Please Talk to Me

Rated:T

It was the constant buzzing of her phone that woke her up. Why she had put it under her pillow in the first place she didn't remember but whoever was trying to contact her was seriously going to get it. Pressing the home button on her iPhone she quickly shut her eyes because of the brightness, after her eyes adjusted the first thing she noticed was that it was two-fifteen in the morning. The second thing she noticed was the multiple text messages from Sasuke, each one right after the other.

She felt her blood run cold and a weird pressure on her heart. The kind of pressure you feel when something really, truly hurts your feelings that it actually feels like your heart is breaking.

Sakura rolled onto her back before unlocking her phone and opening up her messages. There were five messages total from him. It's been a month since they had last spoken to each other. A month since they have seen each other. It's been a month since she had broken up with him.

Taking a deep breath she pressed on his name opening up the messages. Most of them had spelling mistakes, some didn't even make sense but still, the message was clear.

"I didn't do what you think I did. I would never do that to you."

"Please talk to me. I miss you."

Feeling the prickling of tears starting to form, she put the phone face down on her bed and stared up at the ceiling, blinking back the tears and letting out a shaky breath.

Gods she missed him so much, they had been together for years and he just had to throw it all away by cheating on her. She brought up her other hand to wipe away the tears before taking a couple of calming deep breaths and bringing the phone back up.

She didn't know whether to reply or just ignore them. She contemplated for a minute before another message came through.

"I love you. Please talk to me."

The tears came back and instead of replying she decided to call him. Bringing the phone up to her ear she waited, but she didn't have to wait long because he answered on the first ring.

"Sakura."

The breathy way he said her name like he couldn't believe she actually called, was filled with so much emotion it nearly broke her heart. She hadn't wanted to believe him when he said he missed her.

Sakura panicked, "I don't think I can do this." She was going to hang up the phone until she heard him speak again.

"No baby wait! Please. Let me explain."

It wasn't the first time he tried talking to her, she always just ignored him when he did, not wanting to hear what he had to say. She hesitated but didn't hang up the phone. She didn't say anything either, just listened to his ragged breathing.

"Look I-I know you won't believe me when I say this but I never cheated on you. Baby, I would never do that to you, I swear."

The way his voice cracked at the end had her letting out a sob "I saw you Sasuke, how could you say you didn't when I saw you."

"No no it wasn't like that! You can ask Naruto, he was there! He saw what happened."

"He knows I don't want to talk to him because of course, he's going to defend you, you're his best friend. I'm pretty sure he would lie for you."

"Baby please you have to believe me, I would-I would never do that. I love you too much to have ever done that. You're everything to me."

The more he spoke the more he started the stutter and slur his words, she hadn't realized it a first, too caught up in trying to keep her emotions in check to notice that he didn't sound like himself, he sounded drunk. That's when she remembered the texts and how they had spelling mistakes, she should have realized it then.

"Sasuke, have you been drinking?" He had never been one to drink alcohol to the point where he didn't have his bearings. This time was obviously different.

"I…no." there was a pause "…Yes." Before she was able to respond he continued in a soft whisper "It helps numb the pain of losing you."

Sakura didn't know what to say to this, it all just hurt so much. She wanted to hang up the phone but she had missed the sound of his voice and listening to it at that moment was like being able to breathe again. Of course, she missed him, more than anything but when she had seen him with that other girl it was like the breath was knocked out of her.

"Sasuke I don't think I can keep talking to you right now, I have to go."

"No, please Sakura don't do this let me see you. I want to see you. Can we meet up somewhere please, I need to explain it to you. In person not over the phone."

"I-I don't think that's a good idea, n-not right now."

"Baby please." His voice cracked, he sounded so desperate and she was sure he was crying, "Just give me this and if-if you don't believe what I have to say then I'll…I'll let you go and I won't contact you again. If that's what you want I'll do it."

Sakura was silent for a couple minutes, tears streaming down the sides of her face, soaking into her hair and her pillow. Truly conflicted on what she should do. She wanted to see him, that she knew, but she also knew that it was going to be hard for her but it'll probably be hard for him too.

"Tomorrow at eleven. The coffee shop on the corner of seventh, don't be late."

"Thank you." Was the last thing she heard him say before she hung up the phone.

Hopefully, she wasn't making a mistake.

Sakura stood outside of the coffee shop, it was five minutes until eleven and she was debating on whether or not she should go in. She was already here so she might as well go in now before she changed her mine. Taking a deep breath she opened the door and felt a blast of warm air hit her.

She spotted him sitting in one of the booths towards the back, he was currently looking down, most likely looking at his phone. Taking a hesitant step forward she mustered all the courage she had and walked towards him. She stumbled a bit when he finally looked up and noticed her, relief flooded his visage like he was expecting her to not show up.

She hadn't forgotten how beautiful he looked, his dark hair all messy but still neat. He had pulled most of it back leaving his long bangs to frame his face. She had missed looking at him.

Sakura sat down in front of him, taking off her gray pea coat and folding it in her lap leaving her in a black turtleneck. She stared down at the table following the designs for a couple seconds before she finally looked up to him.

He was just like she remembered.

It had only been a month but it felt so much longer than that.

He was the first to break the silence, "I uh, ordered your favorite, the coconut milk mocha macchiato."

She was surprised by his thoughtfulness, "Thank you."

They sat in silence again and it wasn't until the waitress came back with their orders five minutes later that Sakura finally asked him what she wanted to know, "So what is the grand explanation that you wanted me to hear." She took a sip of her macchiato to keep her busy, relishing in the warmth it spread throughout her body, she was still a bit cold from being outside.

Sasuke put down his mug before responding. "That day at the party, when you saw Ami kissing me. I hadn't wanted that, you know how she was always trying to get me to notice her, telling me that she was so much better than you, trying to break us apart. But I knew that wasn't true, you were always all I ever wanted."

There were tears forming in her eyes but she was not going to let them fall, not here not in front of him.

"So then explain to me why she was shoving her tongue down your throat? It didn't look like you were completely against it."

Sasuke looked around the coffee shop for second gathering his thoughts before looking into her eyes, his favorite color staring back at him.

He looked out the window before continuing "You and I had been together for almost four years," there was a faraway look in his eyes now, like he was imagining something and a small barely there smile formed on his lips, "I knew I wanted to be with you for the rest of my life, there was no doubt in a single bone in my body that that was never going to happen." He turns back to look at her then, that same small smile still in place.

Sakura's heart was pounding listening to what he was saying and the tears she was trying so hard to hold back slipped. She quickly brought her hand up to wipe them away but Sasuke's hands were already there gently wiping away her tears before slowly pulling away again.

"Please don't cry, I don't like seeing you cry." He let her gather herself before continuing once again "At that moment I was talking to Naruto, about how I was going to do it and the dobe was so happy for me, for us."

He reached across the table and took a hold of her hand, she tried to pull away but he held on. "I was going to propose to you that night, not at the party of course but I had it all planned out. Ami, of course, had heard Naruto and me talking and you can already guess it didn't sit well with her. She had spotted you coming towards us and that's when she did it, in what I assume was a last ditch effort to try and ruin what we had and it worked."

It was clear that he was finished and Sakura had never heard Sasuke string so many sentences together. He was always one for short answers, getting straight to the point never wasting words.

"You were going to propose that day?" Her voice cracked midway through her sentence.

"Yes. And I tried so hard to explain the events of what happened but you wouldn't listen and then you ended things. I tried contacting you so many times but you screened my calls. Ino wasn't letting me see you, I didn't know what else to do so I gave you your space."

By then Sakura was sobbing into her hands, if only she had just let him explain back then they wouldn't be going through this right now.

Sasuke got up and kneeled down next to where she was sitting, and pulled her hands away from her face and pulled her into an embrace. She clung on to him crying into his shoulder and he tightly held her close to him

"I'm so sorry," she hiccupped pulling away so she could look into his eyes "I should have just listened to you, but I was so hurt."

"Hey it's okay, I understand why you did it. If I was in your shoes I would have reacted the same way."

"But I-"

"Shh baby, it's okay I promise."

They stayed like that embracing each other until Sakura tears stopped and she pulled away, "So what now?"

Sasuke looked back at her, eyes roaming her face taking in her blotchy cheeks and her puffy red-rimmed eyes. No matter what she looked like she will always be beautiful in his eyes, "It's like I told you, whatever you want to do with this information I'll accept it."

Letting out one last shaky breath she whispered: "I'm never letting you go again."

A/N: okay so this came out a little more on the angsty side, I don't know where it came from but it's been written so there's no going back now.

Enjoy it or don't I won't mind. Also sorry for not updating as frequently as I would like but sometimes I just have no inspiration at all.

Anyways see you at the next update xx