Glad You Could Make It - Ricky and Nini Oneshots

An Ego Thing

An Ego Thing

A door slammed. Loud footsteps. Tossed keys and jackets. Deep breaths.

All evidence of a fight brewing between a high school couple.

Neither party will give in first. It's an ego thing. Neither can stand a compromise. Someone has to win.

The young man yanks his hands through his curly hair as he watches the young woman sitting on her bed, anger brewing inside her.

He waits for her to make the first move, even though he can no longer stand to sit in the tense silence. She shifts in her seat, crossing and uncrossing her legs, her hands gripping the comforter beneath her.

It's not a battle over something stupid like it normally is. Ignored text messages. Forgotten study dates. Missed calls.

This is much more serious.

A secret.

Finally, he gives in.

"Nini, why didn't you just tell me?" He whispered, clearly hurt from the situation.

"I knew it would cause a fight like this, I didn't want to get hurt." She mumbled back, hiding her tears.

"Were you just never going to tell me?" He said back, his volume growing.

Nini didn't say anything, just kept her eyes trained forward as the tears rolled down her cheeks. She sniffled softly, "I was going to tell you, I was waiting for the right time."

"When was the right time, Nini? Graduation?"

"I was going to tell you soon, Ricky, I swear. I didn't want you to find out this way."

Ricky sighed, sitting down on the bed next to her, resisting the urge to grab her hand. "Is there a reason you were waiting to tell me?" he said softly.

"It was my decision. It wasn't that important, and it's none of your concern."

"Not that important? None of my concern? Neens, we're in a relationship, this kind of stuff is my concern."

"See this is why I didn't want to tell you," Nini huffed, getting up from the bed and walking over to her desk, with her back to Ricky. "I knew you'd make it all about yourself."

"How am I making this about me?" Ricky said, getting frustrated again standing up from the bed to face her. Nini didn't say anything. "Exactly" Ricky scoffed.

Silence.

"I knew you'd get mad at me like this. That's why I didn't tell you. You wouldn't support my decision." Nini said, breaking the silence.

Ricky was shocked at her words, "It's not that I don't support your decision. That's not it at all."

"Then I don't understand why you're so upset!" Nini yelled.

"I'm upset because this entire year I thought I'd be spending my next four years at college with the love of my life when actually she wanted nothing to do with me."

"You think I want nothing to do with you?"

"Why else would you not want to go to school with me?" Ricky shrugged softly, not meeting Nini's eyes. "If you want to go to college somewhere else that's fine, but leading me to believe that we were on the same path for an entire year when that wasn't the case hurts, Nini. It fucking hurts."

"You must hate me..."

"It's not that I hate you, I could never hate you. I just hate that it hurts. And I'm sure it hurts you too." Ricky said and Nini nodded.

"It's not that I don't want you Ricky... but I've spent my entire life with you. I wanted to be by myself for a bit. I love you so much, but I don't want to go to another place where I'm still known as 'Ricky's girlfriend'. I want to be my own person."

"You were never just my girlfriend, Nini. If anything, I'm YOUR boyfriend." Ricky chuckled, hoping to lighten the mood.

"And I guess the reason I didn't tell you I was going to a different college was that I couldn't accept the fact that I was going to be away from you for the first time ever." Nini admitted, "It's a weird thing. I want to be with you for the rest of my life and I love you so much, but at the same time, I want to be my own person."

"You can be your own person and still love me, you know?" Ricky assured her. "I just wish you had told me."

"I wish I told you, too."

"We'll be okay, Nini."

"We'll be okay."

*****

It's not that important

It's none of your concern

But you got angry

And said some angry words

It's not that I hate you

I hate that it hurt

There's nothing else to it

I can't do anything more

*****

I literally only wrote this so I could move on to the next song. Vote and comment! Please. Also sorry for not writing for like 2 months lol. College applications are a bitch.