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[romean jacob laertes]

* WELL GRAVITY I S WORKING AGAINST ME

AND GRAVITY WANTS TO B R I N G ME DOWN*

everything good about his life was turning upside down. he use to have it all, he had the right friends, his money, is reputation, and his girl. well, he had baout all of that but his girl, harley. the girl he was never suppose to fall for. shehad been a bet, no one thought he would ever be able to date a girl whohad once been his very close best friend. harley hated him, right? wait, there was no way she could have hated him, they were in love, right? well, one thing was for sure he sure did still love her. even if she didnt love him, there woudl always be a spart in his heart for harley, always. there always has been. even when he was so young he didnt even recognize it. they could talk about anything together. she was there for him when logan died, when ray died... it seemed like she would always be there for him, through thick and thin. he could sitll remember when he told her that he was inlove with her. the day he had figured out about rays death. she was treating him so well, he just needed to getit off of his chest. he wanted ot scream " i love you" from the top of his lungs. he had never felt this way about any other female..the way he felt about harley. he did date a lot of girls and has dated a lot of girls. salem being one of them. since he was dumped he had been talking other more. she was just his friend..there was no way she liked him, right? besides, the reasont hey had broke up because he thought she had been cheating on him. still, he didnt dislike her..they where average friends at most.

he dressed himself in his dark black jeans, his white and black addidas and his white and black t-shirt. very casual, but he was a boy, and he was at home in his penthouse. he didnt need to dress up. yes, penthouse. he was very successful, taking on his fathers footsteps. he was becoming a business mad himself. he already had his masters, so yeah, he was working his way up to the top. both of his parents where sucessful. his father with the businessing, and his mother with the real estate. they were some of the best. he sat down on his couch, holding a picture of him, harley, and logan in his hand. he had missed htem both, the hting was logan was gone..harley was still here, but he broke her heart. somehow, which he thought he knew how, she figured out about the bet. which was justgreat, especially because her dad hated him anyways. so this was great, all of her friends hated him, her dad hated him,...whod idnt hate him at this moment. he hated himself! so having someone to talk to was good. even if it was salem. salmed had suggested coming over and he had agreed, he didnt have anything better to do. so he could go for a conversation about right now.

he sat back on his couch waiting for his friend salem to arrive. did he know that she still had feelings for him, no, and if he did he would have tried his best to avoid her. he did have feelings for her once, after all, and he was already at sour terms with harley. ugh! why did he have to screw up? he never thought he would take her serous, but when they started dating she became more and more beautiful as each day passed. he had never looked ather the same way before when the two had just been friends. she had grown into such a beautiful woman. he almost fell asleep in the middle of a basket ball game. it was a saturday afternoon so the game was on. just when he was about to drift off he heard the doorbell ring. he walked over to open the door, seeing salem. "hey." he said with a small smirk on his face.

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[/color]: laziness. lol TAG[/color] salem NOTES[/color] drama starts here xD.STATUS[/color] DONE.[/center]

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[salem alexis rivers]

salem sat, in her clubbing clothes, last nights musk still hung in the air around her. her hair was disheveled, but the gorgeous redhead still looked, well, gorgeous. her make up wasn't as thick as it'd started out, not that salem ever applied it all that heavily... she liked not to feel so fake, and painted on. because she'd been told all her life, she was naturally pretty, so why fight it? it was stupid, those girls who were all i'm so ugly, blah wah blah. ugh, she hated those. they needed a serious reality check... she shivered, her green eyes flickering around the room. the messages were flying, and her computer was making the usual errrrrrrrrrr, sound, as it tried to keep up with her ims, and message checks and email updates, and all sorts of things she was doingon there. finally, salem sighed, and closed her laptop, and picked up her phone. she began scrolling down, checking her new messages, and started texting right back. she flopped over on her bed, bored.
about an hour later, she found herself getting up, and actually thinking about going out. only...to a friends, well, he was an ex. not that they ever really talked about their past. they stayed in touch, and were still pretty close. but the thing that was still weighing on salem's mind, was why he'd dumped her? so long ago, and yet so recent. the event was burned into her mind. she'd done nothing, and he'd not given her really, any explaination. she'd taken it. she'd walked away, not saying a word, knowing that with him, there was nothing to say. and since him, she'd not dated at all. she'd had her flings, she'd had her fun. but she wanted him back. not that she was ever going to admit that. that was something that she just didn't really talk about. she didn't like airing her feelings like dirty laundry.
she got up, and began milling around, before finally agreeing to go over to romean's place. she took a quick look at herself in the mirror, grabbed a bottle of the usual vodka, her keys, and her cell, and headed out the door. she wasn't the drink and drive type. she was taking it for romean. the boy sounded as if he needed some serious cheering up. and salem was the one for the job. she hummed along, as her car seemed to purr along the roads, and she carefully drove through intersections and streets, leading to his house. ugh, what was she doing? she still liked the stupid boy. and here she was, practically offering herself to him, when he was pretty well invloved with some other girl. she rolled her eyes. they'd been eff double you bees for quite a while. but they hadn't been since he'd been dating. she didn't want to be in his way. which, was uncharacteristical for salem. if she wanted something, she found a way to get it. at all costs. but for some reason, all she found herself wanting lately, was for him to be happy. she drove up into his drive, put her car into park, flipped the ignition off, and grabbed the bottle, before getting out. she braced herself, a part of her telling her to get back in the car and go home, and the other part still freaking out, but staying quiet. her nerves were on edge. she didn't know what to do. she'd not anticipated these kinds of thoughts to be roaring inside of her pretty little red head. she hardly cared about people. it was just something she'd not learned well. she'd found caring almost always led to feelings. which led to heart breakings, and so forth. and she wasn't up for any of that anymore. she'd had more than her fair share of them.
she knocked quietly on the door, almost turning to run after doing so, but her feet were planted, and there she stayed.
seeing him, that usual cocky im-too-hott-for-you smirk, his personality...it all cam back at an alarming speed, hitting salem hard. suddenly, her dress that she'd been in since last night, when she'd gone out felt to short, her al-natural look didn't feel all that pretty, and her palms were moist, as her stomach churned. 'hey' she managed back, pulling her thoughts together, and smiling at him, raising one eyebrow as she pushed past him, into the house, pushing the bottle into his stomach as she passed, in usual salem manner...

[romean jacob laertes]

* WELL GRAVITY I S WORKING AGAINST ME

AND GRAVITY WANTS TO B R I N G ME DOWN*

he couldn't help but stare salem over. she looked pretty hott, well she usually did. she had a nice body, and thats what attracted him to her at first. she was so sexy to him when they had first met. now that he was single, he could stare at her any way he wanted. but then - what was it eating at his conscience. keep your eyes off her, pal. he told himself. romean wasn't a man whore, he didn't sleep with every walking thing with a good shape. he was just a serious big flirt, and he didn't care about it..well he stopped his flirting a knotch when he was a taken man, but now he wasn't. he has had a couple of flings in his lifetime but not as much as people would think. he had a lot of ex girlfriends to, so they didn't count. so it was funny that people thought of him a man whore, he was just a flirt. those were two completely opposite things. sometimes when he'd hang out with friends he'd show off a little, but who didn't. that's how guys were, naturally, wasn't his fault. he was a good looking man, so of course random people would throw themselves at him.

he chuckled when she passed him a bottle of alcohol. "me, drinking...no thanks salem..you know how i get." he said, closing his door and looking back over at her. walking towards the kitchen to set the bottle down. when he got drunk he was a mess. he'd flirt with any girl, and fight any man. he was just pathetic when he was drunk, and he couldn't really care much for it. plus, salem was hott, young, sexy, feisty. if he got drunk and she was around his hands wouldn't be able to leave her body. he waked back over to sit down on his couch, looking at salem, looking her over once more. he chuckled a bit, "well, salem...my house isn't really a hot spot to sow that off in." he told her, "you look good." he finally complimented her. it wasn't all that hard, it was true. he usually didn't say anything nice unless it was true, or he was about to be slapped in the face. he couldn't count the number of times he's been slapped in the face.

he just was glad she was here, "thanks for coming though..." he said, " i didn't want to go out tonight, and things have been pretty hard..since, ...you know?" he said, she already knew about his break up with harley. mostly everyone in the town did. he didn't get to keep secrets around here, he was to well known. he sat back on the couch and crossed his arms against his chest. e just felt like an asshole. sitting here, without harley in his arms, watching t.v with him. he wish he could take that bet back, harley was worth more than that. he wouldn't be surprised if harley moved on, he just hope that she wouldn't. she still had to be in love with him right. then again, he had no voice mails, no new texts from her, it was like every 5 minutes he found himself glancing at his phone.s he wasn't returning any of his calls, "i screwed up bad this time.." he sighed, his eyes back on salem.

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[/color]: A NUMBER?TAG[/color] salem NOTES[/color] drama starts here xD.STATUS[/color] DONE.[/center]

DAMAGED GOOD @ CAUTION @ HEADER.

[salem alexis rivers]

salem rolled her eyes at him, "yes, i do know this." she muttered, knowing he knew that she knew him very well, " but don't take away from my fun." she said, pouting a bit at him. she smiled, when he complimented her, and sat down on his couch, her arms across it, and her smile went from sweet and innocent, to a devilish, flirty grin. "you don't look too bad yourself." she shrugged, then took her arms off the back of the couch, and leaned forward, them folded across her lap, and fingers interlaced, her smile, still on her pretty face. "oh dear." she said, a concerning look past her large green eyes. "what've you gotten yourself into now?" she asked, sitting back, and crossing her legs, staring at him, waiting on a reply. but salem already knew the story. maybe even as well as he did... she had people, around town, and she had her ways of getting the information that she wanted. not that she'd even looked into this, it'd fallen right into her lap. well, not so literally, but still, her friends had sent texts at the time of the event, and info on what was going down. stupid boys, and their stupid bets. trying to be all macho. what was with them? she knew he wasn't really all that horrid deep down. but the bet? that'd break even salem into never speaking to someone again. she'd been dumped, sure, but people broke up, things changed. people changed. and she understood that. but why he'd taken that bet? she wondered. it was outrageous, and stupid, and just...well, stupid was the only good word for it. it was mean, and...she had never thought he'd taken it. but that was a guy for you. "i'm not here to mend your soul," she started, staring straight at him, his baby blues, catching her ocean greens. and she knew he'd know she wasn't fibbing over this little statement. "i'm simply here to make sure it doesn't... " she paused, looking down, and biting her lip, "lose it's peices, so to speak" she finished, peicing her words carefully together. "and don't thank me, i was going out anyhow." she shrugged, and patted the seat beside her on the couch. "sit, lets play puzzle peices." she smiled, genuinely, and winked at him.


the others wont be this short. soooo sorry!

[romean jacob laertes]

* WELL GRAVITY I S WORKING AGAINST ME

AND GRAVITY WANTS TO B R I N G ME DOWN*

he smirked when she said that she did know how he got when he was drunk. really? so why would she be even bringing drinks to his home then? "really? you do? hah, girls these day, they'll do whatever to get in my pants." he said, teasingly. he was pretty sure salem didn't think that way about him anymore, but that didn't stop him form having a big ego. many people either loved him or hated him because of it. he was a pretty cool guy to be around, if you could put up with his talking and everything, he wasn't half bad. he had a lot of enemies but triple times the friends, and most of his enemies where ex girlfriends, or he just thought they wanted him so badly they had no choice but to hate him, cause not to long ago he was taken. that wasn't the case anymore, he's done some stupid things in his life, and not betting on harley was one of them. why did he have to fall in love with her. romean laertes didn't feel 'down' that wasn't likely with him, so its like she had the ability to control everything about him.

he smiled when she told him he didn't look to bad.really? well, he must have been the most sexy man alive cause he didn't dress himself up much. "are you trying to charm me or something, you dont have to lie babe." he smiled, usually salem saw him in his suits and things like that. oh great, she had asked him what happened. now he probably wouldn't be able to shut up. "i'm stupid!" he started off. "everything i care about i lose. gah!" he sighed. " harley was just some bet me and my friends made, my friend aid i wouldn't be able to ever date her because i told him i could have any girl i wanted, but me and harley have always been best friends - you know that." he pointed out. "so they didnt think we'd have a chance of anything different, so i took on his challenge and we started dating. it felt odd at first but then i really started to fall in love with her, and that doesn't happen to often with me alone..and everything was perfect, then she figured out, i'm guessing dominic told her, i really don't know how. but all i know is now i'm single, she hates me, and i miss her so much.." he said, running his fingers through his hair, frustrated. "god, this sucks.."

he looked at her drink she had brought over that he had placed on the counter then back at her as she began talking. "i know, i know sales. i'm sorry." he said, he wasn't aware he had been talking so much until she said that. "i know you didnt come here to here me talk about harley all night, seriously i'm sorry." he told her with a small smirk. he moved over to sit next to her as she mentioned playing 'puzzle pieces' what the hell was that? he didn't know but he'd act like he did. it wouldn't hurt. " okay, and how do we play such a game." he asked her, a small smile on his face as he looked at her. if one thing was correct he did have good taste in women. she looked pretty sexy, and if he were like he usually were after he just became single his hands would be all over her, but his last girlfriend was harley, he couldn't even do what he usually did when the thought of her popped in his head.

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[/color]: A NUMBER?TAG[/color] salem NOTES[/color] np, it was short & sweet..STATUS[/color] DONE.[/center]

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