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Someone like you?
Nope. Sophia deserves someone better than me too.
“I’ll get out of your guys’ hair then,” I say, offering both of them a smile, not wanting to leave but also not wanting to intrude on their night.
“Are you sure?” Sophia asks, wringing her hands together. I don’t miss the way Theo looks over at her when she asks the question. I wonder if that is the same look that Gwen gives me when it comes to Sophia and I just haven’t noticed it.
“Yeah, I’m sure,” I answer her and wave to both of them.
“Don’t do anything stupid, okay?” she says, giving me a pointed look and it takes me a second to realize that she is talking about not doing anything stupid in regard to my relationship with Gwen.
“No promises. I’ll see you later, okay?”
She gives me a nod as I open the door and let her spend some time with her boyfriend.
I stand in the hallway for a little bit and without thinking about it, I pull out my phone and send out one text.
I’m sorry, but we’re done.
Five words that’s all it takes to end a relationship.
If my significant other can’t accept Sophia, then they don’t deserve to stay in my life.
Sophia is here to stay.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
SOPHIA
I takea minute or two to sit on my bed and contemplate what I want to wear out tonight. For the first time in weeks, I finally have a night were I don’t have to study, worry about getting work done for a class to get ahead, or attend a hockey game since the season is officially over.
I have one full night completely free and I want to go out and act my age for once.
My roommates were talking about one of the bars in town having a band tonight, so they were going to go and have some drinks. They invited me to go with them and when Theo told me that he was going to go too, I decided it would be good to have a little fun and join them. I’m not allowed to drink just yet, but I can still go.
Maybe I can also use tonight to get reacquainted with my boyfriend after basically giving him the cold shoulder for the last month or so.
It’s not that I wanted to give him the cold shoulder. I did try to be a good girlfriend, but things would come up here and there, that I haven’t been the girlfriend that he has been needing.I’ve definitely canceled on him more this last month than I have during our whole one-year relationship.
In retrospect, I should have broken up with him a while ago, I even came close to doing it one night, but I got scared about hurting his feelings. I’m still scared to do it. This is my first serious relationship and even though my feelings for him aren’t as strong as I had hoped, I still care about him, and I don’t want to see him get hurt.
But even if I don’t break up with him, I’m still hurting him by not being present. So I’m going to take tonight and decide what to do. Maybe by the end of the night, I’ll be able to figure it out.
I just have to decided what to wear.
This is one of those times where I could use Blake to help me pick out what to wear. Just like he did with my quince dress and more than a handful of times since then.
I didn’t want to call him for this, but it feels like its necessary since I’ve been sitting here for about an hour, and still haven’t made a choice.
Letting out a sigh, I pick up my phone and start calling him. At least I know he’s going to pick up since the whole blocking thing ended when he broke up with Gwen a few weeks ago.
The phone rings three times before he picks up.
“What’s up, Soph?” he says instead of a greeting.
“Are you home?” I ask, getting straight to the point.
He makes a weird noise. “I’m not. Why?”
