I'll be the Brightest, You'll See

"Alex?" I asked again in disbelief. He stared back at me with the same look of confusion. How much did we drink last night?!

"This has to be a dream." He said as he slapped himself across he face. The sound echoed around the room. "Nope, totally real." He bowed his head and grabbed onto his cheek.

"Okay let me get this straight... Did we have sex?" I asked, needing to know the details.

"I honestly don't know, we were very drunk." He shook his head. I felt my cheeks blush red, I don't know why because I have slept with Alex before. "I thought you got locked up?" He lifted his head.

"I did." I mumbled looking away. "But I got out about 8 months ago." I shrugged.

"Oh, I didn't know." He sighed loudly.

"It's okay, I didn't really make a huge announcement about it." I smiled a little to myself.

"Why is this so awkward?" He laughed nervously.

"Probably because of how things ended between us." I sighed.

"That was 6 years ago, I'm not angry at your anymore." He said reaching out and grabbing my hand. I looked at it and then up to his face, he looked extremely sincere.

Suddenly my bedroom door opened and Vic burst in. He looked at me and then Alex, realised the scene he walked in on and then walked back out. "Shit." I mumbled.

"Guess you're still with him I take it." Alex said, pushing the covers off him. Thankfully he had boxers on so it wasn't totally awkward. I quickly found a long shirt and threw it over myself and decided to stupidly follow Vic.

He was just leaving my house when I got to the top of the stairs. "Vic wait." I called out but he didn't stop. I ran down the stairs as fast as I could and caught him just as he got to the bottom of the porch. "Vic!" I called out. He stopped and turned to me, the saddest look I've ever seen in my whole entire life on his face. Even though he cheated on me, I still love him and it hurts me so much.

"What?" He choked out.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, confused.

"We had a day off today so I rented a car and decided to drive back here after the show last night to come and speak to you since you won't return my calls." He explained. That's when I noticed the redness around his eyes.

"Explain what? The fact you cheated on me?" I said bitterly.

"I didn't cheat on you." He groaned, closing his eyes.

"I heard you speaking to a girl about a quickie." I said quietly, scared to look at him because my heart was breaking just thinking about it all.

"You are never going to believe me but we weren't talking about sex." He said. I just gave him the most dumbest look ever, does he think I'm stupid? "No, hear me out." He pressed. "The merch girl for the tour has been really helping me out with stuff, we've been hanging out a lot while we aren't performing and that day we were playing pranks on the guys and she was asking to do another one but didn't wanna get caught because Jaime found us putting ice cubes in his pillow case and it set him off, again." He blurted out as quickly as possible.

"What are you trying to say Vic?" I shook my head.

"I didn't cheat on you, Melanie is gay. She has a girlfriend and we were just messing around with the guys because it made me feel better. If you don't believe me then ask them. I didn't cheat on you." He said sternly. My gut felt like it was going to burst and come out of my mouth. "But you did, you did cheat on me." He frowned, looking at his feet.

"I broke up with you because I thought you were cheating on me. I don't even know if I had sex with him." I mumbled, feeling awful.

"You don't even know?" He was getting angry.

"I'm sorry." I shook my head and met his eyes with mine.

"Sorry really doesn't cut it Scarlett." He sighed. "I came all this way to try and win you back but I think you're always gone." He looked at his feet with sadness in his eyes.

"I'm not, I will do anything to fix this Vic, please understand." I begged, grabbing his hands and holding them tight. He yanked them away from me.

"No Scarlett. I thought things would be different but in the end you always break my heart. I spat my heart in my hands for you." He grimaced at the words.

I could feel the tears well up in my eyes. "Vic you know this isn't how it's meant to go." I choked on my tears.

"How is it meant to go? Because since we got back together things have been so bleak. I can't even imagine how the next few weeks are going pan out. I've done everything I could to make this work out but it just isn't." He shook his head. I sank down onto the ground, sobbing.

"I love you." I sobbed into my hands, trembling with pain.

He kneeled down in front of me and kissed the top of my head. "I really loved you too." He mumbled. I looked up in time to watch him walk away down the path and get into a car, then drive off.

My body shook terribly from how hard I was crying. I laid on the grass and cried so hard that my head began to grow fuzzy. Suddenly I was being lifted up and I noticed it was Alex. He pulled me close to him and in that single moment, I felt like it could be the end of me.

Notes

Oh my, what do you all think? Did Vic cheat on Scarlett? Should she be so heartbroken? DID VIC REACT TOO HARSHLY? I need your opinions GuyssSs