He waits until I’ve got the door wide open and one foot on the porch. “You’re not on your own.”
I shouldn’t be happy about that, but I’m a piece of shit, what can I say? “Okay, Sid. Neither are you.” I don’t turn around because I can’t look at his face right now, can’t stomach what I’ll see there. When he doesn’t say anything else, I force myself to turn around and step back inside. “Can I use your bathroom?”
I’m pathetic, I know that.
“Yeah, I’m assuming you remember where it’s at.”
The dryer buzzer goes off so Sidney heads downstairs, and I head straight for his bedroom to start looking around. I don’t see anything that belongs to another man, and that feels weird. Doesn’t he have a boyfriend? Did they break up? It takes about two seconds for me to convince myself that I need to know if they did, and with his phone sitting out in the open on his nightstand, it feels like a no brainer.
I shouldn’t go through it, but if this motherfucker hurt him, I have a lot of pent up anger to get out all over his stupid, dumb face. I’ve been looking for a reason. The phone is practically singing my name as I snatch it up and unlock it with ease, immediately going to his text thread with Dickhole, but I find nothing that proves they aren’t together anymore. They’re a little short with each other, yeah, but they have plans to see each other later today, and based on the fact that Leotard is bringing wine, it doesn’t seem like it’s some break up talk. Fuck this.
Sid:Your breath stinks. I can’t do this anymore.
I hit send and then block his number before I can even consider the consequences, then I leave his house without a look back.
That’s... probably gonna bite me in the ass soon.
Oh, well.
Chapter Six:
Moving On
Sidney
Grumbling to myself, I finish styling my always-fucked brown hair and tug my shirt down. Leo’s late but should be here any minute and I have to stop thinking about what it felt like to have Levi on top of me. He’s not mine, and I’m so annoyed that he waited until now to show any interest that I really could punch him again.
I just won’t, because the thought of hurting him makes me physically ill and Leo is finally knocking.
With the closest thing to a real smile that I’ve had all day, I open the door. The look on his face has my smile vanishing immediately. “What’s wrong?”
He blinks at me like an idiot and crosses his arms. “What’s wrong?” he parrots. “Why wouldn’t you just call this off face to face like a normal adult?”
Call what off?
“What?” I squint, hoping it’ll help me figure out what the fuck he’s talking about. It doesn’t. “I didn’t call anything off. You’re late but I didn’t care.”
He gives me a deadpan stare that furthermore calls me an idiot, but seems to see something on my face that has himbacking up. “My breath stinks? You can’t do this anymore? Then you block me? Did you do drugs today? Where is your phone?”
“My phone has been on the charger all day, what the fuck are you talking about? Your breath doesn’t stink. I didn’t block —” It hits me like a train. Levi stayed to go pee when I went to get my laundry, and he was gone when I came back up. “Let me see your phone.”
His gaze narrows as he pulls it out and navigates to our text thread, then hands it over. “And now my number is blocked. Was there another guy here or something? If there was, he’s real mature.”
Fucking Levi. I’m shaking I’m so angry at him, but I have to remember to breathe. I can kill him later. “Levi stopped by to apologize for being a dick the other day, but I guess he doubled down. I’m sorry. Come in, I’ll unblock you.”
