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“Oh my gods, how gross.”
“You’re fucking an old man. That’ssodisgusting.”
“Can he still knot? Or does he have to take viagra to fuck you?”
Remi felt the burn of tears behind his eyes as more and more verbal stones were thrown at him. The omega held his tears at bay by sheer willpower. Remi refused to cry in front of these assholes. He wouldn’t show them any weakness. He was above this. He hadn’t done anything wrong.
Remi forced his breaths to remain even and ground his teeth against the need to cry. Phoenix, next to him was letting out a low growl of warning to the group, as he got angry on Remi’s behalf.
“Why don’t you shut the fuck up? You don’t know anything. Just because you want to hop on Cade’s knot doesn’t give you the right to attack Remi!” Phoenix said, moving as if to step forward, but Remi stopped him with a hand on his chest.
“It’s fine, Phoenix.” Remi said, tone cold as he turned his attention back to his little crowd and addressed them. “My love life, and more specifically, mysexlife, are none of your fucking concern. Stay out of my business and we won’t have any problems.”
Just as Remi turned to leave, one of them called out to him. He recognized the voice of the leader.
“We’re not going to let you string Cade along like this!”
Remi felt the fire snap in his veins.HIM?StringCadealong? As if. That alpha was stringing himself along. Cade had attached his hopeless dreams to Remi and left the omega to deal with the burden of his feelings. What the hell was he supposed to do? Remi turned and glanced back at them with a look of pure loathing as a soft growl made its way through his teeth.
“You know nothing about me and Cade. Why don’t you get a life and realize he doesn’t want you?” Remi hissed through clenched teeth.
“I know that you’re a gold digging slut who’s sleeping with some piece of shi-”
The omega, who Remi called Knotbreaker, didn’t get to finish his sentence as it was interrupted by a hard slap from Remi, right across his face. Remi had had enough. They had best keep Dimitrios out of their mouths. Remi stepped up and got right in his face, until they were close enough they could have almost kissed.
“Say that one more time and I’ll fucking kick your ass.Knotbreaker.” Remi snarled, and watched the effect of his words as the omega in front of him went bright red.
Remi felt Phoenix pulling him back by the shoulders and distantly heard his voice.
“Remi, calm down. Let’s just go. They’re not worth it.”
He allowed himself to be pulled away, but he maintained eye contact with the one who’d insulted Dimitrios as Phoenix pulled him around a corner. The alpha pushed Remi up against the wall and looked down at him with wide eyes as he gripped the omega’s shoulders and shook him slightly.
“Remi! What were you thinking? Fighting on campus? You could get kicked out.” Phoenix admonished.
The omega shrugged his shoulders roughly to get the restraining hands off of him as he looked up at Phoenix, still angry. The palm of Remi’s hand was hot and stinging from where he’d slapped the other omega and his breaths were coming hard and fast. He was stressed out and tired of this whole affair. Remi wished he’d never gone out with Cade at all.
All at once Remi’s anger turned to tears. He wasn’t sad per se, but he was TIRED. Tired of dealing with stupid, jealous assholes who coveted something that Remi didn’t evenwant,something he would happily give away.
“What did I ever do to them? Why can’t they just leave me alone?” Remi sobbed and hid in his hands for a few moments.
Phoenix sighed and pulled Remi into a hug, letting the omega cry against his shoulder for a few moments, until Remi pulled back and dabbed at his face, hoping he hadn’t ruined his makeup. Remi sniffled and let out a long harsh breath. The omega blinked rapidly to suppress the rest of his tears before he finally looked back up at his friend.
“Ugh… Sorry Phoenix. I shouldn’t put this on you.”
The alpha gave Remi’s shoulder a squeeze and soft shake. “That’s what friends are for.”
Remi stopped in the bathroom and checked his appearance. His subtle makeup had held up well. Remi thought of the old adage,‘You get what you pay for.’Dimitrios had taken him to a good makeup store.
The thought of Dimitrios made Remi relax slightly. His breaths evened out and his heart rate slowed. He wished that Dimitrios was there, so he could throw himself into the alpha’s arms and let him take control again, like he had after Remi had been upset about Cade’s messages. Remi wished that he could just be Dimitrios' little one and let the alpha make all the hard choices for him. He didn’t care what Dimitrios did to him, even if it was painful or humiliating, Remi would know it was for the best. His Daddy always knew what to do.
Remi had his cell phone out of his pocket, and was about to call the alpha when he realized what he was doing. Remi had started to slip into his submissive headspace as he thought about Dimitrios. He couldn’t do that now. Not here.
Remi shook himself and took some deep breaths. He studied himself in the bathroom mirror as his mind replayed Dimitrios' words from the past Saturday over and over until he was calm.
“Okay, pretty boy. I need you to focus for just a little longer on being Remi Laroche. Once we get home then you can let go, okay?”
He was Remi Laroche. Remi. Laroche.
