Loss and Love

Chapter Seventeen

Luke POV

It was Friday night and I was on my way back to my apartment from basketball practice. The past two days of this week had been the worst days of my life. I screwed up my friendship with the only woman I love, and now she won't even speak to me, much worse look at me. I'm I that ugly? Definitely not because girls drool over me as if am the grandson of Apollo. But the only one I want can't even look at me. Life's so unfair. I puffed out a breath. I know my friends been doing a great job helping me with Ann, but it's just not working. I don't know how someone can be so hard-hearted.

I wiped the snow off my windshield with my wipers, and turned in the the apartment building parking lot. I got out and took my gym bag with me.
I spoke to the receptionist whom always finds pleasure in flirting with me. I liked it a lot at first, but now I wish it was Ann doing that instead of her. I smiled and past her, getting in the elevator which was already open because someone was coming out. I pushed the number to my floor,and few seconds later, I was there. I got out and decided to go take a shower since I didn't earlier.
I took out my keys from my pocket, and opened my door. My hand froze on the doorknob when I saw Ann coming out of Thomas apartment crying. She was running to the elevator, when I stopped her.

"Ann, what happened? Why are you crying?" I asked grabbing both her shoulders.

"I'm fine just let go of me." She said trying to pull her hands out of my grip
But I only tightened it more, not so tight to hurt her.

"Hell no. I'm letting you leave this place. Not until you tell me what's wrong. Did he hit you again, huh?" I asked ready to kill him with my bare hands.

"No, okay? So just leave me alone. I just want to get out of this place. I don't want to be here, Luke." She burst into tears. I pulled her to me and surprisingly she buried her face into my chest.

"Stop crying, it's okay." I hugged her tight, running my hands up and down her back.

"Let's get inside." She tried refusing, but before she could, I pulled her in and shut the door. She sat on the couch with her face in her hands. I sat beside her, not wanting to touch her, not that I don't want to, I just don't want her to freak out being alone with me in my apartment.

"Ann, please talk to me. Why are you crying?" She pulled her hands from her face and laid her head back on the couch. 

"He doesn't love me, Luke." Duh, I already know that.  If you truly love someone, you will never want to make them cry, not to mention hit on them.

"What actually happened, Ann? Did he hit you?" She shook her head with a no.

"Then for Christ sake Ann, what did he do?" I was getting impatient already.

"I met another girl in his apartment, when I went there earlier."

"Wait, Ann. I thought the two of you weren't together? I thought he broke up with you? So what were you doing there in the first place?" I asked her getting angry.

She sniffed and said, "I came to talk to him to see if we could patch things up, but now I just want to kill him with my bare hands." She was crying again. "I've been such a fool Luke, to think that Tom still love me and there's a chance for us to make things right again. I'm such a fool. He even told me to leave so that he and his girl can finish what they started. They were having sex before I went over. Sex Luke!" She screamed through tears. Which broke my heart even more.

"So do you still like love him?" I asked not sure if I want to hear her answer.

"I don't know." I couldn't take what I was hearing. I got up and paced up and down.