I Broke Up With Him After The Concert Kiss Chapter 09

I Broke Up With Him After The Concert Kiss Chapter 09

Escorted away by security, Silas and Lila 

slunk back home in shame. 

They’d spent every last cent, barely able to 

afford food. 

They fell behind in community college 

classes, failing exam after exam. 

Word of Lila’s abortion spread across 

campus. 

Then the truth about Silas’s fake photos 

leaked too. 

They became the laughingstock of the whole 

school. 

People whispered and pointed at them everywhere they went. 

Without Elowen as their buffer, Silas and 

Lila’s relationship shattered completely. 

They fought nonstop in their cramped, 

messy apartment. 

“This is all your fault! Elowen left because of 

you!” 

Silas smashed a ramen bowl against the wall. 

“You’re bad luck. You ruined my life!” 

Lila screamed back, unyielding. 

“You’re the one who can’t keep it in! Don’t 

blame me now!” 

“You’re useless, Silas! You can’t even keep a 

woman!” 

Her words struck a nerve. 

Silas’s eyes turned red. He lunged and 

grabbed her by the throat. 

Lila struggled, scratching his face until it 

bled. 

“Cough-” 

Her asthma flared. She collapsed to the floor, 

gasping. 

She reached for her inhaler. 

Silas didn’t look at her once. He stormed out, 

slamming the door. 

He got drunk at a bar, stumbling into fights, coming home beaten and bruised. 

Lila suffered through the attack alone in the 

apartment. 

She stared at her pale, gaunt reflection in the 

mirror. 

She laughed, a sound sadder than crying. 

This was the love she’d stolen. 

This was the price for betraying her best 

friend. 

They were like two beasts trapped in mud. 

Hurting each other. Breaking each other. No. 

way out. 

They skipped so many classes that both got 

expelled. 

No diploma. No skills. 

Two eighteen–year–olds thrown to the 

bottom of society. 

Silas ended up as a construction laborer, exhausted every day. 

Lila worked as a diner server, dealing with 

rude customers. 

Day after day, they lived in exhaustion and 

regret. 

Late at night, alone, they both thought of the girl they’d hurt so badly. 

But regret was useless now.