Hurt Feelings
Chapter One
“What are you saying?” I said with tears in my eyes.
“It’s not you, it’s me. I’m the fault here. I just don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.”
Hurt feelings. That was all he ever did to me. He cheated. He lied. All to protect the other girl from her hurt feelings. What about me, Caleb? What happened to what we had? All these feelings wanted to come pouring out, but they couldn’t find their way.
“Except mine,” I said, almost in a whisper.
“Never yours, ever, I promise,” he said.
“You promise? That’s what you say? Whay happened to our promises? What happened to us?” I said with anger building inside of me as my tears were swallowed by the distrust.
“No, baby, nothing happened. We’re still here, and we can still be friends,”
Friends. Promises. Hurt feelings. All these remarks and yells were building in the back of my throat, but they, too, couldn’t make it out.
“So be it. Go with Jennifer, but don’t even bother with me anymore,” I said, tears forming again.
“Ab, don’t do this, it’s not what you think!” he said.
“It is. It’s exactly what I think. And that’s Abigail, to you,” I said, thrusting his backpack I was holding onto his chest. With that, I turned to walk away.
“Babe, I still love you! Abby, come back!” he yelled to me.
I didn’t turn back, and I heard his cries to me fade away as my light blue slug bug sprang to life. I’ll never forget the memories we had in this two seater. When he spilled his soda all over his shirt because we were singing and rocking out to our song. Or when we hid in the trunk from my step-sister and my mom. I pulled my two-seater out of the restaurant parking lot and didn’t look back.
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