THE ONE

1. ALCOHOL

"Jason, I'm so wasted. Can I tell you something?"

That was my friend Sophie. She really has no measure with alcoholic drinks. That's why I always try not to drink that much. I need to drive us back home.

"What is it?" I ask. She always ends up saying the stupidest things when she's drunk. I don't know how her boyfriend deals with her problems when she's sober. She never talks to me about them. And I don't mind at all. You know us guys; we do not talk about feelings. We feel them. But we can never show them to just anyone. And Sophie is the person I can laugh with, but we never exchange our perspective on real things such as problems.

That's why I'm surprised when she says: "I'm so sad. I called you out so I could get drunk and forget the whole thing but it's still the only thing on my mind." I became worried, so I looked her deep into her brown eyes. They were just like the colour of my morning coffee; dark, but sweet. It's like her eyes were a paradox. They spilled out the truth that something isn't quite okay. 

"I don't know how to tell you this but I cheated on Daniel. He doesn't know that I did it." That really surprised me. She seemed so disappointed in herself. I knew the feeling of being cheated on and the one who cheated on someone else. Both were a bad feeling, so I pulled her closer into a hug. She started crying on my shoulder and I just pet her brown hair. As her sniffs became less and less common I started to calm her down: "I know it's not a pleasant feeling, but don't keep it a secret. Confront him about it. The relationship might be ruined but you're going to get yourself doubly cheated if you don't face him with the truth. That's what I did. And I lost the most important person in my life while keeping it a secret."

Her face was filled with surprise. As I said; we never really talk about our feelings. But I guess there's no going back now. I need to tell someone.