🎶Robert Shwartzman - Grow As We Go

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The Robert phase kicked in. That's all you need to know.

"I just feel like he could do a lot better than me but I'm his first girlfriend and he's my first boyfriend so I don't know how these things go down." I sat outside a coffee shop with my friends in a group. I was talking about how I wanted to change a little, grow up and somehow we swayed ourselves into this conversation. "Look Y/n, no one wants to be the one to break up with someone but sometimes it has to be done. You'll feel better afterwards, we all feel so much better after we dropped our boyfriends and besides, it means we can go out more!" my friend Jessica says in a failed attempt to sway me into action. "But I don't want to go out all the time. I want to just...stay in and cuddle my boyfriend, maybe go out occasionally but not all the time." They let out an annoyed sigh. "You asked for advise and you got it. So make up your mind. I gotta get back to class." and Jessica walked away, leaving me with the disapproving looks and comments from my other peers.

My head was spinning with indecision. I wanted to be with Robert, I really did but I longed to change and according to my friends, I needed to leave Robert. It broke my heart, I didnt want to break it off with him, but it had to be done. I didnt want to hold him back from whatever it was that he could achieve. I let out a sigh as I await the door opening and closing again and surely enough, it came. Robert plopped his bagon the floor and called out my name. "Y/n? Where are you?" he called. I wiped my eyes quickly. "In the bedroom." His footsteps became quick and grew louder and louder as he approached the bedroom. "Hey bubba." he chirped. "Sorry I'm late, the traffic from the airport was a mess." He plopped onto the spot beside me and held me. After I didn't respond to his embrace, he grew concerned. "Bubbz? Are you okay?" I snap out of my trance. How long do I have to wait to tell him? "Was it something I did?" There went the waterworks. I pulled my limbs and head inside my oversized jumper and begin sobbing quietly. Robert didn't know what was going on or who was doing this but he would for sure put an end to it. "Bubbz, just tell me what's wrong."

I shake my head underneath the jumper, hoping he'd notice. "I can't. I really can't say what I want to say." Every single bad outcome went through Robert's mind. Is she cheating? No. She went through that, she wouldn't. Is she sick? No. She seems healthy enough. Is she pregnant? No. She was on her time of the month, but even so he wouldn't mind a baby either. "Can you just tell me please? Whatever it is, we can get through it together." I emerge from my jumper. "That's the problem. The thing that is going to happen means you can't help me. We can't do this together." He wrapped dhís arms around me. "Of course we can. I've been with you for so long. I can't exactly just leave you in a crying state like this, now can-"

"I want to break up with you." I whisper. "What?" His voice became shakey. "I want break up for a little while." I repeat a bit more clearly. "Why? Did I do something wrong? Whatever it was, I'll fix it. I promise." Hes on his knees in front of me know, holding bith my hands in his with pleading eyes on the verge of tears. "Please. I can't do this without you." I shake my head. "I can't. I know you can do so much better than what I have to offer so why are you bothering with me?" I whimper. "Don't talk like that about yourself. Don't you dare. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I would quite driving if you asked. You have been part of my life for so long and I've seen the imperfections you have but I see past that."

"I want to grow, I want to change, Robert. Please. Let me go." He shakes his head. "No! If you need to grow or if you need to change, do it beside me. Do it with me. Who says we can't grow and change together? If you can name one bad time we have ever had together, I will let you go." I scan through my memories and not a single bad memory when he was beside me. "Nothing. So why do you want to leave? I love you just the way you are and if you want to change, that's fine. Just please, change and grow with me. Like I said before, we can do this together." I nod my head with the tears still running down my cheeks. "Okay." I say through the web of tears. "I didn't want to leave. I just- my friends told me the only way to grow or become a better person was to leave you and-" I didn't finish my sentence, the sobs consumed my words as I hid my head in my hands again. "Now why would we listen to something so stupid? Especially from people who can't even keep a boyfriend." A giggle escapes my lips, leaving the trace of a smile after. He lays my head onto his chest. "I'm sorry." He plays with a strand of my hair in between his fingers. "Don't apologise. We're both not used to growing or changing with someone else so I understand why you would ask somebody."

"I don't think I'll ever leave you."
"That's absolutely perfect because I don't ever want to see you leave."
"I love you."
"I love you too."

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