The story of you and I

CHAPTER 43

"Emma! Wake up, we should be downstairs in 15 minutes " Alex said, closing the bathroom door.

"It's Sunday!" I growled covering myself up to my head with the blanket to avoid being blinded by the sun that came in when Alex opened the blinds.

"Ok, you stay then. See you at noon" she said dryly as she got dressed. I pulled the blanket off my face and sat on the bed.

"Really? Would you dare leaving without me?" I asked seriously really hurt.

"If you don't want to get up, I can't make you" she said without looking at me. I looked at her to see if she was joking, but she was still very serious, I shook my head, wrapped myself in the sheet and went into the bathroom slamming the door.

After a while we went down for breakfast, then the tour guys picked us up to show us St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States, he told us about the 3 historical periods: the discovery, the Spanish period and the British period. Alex completely ignored me, again! she was 100% dedicated to her camera, especially when we got to the Castillo de San Marcos, but I didn't care because the whole tour was really worth photographing and that was what she liked, I entertained myself with Ana and Andrew asking the guides questions and taking some photos with my cell phone camera, which were quite good.

At the end of the tour we continued walking around the city taking advantage of the fact that it was partly cloudy, then we chose a restaurant for a quick lunch before returning to the hotel to check-out.

On the way home I slept most of the way, last night we didn't have many hours of sleep and today I had gotten up too early, when we finally arrived my neck was killing me due to the bad position of sleeping with my head against the window.

"Girls, thank you for coming with us and for all you have done" Ana said while hugging us both, then I said goodbye to Andrew, grabbed my suitcase and walked to Alex's car while she said goodbye to her brother.

When I heard the car unlocking, I hoisted my suitcase into the back seat before settling into the passenger seat. I took out my phone to check it and upload some photos to my Instagram page, but I kept looking at the stories of Andrew and Ana, they had taken beautiful photos, I zoned out thinking that me and Alex didn't take any pictures together, I am sure she took pictures of the whole damn castle and every landscape she could, but it never occurred to her to take a picture of me or with me.

"Are you okay? You've been looking at the dark screen for a while" I came out of my trance, we had already left Ana and Andrew's neighborhood and were on our way to Alex's apartment.

"Can you drop me off at my place? please, I no longer have clean clothes in your apartment" I said faking a smile, then she looked at me sideways, lifted her shoulders and nodded.

"Do you want me to stay the night?" She said staring straight ahead, I turned to look at her, I hated being like this with her, my heart ached, but I didn't know how to explain everything I felt without feeling pressured, I felt that this weekend something had changed with us. I must have lost myself in my thoughts again because it seems like it took me a long time to answer "Ok...you don't want to, no problem" shit...

"Alex, no, I mean yes. It's not that" I said scratching my head with both hands, while Alex parked under my building, she turned around, leaned her back against the door and crossed her arms. "Al, did you realize that this weekend we spent more time arguing than being happy? We were in such a beautiful place, with our best friends who are about to get married, and I felt like we were miles apart" she was expressionless. Her black eyes like magnets on mine. "Do you know what I was looking at in my cell phone? The photos of Ana and Andrew on social media, they took many photos, and I couldn't help but to be jealous of them, they have everything resolved and they want the same things, they are a team. We didn't even take a picture together in this trip, I saw you taking many photos, but I think everything was more interesting than taking a picture with me. I'm afraid that the only thing I'm going to get out of this relationship is a broken heart" My voice broke, and I wiped away a tear that slipped, we were silent for a long time, she looked sad, almost hurt, I hated feeling and making her feel like this "We'll talk tomorrow, okay?" I approached her, put my hands on her face and gave her a kiss on the cheek, I felt the salt of my tears in that kiss.