“Sky, what happened?”
All I could get out through my sobs was Jonathan’s name.
“What did he do?!”
A couple of minutes later, Jonathan knocked lightly on my door.
“Skylar, please let me in.”
“Go away, I never want to see you again!”
“I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“I’m not stupid Jonathan, I have eyes and I know what I saw! I thought you were different!”
“Skylar, open this door right now!”
“Go away Jonathan, it’s over between us, do you hear me, over! Forget you ever met me!” I didn’t care that we were probably creating a scene in the hallway.
My sobs wracked my body and I wanted the bed to just swallow me up.
Katie got up and opened the door a crack and I could hear her whispering to him.
“Just give her some time Jonathan, she’s super upset right now. I’m sure she’ll come talk to you tomorrow.”
That seemed to be enough because he walked away and she closed our door.
“Katie, how could I be such a fool! Why would a guy like that be faithful? Barbi was down there! He can have any girl he wants and apparently he does!”
“I don’t know Sky, she’s a scheming bitch. Maybe it wasn’t what you thought.”
I gave her a deadpan look, my face flush and stained with tears. “Katie, she was na**d in his bed. How can that be anything but what it looks like?”
“Oh.” She didn’t say anything after that.
“I’m so stupid Katie. Anybody but me could have seen this coming. The whole campus has probably been laughing at me behind my back this whole time with me thinking I was the only girl in his life. He’s gorgeous, rich, smart and in a popular band. How could I be so dumb?” The tears rolled softly down my cheeks.
“Sky, you’re not dumb, don’t beat yourself up. Maybe this is all a big misunderstanding. He looked really upset when I talked to him. Maybe sleep on it and talk to him tomorrow?”
“No, I’m done. No more cheaters for me. He can forget about Thanksgiving, I’m going home. I have nothing else to say to him. Anyway, enough about this, it’s late. Let’s go to sleep.”
She gave me a big hug and then climbed in her bed. “Okay, try to get some sleep.”
“I will. And Katie? Thanks for listening.”
She smiled at me. “That’s what I’m here for.”
As I curled up in my covers, I replayed the whole scene again. I kept going back to her saying they did that every week and I tried to remember if there were blocks of time where it could have happened, and I realized that it could have happened any time because I was not with Jonathan every minute of the day. Had I really been so naïve? Sadness overwhelmed me as the tears hit my pillow.
I should have stuck to my original plan and stayed away from guys. But Jonathan drew me in, I thought he was different, and I thought he was the guy of my dreams. How could I have been so wrong? As I started to drift off to sleep, tears were still rolling down my cheeks and I wished I had never met Jonathan Hunter. Why does love have to hurt so much?