“Huh?”
“Ha-ha, oh it’s nothing, that’s just what the strippers at the club call him,” she laughs.
“Ohh, I see. Well look, I’m supposed to be closing this big deal with him and it’s really important. I’m leaning towards giving him what he wants, but I’ve been wondering what your relation to him is.”
Becky stays silent.
“Look, I’ll do the deal if it means having you…”
A look that I can’t quite place crosses her face, and right then we hear a knock at her door.
“Sorry, let me just go get that. Probably my neighbor, she always brings my mail up when she gets hers.”
She crosses the room and as soon as she opens the door, my entire mood changes. A fire flares up in my chest and I feel like I’m about to explode. It’s Peter fucking Silver.
We lock eyes and his expression changes, mirroring mine. I can’t even fucking believe this guy. Always showing up to ruin shit.
She invites him in, being a little too friendly in my opinion. He glides in, a smirk already forming on his face. And suddenly I’m transformed back to college.
Peter and I were roommates. Best friends. More than best friends. We went to each other for everything, spent practically every day and night together. It got to the point where it was becoming more.
I loved Peter, of course I did. But somewhere along the line, it became more than a friendship. Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with him. The most intense, and real love. The best thing I’ve ever felt.
But for some reason, I couldn’t come to terms with my feelings for him. I was confused, because he was the first man that I ever felt anything like that for. I had always been with women before him.
So one night, I took his sorority girl, Vanessa, back to our dorm. Peter walked in while she was on top of me. Apparently, he had been coming to confess his love to me. If I had known, I never would have taken Vanessa back to our dorm that night. If I had known that he felt the exact same way about me as I felt for him, I would’ve reacted in a completely different way.
So a few days later, I tracked Peter down to apologize and tell him how I felt about him. He had been avoiding me ever since that night. When I found him, he was fucking the same girl, Vanessa. I was livid.
We’ve been enemies ever since then. In fact, we’ve barely even spoken, despite being on the same career path. It’s safe to say that that friendship is long gone, let alone anything else that was between us.
It’s not that I don’t miss him sometimes, how could I not. It’s just that I don’t believe that the person that I knew is still there. Peter has turned into a whole different man since then, and not for the better.
I have no desire to ever be involved with him again. So the fact that we are both involved with Becky at the same time is just about the most annoying thing that could happen in my life right now. And because of that, I also have no desire to let him win this.