“Hey Nick, baby, get that for me please?” Amanda called out to Nick while she was making breakfast.
“Yeah, sure,” he picked up Amanda’s mobile off the table, “Hello?”
“Hello? May I speak to Amanda please?”
“Alex?”
“Nick?”
“Why the fuck are you still calling Amanda? Haven’t you brought her enough trouble yet?” Nick asked angrily.
“Nick please, let me talk to her, I need to explain something.”
“Oh, did you trip over something and land on some girl’s lips last night? Or were you just bored and decided to see how many girls you could get to fall in love with you in one night?”
“Nick, please, just let me talk to her for one second.”
“Why should I let you? You were my good friend, friends don’t hurt each other. Friends don’t betray each other’s trust. I trusted you Alex, how could you do that?”
“You don’t understand Nick, you won’t understand, just let me talk to her.”
“You think that–”
“Nick, let me talk to him,” Amanda held out her hand to receive her phone. Nick hesitated, “Are you doubting me?”
“No, Amanda, I just don’t want to see you get hurt by that loser again. Are you sure you want to talk to him?”
“Yes Nick, give me the phone,” Nick hesitated but then gave her the phone.
“Just ignore him, ok?” Amanda nodded and motioned for him to go out.
“Hello?”
“Amanda, God I’m so sorry, but yesterday isn’t what it looks like.”
“Alex, I couldn’t care less. You want to have more than one girlfriend, she may be alright with that but I’m not. Since we’re not looking for the same things, then we break it off there, ok? What other explanations could you possible have?”
“She was my ex Amanda, she just grabbed me and started kissing me, I didn’t know what was happening. I knew that you were going to be at the disco, Michelle told me to meet you there, I just meant to give you a surprise, but then who knew that I would bump into my ex?”
“Why are you explaining to me?”
“Because… because I love you.”
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Amanda didn’t say anything. She was too surprised. She didn’t realize that Alex had loved her… she just thought that he was playing around with her. He didn’t seem like the type to fall in love. Amanda didn’t know what to do. The fact was that she had liked hanging around with Alex, he was so fun and loving, but then Amanda just thought of him as a fling… and didn’t even expect herself to fall in love with him. She was determined to give up on him, but then now he was telling her that he loved her. Amanda didn’t expect that. She wanted him to tell her that before.. but now it just confused her even more. She really did give up, but now she didn’t know what to do… again. She couldn’t hurt Nick again she loved him too much. She knew that if Nick knew about this, he would definitely not be happy.
“Amanda? Are you still there?”
“Alex, do you realize how confused you made me by just saying that? We can’t be together, you know that.”
“I know, I guess, I was just hoping that some way, we could be together, without hurting anyone.”
“You had a great friendship with Nick, Alex, I broke that and I’m sorry. But don’t you know that I’m trying to help you guys get back together? You can’t do this to me Alex, you can’t.”
“I know… but I just want to know, did you ever love me more than Nick?”
Amanda thought about it, “No. I can’t lie to myself Alex. I did love you… at the time, I thought I loved you more than Nick, but now I know that I love Nick more. I guess it was just bad timing. I really did love you… but you didn’t seem like the commitment type. You were so free, and we just seemed like we were flirting most of the time. But I guess, thanks to your ex, me and Nick are back together again, she made me see again how much I love him. I’m sorry Alex.”
Alex didn’t say anything.
“Alex? Please, you would find someone else that you love more than me. She is out there.”
“No Amanda, you don’t understand. I have never loved anyone more that I’ve loved you… now… I don’t think that I’ll ever love again.”