Easy Is Boring ✓

Chapter One

[1]

It had been three months since Beck and Jade broke up, and they were both more devastated than ever. But the two weren't the type to show their pain.

Beck Oliver was never the type to display his emotions. He was always so chill, so calm. Always so under control.

But when him and Jade broke up, he couldn't keep his emotions in tact.

That night was the first night he had cried in years.

He hated crying. With a passion.

But Jade used to cry a lot. Whether it was because of her arrogant father, or the nightmares that kept her up all night, she cried.

And he comforted her. He would try to do anything and everything to get her to calm down and help her go back to sleep.

Maybe he hated when he cried, not other people. The last time he had cried was when his brother, Ben, passed away in a car accident.

He hadn't cried since.

But that night, that awful night when he was stupid enough to leave the love of his life, he cried himself to sleep.

He hadn't been the same since then.

Beck never bothered to get rid of the pictures of them from when they were together, or have her take back all the clothes that were in the black drawer he bought specifically for her. He never touched any of her stuff. He couldn't bring himself to.

He hated how he longed to breathe in the vanilla scent that her hair used to have, or how he would practically beg to press his lips against hers one last time.

He hated that somehow, his bed still smelled like her. He hated how all of her make-up still laid around his bathroom sink, and that her hair products still stayed in the shower.

He hated how he missed her.

But of course he missed her. How couldn't he? She was everything to him and more.

And he was such an idiot to let her go.

Sure, he was sick and tired of all the fighting. He was exhausted from fighting with her over every little thing. He just wanted a break from it all.

But three months passed, and he knew that their break-up wasn't just a little break.

It was probably for good.

Beck groaned as he brushed his teeth, accidentally knocking over some make-up that scattered around his sink.

A tube of lipgloss caught his eye, and he quickly spit out his toothpaste and rinsed out his mouth before he took hold of it.

It was cupcake flavored, which was something Cat would have acquired, not Jade. But he remembered how she used to put it on every morning before school, and when he kissed her lips they were sweet.

He took off the cap and inhaled a whiff of it, wanting to remember how it smelled. When he realized that it was kind of creepy, he placed it back down where it was before.

Sighing heavily, he walked out of the bathroom in only his boxers and tripped over one of her black bras that laid on the floor at the foot of his bed. Even though he knew he should, he didn't even stop to pick it up and toss it away.

He left it there, knowing dang well he would trip over it again tomorrow.

He climbed into bed, pulling the covers up over his body as he wished Jade was next to him. The right side of the bed was empty, where she used to sleep.