The
Truth Hurts
Chapter
1
Cheyenne woke this morning on the top of the world.
Her best friend Patricia was on her to their school to finally move into her
dorm at USC. Cheyenne had already moved out to Los Angeles two weeks ago. She
couldn’t imagine herself living in those dirty, old, tiny little dorms; plus
where would all her clothes and shoes and jewelry go. Yea, dorm life wasn’t for
a girl like Cheyenne, so he parents set up her in a nice one bedroom apartment,
not too far from their school. Patricia had just texted Cheyenne and told she
was waiting in line to get the key to her room, and to start getting ready so
she could help her set up her room. With that, Cheyenne hopped in the shower
and threw on one of her Victoria Secret PINK sweat suits, slid her feet in her
favorite pair of UGG boots, tousled her flawless long hair and was out the
door. Patricia had already texted the room information so Cheyenne parked her
car and ran up the stairs. She rang the doorbell and as it swung open Patricia
attacked her with a huge hug. “Finally you’re here Chy! I’ve missed you so
much,” said Patricia. “I know! These last few weeks have been like hell. I’ve been
stuck in the house, alone with nothing to do and nobody to hang with,”
responded Cheyenne. “Well, all that is about to change, because now we’re
together and ready for whatever. Me and you are about to turn Los Angeles up,”
Patricia said with a playful look on her face as the two girls walked back in
the dorm room. When Cheyenne entered the dorm she was totally wrong about dorm
life. They had a living room, kitchen, single rooms, and their own bathroom
inside the dorm. Cheyenne said to Patricia, “I thought the dorm rooms were just
small rooms with two beds and a bathroom to share with the whole floor.” “Maybe
ten years ago, this here is the 2012 edition of living of on campus,” Patricia
said. Cheyenne was so high maintenance, she never considered living on campus
from the beginning; therefore when applying to school, she never did any
research on the dorms. But now, as she was walking around Patricia's apartment
styled dorm, and meeting her two roommates, she was little jealous inside. Of
course having your own apartment is great, no rules, no curfew, and you can do
absolutely anything you wanted. But everyone wants the whole college
experience. Living in the dorms you had roommates to talk to, and there were so
many people who lived in the dorms making it easier to meet people and make
friends. Cheyenne thought about making a call to her father to see if could
arrange some things and get in the dorms. She quickly changed her mind. Since
her best friend lived there, that was practically her second home, and gave her
an excuse to be hanging around the dorms since she didn’t live there. If
Patricia met new friends, Cheyenne would soon meet them, and they would fall in
love with her just as everyone else did. Cheyenne saw their social life playing
like a movie right there before her eyes. Her and Patricia would hang out
around the dorms, meet cute guys and chill girls. Then once they knew enough
people, the could parties all the time at Cheyenne apartment since there
weren’t any RAs regulating how many people are in your dorm or any quiet hour
rules that would make them have to stop the fun. Oh yes, college was going to
be great Cheyenne thought, USC was definitely in for trouble with the two of
them together she said to herself.
Chapter
2
Patricia had been having the time of her life these
past few months in college. She loved the rules of college and having the power
over her education. She was able to pick her own classes at whatever time of
the day she liked, eliminating having to wake up early in the morning like in
high school. Her favorite part was that she took classes she found interesting
and not because it was a part of any requirements. Even though Patricia always
did well academically, learning about subjects she enjoyed made her perform
even better. And let’s not forget about the last pro of being in college; she
had the choice to attend class or not with the only consequence being she
missed out on that day’s lesson. Life was looking all too well for Patricia and
Cheyenne. They were in college and doing well in their classes, making friends,
partying and having fun, and Patricia had even met a guy and really enjoyed his
company. Patricia’s friend Lauren from class was planning to make a trip up to
Big Bear with a few other people Patricia knew from around campus. Once the
professor was done lecturing and assigned group work Lauren popped the question
to Patricia, “Me and a few people going to up Big Bear Thursday night. My dad
paid for a cabin and got us rental, you wanna come?” Patricia wasn’t an
outdoors type of girl but it sounded kind of fun, so she agreed. Then she
remembered if she left Cheyenne in LA alone, Cheyenne would throw the hugest
fit. As outgoing as Cheyenne was, she couldn’t do anything without someone by
her side or following behind her. “Would it be okay if my best friend Chy came
too, you remember her right?” Patricia said to Lauren. Lauren gave Patricia a
long blank stare. Patricia knew Lauren and Cheyenne had met, and remembered how
horrible they had hit off. Cheyenne was very over protected of any female
associates getting too close to Patricia, she wanted to be Patricia’s only bestfriend.
So when Cheyenne met Lauren at the Sigma party and noticed how close they were
becoming, she did everything in her power to keep Patricia glued to her hip,
while constantly pushing Lauren out of the picture all night long. Cheyenne
blamed it on her being drunk, but Patricia knew her bestfriend all too well.
Finally Lauren responded, “Ummmmmmm…… I don’t know I have to check, everyone
who’s driving, car is filled I believe. I have to check though.” “Oh that’s
fine, then me and Cheyenne will just ride up together in one of our cars. So
everything is perfect! Text me all the info right now and we’ll all meet up
tomorrow night,” Patricia said as she grabbed her books and left the class. She
knew Lauren didn’t want her to bring Cheyenne. None of her new friends really
liked Cheyenne, but they just didn’t know her yet and she thought this trip
would let everyone see how fun and cool of a person she really was. Now she
just had to convince Cheyenne to come along. Patricia wasn’t an outdoors type
of girl, but Cheyenne definitely wasn’t going to be into this trip.
Chapter
3
When Patricia asked Cheyenne did she want to go on a
road trip with some of their friends, she was more than excited to go. Once
Patricia told Cheyenne it was at Big Bear, all her excitement went out the
door. “You mean Big Bear as in MOUNTAINS? As in outdoors? In the WILDERNESS?
Nah, I’ll pass,” Cheyenne said to Patricia. “And since when did you become an
outdoors kind of person? You don’t even like going to the beach being in the
sand! Now you want to go to the mountains? You’re crazy Trish.” Patricia knew
it was going to be hard convincing Cheyenne to make this trip, but she had a backup
plan. “And we have to drive and pay for our own gas too! This is a horrible is
idea Trish, I don’t want to go,” Cheyenne continued. Cheyenne knew she had won
this one, and she knew Patricia wouldn’t dare go without her. “We have to go,”
Patricia finally argued back. “Some of the basketball players are going and
from what I heard, Travis is going to be there”. Cheyenne’s whole attitude
changed. “Well…..… you since you put it that way….…now we don’t have a choice
but to go,” Cheyenne said. Travis Bailey was a sophomore who played basketball
at USC, and Cheyenne was madly in love with him, and with a few more appearances
from her, he would be in love with Cheyenne too. Cheyenne ran and packed her
bags packing just about every piece of clothing she owned. She spent the night
at Patricia’s dorm so after class, they could leave with everyone else from the
dorms. The two and a half hour drive seemed like ten hours, but they finally
made it. Lauren’s father had got her and her friends one of the resort cabins.
Cheyenne was very satisfied to see that it was civilization around them. When
Patricia told her they were staying in a cabin, Cheyenne imagined a small
little dirty log cabin in the middle of nowhere. But this cabin was like a
regular house similar to hotel resort, but in the form of a cabin. There were
three rooms with six beds and two pull out couches, but it was at least close
to twenty people all on the trip. All Cheyenne knew was that she wasn’t
sleeping on the floor and didn’t want to share the bed anyone else unless it
was Patricia… or Travis. Cheyenne didn’t know this group of people too well,
she was always around them, but she never really talked to any of them. She
knew most of the girls, actually all of the girls didn’t like her, but all the
guys did, and that’s all that mattered to Cheyenne. Everyone had got settled in
and comfortable. The sleeping arrangements were made, Lauren’s older sister
Jackie was in the kitchen cooking spaghetti and garlic bread for everybody, and
the boys had just got back from the store with the alcohol for the night.
Everyone was having a good time being silly, dancing, and just having a good
time. Cheyenne was sitting with Travis and some of the other boys while they
played Madden on the PlayStation. She was talking with Travis and she could tell
her magic was working on him. She was enjoying their conversation until Travis
went to the bathroom and never came back. Cheyenne went to go find him and he
was in the kitchen joking around with Tony and some of the girls. Cheyenne went
to go stand by him and he didn’t give her any attention. Travis liked Cheyenne
a lot, but he had a rep to protect and he couldn’t be tied down to any girl.
Chapter
4
When Cheyenne came into the kitchen, Patricia could
tell Cheyenne was about have one of her dramatic episodes. Travis wasn’t paying
Cheyenne too much of his attention and Cheyenne wasn’t use to that at all.
Patricia was getting really tired of Cheyenne embarrassing her in front of
everyone. Cheyenne had always acted like a spoiled brat when she didn’t get
her. It never bothered Patricia before because in high school everyone knew how
Cheyenne was, and just accepted it. But they weren’t in high school anymore,
and these fits Cheyenne through had to end, Patricia thought while she sat and
watched Cheyenne annoy everyone in the room by begging for their attention. Patricia
was so disgusted with her best friend's behavior as she bragged about her
material possessions and how great her life was back home, cut people off in
the middle of their sentences, and continued to revert the group conversation
back to herself no matter the subject. People had started leaving the kitchen
because they were tired of sitting through the Cheyenne show. Patricia had
never been this embarrassed. She felt like all of her friends were mad at her
for bringing Cheyenne. Patricia walked to the bathroom and overheard Lauren
talking to her sister Jackie. “Trish is a really cool girl Jackie, but I can’t
keep inviting her places if she keeps tagging Cheyenne along. She always kills
the mood, walking in being superficial and uppity. That may pass in Westford,
but in LA, nobody has time for that.” Once they got back to campus Patricia
wanted to be as far away from Cheyenne as she could. She went to take Cheyenne
to her apartment so she could continue on back to her dorm and be around normal
people. Cheyenne had complained the whole two hours of their drive home. She
complained about how Travis made her mad, and how annoying all the girls were.
Patricia’s annoyance was building up and she did her best to hold everything
in. She listened silently as Cheyenne went on and on. She didn’t understand how
Cheyenne wasn’t catching that she was upset about something. All their life
Patricia never understood how people couldn’t like Cheyenne. The girls in their
city were very catty and fake towards each other, so Patricia always blamed it on
that. Patricia felt so blind, that it took moving away to a new city and
meeting new people to show her Cheyenne’s true colors. Patricia told Cheyenne
she was super tired and had a lot of homework and she needed to be alone to
focus so she could finish fast and go to sleep. Patricia dropped her off and
called Lauren and asked her to meet at Starbucks and have a talk.
Chapter
5
Patricia had been holding back so much anger towards
Cheyenne she had to get it off her chest which is why she went and talked with
Lauren. Lauren was so relieved to hear that Patricia wasn’t blind to Cheyenne’s
ridiculous actions. Lauren was on the verge of letting Patricia go as a friend
if she continued to make everyone put up with Cheyenne. Lauren felt really bad
for Patricia as she laid out their whole friendship. Al the competing against each
other, Patricia turning down great opportunities so Cheyenne wouldn’t feel out
shined. Lauren sat and listened and let Patricia get everything off her chest.
Patricia was grateful for Lauren’s listening ears, and what made her love Lauren
as a very genuine person even more was that she never once judged Cheyenne,
which she couldn’t believe because she knew how much Lauren hated her. By the
end of their therapy session Lauren had convinced Patricia to tell Cheyenne how
she really felt. “If Cheyenne is really your friend, she’ll take the criticism.
Of course at first she’s going to be very defensive, but if she values your
guy’s friendship, she'll think about what you say to her and try to fix herself,”
Lauren preached to Patricia. Patricia went over to Cheyenne apartments and told
her how she felt. She gave Cheyenne the truth, the whole truth, and didn’t
leave anything out. Surprisingly Cheyenne sat through the whole intervention without
saying too much of anything. Patricia didn’t know if it was a good thing or a
bad thing that Cheyenne let her get absolutely everything off her chest. When
Patricia was done she told Cheyenne she thinks they need to spend a few days
apart. And Patricia agreed. Then Patricia asked Cheyenne if she had anything to
say about the way Patricia acts, and Cheyenne just sat there, and tears began
to fall from her eyes. Highly annoyed, Patricia responded, “Typical Cheyenne
Kennedy stunt. You would try and play the victim in this situation.” Patricia
was so fed up with Cheyenne; she grabbed her things and slammed the door on her
way out. Patricia was done allowing Cheyenne told hold her back from having the
best college experience. Their friendship was over in Patricia eyes.
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Cheyenne couldn’t believe Patricia was blaming her
for her fake friends being so phony to her. She liked it that way. They didn’t
need any more female friends, they had each other, and that’s all that should
matter. Cheyenne was devastated that her best friend broke their most sacred
promise to each other. When the two girls promoted to middle they vowed to not
let anyone come between their friendship, in high school they swore to not let anything
influence or change them, and in when they were getting ready to come to
college they promised to continue to fight through everything together. Patricia
broke that oath between them and Cheyenne was furious. Cheyenne thought to herself,
“If she wants to let the people break up our friendship, then so be it. It must
have not been that strong or real if Patricia could just give up that easy.”
Cheyenne decide she didn’t need Patricia in her life anymore. “She always brought
me down anyway, and I’m way over her being jealous of everything about me.
Patricia’s little competitions were getting annoying anyway.” Cheyenne tried to
convince herself that she didn’t need friends, just followers to make her look
good and do as she said. She planned out the rest of her life, Patricia free, and
she was content with the way things played. The next morning Cheyenne woke up
and began to get ready to go to campus and find her a couple of not so worthy
soles to be her minions. Cheyenne walked over to the mirror to put on her makeup,
and as she stared at herself examining her flawless features, she broke down
and cried. No matter how she played out the situation, she knew she had messed
up for good. Patricia was her only true friend their whole life. When the kids
at school never played with Cheyenne, the girls never invited her to the
sleepovers, and the way girls always whispered about her when she came around,
Patricia never let any of that determine the way she saw Cheyenne. Patricia was
the only person who knew and understood the real Cheyenne and why she acted the
way she did. Cheyenne cried for the whole day reminiscing on all the bad she
had done and the way she treated her so called friend. Cheyenne always envied
Patricia. They were both beautiful and always had the same of everything, but
somehow Patricia always found a way to win people over with her personality,
something that Cheyenne lacked. Cheyenne finally admitted to herself, that she
was one who held Patricia back and she was the one who kept the competition
between them going. Cheyenne had ruined the best thing was going in her life,
but her pride would never let her rekindle the friendship.
