Juliana & Valentina: a different story.

The break up

My girlfriend just broke up with me. This morning I went to her house convinced that we would have spent the weekend together doing girlfriends things like: kissing, watching movies, fucking, I don't know, things like that. Instead what did I get? A heartbreak. She didn't even try to say something nice, she just told me that she "has many things on her mind" and that "I can't be one of them at the moment." Not only did she leave me saying the biggest bullshits, she also compared me to a "thing". I mean, I'm not a pretentious girlfriend, I never asked for roses or romantic things, I don't even like them. I just like basic relationship rules like: spending time together, talking with each other, I mean, I don't want the moon, I just want decent love.
When the metro finally stops, I jump out of it and run towards my apartment. The only thing that can make me feel better right now is my couch. It's almost sunset time, and If my mood wasn't that bad, I would have even stayed in the street to admire it, but I only want to go home and stay alone. 

As I enter in the building I run into Bob, the guy who live on the fifth floor, he has a crush on me since I moved here two years ago. He waves at me and smiles with all the happiness in the world. I laugh in my mind, even a stranger is more loving than my girlfriend. Ex-girlfriend sorry. I wave back and I hint a weak smile without stopping, so before he starts to talk, I'm already inside the elevator. As the door of the elevator closed, I breathe a sigh of relief. I'll spend the night watching romantic movies, where people are happy, so I won't have to think about my shitty love life.

"Woah, is it my birthday?" I say after having crossed the threshold of my apartment.
"Juliana! What are you doing here?!" My roommate and best friend, Oliver, stares at me like he just saw a ghost. There are three girls dressed with only a bikini on my apartment's couch and I don't know what's happening, cause the last time I checked, he was gay.
"Who are them?" I raise my eyebrows waiting for an answer.
"I thought that you would have spent the night out so I anticipated my photoshoot...For my college's assignment, remember?" He looks at me with a confused face. Ah, poor Oliver, he doesn't know that he will have to listen to me complaining about my break up for at least a week, even after he told me more than once that Kate wasn't a good person.
"Let me introduce you my models for today!" Oliver keeps talking "She's Roxy" he indicates the girl with red hair that waves at me while she's typing on her phone.
"Then there's Valentina, she's in my class too!" the girl seated on the middle looks at me and shows a big smile after whispering a "hello". She has blue eyes and a cute smile. Without even noticing, I'm smiling back like an idiot.
"And last but not least, Heather!" My roommate points the finger toward the last girl that is wearing a pink bikini that leaves nothing to fantasy.
"Nice to meet you all, I'm Juliana!" I say with no enthusiasm "Can I talk to you for a second?" I need my couch immediately.
"Of course..."
"In private Oliver!" I say with a threatening look.

As soon as my friend follows me into my room, I close the door behind my back and I go straight to my bed.
"What happened J?" Oliver seems worried.
"Kate just broke up with me!"
"What?! Oh no...I...She doesn't deserve you, you know that, right?" I love him because he could have said something like "I told you she was a bitch" but instead he's worried and want me to feel better.
"Yeah...Apparently, no one deserves me!" I say with sarcastic tone. I need a beer.
"Let me finish this photoshoot and we're going out for dinner okay? I'll buy you all the beers in the world!" Before he leaves, he gives me a kiss in my forehead, like an old man.
"Wait, the bikini girls are coming too?" I asked while laughing.
"Unfortunately for you, no!" He winks at me and then leaves me alone in my room, with my thoughts.
As much I want to stay home, Oliver is right, I have to go out and drink some beer, it would help me for sure. I hope. After one hour, I hear Oliver greets the models, so I decided to  get out of my room.
"Oh, I thought  that you all left..." One of the models is still on the couch, dressed this time.
"Roxy and Heather left, I'm waiting for my driver to pick me up!" she says with a shy smile "If I'm bothering you I can wait outside..." she keeps talking.
"Don't worry, there's no problem. Where is Oliver?" I don't see him.
"He went out with Roxy and Heather to go with them to the metro...He's a gentleman!"
"He's gay!"
The girl starts laughing. I don't know why I've said that.
"I don't like him, don't worry!"  She winks at me.  Her phone starts ringing so she moves towards the window to get the call. While she talks, I look at her. She's wearing a white crop top with basic blue jeans and she has glitters in her hair. Glitters...I didn't see glitter since like 2005?  But I don't insult other people's style, cause I'm wearing Converse and hoodies all the time, for all the occasions, so!
"My driver has arrived" She announces after ending the call. She takes her bag and go towards the door to leave.
"It was nice to meet you Juliana!"
"Nice to meet you too..."
"Valentina!"
"Valentina, sorry! I just had the worst day ever and my memory is playing me!"

The girl just smiles at me and without adding anything, she leaves.
I'm finally alone with my couch.

Oliver decides to bring me into a fancy restaurant cause we "deserve that" instead of a shabby bar, but the only thing that I know is that my wallet doesn't deserve a thirty dollar wine, I can be happy with a 3 dollar Coke. This restaurant is very different from the places we are used to going, there are people dressed like there's a wedding, people who are talking about the business of the world and then there's Oliver and I, talking about Kate breaking up with me.
I'm telling him every little detail of my conversation with Kate.
"And after that, she just asked me to leave! After almost one year of a relationship she just knock me out of her life like that!" I say while eating spaghetti.
"Heartless!"
"I know, right?!"
"Well, let's drink to that, you're now free from a heartless person and you can be free to find your soulmate!"

My roommate raise his glass of wine.
"It is possible that a lesbian's soulmate is a gay boy named Oliver?" I raise my glass too and we laugh together.
"Soooo, you never mentioned that you have Victoria Secret models as university colleagues!" My face changes from sad to curious in 0.2 seconds.
"Actually I didn't know them till yesterday! I only knew Valentina cause she's in my class too, she studies art same as me!"
"She was the cutest one!" I point that out.
"Yes, she's super sweet, even If I don't know her very well!" He stretches his fork towards my plate after he finished his. He knows I hate that, but I can't say a word cause he's paying all of this!
"You're gonna see her more often because we're partners in this university project!"
"Yay, strangers in my apartments 24/7, that's what my mood needs right now!" I sarcastically say.
"Come on Juliana! You can't stay alone forever! Maybe you can help us with our project!"
"I'd prefer working nonstop, thank you!" I am saddened by the fact that I was ready to spend my free day from work at Kate's house, instead I'm here talking about me being single and for Oliver I should be also ready to mingle. I'm just ready to be in bed all day tomorrow and then waking up only for work. I work as bartender in a bar near my apartment. They don't pay me as they should but it's something at least. The minimum that I need to live, after all I don't have parents that provides money for me. My dad died when I was ten and my mother decided to knock me out of her life as soon as she found out I was gay. I suffered like a dog in the past months for that, because my mom was literally my entire world, I had nothing but her. Now I have nothing. No parents, no girlfriend...Only my best friend.