Kyrian was anxious to see his beautiful girlfriend Sunny. She said she wanted to meet him for lunch after he got off of work so he went home to change. He loved her so much and planned on asking her to marry him since their five year anniversary was coming up in a month. He figured that's what she wanted to talk about because she had been hinting at going somewhere special for their anniversary this year.
Kyrian has been saving up big for her ring. He planned on pulling out all the stops for his proposal. All he had to do was get her father's blessing to take her hand in marriage. His whole family loved her especially his little brother, Thomas, who had a crush on her. He knew that Sunny wanted to go out of the country but they could do that for their honeymoon, so she could wait a little while longer.
He put on a crisp white button down and some khaki shorts to go with his favorite converse shoes. Yea he was 25, but you never got too old for some good Chuck Taylors. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair wishing it was Sunny's beautiful short graceful fingers caressing his scalp. Checking in the mirror to make sure he looked presentable for his lady. Kyrian checked his watch and beat feet to the door to meet the love of his life for lunch.
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Sunny sat at the cute little bistro fiddling her fingers because she was nervous. She didn't know how to say this to him, didn't know how to break it to him without hurting his feelings. Kyrian is such a sweet person and she loved him she really did but this is something she had to do.
She sipped on her water going over all of the outcomes that could happen. Maybe he would throw a fit? No that wasn't his style, Kyrian never lost his cool. Or would he cry? God she hoped he didn't cry, that would just break her heart. She had no idea what he would do and she prepared for the worse. As soon as she sent another prayer up she knew it wasn't heard in time because Kyrian came walking in the door.
Gosh he looked so damn good. Why was she doing this again? He was wearing a white shirt and khaki shorts that showed his toned legs. He always wore the brown leather bracelet she bought him for their first anniversary. Kyrian liked looking down at it because it made him think about her and the contrast that their skin made against each other, which was why she got it for him. His slightly tanned skin held a pinkish tint in his cheeks so she knew he was happy to see her. He had his hair falling into his eyes just the way she liked it since it brought out his seafoam green eyes.
Smiling, he kissed her before he sat down. She prayed that he didn't notice that she moved her face so he couldn't kiss her on the lips.
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"Hey babe, how are you today?" Kyrian noticed that she moved her face but he didn't want to get into that right now, he just loved being in her presence.
"I'm fine, how have you been today?" Sunny said with a half-hearted smile.
Kyrian knew something was wrong. Her vibe was different today, it was....off, like she wasn't feeling so hot today. "Sunny what's wrong? Is everything at school going alright?" Getting right to the point so he could immediately make her feel better and maybe go make love to her to make her feel EXTRA good.
She had her head down avoiding eye contact and he knew this was bad news. Oh he hoped she wasn't failing school because she stopped talking about it and has been kind of distant lately.
Speaking up Sunny broke him out of his spell. "Kyrian, I don't know how to put this but I'm just going to say this before I put it off any longer. I'm not the same girl you met sophmore year in college."
Not understanding what she meant Kyrian gave her a confused look furrowing his brow. "What do you mean?"
"I mean that I have changed Kyrian. I'm not that goody-twoshoes who follows the rules anymore. I drink, I have tried smoking and I have tattoos. I curse and I am not soaring in school. I'm tired of having to be this perfect picture, you put me on a pedestal and I want off. I have changed and I know you have noticed that I keep my distance I mean for god's sake we don't even fuck anymore!" Sunny exclaimed getting angrier by the second.
He was at a loss for words because he didn't know if she wanted him to accept her changes or was she breaking up with him. He was extremely against marking one's own body, women cursing because let's face it that is unattractive. He could feel his own anger spike because how could she blame all of this on him? Why was she making this his fault? How dare she blame her shortcomings on him! "Oh so this is my fault you turned into this, this....miscreant?" He knew that sounded bad but it had to be said.
Sunny gasped, "I am not a miscreant, I am just not the girl that you use to know. I don't want to hurt your feelings but I think we should break up."
Kyrian was mad because he hated when people said crap like 'I don't want to hurt your feelings' because it never lessened the pain. By some astounding feat it still ended up hurting the person's feelings. "What did I do to make you feel the need to break up. We have been together for almost five years and now you spring this on me! Who is he, who is the other guy?"
Sunny let out a sigh, "There is no one else. It's just you are so perfect and you want everything perfect. You don't live Kyrian, you don't experience the world and all of it's opportunities. I want to do all of that but you don't. I mean geeze your parents are loaded and you never not once stepped out of the country let alone the east coast!"
Narrowing his eyes Kyrian said "So who have you been experiencing the world with?"
"I met this girl at school who is from overseas and we have a lot in common. She is a great friend because she introduced me to a world that I never knew was there and all the pleasures it had to offer. No, me and her aren't together we are just friends. She invited me to culinary school with her in California."
"Culinary school? You are in law school." Kyrian was thoroughly confused because he never knew she was interested in cooking. But cooking for a living was not going to bring money and stability in her life.
"No I dropped out of law and I got accepted to the culinary school in California and I'm leaving in a month."