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He meets her at some charity benefit he can’t be bothered to pretend to care about. Something about kid’s bones or something. He’s bored she’s hot. It’s a win, win. The fact that she's the right-hand man for one of the most powerful, up and coming senators is an added bonus. A very welcome bonus. It goes to show that even when he’s not strategizing his dick knows how to play the game.
Upon closer inspection she's just alright, uptight and kind of boring, but great on top.
He stays with her for far too long and learns way too much about her. Stupid shit he really shouldn’t waste brain space knowing. She has a weird habit of singing when she’s happy. Loves Italian food, and hates her sister and rats, in that order (though she always denies the former).
A wide eyed idyllic set on changing the world. Hiding behind a shrill attitude and a masculine dress sense.
How original.
He tries to find an in at her office, desperate for another rung up the ladder. He drops hint after hint and then just outright asks her. Unfortunately for him she knows exactly what he’s doing and outright says no. He tries to act nonchalant, cool, charismatic... you know, less like a shit. He puts on the charm. Tells some embarrassing stories that make him seem like a goofball. An all rounded good, smart guy. A guy she can trust.
It doesn’t work.
He breaks up with her, badly. They scream and shout like his parents at his brother’s wedding. She calls him “a Machiavellian wannabe, with none of the intellect or charm to ever actually achieve anything. A bullshitter, with a $200 haircut, compensating for middle child syndrome””.
He lights up like fire. Blowing his cool as ice demeaner on rants about her ass and her laughable aspirations.
“Because there is no in hell that your estrogen filled cunt will ever get to the white house, let alone run it”.
She slaps him (which fucking hurts), and storms out. He ends up masturbating angrily in the shower. Throwing away her spare toothbrush, and hoping to god. She doesn’t tell anyone about the handwritten songs he keeps hidden in the back of his guitar case.