Because he didn't want her wrath directed at him. "I wouldn't even want to think about the crap that would go on if Sugar would be put into that place, with any of my exes," he said with a shudder. It wouldn't end pretty for either Sugar or for him.
"Me either, but thanks to Seb, I don't have a choice in the matter and we all get to be witnesses to it," she informed him.
"I am going out on a limb and saying that Sebastian invited Clint to spend the day with us on your exes yacht," he commented, holding his breath, having a fairly good idea on what her answer is going to be.
"Ding, ding, ding, we've got a winner," she sarcastically told him. "You win a free showing on the 4th, when the bout takes place. Do place your bets ahead of time."
"Shit!" he muttered. "What are you going to do?" He questioned.
"I'm going to have a chat with Clint. I can't revoke the invite, but I can put that option in his hands, when I tell him the details surrounding the day," she told him. On the walk over that was the only thing that she could think of doing, leaving it in his hands on whether he wanted to show up to the docks tomorrow or if he wanted to figure something else out for the day. "I can't do anything else about it," she commented, continuing her trek up the stairs.
"Good luck, with it all," Jeff told her, agreeing with her, it would have to be placed in Clint's hands if he wanted to go or not. He walked down the stairs to call his girlfriend as he didn't send the text message to her. It would be easier to explain why he is late over a phone call.
"Onyx, I wasn't expecting you," Clint said, pulling his door open to let her enter his apartment. "You could've sent a text on what I need to bring," he chuckled, closing his door firmly.
"Nothing," she told him. "It's been sorted out weeks ago," she informed him. "Alcohol wouldn't hurt and I'm going to need a lot of it," she commented, sitting at his kitchen table. "And if you do show up, you're going to want a lot of it as well," she muttered.
"Why?" He asked slowly, joining her at the table. He could see something is bothering her.
"Sebastian shouldn't have invited you," she started to say, holding her hand up to cut him off. "It's not about me wanting you there or not," she stated, licking her lips. "The yacht we'll be on for the day belongs to Hunter," she informed him.
"Oh," he said. "I didn't know," he said shaking his head. "I don't have to be there," he told her. He wanted to make it easy for her. Not that one could really have it easy being around an ex.
"I'm leaving it up to you, Clint. We'll be meeting at the marina around 9, and if you're not there by 10, I know you're not coming," she shrugged.
"It'll be awkward if I come," he pointed out.
"It'll be awkward if you don't come," she retorted with. "I'll let you think it over," she told him, getting up. "I wanted to drop by before I go shop for a few last minute things I want to be bring with. And I did want to give you the information that Sebastian willingly left out. As he should have given you all the details before getting your answer."
"Either way it's going to be awkward, so let me go with and we can figure out something other than alcohol that I can bring," he smirked.
"You'd spend the day with my ex just to hang out with me, why?" She inquired, shocked by that revelation. She couldn't think of anyone that would willingly do that for her. Maybe it is time to sit down and really sort her feelings out for Clint as it is starting to be obvious that he liked her more than she thought she liked him.
"Because I enjoy being with you, Onyx. Is it that hard to believe?" He asked, checking to make sure that he had everything before leaving his home.
"No," she told him in a small voice. She liked that he is willing to do that for her, that he liked spending time with her despite the less than desirable circumstances. "Let's see what you can bring, that I was told no, because they can't stop you from bringing them for me," she smiled sweetly at him.
"Really now?" He chuckled, letting her exit before shutting and locking his door. "Is that what this is?" He asked, falling in step with her, going to the stairs. "The one sneaking all the food you weren't allowed to bring?"
"Yep, you get to be my very strong and gorgeous mule," she smirked, wrapping herself around his arm.
"At least I'm gorgeous," he chuckled.
Shopping with Clint, turned out to be more domesticated than she thought it would be. And much like the rest of them he told her no to the sweets that she wanted to bring along. Telling her it's more sugar than she needs to be eating, in one day. He did agree to bring some cookies and a few other things that she wanted, as she is the only one to really eat them, as no one wanted to bring them if they would be going to waste with her being the only one to eat them. They also got some vegan food so Jason would have something to eat. Clint knowing what it is that needs to be bought for his friend.
In the one day since Seb pissed her off, she still wasn't talking to her best friend, making that time even longer by ignoring him and being mad at him. She hated being that mad at him, but she couldn't easily forgive him. There is a good possibility that she is over reacting about it, but so be it, she has every right to be pissed about it. It's not an ideal place to put anyone in. If she was on better terms with Hunter than she is, she would be okay with what the stunt Sebastian pulled, but she's barely even friends with him. She didn't have a good feeling about any of this.
"Onyx, I don't know what else you want me to be saying," Seb sighed, waiting outside in the parking lot for Mikki to show up. Onyx shrugged, looking at her phone, to ignore her best friend. "You're just going to have to be mad at me, because I can't change what I did, but you'll see that it isn't that bad," he said. "And who knows maybe they will end up being friends by the end of the day," he laughed.
"Not funny," she snapped, looking over at him. "If it would be where I could leave or where Clint or Hunter could leave at any given time, it would have been okay to invite Clint and his friends along, but in the middle of a lake with nowhere to go if things turn bad, is just wrong on every level," she told him. "I would have never done something like this to you. I don't get why you felt the need to do it to me," she sighed.
"Because I didn't want to see you feeling horrible all day moping and watching every move Hunter makes today. If Clint is there, your attention won't be focused on your ex. And if it is, than maybe you need to be thinking about getting back together with your ex, because you still have some strong feelings for him," Seb explained.
"I'm over Hunter," she stated. "And I thought you were against me dating Hunter to begin with?" She questioned.
"I am against it," he nodded. "Onyx, I am all for you being happy," he stated. "And this is your best friend, pushing you towards your happiness whether it be Hunter or it's Clint," he said, seeing Mikki pulling into the parking lot.
She sighed, helping get things put into Mikki's car, after they had a proper hello. With everything packed into the car and neither Seb or Onyx, needing anything from their apartment they got into the car, the tension between Onyx and Seb filling the car.
"What am I missing here?" Mikki asked, glancing at her boyfriend from the corner of her eye and taking a look in the rear-view mirror at Onyx. She could tell that something had gone on between the two best friends. Knew last night when she talked to her boyfriend that they had a falling out, but her boyfriend wouldn't tell her what that falling out had been about.
"Has your best friend, ever invited your ex and current boyfriend or crush to spend the day together in a small space with no way to escape if things get bad?" Onyx questioned her, taking the lead before Seb could say a word.
"I can't say any of my friends have done anything of the sorts," she told Onyx, looking over at her boyfriend at a red light. "Is that what you did to Onyx?" Mikki questioned, turning back to make sure that light is still red.
"I did," he sighed, giving a nod. "It's not the big of deal," he said. "You're friends with Hunter and you're friends with Clint, you're not dating either one of them," he exasperated.
"Sweetie, it's not that simple," Mikki told him, the light turning green for her. "Your best friend's feelings are at play here and it was wrong of you to do this. Would you be okay if we went to dinner with your ex?" She checked. "Or one of the exes that I happen to be friends with?" Seb looked at his girlfriend, that would be a conversation for a later date, not that he minded who she happened to be friends with.
"It would be weird for the fact that I am not friends with any of them. And I'm not trying to be friends with any of them," he said. "Whereas Onyx, is remaining to be friends with Hunter," he pointed out.
"But I am not at the point where I am ready for him to meet the guy that I could replace him with," Onyx spoke up. "It just screams all levels of wrong. And the thing is you're not even sorry about it, Sebastian."
"You're not sorry about putting your best friend in this horrible predicament?" Mikki questioned.
"No, because someone needs to push her into making the choices that make her happy and I am all for being the person to do that," he responded. "This is just the first of awkward moments she is going to have if she wants to stay friends with Hunter and date other guys."
"Are you trying to make her get back with Hunter? Or are you trying to show her she shouldn't even be friends with an ex?" Mikki asked, pulling into the marina, looking for a parking space.
"I'm not doing either," Seb said, shaking his head. "I can't control what she does. I'm merely showing her what it is that she has to look forward to."
"It's wrong of you," Mikki told him. "I side with Onyx on this one," Mikki informed them, parking her car. "You shouldn't have done it. It is up to Onyx when she is comfortable in her friendship with Hunter to have him and any boyfriend to hang out and not up to you, Seb. You shouldn't be pushing her into something she isn't ready for," Mikki said, putting the car into park and turning the engine off.
"Your girlfriend gets it, take a few hints from her, Sebastian," Onyx said, exiting the vehicle. She grabbed what she could carry and headed to where Hunter's yacht would be docked at. She needed to have a word with him before Clint and his friends were to arrive.
"Onyx, you don't how happy I am that you still came today," Hunter smiled, climbing down to help her with the stuff she had.
"This is the part where we can be friends and as weird as it is going to be, I couldn't pass it up, because it wouldn't do either one of us any good," she told him. "And I should warn you that Seb did a horrible bonehead thing and invited Clint and his friends along for the day," she sighed, ripping that band-aid right off.
"Clint?" He questioned, the name not ringing any bells in his head.
"The guy I have been hanging out with. He's the one that I have been with the last few times we've ran into each other in the street," she explained. "The guy I was with at the bar the night we broke up," she told him with a wince, seeing it register on his face as well.
"Ah, that guy," he grimaced. "I guess at this point, it is what it is," he said with a small nod. "And maybe I should make my apologies to him," Hunter told her.
"It would mean a lot to me, Hunter," Onyx smiled. It took a load off knowing that Hunter would at least try to get along with Clint for her. It did show her that maybe she could be friends with Hunter after everything they have been through.
"It's the least I can do, Onyx," he said. "You really like this guy don't you?" Hunter questioned, getting things set up, Onyx quick to help him.
"I think so," she smiled. "I'm figuring it out."
"What are you figuring out?" She heard her brother ask from behind her. She turned around to answer him, seeing he wasn't alone. Not only was Sugar, Seb and Mikki with him, but so was Clint and his friends. "As you can see I picked up some stragglers," he laughed.
"I see," she said. "And uh it's nothing," she waved it off. She tensed up slightly feeling Hunter slip his arm around her shoulders.
"That's not true at all," Hunter smirked. "She's trying to figure her feelings out for a certain someone," he said. Onyx looking over to see Clint. He had his jaw clenched shut, his eyes did hold a playfully glint to them at Hunter's words.
"Enough from you," Onyx said, jabbing him in the gut with her elbow, moving away from him. "I'm going to show these boys around," she said. "Mikki, Sugar care to join us?" Onyx questioned.
"They'll get the private tour later," Jeff laughed, moving to get things put away.
"That is something that I agree with your brother on," Seb chuckled, following after Jeff.
It took her very little time showing them where everything happened to be at on the yacht and soon enough they were back with the rest of them, ready to head out onto the open water, finding the perfect spot to set up for the day.
"I am sorry about all of this," Onyx told Clint sitting with him a bit away from the others as they mingled about now that they had anchored down. "Nothing is going on with Hunter, I swear it," she told him, knowing how he reacted the last time thinking something more was going on between her and Hunter.
"I'm not worried about it. I can't lie and say that I didn't want to deck him, when he had his hands all over you, but you're trying to be friends with him and it was done so in a more friendly way than him claiming you as his," he sighed.
"Is that what you want to do?" She asked, getting a confused look from him. "Claim me as yours?" She teased.
"I don't know how to answer that question without scaring you off," he told her.
"Then I will take that as a yes," she laughed, moving closer to him.
"Damn straight I do," he growled in her ear. He wanted her douche of an ex to know what he messed up and that because of that he chased her right into his arms. There were times that he wanted to say the hell with it and ask Onyx out, but he would remember that she wasn't ready for it and he didn't want to push her away. He could wait.
"Maybe later," she giggled, moving away from him, to mingle with her friends, casting looks back at him from time to time.
She found throughout the day that she stayed close to Clint, never letting him leave her sight longer than a few minutes at a time. With the sun and the amount of alcohol she had consumed, she is feeling the effects of it getting to her and she really wanted to be below deck but she did see her best friend and his girlfriend head down there over 20 minutes ago and there was no way she was going near the entrance to go below deck. She thought about jumping into the water as well, but she really didn't want, as she hadn't been on the boat for more than 15 minutes after climbing out of the water after spending plenty of time goofing off in the water with her friends.
"Where'd your friend go?" She asked, looking at Phillip and turning her attention to her brother. "And your friend?"
"I believe they ran off together," Jeff laughed. Onyx groaned, she didn't like that idea at all. "Onyx, what's the worst that could happen?"
"Are you serious?" Onyx laughed. "A fight, blood everywhere," she said. "Why didn't any of you guys stop them?" Her eyes looking at everyone standing around her.
"It didn't seem like our place," Vinny shrugged. "And Clint knows that if he wants to stay in your good graces that he won't start a fight with anyone today," he tacked on. That didn't make her feel any better at all. She knew that Hunter could egg anyone on and make them strike first.
"There they are," Dereck pointed out. She looked behind her seeing that for the most part they looked fine. Looking closer you could see that both guys were a bit tense. She didn't like that at all, making her way over to them.
"Everything okay over here?" She asked, standing closer to Clint than to Hunter.
"Yep," Hunter replied, walking off. She looked at Clint.
Clint said nothing, placing his hand on the small of her back moving her away from prying eyes and into some much-needed shade for her. She remained quiet, waiting for him to say whatever he had on his mind after his talk with her ex. She really didn't think any of it could be good.
"I don't like him, and I don't think I will ever like him, after he hurt you the way he did," Clint said. "But he did apologize and it doesn't mean much to me. And I know how much it would mean to you, that is why I let it go and agreed to try for the benefit of you," he told her.
"It means a lot to me, Clint. I don't expect you to run out and be best friends with him or even friends with him. But getting along with him for the sake of me, is enough to warm my little heart," she smiled. "So thank you."
"No, thanks required," he smiled, pulling her in for a hug. The last thing he wanted to do was to make her mad at him. "I do think that you have a friend to make amends with, because he did have your best interest at heart here," Clint told her.
"I don't know how," Onyx retorted, resting her head against his shoulder.
"It's showed most of us, if not all of us, that the most you want with Hunter is a friendship, as you haven't really paid him any attention unless you have to. And not to be an arrogant ass here, but you haven't been far from me the whole day, so it does show that you have more feelings for me than for your ex," Clint explained a smug smirk on his face. "And don't in Onyx fashion, try to deny it," he warned.
"You know as well as my brother and best friend," she laughed pulling away. "And it is what he said too," she sighed, pulling him down to have his forehead rest against hers. "His plan worked, so he is forgiven, even if he doesn't know it," she said.
"And what plan is that?" Clint asked a smirk on his lips, a hopeful look in his hazel eyes.
"That I like you more than a friend," she confessed, pressing her lips against his for a soft kiss. Clint quick to kiss her back, deepening the connection between them.
They both pulled away from each other, smiling at each other. She really didn't know what it was going to mean for them moving forward. She still didn't know if was ready to have a full on relationship with him or anyone for that matter, but her feelings for him were strong. It is something she needs to work out on her own. And it is something that Clint is okay with as long as he gets to keep kissing her. That is something she doesn't have a problem with.
They were so wrapped up in each other, in that moment, that didn't notice the bright colorful lights of red, orange, green and various other colors, bursting above them. It wasn't the show they were most interested in, not when they were coming to an understanding about moving forward an inch or two in their relationship.