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Scar woke up with a slight headache, but that is what happens when you stay awake until the middle of the night crying because your soulmate is cheating on you. Which now was becoming almost a nightly occurrence.
Well last night was a little different than normal. Scott was at his door because Pearl was messing around with the powder snow, in the middle of the night. O well Pearl was always full of surprises, some more interesting than others, but still this was Pearl he was talking about, So yes maybe there was a sleeping Scott next to him in bed, and maybe he enjoyed Scott’s presence, and maybe he enjoyed finally letting his feelings out about Grian’s cheating.
Something that even after it happening for a while he could not understand. When he first figured it out he was upset, rightfully so. Who would be happy about the soulmate cheating on them? No one was the answer to that, but instead of going off on Grian he (at least at first) tried to win him back. Baking him nice stuff, build stuff, making dinner, getting better alliances. (That last thing felt like it was making Grian even madder for some reason.)
But no matter how hard he tried Grian would keep cheating on him with Bigb so eventually he gave up. That left him with nowhere else to go though. Their only alliance was/is Pearl and going to her would probably only give him more troubles since she was basically hated by the whole server, and Scar was not interested in being the villains of the server with Pearl.
Which left him with one option, staying. Which meant he had to keep playing pretend and keep acting as if he was unaware of Grian’s actions. Which meant he had to bottle up all his emotions till the server was silent, Grian's was gone (of to Bigb) and it was just him.
A he could do in those moments was cry there was, or it at least felt like, that there was no other option. Well until last night where Scott showed up and he finally told someone that he knew everything, and it felt great. Scott told him how he was upset. Then he told Scott how he was upset, and it was nice.
Which left him with a sleep Scott next to him and for a second he felt happy, not the type of happy at the end of a nice fairytale where everyone could live happily ever after, more content than anything else like he could go on.
Sadly that thought was shattered by the soft sound of a door opening and closing. The sound was miniscule, so soft that a normal person couldn’t hear it, but Scar on the other hand learned himself when Grian would leave and when he would come home. Honestly it would probably have been better for his mental health if he didn’t know that because it was only really causing him heartbreak.
But at this moment the only thing he felt was pure terror. How was he going to explain that there was a guy in his bed? It was weird that Scar was worrying about it since Grian was literally the one cheating.
Eventually he decided that he was going to give Grian a half truth. Couldn’t hurt right? He was going to tell him he woke up from knocking at the door, and that it was Scott and that Scott was cold and not doing well so he let him take a nap at their house.
Sure Grian would still be mad that someone who was technically their enemy was sleeping in their bed. But all and all it was still better than telling him the truth.
He heard the door of their room open and sat up a bit better. He really needed to be convincing right now.
“Hm Scar what are you doing awake? What's Scott doing in our bed?”
It hurted Scar a little that he was going to be lying to Grian. But he had to.
“Oh yeah I just woke up early I guess.”
Normally he was still awake till now and faked being asleep. Honestly this was the first time he really slept in a good while.
“Oh and Scott, yeah he came over in like the middle of the night. Woke up by his knocking on the front door.”
He could see Grian’s form small frown, and he hoped that was because Scott came over out of nowhere and not because Scar was being a bad liar
"Apparently Pearl was messing around with the powder snow in the middle of the night. So he came over here to see if I had any snacks for him to warm him up.”
Scar hoped that story was at least somewhat believable.
“Why would he go to us tho?”
“I don’t know, I think he said something about Cleo being busy or something. Where were you anyways?”
Scott told him he was there for Grian but looking back that was probably a lie.
“Ah yes I guess that makes a bit of sense, um I was out spying on the other soulmates.”
Scar was fighting tooth and nail to keep his composure.
“Ah good we need some intel on how they are doing. We need to find their wake spots”
"Exactly!"
Scar was pointy ignoring how bad of a lie that was.
“Is Scott okay?”
And their already moving subjects, great.
“He looks better than he was last night.”
"That's good, but um I'm just here to grab some food and then continue.”
And Grian was already sneaking away, fantastic.
“Ah yes I made some cookie’s last night there in the jar. If you see Bigb give him some while ya.”
Scar could see Grian's face turning slightly pale. Which he was getting a small bit of satisfaction from cuz it meant that either, Grian was afraid of getting found out, or he was regretting his decision.
Of Course the first was way more plausible but he liked to think there was a small part in Grian that was regretting his actions.
“Alright, I’ll be out then. You keep an eye on Scott?”
It sounded more like a question than a statement.
“Ofcourse, have fun!”
And with that Grian closed the bedroom door behind him.
Scar waited for Grian to also actually leave the house before silent tears started to stream down his face. He was clutching himself tight. What had he done that Grian felt the need to cheat on him? Was he really that bad of a soulmate?
Before his thought continued racing he heard a soft voice from his side.
“Scar?”
“oh, um, good mor-rning how are you doing?”
“Scar, are you okay?”
“I’m fine, really no need to worry, how was your sleep?”
“Scar, did something happen?”
He was really not going to let this slide was he?
“Grian came back.”
“Oh did he say something about me or?”
“just asked a question.”
“Okay.”
“He’s so obviously cheating on me and he just thinks I won’t notice?”
“Hey, hey, its, I, it sucks, he sucks, you deserve better.”
“But I don't want better, I want him.”
“I get that but-”
“I want him to love me like I love him, I want him to care about me like how I care about him. I’ve tried everything but he just can’t love me. Maybe it's my fault.”
“Scar, it's not your fault, it’s never your fault. He’s just being an ass. Please don’t blame yourself.”
At this point there were tears running down his cheeks, it made him feel even more pathetic than he already was, and Scott was being so nice to him. He didn’t deserve it. If he did, Grian wouldn’t be cheating on him.
He wanted to be somewhere else. Not in this room where he and Grian where supposed to sleep together, if he wasn't getting cheated on right this second at least.
“Can we go somewhe-where else please.”
Void he was pathetic, Really fucking pathetic. Was he really begging Scott that they could go somewhere else because he can’t handle being in a room he and Grian share. How pathetic was that? The answer really fucking pathetic. He should just ask Scott to go. He should not have to deal with this bullshit, his bullshit.
“Scott-”
“We can go to my house if you like?”
He should say no. But that would be rude right? He didn’t wanna get on Scott’s bad side two.
“Um sure that sounds, nice.”
Why was his voice trembling so much? He sounded so stupid. Could he not just be normal for 3 minutes?
“Okay, lets go”
Scott stepped out of the bed with a smile on his face. Scar tried to do the same but failed at the smiling part. normally he was so good at faking one what was going wrong?
“I guess since we're still in our clothes we don’t really have to change huh.”
“I guess.”
“Okay so we can walk to mine right or do you wanna have breakfast first?”
If Scar was being honest he could not stomach food at this moment. Not when his soulmate, (Or well ex soulmate at this point there was no way Grian still loved him and viewed him as his soulmate.) was cheating on him.
“We can just walk over there now.”
“Sure!”
Scott was standing at the door already. Scar tried his best to get the tears off his face, that was just going to give him more attention than he deserved.
As both of them walked out the door Scar closed it behind them. He had the feeling a lot more crying was going to happen.