#beyondthenorm

Prompt: Colby cheats on you

~Your POV~

It it had been over twelve hours since Colby broke the news to me. To be specific it had been twelve hours, twenty three minutes, and a handful of seconds. Over twelve hours since I’d last spoken to him.

To be honest I’d been ignoring his calls and texts. I had turned my phone off after the seventh text I’d gotten, begging me to come back to the house so we could talk.

“So what are you gonna do?”

It was this simple question that snapped me back into reality. I look across the table at a concerned Kat and sigh.

~ Thirteen hours earlier ~

“Hey Corey, Jake, what’s up?” I asked as I gently placed my keys on the table.

“Just filming a bit for my channel. Here to see Colby?” Jake asked as he set up his tripod and camera in the corner.

“Am I ever really here for anything else?”

Corey and Jake look at each other before laughing.

“True true, well he’s in his room.” Corey replies, turning his attention back to the camera.

“I assumed, have fun filming.”

I smile and turn around, walking up the stairs. I soon find myself at Colby’s door. I lightly knock and then push the door open a bit.

“Baby?”

“Yeah come in y/n. I’ve missed you.” Colby replies standing up from his computer chair.

He walks over and wraps his arms around me. I find myself enveloped in his scent. He’s wearing my favorite cologne. I smile and squeeze him closer to me. God I’ve missed this.

This is my first day back in L.A in three weeks, and the first time I’ve seen Colby in well over two months. He had been out on tour with Sam when I got the bad news. My sixteen year old brother had gotten in a car accident and was in a medically enduced Coma. I had immediately hopped on a plane and texted Colby when I had made it to the hospital.

Luckily my brother woke up and I’ve spent the last week hanging out with him and the rest of my family. They never really did approve of me dropping out of college and moving in with Kat. But it wasn’t their decision, I was nineteen... legally, I could make my own.

After a week I found myself missing Colby and the rest of the gang, so I decided it was time to come home. At this point Colby had been home for half a week.

“I’ve missed you too Cole.” I say smiling into his chest.

Colby says something under his breathe and I pull away, curious about what he had said.

Colby shakes his head and sits back down at his computer. I quietly sit down at the edge of his bed and study him.

“Wow I figured you’d want to spent more time actually holding me, considering I haven’t seen you in three months...” I say laughing.

“No it’s...I really need to finish this video babe. Once it’s edited I can hold you for as long as you’d like.”

I immediately notice that his voice trails off at the end. That’s totally unlike him, he seems off today.

“Cole, baby? Are you feeling okay? You’re acting weird.”

Colby sighs and spins his chair around to face me. He sighs and puts his head in his hands.

“Cole...”

He slowly stands up and walks towards me, taking a seat next to me on the bed. I notice that he’s avoiding looking me in the eyes.

“Y/n...I need to- We need to talk.”

I grab his hands in mine and squeeze them slightly, my heart thumping in my chest.

“Are...are you breaking up with me?” I ask, my lip quivering.

“What? God no, I could never break up with you y/n. I love you with all of my heart!” He replies, finally looking me in the eyes.

“Then what’s wrong?”

Colby takes his hands out of mine and stands up, turning away from me.

“Cole? You’re really worrying me.”

Before I even realize what’s happening he’s turned around and I hear those awful words spilling from his mouth.

“Y/n...I cheated on you.”

I’m drowning, drowning in those four words. They reach my ears and I hear them but don’t understand. I don’t comprehend what he’s saying, to me, at this moment, it seems to just be a bunch of random words strung together.

Perhaps I don’t understand because he’s lying. No, Colby has always been the picture-perfect tumblr boyfriend. There’s no way he’s ever cheat on me. We’ve made it three years, three fucking years of absolute perfection. Yes we fought... but he would never cheat.

I was head-over-heels in love with him. I gave him every part of me, literally everything. Colby was my first kiss, my first date, my first boyfriend. He took my virginity, and stole my heart from the moment I met him three and a half years ago. I knew from the moment he bumped into me with that stupid skateboard, that he was gonna be a big part of my life. From the instant I spilled my strawberry lemonade down his shirt, that this boy was my future...my forever.

“You’re lying...”

Before I can think of what to do next those words push their way out. I feel them tumble over my lips but know it’s useless. Three years of absolute perfection, three years full of nothing but love...so why would he lie?

He tries to grab my hand but I pull away. This time it’s I who can’t look him in the eyes. I feel the weight of the bed shift as he once again lowers himself beside me, his breathing ragged. I steal a quick glance and see he’s crying, covering his face with his hands.

“Look y/n I love you with all of me. I would never hurt you on purpose...I never meant for any of this to happen. You’re my everything. It was a mistake. For Corey’s birthday we all went out drinking. I didn’t mean to get drunk but it happened. But I swear I never meant to sleep with her. She looked like you, I thought...I thought she was you. I know that sounds dumb.”

He breaks off as more tears roll down his face. I want nothing more than to reach over and wipe them off. I don’t even notice my own tears.

“I cal- I called her your name on accident, and she just went with it. I swear, y/n I swear I thought she was you! I would never hurt you like this! I didn’t even realize what had happened until I woke up the next morning. But I kicked her out as soon as I realized it. I promise baby I love you so much! It was an accident!”

At this point he doesn’t even try to hide the tears as they roll down his face, he’s sobbing. I stand up and he grabs my wrist to stop me. I turn around and wipe my eyes with my free arm.

“Just...don’t Colby.”

I rip my arm out of his grasp as I run out of the room. Without realizing it I run to Sam’s and throw open the door to reveal Kat and Sam filming.

I quickly wipe my eyes and try my best to steady my breathing.

“S-sorry to interrupt. Kat...can I please talk to you?”

“We’re kinda in the middle of something y/n, can you wait a few minutes?” Sam asks.

Before he can finish Kat turns around and stands up.

“No it can’t, I’m coming love.” She says walking away from Sam.

She envelops me in a hug as I burst into tears once more.

“Woah y/n, are you okay?” Sam asks worriedly.

Kat shakes her head for him to be quiet and walks with me down the stairs, ignoring everyone’s looks of worry.

She takes me out to my car and tells me she’s gonna take me home to talk. Within fifteen minutes we are at our shared apartment.

“Babe what’s wrong? What happened?”

“C-c-Colby cheated on me!” I say as tears begin to once more cascade down my cheeks.

She wraps her arms around me as I explain the story. She sits and wipes my tears and tells me it ok, all while I’m falling apart.

“I think that may be the first time I’ve heard you call him Colby, instead of Cole.” She says sighing.

~Some time later~

My phone buzzes with messages from Sam, Corey, and Jake.

“Everyone’s worried about you love.” Kat says, grabbing my phone from the couch cushion beside us.

I nod in response and lay my head back on her lap. Kat decided we should watch some movies, and so we’re currently in the middle of TATBILB.

“Colby has texted three times, he wants you to come back so you can talk. He also says he loves you and is sorry.” She says reading off of my phone screen.

I cover my head with a pillow trying to block out her words.

“I don’t care...”

She sighs and begins to put my phone down. Before she can it begins to ring. I wince and close my eyes at the familiar ring tone.

“It’s Colby.”

“Yeah I know.”

She ignores his call and begins to mess with my hair. Before long the phone rings again, but this time she doesn’t ignore it.

“Hello?” *pause*

“Colby, she doesn’t want to talk to you.” *pause*

“She needs time, just give it to her.” *pause*

I squeeze my eyes shut and try my best to block out the sound of her arguing on the phone. Before too long I decide it’s not working and I head to my room.

I try my best to sleep but how can I? Every time I close my eyes these thoughts swirl around my head. What do I do next? I just lay there silently crying as I think about the good times I had.

After about forty five minutes I decide enough is enough and I go out to the living room where Kat is still engrossed in our movie. At least she’s off the phone.

“Let’s go hang out please, I need to get my mind off of this. I figure we can go to that new spa in town, and then out to eat. My treat.”

Kat looks over at me and smiles encouragingly. She stands up and hands me my phone back.

“Fine but it’s My treat. Also he has called four times and has texted at least seven more.”

It’s at this point I turn my phone off. I’m going to enjoy the next few hours if it kills me. I look over at Kat and she grabs my hand and smiles.