There's a decently sized beach shop down the line of beach, situated on a boardwalk. Outside has varieties of neon colored shirts with white and black words, written in bold font. A lot of them reference terrible pop-culture phrases that give the workers headaches every time they see it.
John was in the middle of folding t-shirts off in the corner of said beach shop when he sensed someone coming up. Well, not necessarily sensed as seen from all the way across the bloody store.
"How may I he-" He chirped cheerfully, stopped abruptly when he saw the face the person was making. Hazel eyes glowered down at him from below an auburn fringe. The man grabbed - not roughly, but enough for John to know better than to resist - the employee's shoulder and dragged him out of the small souvenir shop. He took him into a sort of alley between buildings where smokers often came during break.
"Where the bloody hell have you been?" The man hissed. John winced slightly as if the words had physically hurt him.
"I'm sorry Clarke. I should have tol-"
"To hell you should have told me! You've been ignoring my calls, my texts, even when I decide to visit your apartment you ignore that too! What do you expect me to think when I find out you've gone and changed shifts at your shop as well?" Clarke snarled. He was really pissed and John was actually afraid he might have hit him.
"I'm really sorry..." John said avoiding his piercing eyes. The truth was John had decide to go to a friends party - which he rarely ever did - and had accidentally seen Clarke kissing a girl. He hadn't expected his most recent flame to be there, and definitely not kissing a female. It did no help to his ego that the girl's looks were the exact opposite of his. She was tall, foreign, tan, very curvy and probably every straight mans wet dream. John, being bisexual, preferred men, but had a thing for more modest women. Definitely not exotics.
John, after noticing, ignored his boyfriend for the past week and assumed the man had only thought of their relationship as something trivial. Not that they were going steady, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
It wasn't much of a surprise if that really was the truth, considering their relationship budded from a drunken one night stand. John had noticed that most of his relationships this summer had started that way.
Finally, Clarke let go of his arm and ran his hand through his, if John might add, own beautiful hair, "John what am I supposed to do?"
Maybe it was shallow, but the only reason John had even agreed to the relationship was because the man was quite frankly incredibly hot. The morning after a drunken one-night stand was usually one to regret, but Clarke had treated him nicely. John usually only dated attractive or 'prince-like men", as stated by Harry, and often got too attached.
"I ... I don't know," John waited quietly for what was about to happen next.
The man stared at him and paused contemplating his next choice of words, "I think we should break up."
John pretended not to be bothered, "See you around I guess?" He said. John hoped, god he hoped, Clarke would just leave it at that. This stuff wasn't his forte. He could handle relationships, he didn't have commitment issues, he just chose to go an easy route. Flings were always easy, never too many feelings mixed up.
Clarke simply looked surprised pausing and staring at him for a while, before he simply nodded and left John alone in the alley. Sliding slowly down the wall John sighed and put his head in his hands. Okay, there weren't any feelings, but that didn't mean rejection wasn't a bitch.
"That was the ... let me think ... 7th one this summer?" A familiar voice whistled in.
"Piss off, Harry."
"Oh, but I was actually thinking this one might last, you know? He was a lot more normal than the others and he lasted a whole three days longer than them too. You always seem to go for the strange ones," His older sister taunted. He scowled, she really was annoying, and stood up, pushing past her and back into the store.
((A/N: Edited version! Didn't go over too hard, but will probably be even more edited down the line. Let me tell you guys this is extremely WIP.))