His biggest regret

Prologue Right now I’m lying on the couch, watching my very handsome boyfriend getting ready. He is going to a party with his best friend. I was supposed to go with it, but I managed to catch a cough a few days ago and it just won’t go away. As soon as he is done with getting ready he looks unsure like he wants to stay in. “I want to stay with you”, he says and walks up to me, he kneels beside the couch. "Don’t, I'm serious, go", I say. "Just because I'm sick doesn't mean you have to stay in with me and be bored". "But I want to", Leo says, taking my hand in his. "So I can take care of you". "It's just a cough, babe", I giggle. "So I can take care of myself". "Scar..." Leo starts but I put two fingers over his lips, silencing him. "No, I want you to go and have fun", I say. "I'm gonna have lots of fun, eat Ben&Jerry, have an Indiana Jones marathon right here on the couch in my pajamas, and drink Coke". Leo starts laughing, shaking his head. "You and your Indiana Jones", he chuckles. "What? They're goooooood!" I say but starts coughing real bad. Leo puts a hand into my back, looking worried at me. "I don't know Scarlett", he says. "It feels like I really should stay here". I continue coughing until it stops. I shake my head, looking up at him. "No it's not that bad, it sounds worse than it actually is", I say and put my hand on his cheek. "You have been looking forward to this party for two weeks, just go, have fun and then come back and sleep beside me". Leo looks at me for a long time before he sighs and nods his head. "Okay fine", he says. "But I'll only go for a little while". "Great", I say happily. "Just don't drink too much, please". "I won't", he says. He doesn't drink that often, but when he does I know that he can't feel his own limit. He has a very hard time to stop drinking. I've been there now for about seven months to tell him when it's enough and he's always listening to me. I hope that Bobby can do that for me tonight when I can't be there. "Good", I say and kiss his cheek. "I really don't want to make you sick, that's why I won't kiss you right now even though I want to". "Oh I can't become sick, I’m immune to cough", Leo says and capture my lips with his. I put my hand onto his neck, and slide it up into his hair, disappearing into a kiss completely. When I finally pull away, I breathe out deeply, taking air into my lungs. "Yeah well there's definitely nothing wrong with your confidence", I say. "If you become sick now after this, it's on you". "I highly doubt I will, and yeah, you've got to be confident", Leo says and stands up. "If I hadn’t been confident I wouldn’t be one of the youngest billionaires in America. Are you sure you want me to go?" "I guess", I say and take his hand. "And yes I do". "I'll be back in a few hours", he says and I nod my head. He walks towards the front door and I watch him leave, smiling to myself. It's a mystery to me how I, this shy little girl, could get Leo Watts. It came as a complete shock to me when he told me that he was falling in love with me. We met through my best friend and roommate Stella. She had a thing with one of Leos's assistants. I followed her to his office and when we laid eyes on each other, it all just clicked. We started hanging out quite a lot, but I was careful because I knew of Leo Watts, known in the papers as a player, but he won me over. Now seven months later he's my little Leo Boo, and I love him so much it hurts to think about. My evening isn't that eventful. I get a few texts from Leo, where he tells me how much he loves me, but then it just stops, and I hear nothing more from him. He doesn't answer my texts either. I’m not worried though, he isn’t supposed to be glued to his phone. Stella was invited to the party as well but she is not at the party. She's actually babysitting her baby sister Ali who's three years old, her parents asked her at the last minute and she didn’t want to say no. It came as a shock for both Annie and me when her parents told her that she was going to be a big sister at eighteen, but she has embraced the big sister role and she is the best older sister Ali could have. I manage to stay awake through all the Indiana Jones movies, and I ended up eating two Ben&Jerry's. I know that I was the one telling Leo to go to the party, but I didn't think he'd be gone for this long. I mean he didn't even wanna go, to begin with, so I don’t really understand what is taking him so long. But I’m not the needy girlfriend so I’m not calling him. He comes home when he comes home. I don’t want to fall asleep but I know that I will because I am very When I fall asleep, it's about four in the morning, and I fall asleep worried., with Leo as the last thing on my mind. I just hope he is okay. What if something happened to him? What if he's hurt? I really hope Leo is okay. "Scarlett?" "Leo?" I ask groggy and yawn with swollen eyes. "No I'm Stella", says the same voice, which of course I now hear is Stella. Waking up confused is like being in a big fog. Everything feels surreal. "Stella", I say, sitting up, rubbing my eyes, I get interrupted by a coughing fit though. Stella starts patting my back until my coughing fit ends. She gives me a glass of water and I thankfully take it, taking small sips. This cough is really starting to get to me. "I'm so over this damn cough", I mutter and pull of the blanket. This is when I realize that I'm still lying on the couch in the living room. I fell asleep here waiting for Leo to come back last night. He never came back and he's not here right now. I am actually starting to get a bad feeling. "When did you get back?" I ask. "About an hour ago", she says. "My parents came in really late yesterday so I felt like it was best if I just slept there and come here in the morning”. "Are you alone?” I ask. Stella looks away. I can tell she's hiding something from me. I suddenly become very worried. She never hides stuff from me, so I know that this has to be serious. “Yeah I’m alone”, she says and stands up and walks into the kitchen. I stand up and follow her. No way she's getting away. She has to tell me what's going on. She can't keep me in the dark. "Stella", I say. "What's going on?" She doesn't answer and she doesn't look at me. She opens the fridge and takes out a Coke. A little too early for soda if you ask me. But that's not what surprises me. Stella never eats or drinks anything with sugar. She always nags on me about how bad sugar is and that I should eat more healthily. The only time she eats or drinks sugar is when she's really nervous and or if she's really angry. Though it's really hard to make Stella this angry, she is a genuinely kind girl who always sees the good in everything and everyone. If she’s angry, it’s something bad. I can tell she's really angry. I've seen her explode one time only during the fifteen years I've known her. It was when we were fifteen and her boyfriend cheated on her. She doesn’t have a boyfriend right now, so no one has been cheating on her. Although I know that she has gotten an eye for Bobby, they aren’t dating. I walk up to Stella and take the soda from her. "You don't wanna do that", I say, and she looks at me. "What's going on?" She sighs. "Bobby sort of called me this morning", she says. "He told me something, he didn’t want to tell you, he felt like he was the wrong person to do so". "And what did he tell you?" I ask. "It's about Leo", she says. What about Leo? Why is she lingering so much? I hate it when she does this. "Just tell me already", I say, feeling the panic rise inside of me. "He slept with someone", she says. "He cheated on you". I stand completely still, frozen to the ground. I look at Stella like she is not here right now. I look at her for so long without saying a single word. I feel like my heart stopped beating in my chest. My body is screaming. I shake my head. This can't be true. This has to be some sick joke. “He wouldn’t”, I say in my now very raspy voice. "Bobby told me because we live together and you may take it better if I tell you", Stella continues. "He's over at Leo’s now, hopefully beating him up". This isn't happening. Why is this happening? I’ve done everything I can to be a good girlfriend. I don’t deserve this. "With who?" I ask. "Scarlett..." Stella begins but I interrupt her. This means it’s someone I know and not just some random girl. "With who, Stella?" "Molly Applewhite", she says. Of all people. Of all damn people in the whole world, Leo had to cheat on me with a Molly Applewhite? I know Molly Applewhite. Stella knows her as well. She went to our school. I put my hand to my stomach and slowly slide down onto the floor, letting tears flow down my cheeks. I can’t believe this. I just can’t. Why would Leo do this to me? I thought he loved me, I really thought he loved me. "Scarlett", says and hurries up to me. She sits down beside me, taking me into her arms, stroking my hair. I cry violently against her shirt. This isn't happening. This has to be a horrible dream. This can't be true. I've never felt a pain greater than this. Everything in my whole body is aching and screaming. My mind is telling me that this is a trick, that this can't be true at all. Leo wouldn't do this to me. "He was probably very drunk", I say through my tears. I know that Leo can’t handle alcohol well, he always drinks too much. "He was", Stella says. "Bobby said so". "But that isn't an excuse to cheat on me", I almost scream. "Of course it's not, he's dead when I get my hands on him", Stella says. "Why would he do this?" I whimper. "Oh sweetie I don't know", Stella says pained. "I wish I knew but I don't". I start crying even more. Never in my wildest fantasies could I imagine Leo cheating on me. But after everything, he's been telling me. Saying how he wants a future with me and everything. That future is not going to happen now. There's no way I'd ever take him back after this. Whatever future I saw with him, is long gone now. Somehow Annie manages to get me to the couch again. She continues to stroke my hair, mumbling soothing words to me. I can’t see Leo now, and I don’t want to see him, we are over and Stella will let him know. But I don’t want to lay my eyes on him anymore. This is one of the biggest betrayals he could’ve committed and I just can’t look in his eyes anymore.