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Chapter 23: A world falls apart.

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Chapter 21: A world falls apart.

"Hey Rebecca! I'm home." I went inside the house.

"I'm here!" Rebecca said in a mild tone.

"Where?" I spun around. She was sitting on the couch, a blanket rolled up over here and she was watching TV-Chronicles of Narnia.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Where were you the whole fucking night?" She sneezed.

"Sheesh! You got cold. You want me to make some soup for you?"

"Yeah. That would do." She coughed.

"And cough too." I muttered. "Why are you home?" I asked her as I entered the kitchen.

"You want me to go out and spread these germs?" She asked sarcastically.

"No, I mean. Why aren't you with Jake?" I poured the water into the vessel and tore open the soup packet.

'We broke up." I heard her say.

"Wh-at?!" I rushed to her, with the scissors still in my hand.

"We broke up." She shrugged.

"I'm sorry." I whispered. Rebecca and Jake looked...so good together. I mean, not made for each other type but the cheerleading captain along with the football captain- a perfect match right.

"Yeah me too." She changed the channel to Comedy Central.

"What happened?" I asked as I sat beside her.

"I don't know. We...just lost interest, I guess." She shrugged again.

"Who broke up?" I asked softly.

"No one actually. I mean, we didn't break up right now, now."

"What do you mean?" I crunched my eyebrows together.

"Long story."

"I got time."

"When someone says its a long story it normally means they don't want to talk about it." She narrowed her eyes.

"Oh, does it now?" I stared at her, clearing showing I won't give up.

She took a deep breath, "See, it was going on well but two months earlier, we drifted apart. I did not have that urge to always talk to him and neither did he. In fact, he even started hanging out with some other girl. But that jealousy I should have felt was missing so, we no longer hanged out and I assumed we broke up."

"Then why are you telling this to me now?"

"It is official now. I went out on a date with Tyler today. That's where I started sneezing. Idiotic germs." She looked in front. I did not say anything and continued to let this sink in. I thought finally she was settling down. Till college at least but no. If this was in anyway Jake's fault, I swear to God I'll break his nose. Nevertheless, Rebecca never said anything about him. But she did look like she was crazy about him. She even dismissed the cheerleading squad for him once. See, this proves her amount of craziness for him. But I guess, her feelings faded. It has happened before.

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"I love you." She said.

"I love you too." He said before she could complete her sentence.

"But...not in that way anymore." She said and he froze in his place.

"What do you mean?" He asked through gritted teeth.

"I mean, we should end this." She said and took a deep breath, preparing herself for his wrath.

"End this?!" He hissed.

"Look, I'm sorry but I guess you aren't the one for me."

"The one for you?! What has gotten into your head Carolina? Is it because of Stephanie?" He asked, moving forward towards her.

"No, no. Stephanie and you...no. I know you cannot do something like this to me. It's me James, not you." She tried to assure him.

"Of course it is me! You are the one breaking up with me!" He shouted.

"No, it's not. I...don't feel for you the same way as before. I guess it was a phase."

"A phase?!" He turned over the table and threw the vase on the ground. She winced and stepped back.

"You call being in love for nine years a phase?! You call getting married a phase?! You call having two kids a phase?!"

"I know it'll be hard for you James but you are better than that. I know you will get over me." She said before she turned around. Her luggage was already packed.

"Carolina." He said as he was panting.

"Yes?" She turned around.

"Don't bother sending the divorce papers. You will have them at your doorstep tomorrow morning." He spat and disappeared into the house.

She opened the door and closed it behind her.

"Mom." I whispered through the creak of the door.

I did not sit up straight in my bed, or jerk up. I just opened my eyes to a dark room and sobbed. This was the worst memory of mine and I knew why it came today. Today was the day when Mom left the house. Today was the day when Dad and Mom separated. Today was also the day when my Mom and Dad, two teenagers' crazy for each other, got married. Exactly nineteen years earlier.

I sobbed and wiped those tears off. This was a yearly tradition and you might be thinking I would have gotten over it soon. It was almost a decade ago! Ten years is a damn long time but I do not function that way. Time cannot heal me. If broken once, I cannot be repaired and this part of my heart is broken, rusted. It can never be complete again.

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If you ask me, I think Emily's mom seriosuly needs some help! She left such a perfect guy, I mean, look at their children, brains and beauty, alas! Mistakes!

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