Best Friends 'til the End! Part 2
The story continues.
After the party, I was the responsible person and did NOT drink and drive. Instead, I slept over at his house. When I woke up, things started to heat up between he and I. I guess talking to each other for so long and rekindling our friendship made our feelings for each other even stronger. Unfortunately, after that, things started to get weird and he started to avoid me and things just weren't adding up. He was my best friend and the way he was talking to me just wasn't like him. So, as awkward as it was, we sat down and talked about it. We talked about how each other felt, and what happened and why it happened. We came to an agreement that we are just better off as friends and nothing more relationship wise. I wasn't happy about it because what I felt was completely real love for him. I knew that if we wanted to stay friends that I would just have to agree to being just friends and nothing more. After that he came with me to my house to see my parents and just hung out and reminisce about the past and how everyone was. We ended the day at the gun range with my dad letting boys be boys, and of course I couldn't let them think I didn't know how to target shoot.
Time goes on and he has to leave for base again but we still keep in touch obviously. The hardest part about it all is that before he leaves, he kisses me and says he lied. He just didn't want to start a relationship if he wasn't sure that he was going to be able to come back to it. By this, he was telling me he was being deployed. He had feelings for me that he thought he could hide but then spending the day with me and my family and seeing my smile he couldn't hide it anymore. He loved me. He didn't want me to worry about him while he was deployed because he knew he couldn't tell me anything about what was going on or where he was. We decided that we would just put our feelings on hold for a bit. I told him that I did love him but that we needed to see if what we felt was real or if it was just because of what we had done.
He flies back to base and a few weeks pass and we had the dreaded talk that we needed to have. The love we felt was just from what we had done. But, we were okay with that. We were just the best of friends and we were okay with that. Time goes by and he is sent off to deployment. We get to talk every now and then on Facebook until he is back stateside which is hard but we deal with it.
August 2018, he makes it back stateside and is already planning on when he is coming home. He comes back home and of course the first thing he does is have a party. Of course to which I show up but this is where things get a little weird. He walks in and has a girl with him. He does not even give me so much as a "hey," no hug or anything, which of course ticks me off. So maybe my attitude and the alcohol that was in my system got the best of me. I called him out on what was going on and even his new "fling" was on my side.
If you tell someone you love them and miss them, even if it is just as a friend, you should treat them at least like they are wanted there. He realized how big of a jerk he was being and made it up to me. Even big bad Marines need to be put in their place sometimes.
To be continued...
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Aimie Boquet
Just a girl in this world trying to get through this roller coaster we call Life.
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