The Story Of Another Us | cth

17. The right thing to do

Lucy's POV

What did I just do?

This can't be happening.

Did I just accidentally break up with the love of my life?

I let my emotions get the best of me yet again and look where I ended up. The thought of not talking to him never crossed my mind once, until I said it. I spoke before I could think and now the two of us are 8000 miles away from each other crying our eyes out, unable to even comfort each other.

He probably thinks that I fell out of love with him or that I chose Devyn over him.

I would never choose anyone over Calum. He's the only one I want and now I'm not sure I'll ever get him back again.

I needed to talk to someone about this.

I picked up my phone again and looked through my contacts despite how blurry my tears made my vision.

I finally found the person I was looking for and pressed call.

"Lucy?"

"Hi Vic," I sniffled.

"Luke told me." She said sadly.

"What is wrong with me!" I cried harder. "I never meant for this to happen. All I wanted was a moment to think about how to keep our relationship going and then next thing I know I'm no longer even in a relationship to think about." I practically shouted but the build up of mucus in my throat made it hard to be loud.

"Do you wanna know what Calum thinks happened?" She suggested gently.

"Yes please tell me,"

"The boys and I know what you meant by taking a break, that's totally normal to want in a relationship but I don't think that you or Calum know exactly what you meant."

"Can you please just tell me what I should do." I wiped my tears on the sleeve of the sweater that Calum let me borrow one day after school when it was really cold. I tried to give it back but he wouldn't let me, he said it looked cute on me.

"The two of you need space from each other. Prove to him that you can live without him."

"But I can't live without him," I said as I started crying even harder. These tears were not stopping any time soon.

"Lu, you need to find yourself again. You got pushed into the industry at only 17 and you were forced to make friends on your own. The people you made friends with obviously influenced you to be someone you're not and that pushed you away from Calum after you guys had the smallest fight. How do you expect to be okay after you get into another fight?"

"Yeah I guess you're right." I sniffled. The amount of tears I was producing made it sound like I was battling a bad cold.

"Give it a few weeks. I'm sure you can go that long without talking to him."

"I don't know if I can. We've never gone more than three days without talking to each other."

"You're gonna have to make it more than three weeks. Trust me, as your best friend I'm only doing this for your own good." I don't know if I believe that right now.

"What happens after three weeks?"

"You two talk to each other and figure out where to go from there. Take things slow."

I guess she's right. I needed to give myself time and it was unfair to bring Calum down with me.

"Okay. Three weeks." I said letting out a heavy breath.