You and Me.

Chapter 7: Theo.

After a hard day at training, Theo was finally glad to be back into the confines of his own car. He could not believe that he had asked Shailene Woodley for breakfast tomorrow and even suggested to make it a daily affair. He wondered what has gone wrong with him. Was it the sudden loneliness he had been feeling ever since then? Or was it the Shailene’s warm brown eyes looked up at him?

Theo picked up his cellphone left in the glove compartment. It had always been a rule for him, to never to bring his cellphone down for trainings or filming because it had the tendency to distract him from what he should really be focused on. He unlocked his cellphone and saw that he had a missed call from his manager and along with 23 other missed calls from Ruth. Theo sighed. This had been the fifth time this week. Ruth desperately trying to get to him, despite his constant oblivion towards her.

They were once such a good couple, Theo thought. He felt he was invincible with her. When she held his hands and looked into his eyes, he felt that he could conquer the world, that he knows no fear. But for the 3 months, they have been getting into endless quarrels. Theo had been busy, he was slowly climbing the ladder of success with increasing fashion and magazine cover shoots and Ruth constantly complained that he had no time for her. At first Theo thought that they’d managed, after all, they had been together for 5 years ever since they met in college and she had been his constant source of support. However, those complains slowly escalated to her calling him every night, crying out at how much she misses him, then it became those desperate attempts at trying to contact him. It started out with missed calls to him throughout the day while he was working, then it spread to her contacting his manager and then to anybody she could grab the contact of when she knows they are working on the set with him. Theo did try to fix the problem, he surely did. He tried spending every free moment he had with her, but this was not enough. Eventually, he grew tired of the constant obsession she had with him and the endless quarrels that last through the night and he decided to end the relationship last week.

He suggested the break-up at Ruth’s house and Ruth cracked. She screamed and she wailed and she cried and she begged, asking Theo to redraw the decision that she was sorry and she would change for Theo. It broke Theo’s heart, to see how his precious and elegant and intelligent Ruth had become what she was because of him. He did want to get back together, to return to the good old days, but this had to stop. He was unable to work properly because of her and the thought of her weighs his heart down and he no longer felt as invincible as before. Ruth made him feel worn out and tired. He needed out.

The ringing of the phone brought Theo back to his senses once again. It was Ruth. He hesitated for a minute before answering.

“Hey Love,” Ruth quipped as soon as the line got through. This had been her, refusing to accept the reality of the situation that Theo had already broken up with her.

“Hi.” Theo greeted not bothering to correct her anymore.

“I miss you.” Ruth whispered, it was as if missing Theo was a crime.

“Look Ruth,” Theo said assertively, “I got to go. Please, just don’t call me anymore ok?” He hung up. He did not know how to handle the situation. He knew, that he’d go back if Ruth kept up with this. A little part of him still misses her and he just didn’t have the strength to fight it anymore. He believed that both He and Ruth had belonged to another time and from this time on, they both had to learn to forward. Both in their own time. 

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