1) I want to apologize for my terrible ability to update this story faster. This holiday made me pretty busy, and I'm really trying to enjoy this summer holiday (which is only for 2 ½ weeks in my country). Once again, I'm sorry. :|

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Tina woke up feeling dizzy in her head. She had just cried her self to sleep last night. She looked her cell phone, expecting a text message saying 'good morning' but there was no any text message there. The memory snapped back into her mind again. She just realized that she'd never get that text message anymore, not after what had happened yesterday. She still couldn't accept the fact that her boyfriend had dumped her. After all the things they went through, how could he say that he didn't love her? Did everything mean nothing to him?

But it wasn't the only thing that had succeeded made her tears dried.

Last night, she could hear her parent shouting, screaming, and yelling at each other. She could even hear the sounds of shattered glass. She knew that her parent had never been the happiest couple in the world, but last night was a big night. It seemed like all their fights in the past were summed up become one.

Trying to shrug those memories away, she denied the pain in her head and got up from her comfortable bed. She expected the relaxing warm water from the shower could ease her pain away, but it couldn't. The pain still remained there, both in her head and in her heart.

As she put her clothes on, suddenly her phone rang out. The number wasn't in her caller id. "Hello, Tina C in here", she tried to sound as cheerful as she could.

"Hello Asian, are you ready for school? Do you need any ride?" Tina immediately recognized the voice.

"I just took a shower, and no, I don't need any ride"

"Too bad, because I'm already in front of your home"

"What?" Tina looked out from the window and spotted Mike's car parked in front of her house. "Alright, wait a minute", she said and hurriedly combed her hair. Getting her self prepared for another day at school.

As Tina strode down to his car, Mike observed the girl's appearance. Nothing was odd from the outfit. She was wearing a purple skirt with black t-shirt and heavy boots. But Mike could easily tell that she wasn't in her 'normal' condition.

"So, I believed that you haven't eaten your breakfast. I brought you a sandwich; without cheese. Just the way you like it", he handed her a paper bag from the backseat.

Tina stared at him in amazement before finally said "thanks, but how do you know that I don't like cheese?"

"Well, I just know" he said and smiled sheepishly.

Tina stopped staring at her sandwich and started to eat it. She didn't know whether she was really hungry, or this sandwich was actually really delicious, because she found her self craving for more.

"Tina, had you been crying?" he asked after he mustered up all of his courage.

"Yeah. All night long", she knew that lying wouldn't take her anywhere, so she decided to be straight forward.

"Was it because Artie again?" his voice was heavy, and Tina noticed it

"Well, it was mostly because of him, bu-" Tina didn't get to finish her sentence because mike suddenly cut it, "Tina, You have to forget him, he doesn't deserve you"

Tina stared at the boy who was sitting net to her, not knowing what to say.

As much as she wanted to believe his sentence, she just couldn't, she didn't have that much confidence inside her body. Mike was silently regretting his words, but however he needed to encourage Tina, to make her forget her ex. Boyfriend.

As Tina and Mike walked in the hallway, she immediately got a questioning look from Mercedes and Kurt. She noticed it, but she didn't bother to stop by them. She wasn't ready with their question; whether it was Artie, or Mike.

She spotted Artie with a curly haired girl from the AV club were chatting in front of his locker. She remembered that girl as Rebecca, Artie's neighbor who also happened to be his little sister's babysitter. They were laughing about something. Tina could swear that she almost never saw Artie laughing with a girl outside the glee club. The pang of jealousy rushed into her stomach. Fortunately Artie didn't seem to notice her presence. She immediately turned around from his sight, leading to her class.

Tina was wrong; Artie did notice her, he was just really good at acting like he didn't. Artie knew every contour of her face too well; even just by seeing her face in a second, he could notice that she had been crying. 'Did she cry for me?' Artie asked to him self. A part of him felt really bad for her, but he couldn't deny that somewhere deep in his heart he felt happy, relieved. And he knew that was really wrong to feel like that. He should be happy, only if she could forget him and move on.

Rebecca was a very nice girl; she spent a lot of times at Artie's house, babysitting his little sister when his parents weren't home. But he never thought that she might have any romantic interest with him, at least not until he saw her ecstatic reaction about his break up. Since she knew that Artie wasn't dating anyone, she had been glued to him; she even forced Artie to go to school with her. Rebecca wasn't his type; she might be fun but she was really talkative, captious, and the most important; she wasn't Tina. But in the other side, Artie thought that it would be a great chance to make Tina sure that he had moved on, which is actually a big lie.


Lunch break, Mercedes and Kurt didn't miss the chance to interrogate their best friend.

As soon as they spotter her exiting her class, they dragged her down to the rest room.

"Tell us", Mercedes demanded, before Tina got any chance to protest with their sudden kidnapping.

"Tell you what?"

"What happened between you and Artie?"

"No-nothing" Tina stammered

"First of all; you and Artie didn't come to school together, and then Artie was with that curly girl all the time and you came with mike. And your eyes were puffy!" Mercedes detailed.

"Honey, something must be wrong", Kurt said in lower voice.

Tina looked down, she knew that soon or later she had to tell her best friends, but she wasn't in the mood to remember what had happened.

"He broke up with me", Tina said in almost whisper.

"WHAT?" Kurt and Mercedes Exclaimed in the same time.

"He told me that he didn't love me", she said, hoping that her best friends wouldn't ask any further. And although it took a moment, they seemed to understand this. Mercedes hugged her tightly, and Kurt gently rubbed her back. "It's alright dear, we got your back". Tina tried to fight back the tears, but failed. 'No, not again, no more tears.'


"Tina, are you really alright?" Mike asked, as the girl was exiting his car.

Tina forced a smile, "I'm alright Mike, and thanks for the ride"

"Yeah, just let me know if something happen. Okay?"

"Sure", Tina assured him, before waving her hand and heading to the door of her house.

Tina was surprised when she found her dad's car in front of her house; her dad had never been home this early. She strode down to the door, and expecting to see her dad welcoming her home. But as she opened the door, she only heard the sound of her mother crying. Silently, she walked to the source of the sound. And she found her mother wasn't the only who was crying. A red haired woman, with Tina's father's arm around her shoulder was also crying. No one in the room seemed to acknowledge Tina's presence. All of them were busy with their own internal fighting. "I can't believe you do this to me!" Her mother screamed to her father. The black haired girl's crying became louder. "I'm Sorry! I never meant to get her pregnant", her father said between his silent sobs. "But you did! How could you cheated on me? You cheated on our family!", Her mother screamed again. Her father tightened the hug to the woman beside him.

Tina didn't notice that tears were streaming down her face until she tasted something salty in her mouth. At the first, she didn't understand what was happening, but when she did, she broke down to the floor and crying harder than she ever had. That was the time her parent noticed her presence. Her mother tried to reach her, but she shrugged off, and ran away.

She ran from her home. She only had one direction; park.

When she reached the park, she sat down; she folded her knees and buried her face in her palms. There was only one person she knew who would be able to calm her down, and make everything better.

Although she was hesitant, she pushed the number and dialed it.

It took really long until finally she heard the person's voice. "Hello?"

Tina took a deep breathe before saying her words between the sobs.

"Artie, I ne-need you"


Honesltly this chapter didn't turn out the way I wanted it to be, but I really want to hear your opinions and thougth!

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