Groupie to Girlfriend: Indulgence | Zach Abels

Glue

For two weeks, I laid in bed, depressed, while Zach was away playing at their concerts again. We were still broken up and I couldn't understand why at that point. I knew it was kinda unnecessary for me to react that way but I was hurt.

"Blow out your candles." My mom said like I was a five year old child. Except, I wasn't turning five, I was turning eighteen. I blew out my candles. What a fucking cliché.

Samuel sent me a present since he couldn't be there to give it to me. After I opened my presents, Macy said, "I have one last present for you." "Oh, God! What is it?" I questioned and laughed. She brought me to the front door. I opened it to see Zach standing on the porch with a bouquet of flowers in his hands. "I'll leave you two to talk." Macy said and closed the front door behind me.

"What do you want?" I sighed. "Rosie, I want to be with you! I can't stand it anymore!" He exclaimed. I rolled my eyes and responded, "I don't want to be with you." "C'mon, babe. You know that's not true!" He argued. "I'm going to college soon. I'm going to have to put all of my focus on my work. I don't have time for a relationship!" I stated. "If we try, we can make it work. Anything is possible." He assured.

Tears escaped from my eyes. "I don't want to love you, because of what you did. I know it seems unreasonable, how I reacted, but that was how I felt. When I broke up with you the first time, I was afraid and unsure of what might happen, but I changed my mind. It's just that... you made me feel like you're unsure about me. That you're unsure if you love me and if you want to be with me. I just ran away from something we should have talked about instead." I explained. He wiped the tear on my cheek with his thumb and responded, "I know, and I've never regretted doing anything in my life as much as I regret being with someone else. It was dumb and I was upset. I'm so sorry, and I just want things to go back to normal."

"I want to try to make this work, but I don't think it will ever go back to the way it was. You showed me reality, because at first, it was unrealistic love." I stated and hugged him tight. "I'm just glad to have you back. I'll do whatever it takes to make sure we're together." He added. He took my promise ring out of his pocket and slid it on my finger. "I promise-" He began to say. I cut him off, "You've already promised."

"I want to make a new promise... I promise everything I promised before and more. I will never let you feel that way ever again. I will never do anything to hurt you, no matter the circumstances. I honestly don't think you know how much I love you." He said. I kissed him hard and asked, "Can we go somewhere? Just get out of here?" "Yeah, let's go." He replied and smiled at me.

We got in his car and drove to the Omni Chicago Hotel. Room 307 was the room he stayed in every time he was in Chicago. It was kinda like our thing.