The Second I Met You ✔

Chapter 12

Matt POV

Right after the game the boys and I went straight to the locker room all exhausted. Everyone was talking about the party to celebrate our big win, I didn't disagree with the idea I thought a party was the best way to celebrate a victory. Going to parties was what I did back home after we won so it felt natural to go to this one, I tried to check my phone but it was dead. 

I've been at the party for a couple of hours and I'm not going to lie I've had a few drinks, right now it seems I'm on the dance floor with some girl not really thinking just living in the moment like Richard and Guillermo used to tell me. But my fun is cut short when a pair of hands grab me by the arm pulling me away from the neon lights and crowded space. I turn to face the person depriving me of fun but I'm faced with Elizabeth and Jessica making me realize I'm not in Portland. 

"Matthew, what the hell are you doing here... I thought you had a date with Emma," Jessica says with her arms across her chest. Em oh my god, how can I forget I had a date with my Angel, I start to panic. 

"What time is it? I asked

"A little over midnight" That was the last thing I heard or saw from the party I ran to my car trying to get home as fast as I can which was absolutely dangerous since I drank. I can't believe I forgot about my date, hell I can't believe I forgot about Em altogether. She must be angry or worse devasted.  

As soon as the car is parked I run to Em's porch to knock on the door hoping it's her who answer's the door, but my hope banishes when Sophia opens the door. She tries to close it when she sees me but I put my hand against the door to prevent her from closing it.

"What do you want Matthew?" she scoffed. 

"Can I please talk to her?!" 

"No you can't she's sleeping" once again trying to close the door but I intervened. 

"I just want to explain..." I was interrupted by a scream coming from upstairs.

"NO!! IT'S NOT MY FAULT! LEAVE ME ALONE...please" Sophia rushes to run upstairs that she doesn't notice when I run upstairs as well. We go into Em's room and like always she's moving around the bed soaking in sweat. I don't think twice to run to her instead of Sophia to wake her. 

"Em wake up it's just your nightmare, wakeup babe" I start to shake her, she finally opens her eyes but something is different. She used to look at me with relieve when I woke her up from her nightmares but now she's looking at me with disappointment and doesn't smile like she usually does.  

"What are you doing here?" she says scooting away from me instead of into me like I'm used to her doing.

"I came here to explain" she softens a little at the mention of an explanation.

"At midnight?" she rubs her eyes trying to rub away the tiredness and fixes her hair.

"Yes!"

"Okay then explain" On the corner of my eye I can see that Sophia left the room before I start to explain I grab her hands in mine and she lets me hold them surprisingly. 

"Em, I'm so sorry for leaving you after the game the team wanted to celebrate so we went to the party and..." I couldn't explain any further because Em took her hand away from my hold when I looked up at her eyes were back to distant. 

"Wait so you stood me up to go to a party!" she does an 'O' shape as if saying it out loud made her realize it. She stands up from the bed and wrapped her arms around herself while walking back in forth. 

"So you let me wait for an hour just so that your excuse for not showing up is that you went to a stupid party"

"No Em it wasn't like that just let me explain" I get up from the bed as well trying to get closer to her but she pulls away. 

"There is nothing left to explain the rest are just going to be excuses..." She had her back to me but now she turns around and looks me in the eye before she continues. "You know, here I thought you would be the last person to betray me like that but I guess I was wrong about you" 

"Em..." I slowly begin.

"Leave" she firmly says looking at me straight in the eye.

"No! Em please just let me..." 

"Matthew for the love of god leave... now" she screamed in a whisper, Em saying my full name instead of 'Matt' sounded so foreign coming from her and I don't want her to call me by that again. 

"Fine, I'll leave but I just want you to know that I'm so sorry and I love you" it broke me that she was so mad that she couldn't say it back or even glance my way when I walked through the door. As I left the house a very terrifying thought came to my mind. 

I think I just lost Em's trust.

*

It's Monday morning, you would think that me living literally next to my girlfriend would be easier to make her less mad. That's a false claim Em hasn't answered any of my text or calls, even when I go over there neither Sophia, her aunt or uncle let me in telling me they don't want to lose her trust by disobeying her wish of not letting me in. Even when I was walking Ralph and Em was on the bench swing, one look at me and she would hurry off inside. I just hope being at school will help. I walk through the door and everyone is staring at me. I reach my locker but Oscar and Jake are standing in front of it, what confuses me is the fact that Oscar has his arms over his chest. They have both become my best friends since I've been here, but what did I do to make Oscar so pissed. 

"Hey what's up with everyone," I ask once I reach them. 

"How could you do that Emma!" Oscar blurs out, I'm not surprised he knows what happened since he is dating Sophia but why does everyone at school know.

"I told her I was sorry that I stood her up on our date beca..." Oscar and Jake both interrupted. 

"You also stood her up" it was creepy how they both said the same thing but when they said 'also' that's what confused me even more. 

"What do you mean 'also' what else did I do?" 

"Dude, you haven't seen it" Jake sounds amazed as if I'm the only person that hasn't seen it which is probably true.

"Seen what?" Jake reaches for his phone and shows me a picture of me at the party with some girl dancing dangerously close. Let's just put it that the way we were dancing is no way for me to dance with someone who has a girlfriend. 

"Has everyone seen this?" I look up at them, Jake has sympathetic eyes while Oscar just looks pissed. I can't really blame him, he considers Emma as his sister. 

"Pretty much," Jake says 

"I have to find Em"

"Go then," Jake says pushing me towards her locker. From the distance, I can see that the girls that bothered her that one time at Sophia's birthday I think their names are Mary and Brianna just left her she's looking down at her phone. Dammit, she saw it.

She looks up and she sees I'm walking towards her but I can see a single tear going down her cheek before she wipes it off. 

"Em please let me explain!" I say as I reach her but she just closes her locker and walks away I grab her arm to stop her but she gets out of my reach. 

"Don't touch me, you know if you didn't want to be with me anymore you should have just told me instead of inviting me on a date which had me really excited by the way only to just leave me waiting like a fool for an hour just to go to a party and be with some other girl" she's silently crying but she whispers just so that I'm the only one that can hear it since everybody is staring at us. 

"Em wait that's not..." I was about to tell her that I still want to be with her but she ran away towards the doors when I go out there after her she's gone. 

What have I done?