Mistakes
Summary: AU. Gary pushed her against the wall and he rested his arm above her head. "Just listen to me!" the brunette glared at him. "Why should I?" He glared and Leaf looked right into his eye. "You're always trying to solve things with violence!" Gary's eyes narrowed and he opened his mouth to talk. She slapped him across the face. "Are you saying we're done?" he yelled. She looked and him once more. "What do you think?"
Just make a list of all our mistakes, Gary. Fighting, hitting, arguing, ignoring, disagreeing… over the littlest things. It comes to something I never dreamed of… breaking up. Before our first mistake, we were fine. We were in a flawless, perfect relationship. But that very first mistake was the worst mistake. It was my entire fault, too. Would Gary ever want me back? Would he even try? I don't feel like myself at all.
Main shipping: oldrivalshipping
Other shippings: contestshipping, pokeshipping, ikarishipping
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Hey guys. It's Citra again, and this is my… 15th story. I wrote an oldrivalshipping oneshot before called Last Christmas. This is my first story with oldrivalshipping as the main shipping. Please be excited for this story! Yes, so I will still be working on Your Attention.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Pokemon.
Prologue
I was sitting on Gary's couch, in his room. Yes, in his room. It's not that surprising; I've been in his room like ten times already. We've been dating for two months already… he even gave me a key to his apartment. He lives by himself. He used to live with his grandfather but he had to work in another province.
Gary told me to come here at three pm. "Where is he?" I mumbled to myself, resting my chin on my hands.
I opened the front door to peek a little. He was there, chatting with a girl. She was a blond haired girl with purple eyes and shiny, fat, pink lips. She had layers of makeup on. It was sick. I took a glance at Gary and it looked like he was enjoying talking to the girl. I then frowned. Gary kissed the side of her head and she waved at him. She ran down the stairs.
He was about to turn around and I quickly ran back into his room. Gary opened the door and walked in. "Leafy, you here? You forgot to close the door."
"D-did I?" I stammered. "Oops." I started to feel uncomfortable when he started to stroll over to me. I know he was a playboy and all but… he promised me he wouldn't. And he hasn't cheated for three weeks already. Was he doing it behind my back? He was nearly five feet close and I felt scared. I backed away and looked at him with frightened eyes.
He stopped walking. Gary gave me a puzzled look. "What?"
"I—" I started. I don't want him to know I saw. I have to be strong! I've never been like this before. I shut my eyes and thought of a lie. I bit my lip and looked at him. "I remember my mom wanted me to come home and watch my little brother! He's home alone and—"
"Brother?" Gary repeated. Shoot. I don't have a brother. "I thought you were a single child." Gary was looking at me with those innocent eyes. How can he play innocent like that? He's not innocent…
"Oops, I meant little cousin," I said. "People make mistakes now and then, right?" I laugh quietly and I give him a smile. A take my hat that was on the floor and I skip to the door. Okay Leaf, this is not the time to act like Dawn… I turn to him and grin. "I'll talk to you later. Bye!" I give him a peace sign and leave immediately.
Oh my gosh.
I was scared of my own boyfriend.
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It's been two and a half weeks.
I've been avoiding Gary ever since that day. I can't bring myself to face him. Even though I'm strong and I've never been like this before, I can't talk to him. I'll just let him talk to me first. Right after I thought that, Gary was there.
We were at school, and it was break time. I waved to him casually and said 'sup.' He rolled his eyes. "Yeah, sup. What's going on, Leaf?" I frowned. "Don't play innocent. I know you're avoiding me. All of my friends say that. And even your friends are ignoring me."
I shrug. "Haven't my friends always been ignoring you?"
"Well, yeah," Gary said. But he shook his head. "This is different, Leaf. What's going on?" I said nothing and he gave me a furious look. He grabbed me hand and pulled me away to the outside of the school. We stand by the wall. "There, nobody is here to listen to us. Now spill it, Gary."
"Why are you so mad?" I ask, squinting at him. "Don't tell me you didn't take your chill pills this morning." I know Gary wanted to explode. His ears were red. "Sorry. I'm not avoiding you. You just haven't been coming to talk to me."
"I thought you were mad at me," he said. I didn't answer. "You haven't been talking to me since you were at my house for five seconds." I nodded slowly, signaling him to continue. He couldn't think of anything to say for a while. "Wait. Did you see something?"
"Like what?" I asked.
He shifted uncomfortably. "Did you… see me outside?"
So he did suspect that. I wanted to ask him so many questions: How long have you two been dating? Why didn't you tell me? How come you're still cheating on me? I wanted to tell him that I was freaking crying for sixty hours because of what I saw him do. I just shrug. "What if I did?"
Gary sighs and scratched his spiky, auburn hair. "What did you see?"
"You kissing a blondie's hair," I mumble. He was about to speak but I cut him off. I took a deep breath and started off a little loudly. "Do you ever feel sorry for me? You always… I always think you never care about my feelings. It's like everything in the world is about you." No tears, Leaf. Especially at school.
"No, Leaf, I—" he starts.
I don't even want to hear it. I'm so angry at him. I glare at him. "How many times has it been? Seven? The first time, you said it was an accident. The second time, you told me it was your cousin. The third time, you said the person looked like me. The fourth time, you said you fell down and your lips touched by accident. The fifth time, you said it was the woman forcing the kiss on you when it didn't look that way. The sixth time, you also said it was your cousin. And this time, oh wait there's this other time when you were flirting with a girl when you were only 'friends.'" I don't know, did I take a breath between my sentences? I can't remember. "How do I remember that? Gary, I don't forget anything we do. Mostly because I frickin' loved you!"
"Loved?" Gary repeated. "Leaf, I don't remember any of those things—"
"Of course you don't remember because you don't care or it just happened too many times!" I yell. I felt my heart beating hard and my hands were shaking. I glared at him. "This sucks. And after two and a half weeks, you come to your sucky senses and you come talk to me! Were you waiting for me to come have another happy time with you? Let's see if that will ever happen." I sneer. Wait. What did I just say? Did I just imply I won't talk or be with him again? What am I saying? These words are probably what I'm really feeling. Maybe I'm just lying to myself about liking Gary. "And—!"
"Wait Leaf, let me talk!"
"That first time I saw you cheat on me ruined everything!" I yelled. "We were fine before! But after that we were arguing every single second! At random times we would be happy but most of the time, especially around others, we don't even look like a couple! We look like people who hate each other's guts. It looks like we're forcing ourselves to stay together!" I had more to say. I didn't want to stop. "I miss that perfect relationship we had before, Gary! Do you not like girls like me? Were you actually cheating on me this whole time! That's what Dawn said, but I didn't believe her! I'm starting to wish I did, Leaf!"
I think I drove Gary mad because he grabbed both my arms and pushed be against the wall. His arms rested above my head and he looked down, straight into my eye. "You should really think before you speak, Leafy." He smirked and I glared at him. "That's what I like about you. But too bad I heard everything you said." I started to punch his chest, not that hard, but he made his strong hands hold mine tightly. "Just listen to me!"
I glared again. "Why should I?" he glared right back at her. "You're always trying to solve things with violence!"
"No I'm not!" Gary yelled. "After hearing everything you said, I can translate that whole speech into five words. Amazing, right?" I crossed my arms, waiting for him to say those amazing five words. "You want to break-up."
I slapped him across the face, hard. "You're the worst, Oak!"
He held his cheek. "See! Aren't you pretty much just trying to ask me if we want to break up?"
"Would you be glad if I said that?" I asked him.
"Are you saying we're done?"
I push him away and walk towards the door. I look at him again, with softened eyes. Even though I never wanted to, there's no choice now. "What do you think?"
Omfg. Leaf is a little out of herself… it's not her fault. I can see why. I know this is a short chapter, but my prologues are always short.
Hope you guys like it! I'll see how many reviews I'll get, and I will continue! :D so please review! The new review… or should I say comment system is funky. I'm going to keep saying review since it's a habit. It's cool because I can add covers and stuff.
~Citra
