Never Truly Lost |L.H.|

2: "I just wanted to apologize."

Luke

- After School-

"Umm... okay, I guess. It was nice meeting you." She says.

"You as well....bye." I start to walk backwards to get one last gaze at her and I knock over a freaking trash can. Nice, Luke. "Bye." I repeat.

"Bye." She says one last time.

I turn to continue on my way home. I turn the corner and I start to hit my forehead with my palm several times. "Well, I'm smooth. Great first impression, Luke." I say to myself. I'm usually so calm around girls, I don't know what's going on with me.

"Luke."

"No, Nicole. I've had enough of your scolding for today."

"Stop complaining and let me speak." She demands. "Why were you talking to her?" I could practically see smoke coming out of her ears.

"I knocked her over, and I just wanted to apologize." I explain. "Why do you care, you jealous of a random girl?" I bite back.

"I'm not jealous. You don't apologize to Nobody's, got it?" She practically yells. Usually I just say 'okay' and end it there, but I'm tired of Nicole and her rules. She's always beating me down to be her little minion. She thinks she rules me and my life. Well, not anymore. "Got it, Luke!?" She repeats impatiently.

"You know what? No! I haven't 'got it'! I'm tired of your stupid, controlling rules! I'm done with you! I'm done with us! I don't want to talk to you ever again!" I yell, standing up for myself like any man should.

She looks slightly wounded, but she still has her angry expression. "Are you...breaking up with me?" She asks.

"Well, it sure looks like that, doesn't it?"

"No, you're not doing that. I won't have it!" She yells in my face, thinking she can get anything she wants.

"Oh, I'm doing this, something without your consent! Go screw yourself, Nicole." I bite back as I walk away. She tries to pull me back to her, but I gather all of my strength and I escape her strong grip on my forearm with a yank of my arm, and continue walking.

I hear her slightly sobbing. I don't like to make her cry, but she deserved a consequence for her actions. She lost me, and she's not getting me back. I already had to put up with her cheating on me twice, and I caught her making out with several guys at parties, all drunken up.

I make it back to my house, and I get ready for work. I change from my Blink 182 shirt into my Hungry Howie's Pizza polo. As I walk out the house, I get a text from John.

"John: Dude, if ur headin to work u should get me a pizza xD"

I reply with a simple 'maybe', and head back out to my car. I don't drive my car to school since I'm only five blocks away, so I get some exercise. I have to use my car for work because I'm a delivery boy.

I back out of the driveway, and head down the road. About half way to work I see a pair of girls outside throwing snowballs at each other. It turned out to be Julee and her friend. They were pushing each other into snow banks and laughing their butts off. I smile slightly as I pass by.