The Replacements

AN: Hello fellow readers, this is KD here and welcome to a snippet of my first piece of fiction. I don't know if it will be a full body of work just yet since this was written at the urging of my friends. But who knows...

Well enough about me and enjoy the show...

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“I don’t LIKE her man… She’s too plain for me bruh!”

Why? Why are you doing this to me now? Just go away…

“It was just a bit of entertainment, nothing more…”

I didn’t ask for this, the pitying looks and apologetic smiles….All lies…

“You’re something special, you know that right?”

I look around for an escape but panic starts to set in. The walls are getting closer and all I want is out. I turn my head quickly until I spot the cafeteria door. This way to freedom…

“You’re not like the others….I just want something real, you know?”

I grab my book bag and quickly get up from the table. Without another thought, I run full tilt towards the door.  Just a little more…

“Kay, wait! I can explain,” HE yells. My body freezes at the sound. So close but yet so far…

I slowly turn around where I meet His face. That same face that squinted when he trying to solve a difficult problem.  Those eyes which pierces straight through me every time we make contact. Those lips that would turn into a smirk whenever he felt victorious. I find myself falling back into old habits. A part of me wants to forgive all that he has done but the other part of me…

“There is NO future there…Trust me bro.”

NO future…

Plain…

Nothing but some entertainment…

A part of me wishes I never met him. Another part hopes his dick falls off.

I quickly throw on the fakest smile I can and greet him, “Hey Troy. Is there something you would like to discuss? The weather perhaps? Or maybe we can talk about the new Avengers movie coming out? No? Didn’t think so, “I said, managing to keep my cool even though on the inside I wanted him rot in the darkest pit of Dante’s Inferno ninth level of hell.

“Look Kay, I just wanted to say…”

I raise my hand and scoffed.  “Sorry right? Please forgive me Kay, I didn’t mean all those things I said. Pshh, you can miss me with all that bullshit.  You meant every last bit of what you said.” I begin to walk closer into his personal space. I continued,”That’s the only redeeming quality that I actually liked about you: your ability to never hold your tongue about how you feel. You used to tell me how you really felt at any given moment but now you can’t even muster up more than some half-assed apology. “

“Man, Kay let’s not do this here, ok?” Troy says. “We can do this in priva-,” He begins.

I cut him off. My anger begins to boil over. Private! Ha!

I take a deep breath and begin to speak in an eerily calm voice, “You want privacy now? How about no. You don’t get to demand anything from me. Not anymore. In case you haven’t noticed, this whole ‘private’ affair has been public for days. No I will not take this privately.” I chuckled humorlessly. “Heh, you know this whole time I thought that we had a bond that couldn’t be broken but I guess I was wrong. I sat here and sympathized with you, I laughed at your corny ass jokes and I… I thought we were better than all of this,” I gestured to my surroundings to where my wide-eyed fellow students watch in awe at the argument going on.

“But-but we are better than this!” Troy exclaims.

I smile at him wryly. “No. We are not. These past few days have surely proven that.”

“No Katlyn. I lo-“

Stop it right there!

“Don’t you dare finish that statement! You have no right. No right at all…” Tears start to gather in my eyes and I lose the last hold of my anger.

“There are a lot of things I can take in this world but what you are not going to do is say those words as if you mean them. How many girls have you said those to? Two? Three? More? Before all this drama came into play, I was fine being JUST your friend. I was content with that. But then you had to start flirting with me and doing small gestures, slowly blurring the lines. I argued with myself knowing that if I let you in, it may end in heartbreak. I didn’t want to lose your friendship for whatever else was forming between us. So I ignored it at first but you just kept breaking down all my barriers and it just happened. I let myself fall into believing that you wouldn’t be like the others. That you know me well enough to know not to play with my FEELINGS!” I yelled.  My chest is heaving rapidly as I look at Troy in his eyes.

“ I’m tired. I’m just so damn tired of dealing with this. I’m going to ask you one question and I want you to answer me honestly. If you don’t then we have nothing else to say to each other, understand?” I said.

“Yes.”

I take a deep breath and asked, “ After all that I have said today and all that has come to light…Why did you do it in the first place? If you didn’t even like me, then why did you go along with it in the first place?”

Now or never

“I did it because…”

Please just stop the lies…

The act…

Just tell the truth for the first time in your miserable life…

The cafeteria doors bang open and a mysterious voice filters out from behind them.

“Because I asked him to.”

Oh shit. I know that voice…

“Xavier…” I breathed out.

My ex has entered the building.

Things have just gotten more interesting.