In Blue Water

Phoebe pov I’m so excited today, it is my first anniversary with my boyfriend, and I finished early to surprise him. I tell him that I will be late, but the truth is that I have a big surprise for him. You see I’m an editor of a travel magazine and my chief editor asked me to go on a month trip to Greece, yes in Greece. Everything is paid, and I can take one more person with me, and I will ask George to come with me. I have dinner and cake with me, and I open the door. He has given me a key and asked me many times to live with him, but I haven’t decided yet. Some things from the past made me delay it. He is the owner of a coffee shop, and we have a lot in common; the first is that we both love travel. When I open the door, I see the living room, and I don’t like what I see. A woman‘s coat that I’m sure belongs to my sister. No, no, not again. I look to the bedroom, and I start walking through. Slowly and calmly as I can, it happens again. As I got closer, I heard moans and groans, and I felt my cheeks wet I was already crying. I look inside, and I see that I have seen it many times before. My sister is with my boyfriend. She rides him, and he is touching her breasts. I look around, and I run to the door. I lean into the elevator, and I start thinking about all the other times that this happened again. I’m twenty-six years old, and I had three boyfriends until now, and the three of them cheated on me with my sister. My sister and the guys that approached me were because of her. She is always the prettiest and the slimiest. Why they can’t just go for her from the beginning and leave me alone, Christin takes the award for the best sister ever. I laugh, and I walk to my car. I drove to my best friend’s house; she had helped me and comforted me before. Ashley, my best friend from birth, our mothers also best friends for years, and we continue. I knock on her front door, and after a while, she opens it. “Sweetie, what’s wrong?” She asks, and I hug her “It happened again.” “What?” I look at her “Christin,” she immediately understands, and she closes the door “Come inside,” she says, and I walk to the living room. She sits me down, and she hugs me. I rest my head on her shoulder; I don’t have to say anything. She knows I have been there before. After a long time of crying, she looks at me with a smile “Are you hungry?” She asks, and I giggle “Sure, I didn’t eat dinner. That I had I through it.” “It’s fine. I was ready to order anyway. I wasn’t in the mood to cook tonight. Chinese?” She says as she takes her phone to order. I nod, and I stand up “I’m going to freshen up.” “Ok,” she says, and I walk to the bathroom. I look in the mirror, and I look awful; my mascara is running on my cheeks. I wash my face, and I’m ready to go out when my phone rings. I take a deep breath, and I answer, is George. “Hello” “Hey, baby. When will you be back?” He sounded happy and excited. “You finished already with Christin?” I ask, and for a while, there is silence “What are you talking about, baby?” “Stop calling me, baby. I came earlier to surprise you, and I saw you with my sister.” “Baby, I can explain.” “Stop calling me like that. I’m not your baby anymore.” I say, and I’m ready to cry, but I hold myself. Enough is enough. I have spent many tears for her and them. If they don’t want me, I will deal with that, and I will move on. “Baby, she came to me, and I couldn’t...” “You could say no. For God's sake, George, you say first that you love me. Is this how you show your love? You knew everything, and you betrayed me in the same way,” I say, and I take my breath “Phoebe” “Tomorrow morning, when you are at work, I will pass from your apartment to take my stuff.” “Baby, don’t do that.” “I hope it was worth it, George. You know after this you will never see her again. She came to you only to hurt me.” “Phoebe” “Goodbye, George,” I say, and I end the call. I take a deep breath, and I look myself in the mirror “You will be ok Phoebe,” I say, and I walk outside “You ok?” Ashley asks “Yes,” I say, and I nod. She smiles, and she gives her hand “Soon, the food will be here.” “Great. I’m starving,” I say, and she laughs “Nothing stops our appetite,” she says, and we laugh. “No. I will not starve for any man. I did it once but not again.” “You are right. So something else now. What about Greece? When you are leaving?” “I don’t know if I still want to go.” “What?” She screams “Wow, girl. Calm down” “Are you f*****g kidding me right now? You have a month's travel in Greece, you don’t pay anything in a luxury hotel, and you’re not going?” “Well, if you put it like that, you have right. But can you stop yelling?” I look at her again “I will if you tell me that you are going with me” She smiles, and hugs me “We have to go on for vacations so long.” “I know. That’s why I want you with me. I want to forget everything and have a good time there, and I know with you I will have” “That’s for sure, sweetie. With me, you will not rest at all,” she says, and I laugh. That’s sure, she will take me everywhere, and we will do everything. After we ate, we went to bed. Tomorrow she will ask for her job to take a month off, and I have to take my stuff from George’s before work. I don’t have many things there, but I don’t want to leave anything there. The next day after I took my stuff from George's apartment and my talk with my chief editor about the travel, I drove to my parent's house. I have to leave in a week, so I wanted to see them. “So honey. When you leave?” My mom asks “We leave on Tuesday. Ashley’s dad will take us to the airport.” “Ashley? I thought you would go with George,” my dad said. f**k I didn’t tell them yet “No. George and I broke up,” I say, and they look suprised “But you said that you two were good together,” my mom says “We were.” “What happened?” My dad asks. My mom looked at me like she knew. She is the only one that I have to tell what happened in the past with Christin. I don’t want to say to him what happened. My dad has a weakness, and that is Christin; for him, she is playing well the role of the perfect daughter. “Nothing, Dad. We didn’t work,” I say, and I look to my lap. “Why can you take an example from Christin? She has been with Alan for almost ten years.” He says, and he sighs. Christin and Alan, have an agreement if I can say that. He has the money, and Christin is having fun as long as she gives him what he wants. My dad, of course, sees that they are the perfect couple, and I’m fooling around the daughter. It used to bother me but not anymore. He had a heart attack in the past, and I don’t want to hurt him. My mom changed the subject, and after dinner, I went to my place. As I was leaving, my mom encouraged me to make that trip and have my mind open. When I got home, I realized I had five days to prepare and prepare for my vacation. To fix the suitcase and to finalize my schedule with my boss for my article. Suddenly I was very excited about that trip.