Chapter Seventeen

~Xavier~

I spent the whole day trying to ignore Ryder. But it was hard. Everywhere I turned, he was right there. He is either stalking me or I haven’t noticed that he is in almost all my classes. It could be both. Shay took me to work after school. Now I am at the café and serving people that are ass wholes. Well the only ones who aren’t is when they say thank you. Like you have to say thank you for god sakes. I leaned back against the shelf waiting for the next costumer. “What are you doing?” Riley asked. “Waiting for my nest costumer. What are you doing nosy ass?” I asked. “Damn who pissed in your cheerios?” Riley asked looking at me. “Wait don’t answer. I know what it is now.” Riley added. I shook my head. The bell on the door dings against the door. I look over and this hot guy with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes walks in. He has a nice tan living in Washington. He has pink plum lips and a bony face. “Holy shit.” Riley whispers. “Hi can I get a coffee please?” He asked smiling at me. I pour him a cup of coffee. “Would you like it dark or cream?” I asked. “I like coffee like how I like my men…. Cream.” He winks at me. I start to blush and Riley and I started to giggle. I handed him his coffee and he handed me money. He smiles at me and walks over to a table. “He was so flirting with you.” Riley pointed out. “Shut up. I am still trying to cope with what Ryder did too me.” I sighed. “Have a rebound. I had plenty of those.” Riley informed me. I looked at her and raised an eyebrow. “I don’t want to hurt someone like that.” I pouted. “I bet you half the guys you will date will be your rebound or they will be yours. Because sometimes a rebound becomes more meaningful.” Riley told me. That’s actually true. But it just happened last night. I am still hurt to the extreme. I don’t move on that fast. Defiantly for someone who cheated on me and that someone that I love to the moon and back. Ryder is the best thing that happened to me. For him to cheat on me, I feel so betrayed. I thought I could count on him. And for him to do that to me, is so shitty. I thought he would be the last person to ever do that to me. I started to tear up. “Hey. Don’t cry. It’s not nice for you to cry in front of me because I will start crying. And my crying looks like Kim Kardashian crying.” Riley says and hugs me. I start to laugh. “There we go! There is your cute smile!” Riley shouts at me. I smile and hug her tighter. “Are you okay?” The guy came up and asked. “I am fine. Allergies suck ass.” I laugh and wiped my eyes. “I suck ass too so that’s ok.” He laughed. I started laughing. “I’m Damien.” He put out his hand. I smiled and gave him my hand. “Xavier.” I responded. “Nice to meet you Xavier.” He smiled at me. “You too.” I smiled back. “Let me see your phone.” He demanded. I raised an eyebrow and handed him my phone. He took a selfie and put in his number. “Call me sometime. I’m sticking around for a while so you’re lucky.” He informed me and turned around. He looked back at me and smiled and walked out of the café. “Oh. My. God.” Riley jumps up and down. I rolled my eyes. This girl fan girls way too much. “I’m sorry. But why are all the hot guys gay?” She asked me. I started laughing. Not all gays are hot. Trust me, I know. I start talking to Riley when the bell rings against the door. I turn and see Ryder standing there. “What do you want?” I asked. “Can we talk?” Ryder asked. I really don’t want to talk to him. But I have to get this over with. I sighed and pointed towards the back. We walked back into the storage room and he shut the door. “What do you want to talk about?” I asked. “I want you to know that I am so truly sorry for what I did. I regret it to the extreme. I love you Xavier and no one else. And I am so sorry that it happened. I don’t know what I was thinking. I just don’t know Xavier. You are the best thing to ever happen to me. I have no idea where I would be without you. I can’t lose you over something so stupid. You have to believe me when I say that I regret it and I am truly sorry.” Ryder kept apologizing and apologizing. “Don’t keep saying you are sorry. It just happened last night and I thought that I could trust you. You betrayed me. I love you to the moon and back. But for you to do that to me is just beyond unexpected. I need time to think this through. After what you did, it may take a while. I just don’t know anymore.” I started to cry. “I will wait for you. No matter how long it will take, I will wait.” He pointed out. I just shook my head. He walked over to hug me. It felt so good to be in his arms. But this is wrong. He is not going to be forgiven that easily. I pushed him off of me. “You need to go.” I demanded. He nodded. He turned around and walked out. I slid down the wall and started crying. That was so hard for me to do. I love him but I am so hurt. I sighed and wiped my tears. I made sure that my face was back to normal. So no one can tell that I have been crying. “You ok?” Riley asked. I nodded and gave a fake smile. “Everything will be ok.” She says and gives me a kiss on the cheek. I have an hour left of my shift. Then back home and cry myself to sleep.