Silver Lace

Silver Lace (4)

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Received at 1:35pm on May 13th 2012.

Unknown number.

"Hi Frankie. I know we don't know each other but I think we REALLY need to talk. My name is Chloe and I need to tell you something regarding your boyfriend Luke. I recommend you meet me today at Starbucks in the City Centre at 4:00pm. Please."

I was shocked when I got this. Of course my brain went into overdrive and I thought of every scenario there is in a situation like this. It was 25 minutes until 5th class, Geography...with Luke. I decided it would be best not to mention the text message and act like everything was normal. 5th lesson came and me, Luke, as well as Amy and Edward who also had this class with us, sat in a row along the back of the room like any other lesson. We took notes of the subject and the lesson ended. Luke asked me if I wanted to go to the movies after College but I told him I had to go give my Aunt a hand installing a TV bracket onto the wall in her new apartment. He looked at my sadly so I promised to text him when I was done so that he could come round to my place. We said our goodbyes at 3:30pm and I jumped into my car and headed downtown.

I arrived at Starbucks and looked around unsure of what to do. Then after standing at the counter for 5 minutes a tall, slim girl game up to me. She was extremely pretty, with long blonde sweeping hair, waist-length. She wore a black leather jacket, some kind of black top underneath, although there was really barely anything there, black skinny jeans and black heeled boots. It was a lot of black. Her eyes were the most unusual colour, like a lilac colour.

"Frankie?" she asked me.

"You must be Chloe?" I asked VERY nervously.

"Yes, can we sit down?"

"Okay so what it this about exactly?"

"Well I need to tell you something and it's not going to be easy...or good news"

"Go on..."

"Luke has been cheating on you...with me"

"WHAT!? THAT GOD DAMN-" I realised people were staring so I lowered my voice, "-son of a bitch has been cheating on me all along even after accusing ME of cheating!?" I was infuriated, I felt like my head was about to explode.

"You've got some nerve asking me to meet you here so you could tell me that!"

"I swear I had no idea he had a girlfriend, I asked him but he kept denying it, I didn't know until a couple of nights ago, Monday to be exact, I had a look through his text messages, you know how a girl gets curious, and I saw some of the messages he sent you."

".......so you really had no idea?"

"None"

"Thank you for telling me this, but I'm so embarrassed"

"Don't be"

"Ok, so I'm gonna go, talk to Luke"

"Yes, good idea. Well bye, you seem like a really great person, you definitely deserve better than Luke"

I smiled at her, and turned to leave.

**********An hour later**********

It took me a while to decide whether to ask Luke to come over or not. After 45 minutes of contemplating it I decided to confront him. I called him and told him I was home. 30 minutes later he arrived.

"Hey babe" he said to me as he entered through my door.

"Is that what you say to Chloe whenever you see her?"

"You know"

"I can't believe after accusing me of sleeping with Jamie I find out you've been cheating yourself all along!"

"I'm sorry..."

"And you're not even denying it either!"

"....no"

"So it is true"

".............yes"

I looked at him, and looked away because I couldn't look at his guilty ace even for a second.

"Just leave, Luke"

"Frankie..."

"I SAID, JUST....just leave, Luke"

And he did.