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Prologue: I’ve been living in San Juan for about two years now, and I couldn’t be any happier. I have two amazing best friends and an amazing boyfriend. Well I should say, had two best friends and had an amazing boyfriend. Like always, with happiness comes pain. But if you want to know everything, I’m going to have to start from the beginning.
Lianna I finish reading my text from Andrew telling me he’ll be here in five minutes and I can’t help but go back to the day when my mother told me I was moving. It seemed as if it were just a regular Saturday afternoon, me waiting for my mom to get out of work so we can have our mother daughter days, but I had been sadly mistaken. The minute she stepped foot in our house, she had the look on her face. She looked me dead in my eyes and said “Lianna siéntate I have something to tell you.” I immediately take a seat, but instead of following me she just stood standing in front of me. I look at her for a couple seconds, and when she starts talking, that’s when my world starts falling apart. “Mamita, I know we just moved her last year and you made new friends and everything but um…. My job offered me a new place and a new promotion.” I’m one-hundred percent excited for her and I begin to tell her how happy I was when she interrupted me and said “No mamita you don’t get it. I’m trying to tell you that we’re moving.” I reply “Where?” with more attitude than I intended. I mean, I’m finally settling in and adjusting to my new life AGAIN and decides to break this news to me! How else was I supposed to react? She looks at me like she’s struggling inside to tell 1
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me. I make a motion with my hand to rush her. With that, she quickly spits out “San Juan Puerto Rico!.” It felt as if my heart had dropped instantly. I didn’t know how to react. I had just restarted my whole life, to restart it again. Honestly, I was heartbroken. Ding-Dong! I would’ve kept on repeating that image in my head, if not for the dorrbell ringing. Andrew had come to my rescue. I swallow up all my past emotions, grab my phone and headed downstairs. When I got down there, like always, Andrew and my mother were laughing, talking and having a great time. I put a smile on my face, and walk staright up to them. “I hope I’m not interrupting anything.” Okay, I know this may sound kind of ‘pushy’ but between me and you, I think Andrew and I are drifting apart. Dont get me wrong, I love Andrew with all of my heart but, it feels as if he drifting away from me. Honestly, this is the first time we hung out it nearly three weeks! Call me crazy, but that’s an extra long time to be away from your boyfriend if you ask me. But then again, it could just be me. We females tend to overthink things a lot. And this could possibly be one of them. What brings me back to reality is my mother saying “No of course not mija, Andrew and I were just catching up on things since we havent seen each other in a long time.” Andrew looks at me, smiles at me with that killer smile that melts my heart and then says “Hey, Lianna, like your mom said we were just catching up on things.” I smile, but the way I’m smiling, I can feel the fakeness in it. My momther must’ve seen it because she then interrupts the silence and says “Well, you guys go ahead and have fun. Remember, dont bring her back home early, she’s been inside for the past three weeks. She probably needs some air, and frankly I need some space!” We all laugh jokingly as Andrew and I head for the door. As she shuts the door behind us, she yells “Bye Lianna, love you.” I yell back that I lover her too and we’re on our way. Andrew 2
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We get into the car and there is absolutly no talking at all. It feels kind of awkward, the intensity level in here is something serious. Lianna is acting as if she either a) doesn’t want to be with me or b) she knows something is up. Okay, your probably wondering ‘what is up’ and I should tell you. I cheated on my girlfriend. The girl that I’ve been with for two years. The girl that lost her virginity to me. And the girl I’m deeplyin love with. I know, I know, if I’m in love with her then why am I cheating. It’s just things have lately been so off between us. I used to fall in love with her more and more everyday, but now it’s like…if it’s even possible, I’m falling kind of out of love with her. Who may you ask I cheated on her with? Leticia. Leticia Reyes. Don’t worry, they’re not best friends or anything because that would be worse than the fact that I cheated on her. I mean I’d be wrong if I said they were best friends because quite frankly, they hate each others guts. To make a long story short, Leticia is jealous of everything that Lianna has. Lianna had the ‘perfect mother, perfect house, perfect life and perfect boyfriend’ as Leticia would claim. But Leticia was wrong about one of those things. Lianna doesn’t have a perfect boyfriend. If she had the perfect boyfriend, then he wouldnt have cheated on her. Not once either. He wouldn’t have cheated on her five times. He would’ve loved her unconditionally. When he felt that he and Lianna were drifting apart he would’ve tried to solve that problem. Not create a whole new one. If she had the perfect boyfriend, he wouldn’t have had sex with another female other than his one true love. And if she truly had the perfect boyfriend, he wouldn’t let her continue to think he was the perfect
boyfriend. He wouldn’t sit here and and try to hide all the wrong he has done just so he wouldn’t see any of her pain. But he knew the pain that he was going to cause just considering to fianlly give in to Leticia and her persuation. And he knew the absolute pain that he was causing her was going to shatter her heart 3
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into a million pieces. But he still did it anyways. Aware one hundred percent of his actions. Lianna I want to talk to Andrew, but I dont know what to talk about. He seems so deep in thought, that whatever he’s thinking about is affecting his driving speed. One minute he’s fine, the next he’s speeding and the next he’s driving extra slow. We’re driving for about twenty minutes when he finally pulls the car into Red Lobster. He does his usual: runs out the car to quickly open my door. When we get inside it’s peaceful. There’s not a lot of people there so I think we’ll be able to finally talk. Andrew walks up to the waiter at the front desk to check in. She smiles and says to us “Right this way.” From there, she leads us to the middle of the dining area where there is a small circular table set up with candles on each side and a rose directly in the middle. We take our seats as the lady hands us the menu. We pick it up and we’re quiet for a few minutes. Which honestly makes no sense because we order the EXACT same thing everytime we come here. I guess we’re both thinking about who should talk first. Clearly him getting annoyed says “Well I know what I’m getting” and with that he closes his menu. I nod then say “Alright. I know what I’m getting.” We’re silent for a few more minutes when he finally grabs my hand to hold it and says “I miss you how have you been?” I smile and say “Well, I guess I’m good. How about you, how have you been?” He looks down dor a few seconds than says “I’m….. I’m good.” At that moment, the waitress comes back to take our menus. I dont even have to tell Andrew what I’m ordering because he already knows. Once she leaves, we’re sitting here in more awkward silence. His phone vibrates, and when he take it out to look at who was calling, his face turns really red. He looks at me to see if I’m looking and when he 4
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notices that I am he looks down back at the phone. About ten minutes later, our food arrives and with that ten minute time period his phone vibrates at least twenty more times. I don’t care that someone is trying to contact him, I just care that everytime he looks at his phone his face gets redder and redder every time. When our food arrives I barely want to eat anymore. His smile says one thing, and his facial expressions say another. If this were a Lifetime movie, he would be caught in a situation: Hiding the truth while maintaining a front. I’m picking at my food the way a child does. By moving it around in different places just to make it look like I ate some. I can tell Andrew noticed because everytime I did it, he kept on clearing his voice. But I dont care. If he wants to act suspicious, then I’ll decide not to eat my food. After him getting fed up he finally wavers for the waiter to come bring the check. But that my friend, was not the highlight of my night. As we’re leaving, we run into Leticia and her “groupies”. Well the more correct term I should say is we ran into a group of skanks. The first thing that Leticia says is “Hey Andrew, why haven’t you messaged me back?” At the moment his face had reached red, like a red lobster red. Clearly surprised, I turn towards him and look dead into his face. But he won’t look at me. He contined to stare at Leticia’s face. We’re standing like that for about a minute when one of her friends finally say in a hushed tone, “Aha, she doesn’t know.” I turn towards her and say “What don’t I know!” She was just about to shout something back when Leticia turned towards her and said “Nothing, she doesn’t know anything.” She turns towards me and says “You don’t know anything” and with that she turns away to go to the waiter. Good thing she did, because right when she did I turned and basically stormed out. Tropical Storm Lianna was in full effect. I get to the car and wait impatiently for Andrew to open the doors. But he had a different agenda, he went to my door and opened it. Standing there like nothing happened not even 5
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fifteen seconds ago. After rolling an eye at him I finally get in. But I’m not gonna let him shut the door. He goes for it but I grab it with my hand and slam it. Hard. I dont know about him, but I’m not letting this situation go. I’m going to find out something one way or another. Andrew It would be a complete understatement to say that Lianna was heated. Quite frankly, she was pissed off. Her face no longer her light color, is red and her leg is shaking. I don’t know what to say and I don’t know what she wants me to say. I did not expect Leticia to show up. I did not expect what happened, to happen. And I for sure did not expect Lianna to act the way she was acting. She usually never pays one word to what Leticia is saying. But today of all days, she decides to listen. She decides to listen to what Leticia has to say, and I yearn to know what is going through her mind right now. The only expression on her face is-well, there isn’t any expression on her face at all. None whatsoever. To be honest, it’s really scary. I was lost in thought when she finally broke the silence and said “What don’t I know Andrew?” That tiny five word sentence caught me completly by surprise. I try and buy some time, by asking her “Huh?” But that backfired majorly. “DON’T PLAY STUPID WITH ME ANDREW! WHAT DON’T I KNOW!?” She scared me with the tone of her voice. Yet, sitting here, I was debating on whether or not I should tell her the truth or deny it to the end and take it to my grave. I knew for a fact telling her what I did would end everything we have and everything we stand for. I also kow for a fact that if I deny it I’ll be able to keep her. So here’s the million dollar question: Do I tell my girlfriend the truth and lose her forever, or do I lie just to save my own ass. It took be about ten seconds and I finally made my decision. I would do what I thought was the best. 6
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Lianna As I sat there waiting for Andrew to reply to me, a million questions fluttered through my mind. After about ten seconds he finally decides to answer me. “That I was planning on giving you a promise ring for our three year anniversary.�
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