Aurora

"Dallas."

"Dallas."

I opened the apartment door with my spare key when I received no answer from the other side of the door. It's late and he is probably sleeping. Making sure I make as little noise as I can, I enter the apartment.

I found it weird at first that he is living alone although he is still in school. Then I got to know his reasons. His family issues. But, all these things did not make me love him less in any way. He was literally my whole world. Today being his birthday was a special day for me as much as it was for him.

It took me a week to prepare a surprise party for him. He hates surprises, so it was making me nervous. The plan was simple: I would wish him birthday with the cake and then drag him to the party which had already started at Paxton's. My friends had helped me a lot although they did not really like Dallas much, or should I say at all. They say he is a player. He was a player. He is slowly changing, the signs are obvious.

Lighting the candles one by one I slowly take the cake towards his room. Trying my best not to faceplant on the ground. Putting on a big smile, I open the door. What I saw next made my smile disappear in an instant. All the colour drained from my face, my heart started beating faster. It was not nerves, I was scared. Scared of what I had just seen.

Dallas McCormick sleeps naked with a blonde girl and a blanket loosely wrapped around them. My boyfriend, sleeping with another girl. My legs on their own take me in front of their bed. He looks so peaceful. I look at the girl's face carefully. She was the same girl. The blonde I had seen kissing him when I had first caught him cheating. The same girl who he had gone on dates with behind my back. The same perfume which I got from his car.

I couldn't understand, he had promised me. After all those incidents, he had promised me. He told me that he wanted to change. That he genuinely liked me. He had properly asked me to be his girlfriend. He promised me that he would only like me. He would never cheat on me.

Then what is this? Why? Why? Why did you cheat on me Dallas? If you really wanted to change, why did you cheat on me? Was I not enough? Was I ever enough? Then, why did you make me believe I was?

I wanted to ask all these questions, but I was scared. I was so scared of what he would say. With shaking hands I exit the room. Tears blurred my vision instantly. I put down the cake and literally sprinted out of the apartment. My hands were still shaking. I was hardly able to see anything with the tears. It felt as if I was physically in pain.

There were no cabs nearby as it was very late. After many failed attempts, I called Geena. She answered the phone on the second ring.

"Rora! Did you surprise him? Come with Dallas soon. You need to see that our Paxy is drunk." She said giggling.

I barely registered her words.

"Geena." I sobbed.

"What's wrong?" Her voice sounded alarmed.

"Geena....I .... Dallas...." I could not even form words, I was such a mess.

"It's okay Aurora. I am coming, just tell me where you are."

"His... apartment..." I sobbed.

"Okay I am coming. Paxton come here! I will be quick Aurora." She said hanging up the phone.

I sat at a crouching position on the pavement. They will be quick. I couldn't stop crying.

"Are you okay?"I heard a voice asking me after a while. I did not know how long it had been me sitting on the dirty pavement alone late at night.

I looked up to see a familiar figure. I did not know him but he looked familiar. My teary eyes were not helping either. I just nod my head in return for his question.

"You clearly aren't. I'm sorry" The guy sighed and sat beside me.

"It's dirty." I said, eyeing the place where he just sat.

"It's okay, I sit on the pavement a lot." The guy smiled. His smile was blinding. I hated it.

"Are you alone?" He asked again.

"My friends are coming." I answered.

"Should I wait with you till your friends return? It's late right now so the streets are not safe." He smiled again. He pitied me. Obviously he will, I look pathetic.

"Get lost." I was not in the mood to entertain someone. Definitely not another guy.

The stranger remained silent in return, not letting my words affect him in any way. We remained sitting in silence with my occasional sobs. After a while a familiar car pulled up. Geena frantically got out of the car and ran towards me. After lots of hugs, we both got in the car.

"He slept in with someone else." I said to both of them. Paxton did not look drunk at all.

"That son of a bitch." Paxton said, running his fingers through his hair, clearly frustrated.

After the car ride, we three sat on my couch in my room. They clearly had lots of questions but they did not ask me any, afraid that I would start crying again.

"I told you he would never change. Once a cheater always a cheater." Geena said, clearly angry.

"But he promised." Was all I could manage.

"His promises are nothing, Rora." Paxton replied.

"Then whose promises am I supposed to believe? If not my boyfriend's?"

"He is not worthy of being your boyfriend." Paxton argued.

"But he told me he will try. He tried for a few months. Then why suddenly?"

"Not all guys are good." Paxton said his tone softened as if he knew I was on the verge of breaking down.

"Then who is Paxton? If someone like him is not good then who is?" I knew it was wrong of me to question my friends like this. Right now I had nothing left, and frankly I couldn't bring myself to care. My family would not hear me out. I only had my friends. Even Dallas had decided I was not good enough for him not to cheat. I was never good enough.

"One day you will know Rora." Paxton replied.

"Aww Rora....come here. Let's forget him together." Geena said, outstretching her hands for a hug. She looked like she was on the verge of tears too.

I literally sprinted towards her. All night I cried. With Paxton making sure to comfort us.

The pain for me didn't stop with that night. I cried for months every night. It felt like my whole world had shattered. But time did not stop. Months passed by with me in my shattered world. I would never trust a guy like I did with Dallas. I would never love someone like I did with him. But as time passed by, I slowly understood 2 things.

1 Dallas McCormick was not good enough for me.

2 I will never be someone's second choice again.

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I am back with a flashback. Everyone was so curious about 'he/him' so I revealed him.

Do you guys agree that once a cheater is always a chater. I don't. I think people can always change.

Who do you think is the mystery guy at the pavement is?

See you next week my dear readers.

Herawritesxxx.