I Think we're Alone Now
"If you could see me one more time, what would you say?" She asked as she heard the line fall silent. He was obviously deep in thought but she did find it odd she couldn't even hear him breathe anymore. "Hello..." she asked to clarify he did not hang up the phone.
"Yea... I'm still here." He said now allowing her to hear his deep breathing. "No one knows what we were." He said.
She sighed inside at this realization. He wasn't wrong. No one even knew they were a thing. Even their closest friends had no idea she was head over heels in love with him all through undergrad classes. "Yea... I guess you're right." She said with a heartfelt chuckle, clearly faking it to save at least a spoonful of dignity.
"What if we could go back to the beginning, where we went wrong?" She asked.
"I'd say take back everything you said that you didn't mean." He said in a matter of fact sort of way.
She was taken aback by this. Was he trying to fight with her about this? Did he honestly still care? Or at the very least, still have feelings for her? "What's that supposed to mean?"
There was another awkward silence on the phone line as she waited desperately to hear his reasoning. "Nothing" he finally said. Damn, that wasn't enough to calm her feelings.
"No... tell me." She said pushing the issue again.
"I don't know what you want me to tell you." He spoke softly but forcefully at the same time. "Every heart falls apart, right?" She faintly thought she heard him sniffle. Could it be he was getting teary eyed at her questions? Was it possible he indeed did still have feelings for her? Shit, was it possible that he ever had feelings for her?
"Where are you?" She asked in an attempt to pry information but lighten the mood as well.
"Why?"
"I just want to know. Did you go home for break or are you still here... on campus?" She waited again. It always felt like she was waiting when it came to Tyler Redbone.
"I'm still here." He said in that same forceful quite voice.
"I miss you." She said hoping it wouldn't fall on deaf ears.
"I know."
Seriously that was it? That was all I get, she thought to herself, biting her lower lip in frustration.
"Look babe... it's getting late and I have a lot of shit to do tomorrow." She could tell he was making excuses now.
"Come see me, right now." She interrupted, and then dangled by the silence awaiting either regret or pure jubilation.
"You at your dorm?" he asked. She exhaled hearing this as it meant he was considering her offer.
"Yes."
"Give me fifteen."
She hung up the phone and began to hurriedly clean the room, throwing fast food wrappers about and sifting stacks of notebook paper. She stood in the middle of the room and quickly did a once over keeping an eye out for anything she may have missed. It looked good, she thought. Then, it hit her. She was wearing her knee-high nightgown and her hair was a mess.
Erin stood barely 5' tall with shoulder length blonde hair. She wasn't the prettiest girl, by any means but she did have this way about her. Men always seemed to gravitate toward her, no matter where she was or what she was doing. She wore black thick rimmed glasses even though all her girlfriends told her they made her look too geeky, she liked them. Her brilliant blue eyes were not overshadowed by those glasses one bit and she knew it. She felt good about herself, in general. She knew the guys usually rated her about a seven and she was okay with that. Hell, she was happy to get higher than a five after high school.
She rushed over to her vanity that sat in the corner of the room. Digging through knots in her hair with a silver handled brush; she tried to apply cherry red lipstick at the same time. There was a knock at the door. Throwing the brush to the vanity she quickly tucked her nose between her armpits and sniffed a few times. Shrugging her shoulders she thought, eh... its okay... enough.
She opened the door and saw Tyler standing before her with his jet black hair hanging in his face like it always did. She thought he looked sexy in a bad boy sort of way. That's what probably drew her to him in the first place. She always dated the good guys. The one's her parents absolutely loved. The kind that was happy to take her to school dances or shopping at the mall but never make a move. She liked that Tyler had her head knocking the headboard on their first 'date', if you could call it that. It was more like a drunken college hook up, but totally one of the best nights of her life.
She continued to fuck him every chance she got and most weekends when he wasn't 'too busy'. She never told any of her friends, not even Emily, her best friend. She just wouldn't understand, as Emily didn't like Tyler from the beginning.
"Come on in." She said motioning her hands to pull him in. He obliged and unzipped his leather jacket as he entered. She stared at his biceps, snuggly setting under his tight Clover Pride t-shirt. She loved his muscular figure. She shook her head quickly as to avoid falling into a comatose memory lane of how she used to lick every inch of him.