It All Started With A One Night Stand

Moving on

Jasmine's POV:
Moving on is hard. Especially if both people are not on the same page about how it's supposed to go. This is what is unfortunately happening to my best friend Alyssa.

I remembered when I came back from visiting my family more than a month ago and found out about Alyssa and Nathan dating. I was really confused because from being on the cheerleading team and spending a lot of time with football players, I knew what guys like him want.

I knew that it was those pretty girls who were popular, outgoing, and tended to be major partiers. I'm not saying all guys are like that, there are some good guys on the team. But I never thought Nathan would be one of them especially with his ongoing reputation of being one of the biggest players both on and off the field.

I was scared that Nathan was playing her because she told me about the bubble tea accident and told me about how he was treating her doing the interviews. I knew that Nathan could be playing her, but I told myself I was wrong. That if anybody was going to make a guy like Nathan Reid settle down, it was going to be someone like Alyssa. Someone who wasn't all about her looks or popularity, but someone who was down to earth, had a kind heart and a gentle soul, that was breakable.

But still I hoped and hoped that Nathan would change for her and I thought, honestly thought, that he did. As Alyssa talked about their dates and how sweet and loving he was, I felt like he was honestly perfect for her.

Then me and Victoria started to spend time with them as a couple and I knew that I was right. I saw how he looked at her like she was the only person he saw, how he would always find any excuse to touch her and how he would light up whenever she looked at him or give him attention. I thought that this was it, Alyssa finally found the love of her life and I was so happy.

But now seeing how she is, it breaks my heart. She would go around in sweatpants and a T-shirt, looking like a mess but she didn't care. She would cry herself to sleep every night and had a hard time eating. The worst part is seeing how she talked about herself. She felt like this was her fault because she was not good enough, not pretty enough or popular enough. Not enough to keep him loyal and that hurt the most. It hurt thinking that she felt like this was her fault and not his.

The unbelievable part of this situation though, was not that he cheated, because that's the way guys like him operate, but it was the fact that he wouldn't leave her alone. Ever since she found out and started ignoring him, he tried harder. He would call at least 5 times a day, send her texts multiple times, left her voicemails, sent her presents and even visited. He would come around here asking if he did anything wrong, as if he didn't already know. He already broke her heart. Wasn't that enough?

Me and Victoria tried to convince Alyssa to go confront him and yell at him and tell him off, but she wouldn't. I was not the type of person to yell at people but for people who hurt my friends I was more than willing to. But every time she said that she loved him too much. That it wasn't his fault, which I completely can't stand. I can't stand that she blames herself but would not blame him at all.

Whenever he came to visit, we would always tell her that was the perfect chance but she would always freeze up and sometimes shake. I remember the first time he came over a couple of days after she found him cheating and she had a full blown panic attack. She didn't have one in a long time but every time he came around she would start to have the symptoms.

She is so afraid that she would run into him that she doesn't leave the house unless it was for school. I know how she feels, having to cheer at his game was hell. He would always come up to me and ask me how she was and if she was okay. He would always bug me and I'm just her best friend, I have no idea how bad he would be with her.