Break Your Promise // Josh Dun

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I clicked on the button to open the elevator, as I walk in with the random guy and press on the button that took me to my floor.

"I'm Josh by the way" he says out of nowhere, I'm guessing because of how awkward it got after what happened.

"I'm Emma" I say and look up at him to see him flashing his pearly whites, it was quite adorable to be honest. I couldn't help but smile back, but another part of me was telling me not to think about how cute and nice he was for offering to help me.

A relationship was something I certainly didn't need at the moment, I fall in love easily. Don't get me wrong though, I love the feeling of falling in love, but being hurt, that was something I was afraid of, I didn't want to feel such a thing, and the only way to prevent me from getting hurt was to prevent me from falling for someone. I'm not saying I don't want to settle in the future and get married, I do, but right now I'm not ready to fall, just not yet.

For some reason the elevator ride felt longer than usual. About 2 floors before my floor, my thoughts got interrupted once again by the Josh's squealing. Scared I turned to him "what?!" I ask "You have bananas in here?!" He cried looking at the bag that had some bananas poking out. "Yeah, is there a problem?" "Yes! I don't like bananas" he exclaimed like a little kid while making a disgusted face "I don't want to carry this, can we switch bags?" He asks. What a baby "You're just carrying it, it's not like you're eating it" "pleaseeee" he begs sticking his bottom lip out like little kids would do "ugh fine" I say and grab the bag while giving him a different one that I was carrying. "You're such a little diva" I laugh "Hey!" He says acting hurt and playfully punched my shoulder. As the elevator door opened josh and I stepped out and he followed me as I walked towards the direction of my apartment.

"So can you tell me why you don't like bananas?" I ask "They're just gross" he says and did some slightly dramatic shivering, I couldn't help but laugh, "Don't laugh at me!" Josh says trying to act as his feelings were hurt causing both of us to erupt in laughter.
"You can put the bags on the kitchen table" I tell Josh as I unlock the door to my apartment. He made his way over and set the bags down.

"You know, I've been wondering this whole time..." he says "yeah?" I ask "I haven't seen you around here, did you just move in?" He asked me "yeah I did, about a week ago" I answer as I make my way to the kitchen and set my phone down on the table in front of him. I started un bagging the groceries and putting them in the fridge and cabinets.

"What's your password?" Josh asks me, I look up to see him trying to unlock my phone, "what for?" I ask "ouch you don't trust me?" he jokes acting offended "Well, how exactly can I trust a stranger with my phone" I reply "Double ouch! You call me a stranger after I introduced myself, I thought we were friends" he scoffs still acting offended "We're friends?" I ask "Duh, I thought that's what introductions are for" "Haha sorry, I'm not used to making friends easily" I say as I go and unlock my phone for him now feeling bad. "Well then I guess I'm the first easy friend that you made" he smiles widely "I guess you are" I smiled back as I returned to putting my groceries away.

"You have a phone call, I'm gonna answer it" Josh says "who is it from?" I ask "I don't know it a bunch of numbers, I'm guessing they're not in you're contact" he tells me "okay" I say allowing him to answer the phone.

"Hello, this is Emma's phone, Josh speaking" he chirps "um Emma" he sort of whispers to me holding the phone away from him like he didn't want the person on the phone to hear, "the guy is sort of demanding to talk to you, said his name was Evan" he says. That's when I felt my heart drop.

I darted towards Josh and grabbed the phone, I held it up to my ear "What do you want Evan?!" I half yelled through the phone annoyed annoyed as I walk into my bedroom so that Josh wouldn't have to hear.

"E-em I miss youuu" he slurred into the phone "stop it you're drunk" I reply trying to lower my voice so that I didn't seem too angry in front of Josh. "Noo... N-no I'm not! I miss youuu, you know that? So F-fucking much, an-and you, you're with another guy?!" I heard him slur through the phone "Stop it Evan! I told you stop calling me!" I yell whisper through the phone trying to contain my anger. "w-w-whyyy did you bl-block my number?" "BECAUSE OF THIS! BECAUSE YOU KEEP CALLING ME WHEN I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE!" I yelled into the phone, not being able to keep my anger in anymore, tears began to run through my cheeks as I hung up. I tossed my phone to my bed and quickly wiped my tears before walking back to the kitchen.

"Emma, are you okay?" He asked, the expression on his face was worried as I approached him. "Yeah I'm fine" I lied through my teeth "it's nothing" I continue trying to reassure him "Who was that? Do you want to talk about it?" He asks me "No, it's fine, nothing important" I tell him. He was about to say something before I interrupted him "It's getting late, and I need to sleep, I think you should go now" I say trying to not hurt his feelings "oh... yeah I'll see you later then" he said looking a bit sad "bye" was the last thing he said before he walked out the door "bye" my voice cracks as I watch him walk out, closing the door behind him.

The truth is I didn't want him to leave, a big part of me wanted him to stay but after the call with Evan it reminded me of how much he hurt me. Josh seems like such a sweet and kind person, I didn't want to get attached to him and get hurt in the end, but he looked so sincere when he asked me if I was okay, he looked like he actually cared.

No Emma! Another part of me told myself, they will eventually stop caring, don't fall for it...don't fall for him.