Obsessed

Chapter 1

Hearing honking behind me, I quickly and clumsily slammed on the gas and cringed at the screeching of my tires, blushing when I realized the light had been green for quite a few seconds. However, my anxiety over the honking still couldn't smother my thoughts. Why did he look so mad? He probably thought I was a creep for staring. Mental facepalm.

Looking into my rear view mirror I saw him standing in the middle of the road, where the cars in the lane had to swerve to avoid him. However, he was never phased and instead stayed there staring at the back of my car as it drove away like a bat out of hell.

I pulled into my driveway a few minutes later and just sat there for a while. My mind was infested with memories of Jeremy and of the mysterious, handsome man in the road. After blankly staring at a pot on my porch for 10 minutes, I finally took the key out of the ignition and got out of my old, silver car. I made a B-line to the kitchen as soon as I got in the house. I'm not going to be the cliché girl who watches romance movies and eat ice cream. No, just the ice cream part.

Taking out a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream, along with a large spoon, I walked upstairs and into my bedroom. This was his favorite too. Taking my laptop off of its charger, I opened the internet and pulled up social media, where I knew I could get lost for hours without thinking about my recent ex.

"Now I have an excuse to block someone," I muttered to myself, reaching for my phone and quickly blocking him before I changed my mind.

Eventually I turned away from my laptop, finishing my icecream while staring at a patched hole in the wall Jeremy once accidentally made.

Hearing a ping sound from my laptop, indicating a friend request, I squinted down at the bright screen to see who it was. No picture, that's weird.  I shrugged and added them, no harm done. It's not like he's a stalker or anything.

Going back to my home page, I stilled and stared blankly at the screen.

Relationship status: in a relationship <3

I pursued my lips, eyes burning and quickly flooding. So much for forgetting temporarily. Wiping under my soaked lashes, I quickly changed my status to single.

Seeing two messages, I frowned and opened my inbox. I never get messages.
Tristan Jacobs and Jeremy Conners.

My face scrunched up and I angrily deleted Jeremy's message, but not before getting a glimpse of the preview.

"May, I still have..."

The normal part of me wanted to know what he still had. Feelings for me? The sick part of me wished that were true.

After blocking him on Facebook, I went to my other message. Tristan Jacobs didn't have the same luck, because I simply deleted it without reading the preview.

It's not like I'll ever meet him, I thought as I logged out and closed my laptop.

***

It had been 4 days since that awful occurrence at the diner. Thankfully, they passed by fast because I was asking for more hours and spending a lot of time with Loren, my best friend, which was much needed after pushing myself harder and harder every moment. Every morning I woke up to a heavy heart and dark under-eye bags. Every day I went to work at Sarah's with a straight face, until I had to smile for customers from behind a counter. A smile that was as fake as my ex-relationship and almost never matched my eyes. He hadn't tried to contact me any further, which I was thankful for. I still had to work in the place I caught him cheating at.

"Remember to close the freezer Bobby! I'm off tomorrow so I won't be able to save you," I called out as I walked towards the back room and to my locker. I quickly turned around as I felt him swat my behind with a towel, letting out a sharp laugh and swatting him back with my apron.