Alternate Ending

... Finally, the end of the competition came. She finished her speech, went off the stage, and saw Tyler waiting for her.

He told her his inner most feelings for her.

He said that she is the only girl he knew who is brave enough to not be fake, to be herself. That is a quality that he has never seen in any other girl, and he found favor in her because of that.

Fifteen months have passed, and they are as happy as ever together, but one day changed everything.

It was 2am and she was still wide awake. It was the day after Valentine's day. She was worried sick. Tyler didn't contact her at all yesterday. She sat in her room, all alone, in tears, with tissues and chocolates surrounding her. Sadly, none of the chocolates was from Tyler. She knew that this isn't like Tyler. Never had she had a single day gone by without hearing Tyler's sweet, soft, and gentle voice. Until yesterday, that is.

She kept on looking at her phone, every single minute, just to check if there was anything from Tyler.

One minute passed. Nothing. One hour passed. Still nothing. Suddenly, her phone buzzed. A text message from Tyler! Excitedly, she opened it. This is what it said:

Hey baby, yesterday was awesome. You were amazing. We should do it again sometime. Love you always Beth, stay safe tonight ;)

Her jaw dropped. Two things made her jaw drop. First of all, she spent the whole day yesterday dreading a Valentine's day without him, yet now he's saying that she was amazing yesterday. Next, her name isn't Beth.

Questions popped up in her mind. She wanted to cry. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't. She wanted to reply, but she didn't know how to. She started to dial his number, but hesitated.

She didn't know what to say.

Tyler has never been the cheater.

The guy whom she thought was perfect... is actually not.

All those "I love you"s Tyler said was never true. She felt stupid believing in him.

Tears swelled up in her eyes. She belted out her cry. She knew she had to break up with him. Her mind is telling her to do so, but her heart just doesn't want this to end like this.

She slowly dialed his number, pressing button by button.

Then, she pressed the little green button.

The button that changed everything.

"Hello?"

said Tyler as she was holding back her tears.

"Goodbye."

She responded, then pressed the little red button that confirmed everything.

Compare this ending with the previous one. We all want the first ending to happen to us- we all want Mr. Right, our Prince Charming- but that's just not reality.

This ending is reality.

Sometimes, we think we know the person we love, when we actually don't.

She thought Tyler was the perfect guy. She never expected him to cheat on her whatsoever.

But he did.

And so she had to wake up and face reality.