Life in Technicolour.
Twenty Nine: Come on baby, keep it down, honey hush your lips.
“I… what… you… no you can’t do that!”
“Do what?!”
“That! Turn this whole thing back on me Ohmygod you are unbelievable!” Then she turned around and ran into the house.
“Riley don’t fucking run away from me!” I followed her into the house, leaving our
shocked looking friends behind us. “Riley!” I grabbed her arm.
“Zacky let go!” She growled, glaring up at me “You’ve always known I never liked the idea of getting married and then you go and force it on me in front of all out friends! I can’t believe you!”
“How is this my fault?!” You brought it up!”
“Yeah but you didn’t have to do that!” She wrenched her arm from my grip and stormed out the front to the car we’d come here in. She got in and locked the doors. I tried the handle several times but in vain, in the end I just thumped the windows.
“Riley don’t be like this! Just open the fucking door!”
“No” She turned the ignition on.
“Riley!”
She pulled out of the drive way and I’m guessing she drove home.
“Fuck!” I exclaimed, my hands flying to my hair as I turned back to the house, I saw that Matt, Brian and Val were standing in the door way. “What?!” I snapped.
“Dude you need to go and fix that” Brian said.
“Don’t you think I know that?!”
“Take my car” Matt tossed me his keys “Just bring it back when you’ve sorted this shit out” He said, I nodded and ran a hand through my hair before I got into his shiny black SUV. I drove home quickly, when I got into the apartment I discovered that Riley hadn’t actually gotten home yet, so I went into my bedroom, about ten minutes later I heard the front door open and close, I stood up off my bed and went out to find Riley leaning against the kitchen counter.
“What the hell Riley?!”
“I’m not doing this” She said “You can’t put this on me Zack, after I told you how I felt about it”
“I didn’t know how you felt about marriage! We’ve never talked about it! Come to fucking think of it we never fucking talk about anything!”
“Come do think of it we don’t, all you seem to wanna use me for is a fuck buddy, that’s basically what it feels like Zack”
“How can you say that I love you!”
“Yeah but you go and pull shit like this!”
“Fuck you don’t have to say yes! I don’t want to force to you into anything!”
“Really?! Cos that’s what it feels like you’re trying to do right now”
“Well excuse me for asking a question”
“Not in front of all our friends!”
“Well you brought it up!”
“You’re the one who had to fucking pop the question and make me look like a complete idiot in front of everyone!”
“I made you look like an idiot?! How do you think I feel?!”
“I think we’ve established how you feel Zack”
“You’re a bitch”
“Yeah well you don’t have to worry about me anymore” She screamed “Because we are over!” And in that moment, I felt my heart shatter.
Riley was gone, she wasn’t coming back, and I was left in the apartment to nurse my broken heart with my good old friend Mr Jack Daniels.
I don’t know how long I sat on the couch for, drinking Jack, but there was a loud knocking on the door that pulled me from my concentrated stupor. A small part of me thought it’d be Riley but I guess I was wrong because I opened the door to come face to face with Gena.
And she was here to see me.
“Do what?!”
“That! Turn this whole thing back on me Ohmygod you are unbelievable!” Then she turned around and ran into the house.
“Riley don’t fucking run away from me!” I followed her into the house, leaving our
shocked looking friends behind us. “Riley!” I grabbed her arm.
“Zacky let go!” She growled, glaring up at me “You’ve always known I never liked the idea of getting married and then you go and force it on me in front of all out friends! I can’t believe you!”
“How is this my fault?!” You brought it up!”
“Yeah but you didn’t have to do that!” She wrenched her arm from my grip and stormed out the front to the car we’d come here in. She got in and locked the doors. I tried the handle several times but in vain, in the end I just thumped the windows.
“Riley don’t be like this! Just open the fucking door!”
“No” She turned the ignition on.
“Riley!”
She pulled out of the drive way and I’m guessing she drove home.
“Fuck!” I exclaimed, my hands flying to my hair as I turned back to the house, I saw that Matt, Brian and Val were standing in the door way. “What?!” I snapped.
“Dude you need to go and fix that” Brian said.
“Don’t you think I know that?!”
“Take my car” Matt tossed me his keys “Just bring it back when you’ve sorted this shit out” He said, I nodded and ran a hand through my hair before I got into his shiny black SUV. I drove home quickly, when I got into the apartment I discovered that Riley hadn’t actually gotten home yet, so I went into my bedroom, about ten minutes later I heard the front door open and close, I stood up off my bed and went out to find Riley leaning against the kitchen counter.
“What the hell Riley?!”
“I’m not doing this” She said “You can’t put this on me Zack, after I told you how I felt about it”
“I didn’t know how you felt about marriage! We’ve never talked about it! Come to fucking think of it we never fucking talk about anything!”
“Come do think of it we don’t, all you seem to wanna use me for is a fuck buddy, that’s basically what it feels like Zack”
“How can you say that I love you!”
“Yeah but you go and pull shit like this!”
“Fuck you don’t have to say yes! I don’t want to force to you into anything!”
“Really?! Cos that’s what it feels like you’re trying to do right now”
“Well excuse me for asking a question”
“Not in front of all our friends!”
“Well you brought it up!”
“You’re the one who had to fucking pop the question and make me look like a complete idiot in front of everyone!”
“I made you look like an idiot?! How do you think I feel?!”
“I think we’ve established how you feel Zack”
“You’re a bitch”
“Yeah well you don’t have to worry about me anymore” She screamed “Because we are over!” And in that moment, I felt my heart shatter.
Riley was gone, she wasn’t coming back, and I was left in the apartment to nurse my broken heart with my good old friend Mr Jack Daniels.
I don’t know how long I sat on the couch for, drinking Jack, but there was a loud knocking on the door that pulled me from my concentrated stupor. A small part of me thought it’d be Riley but I guess I was wrong because I opened the door to come face to face with Gena.
And she was here to see me.