Tangled

I woke up and turned around to see my best friend looking back at me. “How did you sleep?” He asked. I shrugged my shoulders. I still felt kind of bad. I had broke up with my boyfriend again and like always Tony was always there for me. “Come on lets go get something to eat.” He said pulling me up from were I was laying, but I didn’t want to go anywhere. I wanted to stay in bed all day and talk to Tony.
Most of all I didn’t want to run into Ryan my ex. “What if Ryan shows up or sees us together. You know how he gets.” I said.
“Fuck Ryan. I’m not letting you lock yourself up in this house all day.” He lifted me off the bed and quickly carried me into the bathroom. “Hurry up and get ready.” He turned to leave me in the bathroom, but I grabbed his hand and put on the sexiest smile I could come up with.
“Would you like to join me?” I asked. Tony smiled and shook his head.
“I don’t think my girlfriend would like that.” He said.
“Really? Who are you dating now?” I asked.
He shrugged his shoulders and answered. “Don’t worry about that.” He left me alone in the bathroom.
It was something about his presence that made me feel better and now that he was gone I started to feel bad again. This wasn’t the first time Ryan and I had broken up. I don’t know why I even agreed to go back to him. I hated him so much, but I couldn’t expect Tony to be there for me all the time even though he tried.
We’ve always been really close. Our moms were friends and I’m pretty sure they were hoping that me and Tony would hook up. Which we have, but we never really dated. I took a quick shower and got dressed in a pair of sweat pants and a hoodie. It was almost 12 in the afternoon and I really did feel like shit.
But I quickly cheered up when I saw Tony playing with my three year old daughter, Tori. I had her when I was only when I was nineteen and she’s the only I kept on going back to Ryan.
At first everyone thought that Tony was the dad, and today I wish he was. That would give me a chance to finally be done with Ryan and maybe Tony and I would be together. I immediately shook the though out of my head. Me and Tony were friends I and I didn’t want to do anything that could change that. Tony looked up from tying Tori’s shoe and smiled. “You look great.” He said sarcastically. I shook my head and tied Tori’s other shoe.
“I’m not going to dress up. We’re not going anywhere but to go get something to eat and then we’re coming back here.” I said.
“How do you know that’s all we were going to do?” He asked.
“Because that’s all I want to do today.”
“Well Tori told me that she wants to go to the park and the she wants to go to see her grandma.” He said. I looked over at Tori who looked like she would rather be playing with her toys than going out, but she immediately focused on us when she heard the word’s park and grandma. Tony knew I couldn’t say no to something that Tori wanted and he smiled when I shrugged my shoulders and nodded.
The whole time we were eating lunch I couldn’t stop myself from looking around and making sure that I saw no signs of Ryan. I really didn’t want to talk to him ever again. Not even Tori’s laughter could completely distract me.
“You really need to stop worrying about him.” Tony whispered.
I shrugged my shoulders . “Who are you dating now?” I asked ignoring what he had just said.
He shook his head and replied. “Nobody.” At first I didn’t really believe him but then I noticed that he was completely serious.
“Oh.” I replied. Secretly I was glad that he was single and another part of me was nervous. Now that he was single and not touring I knew that he would be spending more time with me. Plus the last time he was single was when we had sex and he told me he loved me. And even though I probably should have told him that I loved him too I didn’t because I thought I was in love with Ryan.
Just thinking about it made me feel like shit and I reached out for Tori so she would come and give me a hug, but she rarely left Tony’s side when he was around. “Are you done eating?” I asked.
“I am, but you’re not.” He replied.
“I’m not hungry.” I said.
I could tell that Tony didn’t approve, but I got up from the table anyway. When Tony and Tori got to the car we could tell that she was to tired to go to the park and even though I still wanted to go back home that didn’t stop Tony from driving to my mom’s house. I started to protest but he told me he was just going so that he could drop Tori off so that we could have the night to hang out. It didn’t matter. Nothing really mattered at the moment.
I planned on staying in the car while Tony took Tori in but my mom came to the door when we pulled up and waved me over. As soon as I stepped out the car I could tell she knew that Ryan and I had broken up and so did everyone else. “I don’t really no what you see in that guy.” My mom said as soon as I walked by her.
“I don’t either mom. But this time we are definitely done for good this time.” I replied and sat down next to Tony on the couch.
“And how am I supposed to know that?” She asked.
“How am I supposed to answer something I’m not sure of myself?” I replied.
I was starting to get pissed and this was the reason why I didn’t want to come here. I looked over at Tony and gave him my angriest look I could. He shrugged his shoulders which was his way of apologizing.
“I’m sorry Melissa I’m not trying to make you upset. You should just be done with him by now.” My mom said.
“Its kind of hard to do that when you kind of have to see him everyday when you look at your child.” I replied. My mom shook her head and got up from the couch. I looked at Tony again and I couldn’t really read him. He placed his hand on my check for only a second before removing it. I liked the way it felt there, but I knew it wasn’t right.
“Can we go now?” I asked.
“Yeah.” He replied and I couldn’t help but notice the way his voice was kind of shaky just like he had felt something too when he touched me. I couldn’t help but notice that when he placed his hand on my back that it felt completely different from the other times he had done it in the past.