Talk Me Down

[Devyn Solway]

Devyn had just finished up defending herself on the Dirty Laundry blog, knowing she probably should not have said anything. Yet, how could she not? She knew people read it and was tired of people getting the idea that she was some awful person. It was mainly the cheating thing that was bothering her because for the life of her she hated when someone said that she had cheated when she had not. If she had cheated, she would have admitted to it. Sure; yeah, she slept with someone but how could it been called cheating? Zoe had agreed to an open relationship from the start and never spoke up about making it a closed one or anything like that.

Not that she was trying to think about all of that now but it was all flooding back when Alice. ALICE of all people posted up coming at her about relationships. Devyn was literally shaking from a mix of anger and just feeling hurt. The shadows around her were already acting up and her fingers already wanted to fly across the keyboard and defend herself. Yet, she knew she was going to lose that battle. That didn't mean she didn't feel the urge to still do it or something worse and that was why she was quickly grabbing her phone, sending a text message to the only person she knew was good at keeping her from completely losing it. Beau.

Beau!

Bro!

I need you like ASAP!

Like I was reading the DL blog (yeah I know I should not) and commented (yeah I should not), but I had to defend myself! She was making me seem like some bad person!

Then Alice; the one that Zoe is in love with now, posted up too, coming at me! Me!

Dude, please talk me down from doing something stupid. Please. I beg you. Man I can't be at this school anymore.

Devyn sent the text quick, one after the other. She was taking a deep breath, moving away from the computer and started to pace her room in hopes to calm herself down. She could not lose control, she had to stay in control. Every curse word that she knew was leaving her lips as she kept walking around her room, holding onto her phone tightly and hoping Beau would respond back and be able to calm her down. She could have texted one of her other friend, but she felt that Beau was the best for keeping her from destroying the world around her.

((Tag:Beau LaRoux))

[Beau LaRoux]

Beau shifted, nudging Liz slightly. They'd been curled up together, doing one of their favorite activities for some time before just deciding to go onto another of their favorite activities. Beau heard his phone chiming and groaned, but reached over for it all the same. "It's Devyn," he mumbled, reading the image. He barely got through his name when the next came, and then more.

DL blog? Beau groaned. People paid way too much attention to that rag, if you asked him.

devyn, it's dl. they ain't worth the words they print.

He sent that before adjusting, sliding out from Liz. He figured this was going to require his full attention.

ain't no reason to go getting all worked up. and you know alice and zoe are a thing now. that ain't yours to be messing with anymore.

Beau rubbed at his face. Hadn't they talked about this? A lot? Sure, Beau could understand getting wrapped up in a girl, but seriously.

[Devyn Solway]

Her phone buzz and it was an all new record for how fast Devyn pulled up her phone and read the first text message. She bit her lip, Beau was right that the blog really didn't matter all that much; however, so many people read it. Hell, she read it! It kind of mattered when it talked bad about you and all she had done was post in order to defend herself and then people had to come at her. Her! She was going at DL, not anyone else and yet Alice decided to post up a response directed at her. Before he even got the second message out she was sending one back of her own.

I know, but she still keeps calling me a cheater and said that I was bullying that Luxanna girl and I didn't do any of that!

The next text message came in and Devyn nearly felt like throwing her phone out the window and just letting her power take control. Beau was supposed to be her friend, he was supposed to get and understand her at least a little bit. Yet here this text message read like she was still trying to bother Zoe and Alice. She had left them alone. Even against all that she wanted to do, once Zoe told her to leave she had backed off and she had not even once gone near the Alice girl. She didn't try to win Zoe back, she didn't try to split them up, and she didn't spread words around to make them seem bad for each other.

She did nothing. Absolutely nothing at all to them and had wanted Zoe to be happy, just to have been her friend. Yet her asshole girlfriend went ahead and posted something like that, when Devyn had done nothing at all. Her entire being was shaking as she could already feel the shadow start to make their way up her body. Her green eyes went a few shades darker and she was already growling as she clinched her phone tight in her hands. She did manage to get another text out, well texts.

I'M NOT TRYING TO GET INVOLVED WITH THEM! I LEFT THEM ALONE!

ALICE IS THE BITCH WHO WENT AHEAD AND POSTED THAT AND JUST BEGGING ME TO LOSE IT!

She saw the DL page refresh and a new message was there. As if she was not mad enough, now Tim was posting up shit. Oh how part of her wished he would just fall down a set of stairs and not even put his two cents into things he didn't know about. She could not just leave it there, she had to say something. Oh, DL was probably loving the fact that people were coming at each other on her one little blog post.

Now fucking Tim is involved. I'm done. I like literally can't.

[Beau LaRoux]

Beau groaned and rubbed at the bridge of his nose, studying the barrage of high-emotion texts that went his way. He definitely wasn't going to comment on the cheating thing; that wasn't any of his business. The bullying... well, he'd tried to pull Devyn back during the whole T/D thing. The girl had clearly been out of control and everyone knew that Lux couldn't handle stuff like that.

Another buzz: left them alone?

Beau groaned and rubbed his face now. He headed over to the laptop, pulling it up. And the phone was ringing again: at least this he could comment back to:

tim's lux's guy, and he lives on the internet. what did you think was gonna happen? stop bothering them: it ain't gonna turn out well

For the first time Beau could remember in a while, he was willing his computer to load up faster. Then he noticed that Liz's was technically up, and he slid over to start it up, moving through things. He pulled his phone up:

dev, your gonna end up in a flame war. you ain't exactly popular right now, and this ain't gonna help. pull your ass outta there before you get the wrong person pissed

Though Beau had a sinking suspicion that he was too late. He was going to have to try and physically restrain Devyn at this point. He groaned and rubbed at his face, looking down at his phone. Should he call one of the staff? Get the DL shit taken care of? Felt like the right thing to do, especially because he didn't see Devyn backing down from a perceived fight, and he bet that Tim would get mad as heck, seeing how close he was to Lux and all...

[Devyn Solway]

It took forever for the next text from Beau to come through, at least it felt like forever. Devyn had already managed to flip her bed over, shove her desk chair to the ground, and kick her trash can over. She normally didn't like to be so destructive but it just started to happen whenever she got angry and there felt like there was little she could do to calm herself down. She was already looking for her iPod so she could put some music in her ears and go out for a run to calm herself down. Or at least try to but even with all her movement around the room the shadows were following to her and doing their best to cling to her body.

I don't care if he is Lux's guy or not! He is being butt hurt for no reasosn. I didn't bully his gfand he needs to open his fucking eyes and understand that.

I don't even knwo either of them well, I literally only know him because of his stupid blog and cause Lux is a pretty girl and I tend to learn the names of pretty girl.

Devyn messaged back, her ability to spell and type out the full words she wanted to say was waning as the anger kept building up inside her. She hated so much, so much anger, and so much pain. Why was she the bad person? She had not done anything actually bad. People seemed to be on Alice's side when Alice didn't know Dev's side of the story. Did people really think that Zoe was the only one that had been hurt by the breakup? Zoe was the one who broke up with her. She had already responded back on the blog, knowing she should not have but she could not stop herself.

Dev did at least slam her computer shut after she had done it. She knew that someone was going to say something that really was going to set her off and she was just so done with all of it. There was another text, one that Devyn didn't look at until it was already too late. Yeah, she understood that there were people out there that didn't like her. It was not her goal or purpose to be liked by people. She understood that deep down and knew she was always going be viewed as a monster and a bad guy. Her mother had drilled that into her subconsciousness well enough.

Too late. Just forget about it. Sorry to have bothered you.

[Beau LaRoux]

Beau rolled his eyes and moved his fingers:

dev, we covered this. you can't expect everyone to roll with everything and all. some people just ain't ready for it.

Beau could definitely remember that debacle all too well. Though it seemed even to him that Devyn was starting to get worse, and she hadn't exactly been cotton candy and sunshine before this had happened. He looked back over at Liz, who was nodding along with him, pretty well coming up to start looking.

More pause, and then a "too late." "Oh hell," Beau mumbled.

you doing alright? need me to come over or something? got a fair amount of booze on hand

Before he looked over at Liz. "I'm thinkin' it might be time to bring in the big guns, hun. You still got her number?"

[Devyn Solway]

SERVICE ERROR 305: MESSAGES FAILED TO SEND.

[Beau LaRoux]

"Damn," spat Beau, tossing his phone back on the bed, narrowly missing Liz. "Yeah, looks like we're gonna have to call her, give her the heads up. 'sides, I reckon that Alice is probly gonna say something..."

Beau let out a slow breath, running his hand through his hair. When exactly did he become the stabilizing influence in people's lives? Oh well, he'd figure it out later. For now, he headed back to Liz, waiting while she handled the other part of things, waiting and praying that things would get better for Devyn.