Stay With Me

chapter three

The Next Morning
Eva

Ow. Ow ow ow. My head really fucking hurts.

Whoever is letting all the sunlight in is a fucking asshole. I pry my eyes open and hold my hand up to block the sunlight.

"What the fuck?" I mumble.

I'm in my pent house but how the fuck did I get here?

I don't remember anything that happened last night.

I go to sit up but I feel a strong arm wrapped around my stomach. My eyes trail up the arm and I'm praying to god its that boy I met last night.

My eyes fall upon the face I once loved with my whole heart. Jack Gilinsky.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!?

I shook him immediately, "Jack" I said quietly.

His eyes scrunched up and opened but then went wide eyed. He sat up straight and looked at me completely shocked. "Eva what happened?"

"I don't know Jack? Obviously we hooked up but what about-"

I didn't want to say it, because just then reality hit me that he has a girlfriend.

"I need to call her" he quickly got up and he was naked. Jesus Christ this man was blessed.

He stepped into his boxers and gathered his clothes and left my room.

I'm not going to lie it really hurt seeing him leave like that. Like he knows he made a mistake.

I looked around my room for any clues as to what happened last night. MY SECURITY CAMERAS!

I have security cameras in my living room and outside, I searched around for my MacBook and once I found it I opened it and typed in the password to open my cameras.

I rewind the footage and see that just me and Jack came back here, my driver Charles must've dropped us off.

We walk into the living room, stumbling and clinging all over each other.

We stand still and stare at each other in the eyes and then after a minute we start making out and then, well I'm sure we all know what happened.

I throw my computer on the bed and quickly  throw on a shirt long enough to cover my body, reaching mid thigh.

I walk out into the living room and see jack standing there holding his phone to his ear.

I stayed small listening to him talk to Tiana.

"Baby, I crashed at a hotel somehow. I know I was wayyy to fucked up."

"Where are you at?"

"Alright I'll meet you there"

"Love you too babe"

Ouch.

He pulled his phone away from his ear and locked it and put it in his pocket.

I was too scared to say anything. I mean what's the point? He loves her.

He looked up and stared at me, it looked like he was cringing but I'm hoping he's feeling bad.

"Eva I-" I quickly hold my hand up, trying my absolute hardest to keep the tears from falling.

"It's okay. You should go"

I turn away from him because I can't look him in the eyes, or even at him at all. I'll start crying I know it.

He doesn't say anything but I can't tell he's coming towards me.

He reaches me and grabs my chin, turning it to him.

A tear escapes my eye. See I told you.

He wipes it and stares in my eyes.

"Eva please don't cry." His voice was soft.

I sucked in a break, "you-you don't love me anymore"

His eyebrows narrowed and he shook his head ever so lightly, "I never said that."

"But you love her-"

I cut myself off. There's no point.

I reached up and wrapped my fingers around his hand, pulling it down. I never let it go but I looked back up into his eyes.

"It's okay Jack. We weren't endgame, and it's okay. Your happy with her I know it. It's going to take me some time but I'll be happy too, it's all okay."

I'm not going to lie when I see his eyes start to tear up.

"Eva this isn't how I wanted us to end up." He closed his eyes and presses his lips to my forehead.

"I'll always love you."

And with that he removed his hand from mine and left my apartment.

I broke down, literally. I slide to the floor and just cry. It hurts so much but he's really gone. He didn't fight for me. He just walked away. And that's what hurts the most.