Flashbacks of Schuyler's Relationship Part I

After her talk with Madison, Schuyler ends up getting ready for bed. As she settles in and gets ready to go to sleep she thinks about Madison's advice. She fantasizes about Fen a little more and then her thoughts wonder back to the conversations she had heard at Crimson Lights earlier in the day. She cringes again when she remembers the bits and pieces of conversation she had heard from him. She hated hearing him talk about planning a date with his new lady. That conversation had deeply upset Schuyler. He never took her on dates, when they were together. She then has flashbacks of the last time him and her were together, and their breakup.

Flashback

"Am I'm glad to see you…" Schuyler grabs him and starts kissing him. She had just gotten off of her shift from work and had met up with him in his home.

"Rough day at work?" He asks.

"Long shift…." Schuyler tells him. "Someone called out today and I covered for them, and the club was full tonight…"

"Sounds like you were busy…" He says smiling.

"Very… but I'm not too busy for you." Schuyler kisses him again, and she starts to unbutton his shirt.

"Never too busy… for you." She repeats. After she's finished unbuttoning his shirt, she starts kissing his chest.

"I like that..." He says. They kiss some more, and he starts to unbutton her blouse. He kisses her lips and then her neck and chest. They continue to kiss and undress each other until they are in their underclothes.

"I have a lot of stress to burn off and I'm going to burn it off with you." Schuyler pushes him onto the couch. They continue to kiss, finish taking off each other's clothes and sleep with each other. Afterwards they lay underneath a blanket together on his couch.

Schuyler runs her hand over his chest and nibbles on his ear for a moment. He smiles when she does that. He holds on tightly to her back and presses her close to him. He kisses her again. She then pulls away a little and looks at him. "You know what we should do..." She purrs.

"What?" He asks looking into her eyes and smiling. "What should we do?" He asks and kisses her neck. She pulls back from a him a little again and looks into his eyes.

"We should go on a date… somewhere." Schuyler suggests to him. "There's this jazz bar that I heard about. It's not even in GC, it's a town over, but I heard the music and food there are really good."

He sighs. "You know I really don't want to go out much right now. I'm still reeling from some stuff, and I just want to stay in."

Schuyler runs her hand over his chest and frowns.

"You never seem to want to do anything, except mainly this..." she indicates to them laying undressed on the couch together.

"We do other stuff…" He insists.

"We really don't. Sometimes when I come see you, you go and get takeout for us by yourself, and sometimes you confide your problems to me in this house. But we really don't go out in public or do other things that couples do…"

He sighs again. "I thought you were cool with the way things are." He says. "We both agreed that we were fine with this... You said so yourself, that you got out of a relationship a little while ago and you didn't want anything serious." He reminds her.

Schuyler looks at him. "Well maybe I changed my mind. Maybe I want more in this relationship than you just taking me to bed." She gives him a serious look. "Maybe I want more than that. Maybe I want to be wined and dined and go places and do things together... And show people we are a real couple."

He makes a face. "Maybe I'm not ready to do that. Maybe I'm not ready to be in another serious relationship right now. I'm a bit burnt out when it comes to things including relationships…" He pauses and then continues. "You know I've been through quite a bit lately."

"But you sure can take me to bed, or the couch anytime you get the chance…" She states upset.

"Look, Schuyler I like you... but…"

She shakes her head. "I'm such an idiot, to keep doing this with you, knowing that I deserve better." She gets up off of him and sits on the couch, clutching the blanket to her body.

"I don't know if I can do this anymore." She claims upset.

He sits up now as well. "Schuyler..."

She sighs. "I don't know that I can." She repeat a bit weary. "I'm tired of you always dismissing the idea of going on a date with me… I'm tired of feeling like you don't really want me…, except to scratch an itch for you…" She shakes her head again and gets up quickly off the couch taking and wrapping the entire blanket around herself and leaving him fully exposed.

"Hey…" He says, feeling air hit his body, without the blanket covering him.

"You know what I'm out..." She starts to pick up her clothes.

"I'm going to go get dressed and I'm going to leave. You call me when you want something more serious." She tells him in a strong tone.

On her way to the bathroom, she grabs his boxer briefs and throws them at his head.

"You should put those back on because you aren't getting any more action from me tonight." She snaps. She goes into his bathroom and dresses and leaves feeling deeply upset.

After she's gone, he puts his head in his hands and thinks about her comments. He knew she made valid points and he thought about their relationship. When he started out getting involved with her, he was reeling for some bad things that were going on in his life. She had caught his eye at the GCAC, she had waited on him, they talked and then when the evening was over, she had slipped him her number. He called it and one thing led to another. They had started out having fun, meeting up in his place, often ending up in bed together, finding comfort in each other's arms. They had fun together. But while he did like Schuyler he didn't feel like he was ready for a real relationship.

He thought she had felt the same. Especially since she told him that she had just gotten out of a relationship not so long ago and that she didn't want anything serious. She was the one that said at first that she didn't want things to be serious. And that she just wanted to have fun. And he was having fun and was numbing the pain that he was feeling over several failed relationships and of a loss he had experienced. He thought that him and Schuyler had an understanding, he was a bit surprised that she wanted a real relationship with him. He liked things the way they were for now, but he didn't want to hurt her. Her words rang through his mind and he knew he had some serious thinking to do and a decision to make about their relationship.