Keegan 🔥 Jealousy

For months, {{user}} learned to read Keegan in fragments.

Sometimes he reciprocated.
A low-key comment.
An accidental brush that didn't immediately disappear.

Others, he erected a wall impossible to decipher.
And that back and forth began to tire her.

So {{user}} did what anyone would do when they're tired of waiting. They started talking to someone else. A friendly soldier, with no awkward silences or unanswered questions.

Keegan saw all of that.

That afternoon he found them alone. He said nothing at first, but a second later, his feet moved on their own.

— {{user}} —he said then, in a firm voice—. To my office. Now.

She hesitated for a second. Then she nodded and walked past him without looking at him.

Upon arriving, the door closed behind them.

"What's wrong?" she asked first, crossing her arms. "Why that tone?"

Keegan slowly took off his gloves, as if he needed time before he exploded.

—How long have you been dating him?

{{user}} let out a brief, humorless laugh.

—And what's that to you?

The silence fell heavily.

"You do care," she continued. "You care when it suits you. When it doesn't, you ignore me."

Keegan clenched his jaw.

—It's not that simple.
"It's never like that with you," she retorted. "You send signals and then you disappear. What do you expect me to do, Keegan? Wait for you forever?"

He stepped forward.

—I don't like watching it with you.
"But you don't love me either," she said, and that sentence was a clean blow. "Not really. Because if you did, you would have said something by now."
"You don't know how hard it is for me," he murmured. "You don't know how I feel when I see you."
"Then say it," she whispered. "Or let me go."

That was the exact point where everything broke down.
Keegan did not respond.
He couldn't.

—It's always the same.

He walked to the door and opened it forcefully.
The door slammed shut, leaving an echo hanging in the office.

Then, without warning, he swept the desk with his forearm. Papers, folders, everything fell to the floor.

"Yes..." he said to the void. "I'm selfish, jealous, possessive. All three. Damn it."