Stupid Love

-FLASHBACK (High School Days) -

Meg POV

We are in my room doing my project. I noticed that Nate is so focused on helping me and she never said a word when she arrived.

“What’s wrong Nate? Why are you so quiet?”

“Huh? Nothing Meg I just want to focus on this.”

“I know you. Tell me what’s wrong”

“It’s nothing, you will just laugh for sure if I tell you.”

“Come on try me.”

“Remember Pat? The one I’m telling you about?”

“Okay I remember her, so? What happened between you two?”

“So… ahhh… I asked her if I can court her?”

“And? Now you don’t know how to do the courting?”

“No, she rejected me.”

“What?! Why?! I mean what’s wrong with her?!”

I’m so busy mumbling things because of irritation I didn’t notice Nate is crying. I hugged her and try to comfort her as much as I can.

“Come on, there’s a lot of girls. She’s not worth it okay?” I said while hugging her. She still didn’t stop crying. It took several minutes before I was able to calm her down. Nate is a sensitive girl, she is so pure and she thinks everyone is as genuine as she is. Unfortunately, this girl that she’s being crazy about is just leading her on.

***

It’s sports fest in Nate’s school right now. And she’s playing volleyball. Each department of the school has their own color and theme. High School Department where Nate belongs, is color red, Nursing Department orange, Computer Science Department green, Education Department blue, and Accountancy Department yellow. This five colors surrounded the four corners of the court, shouting their own cheer for each department. The match is between Nursing Department and High school. It’s a close fight and I can see that Nate is having a hard time and oh that b*tch is there too, they’re teammates. The crowd are really wild even players are having a hard time hearing the referee. It’s a breath taking game, both teams never give chances to their opponent, gladly Nate’s team never give up and at the end they win the match.

I hug Nate and congratulate her. We go to the pantry to eat and celebrate. On our way to the pantry we met Pat and her friends, Nate just smile at them and I saw this b*tch looked at me and roll her eyes. Wooah! Really you have the nerve to act that way in front of Nate.

“Hey! You saw what that girl did?”

“Who’s girl? Did what?”

“The girl your crazy about just rolled her eyes on me, like for real me? How dare she?!”

“Huh? That’s impossible Meg, Pat is not like that.”

“So you’re calling me a liar?”

“No, Meg calm down please. I’m just saying that, it’s out of her character. She will never do that, maybe you saw it wrong.”

“I know what I saw Nate.”

“Okay, okay. I’ll talk to her later about it. So now please smile okay? Let’s celebrate!”

I just smile and tried to forget what happened earlier. But I swear I will grab that b*tch’s hair if she rolled her eyes on me again. We just decided to eat in one of the restaurant instead of the pantry and we’re with some of her classmates.

“I really thought we would lose earlier.” Says by one of her teammate.

“Same! Thank god we still won. Nate, bring Megan on Sunday okay? It’s Cheer Dance Competition.” Ysa, their Team Captain told Nate while handing her the two tickets.

“Of course I told Meg how popular the Competition is.” I smile at her and promise them I will watch it.

“Hey Rea, Jackie, Pat! Here!” Ysa shouted.

Oh the b*tch is here. She looked at me before sitting next to Nate.

“What do you want to eat?” Nate asked Pat.

“I want Pancit and Lumpiang Shanghai please.” Pat answered. Nate get some for Pat and put it on her plate. From time to time Nate glance at me and asked if I’m okay. I just smile at her even though I’m really irritated. As if it’s not enough that Nate put food on her plate, she sometimes feeds her. What girl, you can’t put food in your mouth? Enough with this cheesiness, I told her I just need to go to the ladies’ room. Minutes later, I go out of the cubicle and saw Pat fixing her hair. I just washed my hand and didn’t bother to say hi.

“Do you like Nate?”

“Excuse me?”

“I’m asking you if you like Nate?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She crossed her arm and come closer to me, she raised her eyebrow that really irks me.

“The way you looked at her, it’s a bit different. I know you know what I’m referring to. But sorry to say but Nate is mine”

“Oh yeah, I can see that. With one snap of your finger she will follow you. One flip of your hair she’s head over heels for you. But let me say one thing. I won’t let Nate hurt by a b*tch like you, you just enjoy the attention she’s giving you, leading her on but not really into something serious.” I lean closer to her, looked fiercely into her eyes and said, “STOP-PLAYING-WITH-HER-HEART.”

“Make me.” I slapped her and she’s about to fight back but Nate suddenly enters the ladies’ room.

“What the hell is happening here!”

“Your friend slapped me!”

“F*ck! Meg what’s wrong with you?!” Nate check on Pat and grab her outside but before she left. She said,

“I will talk to you later!”

This is the first time Nate looked at me with hatred in her eyes. I felt a pain in my heart, she didn’t even bother to asked what really happened. I just walked out of the restaurant and went home. I saw Dad in the living room. His worried face welcomes me, I ran towards him and cry as loud as I can.

“What happened dear?” Dad asked worriedly.

“N-nate…” I can’t stop sobbing. My Dad didn’t say anything and just hug me.

*The doorbell rang.

I sit properly on the couch and wait until Dad comeback.

“It’s Nate dear. I’ll leave you two here.”

My eyes we’re swollen and red because of crying too much. I can’t look at Nate.

“Can you tell me what happened earlier?” I scoffed.

“Now you are asking me the question you should have asked earlier?”

“Meg don’t be like this.”

“You’re so mean earlier, you even cursed at me.” I said while crying. She hugged me and comfort me.

“I’m just shock by what you’ve done. You’re not the type of girl to slap someone.”

“You don’t know what she told me earlier. I’m so mad at her because she’s just manipulating you that’s why I slapped her.”

“Why, what really happened earlier?”

“She’s aware of what she’s doing, the manipulation and the false hopes she’s giving you. I hate her guts; she’s just playing with your heart.”

“I know.” I remove myself from her embrace and look at her.

“You knew and you still stick around? What stupidity is this?”

“She makes me happy Meg. We fight every time I open the topic of us being officially together. I will get mad because of her indecisiveness but later on I will miss her. It's painful being with her but it's so hard without her."