Chapter One:
Musa
"Riven, do you have any idea how much I want to kill you right now?" I choke into the phone before hanging up.
"Boyfriend troubles?" Stella asks me as she flicks through her magazine.
"Oh yes, just the usual Riven being Riven!" I tell her as I plop on the couch next to Bloom and Flora.
"I told you that he was a pig, didn't I?" Stella pouts at me.
"Ignore her," Bloom says, with a pointed look at Stella. "Tell us what happened?"
"Well, it's going to sound stupid, but, I'm sick of being the one who organises all our dates. I've told him this so many times but he never listens! So anyway today on the phone, I was dropping all these hints about how I would like to catch-up with him soon, but he didn't catch on and then I cracked it at him and hung up," I say sadly as I lean against Flora.
"Well, some people are just really bad at picking up hints, you just have to tell them straight out. Maybe he didn't realise that you were hinting, so you can't be too mad," Flora tells me reasonably.
"It's true, his mind is probably more on the logical side then the emotional one," Tecna tells me as she glances up from her laptop. "Oh is that the time, well I'd best be off."
Tecna stands up and runs her hands down her clothes. As she walks out she glances at the hallway mirror, and fixes her hair before closing the door.
We all stare after her in shock.
"Um, did Tecna just check her hair?" Layla wonders aloud in bewilderment as she bends down to pick up the fork she had dropped in surprise.
"Yeah, that is so not like Tecna," Bloom says as she stares at the mirror.
"What a hypocrite, she says it's stupid to stand around in front of a mirror and see what you look like. She always tells me off when I look at myself!" Stella says angrily.
"Stel, honey, that's because you stand around talking about how sexy and hot you are," Layla giggles.
We can't help it, we all start laughing. It's true, Stella is a nice girl, deep down, but she can be rather vain.
"Just because some of us take pride in our appearance," Stella mutters as she strides to her bedroom.
Through the door we can hear her reassuring herself that she looks as gorgeous as always, and that everyone else is a jealous troll. And yes she knows we can hear everything, that's why she's saying, thank-you very much.
"Anyways back to your problem, I wouldn't stress about it, you two always fight and end up making up afterwards. It's like your system," Bloom says as she goes over to Stella's magazine and starts reading from where she left off.
Blooms truthful words sting, in the past two years that Riven and I have dated we have fought around 90% of the time and had angry/ makeup sex 100% of the time; gosh I sound like Tecna. Maybe we aren't that great for each other. I think maybe it's time we broke up because our relationship just doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Sure relationships aren't all sunshine and lollipops, but I shouldn't feel drained… Should I? At least not in a healthy relationship.
Oh I just don't know anymore; everyone else gets along fine with their boyfriends, why am I the only one with problems?