At the sound of the shower being started, Tina grabbed her phone from her pants pocket and quietly snuck out the front door, shutting it most of the way and taking a seat on the stairs of the front porch. She flipped the phone open and dialed that familiar number, smiling to herself.

            Three rings and she answered, “Tina?”

            “Yeah, Al, it’s me. Where are you?”

            “With Shane at The Planet. Waiting on your ass. Did you stand us up?”

            “No, no, I–”

            “Tee, are you still at fucking Henry’s? Tell me you aren’t at Henry’s!”

            Tina choked, “Uh, yeah, but–”

            “TEE!” Alice groaned. “I thought you ended it already! Give the poor guy a break and tell him it’s over before you end up in bed with him again.”

            “Alice!” Tina laughed, her free hand massaging the back of her neck. “I’m not gonna sleep with him, okay? I know I want to end it, I’m just trying to–”

            “Tina, you better do it. Within the next five minutes. You were due here for breakfast fifteen minutes ago, and I don’t like waiting for people.”

            “Alice,” Tina reassured, “I’m breaking up with him today, okay? I’ll be there to meet you guys in like twenty minutes. Goodbye.” The sound of Alice’s shrill reply was cut off as Tina snapped her phone shut. Taking a deep breath, she placed her hands on her knees and used them to boost her up off the stair. Turning towards the house, her eyes met his.

            His hair was still a tousled mess and he smelled of sweat, a towel wrapped loosely around his waist. “I thought you were in the shower,” Tina mumbled nervously, smoothing some stray hairs back behind her ear as she began to feel uncomfortable.

            “I turned the shower on. I came out to get a glass of water because I’m thirsty,” he seethed, doing his best to control himself. “So were you gonna give me some more shit before you ended it with me, or were you planning to run off and let me find out later?”

            Tina’s eyes fell to the floor as she struggled to come up with an answer that wouldn’t be too upsetting. “I was going to tell you,” she began hesitantly. “I just…haven’t been feeling the–”

            “Oh, great! So you’re going to do it right now, huh?” he goaded. “How many minutes do I get if you have to go meet your friends in twenty? Five? Six minutes, maybe?”

            “Henry, I’m not going to do this with you.”

            Henry laughed as Tina became irritated. “Do what? Did you think I would just roll over and say, ‘Hey, it was nice knowin’ ya’?”

            “Henry, I don’t love you anymore. I’m breaking up with you,” Tina declared as she crossed her arms at her chest, eliciting a surprised look from Henry.

            “You know what?” he scoffed. “Fine. I’m done with you too. I don’t know what I was thinking going after you. I bet you’re already seeing someone else, huh?”

            “No, I’m not seeing anybody else,” Tina tried as she rolled her eyes and looked away from Henry, growing angry at his rebuttal.

            “Whatever…Fuck it!” Henry shouted, throwing up his hands in defeat as he went back inside to take a shower, mumbling unintelligible angry phrases to himself.

            Tina stood in the doorway, watching him until he disappeared behind the bathroom door. She drew in a deep breath and let it out slowly, thinking it all went better than she had expected. Tina felt a little horrible about how she went about the break up, but she couldn’t help but feel free now that it was officially over between the two of them. Also feeling a tiny bit evil, she went inside, grabbed her purse, thanked god that she didn’t actually move in with the man, and skipped out the door and into her car, humming to herself as she started the engine and headed over to meet her friends.