Inspired song: Take Care by Drake and Rihanna
I know you've been hurt by someone else
I can tell by the way you carry yourself
If you let me, here's what I'll do
I'll take care of you
I've loved and I've lost
I sat on my best friend's bed, hugging her as she cried on my shoulder. All because her boyfriend cheated on her, again. So she broke up with him, again. I wish she'd stop getting back with him, and let me kick his ass. I wish she could see that I love her. I would take care of her, I would treat her so much better.
"Nicole, it's gonna be okay." I rub up and down her back.
"No it's not. I love him." She cries. They've been together on and off since Nicole was eighteen, she's twenty-three now. I'm twenty four.
"Maybe it just wasn't meant to be. You should try moving on." I encourage her.
"I don't want to move on!" She yells.
"He keeps hurting you, Nikki." I try to reason.
"I can't move on." She disagrees.
"I'll be here for you, every step of the way." I tell her.
"Oh yeah, how?"
"Give me a chance, Nikki, I can make you happy." I tell her.
"Maybe it's best we quit hanging out for a while. He thinks I'm hooking up with you behind his back anyway, that's why he is hooking up with other girls. And now you're saying you have a crush on me?" She gets angry.
"We've been friends since we were five, that's almost twenty years. You're gonna throw everything away for this douche bag?" I ask.
"He's not. I need him." She tells me. "Get out!"
"Twenty years, Nicole! I don't have a crush on you, I love you! I'm in love with you and it hurts to see you like this!" I yell, standing up. "So much for time and memories."
I walk out of her apartment, slamming the door. I didn't bother to get my stuff, she can keep it! I'm done with all of it.
-Two Weeks Later-
Pushing me away so I give her space, ah
Dealing with a heart that I didn't break
I'll be there for you, I will care for you
I keep thinking you just don't know
Even though I'm trying not too, I still care. I'm dying to pick up the phone and call her, message her. I want to go hang out with her so bad, but I can't. She doesn't want to see me anymore, she's happy with him now. They got back together two days after we quit talking, a mutual friend told me.
Nicole is back with Jackson. As always. This time, I'm not there anymore, just like both of them wanted.
To be honest, I haven't slept a full night in these two weeks, I've barely eaten anything. I just can't. Imagine losing your best friend of twenty years. You'd be like this too, especially when you've been in love with them for half of that time, well not that long. I had a crush on her since we were fifteen, but it went beyond that around the time we were seventeen.
She's blinded by 'love' and doesn't see he's hurting her on purpose. He doesn't love her.
I was snapped out of my thoughts by a text from Anthony, one of my friends.
