A Glimpse of Forever

August 2012 - Hiding Out

Chapter 16

August 2012 - Hiding Out

I am the type of person who would hide my feelings from someone to avoid a conflict. I hated arguing and fighting. It wasn’t the best way to deal with things but I’ve gotten by, up until now. I didn’t realise I was dating someone who communicates with me when something is wrong. He actually wants to talk things through, who does that? I was perfectly fine with ignoring all our issues and surviving happily. No, that wasn’t an option that Chris was okay with.

Okay, so Chris and I had our first real fight. It wasn’t something that I would call, ‘real’ but it was our first official fight as a couple. He got upset at me because of how much time I spend with my friends. By friends, he meant Ryan. It was a complete over-reaction. I wasn’t going to stop talking to Ryan  and spending time with a friend because Chris was jealous. There was no need to worry, it wasn’t like anything was going to happen, honestly. Why can’t Chris just bloody trust me? I was so frustrated. Just because I had feelings for the guy once upon a time didn’t mean I still felt the urge to jump him. Chris needed to understand that.

Of course, the first person I call is Soph. I needed to get out and have some fresh air but Sophie was too busy with her own boy drama to take some time out with me. Everyone had their own stuff to deal with and I didn’t know where else to go.

I knocked on the door, hoping that he was home, luckily he was. Ryan opened his door, “Amelia, hey”

“Hey, are you busy?”

“Nope”

“Cool, is it cool I stay the night?”

“Um, sure…”

I walked in, placing my bag next to the door, “Cool, thanks”

“Why…” Ryan shut the door and turned to face me, “…do you need to stay here the night?”

“Oh, Chris and I had a fight and I don’t want to go home”

Ryan nodded as if it all made sense now. I was glad that I could depend on him in my time of need. I know that it would make Chris crazy that I came here but I couldn’t be bothered fighting with him all night and I didn’t really want to go anywhere else. Ryan was still my friend and despite the fact that I was now dating Chris, I wasn’t about to give up my friendship with him. I would never do anything with Ryan. It’s not like I have over emotional feelings for him, he was just my friend. Ryan was the only other one that I trusted like I trust Sophie. I sometimes (all the time) have trouble opening up to people and trusting them. It took Soph and me the whole 12 years that we’ve known each other to get where we are. I was surprised that I trusted Ryan so quickly actually. It seemed so natural with him, I didn’t have to pretend or try so hard.

That night, Ryan set up the couch so I had somewhere to sleep. He made me a hot chocolate and put on  a movie, I think it was the Disney movie Tangled. It was something that Sophie and I had in common, our love for Disney movies. It was the perfect cure to a ‘sad day’.

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I was going to go home the next day and attempt to work things out with Chris but Ryan said that he would take me to the zoo, which was one of my favourite places in the world. Chris could wait one more day, right?

I always loved the zoo. We spent all day there, looking at every animal possible. Some kid ran into me and spilt his ice-cream on me, I had a huge chocolate stain on my shirt, great. Ryan thankfully bought me a t-shirt to wear so I didn’t have to go through the torture of wearing the sticky other one. He just had to buy me the brightest pink one he could find, didn’t he? I swear, one day I am going to lose it and kill him.