Pride Cometh

"Bring him down." Callum said dismissively, pulling Sarah closer to him.

"You think you can spoil the one good thing I have in my life?!" Hands shoved me down onto a chair, but I remained indignant. "You've never felt love in your entire miserable life have you!"

I tried rising again but was shoved back down. I wanted to get right into Callum's face, make sure the words really impacted through that thick skull of his.

This still worked though.

"You don't understand what it means to be that deeply connected to another. The warmth, joy and peace just seeing them smile bring you!"

"Liam..." She looked at me, eyes verging towards tears. Callum had his hands wrapped around her, fingers digging into her but from that look alone I knew she was still mine.

"Lacy." Callum had lost the energy and playfulness he'd had. He spoke like a man standing right on the edge, just one push away from catastrophe. "Your panties."

She wordlessly complied with the order. Pulling down her shorts and stepping out of her black lace panties.

The mood of the crowd had noticeablely shifted. They'd been hooting and hollering at Sarah stripping just moments ago, but now they were quite.

"That's what this is about! You've got nothing but a hollow emptyness inside, and it just gnaws at you!"

Lacy handed Callum the panties and walked back behind me. Giving me a flash of a grin thst I interpreted as 'Didn't know you had it in you'.

"If you had ever actually felt love or loved, you would know something like this couldn't break it!"

Callum was stone faced, stoic. I knew I was hitting a nerve, hitting dead on to the centre of his psych. Every moment of scilence in him just filled my righteous fury.

"And even if you could. Even if you ruined the love and connection we feel for eacho ther... what would you have left?"

He walked over to Steven, slow and deliberate. Placing Lacy's underwear on the tray as Steven watched on, confused. One by one he took the shot glasses and unloaded the cum inside them all over the once fresh panties.

"Whatever sick pleasure you get from this is nothing compaired to the bliss of pure snd true love, and it'll just fade into the gaping hole inside you."

"Liam... please..." Sarah's hand held my cheek. Tears welled in her eyes now as she bearly held it together. I went to hold her hand but she pulled away.

"Please stop."

"Sarah. I... I love you. And.. and I don't care what you've done or what they say, I know you love me to!" My voice quickend and cracked as my own eyes began to water. "Let's just go. Let's just leave here now and forget all about this! We-we can work through any issues you have. We can get married, start a family and be peaceful and happy. Together."

"I love you Liam." She wiped the tears away from her eyes. That loving genuine smile of her's beaming down at me.

"I love you t-"

"But... how can you still not see it?"

Callum stepped forward, his shadow covering Sarah. He held the tray now without the shot glasses on it. Only Lacy's cumstained panties, and my soiled ring remained.

Sarah picked up the ring, holding it between me and her. She held it as tight as a man dangling off a cliff would hold onto the rope keeping him from falling. Her fingers going red as the metal pressed into them. Her hand began to shake so brought her free hand to steady it. Then without a word, without even a look in her eyes, she let it go.

In the dead scilence of the room you could hear it hit the floor. One small tink, that to me, may as well have been loud enough to deafen.

"I'm just not that kind of girl."