KRISTA MAY
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Post by KRISTA MAY on Dec 1, 2022 0:52:35 GMT
 ━ i can't get you out of my head ━
Oh gosh. Her fricken life was falling apart.
River came over to make sure she was okay━which she totally wasn’t━but she couldn’t tell him everything. She wanted to see Kitty, ‘cause Kitty… well, she’d been half the reason Krista had pushed for this anyway, and… and they were best friends! She needed her freakin’ best friend at a time like this! What the H-E-double-hockey-sticks!
She’d sent it out yesterday afternoon and it’d spread like wildfire. Krista heard that apparently someone was watchin’ it in Professor Braschi’s class and she ran out cryin’ or somethin’━which was crazy. Krista didn’t really feel bad. She got what she deserved for goin’ after Krista’s boyfriend, but… okay, maybe she did feel a lil’ bad. ‘Specially ‘cause Mal was the crappy one. It’s not like Professor Braschi really knew they were together ‘cause they never even went on dates or anything, but poking holes in that was too close to lettin’ her whole argument fall apart, so… Krista was just gonna leave that alone.
Krista decided not to go to classes that day. All everyone did was talk about that freakin’ video, and they just focused on Professor Braschi and not on Mal, who was, like, the entire point of it. Nobody cared. And Krista hate, hate, hated when she heard guys talking about how hot she was. She felt like she was gonna fricken explode with anger when they said that stuff━why did the professor get complimented while all Krista got was a big. Fricken. Heartbreak?! She lost her boyfriend and nobody cared!
SHE LEFT HER WHOLE LIFE IN BECKLEY TO COME TO MYSTIC FALLS AND BE WITH HIM! SHE STARTED SCHOOL WITHOUT A GOSH DARN MAJOR! SHE DID EVERYTHING FOR MAL AND SHE GOT NOTHING IN RETURN EXCEPT A BAD FEELING IN HER TUMMY ALL FREAKIN’ DAY!!!
She was pretty sure she was gonna turn red at this point. Rage was supposed to be bad, definitely a sin, but Krista couldn’t control herself. She was shaking.
She searched for Kitty in the only place she figured she might go, which was Phoebe’s room. Arriving like she’d only just gotten out of bed━blonde hair touseled, eyes red with dark circles underneath and a big ol’ mouth-shaped scab on her neck━Krista knocked twice before opening the door, relieved to find both her friends. She wasn’t really super close with Phoebe, but Krista liked her enough to think they were friends. Even if she was actually Kitty’s friend.
“Kitty, I’ve been lookin’ everywhere for━” Krista cut herself off upon hearing the familiar voice emitting from the laptop. It was Mal, and it was that stupid video. It was burned into her memory now, but she recognized the way he spoke. He said some of the same stuff to her, but not as… bad. Maybe ‘cause he thought she was a baby and she couldn’t take it. Maybe that was just another thing he liked better about Professor Braschi.
“What the heck! Now you guys are watchin’ it, too?!” Krista shouted after a moment of stretched silence. She stepped in and slammed the door behind her, trembling with anger and sadness and… all the freakin’ worst emotions in the world. “Why’s nobody realize that that’s my boyfriend with someone else?! Why’s nobody even care that Professor Braschi is a man-stealin’... s-word.” Gritting her teeth, Krista shook her head and squeezed her eyes closed against the tears.
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Post by KITANA RYO on Dec 26, 2022 18:46:30 GMT
She was totally against the whole revenge video shit for obvious reasons. Kitty would go full wolf if she found out someone had posted a video of her online for the world to see. Something so personal and private to her, but curiosity peaked when she was sent a link to an x-rated video starring one of the professors at Whitmore, even though Kitty had no idea who the woman was. However, she didn’t need to pick up her laptop and run over to Phoebe’s room so they could watch the video together, but that’s exactly what she did. She did feel really bad about it, but it wasn’t like she was sharing it with everyone in her contacts list, although she did text Baxter to see if he had seen the video too. It was the talk of the campus. Afterward, she would delete the email, never to be watched again. Plus Phoebe would probably have some lawyer stuff to say about it all. Things weren’t exactly great between Kitty and Krista, but there wasn’t a lot she could do about Mal. He was an old vampire and she was a new werewolf. He’d tear her to pieces with ease. She didn’t want to send Phoebe after him either because what if he tore her to pieces too? Hopefully, it was just a phase and it would pass soon enough, just like the obsession she had with Pokemon when she was twelve. It had to past though because Krista was human and Mal wasn’t. One would die whilst the other would live forever unless Krista had been considering the unthinkable. No, surely she was that caught up with Mal that she was considering drinking his blood and becoming like him. For starters, that would be totally against God and Jesus, right? Even though she was pretty certain the big dude upstairs wouldn’t be impressed that Krista was running around with a vampire, who had definitely killed people. Sitting in her bedroom alone watching the x-rated video was a little bit weird, so she decided it was less weird if she watched with Phoebe. She would have watched with Krista, but her eyes would probably bleed if she saw something like that. Phoebe, however, wasn’t as much of a prude compared to Krista, even if she was the one sleeping with someone outside of wedlock which apparently was a big no no in the bible, but that was none of Kitty’s business. At first, she was buzzing her friend was finally getting some action, but now she wished it was someone else other than Mal giving her that action. She knocked loudly on Phoebe’s door, unable to keep still as she waited for Phoebe to open the door. It eventually latched open, “Dude! You need to check this shit out with me.” She headed inside, placing the already open laptop down on Phoebe’s desk. “It’s that video with that professor.” The screen already had the video loaded with a naked brunette woman on the loading screen. Kitty hit play, her right eye focused on the scenes that unfolded on the screen. They had been watching the video for a few minutes before someone knocked at Phoebe’s door, pulling Kitty’s concentration from the screen and toward Krista who was coming through the door. “Er yeah? Literally, everyone on campus is watching it.” She shot a glanced toward Phoebe as Krista slammed the door shut. “That’s Mal?!” Kitty exclaimed loudly, pointing toward the laptop where the video was still echoing out across the room. Ew. She reached over to pause the video. “He cheated on you?” And released a whole video about it? That was a new level of fucked up. PHOEBE MURPHY |
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PHOEBE MURPHY
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Post by PHOEBE MURPHY on Jan 12, 2023 20:55:02 GMT
If Lawrence thought that some tea and a necklace (albeit a Harrod’s necklace) was going to make up for running off his mouth about Joshua to Teddy, then he was more touched in the head than she’d thought.
The highlighter had smeared on the page, a pink streak that echoed the one on the side of her hand. Usually she’d have scrubbed it off immediately, pissed at the mess she’d made of herself (you could afford to grow precious when you weren’t living in a one room cabin in the woods with no indoor plumbing) and the book, but she’d been staring at the case review for twenty minutes without noticing. The cap was on the end of the highlighter, tapping against the smear, the tip of it drying out in the air (another thing that would’ve ticked her off if she was noticing anything).
Phoebe’s frown deepened, the rhythm of the tapping changing. Maybe it wasn’t that Lawrence had tried to explain her behaviour away – their parents had done that practically her entire human life, like not wanting to spend her life trapped in the valley, popping out kids until she turned grey and miserable was a problem – it was that he’d thought she’d have murdered someone she loved. She’d never taken that turn, not been one of those vampires. The woods would have been a cemetery if she had given how long they’d stayed there. Feed and release, it was practically charitable of her given that she made sure they had food and water afterwards, and decent enough directions to get them back to civilisation safely. Would their parents have approved? No, they would barely have batted an eyelid if she’d been stamped out the same way the vampires who’d come to the valley had been. A monster was a monster, even if it came with dark curls and a naivety that had clung hard, even if he’d killed his wife.
Her hands had held Joshua’s at the last. The ones in his hand standing out against skin so thin she was sure she could see every pulse of blood rushing through it, every corrupt cell multiplying to overwhelm him. They hadn’t covered his mouth in mercy, her teeth hadn’t drained him to the point where it might have saved them both that heart break of his final hours. It had been a relief in the end to see him go still, but she’d felt guilty to even think it. Could Teddy claim any of that?
The pen stopped, its capped end pressed flat against the smear. Lawrence had suffered his own heartbreak, although it seemed like fate had done him a favour by leaving him free of the woman who’d helped nudge him into flipping the switch. Unlike vampires warlocks couldn’t do that and she couldn’t imagine what Teddy would’ve been like if he could. The image of it was enough to have her snorting out a breath before the rattle came at the door.
Now? Phoebe put the pen down, reached for her phone to frown at it. She had all of 18 hours before she had to hand in her essay. Not enough to deal with anything, but … alright, alright. It was going to have to be a shut in later, a mirror of yesterday’s study session that had ended with the majority of the emergency bottle vodka she kept in her mini-fridge, along with the blood bags, disappearing down her throat. The door locked, her mind on the report, not her rat brother or …
Letting out a growl, Phoebe tipped her head back as she stood and wandered to the door to open it. She tilted her head, aiming a blank look at Kitty. ”If you say it’s a puppy video I’m gonna put a leash on you,” she threatened. Apparently not though, although once it started Phoebe imagined that the professor might’ve worn one if the man in the video with her asked really nicely. ”What video? I’ve been in a coma for the last twenty four hours. I wasn’t meant to be out of it until tomorrow…” She would’ve been if Kitty hadn’t arrived with pure, adulterated … dear lord.
Five minutes later the highlighter and the textbook were shoved aside onto the floor, the laptop was on her desk and Phoebe had her elbows propped on the edge of it – all the better to see what he was doing with … It took her a second longer to look up than it did Kitty when the knocks came. ”Enter!” Phoebe called breezily, like Cleopatra admitting on her … who did the pharaohs even have trying to earn their favour. Her eyes narrowed as Krista walked in, looking like she’d been dragged into the dorm by her hair and nibbled by someone without an ounce of delicacy. Apparently Kitty had been the only one she was looking for, but she wasn’t about to take offence at that.
Phoebe smirked as she flopped back onto her bed, her scowl snapping back as Krista slammed the door, hollering at them both. ”You think we’d miss this sort of a show? Did you see what he did at 4.04? That’s … nuh uh, don’t go falling apart over … boyfriend?” The giggle was bitten back without even having to clamp a hand over her mouth – miraculously, because it felt like that would be Krista’s thirteenth reason why. That’s Braschi? Mmm, who knew she was that wild. That dirty little homewrecker. Mal’s the …” Phoebe gestured up at Krista’s neck. She’d heard bits and pieces from Kitty, especially after Mal – who’d have thought a man literally named ‘bad’ would try and live up to it - had tried to take nibble out of Kitty. ”I guess there not being many identifiable features made it a little tough. You’ve watched it all then?” They were going to need the rest of that vodka – Krista was at least.
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Post by KRISTA MAY on Feb 10, 2023 23:50:42 GMT
━ i can't get you out of my head ━
He was so mean. He couldn’t even apologize when she was there, and now look what happened! The video was still everywhere, and Professor Braschi wasn’t in classes anymore. All he hadta do was say he was sorry, and she… well, Krista wouldn’t be able to take it back, but at least she’d try!
It was even worse that he hadn’t really cheated like she thought. Well, not now, anyway. But he cheated on her by trynna drink from Kitty and whoever else. And he cheated on her by watching that video, ‘cause Krista knew he did. He was a liar, and she fricken hated him.
But why didn’t he call?
And why did Kitty and Phoebe have to be watching it?! Out of all the people she sought for comfort, why did they… ugh!
“Yeah, it’s Mal!” Krista exclaimed, almost as though she just expected Kitty to know who he was by the video alone. If Kitty did, then Krista had bigger problems. Literally.
A show? This was her life crumbling and they were gettin’ entertainment out of it. How could Krista not fall apart?!
“Yeah, you can see her dumb face pretty much the whole time. And Mal…” Krista stomped over and pointed at the paused video, standing to the side as though doing a PowerPoint presentation. Her index finger indicated his beard. “See?!”
Tears welled up again and Krista whimpered, shaking her head. “He said he didn’t cheat… that it was old. I guess I didn’t look at the date on the video… but he still had it!” Her voice wavered between nervous mumbles and loud, exasperated statements. She tossed her hands in the air as if warding off all their questions at once. “Yes, he’s the one that did this. And got to do it whenever he fricken’ wanted.” Krista motioned wildly to the scabs on her neck and puffed out a breath.
“‘Course I watched it all!” She practically screamed, “I was so flippin’ mad when I found it on his phone, but I couldn’t watch it all ‘cause he’d come back in the room any minute. So I sent it to myself. Then I watched it a bunch more. And I got super angry. And then I… I wanted t’get back at Professor Braschi for sleepin’ with my boyfriend.” Krista’s anger shrivelled up as she neared the end of her story━her confession━and she began to curl in on herself nervously. Maybe Mal’s guilt trip worked. She was mad at him, but… yeah, maybe she’d sorta moved too fast in her path for vengeance.
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KITANA RYO
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Post by KITANA RYO on Mar 31, 2023 12:58:01 GMT
Oh, it was so much better than a puppy video. She wouldn’t have run from her room to Phoebe’s room, risked waking Phoebe up, all for the sake of a puppy video. That’s what Whatsapp was there for, but no she needed to physically show this to Phoebe. Kitty blinked hard as Krista exclaimed loudly, as though she should have known it was Mal on the screen. How would she even know? It was all body, no face and she hadn’t exactly been up close and personal with Mal’s balls. She turned back to the monitor as Krista pointed aggressively at the screen. You could see a tiny bit of his beard that could have belonged to anyone, but Kitty didn’t argue that point with Krista but then Phoebe beat her to the point. “I’m so sorry Krista. I had no idea it was him!” She wouldn’t have voluntarily watched the video if she knew it was that asshole. You would’ve had to cut off all her fingers and even then she probably wouldn’t watch it. She suppressed a groan as Krista went on to tell the girls Mal had told her this was an old video. Bullshit. “Do you believe him? Because I can check the timestamp on that video and it’ll say what phone it was recorded from and when.” Even if Krista refused, Kitty was still going to check that damn timestamp, just without Krista there to witness it. “I told you to stop letting him bite you… he can use blood bags! That’s what Phoebe does.” She was convinced Mal was compelling Krista to let him drink from her though, telling her he needed it.
“You sent this?” Kitty exclaimed loudly pointing at the laptop. “How did you send it? Please tell me you didn’t use your personal email address or even your personal laptop.” PHOEBE MURPHY |
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PHOEBE MURPHY
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Post by PHOEBE MURPHY on Apr 7, 2023 15:35:14 GMT
Krista’s wail had Phoebe looking back at the screen again, in a different light this time. It wasn’t just that objective study of what had been pretty hot by the standards she expected in Mystic Falls, where puritan minds never seemed to have developed far beyond the prudish (although if the club remained open that might change). Unlike Kitty, who’d almost taken a pair of fangs to the throat – a messy nibble at that if Krista’s wounds were anything to go by – she’d never seen Mal up close. Given how little the camera had focused on his face, she doubted if she’d even be able to recognise him on the street now. ”So he can keep his fangs to himself occasionally then,” she drawled. Shocker. And probably something she shouldn’t have added now. Oop.
The smile Phoebe shot up at Krista as she craned over her to indicate Mal on the screen, well, that scruff of dark hair that could’ve been anybody’s – no, not Teddy’s, that certainly couldn’t have been his body on screen, even if he would’ve had the balls to pull off the sort of first where you put yourself on camera – was almost sly. ”You think I was looking at her face?” Dumb wasn’t the word she would’ve used for Professor Braschi at any other time, the woman had seemed smart enough, even if she’d never had to sit through one of her classes. Whitmore didn’t employ idiots after all.
Kitty was quick enough to apologise to Krista for not realising. Phoebe puffed out a breath, rolling her eyes before she tried to drag the words out too. Apologetic wasn’t something she was all that often. ”Sorry.” There, that was enough wasn’t it? Sorry I ended up seeing parts of the asshole you were sleeping with that you obviously didn’t want anybody else to …
Plucking the salient points out of Krista’s wail, Phoebe flicked her finger back towards the screen. Probing deeper into all of this was probably a mistake, but if she was going to talk Krista down off the ledge, she had to know the background to it. ”And you think he was still doing her, while he was doing that?” If Mal was a dog as much as he was a vampire, then it wouldn’t have surprised her. Times might have changed in the last century but people still got hung up on the idea of monogamy the minute you slept with them the first time.
Krista had obviously tortured herself with every minute of it. Working herself up to the point where she was wailing and whimpering and God. Phoebe plucked some tissues out of the box on her desk, holding them out to Krista to dry her eyes, not that she expected the tears to stop any time soon. ”You found it on his phone then? Or his computer.” Wherever the idiot had left it without locking it away. She could see why he hadn’t deleted it, although she wasn’t stupid enough to say that to Krista. Possession, to her, was obviously proof that this sordid little affair was still going on, after the video had been shot and Mal had taken up feasting on Krista in more than one way.
Okay. Phoebe craned her head back as Krista screeched the answer to that question. She held her hand up, as though that would get her to calm down. So, Krista had done one smart thing in all of this, although she imagined that she hadn’t thought to erase the message she’d sent herself from Mal’s phone. He certainly didn’t seem like genius material, but that would’ve been a flashing red flag, just like … oh, Krista really wasn’t Mensa material either.
Phoebe did a slow turn towards Krista, her eyes fixing on the girl like she’d just strapped on a straight jacket right in front of them. Leave it to Kitty to leap right onto the Mal’s an evil asshole train right before she hit the salient point in all that Krista had babbled. ”That’s what Phoebe does most of the time. Some of us are a little more picky about where we choose to feed.” Not where you sleep, at least not these days, after … Phoebe swallowed back that wave of nausea. That was all Lawrence’s fault, for bringing back her fears over what she’d done to Joshua front and centre in her brain again. ”Do you honestly think she was smart about it?” Phoebe muttered to Kitty. She put her hand out, slowly closing the laptop. ”Where were you when we sent it? Maybe we can still play you as the innocent party here.” If they couldn’t then Krista could say bye bye to college. Whitmore wasn’t going to take this as a prank, she’d sent out a sex video staring one of the professors.
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Post by KRISTA MAY on May 15, 2023 14:16:34 GMT
━ i can't get you out of my head ━
“His phone,” She sighed, her eyes flicking to Kitty. “And, no, I don’t believe him. I think he’s a big, fat liar!” Krista shook her fists at her sides angrily, her teeth gritted together. Gosh, she knew wrath was a sin, but she was so darn mad that she coulda hit him! What was the point of checking the timestamp now, though? Mal was gone, they broke up, and… the video was all over the school. Proving that she was right wouldn’t do nothin’. Unless… no, no━there was no way. She wasn’t gonna fall victim to one of Mal’s lies again.
Krista sighed and rolled her eyes when Kitty chastised her about the biting. Y’know, despite all this, she still didn’t hate it. She just wished Mal woulda been more appreciative. “Picky?!” Krista practically yelped, “What’s that supposedta mean?! I was his girlfriend! I thought he was doin’ it from just me, but who freakin’ knows now…” She threw her arms up and grumbled exasperatedly, then frowned at Kitty again. “And anyway, I like lettin’ him do that. Or liked. It’s done now. He doesn’t care, he ain’t grateful, and I’m… I’m done. We broke up, and it’s done.” Krista suddenly clapped her hands to her cheeks and sobbed, especially once she realized she’d admitted to sending out the video. But if she couldn’t trust her two best friends, then who could she trust?! (Certainly not Mal)
Thankfully, she didn’t hear Phoebe call her stupid over her sniffling.
Krista reeled it in and hugged herself around the middle, pouting at the girls. “I… I did it from our room. I used another email, though. I didn’t really… I was just upset, okay?! I just found out my first ever boyfriend is a cheater and that he doesn’t even love me!” She started to get angry again, and became rigid, trembling with anger.
“Of course I’m innocent!” She screamed, “I was the one who got eff’d-over by those two cheating, lying B-words, and I suffered ‘cause of it, so they deserve everything that comes to ‘em!” Krista puffed out a few heavy breaths, though she knew the school administration might not feel the same way…
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KITANA RYO
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Post by KITANA RYO on Jun 13, 2023 17:54:34 GMT
The truth was, Krista was taking this far better than Kitty expected. If someone told her a month ago that Krista was going to find out that Mal had cheated on her and there was video evidence of this, Kitty would have been hiding all the knives in their room. In fact, she would have been hiding the spoons too. Yes, there were tears rolling down her face, her eyes were swollen and her nose was dripping, but she was doing well. Kitty hated Mal. She was secretly hoping the pair would break up, but not like this. Anything but this. It broke her heart to watch her best friend crumble at the hands of that asshole. For a hot second her mind started to wander, as she imagined what she was going to do with him. First she would take his eyes out, then stick toothpicks under his fingernails. Wait, no. She had to focus on Krista, the daydreaming she would save for later. One of those little imaginary scenarios in her head before drifting off to sleep. “Did you go through his phone?” It was a stupid question. Of course Krista was the type of girl to go through her boyfriend’s phone. Maybe Mal was a crusty vampire who didn’t know how to lock his phone. “Good!” She exclaimed loudly as Krista said she didn’t believe Mal, “He’s an asshole.” A big massive fucking asshole, who needed a stake stabbing through his heart. Kitty stepped back a fraction as Krista yelped at Phoebe’s comment, “She just meant some vampires prefer the blood bags.” She was almost certain that was a lie. They loved the fresh stuff, but she needed to keep Krista contained, saving hers and Phoebe’s eardrums. She shrugged in response to Phoebe’s comment, but it was true. Krista had no idea how technology worked so she would have hit send without thinking about how it could be traced back to her, but it was fine. Using another email address wouldn’t help either, but Kitty wasn’t going to explain that Krista. Not when her best friend was about to explode like a bottle of pop. “It’s fine. We can sort this out… the college might not even be bothered about where it came from. They’ll be too busy firing that slutty professor.” Krista was right though, she was the innocent party in all of this. “It could have been posted from anyone's dorm room. They won’t be able to pinpoint exactly what room, just that it’s been sent from dorms. So, if anyone comes knocking we deny everything. Okay?” Then once the dust had settled Kitty could deal with Mal. First his eyeballs. PHOEBE MURPHY |
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Post by PHOEBE MURPHY on Jul 6, 2023 17:27:30 GMT
Not everybody had a skin as thick as her own – a shell thick as whale’s blubber, and just as chewy whenever anybody tried to bite through it – that didn’t mean she was impervious though, or that she had to treat others as though they did. Krista’s mini-blowout made it obvious that her skin was both thin and sensitive when it came to this Mal. The man was obviously fulfilling his needs across a cross-section of Mystic Falls, all at the same time if Krista was right. The asshole. Vampire or not, his skin likely wouldn’t be as thick as he believed it was. Phoebe stole another glance at the computer screen, it was Braschi’s skin that mattered in all of this. Too thin and this video would tear right through it, leaving Krista in far more trouble.
Legally ‘breaking into’ his phone was no better than hacking into his computer was – not that she believed Krista would’ve been able to do that without Mal giving her his password – or the vampire being stupid enough to make his pass word ‘vampire#1’. Maybe she could plead open access if it came to it, but Phoebe wasn’t sure the whole thing would get that far, even if the video was already being watched campus wide. ”A lying asshole. I can see that,” Phoebe said pointedly, not wanting to risk another look at the video to get confirmation on that – she wasn’t keen on having to stop Krista from clawing her eyes out for wanting a second glance. ”That might come in handy. Men who are like that tend to screw up eventually and this might be just his time.” A finger pointed in Krista’s direction turned straight back on the man. Let him try and compel his way out of all of this. Her lips curled faintly – what had been easy access to his device could be flipped right around to him having easy access to Krista’s email, her laptop.
The emotional minefield that Krista had become seemed to go still as she’d tried to explain to Krista about just how some of them treated feeding. She was going to blame Kitty for pushing her into it later, and for not pulling her entirely out as the mine under her foot went click and armed itself. ”Kitty’s right, I wasn’t saying there’s anything wrong with feeding from you,” Phoebe shot back, her hands up in that universal signal of surrender – and to catch Krista if she threw herself at her. ”There’s nothing wrong with feeding in a relationship – makes the whole thing easier, but if you want to avoid any sort of … sticky situations, yes, blood bags are the way to go.” Her eyes widened slightly, cutting to Kitty as Krista started huffing and puffing to her about the end of her relationship. If Mal had any sense, he wouldn’t have gone risking the emotional frag grenade that was now blowing up at the centre of his life.
Phoebe let out a breath, rubbing the heel of her hand over her sternum as Krista crumbled and clutched at her cheeks, the tears pouring free. She’d done just what she’d said – fed in a relationship – and look what had happened to Joshua. Krista would realise later just how lucky her escape had been. Maybe. This didn’t feel like it was over and done with. The video was out there now, there’d be some fall out for this. Krista was no Mensa candidate, she obviously hadn’t considered any of that before her thirst for vengeance had her punching that send button.
Pursing her lips, she watched Krista suck it up – maybe she did have some self-control left, even if all common sense had fled. Christ. Phoebe had to bite her tongue to avoid groaning. Their room. She hadn’t even thought to do it in the library, on a computer that wasn’t going to be tied straight back to her. ”There, another email, that’s not so bad,” she forced out sweetly. Oh, it was bad. Wrapping her arms around herself, Phoebe pressed the knuckles of one hand against her lips. ”Getting your heart broken the first time is never pleasant, but you’ll get through it, and you’ll find someone who isn’t a complete asshole.” Not that Krista would likely hear that now, rage and heartache seemed to be leaving her at least partially deaf, and bordering on an explosion again. Phoebe’s gaze took in the vibration that seemed to run through her.
”Of course you are,” she said with a cluck of her tongue. ”We just need everybody else to know that.” And that was what was going to take the work. Braschi didn’t seem to take anything lying down, Phoebe doubted she’d take this that way either. ”We’ll make sure they both pay, alright.” Pushing her way to her feet, Phoebe skittered past Krista to rootle under the end of her bed. ”Braschi won’t have a leg to stand on.” Or rather Krista wouldn’t, but they’d deal with that when she wasn’t ready to flip. Straightening back up with two bottles in her hands, Phoebe smiled sharply. ”What video,” she prompted, eyeing Krista like she could force the idea into her head. ”How about for now we drink our feelings away, hmm? Grab a glass. You’re going to need this.” The last was aimed at Krista. The rum wouldn’t do anything to chain her tongue down, but if she was too drunk to talk without slurring, people wouldn’t be able to make sense of her shrieks anyway.
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hope to see you in the discord! 
