Roses Aren’t Always Red

Mark My Words

It's seriously not that deep dude." Queenie said to him in disbelief.

The elevator door opened. Jay pushed himself off the wall, "Whatever you say, Queen." And with that he walked out. Queenie was feeling unreasonably annoyed by all the events of the day. And Jay was making her feel worse.

She and Jay walked out of the building and Jimin made to turn to her. But he was surprised when he saw Queenie storming away without good-bye toward her car.

He rolled his eyes, "This girl thrives in drama" he mumbled and he walked casually after her, "Queenie! Stop running away from everything!!" He yelled

"Leave me alone asshole!"

"I didn't even do anything! Do not be unreasonable Q!" He yelled back

"That's the problem Jimin you never do anything!" She shouted and whipped around and walked closer to him. "You're basically taking his side in this Jimin! He's making me feel bad about what should be a fling!"

He loud out a chuckle at this"Queenie! You can't expect everyone to understand things about you, especially if you don't disclose the situation. You had the whole night yesterday to talk and you spent half of it doing other things! And that's fine cause you enjoyed it you can't honestly blame the bloke. s*x is a two way thing."

"Yeah you would know, seeing as you're always banging anything that moves" Queenie twitched, she hadn't meant to say that.

"Okay you're right. I think you need to go home. You're tired." Jimin said.

He turned and began to walk away, "Jay I didn't mean that," she tried.

"Bye, Jackson."

"Please don't leave!"

"Back off Q okay? Stop!" He said harshly and she stopped to watch him walk away

"I'm sorry!" She shouted again but to no avail

A lot was happening in just one and a half days. She just needed to get away.

She shuffled through her bag for her car keys and she threw her bags in, only to catch a glimpse of Jay driving out.

She felt her chest tighten as she heard Jay screech away and gasped for air.

She leaned on her car and sniffled. She hated this feeling. And yet she felt it ever so often these days. And randomly too. While eating, before sleeping, at the bathroom in work - and here she was again, arms shaking and body shuddering. She thought she had gotten past this but lately it had returned.

"Hey," a worried voice asked. His voice.

"Please leave me the f**k alone." She hissed

"You're shaking."

"I know genius now leave!"

"Queen," August pleaded. And that seems to set her on edge

She looked up towards the sky, "Please, please August, please don't do this okay?"

"Hey hey...what's going on ?" He asked in a low voice. She just shut her eyes and stayed silent; he pulled his hands out of his pockets and spun her around. He held her face in his hands when she wouldn't look at him, and he searched her eyes, "What's going on?"

She could've told him, everything that was going through her but her mind only allowed her one phrase, "I can't be with you King." She replied simply.

"Why?" He whispered, she shook her head at him, and removed his hands.

"Queenie," he mumbled. August was no fool. He figured there was more to the situation and he was determined to stay

"I'll disappoint you okay? And I'm not saying that to sound pitiful or anything but I'm just being honest with you, it's me doing you a favour. I don't date, August." She said in exasperation

He was now just looking at her."See you tomorrow," she mumbled.

But before she had any chance to turn he wrapped a hand around her waist and held her close to his body.

"Please-"

"Breathe. You can't drive like this." He whispered

Her shaking hadn't stopped at all, "I-I can..." She whispered

"It's okay. Just follow me okay? Follow me."

His chest was hard against her back and she could feel his pattern. But yet she couldn't focus.

"Focus babe." He kissed her neck and she tried following him and his hold as he rubbed her belly, and slowly she felt herself calm down. It was odd how he was able to bring her to such a space and she couldn't help but grasp at his arm.

"Who are you and why are you so persistent about me?" She chuckled breathlessly

"It's me babe, it always has been." He said as he turned her around and ran his fingers across her cheek, "Are you so willing to throw a good thing away?"

"We had a one night stand, August. Plus you just saw a crazy girl have a break down - you should run." She laughed

"I'm not leaving you Queen, okay? I'm here for whatever you have to throw at me." he said as he wrapped both arms firmly around her leaving her wide eyed at his boldness.

"We're still at work." She gasped

"Everyone left already baby.We were phenomenal, so in sync, so decadent...you'd be lying if you said you didn't want that." He smiled at her

"I would. I really would. But it's not that..." She felt tears well up in her eyes

"What is it Queen?" He said as his eyes bore into hers, his eyes momentarily moving to her lips and befriended again

"I really hate to see you sad...let me fix that. Please ."

"Nothing can make me happy. I'm broken beyond repair. I have demons in my life that will scare you away. And you are this nice guy, good guy, rich guy - you don't need someone like me." She drawled on.

He frowned deeply as he pushed her on her car, his breath fanning her face. As he scanned her he understood she had some trauma in her life, some fears and insecurities, but in all that he saw a woman he wanted to fight for, to fight with

"It's you I want, Queen, regardless of how you feel about yourself, I feel differently, please."

She smiled sadly at this,"You think you can win me over."

"Oh when your eyes were star struck last night is when I knew I could, and I had babe. So why don't you be a good girl, and come over for dinner tonight?" He said softly

"What?" She snorted

"I realised we never had a first date, so how about, I order some dinner and we can hang out all night and actually get to know each other?" He rocked her back and forth

"Are you serious?" She deadpanned

"Deadass."

At this point he was clinging onto her and she was smiling like a maniac - how could she refuse?

"Well..."

With a smile he kissed her forehead and let go of her, "You still remember my place?"

"Vaguely." Of course she did.

"Alright, follow me, if you somehow get lost, call me. Okay?"

She nodded and he opened her car door for her, "See you soon love." He leaned in to kiss her cheek

"Oh and August?"

"Yeah?"

She felt a sense of absolute happiness a d relief in the moment, to the man who seemed to truly want to know her, despite all her uncertainty he provided a bit of surety for her and therefore she couldn't think of a better time to say this.

"Thank you for sticking around despite all that...King." She giggled

He smiled in return and kissed her hand, "There's is nothing about your existence that will ever disappoint me Queen you hear that? Don't degrade yourself, not to anyone or yourself, you are heaven sent. Now, let's go on home."