10 Unfolding secrets

I arrive home, tired and exhausted of the long trip. I go to the kitchen and place the groceries in the fridge, "That's for tomorrow, there we go! Time for a shower, might do my hair. Haven't done it in a while."

I go take a shower and do my hair, "Phew! There we go, finally. Time for some food."

I make a sandwich, with cheese and a bit of cabbage, "I might have an obsession with cabbage, god knows how much I eat it..." I finish my meal and head to bed.

The next day

"I woke up at 12? Again? I must've been drained. Well, today is going to be fun, I hope." I get out of bed looking drowsy in my white boxers, white t-shirt and baggy black pants. I stretch and do a bit of exercise. After cooling off I go to the kitchen and make some bacon on toast, "Ah! Haven't had bacon in a while, time to dig in." As I eat, I look over to my guitar, "I haven't played in a while, have I? Eh, I'll try some stuff later." I finish my meal and do the dishes, "Welp, time to play some guitar and sing some songs. I guess." I pick up my black, acoustic guitar and strum away, "Fuck, wrong chord. I haven't played in a while, welp. Time to practice"

2 hours later

I look at the clock, "3 pm, Time to get ready." I get ready for the day and wear black jeans, white shirt and the black jean jacket that I got yesterday. I head out to the café hoping I'll be early, but to my surprise I saw her standing at the entrance wearing light blue jeans and a baggy sweater, "Hey! You're early! I thought I'd be early, but you came earlier than me." I say with a smile on my face.

"Yeah, I just wanted to get out of the house." She pushes her hands further into the pockets of her sweater and asks, "Can we not go into the café?"

"Huh?" I frown my eyebrows, but then I remembered what happened, "Well, where do you want to go then? I don't mind where we go, I just don't know where to go."

She looks at me and says, "Let's… let's go to your place?"

I feel goosebumps on my arms and hairs start to jump up on the back of my neck, "Uhm. Sure?"

We arrive at my place, "You can just, take a seat or look around." I see her looking around, sort of like a baby wanting to see and touch everything, "Do you want something to eat?"

"Oh! Yes please! You have a nice apartment, It's also really clean." She says as she walks towards my room, "Oh shit! Fuck!"

I quickly run over to my room, "What happened? Are you alright?" I see her touching my guitar.

"This is amazing, I didn't know you played guitar?" She says with a smile I've never seen before.

"I do, just not often anymore. Let's go to the kitchen, I'm making ramen." I say, hoping that she doesn't ask me to play.

She jumps up and runs to the kitchen, "Ramen!"

2 hours later after we finished eating and doing the dishes

"Hey Celia, who was that on the phone? If you don't mind me asking, sorry if this makes you uncomfortable…"

She looks out the window and wraps her arms around her legs and says,

"It's alright. I knew you would ask. It's a long story, but might as well. He's my boyfriend. Yeah, funny right? At first, he was really sweet and kind, loving and caring. He was also super athletic; he did sports and he was good looking, basically the boyfriend anyone would want. My friends told me to not get involved with him, because rumors said he was a cheater, but stupid me fell for him. I was trapped. After 2 months in our relationship, he started to change. He started drinking and blaming a lot of things on me, hanging out with friends and not telling me where he was and what was going on. I thought I could help and change him, but It seems like I can't. I still want to believe that he can change, but I know deep down that he can't… Argh, my mother raised me better than this. I just want to run away. What do you think I should do?"