My Boyfriend's Girlfriend

02

Scrolling through my phone was the first thing I did when I woke up early at the weekends. Checking my social medias and seeing the beautiful and funny pictures people had posted made me laugh. But there was one picture that did not make me happy. On my feed, one of Leo's friends had posted a picture from the night before where all of them were hanging out at his place just to drink - including Leo. 

If this had happened in some other day, my first reaction would have been commenting on the photo with something funny. Instead, I closed the app and called Leo immediately. I was boilling with rage. I didn't even care about the fact that I would probably be waking him up since he slept until late on Saturdays. I needed to talk to him in that exact moment.

Maybe this is just a misundestanding. The soft spot on my brain was trying to calm me down but my wrath was taking over all my rational thoughts.

"V? Why are you calling me so early?" He said with a raspy and sleepy voice.

"What were you doing last night during my performance?" I fired immediately, catching him off guard. I knew I sounded like a maniac or a crazy stalker girlfriend but in that moment I didn't care.

"Uh? What do you mean?" I was sure he was furrowing his eyebrows. I could almost see his face in front of me even through the phone call.

"Last night. The night of my final ballet performance. The performance I had told you that meant the world to me. The one I bought you a ticket for. The one where the closest people of my life were there to support me - except you"

"Yeah...something came up..." He slowly pronounced the words.

"And that something was a night where you decided to get drunk with your friends for the third time this week?" My cheeks were burning and I felt a knot in my throat. I was disappointed, angry and sad at the same time.

"It's just- Sebastian had the house available and I was with them and we ended up in his place and decided to stay there. I didn't know it was such a big deal for you for me to show up to your performance."

"How could you not know? We're a couple who supports each other, it has always been like this. And I kept telling you over and over again how important this was in my life. This is my dream. And you...you just didn't care and decided to spend the night getting drunk with your friends who you see every single day" I tried my hardest for my voice not to break. A few tears were already falling from my eyes. 

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to be with my friends. You always say how important it is for us to spend time with our friends" 

"And it is! And I would totally feel happy for you in any other day. But not yesterday night. I wanted my boyfriend there in that special night and you disappointed me."

"Sorry, V. I don't know what else to say"

We stayed silent for a few seconds. I didn't know what to say either. All I knew is that I was filled with sad feelings and didn't wanna talk to him anymore. 

"We'll talk soon"

"I'm sorry" He said once again before hanging up. 

I threw my pillow across the room and hid my face in my hands. Maybe I was being overdramatic. Maybe I wasn't and he had really deserved to hear the hurt in my voice. 

I wanted to text Skylar and talk to her about it but at the same time I didn't want to give her any more reasons to think badly of Leo. No matter how mad I was at him, he was still my boyfriend and I still liked him. He had made me happy in several other moments. I could text Dylan too but I didn't want him to have a bad impression of his friend. I wasn't rational and I knew that all that would come out of my mouth would be bad things about Leo that I didn't actually mean and I would regret it later.

So I let the sadness consume me from the inside, curled up in a ball and fell asleep in a desperate attempt to forget about my weeping heart.

***

I drove up to his house. I felt like I had overreacted and I wanted to apologise but my emotions still kept telling me that I had every right to react the way I had. I just wanted my boyfriend back and I wanted my amazing relationship to go back to normal.

My parents didn't know I had argued with Leo so when I told them I was gonna drive up to his place, they just told me to have fun. They probably assumed we were going on a date but things weren't too happy between him and me and I wanted to change that as soon as possible.

I took a deep breath and played the words I was gonna tell him again in my mind.
I'm so sorry for reacting that way. I was too emotional and felt hurt and I wasn't thinking straight. Please don't let my overreaction come between us

I wanted things to be okay between us so I decided to swallow my pride, got out of the car and walked to his front door. I clenched my fist and took a deep breath before knocking. I was still a bit hurt but I was thinking about our relationship and decided to be rational about my decision. It was for the best.

I waited a few seconds but nobody answered the door so I knocked again. He would always tell me only to ring the doorbell as a last resource since the sound was too high pitched and it would usually startle his family.

"Leo? It's me, I came to apologize" I shouted from the outside, hoping he would open the door once he realized it was me. But still, I got no response.

Maybe he was out and since he was the only person in the house for the weekend, nobody else could answer the door. He had told me his parents had gone to spend the weekend at a hotel for a short vacation and had told me to show up whenever I wanted to...that had been before our little fight.

As a last try, I rang the doorbell and a few seconds later the door finally opened. However, instead of being greeted by my boyfriend, there was a girl with a smile on her face standing in front of me. She had platinum hair and I immediately noticed how perfect the waves of her hair looked like.

"Hi! I'm so sorry, Leo is in the shower and I had my headphones on so I couldn't hear the door" Her smile was perfect. "Is there anything I can help you with? Are you looking for Leo?"

I tilted my head trying to figure out if this was one of his friends but her face didn't seem familiar to me. I had no idea why there was a stranger in my boyfriend's house. I was so confused that I ended up forgetting to reply to the questions she had made because I was the one who had a question for her instead.

"I'm sorry but who are you?"

She shook her head and extended her hand for me to shake.

"I don't think we've met before. I'm Brooklyn, I'm Leo's girlfriend!" She said.

And for a second my heart stopped.