Make You Feel Your Love (girlxgirl)

The Perfect Break Up

It's almost time.

I look down at my phone in case of a text from Ronnie.

Any minute now, I'm going to go out into the hall and try and give the best performance I can give. I have to go out there and get into a big fight with a girl I actually like. God damn do I really like her. I didn't think I could like anyone as much as I like her. I mean, Juggie was my first. He will always be important to me. I'll always love him on some level, but what is going on between me and Ronnie is so much more than that. It's like the universe is forcing us together or something. I don't know any other way to explain it.

I check the burner phone I have just in case our stalker hacked into our regular phones, seeing if she sent me something from hers.

The problem is that I really don't want to do this. I don't want to go against the universe even if it's the only way to draw out our stalker. Doing that has a pretty terrible track record in this town.

My phone beeps and I pick it up to read the text.

'I need to talk to you.'

That's the cue. Our plan is in motion, she's on her way.

I look up to the door of the Blue and Gold and it's never felt so far away.

I may not want to do this, but I have to. This is the plan we agreed to and I can't back out now. We've been setting this up for weeks and if we don't do it, we might never know who our stalker is.

I stand up and walk to the door. I stop and take a deep breath before putting on an upset look and walking out. Looking down the halls, I see Veronica charging down it with a purpose toward me.

Is it wrong that I find her sexy right now?

"Where the hell were you Betty?"

I look around and the other people in the hall are wondering what's going on.

Good, that's what we want.

"Calm down V."

She takes that cue from me that everything is a go.

"No, I asked you to be there and you weren't. I really needed you."

"I know, and I'm sorry. I just... have a lot going on right now."

"You have a lot going on? My dad's in the hospital."

I feel bad using her dad's near death experience for our fake break up, but it was her idea and she insisted.

"How is he?"

"Maybe if you had shown up like I asked you to, you'd already know."

"I'm sorry but, my mom kinda cornered me and I couldn't get away."

Which is actually true. She got a box in the mail filled with weird pictures of us and asked me about it. Probably our stalker trying to get us to admit it to our parents. Thankfully I talked her down.

"So? When is your family not getting in your way? Seriously Betty, when are you going to stand up to them?"

"Me? Your family is constantly at Defcon Lodge. I can't keep up."

Her anger falters for a second and I can see her concern.

I didn't have time to tell her about my mom. But I can't let her give up on this plan.

"I have my own stuff going on Ronnie. My dad's a serial killer, my sister's part of a cult and is trying to recruit my mom. I can't spend every waking moment making my life about you."