"You cheated on me.. with Frank?"

"You cheated on me with Nicole," I muttered, looking at the wall in front of me instead of the boy pacing around my room.

"But Frank is one of my best friends!" Mikey threw his hands up as I sighed, pulling my legs up to my chest and wrapping my arms around them. "Yeah, But Nicole's worse. She's not a close friend- actually, she's practically a stranger," I stated, I could practically feel him roll his eyes at me.

"Well- Ugh," Mikey groaned, sitting across from me on my bed.

"Well now what?"
His tone was aggressive, exasperated even. He looked like he wanted to slap me across the face, but his eyes are scared me the most. They looked sad. Just.. sad. No better way to say it. I shifted my eyes back at the wall.

The air hanging between was heavy with silence for about three minutes. I couldn't even look directly at Mikey. But even then, I could feel his glare pierce right through me. And it hurt more than anything I could have ever known. Then I decided to break the silence.

"Maybe we should just break up," I muttered meekly, still not looking at Mikey, "For good."
I chanced a quick glance towards the taller boy that sat across from me. There was a look of some sort of  confusing mixture of heartbroken and surprise on his face.

Mikey didn't say anything at first. Waiting for his response was agonizingly slow. Seconds felt like minutes, and minutes felt like hours. Then I didn't want him to speak. I didn't even wanna break up anymore. But I had to. But I just wanted to cry and be wrapped in his arms.

"Y/N—"
"If you're going to argue, don't." I cut him off. I could already feel the tears threaten to spill. I held them back as best I could, which kind of hurt.

"This is exactly like what happened with Ryan. And I can't stay with you with the constant reminder of..." I made exasperated hand gestures. I didn't want to have to say what was already said.

"It hurts, Mikey, it hurts so much," I said, my voice barely above a whisper. "That's why I have to break up with you."

The air became stagnant again, with only the sound of my quiet sniffling. I saw Mikey reach out to me out of the corner of my eye.
"Don't touch me." I snapped. I let out a small gasp, putting a hand over my mouth.
Mikey's face contorted into a mix of anger and despair. He stood up. "You know what? Fine. Be that way!"
He walked over to the window.

"So long!"

"Goodnight.."

And with that, he slipped out the window.

He was gone.

Suddenly, the tears I had struggled to hold back spilled out. I grabbed the nearest pillow and sobbed into it until I fell asleep.

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Thanks TheAnimeBaka [basically the co-writer] for helping with this chapter oof

We spent two hours discussing this one chapter before it was even written on instagram dms oof