Somebody I Used to Know
AH/AU Sookie's world crashed down around her with one phone message.
AN: Hello all my lovely readers so this is a new story of mine that I am working on. I am sort of stuck with C and C at the moment so I am trying to get my mojo back. My muse has been off track and I can't seem to get where I want with C and C so I have been trying to write whatever I can which lead me to this and a few other stories ideas I have playing around with. I may post one of those as well if I fell like the ideas will go somewhere. Anyway I had the idea for this story after listing to the song of the same title as my story. Please tell me what you think of this one so I know if you all want me to continue.
Disclaimer: The only time I will write this out for this fan fiction the characters are not mine nor are any songs mentioned or any other pop cutler references. The title of the story is the same title as a song by Gotye.
Chapter 1 Shattered Dreams
I was sitting in my reading language arts methods class when my phone buzzed on the table. I looked at it and noticed that it was my fiancé Bill. I just let it got to voice mail turning my attention back to my professor. After class I picked up my phone to see that he had left a message and it was super long.
"Hey Ames, I'll meet you up at the café in a few minutes I just want to listen to my messages." I told my friend Amelia as we were leaving the classroom.
"'k I'll save you a seat." She said as she walked away.
I sat down on the bench outside of the classroom. I typed in my password and listened to the message. Bill must have butt dialed me cause I did not hear anything but fabric moving and muffled voices for the first thirty seconds. I was about to delete the message when I heard a moan. That was weird I thought to myself and continued to listen. Then I heard something that broke my heart. The moan turned into another then a grunt and then I heard "Oh Bill don't stop." and "You like that you dirty girl." I dropped my phone and started to cry. I knew those voices just like I knew what was happening during that phone call. Lorena had been "friends" with Bill for years and worked with him at RavensCroft Inc. I could not believe that I had been so blind. I have been dating Bill for three years when he proposed to me in May. We were going to wait till I finished school to get married. I only had this semester and then I would be student teaching in the spring. I had just started to plan our wedding for the next summer. Bill had been so supportive of the fact that I wanted to wait till be got married to have sex. He said that he valued my morals and that it was a shame that more girls were not like me. We were not even living together yet. He was such a fucking hypocrite. I looked down at my finger and at the ring he had given me. It was the monster of a diamond surrounded by a bunch of other smaller ones and not really my taste. But Bill had been so excited when he proposed to tell me all about how he had been saving up for it and he thought I should have the best that money could buy. He even had it inscribed with "Sweetheart" his pet name for me. I had thought that it was so endearing when he gave that to me. My tears had turned into sobs. I had been sitting there for a long time when Amelia came back to find me.
"Sookie what's wrong? I have been waiting up there for almost twenty minutes." She asked sitting down next to me on the bench. I couldn't talk and just pointed at my phone. She grabbed it from the floor. "I don't get it Sookie." She said handing me my phone.
I got the message to play again and handed it back to her. "Just listen." I cried.
"That ass, well I can't say that I saw this coming but it is good you found out before you married him." She swore and tried to console me.
"I guess you're right. I just can't believe he would do that. Cheese and crackers do you think this has been going on the whole time? Why wasn't I enough?" I started to question myself. Was it so bad that I wanted to wait? Is that was drove him to have sex with someone else? My sobs increased.
"Sookie this is not your fault he is just a slimy weasel who couldn't keep it in his pants. You will be better off without him. Come on we can tell Professor Meriwether that we are going to miss class I know that she will understand. Then we can ride the bus back to your apartment and drown your sorrows in ice cream. How does that sound?" Amelia offered.
"I don't think I could concentrate anyway." I agreed as she walked with me to Meriwether's office. She was sitting at her desk eating a sandwich when we knocked on the door. Professor Meriwether's office was a little shoe box of a room with barely enough room for her desk and a set of chairs. Her walls were decorated with lots of professional artwork and children's drawings.
"Girls what can I do for you?" She asked setting down her lunch. Her bright smile faded a bit when she saw my face. "Sookie are you alright?" Meriwether was one of my professors that actually to the time to get to know her students. She was extremely kind and understanding. I shook my head. I was not sure how to explain what was wrong. I will forever be grateful that Amelia was with me.
"Sookie got a really bad phone call last class…" She looked at me before she continued to make sure it was ok to share everything. "Her fiancé Bill is apparently cheating on her and somehow called her while having sex with someone else." I could not believe that my disaster of a day could be summed up in so few words.
"Oh Sookie I am so sorry. Don't worry about coming to class this afternoon. I have one of the other girls tape the lecture for you. Amelia are you going to stay with her?" Meriwether enquired handing me a tissue to blot my eyes.
"If that's alright I was planning on it. I don't think she should be by herself. I mean I know that I would not want to be if it was me." Amelia replied.
"No problem at all. I will even talk to your other professors and let them know you probably won't be in class tomorrow. You take the weekend and get yourself feeling better and then we can deal with things next week." She encouraged.
"Thank you. I just don't know …" I started crying again. Amelia put her arm around me and hugged me.
"I will see both you girls next week hopefully." Meriwether said getting up to give me a hug as well. After some more tissues and another hug she sent us on our way. I sort of blindly followed Amelia to the bus stop. By the time we had gotten back to my apartment I had almost cried myself out. My apartment was relatively new and very modern. The complex had been built only a few years ago. Jessica and I were only the second tenants to have lived there. We were on the second floor on the north side of the building. Our apartment was decorated with a hodgepodge of hand me down furniture and several of Jessica's paintings. She was double majoring in Art History and Studio Art. She was really good at what she does. She even did painting of me and Bill when she found out we had gotten engaged.
"Sookie go take a shower and then put on something comfy. I will get the ice cream and something for us to watch. When is Jessica going to be back?" She asked heading to the kitchen.
"Not till after ten she is working tonight." I answered heading to my room to get yoga pants and a tank top. I went to the bathroom and did what she suggested. Taking a shower might not have fixed me emotionally but it did make me feel a tiny bit better. I got dressed and curled up in my club chair with a quilt my Gran had made me.
"I decided that you need to watch some movies and have a girl's night so Pam is going to come over with pizza and other junk after her class is done. She said that she is going to raid Eric's stash of vodka and we are going to get trashed." Amelia said enthusiastically. Pam was Amelia's girlfriend and she was a good friend of mine. Eric was her older brother. He worked at their mother's company which just happened to be RavensCroft Inc. Amelia got up and put in her first choice of movies Finding Nemo. My phone started to ring playing Love Story. It was the ring tone that I had set for Bill after he purposed. Amelia recognized it and took it from me. She then ignored the call and turned my phone off setting it back down like nothing happened. She handed me a spoon and the pint of Ben and Jerry's Phish Food. I sat their crying into my ice cream not really focusing on the movie. At four Pam showed up laden down with all sorts of junk food and booze.
"Hey Sookie we are going to get you through this. First thing though, you need to take that ring off." Pam said sitting down next to Amelia. I looked down at my hand with tears welling up in my eyes. I had not even realized that I was still wearing it.
"What should I do with it?" My hand shook as I took it off. I had not taken it off my hand except to sleep since he put it there.
"I would say flush it but you could always sell it." Pam said.
"I don't think I can do either of those." I looked at the ring in my hand.
"You don't have to do anything right now but eat something and then we can start drinking." Amelia interjected. I got up and took the ring into my room. I put it on my dresser next to my other jewelry. When I came back into the living room Pam declared that it was time we start drinking if we were going to continue to watch horrible movies. Soon we were pretty hammered and I was starting to forget about being so sad. At some point I passed out but I woke up when there was a knock at the door. I looked at the clock it was just after ten. Both Amelia and Pam were asleep on the sofa. I was thinking that maybe it was Jess and she had forgotten her keys. So I answered the door without look to see who was there. Bill was on the other side of the door with a worried look on his face. Before he could say a word I slammed the door in his face which caused Amelia and Pam to wake up. I locked the door and went to my room taking my quilt with me. I shut my door and laid down crying.
AN # 2: So what do you all think? Is it worth me spending more time writing this or should it just be a one off?
