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Sienna made her way home from Damien's house, still feeling high but at least able to walk in a straight trajectory. As she ambled down the tree-lined avenue, the row of red maples seemed to stretch on forever.

She was still laughing at the episode of South Park Damien had played her—the one with the alternative kids. It was his favourite.

'Damien is so much cooler than I ever realised,' Sienna thought. She pictured his face, his face, his outfit, and felt ashamed of her attraction to him.

'I'm supposed to be devoted to Adrian,' she sighed, but when she pictured Adrian, it filled her with nothing but foreboding. She desperately wanted him to like her—to value her—but it didn't seem achievable.

As she neared her house a text from Adrian appeared. Instead of skipping with its usual flutter, her heart darkened with dread.

"You don't have to go to him," she mumbled out loud, but it was a lie. She did have to go. After piling so much emotional investment into Adrian, she couldn't pull herself away. Her mind conjured her image of 'octopus girl,' trying desperately to pull the things tentacles from her face.

He'd summoned, so she would appear.

Scarlett was nowhere to be seen as she let herself into the house through the back door. She desperately wanted to bump into her, just to tell her about recent developments and get her input, advice, support, or anything she had to offer.

As she approached Adrian's room, she felt a mixture of fear and excitement, wondering what he would have her do and what mood he would be in. She had the feeling he was displeased with her, and though she didn't understand what she'd done, she felt it was probably justified.

She knocked and entered to find him sitting at his computer as usual. He was most often online if he was in his room, streaming or talking to his friends.

He didn't look up when she entered, just uttered, "Come here and suck me off."

Nothing about this surprised her other than her reaction. She didn't feel like jumping up and down at the privilege of having his cock in her mouth. He'd blow his load and tell her to get lost without even acknowledging her.

She got to her knees and pulled his dick from his pants, surprised to see it was already fully hard and glistening with precum.

'Has he been watching porn or what?' she wondered.

It didn't take more than a few minutes to bring him to orgasm, leaving her to wonder why he couldn't have just had a wank and saved her the effort. Did he love filling her mouth with his seed that much?

He sneered down at her as she grimaced, downing the bitter liquid.

"Stay there," he said. "When I get hard again, I'm going to make you go for round two."

Sienna didn't want to. She didn't want to because she wasn't in the mood, had a million things on her mind and just wanted to be with Scarlett or her Mum or anyone who cared.

'Damien,' she thought.

"So I guess you think you were pretty smart, flirting with Damien to make me jealous," he said.

Sienna almost protested that she wasn't. That she genuinely wanted to talk to Damien, and it had nothing to do with him. This would only make him angry.

"I'm sorry," she muttered. "I was jealous of you talking to Erin."

It was the truth. She had been jealous. Jealous of the fact she did anything and everything for him and he couldn't bring himself to have a civil conversation with her at school, whereas Erin did nothing and he fawned over her.

Okay... so fawned might be a drastic overreaction. Still, it had hurt her feelings.

"You should say sorry to Damien. Message him right now and say you are sorry that you only talked to him to make me jealous," he demanded.

Her fingers danced slowly over her screen, typing the words gently and as if in slow motion. She didn't want to hit send and make Damien hate her again.

'He just wants to make sure no other guys want me,' Sienna thought. It gave her a little bit of hope that he was jealous, but she didn't want to lose Damien. He was the person she least expected to become attached to, but he had been so kind to her.

The colour drained from the world as she hit send, turning everything to a dingy shade of grey.

When he replied, "Hah, silly girl," she felt a little better.

Adrian frowned as he grabbed her phone to read the response.

Then another message appeared: "I'm having a party tonight. Adrienne wants me to invite you so it's less of a sausage fest."

He added a load of those cry-laughing emojis.

"How come he didn't tell me he was having a party?" Adrian asked, sounding outraged.

"I don't know," Sienna said and shrugged.

Adrian snatched her phone from her hand and rang Damien, challenging him on his invite choices. She could overhear Damien explain he wasn't inviting people from school, but that one of his non-school friends had met Sienna and liked her.

"So you're trying to set up my girl with another mate of yours?" Adrian asked.

The anger dissipated from his face as Damien explained it was a female friend and nothing sexual. He went on to invite Adrian and said he would also the others.

"You wanna go invite Scarlett?" Adrian asked her as he hung up. "She hates me."

Sienna nodded, happy to be relieved of her duties. She found Scarlett sitting on the floor with her back to the radiator, crying her little heart out.

"Oh, Babes?" she asked. "What's happened?"

She took a seat beside her friend, wondering why the radiator was turned on when the day was so hot. She felt her back becoming red as she leaned back, draping an arm over her friend's shoulder.

Scarlett explained the situation, how Adrian had found out about her secret meeting with Riley and banned him from seeing her again. She screwed up her pretty face as she admonished him, calling him an evil sadistic prick.

"So I’m a sadistic prick?" Adrian asked, appearing from the doorway. Sienna had no idea he'd been standing there but was glad she hadn't joined in with the name slinging.

"You sure changed your tune from earlier," Adrian said with a scoffing sound. “Come with me. I’m going to show you the real Riley.”