For the Sake of You
O N E S H O T
She stared at his glossy eyes as he tapped his fingers against the wood table. His leg was crossed and his left black Converse looked as if it were about to slip off from the way the dirty shoelaces were so untied.
The girl thought about how long those shoes have been around. From the moment his career took off with Columbia Records to the moment they dropped him and picked him back up at Hollywood Records. She can still remember the look on his face when they wanted him to be the first to do the CD VU release, she can also still remember the look on his face when she kissed him. The look on his face when he asked her out. And the look on her face when he gave her the promise ring hanging on her neck this day. She could now look at a pretty diamond ring on her left hand, where her purity ring once sat in place.
"Maybe we should get a break from….each other?" his soft, tempered voice broke her thoughts and she shifted her eyes towards him quickly. He was likely to look back down, but she needed to see through him at that moment.
"What?" the girl's voice was soft and weak.
Their fight five minutes ago was like most fights. They'd be mad at each other and than five days later make-up.
"I just think we both need a break." He sat straight up and crossed his arms, pulling himself closer to the table, looking her straight in the eyes. "The pressure of you and my career is just getting to me, you know?"
"I'm pressure now?" she asked, still wondering why he was feeling this way.
"Lilly. You and I both know that this relationship is drowning us both. Every time I come up to breathe it's like your right at my ankles, pulling me in further." Lilly was taken aback by this comment. Her husband was feeling this way after only two years of living with her.
She tilted her head as she fought back salty tears springing to her eyes. "Wow. You really feel that way?"
He nodded his head respectfully and Lilly got up, grabbed her coat and left the condo, knowing fully that he wouldn't run to catch her. They were no longer two teenagers in love with love, only having to worry about how long we would be away from each other.
She walked down the halls and thought about how to take this all in. Was she to just end it right here? Because right now she just want to turn back time and have had things with Matt work out. Joe was her barrier. He was not the regular romance she had expected, in fact at the time of their blooming 'love' if that's what you want to call it, they were a long distance in the same down.
She met him through their own loves cheating on them with the other. She was almost sure that the only reason she was here right now, in this position was because they were both wanting to put their exes on the back burner and focus on a new love. Rebound.
Although they both knew this from the beginning, they didn't want to admit it. They wanted to find love this easily. It was a love that was sure to be okay, I mean, they didn't have to worry about the other one cheating on the other. They knew how much it hurt and what it was like. It was a perfect set up in their adolescent minds.
"Hello Mrs. Jonas." The door man in red greeted her with a small wave in his white gloved hand. She swiftly walked right past him rudely wondering why he would call her such a thing. Mrs. Jonas was most definitely Joseph's mother. She was almost sure that after a few more months she would be back to Mrs. Truscott.
She stared at her feet as she walked, slamming her hands into her Target coat pockets and walked past everybody with no care in the world other than her own.
She needed to go somewhere, do something. And oddly enough she didn't want to be alone right now. She actually wanted human contact, she just didn't want the words Jonas Brother having anything to do with the conversation or the being.
The beautiful blonde girl cursed herself when realizing she left her cell phone right where she left him. She settled with a pay phone on the sidewalk and reached into her jean pocket for a dime. All she could find was pennies. She turned around, facing him.
"Why in hell did you follow me?" she snapped, turning her back to him starting to walk at a fast pace.
Joe attempted to keep up with her walking, even though it was quicker than normal."We need to talk. I'm not just going to leave it there. What are we going to do? End up like some story they tell their grandchildren for warning? Those people that never saw each other again because they weren't sure where they stood in the marriage? Because you know what, Lilly! I'm sick of not knowing! We fight more than most couples! I get that! I get that fully, but what is with you and walking out on the times words need to float off in the air the most? What happened to the girl I married?"
"What happened to the boy I married?" Lilly caught him off guard by stopping her quick walking at barked at him. People watched and stared.
Joe stood silent. He was defeated. He had realized that their relationship was over. There was nothing to work for anymore, he told himself. She was done with him. He had to say he didn't blame her. Not only was he gone practically 365 days a year but they weren't as compatible as they thought they were. He knew he was still a boy. She knew she was still a girl. 21 and 19 were small ages to have to deal with a said crisis of their time. It wasn't something they would have to deal with normally.
The boy snapped back to reality when he heard her heeled boots, hitting the concrete, walking away from him. He didn't bother. The only thing he could think about now was how much longer it would be until he got the papers and what color pen he'd use to sign it with.
It was over.
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(Author's Note: Mmkay. So if you can't already tell. This is my new five-shot. Hopefully the first shot was up to your standards?
This idea popped into my head while listening to Just Want You to Know by the Backstreet Boys. I actually don't know why. Things like that are the definition of me I guess. –insert sigh- The plot will fold out in the next chapter. Hopefully. Maybe. So stay tuned!
Taylor xoxo)
