Short but necessary.
Sara put down her mobile phone on the bedside table as she reclined back into the pillows behind her. A hand came up to rub at her eyes in tiredness and frustration. She kind of wanted to hit something… no, she wanted to hit someone. Nick Stokes in particular.
That bloody actor was the reason she had just spent the last hour listening to her best friend sob down the phone and trying desperately to convince him against throwing away his future by not returning to the university the next term. Unfortunately she knew that if she was in his place she would run as far and fast as possible in the opposite direction to her problem. That's what she always does.
But she still couldn't believe that Nick would cheat on him. She had been wary from the start, convinced that Greg would have his heart broken, but now that it had happened she couldn't help but feel shocked.
Anyone who had been around them for the past two months would have been shocked. And what with Greg being her best friend and all, she was around a lot. It was beautiful the way they had looked at each other. It was like the whole world could have crumbled around them and yet it wouldn't matter because they could just live in each other's eyes instead. She'd envied what they had had. What she had thought they had. Who knew that Nick was that good of an actor, he definitely had talent. But talent or not she was going to kill him, slowly and painfully.
She had seen the articles in magazines, headlines on newspapers and heard all the gossip on television or in the halls. The pictures are what hurt her the most, the look in his eyes, she had seen it before. If that girl wasn't in the picture with him, she would have sworn that Nick was gazing at Greg. She could practically feel the love. She definitely felt sick.
There was a sudden knock at the door to her dorm.
Putting down the magazine she was scowling at with a look that could ignite, Sara trudged to the door. Pulling it open she swiftly closed it again.
'SARA,' Nick's voice came through the wood so loudly that she winced. She didn't answer.
'Sara, please. I need to talk to you… I need to talk to him. I miss him so much. Please.'
He wasn't shouting anymore and by the end his voice was shaking so much that she was certain he was crying. When she reopened the door she found she was right. Tears were pouring down the handsome face and the red rimmed eyes told her that they had been for a long time. He looked so lost, so broken.
'Come in.' Her words were cold but she could feel her heart melting at the sight of the ruined man. She couldn't leave him outside crying his heart out; she didn't have it in her.
She shut the door and turned to face Nick who had slowly moved into the room, tears dripping off of his nose and chin. She watched as he looked down at the magazine she had discarded earlier. His tears had stopped but somehow the distraught face it left behind with drying tear tracks on it, looked even sadder. His shaking hand reached out to touch the picture, fingers closing around the glossy magazine.
Suddenly the magazine was across the room smashing into a picture frame. Nick no longer looked sad, he looked angry.
'STOP LYING! STOP FUCKING LYING! Just stop.' And with the last whispered words Nick shattered into pieces. Sara had thought he had been broken when he walked in, but now she knew she had been wrong. This was what broken looked like.
Slowly, as if trying to avoid scaring an injured animal, she crossed to the shaking ball Nick Stokes had been reduced to. Her heart ached as she knelt down besides the quivering form. Drawing him into a hug Sara knew that the tabloids had been lying. She knew that there was no way that this man could care this much about Greg leaving him if he had been cheating during their relationship. She knew that her eyes had not deceived her when she had watched their romance bloom.
But mostly she knew that she was going to get them back together even if it killed her.
I really like this chapter although it broke my heart to write some of it. But rest assured it will get better, it has to, I mean Sara had joined the team and she always gets what she wants.