"Are you all right?" a girl asked jumping into the seat across from Brian. Brian quickly lifted his head hoping it was Trisha, nope.
"Yeah, I'm ok"he replied, trying to give a small smile.
"Are you sure, you don't look ok?"she asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine, really" he replied.
"Oh, ok, how rude of me I didn't even introduce myself, Hi there I'm Brittany, I'll be your waitress tonight."the girl smiled.
"Hey, I'm Brian"he said extending his hand for her to shake it.
"Well it's nice to meet you Brian, are you looking for someone?" she asked noticing his wondering eyes.
"Well, actually I am."
"Oh, do you want any help?"
"No, it's ok, I'm sure she's not even here" he sighed.
"Oh, so it's a she, a girlfriend by any chance?"
"Umm, well, sorta, I'm sorry, I'm not being the greatest company, I'm just in a bad situation right now."he replied a bit fidgety.
"Oh it's ok, you know what cheers me up?"
"No, what?"
"A palm reading"she smiled.
"What, your crazy"he laughed.
"No, seriously, let me see your hand.."
"Uh....."
"Oh come on!"
"Fine"he replied extending his hand.
"Ok......well this line means,...you will live a long and healthy life. This one is the love line, ........."she continued.
I finished my Ice Tea at the bar and was walking over to the exits when I noticed Brian, he was smiling and talking with a girl..."What the......., is this what he had me come here for? so that I could see him with his new girlfriend, so that he could make me hurt even more.” Tears started to fall from my eyes when Brian noticed me standing there, just watching. He jumped out of the booth , as I stormed out of the restraunt, he quickly followed as I got in my car, rolled up the windows, trying my hardest to see threw the tears. I finally got the car started as Brian banged on the window, "Trish, please, it's not what you think,baby please.."
I quickly drove home with Brian on my tail the whole way. When I reached my house I didn't even want to get out of the car, I knew Brian would be right there, trying to calm me down and tell me everything was going to be ok, when in fact nothing would ever be. I finally got out of the car , sure enough Brian was there, and trying to get me to listen to him.
"Look Brian, don't you think you caused me enough pain? but you go and make me see that, what kind of person are you. Don't you have a heart?" I cried.
"Trish, she's nothing, I know I made a mistake. Please listen to me."he said, grabbing my arms and facing me.
"There's nothing to hear, you broke it off with me, there's nothing you or I can do."
"But there is, I know I made a mistake, please baby, I'm in love with you, please come back."
"Brian if you were in love with me then you wouldn't have thought there was a reason to break up. You wouldn't have done this to me."
"Trish, I..I......I broke up with you because of the tour, I cant handle being away from you, worrying about you finding some one new, and getting my heart broken. I thought that if we weren't together then it wouldn't hurt as much, but I was wrong."
"That's a pretty sad reason to break up, we could have worked it out. I would have never found any one better then you, I loved you Brian, and still do, but I know I cant anymore. I'm sorry!"I said as my heart felt like it had been ripped out and trampled on. I walked into the house leaving Brian a total wreck outside. As soon as I shut the door I slipped to the ground in tears. Sara ran over to me,
"What's wrong?"she said kneeling on the ground next to me.
"Nothing, nothing's wrong with me!"I cried aloud as I got up and ran into my room.
Sara opened the door to find Brian sitting on the porch, his head in his hands.
"Brian?"
"Yeah..."he whispered.
"What's going on?"
"Nothing Sara,"he said getting up and jumping in his car.
Sara stood there baffled. "What is going on with everyone, god if someone would just clue me in here" she thought as she walked back into the house closing the door behind her. I sat in my room, just crying into my pillow, when all of a sudden the phone began to ring. I let it ring for a minute then decided to answer, "Hello?" I asked.
"Hey, ... Trish what's wrong?" came an eager AJ's voice.
"Nothing"I lied.
"C'mon you can tell me"he insisted.
"No, it's not something I feel like talking about on the phone."
"Ok, then I'll be right there!"
"Wait....AJ?....AJ?" I said, but to a dead line.
"Oh just great Trish,"I thought. Almost a minute later there was a sound at the door. Sara opened it, and AJ walked straight in.
"Hello to you too"she laughed.
"Oh sorry, where's Trisha?"
"Upstairs, I don’t think it's such a good......"she said but AJ just marched straight up the stairs. He opened my door and walked in.
"AJ.... I'm sorry, I don't want to bother you with my problems."
"No, it's fine, really, that's what I'm here for."he said walking to my bed and sitting down.
"No AJ, you have problems of your own, I mean what's going on with you and Anna? Weren't you guys having some hardships?"I asked changing the subject, the truth is that I'm just not ready to talk about Brian, just yet anyway.
"Well, we still are, she wants to see other people now, there's nothing I can do anymore. She says it's too hard for her when we go on tour. Having that constant nagging feeling of me cheating on her, which she knows damn well that I would never do."
"Oh.....I'm sorry."
"Nahh, it's ok, we weren't that serious."
"Oh, well when do you go back on tour?"
"In a week."
"Oh, that's too bad" I said trying to show some emotion, but it wasn't working, I felt so empty inside there was nothing I could feel.
"But honestly Trish, what's going on with you?"
"It's not important AJ, please just forget it" I said as my eyes began to water.
"No, something's wrong I can see it in your eyes, you don't cry for nothing Trish, I know you too well." he said pulling my hand in his. I quickly pulled back. He gave me an odd look and continued to persuade me to tell him.
"Ok AJ,” I said taking a deep breath, “Brian broke up with me, for the same reasons Anna broke up with you, I thought he loved me AJ, didn't he? what went wrong"I cried as he pulled me into a hug.
"Trish he did love you, I don't know what has gotten into him lately, I know he’s probably was just running away like he always does."
"What, what are you talking about?"
"Brian, he runs away from commitment, ever since he had his heart broken."
"That still doesn't give him the right to go about breaking everyone else's"
"Yeah I know, Trish everything will be ok, just wait and see."
"Yeah, ok well why wasn't I informed on this, nothing can ever get better,"I thought.
"Uh huh, right"I said, as I wept into his shoulder. A little while later we decided to go downstairs and watch a video on the big screen.
Well we must have fallen asleep, because the last thing I remember is Brian standing there shouting at AJ.
"What the hell do you think your doing, what do you wait until Trisha and I have some problems and then run straight on in like Mr. Prince charming?"he shouted feeling like he was going to explode.
"Brian..chill man, we're just friends, I’m not trying to do anything..."
"AJ stop I can handle this"I interrupted."Brian you have no right, what makes you think you can barge in here and yell at him, he's just being a friend. And last time I checked, we broke up, so it's no longer your right to be jealous"I screamed, my eyes filling with tears.
Brian stood there in shock, he never heard her go off like that. He knew she really didn't mean it, just by the look in her eyes. She was right, he didn't have the privilege any more, he couldn't love her anymore, "She’s obviously trying to move on, so I guess that's what I have to do too" he said knowing that that would be the hardest thing to accomplish but he knew he had to do it.