"Oh...so you fucked him," he said. I looked down at my book, ignoring that. "Does he know you're seeing other guys?"
"Do the girls you date know about me?"
"It's different when it's a girl," he said. "Girls don't mind a guy with experience, but most guys don't want a girl with mileage."
"Mileage?"
"Let's just say, when you're a girl, you can definitely tell if her body count is in the double digits," he
said. I frowned, disgusted. Only he could encourage me to see other people, then basically indirectly call me a ho for doing it.
"Look, Sean, I'm busy. What do you want?"
"You always say that when I come over," he complained.
"Well, you always come over at a bad time. You never call; maybe if you did, we could arrange to meet up when we were both free."
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about," he said. "That's going to have to change."
"What? You're gonna start calling?"
"There was a reason I was busy Friday. I started dating someone," he announced.
"Okay. What do you want me to do about that?"
"I don't think it's working between us anymore. Being with this new girl... I don't know whether we can keep seeing each other."
"Yeah. I bet it's really hard to not commit," I sniped.
"I actually like you, Veronica, that's why I came here to talk to you. I'm willing to give it one more shot."
"Lucky me," I said sarcastically.
"If you can tell me why we should still date, we can stay together," he said.
"What? Like, give you a reason? If you're asking for that, it looks like you've already made your decision. You're going to see this other girl regardless. Do what you want," I said spitefully.
"What crawled up your ass and died?"
"Us being together has never stopped you before. I don't think anything has stopped you before. It doesn't matter what I feel – it's about you, isn't it? All about you. Just leave. You knew what you wanted before you came here. You're wasting my time and yours."
"You're always like this. What the fuck is your problem?" he demanded.
"Only when you're around Sean. I wouldn't call that a coincidence. I'm gonna tell you one more time – get out."
"Fine. You're always fucking uptight, anyway," he sneered, leaving. I locked the door behind him. This has to be the last time that I do this, I thought. It wasn't like he was being more overbearing than usual, it was just hitting me differently. I had had a lot less patience for him lately. That and a lot more on my mind.
It helped that he seemed to be making distancing myself easier. He had found someone new. In that case, best of luck to them. It should not have taken this long to get to this place. I didn't know whether you could break up with someone who you weren't actually with, but it felt that way. I sat down again, staring down at my textbook. Nope, it wasn't happening. Not tonight. I picked my phone up instead.
"Hello?" said Tiffany.
"Guess who just left my place," I said instead of hello.
"Who?"
"Sean."
"The guy you're wasting your good looks and time on?"