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[color=darkgray][sub][i]An [@Amore] & [@Rosalia] Collaboration
[b]Featuring [color=00000D]Cassian Lee[/color] & [s]that bitch[/s] [color=E2404E]Lola Russo[/color][/b][/i][/sub][/color]
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[color=darkgray][indent][indent]When the time came for Emilia to finally step back from her podium and exit the room Cassian was among the group of students who groaned out loud. Perhaps his reasons weren’t the same as theirs but right now he could empathize with him. Apparently, it wasn’t enough that his head felt like it was going to explode and his swim coach was waiting to pounce on him at practice tonight after learning how much he had drank, but now this information?

[i][right][color=00000D] She’s going to kill me[/color][/right][/i]

Eventually he followed suit behind the crowds of people out of the auditorium, his eyes scanning the crowd for a familiar face, he would’ve taken any of the people he knew and.. mostly liked. Luck has it his eyes landed on a furious looking blonde bombshell who had stormed out and disappeared from his apartment that Saturday night, after not quite getting what she wanted.

There’s no way she was still…

[b][color=00000D]“You look as peachy as ever. Getting in touch with your lawyer to sue ‘queen’ Emilia?”[/color][/b] His voice was relaxed, and he leaned against the wall beside her with his arms loosely crossed against his chest. 

Although Lola had clearly heard Cassian speaking to her, she chose to act like the grown up she was and pointedly ignore him. She continued to angrily tap away at her phone instead, and even went as far as to begin her trek away from the immediate auditorium surroundings without so much as a glance at him. No matter how much she thought about it, the blonde still struggled to understand how he had the balls to even look at her after the humiliation he’d put her through.

Cassian let out a sigh and was half tempted to let her walk away, playing these games was never his cup of tea, but Lola was his [i]friend[/i]... and this was his job, or something. So he pushed off from the wall and quickened his pace to catch up with her. Being a good seven inches or so taller than her allowed him to easily match her pace once he caught up, and fed into his nonchalance when addressing her. He might have caved in and chased after her, but he wasn’t going to acknowledge her pouting, at least until she acknowledged him.

[b][color=00000D]“So you want to take a stroll around the courtyard. Seems redundant. Why don’t we sit down and chat.”[/color][/b]

[b][color=E2404E]“I’m not interested,”[/color][/b] she answered curtly, still refusing to move her eyes away from her phone screen and tearing across the university’s courtyard. It didn’t take a genius to realize Lola was still very much upset about the events that had transpired between them after the party, and had no plans to ever forgive Cassian for it.

[b][color=00000D]“Can’t you play nice while I’m chasing after you? Lola, slow dow-“[/color][/b] Cassian grumbled, cutting his words off sharply as he planted his feet in the same moment he grabbed her bicep. Despite her attempts to power walk through the courtyard to get away from him, he was able to momentarily cease her movement and then continued what he was saying while standing somewhat nearer to her, [b][color=00000D] “On the contrary to how I may come off, I don’t go about my day with the intentions of pissing people off… Well, save for Theo-- he deserves to have his fragile feathers rustled… but definitely not my [i]friends[/i]. So stop being a brat and just talk to me, Lola. Why are you walking in circles to get away from me?”[/color][/b]

If Lola had been annoyed before, it was nothing compared to how furious she felt when Cassian grabbed her by the arm and forcefully turned her in his direction. How dare he lay a hand on her?! [b][color=E2404E]“You think you can just make a fool out of me and then come around acting as if nothing happened?”[/color][/b] she hissed, jerking her arm away from his grip and looking like she was ready to gauge his eyes out. [b][color=E2404E]“Come on, Cass. I thought you were smarter than that.”[/color][/b]

[b][color=00000D]“Make a fool out- what?”[/color][/b] Cassian’s confused expression almost broke out into a grin as he connected the dots and had to pass off a rogue chuckle as a cough into his hand before continuing in an even tone. [color=00000D][b] “Lola, are you serious? You’re mad at me because I didn’t sleep with you? Come [i]on[/i].”[/b][/color] This time he couldn’t help but conceal the slight upward shift at the corner of his lips. Truthfully he was amused, usually girls were appreciative to not have a drunk asshole trying to sleep with them but here was Lola, wishing him dead with just her narrowed eyes.

If Lola had been upset before, the blatant amusement painted all over the smug bastard’s face didn’t help matters. At this rate, she was honestly taking internal bets as to how long it would take her to crack. [b][color=E2404E]“It’s not that you didn’t sleep with me, Cassian Lee-”[/color][/b] she began to explain through gritted teeth, her usual cool and collected composure now hanging by the thinnest of threads. [b][color=E2404E]“It’s the fact that you led me on and then fucking turned me down because you’ve got some ugly little tomboy in the back of your mind!”[/color][/b]

Cassian could see that she was angry, hell the whole courtyard could see it on her face if they looked at her, but there was just something humorous about the situation. And even despite the risk of Cassian looking like a “genuine asshole” he couldn’t hold back the laughter anymore. Not quite doubled over, he let out a good, hearty string of laughter and shook his head in disbelief, where the hell did girls like Lola even come from?

The crisp, hard slap across his face that could have rang across the courtyard was drowned out by the sea of upset students exiting the assembly. But it seemed that not even Lola’s physical gesture of rage was enough to phase him, because Cass was still looking as fresh as he did before. Instead of releasing her anger, his unphased expression only served to fan the flames.

[color=00000D][b]“Fuck, Lo, I’m sorry for that, truly-”[/b][/color] Cassian choked back the last of his laughter, [color=00000D][b]”It’s rude of me to laugh like that when you’re obviously on the verge of morphing into [i]the[/i] green-eyed monster, but [i]me[/i] leading [i]you[/i] on? How did I lead you on? You were banging my best mate in our flat all last year.”[/b][/color]

Of course, Lola decided to follow his example of ignoring what he was right about and focusing on whatever else he had said instead. [b][color=E2404E]“Hmmmm, let’s see-- ”[/color][/b] she began, pretending to think for a second as she raised her fist in the air and lifted a finger for each sin Cassian had committed against her. [b][color=E2404E]“You took me back to your place, you kissed me, you had your hands all over me groping me [i]everywhere[/i], you took my clothes off, and when I’m down on my fucking knees is when you suddenly change your mind?! You don’t think that’s fucking humiliating?!”[/color][/b]

[b][color=00000D]“You weren’t [i]on[/i] your knees-”[/color][/b] Cassian started but quickly moved on from the unimportant detail while Lola’s death glare intensified, [b][color=00000D] “Lola, I was [i]drunk[/i]. I wasn’t trying to humiliate you, I was being [i]responsible[/i]. Being told ‘no’ isn’t the end of the world. Do you [i]really[/i] think we should be sleeping with each other when we’re honestly interested in other people?”[/color][/b]

[indent][i]And there it was.[/i][/indent]
The blonde could only shake her head and let out a dry, sardonic laugh. [b][color=E2404E]“I knew it,”[/color][/b] Lola growled coldly, in both satisfaction and rage. [b][color=E2404E]“I fucking knew it.”[/color][/b] It was as if something had snapped inside of her. The boiling anger that had been coursing through her veins just moments before slowly turned into ice, filling her with a wrath of steel she’d never quite felt before. An odd sense of calm seemed to settle upon her, and it reassured her that the steps she’d taken on her way to a well-deserved revenge had their merit.

[b][color=00000D]“Knew what, Lola? That I’m interested in someone? It’s not like I’ve actively tried to hide the fact. But great deductions, Nancy Drew: you’ve cracked the case.”[/color][/b] Cassian replied with a good deal of sarcasm, his arms drew across his chest a signal that he was getting tired of the conversation. With how the rest of the day was sure to go, Cass was growing increasingly disinterested in Lola’s tantrum.

The young woman snorted, and even cracked her first smile since this whole conversation with Cassian started-- an eerie grin with pitch-black eyes as lifeless as a shark’s.... That dangerous calm before a raging tornado. [b][color=E2404E]“Then I guess all that’s left to say is that I wish you the best of luck on your little safari adventure,”[/color][/b] she said with a small shrug, seemingly about to turn on her heel to make her exit but stopping herself to face Cass again instead. It was time to drop the parting grenade.

[b][color=E2404E]“I just hope you’re both able to find the time to spend together, you know? With how upset the headmistress was to put everyone except me on academic probation, how furious her daddy must be about the probation maybe messing up her scholarship [i]and[/i] how livid your swim coach is after I sent all of them that saucy little video of the party, I’m not really sure there’ll be enough time to spare for you guys to enjoy yourselves...”[/color][/b] she trailed off, her grin now turning into a triumphant beam.

[b][color=00000D]“Nooooo, you wouldn’t.”[/color][/b] Cassian’s face dropped as seconds passed by without her admitting she was all talk, but this was [i]exactly[/i] something she would do. Then her words really sunk in and images of his coach holding him under the water to kill him drained the color from his face, [b][color=00000D]“God, how did Blake put up with you?”[/color][/b] Cassian grumbled before stalking off, he needed to find out from a trustworthy source if this was truly his last day to live.

[b][color=E2404E]“He knew better than to fuck with me!”[/color][/b] Lola called out after him, waving at Cass’s back and watching with evil glee as he hurried off in the opposite direction, probably to do some damage control. It was a hard lesson to learn-- not just for him, but for Mac and anyone else to dare get in the way of her goals. Yet it was a lesson that would stick with everyone else for the rest of their college careers.

[right][color=E2404E][i][b]They should all know better than to fuck with me.[/b][/i][/color][/right][/indent][/indent][/color]