The Double Date

He watched her sit down and order for food. He didn't want to talk too much. She seemed free and happy but he knew that deep down inside, he would be dreading the inevitable that was going to befall them. 

She was not the reason he had come asked her to come out with him and that was going to be a fact. 

He cared how she felt but he also knew that he could not pick her over his career. 

He felt like she would not want to help him if he had told her the real reason that he wanted her to go out with him. 

He still did not feel comfortable with the path he had taken but he was going to have to break her heart. 

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Ella stared at him with resentment. He really had used her without so much as batting an eyelid. This was second nature to him, she told herself. 

He did not deserve a single tear and she was not going to give one to him. She bit back the salty tears that were welling in her eyes.