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Josh

I'm pretty sure we almost broke up last night

After a seemingly endless and silent cab ride back, we finally arrive in our third floor apartment. Chloe storms inside and goes directly to our room, me following close behind. She plucks her discarded pajamas up from the floor on her side of the bed and takes them into the bathroom to change.

She emerges a few minutes later, no longer in her dress but in sweat pants and a long sleeved sleep shirt, her hair tied up in a bun. She still hasn't spoken to me.

"Chloe-" I begin, but she cuts me off sharply.

"What the hell Josh? You were such a dick tonight!" she exclaims. She crosses her arms over her chest and perches herself on the foot of the bed, waiting for me to explain myself. I don't know how to say it without sounding like a total douche, so I'll just have to say it how it is.

"I don't like Rem," I respond simply.

"Why not?" she questions, her voice harsh.

"Because he was flirting with you the entire night and you were letting him!" I shout.

"He was not flirting with me. That's just the way he talks," she hisses. Well that certainly wasn't how he talked to me. The whole night he was condescending towards me, as if he is better than me somehow.

"Well I don't like that and it made me feel like an idiot for just sitting there and having to listen to it. It seemed like you two were the ones dating and I was the one that he was meeting for the first time," I explain.

"Oh please. Just admit that you're jealous of him!" Chloe suddenly screams.

"Jealous of Rem? No. Why would I be jealous of him?" I spit.

"Maybe because he's hot, smart, and rich?" she asks sarcastically.

"Then you admit that you're jealous of Kamryn!" I scream.

"How the hell am I jealous of that bitch?" she hisses. Her pale face is turning redder and redder with every comment, but that last one about Kamryn accounted for it turning about twenty shades deeper.

"You always ask about her. You always wonder if I think she's pretty or if I think she's nice or if I liked what she was wearing that day," I explain.

"Because you do! So of course I'm jealous of her! You spend all day every day with her and she's prettier than any girl I've ever met before! If I wasn't jealous, then you should be worried about if something is happening between Rem and me!" Chloe cries.

 I can see tears forming in her eyes but it's too late to give in now. We've both said too much and there's no turning back now.

"I don't trust him around you and if he tried to kiss you, I don't know if you'd turn away," I finally say.

"Like you would if Kamryn tried anything? Please, if you had even a drop of alcohol in you you'd end up with her in this bed!" Chloe exclaims.

"You know I'm not like that anymore and yeah, I would pull away."

"How could you possibly know if you would?"

"Because I did when she kissed me earlier today!" I see Chloe's brown eyes widen and her lips part before she stands up and storms out of the room.

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