I knew Rylee was stuck in my head and now, now I can't get her out, she's a fucking little monster inside of my head. I also know she thinks I'm a liar and I'm not, but she doesn't trust me anymore and I fucked that all up. If I can't have her I'll prove to her that she needs me. And I know it's wrong but I want her and I know she wants me too.

The way she rocked her hips on mine, the way she kissed my neck, the way she moved her tongue with mine, told me everything I needed to know. She's too perfect to break up with the asshole she's with because she's blinded by the fact that they have been together so long.

But I've always been told, years can feel like days with the right person and days can feel like years with the right person. And Ry is my right person. We might never work out, but I want that chance before it's taken away.

I'm in my house making dinner when I feel Bee come rub on my legs. I lean down petting him as he meows at my feet letting me know it's time for his dinner. So I pop a can open and put it in his bowl as he eats his tuna chunks.

I turn back around cooking my chicken and broccoli when the front doorbell rings. I must have left the front gate open on accident, shit, solicitors. Cutting the stove burners down, I walk towards the door and open it. But who is standing on my doorstep shocks me.

"Hey Jax." Poppy tells me holding my shirt in her hand that I completely forgot at her apartment this morning when I ran out.

"I figured you'd be home by now so I stopped by to bring you your shirt. How's your gramps?" She asks extending her hand to me as she gives me my shirt back. I didn't even text her today, and I know I should have. I threw on a hood and my jeans and was gone before she could even say anything to me.

"He's better, just needs to get his infection under control." I tell her as she nods and looks at my boot on my foot.

"And how's your foot?" She asks looking at it from where her tiny five foot three frame is standing as I smile. "I'm good Poppy, thank you for bringing this back. I'm sorry I skipped out on you like that." I tell her as she nods.

"No worries, we're just friends. Have a Goodnight Jax." She tells me turning in her high top Golden Goose sneakers and leggings with her tank on. Thinking about Rylee's messed me up and I need a distraction. Poppy's always been there, and I need her right now.

"Do you want to come in?" I ask as she slowly turns back around. "I don't want to intrude." She tells me as I open the door wide and throw my tee on the entryway table.

"Come on, you're welcome." I tell her as she smiles and steps in. When I close the door she hugs me and rubs my neck in her hands before pulling away and surprising me. She leans onto her toes and kisses me directly on the lips before rubbing my face and placing my hands on her hips.

"I need you Jax." She whispers onto my lips as she runs her hand through my brown hair. "What do you mean?" I ask as I pull away from her and hold her still.

"I've had a long day at work with customers and I'm stressed. My periods coming in two days and I'm hormonal and horny as fuck. Especially after how you fucked me until I was so sore I could barely walk, still. But I love that feeling, knowing where you were." She tells me rubbing my chest as she smiles at me.

"Can we make this happen?" She asks winking as I kiss her cheek and rub her back. As long as she makes me forget Ry she can do whatever she wants.

"After dinner, I'm starving." I tell her as I pull her into the kitchen with me. "Do you want something?" I ask as she shakes her head no.

"I'll get me a water, I ate earlier." She tells me as I cut the burners up and finish cooking my food. All before I sit down at the barstool to eat. She sits next to me in the chair that Ry sit in, and I can't help but compare them when she does. Poppy is amazing and she should be someone I have feelings for but I don't. I love her as my friend, not as anything more.

"So what happened today?" I ask curiosity getting the best of me. I take a sip of water before eating my broccoli as she sits beside me rubbing my kneecap.

"The customers were just so needy today at work. In a restaurant it's expected but I'm the manager and I don't need to deal with the petty bullshit of a chair not being cleaned out when someone sits down. People just cause me stress." She tells me as she laughs. "And to top it off one of the girls messed up a pair of my favorite shoes when she came into the office and accidentally dropped soda on them." She tells me as I laugh at her.

Poppy loves her shoes, especially her high top sneakers and slip on sneakers. When I met her she was wearing white high tops with a skirt and that's what she loves the most in life. I can't be convinced otherwise because she even has a shoe closet in her apartment that she showed me the first time I stayed over and learned about her obsession.

"I'm sorry Poppy." I tell her as she sighs. "It's not your problem Jax. So when's the next official fight? Do you know yet?" She asks.

"Yeah, about a month." I tell her as she nods. "Would you mind if I came to watch?" She asks as I shake my head no. If she was Rylee her ass would be dead if she got caught in that area, but she's not Rylee. Poppy's been enough that I know nothings going to happen to her, she's beautiful but she's not the gorgeous type that Rylee is.

"Nope. I've got to start training tomorrow. I need to gain weight." I tell her as she sighs and shakes her head no while watching me eat.

"Jax you look like a lumberjack now. You're tall and handsome, incredibly buff and your ripped. You got any fight you're apart of and you know it. I'm just worried how quick you'll be on your feet with the foot." She tells me as I nod and rub her hand.

"I wish I could have killed that fucker for shooting me." I tell her as she rubs my hand back. She's silent until I finish my food and take my plate to the sink. I set it in when I feel her hands on my waist and body pressed against my back.

"Jax" she asks as I get the dishes together. "Yes Poppy?" I ask as she rubs my chest under her hands. "I need you" she whispers out as I smile. I need her too, we need each other right now.

"You always call me Poppy, you're the only one who uses my full name and I like it." she tells me as I reach and rub her hand comforting her a bit.

"I'll be in your shower." She tells me kissing the back of my shoulder blades before walking off. I finish washing the dishes with a semi, just thinking about her as Ry, and when I'm done I strip naked and meet her in the shower. After wrapping a plastic bag around my bandaged foot and grabbing condoms so I don't get her pregnant of course. She's got a birth control implant but I don't trust that shit.

She smiles and jumps onto my waist as the water heats up and I pound her into the wall while imagining a very compliant Rylee moaning into my ear. With that thought we don't stop all night long.

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The next morning I'm woke up by my alarm blaring at five in the morning. I know I need to get into the gym, and that's hard to do when Poppy's clutched to my bicep sleeping.

"Poppy" I whisper rubbing her light blonde highlighted hair as she sighs. "Poppy" I whisper again as she softly opens her eyes.

"What is it?" She asks closing her eyes back as she snuggles farther into my arm. "I've got to get to the gym." I whisper as she sighs and let's go of me.

"Can I stay?" She asks suddenly. She knows the routine we always have. We fuck, sleep together and then one of us leaves. It's always worked for us because we both just want sex. She's never asked to stay before like this.

"I'll leave in a few hours, I'm just tired and you're beds so soft." She whispers as I cave and nod. If I'm back in three hours we can fuck again before she goes, it's kind of a good thing.

"Yeah, that's fine. I'll be back." I whisper as she kisses my cheek and I move out of bed. I change my clothes and brush my teeth before seeing her naked body laying in my sheets clutching my pillow fast asleep. I don't bother her as I go into the kitchen and feed Bee, letting him out and taking pre-workout.

I make it to the gym in record time and start training myself until Carter walks in with my workout plans for the week and my meals. He kills my ass for three hours after that, and by the time we're done I know I can't have a round of sex when I get home because I'm exhausted.

"Why are you so tired? This isn't like you." Carter asks throwing a towel at me. Carter's the most amazing manager and trainer in Atlanta and he knows it. That's why he's buff, huge, and successful. He's just married and has a son so he keeps what he does for me a secret for his family.

"Long night. Gramps you know." I tell him lying as he laughs. "Sure man. Be back at two for boxing." He tells me tapping my back and going out of the weight room. I quickly wipe my face before going to my car and driving off. When I get home I open the back door and I'm hit with the smell of eggs and sausage.

Now she's playing house and this isn't what I signed up for.

I walk through the hallway before coming into the kitchen to see Poppy's blonde hair in a big bun, and her only wearing one of my tees. She walks up to me and kisses my lips pulling my head down to her before I can talk.

"I made breakfast and I know you're on a strict diet so it's only eggs with spinach and sausage. I hope you don't mind." She tells me turning around in my tee. She looks good, but she's not Ry in my tee. That thought makes me hard just remembering it.

"I don't mind. I'm going to take a shower real quick and I'll be back." I tell her as she nods. I do as I say and shower quickly before slipping on boxers and athletic shorts and meeting her back in the kitchen. I sit down in front of one of the plates as she makes my protein shake and hands it to me before sitting next to me.

"How was the gym?" She asks before even touching her food. "It was good, got my ass whipped, which I needed." I tell her as she smiles at me.

"Jax?" She asks coming close to me as I start eating my food. She rubs my naked chest under her hand before pulling herself closer to me and rubbing her toes across my calf muscles.

"What's up?" I ask as she leans to me kissing my cheek. This is what I was afraid of right here, she thinks we're more than what we are now.

"Give me your hand." She tells me kissing my cheek as she smiles onto it. I open my left hand and give it to her and I'm floored when she lifts the bottom of my tee shirt on her body. She opens her legs on the barstool and pushes my fingers into her hot, dripping pussy as she sits there pulling me closer to her.

"Give me your other one." She moans out as I start rubbing my fingers through her the way she loves. I know what she wants. I take a bite of eggs making her smile before I lift the bottom of the tee and reach through it palming her breast as she rocks onto my hand.

"All this is for you Jax. I'm dripping just thinking about you babe, I have been all morning imaging you." She whispers biting my earlobe as she moans into my ear. I twist my fingers and find her g-spot hitting it over and over again as she reaches into my shorts and starts jacking me off in her hand.

"Be my boyfriend Jax." She moans finishing onto my fingers as she pumps me. "Poppy.." I whisper as she kisses my neck and sits herself up crawling into my lap to straddle me.

"Jax we see each other almost every week. It'll be the same as this. You'd just be my dick only and I really like the idea of that. Just us fucking. Come on say yes." She whispers rubbing her fingers over the tip of my penis.

"Umm, shit. Okay." I whisper making her kiss me as I imagine Ry on her knees sucking me off naked. And just like that I cum in Poppy's hand making her smile.

That's when I realize what just happened. I just created a monster named Poppy.