Post by Publicist on Aug 14, 2017 13:16:25 GMT -5
LACKLANLAND
Gym
August 13, 2017
Kenzi felt a sharp pang of anger as she waited in the gym for Jacob, the young Lacklanlander boy that Sarah had provided to her mother as an assistant. It was only later that Kenzi discovered that Sarah had been...intimately knowledgeable of Jacob's endowments before she and Sarah became a couple. Kenzi wasn't mad that Sarah had a past, Kenzi had one as well...but the fact that she had allowed someone she once had sex with to stay in their home with them really pissed her off. She'd demanded that he be sent back to Lacklanland, and Sarah had complied. Now that the two of them were here, along with Jacob...Kenzi was angry all over again for her own transgressions earlier in the day.
As Kenzi brooded and waited for Jacob, she thought back to their confrontation over her irrational jealousy...
EARLER THAT DAY...
"I'm sorry for being a bitch to you. I just really thought I'd be the first thing you thought about after you woke up." Kenzi shrugs. "My world revolves around you and I have to realize that yours doesn't revolve around me. It's not bad...it's just how it is." She can only sigh. "Just say hi or good morning and then I'm fine. I love you."
"I am sorry that I missed your Psst! request among the 53 notifications that I awoke to, including all that nonsense with Tolson and your best buddy Baumer." She pauses, trying to not look both angry and petulant at the same time. "And I am pretty sure pressing the like buttons on your posts to me in the middle of my sleep counts, anyway. My body, like, legit woke up, read your posts, liked them, and fell right back to sleep." She looks down at her hands. "I think that counts for, like, something."
Kenzi nods, then gets up. "You're right. Don't bother with the Article. It was stupid." She ties her hair back in an angry motion. "I'm heading to the gym to hit some stuff. I'll catch you guys later."
BACK TO THE PRESENT...
Once Jacob arrived, Kenzi was angry beyond the point of reason and poor Jacob suffered her wrath. To be fair, Jacob had really done nothing wrong at all, but serve his Queen. No doubt, Sarah had demanded intimacy from him in their youth, and it was his sworn duty to do as he was told by the then Blood Princess. Now that she was the Red Queen, when he was ordered to come to Los Angeles and serve Sidney Grey, he did just that. He did his duty for his Queen...and now he did his duty for her consort.
Poor Jacob left with a severely bruised testicle, kidney, and right eye. Jacob was a good strong example of Lacklanlander stock...plenty of endurance...he'd be alright...probably.
Kenzi finished her assault on Jacob, and felt a little better, just not about herself. She walked back into Sarah's space and saw her hard at work painting another masterpiece and decided not to further disturb her. She headed into the shower, cleaned herself, then retired to the balcony to sit and watch the forest. She sighed, cursing under her breath, "...fuck..."
A text a few minutes later from Sarah asked if Kenzi would join her in her personal space. Kenzi headed into the secluded place where Sarah did her art. It was quiet and out of the way...an obvious place of escape for her. Kenzi was honored to be invited, though she was ashamed of how she had acted...like a fucking child...like her mother always said she was. "Baby...?"
Sarah sits on her easel with her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, looking at the canvas in front of her with consternation. It was the beginning of a picture featuring two sets of lips on the verge on a kiss, but was hours away from being done. Sarah uses her other hand to wave Kenzi closer. "Come here. I need you to stand right here...right in front of me..."
Kenzi obliges, stealing a few quick glances at the unfinished work then at her fiancé. She searched her face for any sign of displeasure...she had earned it in spades today. "...here...?" she said in a small voice.
Sarah keeps her gaze on her work, her face still scrunched up in frustration. She steals a quick glance at Kenzi, at her mouth specifically, and looks back at the canvas and shakes her head. "Still not right." She reaches over and grabs Kenzi's hand and moves her closer to the canvas and splits her time between looking at the painting and at Kenzi, muttering various technical painting words like "scale" and "shadowing" as she makes a slight adjustment to the set of lips on the right. "Hmmmm. Hold still." She stands out of her easel and kisses Kenzi softly, letting her lips feel hers and wet them. She then turns back to the painting and makes another adjustment with her brush. She kisses Kenzi again, a little harder this time, and then makes another adjustment. "That's better," she says with a smile. "Just wasn't getting it right." Sarah turns back to Kenzi, her eyes moving rapidly. "Do you like it?"
Kenzi nods, not looking at the painting. Her eyes still fixed on her Selena. "...I love it..."
"It's not perfect. And it needs work. But it’s us on the 26th." At the mention of their proposed wedding day, she looks down at her feet. "I'm sorry I made you feel secondary this morning. I did not mean to." She looks back up and her eyes shine. "Can I say something really stupid?"
Kenzi felt a stab of guilt right in her heart for her stupidity. Sarah was the strong one...she had no business apologizing for anything. "...please..." She had trouble holding her gaze on Sarah.
"After I fell back to sleep after we made love? I dreamed-" She laughs and looks back down, embarrassed. "I dreamed you put a baby in me." She shakes her head and takes Kenzi's hands before looking back up. "May we please make morning hellos an Article?"
She hugged Sarah and nodded. "...I'm sorry for being shitty. I know you love me, but..." A tear crested her cheek and she pulled away and wiped it away furiously, as if the tear itself was offensive to her. "...just...Ignore my stupid jealousy. I'm angry over Cass...I'm angry over Sam...I'm angry over Lauren Parker...I'M JUST FUCKING ANGRY!"
Sarah's eyes widen for a second. "You have a right to be. This business..." She shakes her head. "It is difficult. Nothing but another bitch to beat down followed by another." Her eyes blaze in anger for a moment. "Especially Tolson and Baumer. But my dealings with them online are through. Matches are booked, beatings will commence."
Kenzi nodded. "How do I make you forget you are about to marry the world's biggest shithead?" She kissed Sarah, her eyes pleading for forgiveness.
A mischievous light enters Sarah's eyes. "Go sit in the library and give me fifteen minutes." She gives Kenzi a quick peck before scampering off. "Oh!" she says over her shoulder. "And you are going to need Pop!"
...and with that, things were right back on track for them...mostly. A quick game between the two helped them to put the trouble of the morning behind them, though Kenzi was still troubled by her inability to just let Sarah be herself...to not smother her lover as she had done so many times before. Sarah was special...more special that anyone she had ever known and she needed to fix this...she needed to fix herself if she was going to make a marriage between them work...she had to...
The rest of the day was spent making things better between them. A quick trip to watch their friend Alicia Lucas battle Sam Tolson in Honor Wrestling even provided the two a welcome opportunity for distraction as they engaged in a racy game of 'Truth or Dare' with their friend Mili Crowthorne just inches away.
When Sarah asked Kenzi to tell the truth, if she really was the first and last thing she thought about each day...Kenzi didn't simply tell her the truth...she put her heart on display for all the world to see as she stood up in the crowd and made sure everyone knew just how much she loved her Selena...
It was a grand gesture, for sure...but in the back of her mind, Kenzi knew that she still needed to change if she was going to be what Sarah deserved. In less than two weeks the two of them would be married and their lives would change forever, and Kenzi had no intention of screwing that up!
She was going to do better...she was going to be better...there was no other recourse.
Gym
August 13, 2017
Kenzi felt a sharp pang of anger as she waited in the gym for Jacob, the young Lacklanlander boy that Sarah had provided to her mother as an assistant. It was only later that Kenzi discovered that Sarah had been...intimately knowledgeable of Jacob's endowments before she and Sarah became a couple. Kenzi wasn't mad that Sarah had a past, Kenzi had one as well...but the fact that she had allowed someone she once had sex with to stay in their home with them really pissed her off. She'd demanded that he be sent back to Lacklanland, and Sarah had complied. Now that the two of them were here, along with Jacob...Kenzi was angry all over again for her own transgressions earlier in the day.
As Kenzi brooded and waited for Jacob, she thought back to their confrontation over her irrational jealousy...
EARLER THAT DAY...
"I'm sorry for being a bitch to you. I just really thought I'd be the first thing you thought about after you woke up." Kenzi shrugs. "My world revolves around you and I have to realize that yours doesn't revolve around me. It's not bad...it's just how it is." She can only sigh. "Just say hi or good morning and then I'm fine. I love you."
"I am sorry that I missed your Psst! request among the 53 notifications that I awoke to, including all that nonsense with Tolson and your best buddy Baumer." She pauses, trying to not look both angry and petulant at the same time. "And I am pretty sure pressing the like buttons on your posts to me in the middle of my sleep counts, anyway. My body, like, legit woke up, read your posts, liked them, and fell right back to sleep." She looks down at her hands. "I think that counts for, like, something."
Kenzi nods, then gets up. "You're right. Don't bother with the Article. It was stupid." She ties her hair back in an angry motion. "I'm heading to the gym to hit some stuff. I'll catch you guys later."
BACK TO THE PRESENT...
Once Jacob arrived, Kenzi was angry beyond the point of reason and poor Jacob suffered her wrath. To be fair, Jacob had really done nothing wrong at all, but serve his Queen. No doubt, Sarah had demanded intimacy from him in their youth, and it was his sworn duty to do as he was told by the then Blood Princess. Now that she was the Red Queen, when he was ordered to come to Los Angeles and serve Sidney Grey, he did just that. He did his duty for his Queen...and now he did his duty for her consort.
Poor Jacob left with a severely bruised testicle, kidney, and right eye. Jacob was a good strong example of Lacklanlander stock...plenty of endurance...he'd be alright...probably.
Kenzi finished her assault on Jacob, and felt a little better, just not about herself. She walked back into Sarah's space and saw her hard at work painting another masterpiece and decided not to further disturb her. She headed into the shower, cleaned herself, then retired to the balcony to sit and watch the forest. She sighed, cursing under her breath, "...fuck..."
A text a few minutes later from Sarah asked if Kenzi would join her in her personal space. Kenzi headed into the secluded place where Sarah did her art. It was quiet and out of the way...an obvious place of escape for her. Kenzi was honored to be invited, though she was ashamed of how she had acted...like a fucking child...like her mother always said she was. "Baby...?"
Sarah sits on her easel with her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, looking at the canvas in front of her with consternation. It was the beginning of a picture featuring two sets of lips on the verge on a kiss, but was hours away from being done. Sarah uses her other hand to wave Kenzi closer. "Come here. I need you to stand right here...right in front of me..."
Kenzi obliges, stealing a few quick glances at the unfinished work then at her fiancé. She searched her face for any sign of displeasure...she had earned it in spades today. "...here...?" she said in a small voice.
Sarah keeps her gaze on her work, her face still scrunched up in frustration. She steals a quick glance at Kenzi, at her mouth specifically, and looks back at the canvas and shakes her head. "Still not right." She reaches over and grabs Kenzi's hand and moves her closer to the canvas and splits her time between looking at the painting and at Kenzi, muttering various technical painting words like "scale" and "shadowing" as she makes a slight adjustment to the set of lips on the right. "Hmmmm. Hold still." She stands out of her easel and kisses Kenzi softly, letting her lips feel hers and wet them. She then turns back to the painting and makes another adjustment with her brush. She kisses Kenzi again, a little harder this time, and then makes another adjustment. "That's better," she says with a smile. "Just wasn't getting it right." Sarah turns back to Kenzi, her eyes moving rapidly. "Do you like it?"
Kenzi nods, not looking at the painting. Her eyes still fixed on her Selena. "...I love it..."
"It's not perfect. And it needs work. But it’s us on the 26th." At the mention of their proposed wedding day, she looks down at her feet. "I'm sorry I made you feel secondary this morning. I did not mean to." She looks back up and her eyes shine. "Can I say something really stupid?"
Kenzi felt a stab of guilt right in her heart for her stupidity. Sarah was the strong one...she had no business apologizing for anything. "...please..." She had trouble holding her gaze on Sarah.
"After I fell back to sleep after we made love? I dreamed-" She laughs and looks back down, embarrassed. "I dreamed you put a baby in me." She shakes her head and takes Kenzi's hands before looking back up. "May we please make morning hellos an Article?"
She hugged Sarah and nodded. "...I'm sorry for being shitty. I know you love me, but..." A tear crested her cheek and she pulled away and wiped it away furiously, as if the tear itself was offensive to her. "...just...Ignore my stupid jealousy. I'm angry over Cass...I'm angry over Sam...I'm angry over Lauren Parker...I'M JUST FUCKING ANGRY!"
Sarah's eyes widen for a second. "You have a right to be. This business..." She shakes her head. "It is difficult. Nothing but another bitch to beat down followed by another." Her eyes blaze in anger for a moment. "Especially Tolson and Baumer. But my dealings with them online are through. Matches are booked, beatings will commence."
Kenzi nodded. "How do I make you forget you are about to marry the world's biggest shithead?" She kissed Sarah, her eyes pleading for forgiveness.
A mischievous light enters Sarah's eyes. "Go sit in the library and give me fifteen minutes." She gives Kenzi a quick peck before scampering off. "Oh!" she says over her shoulder. "And you are going to need Pop!"
...and with that, things were right back on track for them...mostly. A quick game between the two helped them to put the trouble of the morning behind them, though Kenzi was still troubled by her inability to just let Sarah be herself...to not smother her lover as she had done so many times before. Sarah was special...more special that anyone she had ever known and she needed to fix this...she needed to fix herself if she was going to make a marriage between them work...she had to...
The rest of the day was spent making things better between them. A quick trip to watch their friend Alicia Lucas battle Sam Tolson in Honor Wrestling even provided the two a welcome opportunity for distraction as they engaged in a racy game of 'Truth or Dare' with their friend Mili Crowthorne just inches away.
When Sarah asked Kenzi to tell the truth, if she really was the first and last thing she thought about each day...Kenzi didn't simply tell her the truth...she put her heart on display for all the world to see as she stood up in the crowd and made sure everyone knew just how much she loved her Selena...
She was going to do better...she was going to be better...there was no other recourse.
