LOGIN“Last night was so fun,” I said to Serena on her bed.
Serena and I were so drunk that her club driver drove us back to her home, and we were both right on her bed.
Before we knew what was happening, Serena and I started kissing.
“Fuck, you have such nice breasts,” Serena said, and she unhooked my bra, sucking the life out of it.
I moaned as she found her way down to the short gown I was wearing.
She soon reached for my pants, and fingered me, while sucking my breast, and kissing me.
“You have to make me cum,” I said while moaning loudly. “I have waited for this for years…ouu,” I kept moaning.
Serena took some chill and slowly completely removed my gown, while she removed hers also.
She soon reached to have sex with me, just the way I loved it. She spread my legs, and took her legs inside mine, and we started scissoring.
…
It was a dream. I jumped up from my bed with the whole bed so wet.
Serena was the best down there. Even in my dreams, she went straight for the kill.
It’s been three days since Velvet and this dream occurred, but in the dream, it was the night after Velvet at Serena’s place. I woke up at exactly four-thirty in the morning from the dream. I couldn’t sleep again that night.
I stared at the ceiling wishing the dream had lasted five more minutes.
“Jesus Christ, Maya,” I blamed myself. “Was I really thinking about scissoring with my brother’s best friend?” I asked myself, while I blamed the internet and the lesbian p**n I’ve been watching.
The worst part was realizing I no longer want to get over Serena. I wanted her now.
By eight in the morning, I already had two cups of coffee as usual, and was still trying to forget what had happened.
Everywhere I looked, I literally saw Serena. “Argh… This is ridiculous,” I muttered.
“What is?” Ethan said. “You need to stop doing that.”
“Doing what?” Ethan asked, and I soon replied, “Appearing.”
“I am literally standing in my own house.”
He soon narrowed down his eyes. “You look tired.”
“I slept badly.”
“Nightmares?”
“No.”
“Then?”
“I don’t want to talk about it.”
Ethan’s expression immediately became suspicious. “Oh, God.”
“What?”
“It was Serena, wasn’t it?” I choked on my coffee. “No! We’ve literally not seen her since the night at her club.”
“Maya!” Ethan said as I soon replied. “It wasn’t!”
Ethan then laughed. “You know that one day, I am going to figure out why you get weird every time Serena’s involved.”
I almost got shocked by his words. “Oh well, good luck with that.”
Before he could interrogate me further, my phone soon buzzed on the counter in the kitchen. My phone buzzed, and my heart immediately betrayed me.
Serena: You awake?
Serena: Come outside
I stared at the message and then picked up my phone to reply.
Me: Why?
Serena: I bought another special coffee for you.
Serena: Also, I think you have been avoiding me
I soon stepped out to meet Serena. She wore a black tank top under an unbuttoned flannel, her tattoos more visible than usual.
“Morning,” Serena said as soon as I stepped out.
“Hi,” I said to her.
As we were discussing, Serena soon said, “I missed this.”
“What though?”
“Talking about things with you.”
“Really?” I spoke. “But I used to call every time something happened in school.”
“Yeah. I know,” Serena announced. “You called me after your first exam, and your first breakup.”
“That happened once.”
“I know, but it was somewhat memorable.”
I soon asked. “Did you ever get tired of it?”
“Of you?” Serena asked. “Never.”
Serena gave me that smile, which I really always wanted to avoid seeing. Silence reached us for a short moment, and she soon said, “You’ve been avoiding me again. I know.”
“No, I haven’t. Maybe I am just tired.”
“You left my club that night without saying goodbye.”
“You were going with Claire, and I just had to see myself off,” I sounded jealous.
Twenty minutes later, we were riding out of town.
The ride out of town was quieter than before. Maybe because resisting Serena was getting harder.
We soon reached the lake, and Serena pulled over. “You really like this place,” I said to Serena as she pulled off her helmet and shrugged towards me. “It’s so quiet.”
“That woman from the club,” I said, and there it was, bringing up Claire’s conversation again. A conversation I tried so hard not to have.
“Claire? What about her?” Serena’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“Did you go home with her that day?” I asked the question before I could stop it from slipping out of my mouth.
Serena didn’t answer me immediately. She then said, “No.”
“But why not?”
Serena became quiet for so long, staring at the lake, and I thought she wasn’t going to answer.
“You know why.”
Serena shook her head and smiled. “I’ve missed this.”
“Me interrogating you?”
“No, you being impossible.” She smiled again and said, “Let me tell you something.”
“What?”
“I remember when you were twelve,” she said as I soon interrupted. “Oh no. I am no longer a kid!” I smiled, saying.
“I remember the day you told me you wanted to marry me, which I still find so cute.”
My heart nearly stopped.
Serena remembered everything about me, even the moments I assumed she had forgotten years ago. Apparently, she even remembered the day I told her I wanted to marry her.
The ride home should have felt normal, but it didn’t. One sentence kept replaying in my head.
You know why.
She’d said it like I already knew why.
When we finally stopped outside my parents’ house, I climbed off the motorcycle and handed her helmet back. “Thanks for today.”
Serena didn’t take the helmet immediately. Instead, she looked at me. She looked at me for a long second.
Then she finally took the helmet. “Maya.”
My stomach tightened. “Yeah?”
Serena opened her mouth, and stopped. Something unreadable immediately crossed her face. “You know what?” she said eventually. “Never mind.”
She started her motorcycle.
“Serena.”
She looked back at me.
“What were you going to say?”
For a moment, I thought she was going to answer.
Instead, she gave me a soft smile that made my chest ache. “We’ll talk about it soon.”
Then she drove away. I stood there watching her disappear, wondering what the hell Serena Walsh almost told me.
Morning arrived faster than I had hoped for it to. I was standing before my mirror, looking at the interview details that were open on my phone, as I was also remembering the words Serena had said to me. Take the interview, she had urged me, which made choosing something for myself feel more frightening than choosing her.The years I spent at the university had taught me how to stay alone, but I came home realizing that one person could make me forget that completely. I picked up my bag, slipped the folder from last night inside, and took my leave before I convinced myself out of going. For once in my life, I wanted to get into the interview room as Maya Thompson and nothing else.I expected the officer to be bigger than how I saw it, but everyone inside took the project very seriously. They asked me about organization, communication, pressure, ideas, and I gave answers without uttering the name of Serena once. I paused before giving the only answer that felt honest to the woman acro
Serena’s words stayed between us as music still went on downstairs. My gaze remained on her, while trying to understand how she could ask me to build something that is meant for myself after she made me feel that being close to her was the only thing that mattered.My fingers were still wrapped to hers, but I had taken my mind somewhere else. “What exactly are you asking me to do?” I asked quietly, with Serena leaning back, protecting the stitches that remained above her eyebrow, while looking at me softly. “I am asking you to have a life that would belong to you, Maya, even if I am lucky enough to be part of it.”The answer from Serena somehow caught me off guard because I had expected her to convince me to accept Velvet. Rather, she was allowing me to want something that is outside the walls she had used her hand to build. I removed my hand and offered hers and rubbed my palms together. Suddenly, it dawned on me that I had spent years running from my feelings for her without makin
The very first thing I realized when we got into Velvet was that nobody looked surprised to see me beside Serena anymore. People’s eyes slid to the stitches above her eyebrow, as if the two of us were something they expected to see together. Serena noticed it too, though she adjusted her jacket before moving ahead without a word.“You’ll be staying close with me tonight,” Serena murmured while touching my wrist as we moved toward the private event area. “Not because I think you need protecting, but just because I really want you here.” I stared at her injured face, remembering the promise she had made to me yesterday, then nodded because I finally realized she was keeping it.The event hadn't started yet at the club, but it was already busy. Serena’s staff carried folders between rooms, checked guest lists, and also prepared the private section. Claire moved through everything on her own with the calm confidence of someone who had done it many times before.Watching Serena work at the
I stared at Serena waiting for the answer that her silence refused to give me. Her thumb moved across my knuckles, but her eyes remained fixed on mine as if she clearly knew what I feared. Claire was not outside our relationship anymore and I needed to know what that meant for me.“Unfinished means there is a discussion I should have had with her some time ago,” Serena asserted to me. She shifted carefully against the sofa. “It doesn’t mean I want her back,” I watched her face while looking for guilt instead of hesitation. “Then have it,” I said while forcing my voice to stay steady. “I am not going to ask you to avoid someone just because she had some history with you.” Serena’s voice had softened. In the conversation we had explained that Claire was not simply an ex who still appeared whenever she wanted. Claire had handled Velvet’s private events, bookings, guests, and arrangements for years, including while she and Serena were together, and that meant that the relationship ended
I woke up to Serena as she was moving carefully around her bedroom, and for a short moment I forgot about the stitches in her eyebrow. Ethan had indirectly left me to spend the night with her.I remembered Ethan leaving, Serena promising she would not hide me, and her final words about everyone at Velvet knowing where I stood. I pushed myself up as she turned from the mirror and the small wince she tried to hide made my chest tighten.“You’re supposed to be resting,” I uttered while watching her reach for her black jacket. Serena paused with one arm through her sleeve before giving me a look that usually ended arguments.“I am resting,” she replied to me while adjusting her jacket, “I’ll just be doing that somewhere that needs me.”I moved closer to her and said, “You’re not going back to work. Serena touched the edge of her band
“Maya, there’s something you need to know about Serena,” Ethan's voice of Ethan was quieter than it had been, and the words felt heavier.My fingers remained locked around Serena while she was watching my brother from the couch, with her face suddenly stripped of the little amusement she managed to recover.“What is it?” I asked, moving forward. My brother didn’t answer immediately, while Serena shifted against the couch cushion, pressing just one hand against her temple. Her movement reminded me that she was still injured, but Ethan's face told me that this was not about the injury.Serena slowly reached for Ethan’s arm. “Ethan, don’t,” she said with her fingers resting right against his sleeve like she knew what he wanted to say. Ethan looked back at her hand, then looked back at me, and there was something in his expression.







