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I shake my head. I don’t think that conversation Ryker and I had qualifies as a fight. He just very calmly informed me about what he wants. And I very pathetically just stood there and didn’t give it to him.
“Then I don’t get it. What happened?” Rachel asks.
“He wants a relationship.”
They all exchange dubious glances.
“Aren’t you already in a relationship?” Kelly asks and looks at Rachel. “I don’t get it.”
I send them all a look of loathing. “No, we’re not!”
They exchange glances again and after a few seconds Rachel squats down in front of me.
“I gotta be honest, I don’t really understand what’s happening here. At all. What’s your problem, exactly? Because what I’m hearing right now is that you’re upset because your boyfriend wants a relationship?”
“Not my boyfriend!” I snap.
Rach holds both her hands up in front of herself and mutters, “So touchy,” before she sends me a speculative look. “If you’re not in a relationship then what is it you two are doing?”
“Fucking,” I say. “People do that.”
“Okay.” She shrugs. “So you wouldn’t mind if he was fucking somebody else, too?”
It feels like somebody has grabbed hold of my windpipe and is twisting it until it’s going to break.
“Yeah, that’s what I figured,” Rach says knowingly.
I clutch the back of my neck and stare at the floor.
“It doesn’t matter. I can’t be in a relationship.”
“Why?”
“There’s no point. It won’t work out anyway.”
“Holy shit,” Kelly pipes up, sits down next to Rachel, and crosses his legs. “You never told me you were clairvoyant! Can you tell me when and how I die? I’ve always wondered.”
I try to reply with something sarcastic, but there’s a lump in the back of my throat, and I can’t seem to speak past it.
“What makes you think it won’t work?” he asks.
“It’s life. People never stick around. Relationships just… don’t work,” I sound as miserable as I feel.
There’s a beat of silence before Kelly sighs heavily and looks at Rachel and Sawyer.
“Well, you two had a good run,” he says.
“We really did,” she agrees. “But needs must.”
I glance up with a glare. “I didn’t mean it like that.”
“Like what? It seemed pretty clear to me. Relationships don’t work, so there’s no point in trying. Oh, man,” she continues. “I’m gonna have to let my grandma and grandpa know. I mean, they’ve been dragging this inevitable break-up out for fifty years already. Somebody needs to tell them enough is enough!”
“It’s not the same situation, okay?”
“No, it definitely isn’t,” Rachel says. “Mainly because we’re not complete fucking morons.”
When I don’t say anything to that, she sighs.
