"Please Jarrad." She whispered standing in his living room. "I just came to get my things. I don't wanna go through all this."
A simple trip to pick up a few things from her ex's apartment had erupted into an hour long blowout involving him stealing her keys and purse demanding that she further explain why she had left him. He at least, he claimed, deserved that. But it was all in vain; no explanation was acceptable to him. First she tried the calm approach. Tried to explain to him that situations like the one they were in at that exact moment were precisely why she left him. He was passionate to the point of instability, irrational at times. She refused to live like that. He asked for specific examples citing such behavior. She gave them. Scoffing, he said that she was over dramatic, over analyzed those situations. But what about right now? She countered. He had lied and manipulated his way to getting her to come to his house, held her hostage, stolen her purse and keys, and blocked the door with his 6'2, 210 pound frame when she attempted to leave. "Only because," he answered as if it was obvious, she "wouldn't listen to reason."
She tried to remind him of the women she did not think he fucked, but he led on and flirted with. She hated it. It ate her up inside. He thrived off of attention from females. She was never enough for him. "But I never cheated" he said. Once again, she was over dramatic and a new one: sensitive. The more he claimed that her complaints were unfounded, the louder she got. She screamed, yelled, hit him. Things she had never done before. She was losing control of herself. The only thing she felt she ever really had was self control. And she lost it.
"All I'm sayin' is I'm not ready to give up you." He told her staring her down.
"Please Jarrad." She took a step away from him there were tears in her eyes that she didn't want him to see. "Just let me go...let this go." A tear fell. He saw it, approached her. For every one of his steps forward she took one back. Eventually her back hit a wall. Flinching as his hand touched her chin, she wondered despairingly why and how she had gotten herself into such a mess.