Not Me [Logan]

[Shelby Crescent]

"What..." she asks looking up at him before sighing for a second. ""It just wasn't even a second, not long enough for me to even process..." she says with another sigh before sitting down against a wall playing with her black high heels as her dirty blonde curls fall around her as she traced little shapes on them.

[Logan Andrews]

"Are you going to say anything else apart from things concerning your 'curiosity' or should I just leave now?" I ask with a shrug.
Because much as she can be occasionally amusing, if this is just going to be an annoying conversation I can't be bothered.

[Shelby Crescent]

"I would prefer you to really kiss me and see how it goes. I don't even see why you couldn't do that and just not tell her. Didn't she confess her love for Riley and kiss him? I don't see why you can't just kiss me." she says looking up at him before shrugging a bit.

[Logan Andrews]

So it appears she's just as pushy as Ruby is, then. And also just as much of a bitch.
"Well, how unnecessarily clued in you are on other people's business," I reply dryly, because it's all I can do to keep myself from getting annoyed by that.
To be honest, I'm trying to avoid thinking about how Arden's in love with someone else, trying to push the infidelity out of my mind, and just concentrate on not losing her. Somehow I think kissing someone I don't even like just to satisfy their curiosty would not be a good move, because then I'd have to lie about it...and that's not a good move either.

[Shelby Crescent]

"What? I only speak the truth. It's not my fault that Arden is in love with two people and always gets stuck between the two of you. I just think you should level the playing field, but be smart enough not to tell her so then you still have the whole Riley thing over her while still getting your taste of revenge if you think about it." she says with another shrug.

[Logan Andrews]

I laugh a little bit at that, because that's a particularly vicious thing of her to suggest and it hadn't crossed my mind. Nor does it seem very appealing.
So I just shrug after a pause of contemplating it and say, "I don't want revenge."
And there is something that I never thought I would say and am actually sort of freaked out by. Weird.

[Shelby Crescent]

"You? Logan Andrews doesn't want revenge... what has this world come to?" she mutters with a roll of her eyes. "Come on, not even a little bit love?" Shell asks before winks at him. "I guess you didn't think I could come up with an idea like that?"

[Logan Andrews]

I shake my head slightly, "You really don't know how to take no for an answer, do you?"
Then I roll my eyes slightly again, "Ah, I'm sure you can come up with a lot of nasty ideas. I just hadn't really considered it myself, that's all."

[Shelby Crescent]

"I'm usually not told no, so not really." she says with a faint laugh before standing back up again. "Why not? After everything she's done to you in the past few weeks... if I was you, I would furious, in love with her or not."

[Logan Andrews]

"Huh...well, that'd explain a lot." I reply wryly, half-amused. "Maybe I've done you some good by saying no."
The amusement dries up again fairly quickly of course because as well as not being able to accept 'no', she apparently can't shut up about things I don't want to listen to.
"Well, I'm not...not furious, or interested at all. So...stop."

[Shelby Crescent]

"I would assume so." she says rolling her eyes a little at his statement. She puts a hand on his shoulder and lets her fingers glide down his arm. "Although, I don't take no for an answer love." she says laughing at him. "Remember no, isn't in my vocabulary. And like I said it's the facts. I'm sure she's right now thinking of Riley, how much she wished she would rather be with him, how well he kisses and takes care of her... if you think about it, you couldn't ever take her anywhere as you're wanted by Azkaban and the Ministry."

[Logan Andrews]

"Don't touch me," is essentially the only response I can think of to that which isn't laced with profanity.
I also don't think I'd mind quite as much as I do but needless to say, I really didn't like anything that she just said...and I think that's going to be one of the unfortunate things that play on my mind for days, weeks, possibly months.
"Can't you go and find someone else to bother?" It takes a moment to recover the usual apathetic, virtually monotonous voice, hence the pause.
That really was very unpleasant of her.

[Shelby Crescent]

Shell looks at him, seeing how this is actually effecting. For some reason, this gives her a feeling of victory seeing as how many times he tortured her for no apparent reason in the past few months. It feels as if she finally got her revenge but not quite.
"Oh I can't until I get a kiss Logan. I'll stop and leave you be and never mention this to you until you give me that kiss I've been curious about for a while now love. Once you do, I'll be gone out of your hair, but Rubalyn on the other hand. I can't control her actions."

[Logan Andrews]

"Fuck you." I mutter, turning to leave.
I don't know if it's because she's just got under my skin or if I'm just tired of the repetition now, but I can't be bothered.
I think the only reason I haven't left before now is that I don't like to be forced out of places I choose to frequent, but now I'm going because I'm just not going to stick around and put up with her anymore.

[Shelby Crescent]

Shell's smirk quickly disappears before taking out her wand and pointing it at his back. "I wouldn't move another muscle if I was you Andrews." she says simply smiling a little now. Shelby wasn't clearly gone now before Rubalyn walks up to him and keeps her wand out. "What's wrong? I know you don't like blondes, but did she really bother you that much?"

[Logan Andrews]

Hm. Sort of wish I'd got round to recovering my own wand, or maybe I did and just never got back into the habit of carrying it with me.
I decide, reluctantly, that it's a good idea to actually stop though because she's clearly crazy so I have no idea what she's going to do and don't want to risk it.
"It's both of you that bother me," I shrug eventually, because apparently I'm not fond of the idea of being too cautious at least.

[Shelby Crescent]

Rubalyn just walks around him for a few seconds, before stopping in front of him. "I really thought her request was simple. One kiss just to see what it was like, but no. Pity though I guess. Now let's see... we could use crucio perhaps? Maybe that will settle the score between you and Shelby. After all, it's your fault that she can't have children or so the healer thinks." she says with a shrug. "She could only take so much torture."

[Logan Andrews]

"As if she needed any more bloody kids," I reply with a shrug, but then what she said first catches up to me and I laugh slightly. "You're going to torture me Ruby?"

[Shelby Crescent]

The moment he laughs, Ruby wants to slap him in the face. Hating how he could actually laugh at being tortured is crazy. "If I have to. You've changed... you're not Logan Andrews anymore the one everyone is after. You're just a pansy form of him that's not even worth my time." she says bitterly but at the same time this was killing her. Moving her wand a little to his chest, she stares at him trying to glare, but it results in a frown almost as if she's a bystander watching someone doing this to him instead of herself.

[Logan Andrews]

I wish I wasn't finding this funny. I really shouldn't...it's serious, I'm unarmed and she's got her wand out and I know what she's capable of, so whether it's hysteria or I am just having a brief crazy spell or it's adrenalin...I don't know.
"I'm the 'pansy'?" I reply, shaking my head. "You're just standing there, frowning at me...intimidating, Rubalyn, really fucking menacing. But I have better things to be doing than standing here and putting up with your shit."
And I think that was deliberately antagonistic, but most of it just slipped out before I had a chance to consider the possible consequences...so maybe it's just idiocy, or more adrenalin-inspired amusement.

[Shelby Crescent]

Again, he was testing my nerves and as much as she didn't want to do this, "Crucio!" she yells feeling a few tears running down her cheeks once the spell was aimed right at his heart. Keeping concentration, she knew the tears probably weren't going to stop for a few more seconds. I'm sorry... I really am, but you broke my heart."

[Logan Andrews]

...Holy fuck.
There's probably a lot that goes through my head just then, but that's either the loudest or most dominant thing...and I'm fairly sure that the rest of it was all profanity anyway.
I wasn't actually expecting that; inviting it, yes, but not quite expecting it.
It's probably worse than it would have been usually, because I haven't felt this level or kind of pain in such a long time. Not since I was a kid, regularly, and maybe very occasionally since then but definitely not for years.
So it's that...the surprise and the unfamiliarity and the general force behind it which make it hurt so bad that everything blurs for a few seconds and when it comes back into focus I'm on my knees on the ground and I have to forcibly remind myself at least three times to breathe.
And then I just end up laughing slightly again anyway, once the pain subsides enough for me to remember I'm somewhat amused...but mostly because it seemed to annoy her.
And I can't speak or really think properly just yet, so it'll have to be another few seconds before I can manage to say something to her.

[Shelby Crescent]

"Quit laughing!" she yells, but breaks the spell, giving up on this whole thing and just sitting on the ground next to him. If he tried to take her wand right now, she wouldn't even care if he tortured her. It just wasn't worth the fight anymore.

[Logan Andrews]

"Quit amusing me then," I reply. My breath catches slightly. Damn, tried to speak too soon.
I move off my knees to sit on the ground properly, wincing slightly as I do so and sort of regretting it because sooner or later I'm going to have to get back up again and that's probably going to hurt too.
And that was apparently too much effort, draining me of the energy to either speak or move for a little while. I'll just sit here then.

[Shelby Crescent]

She sighs and blows a lose curl out from her face. "Logan... I have a question. It's not about Arden or us or anything like that..." she says looking at him once he sat up as her tears kept falling from her cloudy blue eyes.

[Logan Andrews]

"Well...as if I could stop you from asking..." I mutter after a brief pause. "Go ahead."
And stop bloody crying.

[Shelby Crescent]

"No laughing at me..." she says looking at him with a frown before sighing a bit. "Do you think I'm crazy? Seriously, because I think I'm checking myself into the mental ward at St. Mungo's within a couple days..." she says quietly as she plays with her wand completely calm now as she wipes away a few of the tears on her cheeks.

[Logan Andrews]

I have to bite back a laugh then, probably because of a combination of the 'no laughing at me' followed by that.
"Of course you're fucking crazy." I answer. "I would have thought that was fairly obvious."

[Shelby Crescent]

She sighs a little before feeling a couple more tears slide down her cheeks. "Not helping. You don't have to be such a jerk about this Logan. I ask you a serious question and you make fun of me." she says completely vulnerable, knowing he had never seen her like this. "So much for a friend... even if I don't know why I consider you one in the first place." "You love him... that's why." Shut up.

[Logan Andrews]

"That was a serious answer," I shake my head briefly.
God I really want to get out of here now, but that would involve getting up and right at this second I'm too exhausted and aching to bother.