Trish was furious. Angrily, she slammed the door behind her and flung her bags across the room she was presently staying in as she walked over to the bed, sighing as she tried to calm herself down.
Deep breaths, Trish, she told herself. She was normally a calm person, almost unrealistically calm, but even she had a breaking point, and enough was enough. Chris had been playing the hot and cold game with her for weeks now, leaving her very hurt and confused, as well as angry. She had to wonder why Chris had even suggested a vacation in the first place—he'd barely spoken to her lately, why in the world would he want to spend a week alone with her? What would they do? Make small, awkward talk and try to pretend that nothing was wrong when it was clear that they had hit a bump in their relationship? Trish didn't much care for the idea of that. A vacation was meant to be enjoyed. She thought that Chris had arranged this vacation for the two of them so that they could work on their relationship and hopefully repair it, but that didn't seem to be the case. He acted as though he couldn't stand to be around Trish when they were in the same room together, and spent most of the days out by the pool or in the gym. What was the point, really? Trish wanted to make things right again. She loved Chris, despite everything that had been going on lately. She didn't want any rash decisions to be made simply because they had hit a rough patch. What frustrated her, however, was the fact that Chris had to make the relationship so complicated. She loved him, and he loved her, why couldn't it just be as simple as that? But, as he had put it to her, certain events had caused him to take a step back and think about the future—if they had a future together—and what would come of it. Really, Trish believed that Chris was just over-thinking everything because he was nervous, and scared. So was she, but she wasn't ignoring him, or pushing him aside, like he was doing to her.
Trish rested her chin in her hands as she leaned back against the best. One thing that she would never understand about Chris was why he couldn't just go with the flow and enjoy their relationship. She wasn't worried about things like marriage and a family, not because she didn't anticipating it happening in the future, because she definitely wanted both of those things, but because she knew that they would happen when they were meant to. Why waste precious time that could be spent enjoying each other worrying about something that wasn't going to happen for a very long time?
Trish supposed that Chris was only distancing himself from her to give himself time to think, but it hurt when he was sweet and affectionate with her one moment, then totally cold and closed off the next. For the first time, she was having trouble reading her boyfriend, and she didn't like it. Chris had always been very upfront and honest with her, and to see him treating her this way made Trish feel like she was doing something wrong. She couldn't get any answers out of him, and as a result, it was pushing them further away from each other.
Biting her lip, Trish closed her eyes and rested her head on her pillow. A single tear slipped out of her eye, and she wiped it away. She was not going to cry. Chris Jericho was not going to do this to her. His self-righteous attitude and worrying about their relationship was going to end, if it meant she had to walk away. Feeling unwanted was not an emotion Trish would stand for. It just perplexed her that a man who was so sweet to her and went out of his way to make her feel good was now making her question everything.
She sighed a little as she drifted off to sleep, her problems seemingly disappearing as slumber overtook her.