Sometime I Just Need to Be Left Alone

“God! Why are you always hanging out with her”! Jessica shrieks with her hands on her hips. Johnny barely looks up from his video game and in a dry annoyed voice replies, “She’s my friend and I hang out with my friends and since when do you care who I hang out with?” “Since I realized that she likes you! She is always around wherever you are and I just can’t stand it.” Jessica lowers herself onto the couch next to Johnny and pauses the game and snarls, “and sometimes it seem s like you want to be around her a lot more than you want to be around me!” “Yeah maybe because she is not always nagging me about everything I do,” Johnny whispers as he places that controller on the table. “WHAT DID YOU SAY!!?” Jessica jumps off the couch and crosses her arms and glares at him. “Nothing.” Johnny gets up off the couch and starts pacing back and forth and shouting, “ MAYBE, MAYBE WE JUST NEED SOME TIME APART,” when he sees a shocked look on Jessica’s face he immediately wants to take it back and softly says “I , I didn’t mean it.” Sobbing Jessica cries, “Yes you did! If you didn’t mean it you would not have said it!” “Jess it is just that you’re so clingy and needy lately. You’re not that cool girl that you were when we started dating,” Johnny says sitting down on the couch tying to confront her. “I, I don’t mean to be,” she moans. “I just really don’t want to lose you. But I’m still the same person I have always been, maybe an even better person thanks to you.” “It’s not that I don’t think your and amazing person because I do. I really do,” Johnny lean back onto the couch and runs his hand through his hair and admits, “And I truly love you but sometimes I feel like you are suffocating me.” “I just want to spend time with you and-” Jessica began. “Yeah but do we have to spend every second and everyday together!” Johnny exclaimed cutting Jessica off. “No I’m so sorry I just felt like you were pushing me away and I wanted to do everything I could to