“How could you kiss a water bottle?!” She yelled, “They’re notoriously spicy!”
“I’m sorry!” Dan yelled back, his eyes filling with tears and face flushing with distress. “She was just so nice and the situation seemed nice and-”
Dan stopped suddenly, his arms dropping to his sides and it was like the life drained out of him. “I cheated.”
“Yes.” Sarah responded, her face obscured by a waterfall of tears. “Yes, you did.”
The pair stood at an impasse, neither moving or looking at the other. Cars could be heard rushing past the abandoned house, the broken windows letting every sound of the outside world into this precious moment where their whole world was collapsing.
“So this is it?” Sarah said after a while, her tears slowing down, and her big hazel eyes were lined by tear tracks and smears of eyeliner.
“This is it.” Dan said, finally looking at Sarah since his confession. The man took one look at his love’s–ex-love’s– face and it was like someone had stabbed him. “I’m so sorry Sarah, she really meant nothing to me, I don’t love her.”
“And you love me?” Sarah bit back. “You loved me so much that you kissed the only other girl in the world who would touch you?” Dan didn’t even respond to the jab, the knife just twisted in further. “I can’t believe I ever loved you.” Sarah said, her voice filled with tears but her face was dry and red. “I told you, I told you Dan Hudder, how every man I have ever loved lied to me and left me in the dust to pick up the pieces of THEIR MESS.” Sarah started shouting, “I LOVED YOU DAN! I TOLD YOU THE DAY THAT WE MET, THE DAY THAT YOU FINALLY SAID IT BACK, YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND EVEN ON THAT DAY WHEN YOU KISSED THAT BIT-”
Dan suddenly launched himself at Sarah, grabbing her arm and dragging her to the ground behind the half-decomposed kitchen island. A flashlight beam lit up the wall just above the pair’s head and Sarah found her eyes unable to move from Dan’s “This doesn’t mean I accept your apology.” Sarah said. “I know,” Dan replied, “I will make it up to you, I promise.”
With those last two words, Sarah’s eyes rolled into the back of her head and she started to convulse. Her allergy to lies finally coming in handy.