Dahlia Carrington~•~As soon as I opened the door to my house, I felt all the energy drain from my body. I regretted my decision to break up with him, but I knew it was for the best.I was ready to collapse on the couch and cry my eyes out when I saw Aurelie already lying on it. She was dressed in a pair of sweatpants and a sweatshirt, looking nothing like she usually did. There was popcorn on the table and her eyes which were glued to the TV strayed to me when I came in. She sat up at once. “Why are you here?” We asked at the same time.“I thought you were spending Thanksgiving with Damon?”“I thought you all were going back home for Thanksgiving?”“I’m French, honey. We don’t do that Thanksgiving shit.” I knew that but I thought she would take advantage of the holiday to see her family like Prisha did. “And you? Why are you back home? I was hoping to have the house to myself.”“I broke up with him,” I admitted. I hated saying it out loud but I needed to hear myself say it before
Dahlia Carrington~•~I spent the next day drinking and eating chicken because it apparently made people feel better in the dramas I watched. It didn’t make me feel better but it made me forget everything that was going on in my life.Aurelie felt bad for me but she tried not to let it show as she drank with me. It was quite fun having only her at home, but we had to pay for the consequences of our actions on Saturday.We woke up with the worst hangover ever. It made me want to stay in bed all day, but I’d promised to visit Anya. She had called me the previous day and I couldn’t remember what we talked about because I was too drunk but she sent a text this morning to remind me of our meetup.I dragged myself out of bed and went into the bathroom, groaning all the way there. With how much my head ached, I didn’t have time to focus on my breakup with Damon.I took a fast shower and got ready as soon as I could as it was already well into noon and I couldn’t keep her waiting or she’d ki
Dahlia Carrington~•~I didn’t know how I managed to get through the rest of the week, but I knew that by the time Tuesday rolled around, I wasn’t any closer to moving on.By the weirded-out stares people gave me, I could tell I probably looked how I felt. I dragged my legs across the hallway. I was very early for my class but I didn’t have much to do at home apart from wallowing in self-pity.I was just about to take a step inside the class when a hand encircled my wrist and pulled me back. Alert, I turned around, ripping my hand away when I saw who it was.Roman glared at me, obviously not happy to see me. “Come with me.” He gritted out and matched away in a direction opposite from the classroom.For a moment, I contemplated whether to follow him or not. What was the worst that could happen? However, I didn’t want him to come back and create a scene, so I followed in his footsteps, coming to a stop when I turned the corner and saw him standing there.“What the fuck did you do to my
Dahlia Carrington~•~“There is a rumor going around that a freshman from our major is sleeping with a professor,” Prisha said one night when all four of us were gathered around the TV. It had been a whole week since those rumors started and they weren’t any closer to dying down. I didn’t know what kind of satisfaction people got from spreading rumors. “Dahlia, is it you?”Shocked by the question, I turned to face her while my two other roommates stared at me expectantly, even if Aurelie already knew about it. “Why would you think it is me?”She exhaled uneasily. “Because your name has been going around alongside these rumors.”I shut my eyes tightly. I knew it wouldn’t be long before it got to this. The semester was close to an end and instead of people preparing for their exams, they were more interested in my business.Clementine slapped Prisha on the arm lightly. “Why would you ask her that? It’s obviously a lie and it’s not the first time rumors like this are going around. You’re
Damon Valentino~•~I was quite worried. I hadn’t seen Dahlia in more than a week which meant she had missed my class twice. I understood that she wanted to avoid me now that we were broken up but it was going to take a toll on her studies if she didn’t attend the classes.I’d canceled the first one but I couldn’t cancel the second one as I didn’t want to deprive the rest of my students of the knowledge they should have for their upcoming exams.There was also the fact that someone had conveniently started a rumor about Dahlia and I after Thanksgiving break. I had a feeling it was Roman as he couldn’t do anything other than that because of his cleared phone.I wondered if Dahlia had heard about it. It didn’t bother me much as I’d never been the kind to care about what people said about me, especially if they couldn’t say it when I was present.It was Wednesday and I knew Dahlia didn’t have a class but I missed her a lot. When I was done with my class, I was very tempted to go to the c
Damon Valentino~•~The next morning, I woke up with an email from the office of the dean and I knew things were about to get much worse.‘From: officeofthedeannyc@gmail.comTo: profvalentino@yahoo.comDate: 7 Dec 2023, 06:17Good day,I hope this email finds you well. As you must know, there are unverified rumors going around involving you and a student of yours. We need you to come to the office after your classes today, so we can find a way to debunk the rumors or verify them. Whatever the case may be.’I held back a laugh when my eyes zeroed in on the time they sent the email. School didn’t start by six but somehow, they were already in the office by then.I didn’t respond to the email. My mind just wandered off to Dahlia. I hoped I wouldn’t get her in trouble. I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if it affected her education. She had been worried about getting expelled and like the selfish jerk I was, I didn’t find an immediate solution. I could pull out of teaching at her colleg
Dahlia Carrington ~•~According to my psychology lecturer, there were five stages of breakups; Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.In my case, I was going backward. I’d first accepted the fact that Damon and I couldn’t be together before I fell into depression. I was angry currently which was making me snap easily, especially after I got that mail from the dean telling me to visit his office at half past twelve.I felt slightly bad for talking harshly to Damon earlier but being nice to him was only going to make things harder on us. Besides, there were eyes on us and I wouldn’t put it past a student to take a picture of both of us in the classroom to add to their list of growing pieces of evidence.I was more than ready to deny all the allegations. It didn’t matter that I was lying. No one was perfect anyway.I sat on the bench in the assistant’s office as I waited to be called in. I heard footsteps and I looked up just in time to see Damon pause in front of me. In
Damon Valentino~•~For the first time in my life, I froze when a woman kissed me. Dahlia had been avoiding me so I wasn’t expecting it.When I didn’t react fast enough, she pulled away, her face flaming. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I did that.”She tried to get off the stool but I didn’t let her. “I’m not sorry for this.” My hand found the back of her neck and smashed my lips against hers. She gasped softly and I took the opportunity to suck her tongue into my mouth.She also didn’t react for a few seconds, but I wasn’t deterred. I continued to kiss her as I stood up from the stool, locking her against the bar before she finally started to kiss me back.It was wrong, considering everything that was currently happening, but I couldn’t give a flying fuck, not when I was able to taste Dahlia’s lips again. I pulled away from her lips and I could hear her heavy breathing as I picked her up from the stool and placed her on the bar. While she tried to catch her breath, I latched my mouth
Dahlia Carrington ~•~It turned out that the slutty set he had gotten for me wasn’t the main deal. It consisted of a pair of bra and panties as well as a top that ended just below my breasts and a mini skirt that had half of my ass out so that the panties were peaking out. They were all in pink and it made me feel like one of the Barbies; like a true doll.I was tempted to just take it off and tell Damon I wasn’t interested because I knew the implications of such clothing and I was still shy at heart but I waved it off. I owed him for that night and it was his birthday.Blowing out a breath, I stepped out of the room and went into the living room to stand in front of Damon. His face swept across my body appreciatively. “Turn around.” He breathed out and with my cheeks matching the color of the shirt I was wearing, I did a slow spin, allowing him time to take in all of me. “Perfection.”Damon always gave me more credit than I deserved.“Now what?” He smiled and turned on his phone. B
Dahlia Carrington~•~“You’ve been holding out on me a lot,” Anya said as she climbed into my car. “When the hell did you get such a sweet ride?”I chuckled as I started driving. “My father got it for me.”“And when the hell did you get in touch with your father for him to buy you a car?”I smiled sheepishly at her and at her order, I explained everything that had been going on in my life. She oohed and aahed unnecessarily but I didn’t expect anything less from a person as dramatic as Anya.By the time I was done with my story, we were already at the mall. Damon’s birthday was in a few days. He hadn’t told me about it but I heard Juan talking about it one day when he came to visit and I was going to get him a present.“All these were happening and you didn’t even think to call me?” Anya sounded offended.“I didn’t want to bother you with my problems.”“You can bother me anytime, Dahlia. We’re friends for a reason. Secondly, where the hell can I find that Prisha girl? Is she still livi
Dahlia Carrington ~•~By the time I finished eating the spaghetti Damon made, I was exhausted. The stress from the day finally came crashing down as soon as I set my dishes in the sink.Regardless, I took hold of the sponge but before I could attempt to wash it, Damon plucked it from my hand. “Don’t worry, I’ll do the dishes.”“But you cooked,” I argued weekly.“They won’t take more than ten minutes, doll. Just sit there and wait for me.”I nodded and sat down on one of the stools. As he did the dishes, my mind strayed to the conversation I had with Prisha today. She accepted that she did all those things because of her feelings for Roman. Did Roman know about the things she did? If he did, would he like her for it?I knew they said love made people stupid but she crossed the line because of some unrequited love. It wasn’t my fault that Roman found me attractive. It wasn’t my fault that he had some sick affection for me and not her. Two of them were crazy. They deserved to be togethe
Damon Valentino~•~For a moment, Dahlia just stared at me as though she could comprehend what I was saying but I merely stared at her pointedly, waiting for her to take her call.“Are you going to keep staring at me?” I asked her and she blushed before answering the call.“Aurelie.” She said in greeting and I pulled her closer to the edge of the bed so that her ass was hanging off it. She shrieked at the sudden movement but she kept her cool as she said. “Clementine told you what happened, didn’t she? Don’t worry, I wasn’t touched. I just tried to separate the fight between them and—“Her words were suddenly cut shut when I attached my mouth to her throbbing clit. I looked up at her through my lashes and saw that she was looking down at me with her mouth open. “Go on.” I urged, knowing how she reacted whenever I spoke against her pussy.Dahlia shuddered, but Aurelie must have called her attention on the line because she focused back on the call. “I didn’t move for her. I mean I don’t
Dahlia Carrington~•~ When I was packing my stuff in fury and stomping out of the house, I never thought about where I’d go.I found myself in the private elevator that led to Damon’s penthouse. A suitcase was in my hand and I had a duffel flung on one shoulder with a backpack flung around the other. When the doors to the elevator opened in his house, I stepped out, only to see him already in the living room.As though he had been waiting for me, he stood up at my arrival. “Why didn’t you call me to come pick…” his words trailed off when he saw the things I’d come with. He cocked his head to the side. “What are these?”“Uh, my things?” I asked sheepishly.“I can see that, Dahlia. The question is what they’re doing here.”My lips formed an automatic pout. “You said the offer was there whenever I wanted it.”“Have you come to live with me, Dahlia?” I nodded slowly and a slow grin spread across his face. “You should have enjoyed your freedom a bit more. Do you know that we’ll live toget
Dahlia Carrington ~•~ I turned around to see that the newcomer was none other than Clementine. “Prisha started those rumors?” She asked me and I nodded. I’d wanted to keep it quiet so things wouldn’t get awkward, but Prisha wasn’t remorseful and I wasn’t going to stay quiet for her sake. “Why are you guys acting like I did something wrong?” She yelled which startled me and made me jump away from her. “You were fucking your professor, were you not? You were so lost in your little world that you even did things like that in the classroom like a cheap slut. I know Roman had evidence but you found a way to get rid of it. That must have been what you were crying about that night, right?” I knew I had said this a million times at this point but I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know she hated me this much. How had I lived with her for months when she secretly hated me? I cried in their presence and I wondered what was going through her head whenever she consoled me, if she ever did that is
Dahlia Carrington~•~I wasn’t stupid enough to keep this from Damon this time. The last time I did that, it resulted in us almost breaking up. It didn’t matter that we broke up after the issue was resolved. The point was that he was also in the picture and he deserved to know.My leg bounced on the ground impatiently. Any moment from now, Rowan’s brother would call us and tell us what he found out about the post and I was scared to find out the truth.Damon placed his hand on my knee to stop the bouncing, drawing my attention to him. “Don’t worry, we’ll find out who did this.”“I know,” I responded. “That is what scares me.”The truth didn’t care about how I felt because, in the next second, Damon’s phone rang. He answered the call and placed it on speaker. “My secretary said the IP address was traced to her house.” My breathing hitched at the revelation, confirming what I feared. “It was posted on an iPhone X.”I closed my eyes and sank my head on the couch. Only two people used an
Dahlia Carrington~•~“You guys look so good together,” Aurelie said in awe when she saw the pictures we took from our date the next week. “And he looks so hot holding a gun.”I’d sneaked a shot at him when he was teaching me what to do and how to hold the gun and I couldn’t even lie. Aurelie was right. He looked hot as fuck looking armed and dangerous. “Tell me the date ended in him blowing your back out.”My blush was the only answer she needed. We were busy talking when Prisha came out of her room. “Hey, Dahlia. Can you help me with your phone? I need to send an urgent text to my mom and mine just died.”“Is anything the matter?” I asked as I took my phone from Aurelie and handed it to her.“Nothing too serious. You know how dramatic my mom is if I don’t get back to her on time.”Prisha’s mother was the typical Asian who fussed about everything. If Prisha hadn’t replied to her immediately, she would think Prisha was lying somewhere dead in a ditch.There was electricity and I wond
Dahlia Carrington ~•~My second semester was going a lot smoother than my first. All rumors about me had died down and people would rather talk about what they did on their holiday than some random girl in psychology.I had seen Roman only once since I came back and it seemed like he had finally given up. He did tell me he had something to tell me about the rumors last year but I didn’t give him a listening ear. I wasn’t interested in anything he had to say when our last encounter ended up with him choking me right before my exams.It was a bummer not being able to see Damon at school anymore though, but it was a good thing since we didn’t have to be so secretive anymore. We could finally go on dates and not be scared about someone seeing us. We could finally stop tiptoeing in a city as large as New York. “Where are you guys going?” Aurelie asked me on a Friday afternoon. I had the whole day off from school and luckily, so did Damon. Since he was busy settling into the new college, w