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More from my Familiar Husband au!!!

My human Satin and Chenille designs! Absolutely love them!!!

I suggest you read Part 1 before reading Part 2!!

Part 2 under the cut, cause it is LONG!!!

Ok, so! We left off with Poppy having the best day ever in her new life. Well, it’s time to go to bed and when Creek tries to start something, Poppy stops his advances saying she’s not in the mood and she’s sure her period just started, when really she feels conflicted about doing something like that with Creek at the moment because her mind is still on Branch. She can’t tell him that though. Creek says it’s totally fine, but he doesn’t stay patient for long. The next few days are exactly like the first. And Creek makes the perfect trophy husband! One day, however, she’s finally has time to spend with her friends outside of work. Biggie is still a photographer, Guy Diamond is still a director, Suki and Cooper still make music for their labels, Smidge is still the social media sensation Gym Queen, and Satin and Chenille still design for the industry. She finds out, however, that even though everyone else still ended up with their significant others/remained single, Satin never married. Poppy guessed that made sense. She met Rudy at her and Branch’s wedding, which now never happened. Still, it hurt her heart to know that she did that to her friend, who was now complaining about being single and drinking mimosas to her heart’s continent when before she was a happily married career woman with the country's third best baseball star as her husband. Poppy feels absolutely horrible about it, so she spends some one on one time with Satin, taking her to spas and out for food telling her who needs a man when you have your girls! Satin doesn’t know what this is about, but who is going to turn down a free spa day lol.

So fast forward a few days, Poppy’s agent tells her that they are taking her to the next level! And that she’s going to be doing a collab with a boy band that’s been at the top for the last seven years. Poppy’s sitting and waiting in a room at her label when she decides to go get something from the vending machine while she waits. While at the vending machine, she hears the pitter patter of little feet running towards her. She turns towards the sound only to be tackled by something large and fluffy. There’s a dog licking her all over her face. But not just any dog, it’s-

“SPRITE!” A voice calls.

Poppy knows that voice. She’d heard it yell Sprite’s name for years. Suddenly, there’s a man pulling Sprite off of her and apologizing saying that she doesn’t usually act like this to strangers and that’s when they lock eyes. It’s Branch. But it’s not. The dark circles under his eyes were gone, his hair was no longer awry and unkempt, and he wasn’t wearing the same damn pajama robes she was close to burning in the fireplace. And, most surprisingly of all, he wasn’t scowling at her. No. This Branch had glowing skin, shiny blue hair, was dressed to impress, and was looking at her with a surprised expression and a small smile on his lips.

After the incident, they are all in the room with their agents and the right people to discuss the collab. This is where Poppy finds out that Brozone, the band her husband was in with his brothers, actually made it in this universe long before she did. Like, all the way back in 2018. The year he confessed. Which she finds so weird, cause 3 months into their relationship, Branch had told her that Brozone didn’t make the cut, so the band broke up and went their separate ways until his wedding, where they all finally reconnected.

A little detail about the wedding that I really love is Rosiepuff is still alive at that point and knitted a picnic blanket for their wedding and Poppy even used her old wedding dress, which she absolutely loved because it was a vintage ball gown with the PUFFIEST sleeves. Bruce complains that Rosie didn’t put all this effort into his and Brandi’s wedding and she’s like, “That little shotgun thing y’all did because you got her pregnant?! Invite me to a real wedding, then you get a gift!”

Anyway, on to “present” day. The agents are sensing a little tension from Poppy and they ask if they know each other. Poppy’s like, “Uh, yeah. We were, um, friends back in college.” She hears snickers coming from Clay and Bruce and watches as Branch glares at them and says, “This is why I don’t tell you guys shit.” It was the most Branch thing he had done since she’s seen him again, that and rubbing Sprite’s ears affectionately. John Dory tells his brothers to knock it off while Floyd pats Branch’s shoulder.

Watching them all feels surreal to her. Floyd didn’t have his usual long hair and bangs and dark clothes. His hair was kept short, but still had pink highlights. And he wore an outfit that was more mainstream. Clay wasn’t some super thin book worm/author with his sweater vests, his hair had blonde highlights and he looked like he worked out for the body he had now. Bruce wasn’t chubby with a kid on his arm. It looked like he never stopped working out to keep up with the Hearthrob image. And he had no ring on his finger. He still had his purple fro, though. The biggest shock was probably John Dory. He was clean shaven, kempt green hair, clothes that actually flattered him, and, most surprising, he didn’t smell like booze. The John Dory in her last life had the biggest drinking problem and was always dressed in rags and couldn’t keep a job. It was so weird seeing him so put together.

After a talk about the collab with their agents, they split for the time being. Poppy’s alone taking all this information in when John Dory of all people comes up to her. He’s acting all nice and friendly, making polite conversation when he makes a little comment about rejecting Branch all those years ago. She tries to apologize for that but he tells her not to. That he is so thankful that she rejected him all those years ago because he felt like Branch would’ve left the band to stay with her in Austin if she hadn’t. It gets Poppy thinking if Branch lied to her when he said Brozone didn’t make the cut (He did). John goes on to tell her that everything went right after they made it big. With the money they were making, they were able to afford a comfortable life for their grandma before she died and he was able to finally pay off all of their student loans. All the financial problems he was keeping from his brothers were no longer problems and his brothers never had to know. And he was thanking it all on her. He said he was happy she made it big as well and that this collab was gonna be amazing with his song writing skills. Poppy put on a bittersweet smile. At least the man was still confident as ever.

So then they are all getting ready for a tv appearance to announce their collab and that’s when everything goes to shit.

Branch and Poppy are having polite conversation and Branch asks if he’s offended her in some way because she’s unusually tense. Poppy doesn’t get a chance to answer, though, when Satin and Chenille walk in to try and drag her away. The twins end up talking with Branch for a second and, much to Poppy’s dismay, it seems like Branch and Satin are FLIRTING!!! She interrupts it by saying that they really should get going to the dressing room. As they are walking to the dressing room, Satin starts going off about Branch, saying he’s so much cuter than he was in college and the bad attitude he used to have was long gone and turns to Poppy and Chenille asking if she should shoot her shot. Chenille immediately says yes, so she can stop third wheeling on her and Suki’s dates. Satin’s unsure though cause he’s this huge popstar now. She asks Poppy what she thinks. Poppy’s mind is telling her to yell to stay away from her man, but she has to check herself because, no, that’s not her man anymore. She changed that. She goes against everything her body is telling her and tells Satin she should go for it.

It absolutely breaks Poppy when she sees them getting chummy. She starts to get jealous, even when she knows it’s wrong. Because she made it this way. Somehow, though, it always seems to be the three of them hanging out. One day they’re all eating at a high end cafe and Satin asks what his favorite type of shows are. Poppy thinks in her mind, Of course it’s melodramas, because when she would get home from her weeks in the industry, it’s what she would walk in on him watching. She would even scold him to stop watching those if all they were gonna do is make him cry. He would only give her a blank stare before turning back to his show. It absolutely shocks her when this Branch says his favorite shows are comedies. And Poppy had to look back at her time with him and remember that, yes, he absolutely loved comedies. He had only recently started watching melodramas religiously. She blurts out, “What about melodramas?” And he gives her a weird look and she’s like, “They’re Satin’s favorite!” And Satin’s like, “No, they’re Chenille’s.” Which Poppy remembered was true. But, Branch does admit that he does watch melodramas only so that when he wants to cry, he can put one on and no one will say anything about it. It gets the gears in Poppy’s head turning about why he was always watching those dramas when she would get home late from a flight. Or after a huge fight. Or when she got home a day AFTER the anniversary of his grandma’s death. The world around her blurred as all of her mistakes replayed in her head. How she was dismissive of him when he would say she should take her days off to spend together instead of trying to fill them up with gigs. And how she ignored him when he was literally telling her how ignoring him was hurting him. All he wanted to do was talk to her. All he wanted to do was be with her. He gave her his 100 percent. And after a while, she got selfish and just started taking it without reciprocating. He grew distant, he grew angry, he grew sad. And it was all her fault.

It took a minute to realize that they were now talking to her and when she looked at Branch, he was looking at her. Eyes full of concern just for her.

Poppy excuses herself and calls her agent saying she needs her to find someone. A guy that calls himself Cloud Guy. While she did that, Poppy went and tried to find a half dollar coin minted in 2018. She ended up having to pay 20 bucks for the damn thing, but it was worth it. Because she was going to go back and fix what she broke.

Cloud Guy wasn’t hard to find, there were only so many cab drivers in the world who called themselves Cloud Guy. So she flies to Austin and finds him high out of his mind in his own cab late at night. She tries to snap him out of it, going on to say that this was all her fault. That she’s the one who made him unhappy, she’s the one who turned him into a monster, all because she thought she had it harder. She used work to get away from him. He tried to tell her what he was feeling, he tried so many times that it broke him! She remembered now! It was her fault! She wanted to go back and fix it! She sobs that she just wants her life back! She brings out the coin and asks him how does she go back. Cloud Guy’s goofy smile suddenly fades and he looks at her with a pained expression. He says he’s sorry, but that window is closed. What’s done is done. Poppy sobs harder. She doesn’t believe it. She pleads, she prays, she begs. There has to be something she can do! Cloud Guy grabs her hands and slowly wraps her fingers over the coin. He say, “The only thing you can do now is be a good person…and wish him happiness.” It finally sinks in that there was no going back. That she had lost her chance. She had lost her husband. She had lost the man she loved. She falls to the floor, sobbing, as all of the memories of their time together come flooding into her mind. The confession, their first date, their first kiss, the first time they said “I love you”, the proposal, the wedding, their vows, the house, Sprite. It was all gone. And she would never get it back.

How could she be so stupid?

She flies back to the city with a horrible sense of dread that’s evident to everyone, but she doesn’t want to talk about it. It’s evident to Brozone that something happened while she was away. That the smile she has up right now is fake and she’s just trying to get through the day. But whenever any of them ask, she says she’s fine. But they can all see the way she looks at Branch when she thinks no one’s looking. They all keep it to themselves, though. Cause they have no idea what Branch would do if he knew Poppy had feelings for him. After all, she was a married woman.

John Dory was the only one who seemed to notice that she didn’t wear her wedding ring anymore, though.

There had been problems since the collab started. Poppy was noticing controlling behavior in Creek from the start. Like how he got really annoyed when she came home from the salon with long almond shaped nails, her favorite in her other life. Creek told her that he thought they talked about that, how it feels gross when the nails touch him and how it makes her look like a hooker. Poppy could not believe what she was hearing, because Branch absolutely loved when she would run her nails through his hair. She stayed at the studio that day and didn’t come home until late, where she stayed on the couch. Creek apologized the next day and ordered her favorite breakfast to sweeten the apology. And it worked… Until he put another foot in his mouth. And another. And another. It was insult after insult, like he was trying to kick her down a peg or two. She was, of course, able to clock that shit after being treated like a queen for six years. And nothing disgusted her more than when Viva and her dad came to visit and he threw an absolute fit when Poppy suggested they stay with them.

Poppy did not play about her family. There was a sixteen year age gap between her and Viva, so even though Poppy wasn’t even 30 yet, her dad was old, and his memory problems were getting worse. She and Viva had agreed a long time ago that she would take care of him while Poppy focused on her music career. And Viva. God, Poppy had no idea how to explain it. Viva had almost gotten on a plane ride to a huge Mini Golf tournament six years ago. Viva was a star at Mini Golf. The best! She was making a career out of it, winning prizes and showing off on social media. For some reason, though, her dad convinced her not to go, so she didn’t. They found out on the news a few days later that the plane she was going to take crashed with very few survivors. Poppy had nightmares for weeks where Viva had actually gone on that plane…and had been one of the victims. She could still smell the cemetery dirt from her dreams. She could still see the tombstone with her name on it. Like she had actually been there. She couldn’t imagine actually losing her sister. So, no, she did NOT play about her family. She ended up booking joint rooms in a luxury hotel for them, where Poppy also stayed, bunking with Viva for their time there. Poppy could see through Creek now. But, after Viva and her dad went back to their home state and she went back to the condo, Creek was doing everything to please her. She wasn’t falling for it though. She already had a lawyer draft up a divorce.

Even though she was going to be unhappy, she wasn’t about to let Branch go unhappy. So she did her best to step back and let his relationship with Satin grow.

But, little did she know, Branch was not interested. He didn’t even realize what Satin was doing, he believed he was just catching up with old college peers. Even after all these years of fame and girls throwing themselves at him, he only ever had eyes for Poppy. So he was always trying to find a way to have alone time with her. Though Branch knew she was married, he still wanted to be in her life. Even if it was just friends. But feelings keep happening, obviously and he can’t help but think she feels the same way. Because a certain dream keeps playing in his head when he’s with her.

The night she rejected him, he dreamed of a life with her. It started off perfect. They had the perfect relationship, the perfect life. But then it turned sour and after another fight where she left the house, they ultimately divorced and went their separate ways. Branch had guessed it was his subconscious trying to cheer him up with a horrible scenario to make him feel better about the rejection. But, now that she’s back in his life, weird things are happening. Like, during the first few days of their collab, his brothers had told him about an incident where they were all giving their drink orders to some apprentice or something and it got to his order, which he was unfortunately out for. Before any of them could say anything, Poppy answered, ordering him a hot mocha and said, while laughing, to make sure it came with a bendy straw. When they all gave her looks she made up some excuse about him always ordering that drink when they would study at a cafe. Which they guessed made sense, but the bendy straw thing was a family inside joke about Branch being the baby. So how did she know THAT? And one time when it was just them in the studio, he had fallen asleep on one of the chairs. He woke up to Poppy stroking his hair. Just like she would do in his dreams. And one time they were just joking around about they’re heights. Branch was like, “You’re only an inch taller than me!” And then she said something that she always said in his dreams. “Yeah, and with these heels I’m four inches taller than you!” And then she let out a laugh with the cute little snort at the end. Just like in his dream. And the time he was getting a migraine, but ran out of pills. He found Aleve in his bag a short time later, the only pain killer that relieved his headaches, and was told by a worker that Poppy put it there. There was no way she could just know that! Also! One time he couldn’t get Sprite to calm down, she was being to playful, Poppy called her name, pointed a finger gun at her, and went “Pew, pew!” Sprite immediately played dead, finally calming down. Branch didn’t even know Sprite could do that! Not to mention when her dad and sister came to visit them at the studio, her dad kept calling him his son-in-law. He had played along with it to keep the old man from freaking out (which only freaked Branch out when he asked when he and Poppy were gonna give him grandkids lol).

She knew things she shouldn’t. She acted so familiar around him when they had barely been friends before. He was starting to get…comfortable with it. Even though all of his brothers kept warning him that she was off limits, that she was a married woman, a part of him… didn’t care. He couldn’t stay away. So he kept letting her cross boundaries he didn’t know he had around her, he kept letting her act so familiar towards him. But the weight of the situation finally dawned on him when they were all scheduled to appear at a party for their collab and she brought Creek with her. He drank what he could to ease the pain and when the party got too much, he went to go find a quiet place to rest his body and, most of all, his mind. When he thought he found a quiet place, he heard arguing nearby. It was Poppy and Creek.

Poppy was done with Creek. She truly was. The divorce papers were ready to sign. However, when he suggested going to the big party with her, she decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Boy was she wrong to do that. He started getting handsy with her even after she told him to stop. So they went somewhere private, got into the argument, and Creek left saying if she wasn’t going to give him any, he’d find it somewhere else.

Poppy stood there in silence, fuming at such disgusting words. She couldn’t believe this was the man she ruined her life for. She thanked all the gods she knew it would be over with him soon. That’s when Branch comes out from where he was staying hidden. She visibly calms down and says she didn’t see him there. Branch points out the argument she was just having and she tells him it’s nothing. He stumbles a bit when walks towards her and Poppy catches him, asking him if he’s alright. He looks up at her with teary eyes. He tells her that no, he’s not alright. He starts to say that he can’t help himself. That he knows it’s wrong because she’s a married woman, but he doesn’t feel guilty for having these feelings. That he can’t help looking at her when she’s close, that he can’t help being around her because this rapport feels so familiar to him. That he feels so safe and assured around her. He doesn’t know what to do anymore. He’s in love with her. And he has been since the moment they met. Poppy is crying at this point. She is filled with so much regret. She shakes her head, trying to say that they can’t. She’s still thinking of Satin. But no words come out. Because she’s also still thinking of the man that blurted out a love confession before he missed his chance. The man who ran to her when the The man who cried when she walked down the aisle, and cried harder when saying his vows. The man who stayed by her side all those years. The man she neglected, mistreated, ignored. So when he grabbed her hand, she let him. When he brushed her bangs out of her eyes and settled the hand on her cheek, she let him. And when he brought her down into a kiss, she let him.

Kissing him again brought out a fire she forgot was inside her. They started to kiss more passionately, his thumb stroking her cheek and her fingers combing through his hair. But that was short lived when a booming voice yelled, “What’s going on here?!”

They both broke apart so fast it was like they had burned each other. They turn to find John Dory standing there, dumbfounded.

And that's all I'm giving away!! Part 3 will come out soon! I swear!!