"Ry this is crazy. I don't want to break up or even think about breaking up." He says as he starts to pace around. "I don't care how crazy she is I won't let her break us up." He says looking back at me."O, we're not breaking up. We're going to pretend that we broke up and...""No!" He says interrupting, his voice firm. "I'm not agreeing to this." He says his voice really shaky. I grab his arms and pull him toward the bed to sit."What are we going to do then? Live in misery?" I ask and he shakes his head no."I hate this. What if we start playing this little game and it backfires on us?"He says grabbing my face in both his hands. "I have a bad feeling about this. I don't like it at all." He says sad"We'll just be pretending. Make her and everyone think we're not together anymore and see if that will get her off our back or not. If it doesn't work we stop." I say and I can tell he's not convinced."So what? We pretend not to fuck with each
I see Marlene walk into the garage and sigh. What is she doing here? "It's nice to see you without a tether," She says coming to stand next to the car I am working on. "I would say it's nice to see you but..." I say and she laughs."Oh, Olie." She says using my mother's pet name for me and I cringe inwardly. I can't believe there was a time when I thought she was fun to be around. I don't recognize the girl standing in front of me. Did I do this to her. "You've grown so mean. I guess we have Ryo to thank for that." She states looking me up and down. "What do you want Marlene?" I asking to change the subject. I don't want to discuss Ryo with her. And there's the small matter she suggested. I've been pretending we never had that conversation for the past 8 hours. A part of me is hoping she changes her mind. "I came to visit you. We used to be friends. I miss those days. Don't you?" She asks and I shake my head no. "I guess we have Ryo to thank for that." She says and this time I fe
Her hand is gripping my groin and close my eyes blocking her out. I shouldn't be here. She shouldn't be here. I should be with Ryo. I should be telling her how stupid this idea is and.,."You miss this don't you?" Marlene says gripping me harder. My heart beats all the way into my throat and my head beats at the same time as my heart. And I swear I hear myself scream in my head"Stop." I say after a moment. I can play along but I won't let it go beyond the point where we can't come back."Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot, you have Ryo." She says smirking,"Yes." I say and take a step back. This feels like a very bad game and I want to quit."So when will I be able to touch you without having to think about your girlfriend?" She says moving closer to kiss me."I'm not leaving my girlfriend," I say and she smiles and then she stares at me the smile gone."Why am I here then?" She asks her tone hard. She's getting angry. I
"What do you mean you guys broke up?" Kelly screams and I cringe shooshing her. We're in the School garden and everyone is listening. "You can be louder if you want to be." I say sarcastically and she stares at me not amused."I don't care about them." She says shaking her head at me."We haven't made it public yet," I say and she looks at me like I have three heads."I don't care about that." She says repeating herself. "Why in the hell did you guys break up?" She asks adamant to get the truth out of me. I look at her wishing I could tell her the truth but for this to go the way I planned it has to be as authentic as possible."We just can't get past this Marlene thing." I say whispering the name part so no one will hear me talking about her."What's that got to do with anything?" She says getting angrier. "You can't break up with the love of your life just because his ex is a dick." She says standing up and s
I pull up to Ryo's house feeling all the weight of the world weigh me down. I don't want to be here right now. I know Marlene confronted her, and she called me here to fight about it.I don't want to fight.I see her walk out of the house and stay in the car. I open the passenger door for her and hear her deep sigh as soon she sits next to me. I hold my breath waiting to hear what she's going to say. I wish we could bring a stop to this stupid plan of hers and get back to the happiness we had. I miss her, I miss the fun we had.I miss holding her. We haven't touched since the other night and I want to hug so much."Did you sleep with her?" She asks in the silence and my body goes cold."What?" I ask turning to look at her. I hiss when I see the pain in her face. I can't believe she actually thinks I slept with Marlene. She doesn't have any faith in me. She doesn't trust me. I knew this would happen."Ryo how can you ask me
Midnight in Oliver's roomI can't sleep. All I can think about is Ryo. I wish she was here. I lie on my stomach pressing my body hard into the mattress. My heart is aching and I don't know how to make the pain go away.We're not broken up but it feels like I lost her. I don't know how to reach her. How can my life go to ruin in less than a week?"I should call her and try to fix things," I say into the empty room like someone can hear me."But I don't want to fight with her anymore." I continue into the empty room.I squeeze my eyes shut, willing my mind to slow down and allow sleep to come over me. I need to rest. I haven't had a good night's sleep since Ryo came up with that stupid idea. I should have fought her harder on this. I knew the worst would happen.I was hoping Kelly would talk some sense into her but by the judge of how things turned out with Marlene. Kelly was no help.And I doubt she'll be of any help after sh
“I’m glad you finally decided to come out with me.” Trevor says smiling at me across the small table. I can feel him moving his legs back and forth under the table. That’s how close we are to each other. I should be feeling nervous with his feet touching mine and his face being so close to mine but I’m not feeling any nerves at all. Tonight is finally The day, its date night with Trevor and usually on date nights I’m a mess. But with him I feel no different. I keep thinking about the times I’ve spent with Oliver, it was nerves all around. This feels too calm; I want to pinch myself so I can feel something.He took to a doughnut shop that just opened in town. There are so many people here to check it out, that we can barely move around. It’s a miracle we were able to get a table. Everyone and their grandmother came to have a taste of the many unique recipes. I’m glad we came so I can try some new flavors
“How did your date go?” Kelly whispers next to me. I look ahead at our substitute teacher to see if he heard her whisper so loudly. He looks up at the class but he doesn’t look in our direction. I don’t know why Kelly chose this precise moment to have this conversation with me. She can wait until lunch break to ask me about it. We don’t have to go to detention because she wants to know about a date.“Can we talk about this during lunch? I don’t think this is the right place to have this conversation.” I whisper trying not to be too loud. This teacher I nervous and he has very good hearing. Three people were sent to detention for whispering during class. Anyone can tell this man doesn’t want to be here and he will empty this class out by sending every last one of us to detention. And I don’t want to be one of those people to be sent there.“Lunch is too far, I want to know what happened. And besides he wo