Cindy was the kind of girl that was career focused. She wanted to get in, get her degree and get out. She didn’t have time for boys, but boys certainly found time for her.
One day she came across a guy named Ron. Ron towered in height, he was muscular and he had hair as black as the night sky. Ron however, wasn’t really after her. Her friend Susan was the person he wanted. Susan wanted George and it was just a whole mess, a mess that Cindy wanted no part of. After a day at the mall Ron kept catching her eye. As the four, ‘friends,’ sat down to eat they all exchanged numbers. The days ticked on and on and Cindy and Ron began to hangout. At first Ron would teach her Karate. As time passed, she knew that he was going to be the perfect boyfriend. If she had the time for him.
Ron finally asked her out and in a moment of fear Cindy told him no. She gulped. She knew she made a mistake. Time ticked on and Ron started dating a girl named Val, Cindy knew that wasn’t how things were meant to be. She kept thinking about him, clouds were shaped like him, trees seemed to form his face in their knots.
She told him and he dumped Val to be with her. This bugged her. She felt guilty about it, but there was something else to it. If he’d date someone and he’d dump the for someone that he liked, what if there is someone he likes more? Thoughts like these riddled her mind. As the days ticked on they grew more and more in love. They would hangout from sun rise to sun set and talk each other to sleep. One day Ron didn’t call at night.
Her suspicions were suddenly confirmed, he liked another girl. That must be it. Cindy thought.
She called Ron and he picked up the phone. He was skyping another girl.
Cindy silently listened as Ron tried to bring her into the conversation. She couldn’t believe he was doing this. She thought of Julie with contempt. Julie was a mutual friend that had always been there for her. Now she knew why.
Cindy suddenly was overwhelmed and said, “I have to go.”
The next morning she didn’t call Ron.
That whole week she didn’t call Ron.
That whole next week, she wouldn’t talk to Ron.
She found out, Ron drove to her house to try to talk to her. He left his gaming system, pretending that he thought that was why she was upset. He called her a ton of times.
After nearly a month had passed since the incident she called him.
Ron picked up the phone.
“What really happened, do you love Julie?” Cindy asked.
Ron replied, “No, Julie was depressed. She nearly killed herself. I was trying to make sure she was OK.”
“Liar,” Cindy replied.
“I’ve never lied to you, if I loved Julie, wouldn’t I be with her now?” Ron replied.
Cindy hung up. She didn’t want to talk to him any more.
As the next month passed she started asking around. Finding out what was true and what wasn’t. At first she found out Julie went to the hospital and no one knew why. She finally asked Julie and Julie told her the exact same thing Ron had told her.
Cindy still wasn’t happy with this. She wanted a way to know that her former boyfriend was being honest, that he wouldn’t lie. She wanted to know that her former boyfriend had really loved her.
A year passed and she still couldn’t get him out of her mind. She kept thinking about him, but she would never talk to him. One day she was driving to class she saw him. He was at the side of the road in the freezing cold helping someone push their car out of a ditch. She thought, that’s just like him. It was at that moment she realized she had her answer. She literally stopped her car on the middle of the busy road and jumped out. She ran over to him and leaped into his arms.
“Why-” he began interrupted by a kiss.
“Because, I believe you now,” she said looking into his warm brown eyes.
“Damn, I see what you mean about helping random people Ron,” the man said as he came out of the disabled car to see what was going on.