Sitting in the airport,waiting for my plane to start the dreadful boarding process, I ignored call after call from Mitch. His goofy grin kept popping up on my screen as the stupid cell vibrated in my hand. My heart thumped in my ears as another message was left.
Finally, I listened to the last message: “Cali! You better pick up your damn phone!”
Holding my breath, I called him back—it was the least I could do at that point.
“Hey.” I sighed into the phone when I heard the line connect.
“Hey? That’s all I fucking get is a damn ‘hey’?” he roared, rage pouring out. “What the fuck is going on, Cali?”
“It hasn’t been working…I haven’t been happy for a while.” I hated the tears that rolled down my cheeks. I felt so selfish for everything I was doing.
“That is news to me! For crying out loud, we just bought this damn house because you wanted to! Where are you? We need to talk this out face to face. You at least owe me that.”
“That’s not happening. I’m not coming home,” I whispered.
“What in the ever-loving fuck is going on right now?” I heard a large crash like he was kicking something over.
“I’m getting on a plane,” I admitted.
Mitch gasped and paused for a couple of seconds before muttering, “What?”
The automated airport announcements and travelers talking all around me started to make me even more nervous as I finally told Mitch the truth. “I’m heading to Chicago.”
“That’s it then? You get to decide that we’re done? I thought we were in this together. When the fuck did you get so selfish?”
My heart broke even more, but I couldn’t turn around and run back home. What was done was done, and I knew in making this decision, Mitch and I would never even be able to get back to the friends we once were, and that was for the best.
“I am so sorry, Mitch. Please, just try to find it in your heart to forgive me.”
“Fuck you, you damn heartless bitch.”
With that declaration, he hung up.
Sitting in the world’s most uncomfortable chair in the Orlando Airport, I crumbled. As the passengers started to file into line to get on the plane, I was frozen.
What if Maverick doesn’t want to see me?
What if I’m making the biggest mistake of my life?
What if I’m wrong about all of this?
It was time for me to test fate and not look back, but all I could think about was Mitch and how terribly I had just destroyed him.
