[Logan] Only Me When I'm With You

[Logan Chase Renner]

Logan paused, just staring at her. Here he was, feeling as if he was the least deserving guy to be dating her, mainly because he knew somehow he'd inevitably break her heart, and yet he realized, he had already managed to do so. "Shit," he muttered. Not being with her was hurting her more. And maybe he was unknowingly hurting himself in the process. He'd been so worried about bringing her down he hadn't given much thought to her lifting him up, which she often did. They hadn't exactly been fair to their respective partners, given the fact that they'd made out last weekend. Logan sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration. Who the hell was he kidding? He'd been on the outs with Scarlet for months and he was beginning to think Blake was dating Riley just to piss Logan off. Obviously it was working, because he hated it. He glanced back at her, feeling like a royal asshole for making her cry. She didn't care about his problems, she'd already been there in ways other people hadn't. She'd handled it better than most adults. "Is that what you want?" He asked directly, "You want the rewards? I asked you what would you do if there was no Scarlet, no Riley, what would you do?" Logan got close to her, looking her in the eye, "Is that what you want? You want me to break up with Scarlet? Are you going to end things with Riley? Is that what you want?" Logan placed his hands on her arms, needing her response. He needed that green light he hadn't gotten last weekend, "What do you want, Parker?"

[Blake Emma Renner]

Blake watched him as he seemed to be processing a lot of information for himself. She brought her hand up, pushing away what she hope was the last of her tears. "What?" she asked, slightly startled. It was one thing to talk in hypothetical situations about what she wanted last weekend, when they were in the heat of the moment and having drinks. But this wasn't a hypothetical... let's see how far we can make out before we pull the stops, question. This was a life changing, going to Riley and Scarlet's to break up, actually promising to be together life change. Scarlet would undoubtedly make her life miserable. For Scarlet it was a game even when Blake hadn't done anything to her. A year ago the idea that Blake could "steal" a man from Scarlet would've been laughable. But was Blake really stealing him? Because honestly he felt like he was hers since... always. Was that cheesy? That was cheesy. "Okay, so..." she said, sniffling slightly before rolling her eyes. "Fine, I never liked Riley," she admitted, giving a slight scrunch of her nose.

[Logan Chase Renner]

Logan sighed, nodding. She hadn't directly answered his question but to be fair she admitted to not really ever having feelings for Riley. He stopped, looking at her, "At all?" Logan didn't want her dating Riley, but Riley was still his friend. Logan would have been mad she used him like that if he didn't already think Riley didn't really like her either. Logan sighed again, reaching up to wipe a tear from her cheek that had escaped and then put his hands in his pockets. "Come back and sit down?" He asked, throwing his thumb toward the blanket, "We- obviously, we have some stuff to sort out. Maybe we can just leave it for tomorrow? Pretend for one night we're not a couple of horrible people?"

[Blake Emma Renner]

Blake looked up at him as he wiped the tear from her cheek. "I mean it isn't like he likes me," she said, giving him a pointed look. He liked the fame she was getting, the perks that came with it. He didn't like the Blake that ran into doors trying to find her glasses, or the one who couldn't figure out what went wrong in her baking recipe and would spend hours in a kitchen trying to perfect it. That wasn't the Blake that he liked. Blake narrowed her eyebrows slightly as Logan said that they should essentially table this. In the name of logic, he was probably right. "No." she said, giving a stern shake of her head. "Because that will turn into next week. Which will turn into never. I may not have feelings for Riley but you do care about Scarlet. Whether it is fading or not, she means something to you. And this.. whatever we are doing right now, gives you the best and worst of both worlds. The only person benefitting from this, is you. And you can't tell me that it also doesn't come with stress." she said, giving him a lift of her eyebrow. "We need to figure this out... tonight." she said, giving a final sniff before wiping away the last of her tear.

[Logan Chase Renner]

Logan groaned, moving his hands to his hair where he pushed it back out of dread, "But, can't we, I mean..." Logan looked at her, dropping his hands to his sides. "You're sure we can't just... ugh," he said, nodding. "Okay." She was right. He'd already argued with enough people today, what was a drop of water to a drowning man. "Will you be here when I get back?" he asked, knowing his conversation with Scarlet would probably take longer than her's with Riley. "Five minutes." Logan said, placing his hands back on her arms, "Just five. We can just sit and hang out. And pretend we're not assholes, and with any luck, maybe we will get back before my Dad comes home barely functioning," he added sarcastically. "Please? Five minutes? Don't make me beg," Logan smirked. "You can time it."

[Blake Emma Renner]

Blake watched him, knowing that he was half sexy and half attractive. She watched as he was struggling in his head, and then in true child fashion, tried to negotiate the situation like it was a true hostage situation. In the depth of her heart she knew that her talk with Riley would not take as long. Both Riley and Scarlet would ask the inevitable question, "Are you going to be with Logan?" or in Logan's case..."Are you going to be with Blake?" Blake narrowed her eyebrows, was she going to have to learn about all types of different fighting methods. Scarlet was tall.. maybe Blake could throat jab her and run. Scarlet would still somehow manage to look hot doing that. Wait. Did she really want to send Logan over there? Scarlet would undoubtedly try to do something to make sure that she kept Logan within her grasp. Blake took in a breath, smiling slowly at Logan before she walked over to him. "No," she said, softly, giving a slight shake of her head. " I will not hang out for five minutes before we leave," she said, wrapping her hands around the back of his neck. "But...." she said, grabbing the front of his shirt and pulled him closer to her. Blake took her other hand, placing it in the back of his hair before she lowered her eyes from looking into his to look at his lips. Those stupid tempting, perfect, lips.. and she already knew what they tasted like. Blake leaned forward, kissing him before pressing her body closer and closer to his, moving her hand from holding the fabric of his shirt to his lower back where she tried to pull them as close as humanly possible to one another. " I will be here when you get back.. wanting to finish that," she said, smiling before she leaned forward, giving him a super quick kiss before biting his lip and taking a step back.

[Logan Chase Renner]

So, that was a hard no. Logan liked that, she was not a pushover and he loved the game. It made the reward so much better. He gave some consideration to pushing his luck to see if she would give in, so he was not expecting what she did next. He liked being taken by surprise. Logan took the opportunity to pull her close, nibble on her lip a bit before she pulled away to send him on his way. "Okay, okay." Logan honestly did not want to go, not because he didn't want to break things off with Scarlet and do the right thing; it was just so unfair to tease him like that and tell him he had to wait until later.

Some time later, admittedly sooner than he thought, Logan headed home from Scarlet's with a sick feeling and a face that looked like he was coming home from a bar fight. Maybe that was a bit dramatic. It didn't leave him in less of a foul mood. Partly because Scarlet had slapped him and also because he did feel really terrible about the way things were handled. Now that he and Scarlet had broken up, he was beginning to see that it was well overdue. If he had broken up with her before it wouldn't have seemed like it was Blake's fault. Which it wasn't, but it looked that way at the moment. Logan dropped his keys on the kitchen counter before opening the fridge, looking for any beer, wine, alcoholic beverage he could locate before thinking he should tell Blake he was home and find out where she was. He grabbed a beer and then headed upstairs to his room , finding her name in his phone and sent her a quick message.

[Blake Emma Renner]

Okay so if there was one thing that Riley cared about it was his image. It wasn't that Blake was breaking up with him, it was that Blake was breaking up with him. She was the one ending it. That didn't bode well for his image. And yes, the obvious question. 'Is it Logan? Are you in love with my best friend?' Uh...... oops? But it was over and done with. Band-aid ripped off. Oooh.... maybe she could write an interesting song about this. Blake looked through her closet, trying to find something that she thought he might like. She picked up the phone, realizing that he was home. Fortunately for her, her parents were out of town. After convincing him to come over, Blake took a basket and filled it with a ton of candles. A few minutes later she had climbed into the treehouse in her backyard, lighting candles and making sure to set them in a way that wouldn't set everything on fire. She leaned back, making sure the blankets and candles were perfectly set. Everything looked perfect. Blake puffed her cheeks out, looking around as she waited for him.

[Logan Chase Renner]

Logan smiled at her text, grabbing a hoodie from his closet and headed back downstairs and out the door. He couldn't be happier that her parents were out town; all the good things happened when parents were out of town. Logan sauntered over to her back yard, rubbing at his face and smiled for some reason. Logan had a habit of taking what he deserved with a smirk. He wasn't delusional about his level of assholeishness. He just took it as a part of his personality. It was unfortunately inherited. Logan climbed into the tree house, looking around at the candles and smiled freely. He moved over to where she was, "This is cute." Logan wrapped his arms around her, "You're cute," hoping she would maybe disregard the break ups they both had to carry through with and just enjoy the freedom that was hanging out together with no road blocks and no parents to worry about. "Did Riley take it okay?" he said, half joking, half wanting to know that Riley wasn't too upset. Now that he was thinking about it, he had a lot of missed calls from Riley. Logan was absolutely done taking calls for tonight. In fact, as he looked at Blake with a face that said, hang on a sec, he turned his phone off and put it away. "Okay, please, for the love of god, can we just forgot the outside world until tomorrow?"

[Blake Emma Renner]

Blake smiled as he came into the treehouse, sitting up excitedly. But then frowned. She didn't necessarily want to be seen as 'cute'. She wanted to be sexy. Scarlet was sexy. Logan was sexy. Every one in the world was sexy. Then there was Blake.. cute. She scrunched her nose when he asked how Riley was. "Well, his ego is more bruised than anything," she said, pausing for a second. "....Except maybe your face," she said, placing her fingers on his cheek and chin, turning it so that she could see his cheek. " And how did Scarlet take it?" she asked dryly. Blake pushed some of her hair behind her ear, giving a firm nod. " No outside world. Just us." she agreed, turning so that she could turn her phone off as well. Blake held her breath, looking at him as a smile took over her face. There was nothing stopping them. Nothing in the world was holding them back. He was in her tree house. They were single. Was it possible to be really and truly this happy? Blake took a slightly timid step toward him. It was almost more intimidating now that nothing was stopping them. Blake narrowed her eyes at him. "Okay. No outside world... Just you and me... So.." she said, giving an overly happy smily. "Now what?" she asked as she stood close to him, bringing her hand to his so that she could actually hold it.

[Logan Chase Renner]

Logan shook his head, not wanting to think about is face. He was more into Blake's face. "It's fine. I probably deserved it," he shrugged, taking her hand where it rested on his face and holding it on his own. In response to her question about how Scarlet took things, he sighed, gesturing to his face as an answer. It was over and done with, he wasn't in the mood to dissect it. Blake had nodded, just the two of them. Now what? "Someone promised me we would finish what we started earlier," he said, "You owe me at least five minutes." Logan smiled. They were here, alone, in a a tree house in her back yard with candles and no one to lecture them about how horrible they were, so Logan kissed her hand and then moved closer to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. It felt a little surreal, being here with her. Maybe tomorrow it would sink in just how much had changed over night. But for right now he pulled Blake close, tucking her hair behind her hair and kissed her neck and said quietly, "If not more." He'd been slapped today, told he was a coward, and been yelled at by his father which was probably the most depressing, so in other words, he was completely ignoring the aforementioned and living in the moment.