14. HE BROKE UP WITH ME!!
1275 Words
CHERYL’S POV
I felt like somebody had spread gasoline over my heart and then set fire on it, the pain of it excruciating enough.
Things had happened so quickly and I didn’t know what to do or think anymore. I never wanted to believe that all this is a lie. Jason is a playboy and he was just using me for some bet. I wanted to be angry at him but he didn’t care. It would just be a waste of my time to be angry about all this.
He left. I thought that giving myself to him would make him stay but that was not the case. He went to have a foursome with his friends.
He even had the guts to leave me on my own. What he said started replaying in my mind.
“I don’t love you Cheryl, I can’t love,” This broke my heart into a million pieces. Tears started to flow from my eyes like water from a faulty tap.
The pain got worse when I started to dress up so that I could leave. He told me that he didn’t want to see me ever again and it hurt me. I had fallen in love with him but now, he wants nothing to do with me.
I picked my panty and looked around for my bra but I couldn’t find it. Things started making sense, he was using my bra to show his friends that he slept with me so that he can win the bet he was talking about.
I regretted everything. I regretted being naïve. I regretted throwing myself at him the way I did. I should have known better.
I walked out of his room and closed the door behind me. When the door banged behind me, all what Jason did and said replayed on my mind again and it made me so weak on the knees. For a moment I felt like I could not breathe, like someone had stuffed small stones in my airways blocking any passage of air. I parted my lips then closed. For someone else, I probably looked like a fish in water but I could not help it.
“Don’t sit there, the place is not clean,” I heard a gentleman telling me and I looked up to see him.
He had fine black hair. He was not heavily built. He had a good baby face and I liked him I guess. He seemed gentle.
“I will go,” I gathered some ounce energy before I stood up.
I wanted to walk to the elevator and go away from this place but what I was feeling was too heavy for me. I needed to talk to someone.
“Hey,” I called him and he turned to look at me.
“Can I help you Miss?” The guy asked.
For starters, I would have said no but this time, I was very desperate.
“I just need someone to talk to and I figured that should be you. If I go home like this, I might be hit by car due to all this stress that I have in my head, I can barely concentrate, I am so stressed” I decided to be honest with him. A problem shared is a problem half solved.
“Hey, you can talk to me,” He said after a few seconds. He noticed that my eyes were swollen from all the crying and he come to pull me to a hug.
“I am sorry for dragging you to my problems,” I told him.
“Come, we can talk in my room,” He told me this but I pulled away from him.
I was not going to be gullible, I needed to talk to him in a place where there is a lot of people so that he cannot harm me.
“Am sorry, I am not taking you to my room to harm you,” He cleared the air.
“Let us talk in the lobby,” I urged and he agreed.
I remained silent in the elevator hoping that he might not harm me till we got to the lobby. I was about to take the empty seats but he beckoned me and I followed him. We walked in tow till we got to the restaurant.
He ordered a bottle of beer and I ordered some juice. It is not like I was here to celebrate, I just wanted to let all this things out of my chest.
“So, what happened to you?” He implored after the waiter served us.
“I just loved somebody who used me,” I started saying this. My heart felt void and heavy and my tears were just at the verge of flooding from my eyes. The tears were already stinging in my eyes.
Jason hurt me really bad and I don’t think I will ever move on from this.
“Tell me, what happened?” He asked and I started crying. Stating the nightmare of what happened to me was not that easy for me. It brought me so much pain.
“I loved a famous man,” This is the red flag that I missed seeing since I was too naïve.
“Okay,” The guy was really ready to listen to me.
“Then he broke my heart. He took my virginity and he said that he loved me. I thought that we were going to date but today, he told me that he is incapable of love. Right now, he is having a foursome with his friends,” I told the man and he was in shock. That is expected of him. What Jason did to me is shocking.
“So you are the virgin girl!” The guy was in thunderstruck and his eyes were popping out.
“What are you talking about?” I implored thanks to the way he reacted.
“I can’t believe that I have met you. I know the entire story and you don’t have to tell me. Jason is my friend. I was the guy who was with him that night when you met him at the pool. I don’t think you can remember me, but I am Max,” He said his name and I remembered him.
After knowing whom he was, I didn’t know if I should be happy or sad about the same. I can’t believe that the is friends with Jason.
“Max, nice to meet you. What do you advise me to do now that you know Jason so well?” I started seeking advice from him.
“My advice for you is to run. Run my sister because he will crush your heart even more,” He advised but I did not buy it. I had another plan in my mind. I know it would work and finally, Jason would be in love with me.
“How about, the two of us date and that will make Jason jealous?” I asked him.
“I don’t think that is a good idea,” Max declined my dating request.
“You promised to help me. I know that deep down that he loves me. I know when he sees the both of us together, he will be jealous and he will want me,” I explained to him.
“Than what will I get in return?” He asked and that is when Rose come to the picture and splashed some water on his face.
“f**k! What is wrong with you Rose,” I never knew that she was now covering her shift.
“Is he the man? Tell me Cheryl, is he the man you slept with when you failed to come home,” She created an unnecessary scene and I was so pissed at her.
“Leave me alone. Just go!” I told her before I dragged Max away with me.
“Who the hell is that?” Max asked me after I apologized to him for the a hundresth time.
“She is my sister, don’t mind her,” I told him
“What do you say Max, will you date me and make Jason jealous?” I implored.
“I will think about it.” He promised.
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