Safe In Your Arms

Wrong

I woke up with a headache.

"Awe man" I said, getting up. I sat on my bed and blinked. I ran my fingers through my hair, got up from bed and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth.

I put my hair up in a messy bun. I didn't want to do anything today.

I remembered everything that I was remembering yesterday and I felt sad. All the feelings I thought I had gotten over, were back.

I especially remembered the day after. It was like if it was just yesterday.
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School was the worst. I didn't want to go. I knew that the moment that Michael would see me, he was going to try to talk to me, and I didn't want to hear anything that he had to say.

As I walked to Bri's car, I felt a rush of sadness and embarrassment mixed together. I had to tell my best friend that my boyfriend of three years had cheated on me.

"Hey lye" Bri said with a big smile.

"Hey" I said quietly, trying not to look her in the eye.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

I sat quietly. I felt like if I talked I was going to cry. I looked out the window and shook my head like saying 'nothing'.

"C'mon lye, what's wrong?" She asked again.

I turned to look at her and immediately broke down.

"Bri, Mike cheated on me." I said crying.

"WHAT? NO, WAIT WHAT?" She said surprised.

"Yes, he cheated on me Bri, I broke up with him last night."

"What happened? Why? How do you know? Oh my gosh." She said confused and surprised.

I spent the whole way to school telling her what had happened.

We parked at the school parking lot.

"We don't have to go, if you don't want to." Bri said.

"What do you mean? We can't just ditch." I said.

"It's only once lye, it's not that bad, plus, I don't think you wanna be near you know who." She said.

"You're right, but where do we go?" I asked.

"My house? I don't think my parents would mind if we're there."

"Okay yeah." I said.

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Four o'clock.

"I should get going" I told Bri. "You're parents will get here any minute and I don't wanna be a bother."

"You're never a bother lye." She said.

"Of course, you have to say that." I said laughing.

"I'll see you later, thanks for being there for me Bri." I said giving her a hug.

"Always will be." She said.

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I got home.

I didn't feel good at all. I was coming down with a cold and my heart was broken.

"Great." I thought.

Empty house.

"As always" I thought. It seemed like everyone had a life, except for me. Sad.

I decided to go for a run. I didn't want to stay home alone, because the only thing I would do was think about last night and I didn't want to do that. I also loved to see the palm trees that lined up along the rode where I ran.

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Sweat running down my back, and music blasting through my headphones.

"Perfect" I thought.

I loved afternoon runs, they were the best.

I stopped to catch my breath.

I felt someone grab my arm.

I turned around.

Great. It was Michael.

"Lye, we need to talk."

"We don't need to talk about anything."

"Yes we do, please lye I don't wanna lose you, I love you."

"You should've thought of that before Mike."

"Lye I was drunk, I didn't know what I was doi-"

"It's too late" I said cutting him off.

I started running again an left him behind.
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I got home.

Tears filled my eyes. I just wish I could turn back time.

I'd go back and tell Michael how much I love him and how much he meant to me. Maybe that way he never would've done what he did and we still could've been happy, together.

Later that night, I heard something hit my window.

I walked over to it and saw Michael.

"Oh no" I thought.

"Lye" he yelled.

"Lye c'mon I know you're there, I saw you."

"Lye c'mon we need to talk."

"I'm not leaving until you come out here."

Oh my gosh he needs to stop yelling, people are going to hear him. I thought. But then again, he's embarrassing himself so I really don't care.

"Lye please."

I kept hearing him throughout the night, until one of the neighbors called the police and they came and told him to leave.
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A couple weeks passed by, Michael still kept trying to get back with me, but it would be stupid of me to accept him.

"If he cheated on me once, he'll do it again." I thought.

Months passed by and I was still an emotional wreck.

I just couldn't get over it. Michael was my everything. I had made the mistake of putting my happiness in his hands.

I didn't want to do anything, if it was without him.

My days were long and boring without him, and to make matters worse, the weather had been cold and rainy for the longest time.

My life was a mess. I knew I had to get over him. But how?

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"And I still haven't" I thought.
At least I was over being sad over it.

I was happy now.

I got up off my bed and went down stairs and plopped down on the couch.

I didn't want to shower. "I'll do it later" I said.

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30 minutes into watching 'Orange Is The New Black' I called Bri to see what she was doing.

"Hello." She said.

"Hey, what you doing?"

"Nothing much just woke up ha"

"Come over, I haven't had breakfast yet."

"Ok."
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I hung out with Bri all day. We decided to go get ready and go to the mall to get mani pettis and get last minute things for graduation tomorrow. I was going to miss her so much. I didn't want her to go for the summer.

Bri was like a sister to me. We were always together. We were inseparable.