Hunter

Chapter 5: The Breakup

Saturday had come quicker then thought of, the entire rest of the week Hunter would avoid Alex and stay with her sisters and her now new best friend Torey. Afraid to look into Alex's eyes and believe what her sister Sam told her, but she knew that some day she'd have to look at him and see for herself. It was 6:00 and Alex sat with a cup of hot cocoa waiting for Hunter to walk through the door of Caroline's. The restaurant was empty with another table full with a group of three people. Hunter arrives in her motorcycle and parks in the front by the door, in case something goes wrong. She takes the keys out of the motorcycle and takes off her helmet, which has a Go-Pro attached to it, she takes off the Go-Pro and puts it in her backpack and walks into the restaurant, meeting Alex at the table. A waitress wearing a white t-shirt tucked into a pair of black pants walks up to Alex and Hunter.

"Here's a menu for you and can I get you anything to drink?" the waitress asks as she hands Hunter the menu.

"Here's a menu for you and can I get you anything to drink?" the waitress asks as she hands Hunter the menu.

"Just a glass of water please." Hunter asks. The waitress leaves and comes back a few minutes later with a glass of ice water with a lemon slice on the side of the water glass. The waitress leaves and Hunter takes a sip of the water.

"So how's the rest of your week been since you know you've been avoiding me for some unknown reason." Alex says to break the awkward silence.

"It's been good, well as good as any week would be when you find out your boyfriend is cheating on you." Alex spits out his sip of his hot cocoa into his cup. Alex tries to thinking quickly of what he's going to say.

"What are you talking about? I've always been faithful to you Hunter, that's more then I can say you have been." Alex throws back at her.

"Excuse me?" Hunter sets down the menu and looks straight into Alex's green eyes.

"I know you've cheated on me before, I'm not blind Hunter. Ever since that new guy from Sophomore year came you've acted weird around him. What was his name again? Oh yeah that's right, his name was Oliver."

"Sure I cheated on you, but I kissed the guy twice then ended it, you've been with that new girl Amber since she came to Fernwood."

"How do you even know about her?"

"You really want to ask that question? I have two sisters and a best friend, I have eyes all over the school why do you think people fear me? I have shit on everyone. I can take down anyone at that school with a single whisper. Don't even try to redeem yourself because you won't be able to." Hunter grabs her backpack and pulls out her keys.

"What are you doing? We aren't done here." Alex asks with concern look on his face.

"We are done Alex. I don't want to see or hear from you ever again. If I hear the smallest whisper about you wanting to come back to me, I'll make sure you never see me again."

"Hunter wait" Alex grabs Hunter arm and pulls her close to him.

"No Alex!" Hunter yells. The group of three stop eating their food to watch everything unfold. The cooks and the waiters stop and look as well. "I can't stand to look at someone who even had the thought on cheating on me, and the fact that you lied about it and tried to turn it back on me. If you had admitted to it, like I did, there may have been a small chance that this could've stayed but since you felt like you needed to be better than me, I can't be with someone like that. So goodbye Alex." Hunter grabs her keys and walks out of the restaurant. Alex sits back down and waves down the waitress for the check.

Hunter starts up her bike and starts driving away from the restaurant, but instead of driving back home she drives to a light blue house with a small front yard. The house has an outline of white around the front door and the windows. In the driveway was a silver prius with large red words saying "REDINK INSURANCE". Hunter parked her bike in front and walked up to the door of the house and knocked on the door. The door had an oval shaped glass window, but it was definitely not for looking out at people. You could barely see anything in the house except for silhouettes. The porch light was off and so was most of the house lights, except for a small dimmed light on in the distant. "She's probably either not home or asleep." Hunter thought and started heading back to her bike, when all of the sudden the door opened with Torey standing in long light pink pajama pants and a long pink shirt with letters saying "Not a morning person".

"Hunter? Is everything ok? I thought you were going to dinner with Alex tonight." Hunter turned around tear filled eyes with red surrounding her light blue pupils. "Hunter? Come here." Torey opens her arms and Hunter runs into them hugging her. Sobbing Hunter starts to speak, but Torey couldn't understand it because it was muffled by her pajamas. "Come on inside, you shouldn't drive home." Torey leads Hunter into her house and closes the front door.