One final interruption

You were just about to scroll back to your own profile when the door to your room opened and Lucy walked in once again. You were momentarily annoyed that she had interrupted again just when you were about to check out your perk screen but when you saw that she didn’t look as angry as the last time she had barged in.

You put away your phone and put it in your jeans pocket, acting cautiously to see if she was planning anything suspicious after she had told you earlier to ‘sleep with one eye open’.

“What were you looking at?” Lucy asked sharply, keeping you on edge as she stayed standing at the door.

“Nothing too interesting. Why?” you replied defensively.

“No more staring at pictures of Grace then?” She replied with a smirk before unexpectedly frowning to herself.

If it would have been anyone else, you would have thought she was regretting saying that comment but as it was Lucy, you still kept your guard up in case it was some sort of trap.

The two of you continued to stare at each other as you didn’t respond to her comment and eventually it seemed the silence became too awkward for Lucy to ignore.

“Look if you’re not gonna be a grown-up about this then I’m gonna have to be the one warning you” She sternly declared, placing her hands on her hips as she stared at you.

“Says the one, making jokes and shouting for no reason” you replied, seeing her expression falter for a second.

“Don’t make me out to be the bad guy here. You are the one who's been acting like hot shit ever since I’ve been back and you should count yourself lucky that you haven’t been smacked round the side of your head yet” Lucy vented, pointing her finger at you to emphasise her point.

“I haven’t done anything!” you shouted back, getting the same unamused stare back in response.

“Oh don’t act so innocent. Ever since I’ve been back, you’ve been trying to get off with every woman in sight and don’t even try to deny it. I’m amazed that Emma hasn’t noticed how blatant you’ve been and if you don’t get on the phone to her right now then I’m gonna tell her myself” she replied, making her stand and from the looks of it, she wasn’t willing to back down.

She… did have a point to be honest. From Lucy’s perspective, she hadn’t seen you while she was at college and she came back just as you started to get a little more confident using the KDK with everything that it could do. She hadn’t seen how you had been acting the past semester or so and the first time you rang her was when you wanted her to delay her trip back.

Also, the fact that she was sticking up for Emma when all she saw was you trying to sneak around behind her back was something you actually admired Lucy for. It didn’t make the situation any less annoying to deal with but it was nice to know that she had Emma's best interests at heart instead of just ignoring the situation altogether.

You wanted to say that you would call her another time or have this discussion in person as she would likely be drifting off to sleep right now but you didn’t think Lucy would accept something like that. You knew of course that Emma was fine with everything but acting confident would likely come across the wrong way given the situation.

“Can you give me a minute to speak with her alone, you can stay outside the door if you want and I’ll knock when you can come back in?” you asked, wanting to give Emma the heads up and warn her about what was going on.

“...Sure. But if you don’t re-open the door in the next 5 minutes then I’m coming in anyway” Lucy agreed, giving you only the smallest amount of leeway given that you were co-operating.

This wasn’t how you had expected your night to go but you had to deal with that hand you had been dealt so you found yourself dialling Emma’s number and waiting for her to pick up.

“Max…?” you heard Emma ask in a slightly tired voice on the other end of the line, making you feel slightly guilty for ringing her

“Hey sorry for calling, I didn’t wake you did I?” you asked back.

“Well I was in bed but... What’s up?” she replied, making you feel a bit guilty given how tired she sounded.

“So, I wouldn’t say this is bad news but I’ve gotta tell you something important” you said, waiting to see if she was still listening.

“Go on…” she added, waiting for you to reveal what had happened.

“So I showed you the photos I got earlier right? Well, I was in the hallway when I got them and Lucy sort of snuck up behind me and saw them” You explained, starting to relay the events that she had missed.

“Well, that’s bad but is that it? You could have waited for that” she responded, letting out a yawn after she spoke

“There's a bit more I’m afraid. She wants me to confess and tell you about the photos because as far as she's aware, I’m off sexting with your Mom behind your back” you answered.

“...Ah” Emma replied, her tired brain taking a few extra seconds to figure out the issue.

“Yeah, So I’m here telling you but how do you want to go about this? I could try and lie to her but I don’t think she's gonna accept anything I tell her without her checking with you to confirm. I was kind of hoping we would stick with the mutual **** we had going on but…” you explained, getting interrupted by Emma.

“Well **** never ends well… ” Emma replied, making you want a further explanation about apparently having experience with this topic but you didn’t want to get sidetracked once again. You had already done that way too many times tonight.

“Fair enough but still… What do you want to do?” you asked, getting silence in return as she pondered how to approach this.

You did the same to try and find some way to twist this to your advantage but your mind was drawing a blank. You weren’t sure how long it had been while you were trying to come up with an idea but before you could think of anything, the door to your room opened and Lucy came back inside, giving a curious look when she saw you were already on the phone.

“Lucy’s just come back in” you told Emma.

“...Okay don’t worry… *yawn*... I’ll handle this” Emma replied, still sounding tired and making you question if she actually had a plan or if she was just going to tell her the truth.

“Really?” you asked, turning your attention back to Lucy who was still standing there waiting at the door.

“Yep just relax, I’ll have it sorted in no time” she answered, waiting to see what you would do next.