Maybe This Time // Hayes Grier

chapter 5

"Hayes I'm telling you I'm sorry for walking out on you like that. Just give me chance to explain."

"There's nothing to explain, Allison. Just leave my room please."

The desperate look in her eyes just pleaded stronger as she got up off my bed and walked out of my room. I could tell she wanted to slam the door, but she refrained.

I sighed and ran my fingers through my short hair. My back went back against my mattress and my head on the pillows. She knocked on my dorm room door at 9 on a Saturday morning just to tell me she was sorry? I think she was a week late, and frankly I didn't care.

"Bro, is she gone yet?" My roommates groggy voice asked.

"Yeah, Colton, she's gone." I told him with my eyes closed, trying to go back to sleep. "You probably won't see her in here for a while," I say quietly, he probably didn't even hear me.

"Good," by that he either heard my quiet comment or was responding to the fact that she was gone. He never really liked Allison, I wasn't sure why but it didn't bother me.

At 11 I was finally up. Colton was out with some girl who's name I didn't know. And my other roommate, Justin, I didn't even know. He's only in the room to sleep and he's gone before I wake up.

I rolled over and checked my phone to see I had a text from nash and one from Allison.

Allison- I know you're going back to North Carolina for Thanksgiving break but I wanted to actually see you before you left. Meet me in your dorm lounge at 12 please.

H- K

I opened Nash's next,

Nash- Can't wait to see you tonight bro! Got a surprise for you too

H- Can't wait to see you too, miss you. Can't wait to see what it is

I sat in my bed for a few minutes before I actually got up. I went right to the showers.

The Bathrooms were mostly empty. They were usually filled before classes, hens it was a Saturday, empty.

I took a short shower, like usual, then actually got dressed in the bathroom today instead off walking back to my room with a towel around my waist.

By twelve I was in my lounge. I heard the constant clack of pool balls, and a couple hits of a foosball here and there.

"Hey," I heard Allison's voice followed by foot steps.

"Hey," I say back flatly.

"We need to talk," I feel the couch sink a little as she sits down. I look at her while she crosses her legs and tightens her pony tail that wasn't in earlier.

"I guess."

"Hayes, can you at least try and hear me out."

"But that's the thing, Allison," I start but don't really know where I'm going with this. "There's nothing to hear."

"Hayes I think you have a little explaining to do also," she says with attitude and I'm confused on what I have to explain. I think she noticed my expression and she became more annoyed. "What was that whole stunt about you and Bradie?"

"First; it wasn't a stunt. Second; I said that because you still didn't believe that we were in love. And you were so skeptical about us and you kept trying to convince me that her and I weren't in love. You said that if you really love someone you wouldn't just give up like we supposedly did. So I explained us to you, and I explain how everything ended. Do you know how hard it was for me when she left? It was like she took a part of me with her."