Guilt

“Please don’t tell her,” Winter said in desperating, chasing after Mark on campus grounds.

“I have to. I fucked up, I can’t lie to her.”

The two had just gotten back to their home away from home after finding some help to fix the car in the morning. Mark didn’t get a wink of sleep after the realisation of what he had just done started to sink it.

He had cheated on Tiffany.

Mark didn’t want to make excuses but it was just the heat of the moment. He was so horny already and after speaking with Winter and being real deep and honest with her, Mark found himself going back in time. The emotions inside of him took over and he ended making a terrible mistake.

Right now, Mark was walking towards East Hall, ready to lay everything on the line. Whether showing straight up honesty would help or not? He knew that if he just tried to hide it, one day Tiffany would find out and there would be no way things wouldn’t end in a break-up.

“Please don’t do this Mark,” she told him, still trying to keep up with his fasten walking pace, “If you tell her, I’m going to be screwed more than you. She’s the freaking RA, miss perfect... Do you know how many friends she has?? Everyone’s going to hate me!”

Although she was right, it certainly would affect how she could live in the same Hall as Tiffany and her friends, Mark wasn’t really taking that into account as he headed towards the doors of East Hall.

“Pleaseeee! I’m begging you!” she said, finally grabbing him by the arm and pulling him to a halt.

“Let go,” he calmly but sternly said.

“Mark, just listen to me! Last night meant something to you otherwise you never would have initiated it. I can be here for you. But if you do it this way, we’re both in the shit!”

Mark looked blankly at her, just trying to work out how he had gotten himself into so much trouble. “There’s no other way to do this.”

“Yes there is. You can tell her that it’s not working. If you break up, we can keep things of the down low for a while... then one day we can be together for real,” she told him.

For a second he thought about it, what if he just broke up with her and moved on in a few weeks down the track. Whether he liked to admit it or not, last night proved to him that he still had quite strong feelings for Winter. But he took a second more to think about Tiffany. The poor girl needed to know the truth about last night. She had done so much for him, Mark just couldn’t bare to lie to her.

He quietly wished that there was a way he could be together with both girls. Unfortunately for him, that wasn’t how life worked.

“Sorry Winter. I love her, I have to tell her,” he said, before again walking off. This time Winter didn’t follow, knowing what was about to happen, she just couldn’t change his mind on this.

She had so much love for this boy but he was about to put them both in a deep hole of shit.