Boundless

1.34

"I feel like you're breaking up with me and I don't know why."

Miguel crossed his arms over his chest, looking up at Lúcia, who was standing up in her work attire with a tray under her arm. He sunk deeped into the sofa, refusing to stop staring at her until he got a reply.

He thought it would be nice of him to stop at his girlfriend's work place to surprise her. It was getting late and perhaps she would like to have dinner with him. Having a movie night was also on the menu. Instead, he was greeted with a frown.

"I'm not!" she replied. "I just think that you need to get your priorities straight."

He blinked. "They are straight. See, work number one so I can buy you nice things, school number two so I get a good job so I can buy you nice things... and go out to parties..."

"See! You're all parties and whatnot. I'm not. Maybe we don't work as well as you think."

"What are you even mad about?" he complained. "We were perfectly fine a couple of weeks ago. Now everything is an issue."

"Oh, so now I'm the one making the issues?" she asked.

Miguel hid his face behind his hands in frustration and let out a low grunt. She was the one crossing her arms now, waiting for an excuse. He pulled himself forward on the sofa, to be closer to her, and held his hands together.

"Let's think this through, okay?"

"Sure," she said, and took the sit in front of his, laying the tray on her lap.

"You don't like that I enjoy partying?"

She shook her head. "It's that you're always out clubbing. We're too different."

He was getting really mad at that expression. They'd been together for months and she had never said it. He hadn't changed his behaviour, and neither had she, and they worked. They had worked since the first day.

"Because I like clubbing?"

"And so many other things."

"Why is that bad?" he asked. "We can be different and like each other. I don't see the problem. Unless you don't like me anymore."

"That's not it," said Lúcia. "I just think that you would be happier with someone you had more in common with."

"Oh, for fuck's sake," he complained, getting up. "I'm happy with you. Why would I want someone else? If you're done with the relationship, just say it."

"I'm not. I'm just worried you'll get bored of me."

"Why would I get bored of you?"

She shrugged. "I don't know."

"Then why think it?"

She shook her head. He already knew what it was. Lúcia had spent the past few days looking weirdly at him every time he was with Jenny. He assumed she was what Lúcia would consider similar to him, only because they liked parties.

"Do you still want to have dinner?" she asked. "My shift is almost over."

He took a deep breath, staring at the door. He just wanted to go home and lay on the sofa eating takeout. Being with Lúcia was becoming worse by the day. They couldn't be together without having some kind of argument. Yet, he still wanted to make it work.

"Yeah, let's go."

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Alice had chosen her favourite lavender dress to match her freshly dyed hair. It was long-sleeved and had little white flowers all over, but didn't keep her warm enough, so she paired it with the first jacket she could find.

She hoped she wasn't too overdressed for the occasion, but she wanted to look pretty. Giovanni would compliment her once he saw her. He had too.

"Hey," she sing sang, lingering next to the table he had taken at the library.

His head snapped up immediately to look at her. A bright smile covered his face as he took her in. There was nothing Alice loved more than that smile.

"Hey, you," he greeted, and stood up. He pressed his lips against hers quickly before sitting back down. "New hair colour, huh?"

She looked down in embarrassment, even though that was the comment she had expected. Now he had to tell her she looked beautiful.

"I needed a change. Do you like it?"

"Of course I do. You look gorgeous, as always."

She smiled, unable to look him in the eye, and sat on the chair in front of him. It was just another study date like the ones they had done before, but it was their first study date as a couple, and that made her nervous.

"So, Andrew is back," he said, making her freeze. "I know you don't want to talk about it, but you were still living in his house when he left, and now he's here and..."

"We haven't talked. Since I got my place before he came back, we didn't cross paths, and he didn't reach out to me."

Alice had finally landed a job in as a cashier and rented a room in a house full of university girls. It had been a relief at first, finally leaving Andrew's home, but then Nicole made it sound like he wasn't coming back, and she worried.

"Well, he has just. I'm sure he'll ask you about the key and all of that."

She nodded slowly. "Yeah."

"You sound sad."

"No, it's just... Things are okay between us, but it's always weird." She heaved a sigh and added. "But not because I liked him once, but because I'll never be able to forget that Nicole slept with him knowing how I felt."

He held her hands. "You don't have to forgive and forget. You just have to focus on yourself instead of them, and move on."

She nodded, looking at their intertwined fingers. He has seen her at her worst, crying over a boy who didn't love her and a friend who had wronged her. He has seen her paranoid, thinking she was damaged goods. And yet, he chose with her.

"Yeah, I'll try. I got you now, and I got Carol. That's all I need."

Tiny filler chapter before the end.

Hope you like it x