Butterfly

8. One Mistake.

Chapter Eight: One Mistake.

☆ River Morgan ☆

It's Saturday morning, and I'm sat in my room with Tyler, Tom and Marcus. It feels like years since we have done this, and it feels so different. We still met up after I had moved away, so we still did speak, but it felt different, I don't know why. That's how I recognised Jess, because I remember Tyler telling me about her and showing me pictures of her. He seemed happy with her, but then he never told me what happened. She seemed happy too in the pictures, always smiling brightly and looking as if she's laughing. She definitely doesn't smile as much now, maybe this is because of Tyler, maybe this is because of her mum, or maybe it's both.

"So, you have the pleasure of living next door to Jess," Tyler comments, looking out my window to where Jessica is sat with her friend, Olivia. It looks like Jess is trying to do her homework, although she seems to be getting easily distracted by Olivia, who is chatting away about who knows what.

"Yes, I do," I reply, and Tyler raises an eyebrow. And to be honest, it has been a pleasure. She isn't what I expected at all. Because she is Tyler's ex-girlfriend, I assumed that she would be this bitchy girl who walked around with her boobs hanging out her top and shorts halfway up her ass, but she seems to be the opposite. She is surprisingly sweet, and seems to have just had a rather unfortunate life.

"I assume she has told you this story about how she was the victim of the breakup and how everything is a lie?" Tyler asks me, and I shake my head, confused. I look over at Tyler, my eyes moving away from Olivia and Jess. He is watching me with a serious expression, something I don't think that I have ever seen on Tyler's face, the fun and mischievous boy who is always getting into trouble.

"No, I just heard that you broke up," I reply, shrugging. Which is true, I've heard nothing really about their relationship. Jess never told me what happened, and never went out of her way to try and prove that whatever happened wasn't her fault. And I like that, she seems independent, she doesn't want to force me to make an assumption on her based on whatever story she decides to tell.

"Oh, so you don't know what happened?" Tyler asks, and I shake my head. "Well basically, we were dating, as you know. We were fifteen, and she had come round my house. We were watching a film, and then we were kissing. And yeah, long story short, we had sex on the sofa."

This surprises me, because I never thought that Jess would have done that so young. She never struck me as the sort of person who would've had sex at fifteen. She probably has now, I doubt that she is a virgin, but I don't think she would have done it until a few years later. Hell, I was still a virgin at that age. I can't judge her for it, because I doubt she has actually slept with many people since then, whereas I've slept with at least fifty people since then.

"She was, surprisingly, the first girl in the year to actually lose her virginity, because that's obviously fairly young. And yeah, now everyone thinks that she is some easy slut," Tyler continues, and I frown. That's horrible, now did Tyler let people think that about his girlfriend at the time? When you're young, emotions come easily to you. She might have loved Tyler, I don't know, maybe she felt that she had to. Poor Jess.

Why is it that girls get judged for having sex with people, but when boys have sex, it's something to celebrate? It's wrong, to say the least, and it needs to change.

"Poor Jess," I say, voicing my thoughts. Tyler rolls his eyes at this, as if it's wrong of me to think that.

"Then she got really possessive, and got annoyed when I said that I wouldn't have sex with her when she wanted to another time, and then she dumped me," Tyler finishes, and I think my jaw drops a little when I hear this, in shock. Jessica was right though, it definitely wasn't a clean break.