𝕞𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕓𝕖𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 || 𝚅𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚎 𝙷𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛

31. "men are bitches too."

The first thing we do once we do have enough energy to get up from our beds is clean Mia's room. It takes us about thirty minutes to clear up everything, including making the bed and packing the sleeping bags. There are leftover cupcakes from yesterday night, which we decide to have as breakfast once we brush our teeth. The house is much more crowded than it was yesterday, so we all brush our teeth in Mia's room and take turns in showering. Gigi and I shower first because we need to get home and after us Amira, who's driving us home.

After dressing up and putting my shoes on, I leave Mia's room to check if the main bathroom's free so I can do my hair because it has a bigger mirror than the one in Mia's room and Amira is in the bathroom. Luckily it is, so I go in and close the door behind me. I take my hair out of the messy bun it's in and attempt to make a decent ponytail. I decided against doing my make-up because I'm already doing it this evening, so it's pointless. I don't look too bad, anyways.

I'm excited for tonight. I've been looking forward to it since forever and I'm ready for a good party. I need one actually. What better way to get over a guy if not friends and drinks?

I open the door when I'm ready to head downstairs for breakfast, but instead of finding a clear way, there's Vinnie who's leaning on the wall staring at the opposite wall. His face lights up when he sees me and he stands up straight and takes a few steps to be closer to me.

"Hey." He says and I can tell he has been waiting for a while. How nice of him my subconscious says with an eye roll.

"Hi." I say, hoping he gets the dismissal in my voice. I try to walk right past him but before I can, he speaks up.

"Lena, I swear I can explain. Just let me." Vinnie pleads. I almost immediately tell him I forgive him because I can tell by his voice that he has a good excuse for this.

But I'm not going to crawl under any man's feet. Not even Vinnie's. He needs to think I'm completely over him, even though I apologized to him yesterday and I hugged him. That's totally in the past.

But instead of walking away, since I do care to hear his excuse, I cross my arms and wait for him to speak, without seeming too interested because I shouldn't be. I think he was expecting me to put up more of a fight because he looks relieved when he sighs before speaking.

"We had stopped talking. I hadn't talked to her since Tuesday evening, the day after the party. She hung out the whole of Tuesday. But she said I was off and I had been for long before that. She said she knew I wasn't over you and I insisted it wasn't true, but she said she wanted out."

He stops talking like this should explain the scene that went down yesterday night. He doesn't pick up where he left and he's looking at me like he's asking if I believe him. I raise my brow as an invitation for him to continue. But he looks down at the floor, with his shoulder raised like it's hard to explain. Luckily he opens his mouth to speak because I would have left angrier than before if he didn't speak.

"She talked to Jack and he told her I was going through some stuff, that's why I was down. So she felt bad she left and that's why she was here."

Jack is a fucked up person. It's the first thing I think. Guilt tripping someone into getting back with someone? How stupid.

"So you couldn't give the girl a proper closure?" I say instead. You can't just let someone walk away from you when, even though you didn't care as much, you know they were trying to work their up to something more serious. Although it was in my favour, it's still a shitty thing to do to someone.

Vinnie shrugs like he now feels a little guilty. "I wasn't really in the mood at that time, but I would have eventually apologized."

"Maybe before you told me you guys were over would have been a better time." I suggest, mocking him. There is a valid explanation for what happened, but it doesn't mean that it still doesn't irritate me to the core that I saw Vinnie's lips on another girl's. It makes me so mad at him because it could have been avoided had he respected the girl enough to give her proper closure. So what, exes are just going to be popping up now and then tying their arm around him and kissing him for unconcluded relationships?