Night Away

Dom: I’m heading out of town for a couple of weeks for work, I will see you when I get back.

It had been a couple of days since Dom sent me that message, I don’t know if he was leaving because of our last interaction or he really had to leave because of work, it just didn’t add up in my mind but I let it go.

The increasing sound of music pulled me from my thoughts and I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes at Emily’s antics, she was still hiding from Jackson but yet agreed to come out on the girls’ night that Sarah and Penny had set up.

I was a little hesitant at first but in the end I decided too, Wednesday night with Jake was a little weird. He was more dotting than usual, yes I get flowers and gifts every now then and but that night was over the top.

The gift I was given was very extravagant and I would rarely get to use, I was given the biggest bouquet of flowers I had ever been given and even the restaurant we went too was over the top. It was in this moment that I thought maybe it was the moment he was going to propose but when we got home nothing, all that happened was him going down on me and him saying he didn’t need anything in return.

I was confused by his actions and honestly wondered if something was up with him, I tried to talk to Emily about it but she brushed me off saying I was seeing things that weren’t there because I myself was cheating on him, I actually agreed with her weird ass logic for once.

I opened the bathroom door and headed towards Emily’s room where she had set up her make-up and various clothing options for the night, at the moment it was just the two of us but Sarah and Penny would be here soon enough.

“You know knocking would have sufficed” I walked over and took a seat on her bed while watching her go through her wardrobe.

“Don’t know what you’re on about” she spoke and I knew that tone, she was playing dumb with me and we both knew it wouldn’t work.

“So how are you planning on using me as your breathing, living, life size doll?”

Emily worked part time in a finance building as a personal assistant while trying to build up her cliental for her own business, she studied cosmetology in college and tried to work for someone else but everywhere she went she didn’t like the way they conducted things, in the end she picked up a part time job to pay for the bulk of her bills while working on her business on the side.

Our girls’ nights like this was another way for her to build up her cliental, she would do all of our hair and make-up taking before and after photos to post on her business page to show just how good of a job she could do and I mean it, she did an amazing job.

“Pfft like I would tell you, are you crashing here tonight or taking a cab back to yours?”

“Staying here” I replied quickly and she shot me a look, yes I knew my reply would surprise her since normally I went home instead of coming home with her.

“What’s going on with you and Jake?”

“Nothing, it’s just weird and I need a night away from him”

“Does this have anything to do with Dom going out of town?” I scoffed before picking up my phone to ring Sarah and find out where they are not wanting to have this conversation anymore. “Tay, you know this thing you have with Dom is going to end eventually”

I continued to ignore her even when Sarah didn’t answer her phone and I figured she was driving and on her way here, I laid back on the bed playing on my phone and I could hear Emily muttering to herself but I let it go.

It didn’t take long for Sarah and Penny to turn and the conversations Emily tried to start was long forgotten and we spent some time catching up before Emily decided to start on our make-up and hair.

It was always a long process when this happened but Emily always said she would supply wine and pizza if we all agreed to this and it was why we always got ready at her house, none of us complained to free wine and pizza nor having someone do our hair and make-up for us, for free as well.

That night was a blast with the girls, I may have had a boyfriend but those three were single so watching them try and pick up guys was fun for me, I would sit back and laugh at them failing or even laugh at the guys attempts to pick them up when clearly my friends weren’t interested.

The night was coming to end and I was surprised that all of us were heading back to Emily’s, sometimes Sarah and Penny would go home with guys after getting our approval and Emily wasn’t because I said I would go home with her but it was when I got a message from Jake that I was still unsure as to if I wanted to go back to Emily’s.

Jake: I miss you, please come home tonight

Wednesday might have been over the top with him but Thursday and yesterday were oddly quiet, he was gone long before I woke up and was coming home later than usual. When I questioned him about the late hours he blamed them on a busy case load and I didn’t question it, it had happened in the past.

I thought maybe that’s why he was so attentive and affectionate on Wednesday, because he knew what was coming but either way I was sticking to my guns about going back to Emily’s. There was a voice in the back of my head telling me that if I went home to Jake it would end in a fight because I felt like something was off and I just hoped it was the alcohol.

In the end I replied, sticking to my original plan knowing it was the smarter one since it was made while sober.

Me: I’m staying at Emily’s, I will see you in the morning. I love you xo

After I hit send I turned my phone off knowing it would only take one phone call from him to change my mind and decided to enjoy the rest of the night with the girls attempting to push aside any concerns I had.

I woke up the next morning with a pounding headache and having last night events a little blurry, I remembered sending Jake a message but after that everything was a blur. I picked up my phone noticing it was turned on, I quickly checked everything, no phone calls in my logs and then I checked my messages, Dom’s conversation thread was right at the top…

I quickly opened the thread to see what I had said to him

Me: You would tell me if Jake was cheating on me wouldn’t you?

Dom: Like I would tell him if you were?

Me: ypour finy hehe      

I’m assuming I meant you’re funny haha in that last message but oh well, he’s seen me drunk before.

Dom: oh god, you’re drunk Tay. Just turn your phone off and enjoy your night.

After that the messages just get worse as I obviously got drunker, I eventually pulled myself out of the bed and headed up to Emily’s room hoping more than anything she was alone.

I quietly pushed opened the door and noticed just the one body in the bed, I made my way over to climb in next to her.

“What’s wrong Tay?” she didn’t open her eyes but she was awake. I had no idea if Sarah or Penny were here at Emily’s but even if they were I only climbed into bed with Emily when something was bothering me.

“Drunk me thinks Jake is having an affair”

“Then you two would have the most unusual fucked up but functional relationship, don’t look at me like that. From the outside you and Jake seem incredibly happy and nothing was wrong but yet here you are actually going to someone else for sex. Tay he loves you, anyone can see that but look maybe with Dom being away you and Jake will work things out. Don’t be your usual act before thinking, just spend this time with Jake and work on fixing whatever you think is wrong with your relationship”

I didn’t reply to Emily, she knew I was digesting what she said and I really was. I loved Jake, I really did and compromise is a part of being in a functional relationship but was sex something I could compromise on?

Losing The Girl (Dom's POV)

I had always been a competitive person, I don’t know how it started, maybe it was when my parents forced a friendship on Jake and myself when we were young.

To begin with the two of us didn’t really get along, we fought or found some way to make a competition out of everything. It wasn’t until we were around 13 or 14 that we finally became friends, we ended up on the same football team and were forced to get along. It was in that point we begun enjoying friendly competition. It was always girls, grades, sports, basically anything you can make a competition out of.

The night I met Taylor was just another competition, to begin it with it was because of the challenge, she played the hard to get card and I wanted her, I wanted her to be mine since I always loved the chase.

It wasn’t until I had her that things started changing, sex was what consumed our relationship and in the end we both agreed to end it because it just wasn’t working, boy was I wrong.

Fast forward a couple of months till when I ran into her again but I already seeing someone, it didn’t last long and at that moment I wished I had gotten rid of her for Taylor because the moment I saw her sitting there talking to Jake was the moment I realised she would be our next competition.

He knew how I felt about Taylor, as much as I agreed on the mutual break up, as soon as she was gone I missed her and wanted her back but I couldn’t suck it up and be the one to message her. I couldn’t do it to myself.

The first couple of months of their relationship they seemed happy and were sickly disgusting and I couldn’t handle it, I was jealous and annoyed that he had gotten her and was able to make a relationship work with her.

That first night Taylor and I had sex I hated myself for it, I couldn’t believe I did that to Jake but it was then I remembered what I loved about Taylor. Her being with Jake gave me the chance to get close with her and able to have some sort of friendship with her and then we agreed on our arrangement.

The one thing I couldn’t work out about the relationship between those two was why they were still together? Taylor was coming to my place twice a week for sex and Jake was regularly off having sex with whatever girl he wanted.

Even last Tuesday he didn’t come home with the rest of us at around 11pm, instead he went home with some girl.

I couldn’t work out why they were cheating on each other and yet staying in the relationship together, there were countless times I tried to convince Jake what he was doing was wrong but he wouldn’t listen to me and there was only so much I could say without coming clean about what my arrangement with Taylor.

My arrangement with Taylor was easy, she normally came straight from work and was home before Jake so she didn’t need to explain where she was. But Jake, he was regularly asking me to cover for him or used the excuse of having a guys’ night just so he can go and fuck whoever he wanted to that week.

There are moments I just hoped that everything would fall into the open, I had a feeling I would lose both of them, I would lose Jake for screwing his girl behind his back and I would lose Taylor for keeping Jake’s affairs from her but I didn’t know how much longer I could keep this up, I couldn’t keep both of their secrets.

So when the call came about me having to travel for a couple of weeks for work I took it, hoping everything came out while I was gone and hopefully I wouldn’t be caught in the cross hairs.

Bad Decisions

Dom: I’m sorry about Jake, he’s gone if you want to come over now.

Jake: I won’t be home till about 7:30 - 8, wait for me? I’ll bring home dinner with me.

I ignored Dom’s message and replied to Jake letting him know it was fine and asked what he was doing but he never replied. It was in the moments I was waiting for his reply that I realised that he wasn’t going to reply and I decided to take Dom up on his offer and drove straight to his house not even replying to let him know I was on my way.

I arrived at Dom’s and knocked on the front door and it wasn’t long until the door opened, “thought you weren’t coming Tay” he spoke when he realised it was me at the door.

“Aw are you getting attached?” I teased him as I walked past him and he grabbed my wrist to pull me back against him as he wrapped his arms around my waist and pressed his lips against mine.

He tightly gripped my hair and pulled my head back to give him better access to my neck, I let out a moan as I run my hand down his chest before rubbing his dick over his shorts and it caused him to nip harder at my neck.

“Rule number 10, no hickeys” I managed to get out and he pulled away from my neck just long enough to pull my blouse of my head and throw it somewhere else before attaching his lips to my shoulder.

I quickly gripped his shorts before roughly pulling them down noticing he had no briefs on, “broken rule Dom” I pulled away from his lips and dug my nails in his hips as I pushed him back against the wall.

“You went without underwear the other day”

“And I was punished” I looked up at with a smirk before getting on my knees.

I roughly ran my hands up his thighs being careful not to touch his dick, I leaned closer giving him the idea that I was going to place it in my mouth but I stopped just before it and it twitched in feeling my breathe, he let a groan as I softly ran my tongue along the underside of his dick.

Dom didn’t like my teasing, he never did and I never had the chance to go for as long as I liked unless he was handcuffed. In the end Dom gripped my shoulders and pulled me to my feet before switching our positions so I was trapped between him and the wall, he quickly undid my skirt and it fell to the ground and it was kicked away, my underwear shortly followed.

Once we were both naked Dom had gripped my thighs and picked me up, me thinking we were going to the bedroom, I thought wrong, he pushed himself inside of me before pressing me against the wall.

I let out a scream as he began pounding harder into me, I dipped my head and begun nipping at his collarbone taking in the pleasure of him gripping my skin hard enough to leave a bruise but I just hoped it didn’t.

I dug my nails into his shoulders as my orgasm hit while screaming out in pleasure and he grunt and stiffened in response as he came with me. We stayed in our position for a couple of moments to regain our strength and there was a time when Dom had to drop me after us having sex like this.

Dom placed me on my feet and tilted my head to have a good look at me neck, I knew what he was doing, he was checking for hickeys. We made the mistake of him leaving a hickey before and we were just glad it was near my breast and I was able to claim my period as a reason for Jake and I to not have sex until it was gone.

“No hickey?” I questioned and he looked at me, I wasn’t sure if I saw disappointment flash through his eyes but I let it go, we weren’t dating anymore. When we were dating he liked leaving hickeys as a sign of procession, another thing that didn’t work in a relationship.

“No” he responded and I was glad, I looked at where I was nipping on his collarbone. I had no idea if he was seeing anyone at the moment but if he wasn’t, a hickey would raise questions.

“Good you neither”

“Like that matters, I’ve still got claw marks on my back” he growled at me but I knew he was being playful.

I grabbed his arm and turned him around to inspect his back, I really did get him good, the marks looked red and tender and when I reached up to touch one his back tensed under my fingers.

“Sorry…” I muttered and he pulled away.

“Its fine, your hips should be fine in a couple of hours” him speaking reminded me of the grip on my hips, I rushed over to the mirror in the guest bathroom and inspected my hips noticed the red marks. I just hoped he was right.

I noticed Dom walk up behind me in the mirror and he was frowning at me, “What?” I questioned

“Are you sure you still want to do this?”

“Do what? This arrangement we’ve both agreed to for who knows how long? Where is this coming from and why was Jake here?”

“I can’t tell you why Jake was here, but yes this arrangement, you and I both know it will kill him if he finds out”

“Then why the hell did you agree to it” I snapped at him

I watched him for a moment wondering what he was going say but he reached up and scratched the back of his neck first, “just get dressed and leave Tay” he muttered before turning around and heading down the hall.

I stood there and watched as he slammed his bedroom shut behind him, where the hell did this come from? I walked over and banned on the door, “what the fuck is your problem Dom, you were the one that originally suggested this stupid fucking arrangement!”

I never heard a response but I did hear the shower running, I took a deep breathe before heading back to the entrance way to gather my clothes and get dressed. Why did he always have to throw my clothes around, they took fucking forever to find. In the end I found them and quickly left his house heading home.

I was surprised when I got home to find that Jake was already there, it was only a little after six and he was home way earlier then he said he would be and I just lost my chance of having a shower. I climbed out of the car and headed inside.

“Babe I’m home” I called out once I shut the front door behind me and I faintly heard Jake call back saying he was upstairs.

“You’re home early” I spoke when I entered our bedroom and found him coming out of the bathroom with only a towel wrapped around his waist.

“Finished up early, how come you weren’t home?”

“I was with Emily”

“Huh but I saw her entering the Chinese restaurant downtown on my way home” that was weird, why was he downtown, his office was nowhere near downtown

“Oh is that where she went, I stopped by Dom’s on the way home to yell at him for keeping you out all night, I didn’t appreciate being woken up at 2am by your need to have sex” I placed my hands on my hips and narrowed my eyes at him, I really was annoyed by his actions last night and the fact that he didn’t even mention them today didn’t help his case.

“Baby I really am sorry about that” he walked over so he stood in front of me and cupped my face softly stroking my cheeks with his thumbs.

“No, not only did you not tell me you were coming home that late, your actions when you finally came home weren’t nice” I jerked my head out of his hands, I went to walk away but he snaked his arms around my waist to prevent me from walking from him.

“I’m sorry okay, I really am. We lost track of time and the next thing I knew was that it was almost 2am and we all decided to head home and then this morning I knew if I stayed in bed complaining about being hung over it would have just made your angrier, so I sucked it up and went to work” he had placed one hand back on my cheek while he was talking while leaving an arm around my waist to prevent me from leaving.

I hated that my anger about the whole situation was disappearing by this apology and the action, I hated that I could never stay angry at him and it was in these moments that I hated myself for what I was doing with Dom.

“It’s fine, where were you today? I stopped by your office to make sure you were alright because I had a feeling you would be hung over but you weren’t there”

“I stopped by Dom’s because I needed him to drop of some documents for his next project and then I went downtown to buy you something”

Dom worked as an architect and was regularly working from the office in his house, Dom and Jake were regularly giving each other clients and Dom had Jake permanently on his rosters for anything requiring a lawyer.

I perked up at the sound of him buying me something, “you bought me something” I grinned at him

“You’ll have to wait, why don’t you take a shower and get ready so we can go out for dinner” he softly kissed my cheek before giving me a push towards the bathroom but I just swatted at him and he laughed.