[Present time is Theodore and Tiffany in Theodore's room with police outside]
48 hours earlier
Tia
I couldn't believe what had happened yesterday with Theo. I had completely embarrassed myself. I hadn't cried like that in such a long time and to leave myself so vulnerable to him made me cringe at the thought. I opened up to him -no, I begged him and he shamed me. He knows how much this means to me. He knows how it ruined my life and how him getting back together with me again was him choosing to save me.
And he threw it all back in my face.
But it was alright, because it made me realise that he wasn't worth it.
Fresh from the shower I tied my hair up as I walked into my garden, a cigarette wedged in-between my lips. I laid down on one of the deck chairs and lit it up. It was a bad habit that I picked up from Theo from hanging around with him so much for the past weeks. I realised that I had made what we had into something it wasn't. My desperate hope and expectation of us reuniting was moulded into something that made our relationship appear to be more than what it was.
Everything was me. I gave him this… I gave him that. What the f*ck did he give me?
Some d*ck and a headache.
I shook my head as I took another drag from the stick, sucking the life out of it - and out of myself. I could feel the nicotine kick in and my body relax as I leaned back and blew the smoke out slowly. My eyes snapped down to the table when my phone started to buzz and ring. I looked at the caller ID and picked up.
"Hey hun,"
"Hello, gorgeous. How are you?"
I smiled at the sound of Jordaine's voice. She was literally my only friend and as depressing as that was, it was nice to have at least somebody.
"I've seen better days to be honest," I flicked the end of the cigarette, propping my legs up on the table noticing how pale they looked today. I also noticed the nasty bruise on my shin which I got from dropping down to the floor when Theo released my neck.
He left me with a few bruises yesterday. The one on my shin, a few on my neck and one on my back which I only knew about when my mum pointed it out this morning. I liked them though. It helped me to take him down from the high pedestal I had placed him on.
"Why? What happened?" Jordaine's voice pulled me from my thoughts. I pulled it away from my ear and put her on loud speaker. "Was it Theo?" She was aware that we had started seeing each other again.
"Who else?" I mumbled picking the string off my shorts.
"What did he do this time?" she sighed already sounding bored of the conversation.
But I let out a deep sigh before explaining everything that happened in my kitchen yesterday anyway because I needed someone to vent to.
"Wait a minute," she let out a small chortle of surprise once I was done. "You slapped him?"
I scoffed. "Of course I did. Did you not hear what he said to me? It was so disrespectful."
"True," her voice travelled through followed by some shuffling sounds. "But to be honest, you were both as bad as each other."
I frowned at my phone as I brought my cigarette back to my lips, "How?"
"Don't lie, you slyly overreacted at him texting his ex."
My lips pushed up into a pout, "But they had broken up so what do they need to text each other for?"
"Yeah, but it's only a text. It's not like they're f*cking or anything,"
