SAGE

Chapter 1

Sage Miller

Freshly out of the shower, my eyes quickly found her. My one muse. She was quickly becoming my

one-way straight to hell. I stalked up to her near the dressing table.

She made eye contact through the mirror and smiled, I smiled back at her. I hugged her from behind

and I kissed her neck, savoring the way her breath shallowed.

She is hell itself and I'm gladly giving myself up to burn with her flames. I'm a moth drawn to her flame.

I will gladly burn in her flames. That's how addicted I was to her.

"Sage." With her shallow breath, she moaned.

I pulled back, stop for a moment, and savored the moment. She's looked so fucking beautiful under my

touch. I loved how she crumbled under my touch.

"Sage." She whimpered throwing her head back. She rested it on my shoulder.

I traced my finger from her jaw, down to her chest then to the hem of the towel ready to let it loose. My

other hand was holding her steady against me.

Smurf. What is she fucking doing to me?

I brought my finger back to her chin and hooked it under her chin and coaxed her to look at me. Slowly

she opened her eyes. She did so, reluctantly staring at me. Her bright pale blue eyes.

Her eyes are so damn enchanting. The blue orbs, so pale yet they sparkled with desire. It's as if she

was looking right through my soul. Even through the mirror.

She looked at me like she was ready to let me devour her.... maybe I was. Maybe she knew I wanted to

devour her. To make her mine for all eternity.

She is the distraction I'll ever need.

I grazed my teeth on her skin. She whimpered and pleasure surged through my body from hearing her

soft whimper.

Smurf. What are you doing to me?

I quickly turned her around and pushed her to the nearest wall I could get yourself too. I hooked my

right arm around her waist and roughly pulled her to me and her head fall back. My mouth was on her

neck and sucking.

"Please." She whimpered.

"Please what Smurf? What do you want?" I smugly smirked against her skin. I liked it when she

begged.

"Give it to me. I want it now." Her voice came out hoarse, barely audible.

I reached down and grabbed the back of her thigh. I squeezed it and moaned. I dived into the cock on

her neck again and suck, hard on that skin. She moaned loudly this time calling my name. I was pul--.

Just then, voices rang throughout the house. All movement stopped and I rested my head on Alora's

shoulders. I counted to ten and pulled back letting her thigh go.

I sighed and she looked away peeling herself away from me. I huffed a breath, reading to bite

Sebastian's head off. He couldn't have come at a worse time.

I knew it was him and Connor.

A few other voices rang throughout the house meaning they weren't alone. I sighed when Alora moved

out of my hold. I forgot they were coming over. And I think they're too early.

Already fully clothed, I turn to Al.

"You staying the night?" I asked her. She arched a brow at me in questioning. "I invited a few friends

over although I forgot till a minute ago."

"You want me to stay?" She asked sounding surprised. "With your friends?"

I rolled my eyes at her.

"Or you could stay up here. Your choice."

"I'll join you." She said as she dropped on the bed.

"Now get dressed. I'll be downstairs." I told her and started heading out.

"Ain't you gonna take care of that?" I heard hers ask. I turned around and my eyes followed hers down

my pants.

I lifted my eyes and met hers and smirked. She bit her lip and that simple action made me wanna jump

her bones again.

"Nah, want them to see what you did," I smirked at her once more and opened the door.

"But you jumped me not the other way around." I heard her protest as I closed the door.

I walked down the stair and Sebastian spotted me first.

"Took you long enough." He complained and grabbed a beer and throw one for me. I caught it with

ease.

I ignored his remark and walked towards the kitchen.

Winter was over and soon we were no longer gonna be sophomores. This was just a party for a few

friends to hang out at my house since my sister moved out a few months back.

I hated being alone in the house so whenever I can I threw parties though today wasn't suppose to be

a party. Not on this magnitude anyway.

I stopped when I saw Connor in the kitchen. We greeted each other.

I had only two friends in the whole world. Connor and Sebastian. They are the closest people I have to

family aside from my sister.

I met Sebastian first, back in third grade and we both met Connor in 7th grade. The bond I share with

Sebastian will never be the same as the bond I share with Connor and until recently both Sebastian Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

and I treated Connor like a lap dog.

But that's all over. Connor is my friend just as much as Sebastian is.

"You have that look." Connor stated and I raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, what look?" I asked him.

"Hey, Sebastian." He yelled. "Sage has that look."

"Oh yeah! I noticed."

"What fucking look you assholes talking about?"

"That freshly-fucked look." Sebastian smugly said.

"Both you needs to get laid."

I groaned and continued to walk. I had a couple of idiots for friends. And frankly that was none of their

business.

I walked back to the living room when I heard the door opened and more people poured in.

"How many people did you invite?" I hissed between Sebastian and Connor.

I knew I was gonna regret letting them handle this.

"Don't worry those should be the last of them," Connor replied and I once again groaned.

I looked around the house and they were like fifty people. I thought that we were going to be like ten or

five. I would have been fine with that. Even twenty would've been fine.

"You invited the whole sophomore year, did you?" I pointed out and they both smirked and walked back

to the kitchen.

At the corner of my eyes, I saw Kate. I quickly turned to my dump-ass friends ready to have their heads

for dinner but they were already out of sight. I quickly followed them to the kitchen.

"Why the fuck would you invite her here?" I hissed at them. They can be so fucking stupid.

That girl is clingy as hell and I don't need her here. She's drama on legs.

"What is the problem? You were licking it yesterday at the dance." Sebastian asked confused.

"I told you. She's so.....clingy and she's gonna start causing drama and being her bitch self." I tried

explaining them. I just know this will end badly.

None of them can be called my girlfriend. I don't want a girlfriend nor do I need one. Not with how

fucked up my life is. We can have fun and cause trouble, that's all I want.

"And why would she cause drama?" Connor asked this time.

Just as I'm about to answer his question. Alora came down the stairs and I swear to you that time stood

still. Her presence demanded attention.

And attention she got. Every eye was on her as she walked down the stairs wearing a black and red

mix-matched skirt with a white crop top.

Her eyes flickered to everyone and they landed on me. She smiled at me and I returned her smile.

I could smell her from across the room. Her sweet strawberry scent masked the beer and every scent

in the room. The only person I could smell was her.

"And he says he's not whipped." I heard Sebastian mutter under his breath. I ignored his ass and went

to get Alora and introduced her to everyone.

"Sorry. It was supposed to be a few friends." I chuckled leading her to the sofa.

"I don't mind." She replied and I pull her down to the sofa and handed her a cup with Vodka and ginger.

She thanked me and took a sip. I hooked my arms around her but I caught Kate's eyes.

And if looks could kill I'd be burning right now. I asked her to some stupid Valentine's dance yesterday

and I may have fucked her. Now she thinks I'll be loyal and play college duty with her. It was a once of

thing. Fun, no strings attached.

A few games were played and among them were beer pong. I was getting tipsy and so was Al. I could

tell because she was dancing and everyone was enjoying the show, I included.

I pulled her off the table. That's enough dancing for the night. And with how much she drinks, I didn't

want her to go over board. I'm working on improving her and not let her drink every fucking day.

I handed Alora a bottle of water and told her to drink all of it.

Suddenly feeling the need to smoke, I grabbed Alora and guided her towards Seb.

"Sit here I'll be right back," I told her leaving her with Sebastian. I turned to Seb and basically gave him

a look that told him what to do.

I walked to our small backyard and pulled one joint and lit it. I liked to smoke whenever I'm drinking.

The back door opened and I turned my head and saw Kate walking out. She looked around until she

spotted me. I knew she'd follow me out.

The whole night she had been looking at me. Shooting me daggers. I knew sooner or later she's catch

up with me.

She stopped right in front of me. I didn't say anything and neither did she. I blew the smoke into the

quiet night.

After I've finished my joint I started to walk back inside but Kate stopped me. I stared at her waiting for

her to talk.

"So that's your girlfriend?" She asked bitterly. I rolled my eyes at her.

"No." I honored her with a decent answer.

"Don't lie to me. I know she is."

We fell back into silence. I didn't feel like bantering with her not tonight.

"Why did you get my hopes up yesterday? Why did you take me to the dance if you already have a

girlfriend? Why did you sleep with me? I thought you liked me." Her voice cracked at the end.

"I do like you," I told her and that was the truth. "I don't have a girlfriend and I don't want one."

"But you asked me to be your Valentine." She whispered.

"It was a dare."

"What?"

"Don't be dramatic Kate. You got a date out of it." I gave her a bored expression. "It was fun, you and I

had fun and that was all there was too it. Don't ruin a good memory with your attitude."

I side-stepped her and walked back inside. Smurf was laughing at something Sebastian said.

She tipped her cup and my dick twitched. The way her rosy red lips curved around the red cup made

me fantasized about her lips around my di-.

"Stop ogling the girl Sage." Connor startled me. I glared at him and began walking to them.

"What's so funny?" I wrapped my arms around Alora.

Why am I being so touchy today? I had no idea what gotten to me because I was way out of character.

"Oh, nothing." She smiled softly. "You were gone a while though." She pointed out.

"I needed some air for a while." I bluntly lied.

My eyes ran over her prominent jawline, itching to trace it with my thumb.

The party continued for another couple of hours before people started leaving. The only ones left were

Sebastian, Connor, Monica, Tracy, Smurf, and me. I was glad Kate didn't insist on staying because that

would've made for an awkward time.

I guess her ego was bruised pretty bad. She's not used to someone denying her any attention.

Right now we were lumped up in my living room chatting. We turned the music low. It still surprised me

how Alora got along with everyone. It made this whole thing easy.

But I guess that's who she is. She's easy to get along with beside being two years older than everyone

except Sebastian. She's only a year older than him.

"Did you have fun?" I kicked my shoes pulling Alora to rest half her body on me.

"Yeah, I did." She quietly cheered. I smiled at her. "Though there was this girl who kept glaring at me."

Kate.

"Yeah, that one." I raked my hand through my hair a little frustrated.

"What was the matter with her anyway?" I chuckled nervously.

"Guys, let's play never have I." I heard Monica proposed and I sent a little thank you prayer to the

Devine Being above.

Saved by Monica. I wasn't in the mood to explain myself. Especially after I lied to her and told her I

wasn't going to the Valentine's dance.

"That's a good idea." Tracy quickly agreed.

"Do you wanna play?" I asked Smurf. Say yes. Say yes. Say yes.

"Why Not?" She shrugged.

"We need more drinks," Connor announced.

"Way to state the obvious, Sherlock." Tracy quickly said to Connor as they fix the drinks.

Laughter was heard around as they laughed at Connor.

"I'll go first. You know the rules. If you've done it, you drink." Monica started. "Never have I ever went

skinny dipping."

Everyone except Connor tipped their cups.

"I knew mommy's boy would be a wuss." Tracy teased him.

"Meet me upstairs and I'll show you a wuss." He winked at her in which Chloe pretended to gag.

Even though everyone knew Tracy gave Connor her virginity back in freshmen year.

"Enough," Sebastian said. "It's my turn." He tapped his chin. "Never have I... fucked my friend's

girlfriend."

He clapped his hands together. I shot him a glare and everyone stared between the two of us. We

stared at each other, challenging the other.

"We don't do girlfriend you dipshit." Monica huffed.

I can feel Alora's eyes on me waiting for my action.

"Or boyfriend." He added. Monica held her head high.

I was the only one to drink out of the whole group.

"Who was it?" Connor rushed to ask. My eyes flickered to Sebastian. He challenged me to lie and an

idea popped in my head.

I smirked at him and answered locking eyes with him.

"Sebastian's." All color left his face and his face turned ghostly white. He couldn't believe that I said

that. He thought I'd out myself I tell them I fucked Connor's girl while they were dating.

To be honest that girl was a slut and she came onto me. I just gave her what she wanted and I'm not

saying I'm proud and like I've said, until recently I didn't treated Connor right. I treated her more like a

lap dog than anything. I didn't consider him a brother like I did Sebastian.

Everyone busted out laughing at him. His eyes widen in shock. My smirk widen.

You don't play Sage or you'll get burned. I arched a brow at him.

"That backfired." Monica managed to choke out.

"The jokes on you because I never had a girlfriend." He said looking at me.

I did that on purpose. He started it when he asked that question. He knew I fucked Connor's girlfriend

back in freshman year.

The game continued for a while and many secrets were revealed and we drank too much.

I pulled Alora with me up the stairs to my room.

"As usual, you can sleep wherever but Eve's room is off-limits," I shouted as I closed the door to my

room.

I burned everything that belonged to Clara a long time ago. I erased her existence in this house. I

turned her room into a guest room since I liked inviting my friends over.

"Your friends are fun." Smurf said as she took off her crop top.

"You think?" My eyes followed her fingers as they pulled her top over her head.

"Yeah. I had fun. Thanks for inviting me, it wasn't what I expected at all." She had her back on me. I

watched as she pulled the straps of her bra off her shoulders. I couldn't help but think about how I

wanted to help her take off her bra. With my teeth.

"Anytime," I muttered. My gaze fixated on her fingers as she unhooked her bra. She tossed it away and

picked up a tee I was wearing before the party and wore it.

She always looked hot in my clothes, especially in my tees with nothing else.

"I bought you Valentine's present." She announced and that got me out of my trance as my head

snapped up.

"You did?" The surprise was evident in my voice. This was just too sudden and unexpected.

"Of course I did, silly." She turned around. "Why is that such a surprise?"

I couldn't even answer that.

She handed me a box which was wrapped in a fancy way. I took it and stared at it for a few seconds. It

felt like a bomb in my hands.

My head snapped back to her face. I searched her face but she was smiling softly at me. She urged me

to open it.

"I didn't get you anything." I blurted out. I looked back at her then at the box.

"You don't have to." She said softly. "Besides I was suppose to give you that on your birthday last

month but it wasn't ready yet."

"I want to," I told her looking at the box and its fancy wrapper. I was curious to know what my drunk girl

bought me but at the same time didn't know what it meant. I don't want a relationship and she knows

that and last time I checked we were on the same page.

I tried to pull the bow but Alora stopped me. She chuckled.

"It's a simple box made to look like I spent hours wrapping it." She explained pulling the lid. and I raised

my eyebrows. Maybe its just something silly.

I pulled the paper covering my present to reveal a bracket.

"A bracelet." I let go of the breath I've been holding. Its just a bracelet nothing out of this world and I

really didn't know what I expected but I'm glad it was just a bracelet.

"I noticed you liked bracelets." She pointed out. My eyes fell on my hands which had bracelets. My

heartfelt warmth and my body felt fuzzy. "It will go well with your collection."

"Thank you." I pulled out the bracelet out of the box and chuckled. It's made with sage leather and the

Sage is written in black.

"It's custom-made." She mumbled and the air suddenly became chilly. I tried not to read too much into

it but I couldn't.

Custom-made means she spent time thinking about what to get me and where does that leaves us. Is

she expecting some relationship from me or what?

This bracelet will go well with my collection. It's one-of-a-kind with my name on it. I chanted the words

in my head so I wouldn't think too much into the whole thing. She just wanted to be nice.

I shook my head and planted a kiss on her temple as a thank you.

I put it on my right hand and Alora smiled when I went straight to bed.

Seconds later I felt the bed dipped and Alora joined me.

"I know nothing about you." She stated. "Except the general things of course."

"We agreed no personal questions remember?" I asked her.

"I think we are way past that. Don't you think?" She said. "We also said no sleepovers and so much

more but here we are."

I pulled her so her head was resting on my chest.

"That's one rule I don't want to break and besides you once said and I quote 'to know someone, you

have to open your mind, and when you open your mind, you open your heart to like or hate them'. You

said we are only each other's stress reliever. You also said it was the only way to keep this 'no strings

attached' relationship between us going a no strings attached relationship."

"Is it working?" She mumbled.

"I don't know, you tell me." I countered.

"Touché." She said. We fell into a comfortable silence. I got lost in my thoughts.

"Umm... Sage." She broke the silence.

I hummed in response.

"Have you... umm... talk to her yet?" She hesitantly asked.

My eyes flung open at the question and my body tensed, I didn't wanna disappoint her, and I know it

hurts her that she's still not talking to her. I've been avoiding this conversation.

Alora used to be friends with my sister, Eve before they had a fall out because of this relationship a few

weeks back. I honestly feel bad because I'm the reason they are fighting bit Eve needs to learn that

she can't control what other people do but she's just as stubborn as a mule.

I love my sister more than anything in this world but sometimes she doesn't know when to back off. I

may be younger than her but I'm still capable of making my own decision.

"Umm... Eve can be stubborn when she wants to." I started. "She's still giving me a hard time. And I'm

her brother. I'm not sure if she'll ever come around but keep trying okay."

"Okay." Her voice came out squeaky like she was about to cry. I rubbed circles on her lower back to

calm her down.

"Ain't you afraid that now because she's found her other family she'll change on you and choose them."

She asked. I didn't skip a beat as I answer her.

"No. No one can take my place in Eve's life, not even her boyfriend. We have a special bond no one

can ever break or understand." I explained to her. "She might seem that she except them and all but

she hasn't. She can hold a grudge and she doesn't open easily."

"I know." She whispered.