Never the Right Time

Chapter 7 Mark POV

Rebecca broke up with me last weekend and I don't truly know how I feel about it. We've been together for a year and a half and it felt like things were fine. I guess I was blind. Either way I refuse to sit at home and be a broken man. Seeing Soph in class this week made me realize that I might have been missing out on something that could be amazing right in front of me. I purposefully didn't tell her about our break up. I didn't want her to pity me. So I thought it would be easier that way.

When I got to her apartment, she opened the door she was wearing the shortest black dress I have ever seen. My eyes might have bugged out of my head a little bit. Fuck she is sexy. She launched herself at me. I couldn't help but burst out laughing to distract from the fact that I just wanted to walk her back up to her room and stay there.

" so how come you're slumming it with us instead of going to Providence this weekend" She asked when set her back down on the ground. I instantly wanted her back in my arms.

"Well the guys all have a race this weekend and I figured my first weekend as a single man would be better spent with a drink in my hand with a friend than by myself watching Netflix." I said. Fuck the pity. I wanted her to know that Becca wasn't in the picture anymore.

I saw a look of something flash in her eyes.

" oh- yea we are a much better choice" she responded glazing over the whole single fact.

She took my bag and sent me into the kitchen. Her roommates, Hannah and Alyssa were sitting in there with Hannah's boyfriend getting ready to play party games.

He and I had a couple of beer bong race, while the girls took a shit ton of Jell-O shots. Solid start to the night. I had a good buzz as we walked over to the party. It's always fun to goof around with Soph. She is the most ticklish person I know. So just poking her side causes her to collapse. We were howling with laughter as we tried to tickle each other. I didn't realize how much I had missed just hanging out with her doing dumb shit.

When we got to the party, it was packed. I lost track of Sophia, but ran into a few friends who had just shown up too. After a while, I had seen Soph randomly flitting through the party. She morphed into a social butterfly when she drank. It was pretty funny to watch her. I was sitting off the side of the main area when her roommate Alyssa walked up with a couple shots.

"I heard about your break up. Tequila? It's good at numbing all things."

"Oh hell yea. I wouldn't feeling a little numb" we threw the shots back when she pulled a bottle out of no where and poured a couple more.

"Fuck it" I said throwing the next one back too.

"Soph is definitely feeling all the drinks." Alyssa laughed pointing over to her.

She was hanging off one of their nursing friends, I couldn't remember the girls name, in a little group off the dance floor. Soph had a gigantic smile on her face. We watched as she burst out in laughter as if the person just said the funniest thing ever.

"She is never like this sober" I pointed out.

"No. She had been on edge most of the night. So I think she drank a little more than normal."

"Ah that explains it." I responded wondering what put her on edge.

Alyssa poured us another shot. When I looked around after grimacing through that last shot, I saw Alyssa talking to some guy.

A shot of jealously ran through me. I held out my glass to Alyssa, who laughed and poured another. When I looked up Soph was gone. I was going to go look for her, but when I started to move, everything got a little extra dizzy. Alyssa laughed and pushed me on to the couch that was near us and sat down next to me.

"Take a seat drunky" she laughed

I threw my hands up in surrender as I leaned into the couch. Everything seemed to slow down and I zoned out. I must have blacked out because next thing I knew, I heard a door slam and I realized that I was on Soph's couch making out with Alyssa. I all but pushed her off of me.

"Soph?" I gasped out

Alyssa's eyes went wide.

"Oh god" she groaned with a facepalm "I didn't know where she went off to, but she hasn't come home yet."

" It's ok. We didn't have anything planned. I think I'm going to go" I raced upstairs and grabbed my bag from her room and all but ran out of the apartment.

In the morning I felt like a huge idiot. She was going to hate me tomorrow. There was no way she wouldn't find out.