When you got to the banquet hall you immediately saw Mel and Ondrej sitting at a table together with nobody else. They saved the table as planned. Jacob was supposed to sit with some of the other guys originally, and Evander was to sit with you, but that changed since the breakup.
You all sat together and chatted until dinner was served, but even when it was served you guys kept talking. The 6 of you had become very close, and for that you were grateful. It was nice to have a tight knit group of friends. You'd never really had that before. Dinner was finished and the dancing portion of the evening was about to begin. Ondrej, Mel, Bianca and Zach all went to go dance.
"Would you like to dance?" Jake asked, looking at you slightly nervously.
"I'd love to! But I'm just going to go to the washroom first, okay?" you replied happily.
"Alright, I'll wait here," he said smiling at you.
You got up and walked toward the bathroom, thinking about how you hoped tonight would be the night Jake asked you out. After you were done doing your business and touching up your makeup, you got a text. You looked at the screen and saw that it was from Evander. What the hell did he want? You opened the text and it said
*Y/N, can you meet me in 10 at the back door? BTW you look great tonight ;)
What the hell? You thought. You replied
*what do you want Eve? I can't, Jake's waiting.
Evander: *Please it's important, will only take a sec.
You: *Meet me there right now. This better be fucking important.
You walk out of the bathroom, palms sweaty and a sick feeling in your stomach. What could he want? Is this a set up? What if he tries to hurt me? No, he wouldn't... But the apartment.... Those were all the negative thoughts you had. This really wasn't a good idea.
You walked to the back door, standing there waiting for about 30 seconds. They seemed like they were hours but there weren't. Evander then showed up, alone.
"thanks for meeting me," he said to you, going in for a hug. You put your hands up to stop him.
"What is it Evander?" you asked, a no-nonsense look on your face and tone in your voice. You only called him by his full name when you were pissed, and that he knew very well.
"I was thinking, we should get back together. We were so great and I miss that," he said, leaning up against the wall so you didn't really have much space.
"Evander are you high right now? You cheated on me! With my best friend! How could you think that I would just come crawling back? NO! It's not happening." you whisper- yelled at him, and turned to walk away.
"Do you know who I am? Nobody says no to be Y/N."
"I do obviously," you say trying again to get away from him.
"Come on baby," he started, trying a new tactic. "It'd be fun. You're so hot." he was too close, breathing down your neck.
"Eve! STOP!" you said loudly and you shoved him.
You ran past him quickly while he was off balance from your shove, and saw Jacob sitting where you left him a while ago.
"I started to think you left out the back door or something," he laughed.
"Sorry... um... lady trouble," you explained, quickly thinking of an excuse as to where you had been for the last 15 minutes. That was the most believable thing that had come to mind, and you knew he would drop it after hearing that.
"Want to dance?" you cheerfully asked, reaching for his hand. He grabbed onto your hand, and you pulled him out onto the dance floor.
The two of you danced for about half an hour until a slow song came on. You put your hands around his neck, and he put his hands around your waist. You were quite close, and you felt safe and happy in Jacob's arms. Towards the end of the song, he was leaning down and you were leaning up and the next thing you know, you were kissing. Not a full on make out session like in the cab but not a little granny kiss. It was passionate, yet appropriate to be doing in front of others. It was wonderful.
The kiss lasted about 15 seconds, and by then the song was done. You looked up into his blue eyes and smiled at him, not needing any words.
"Y/N," he started. "You're the most beautiful girl I've ever laid eyes on. You're funny, sweet, kind, and you have such a big heart." he said. You had tears forming in your eyes by this point.
"Jake, I-"
"Y/N, I think I love you," he told you, and you'd never seen him look that serious before.
"Oh, Jake. I- I'm so sorry, I can't do this," you said, quickly walking away. You were crying pretty hard by now and you had only walked about 5 steps.
"Y/N!" Jacob called after you, but you were running as fast as you could in your heels by now, accidentally shoving into a waiter on your way out.
You ran out into the street crying. You didn't know what the hell had just gotten into you. You wanted to be with Jacob more than anything, it was just that tonight was too much. Part of you- a very small part- missed Eve. Probably because he was your first serious relationship, and when you were together, he did love you with all of his heart. But the other 99% of you hated him, and hated yourself for that 1% of you that didn't. You were lucky that it was such a nice night out, since it was winter in Winnipeg. It was only -3 out, so you were fine without a jacket.
You were bawling your eyes out, and were feeling quite off balance, so you sat down on the curb of the empty street. Still crying, you heard your phone buzz. It was a text from Evander. You didn't bother opening it. You just chucked your phone out into the street.
It was that moment that it started to snow.
A/N: So I really hope you guys like it so far! Thank you so much to those of you reading the story, it means a lot!! This is one of my longer chapters, so I'd really like your feedback whether you prefer them a little longer like this one or on the shorter side like my other chapters. I really got into this chapter so I hope you guys like it, I hope to update again soon within the next couple of days.
Also, and this is SUPER IMPORTANT, I'm not trying to make Evander Kane look like a creepy asshole. Like I said before, he is a good player and I'm sure he's a good guy. It just comes with being the role of the ex boyfriend.
