I woke up in my apartment the next morning. I walked over into the kitchen and was kind of shocked at first to see that Steph wasn't there as usual making breakfast. Then I remembered that we broke up. Oh well. I guess I'd have to cook for myself from now on.
'Ring Ring!!'
"Hello?"
"Hi Nick."
"Hi Steph."
"What are you doing?"
"Making breakfast."
"Cool. Remember the time that Sophie came over and we tried to make dinner for you and Brian?"
"Yeah. It turned out so bad we ended up going to McDonalds!"
"Yeah....that was when we first started going out."
"Uh huh." I was starting to get bored. Steph never called in the morning, she was just kinda there.
"Oh! The reason I called you. Want to go to Grand Beach with Me and Joce and Lekan today?"
"Sure." Oh great. Grand Beach. We went there on our first date.
"Cool pick you up at eleven okay?"
"Okay. Bye."
"Bye."
Two hours later I was ready to go. I looked ready for the beach. I had my duckie around my waist. And Lekan had come over, but my heart wasn't in this.
"What's wrong Nick?" Lekan asked.
"Nothing."
"Yeah there is."
"Okay. Grand Beach is where me and Steph had our first date."
"Awwwwww how sweet. Is that first time you guys did it too?"
"Shut up Lekan."
"I just wanna know."
"We didn't do it at the beach. That's all I'm gonna tell you."
"So where did you..?" He prodded. I sighed. Steph and I only had sex once. She said it was the most wonderful experience she ever had but we just never did it again. It was sort of a one time thing.
I sat on the couch and started tracing the pattern on it with my finger. How could I have let something, someone, so special to me go?
Lekan sat down beside me. "It's normal to be sad you know. You did love her."
"I still do love her." I replied. She was the first person I had ever loved. How could she have done this to me? And expected to be friends later? It was going to be hard but I’d just have to try.
