There I stood, watching her walk away from my life, possibly forever. She wouldn't listen. It wouldn't have mattered if she had. She wouldn't have understood my reasoning anyway. Didn't she know I loved her? Maybe I hadn't said it enough. Maybe I'd said it too much. I'd never felt as lonely as I did at that moment and I knew I wouldn't be needing another Cleo this time around (no pun intended).

I sat down on a nearby bench, closer to tears than I had ever been my life. It terrified me to have this terrible feeling that I was completely alone in this world. I considered going after her and begging for her forgiveness but knew it would be useless. She hated me and it was my own damn fault she did.

My cell phone rang and I sadly answered it, not really in the mood to speak with anyone at the moment. I felt as if I was about to cry. "Hello?"

"Where in the hell are you?!" It was Isaac. I continued to frown.

"Getting my heart ripped out by the only girl I've ever truly loved. By the way, thanks for telling her about Cleo. You just ruined my life." I was about to hang up when I heard Isaac speak again.

"Tay, if you loved her so much, why did you cheat on her in the first place?"

"Because I'm dumb, but that gave you absolutely no right to go off and tell her about it. What you don't know can't hurt you, remember?" My eyes were watering up and I knew that if I continued this conversation any longer, I would break into tears right then and there and who wants to let other people see you cry? I don't.

"That's a load of shit. She needed to know. If she cheated on you, would you have wanted to know?"

I thought it over for a minute. The mere thought of another guy touching her made me ill, but Isaac didn't need to know that. "I wouldn't care. She can do what she wants."

"Stop lying. You know if she cheated on you, you'd beat the guy's ass for even looking at her."

"Maybe, maybe not. That's not the point. If she did cheat on me, I don't want to know about it. You had no right to tell her without my permission. I can't believe you did that."

"I'm sorry but Gya's my friend and I don't like hiding things from her."

"I'm your fucking brother, Ike! God damnit! This was the first time I was actually happy with someone and you ruined it!" I closed my phone and burst into tears, no longer caring who saw me.


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