The Break Up

             "Crystal!!!" Jack who was already mad and furious at the scene Crystal had caused yelled out on top of his voice.

       The customers in the store had left the café because of how noisy and dangerous it looked.

      Everyone paused for a while as they turned to look at their boss . He was burning from inside but tried to hide it.

     Red forced Crystal's hands off his hair and he left without saying a word to her.

     He got to his car , climbed into it and drove out of sight. He had decided to go to his father's company to chill off since he was going to be the next CEO in the company.

       "What the hell do you think you were doing Crystal ?" Jack inquired as he took a step in front of the other close to Crystal.

      Jack was a kind hearted young man. He loved Crystal with all his heart and had vowed never to hurt her no matter what.

    He made different promises to her about their relationship and he worked towards keeping it.

     Seeing the mess that Crystal had done made him want to go crazy for a while. 

     "I thought you were the calm kind of lady Crystal?" he spoke out feeling disappointed at her.

      "Am sorry Sir" She crossed her hands at the back of her body with her head bowed to the ground.

         "I thought I could trust you but just look at the mess you caused!" he yelled out at her.

      Hearing Jack yell at her made her feel rejected again. She loved him so much and seeing how he scolded her in front of the others made her feel stupid.

      "Can we talk outside Jack , please" Crystal whispered as she looked up to his face but then , Jack retorted.

    "I can't believe you still have the right to talk about Privacy when you just messed things up!" Jack spilled out which made everyone want to know more.

      They had all gone back to their position for work and hearing Jack expose Crystal bit by bit made them want to sit and listen.

     "Jack please" Crystal said out softly which sounded more like a whisper. "They are looking and could actually hear us Jack. Come on babe, let's go to your office or outside to talk please" She begged trying to keep her life to herself but Jack still wasn't listening.

       He paused for a while before he spurned to look around the café. He realized that all eyes were on them and he was expected to stop yelling at Crystal but he didn't.

         "What the fuck are you so afraid of Crystal?? What??!" he questioned as he looked at himself from his head to his toe.

     " I am a man which you should crave to have in your arms, I'm the kind that would make you feel like a true woman . So tell me what are you afraid of?" he asked Crystal who's head was bent to the ground.

      He had praised himself and of course just as thought, Jack was the proud kind of person.

     He was never humble right from Junior high. Other students disliked him and no one wished to play with him or have anything to do with him.

      He was sitting in his class with his head placed on his desk and his bag pack on the ground.

     It was leisure hour in school and he was supposed to go out to play or hang out with his friends but seeing how almost everyone in school disliked him, he decided to stay on his own.

      He was the only one in his class and it made him lonely but he had to endure because no one wanted to have him around.

     "Here is your class young lady" a teacher walked into the class as she ushered Crystal into the classroom with a bright smile on her face.

      Crystal who had just lost her parents few months back still had a lot of sad facial expression and didn't mind.

    She barely smiled back or laughed with anyone. She stayed alone all day and all she did was miss her parents and her brothers.

       "You can sit over there, no one has that seat for now ok" Her teacher placed her hand on Crystal's hair and caressed it gently so she could feel loved .

      "Thanks Ma'am" She spoke out softly with her tender voice. 

      She walked straight to her seat , passing Jack who was still feeling rejected .

    She sat down and when she noticed Jack sitting in front of her, she ignored his presence like he was no one.

     Her next day at school, she also felt the same way. She saw him with his head on his desk but she didn't ask him why because it wasn't her business.

     She kept on watching him until her sixth day in school. She decided to ask why he was always sad and barely had friends to talk to.

      Her case was quite different because she had lost and was still mourning her late parents.

      "Hey !" she stood in front of him as she feigned a smile on her face.

     "Why don't you go out to hang out with other kids?" she questioned as she waited for a quick response.

       "And who the fuck do you think you are to ask me such question?" He spoke out rudely. "Do I look like I have no friends?" he added as he looked away.

        "Hey come on, I didn't mean to hurt you though, was just worried. Sorry if I actually intruded into your private life" She apologized as she walked back to her seat.

     She lifted up her book which she was reading and tried her best to focus on it. She had promised to make good results in school just for her dad and she was working towards it.

      Jack felt so bad when he listened to himself speak to an innocent girl few minutes ago.

    He bit half of his lips feeling so disappointed in himself. He had no friends and yet, he pursued the first girl who spoke to him after a long time in his school.

    "I must be out of my mind" he whispered . 

    He wished he could turn the hand of the clock backwards so he could talk to her politely and treat her nicely.

      "Don't be a fool jack, just go ahead and apologize to her now before it's too late" He encouraged himself as a man. He took in a deep breath and stood up from his seat.

      "Hey, am sorry for actually treating you like a pest, didn't mean to. Was just paranoid. Am really sorry" He spoke out softly .

     He was calm and Crystal loved it, seeing him apologize to her made her remember her brother Jack who couldn't stay a day without provoking her and later on come back to her to apologize.

       "Am not vexed or mad at you Dear, just wondered why you were always sitting alone" She said politely.

       "I just can't tell though but I guess that's fate" He smiled as he made his funny statement.

     "Fate?? Come on…." She made her statement short so she could hear him tell her his name..   

     "Oh so sorry for my bad manners, am Jack" He announced.

     "Jack?" She called out .

Hearing him say his name was a clear definition of fate to her.

      Here she was thinking about how her brother Jack reacted to things not knowing that the same person standing in front of her was Jack.

      "Nice to meet you Jack" She finally smiled and this time, it was real.

      From then, she began to hang out with jack, they were the best couples in Junior high and everyone desired to be like them.

    She helped him control himself and it made others want to hang out with him too.

    She had her first kiss, her first hug and first crush with Jack. They had beautiful moments together .

      She had decided to hide her relationship with Jack when they went to college.  

   A lot of people mocked them because they were not sexually connected.

     Crystal never wished to have sex with Jack back then and currently so she lied that she was alone to avoid silly questions about sex.

      "Jack, if you continue this way, I think I might be forced to resign" she uttered with so much pain in her heart.

      The person who had caused the scene had left and she was the only one who was going to be blamed for everything.

      "I see, you will beg me sooner or later Crystal, just know it ok" he turned to leave her at a spot but then stopped.

    He spurned immediately and placed a cold Gaze at her.

        Crystal was only joking about resigning, she didn't mean it but then Jack had taken it seriously.

      "You know what, I never want to be someone's privacy anymore, I never want to be hidden just because of what others might think. I want to be shown to the whole world by the one I love Crystal. I never want to be an option after work too" A tear dropped from his eyes as he spoke to her softly.

        "Crystal Mark?" he called out her name.

      "Its over between us" he announced calling off their nine to ten years relationship off just because of a silly argument caused by Red.

      He walked out on her without waiting to hear a word from her mouth. She was mad at herself for being so foolish and wished to turn the clock back but it was too late.

     Jack is gone. She thought inwardly as tears rolled down her eyes.