Fifty One Days

Chapter 14 'Complicated'

Chapter 14 guys. Thank you to all who are reading. I hope you’re enjoying it. This is probably the shortest chapter I've written but if I get a chance I'll do another update tomorrow. Thanks for reading guys. ❤📖

For the past seven months, Kyle and I had been back and forth between a being a couple, being just friends who sleep together, constant arguing and repeat. I would like to say it was all Kyle but truth be told every time we kissed, laid together in bed or laughed it was only Milo's face I saw.

I know that sounds completely crazy because I hardly knew Milo but I just couldn’t stop thinking about him. So I suppose subconsciously I was the one who sabotaged my relationship with Kyle. Would it have worked otherwise without Milo's constant presence in the back of my mind? Probably not. Kyle would leave for days on end with no messages or calls to say where he’d been. Don’t get me wrong I didn’t expect him to be with me every day but a message now and again would be nice. Especially because he was the one who was always talking about marriage and kids. We argued that I worked too much and he didn’t work enough.

I fell in love with Kyle again, how could I not. Spending so much time with someone its hard not too. Well I thought I had fallen in love with him again. Sometimes there's a fine line between love and just being comfortable.

We had great sex and we did have a laugh together but I think we both knew deep down we weren’t the right people for each other. I felt really guilty and conflicted about my lingering feelings for Milo.

It was my birthday again, Twenty bloody Eight! When did that happen! At this present moment in time, Kyle and I were fully in a relationship. I had finished work for the day and was heading home.

Last week Kyle said he was taking me for dinner to celebrate my birthday, I grabbed my phone from my bag, it was already 6.30pm, I did have a text from Kyle but it wasnt what I was expecting! ‘Working late tonight. Two more clients. Will see you tomorrow instead’  This wasn’t anything new to me, I knew being a tattoo artist that he would be working late a lot but fucking hell! On my birthday! Really? I don’t know the last few weeks it seemed more than that. As if he was making excuses.

I had a feeling he had been seeing someone else and to be honest I think I just wanted a way out.  I was always nagging him to work more then complained when he did and now he's forgetton my bloody birthday. I hadn't heard from him all day and now this!

I run up to my room and scanned the room for anything of Kyle’s I could use as an excuse to go down to the shop he worked in. I know I was being crazy but we never want a break up to be our fault, do we?  I know I should really break up with him, ugh but I genuinely don’t think I should go to his place of work to do it. I thought I'd come to my senses but when I went back to the kitchen to find Kyle’s set of my house keys on kitchen counter, i made the split decision to go down to the shop. I'm absolutely insane!

The shop was only a ten minute drive from my house, I pulled up and parked across the street and just sat there for a good ten minutes. My heart was beating so fast. Should I go in? I could see Kyle through the window of the shop, he was bent over the work station tattooing someone, I could see two big workmen’s boots hanging off the end of the bench, but Kyle's body was blocking the uperhalf of their body. Well at least he wasn’t with a girl I suppose. I know I was being ridiculous. I think the whole situation with Milo had left its mark on my trust.

I took a deep breath, exited the car and headed into the shop. I should at least see if he even remembered my birthday! Right? I'm just trying to justify turning up here for no reason.

Kyle didn’t look up when I entered.

“ Hey Take a seat, I’m nearly done, I’ll be with you in a minute”  Kyle shouted over the buzz of the machine but it wasn’t him I was looking at or paying attention too because the person being tattooed was an all too familiar face that I never expected to see again!

“Milo" I practically shouted his name. Milo lifted his head to look at me and Kyle stopped the machine and turned towards me.

My boyfriend is tattooing Milo. Oh shit! MY BOYFRIEND IS TATTOOOING MILO!

Before I can say anything else, Milo gives me a stunning smile, looks me dead in the eye and says "Happy Birthday Alice"

Kyle's mouth falls open and stares back and forth between the two of us. No one ever calls me Alice. I don't even think Kyle knew my full name was Alice.

My life has suddenly just got really complicated!