She watched him play with the coaster underneath his drink while he tried to explain men to her. It made sense as far as she could tell. Putting on a façade; that was something she was familiar with. She’d had to do that every time someone got too close to her or her sisters, the family. The brunette middle sister was sure she’d done it around Dan. And yes, that was why he’d broken up with her. She kept that secret and she had to, from him. Maybe someday she would have told him…
The laugh was contagious and Piper gave one of her own to match. “I don’t know exactly how to reply to that. I would like to think he knew I wasn’t capable of something like dealing drugs or cheating on him.” Just having talked about it with someone was more than enough to lighten the load on her heart a bit. It still shocked her when the blond took her hand and told her if it was meant to be it would happen and if not he was stupid. Perhaps it really was that simple. She was hurting, that much she knew for a fact the young man was right about.
In the positive column, she did have an awesome club and she had her sisters and the Halliwell Manor and nothing would ever change that. Those were the only things that really mattered, the only things she couldn’t live without in her life. Men would come and go, right? At least until the right one came along… She nodded as the girl beckoned him away. “Yeah, I suppose that’s right. Thank you…” She smiled back at him once again but he was too far away and turned into the sultry vixen to take anymore notice of her, her words drowned out by the band again.
Hours passed and soon it was closing time. Last call was announced over the speaker system and the front doors were thrown open allowing people to come and go as they pleased for the early morning hour. She cleaned up behind the bar and had been about to usher the last of the patrons out when Dan appeared in the front hall, walking slowly across the carpeting and into the main room of the club.
“We need to talk, Piper.”
“I think we’ve talked enough, actually. You made your point pretty clear earlier today.”
“I don’t want to lose you but if you won’t tell me everything…”
“If I don’t tell you everything then what? I don’t trust you? That’s not true, I just; there are certain things that I can’t tell because it’s not just my secret to tell. Other people depend on me and they need to go into this with me…”
“Like your sisters? God, Piper, this is always about them!”
“Oh my God! Please…Dan, just go. I can’t deal with this right now…”
Even thought hte music was loud he had still heard her words as he was dragged along by the girl he gave Piper a small wave to let her know that he had heard her. He stayed dancing with the girl till her friends eventually dragged her away from him as they were all heading home, he gave the girl a light kiss on the cheek before smiling as she left.
Axel made his way over tothe bar again, having a few more drinks untill it looked like the club was closing, and he was one of the only few left there. He grabbed his jacket and had started to make his way towards the front door, leaving a large tip for Piper as he left. Though as he saw the man walk in he raised his eye brow and watched him carefully as he headed towards the bartender.
As they started to talk he was about to leave till the man raised his voice to piper, he didn’t care if they were fighting or not it was just not something he liked to see. “Sir I think you should leave you are clearly distressing her….and I do not think that is a wise thing for you to do if you want her back in your life.” Axel told Dan as he gripped the other man’s forearm tightly, making sure he did not break it yet.
“I really think you should leave, don’t you?” He asked looking into Dan’s eyes, using his vampire mind control to make the man leave so he wouldnt cause anymore harm to Piper.
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