“Fuck people.”
She smiled then. “So do you think you like it?”
“If I say yes, you won’t make me write a poem about it, will you?”
“Shut up. Do you think you do?”
“Ithink I’ve never met a Salem before you.”
“Yeah?” She grinned. “So I’m your first Salem?”
"Yes.”
“Good. Because you’re my first Arrow too.”
She blew me a kiss then and I had to retaliate. I had to eat up her lips, painted with I Jinx U and her smile.
It’s not her though.
It’s not the girl with witchy eyes, it’s her sister.
The girl who betrayed me. The girl who catches my eye a second later and begins to walk toward me.
I clench my fingers around the bottle as I see her approach.
Back when I first started dating her, she was pretty. Hot too.
But over the years, she’s turned into a beauty. In a tight but tasteful black dress, she is easily the most beautiful woman in the room.
Someone I could have by my side while I focused on soccer. Someone who’d travel with me if she wanted to but have her own career, someone who knew how to handle the attention that being with an athlete brings.
Sarah was a perfect partner.
Well, until she wasn’t.
Until she chose to fuck my friend behind my back.
“Hi,” she says as soon as she slides the glass door open and steps outside.
I take a pull of the beer. “Wasn’t expecting to see you here.”
It’s the truth.
She still lives in our apartment and so I chose to stay at a hotel for the duration of the week, which reminds me that I’ll have to look for a different place before I move back.
Apart from that she has been scarce from all the events, which has been welcome but pretty strange. Given the fact that her team came up with this whole bullshit idea.
She tucks her hair behind her ear. “Bobby is my friend too. Plus it’s business. Everyone from the team and management is here.”
“Except your new boyfriend.”
I was wondering if I’d finally see Ben.
Like Sarah, I haven’t seen him all week and I’m guessing it’s because everyone is trying to keep us apart.
Good thinking.
“I told him not to come,” she replies. “I knew you wouldn’t like that.”
