Chapter 53

The next morning has me waking up in my own room as I can't imagine who had carried me here, or dumped me on the floor from the looks of it.

I almost think this is Scott's way of paying me back for what happened with Eras, when I remember that there's another delinquent in the house, the only delinquent who would have the gall to so clearly see the bed and yet drop me on the floor, all the while laughing as she's doing it.

I walk to Oakley's room and almost barge in. Oakley has been my best friend since ever, we've been friends so long that in know that whatever is making her cry would get a killing from me.

I listen to the conversation she's having, she talks to someone all the while crying as I can hear the pure pain leaking from her voice "I was only gone for two days Nick, and yet you'd slept with my friend. What does that go to say about our relationship?".

The way I can feel anger and regret in her voice makes me think of Aron. I'd never really thought Oakley to be the sort of person that would be so attached to a guy. To be sincere I hadn't even thought Oakley was the sort of person to get into a relationship. She had never said anything to me about a Nick or whatever this jerks name is. A jerk I'll make sure heavily pays for breaking my best friend's heart, "I don't think I like you anymore Oakley. We've been dating for five months now and you don't even pay any attention to me half the time. I don't think this thing between us should continue". I'm surprised to hear the voice of the person on the phone carrying the faint hint of an accent.

Oakley almost screams at his words as she shouts "I gave you everything Nick, I gave you my heart, I gave you my time, I gave you my body. All of me" she seems to say the last two parts with a hint of regret in her tone. The same sort of regret I'd seen many girls feel when they find out the bitter truth about the guys they had chosen to fall in love with.

I can hear her screaming in pain as the screen probably goes blank and she screams "Come back here you coward. Come tell me why you're doing this". I feel I have to rush in at this point as the pain radiating off her in waves makes me cry along with her.

Oakley seems broken as she crumples on the floor and sheds her heart out. The girl that had been stronger than all fifty boys combined had finally met her match and he had shown her no mercy.

He had done what he was going to do all along and now, he's done with her. Tears flow as I remember the way my own breakup happened and I hear myself saying the words "Never again" as we cry together.