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Staring at my phone, I will a text to come from Calliope but nothing comes through. Placing it down, I return to the bathroom and finish getting ready for the day ahead. As I’m brushing my teeth, another text comes in. My heart begins to race and I know, I just know it’s from Calliope. I feel like a thirteen-year-old girl right now, excited ‘cause her crush texted her, but that excitement dies when I see her message.
CALLIOPE:Lose this number
“Fuuuuck,” I groan, tugging on my beard in frustration. I knew I’d hurt her, but I didn’t realize just how much.
KANE:Please, Calliope, don’t cut me out. I’m sorry for taking advantage of you last night. I’m the adult here and totally in the wrong. Don’t beat yourself up for my mistake.
Her reply comes immediately and like moments ago, I deflate when I read it.
CALLIOPE:I’m not beating myself up, I’m crushed and defeated. Do you know how long I’ve wanted to kiss you like that? I feel everything you feel, felt, whatever, and I have since I was thirteen. To be rejected like that hurt more than when Sean Masters humped and dumped me when I was sixteen <— do not tell Daddy that. To go from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows was gut-wrenching.
CALLIOPE:I need to forget you exist and move on
CALLIOPE:Please, leave me alone.
“Fuuuuck,” I groan and again tug on my beard. I never knew any of this and now I feel like even more of a jackass. I need to fix this.
KANE:I’m so sorry, Calliope. Please meet me for coffee before I fly out so I can fix this. I didn’t mean to hurt you.
CALLIOPE:I can’t, Mr. H
CALLIOPE:I’m sorry
KANE:You don’t need to be sorry, Calliope.I’m the one who should be sorry and I am.
I’m so fucking sorry and I need to fix this, but how?
ChapterSixteen
Lying on my bed, I reread his last text message and the tears start to fall again. All I’ve done since I got home last night is cry. I have never been so mortified in my entire life … and I’m a stripper. I went from being blissfully happy when Mr. H kissed me, to absolutely gutted when he rejected me.
He and I have been walking a fine line for a few years now, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, we never should have crossed it. I would have rather kept him in the crush zone than to be in the crushED zone I’m currently in.
My phone pings again and when I pick it up, the tears fall harder when I read his latest message.
Mr. H:I never meant to hurt you
Mr. H:Please don’t shut me out
Mr. H:I’m so sorry, Sunshine, please don’t hate me
I don’t know what to do. On one hand, I don’t want to give up the friendship we have, but on the other, he broke my heart when he pushed me away. Knowing that he will keep blowing my phone up until he hears from me, I text him back.
CALI:I need time
Three words, that’s all I have in me.
Mr. H:OK
One word is all I get back. Then it pings again.
Mr. H:Just know I’m sorry and I hate that you hate me right now
CALI:I don’t hate you
CALI:I just …
Mr. H:need time
