I did not know what was happening, I just knew my anxiety level kicked up to one hundred.

Was Diallo breaking up with me? Over a misunderstanding?

I did not bother texting him, I ignored my suitemates and their pettiness and rushed down to Diallo's room. After knocking for several minutes, I figured he still was not in his room. He was on duty so I knew he was somewhere in the building.

So I waited. I sat down on the floor by his bed and waited for him.

I texted him we needed to talk, but he ignored my message, didn't even read it. I fought back tears. This was all a big misunderstanding, surely he would let me explain. King was just a friend, that was it.

I didn't want to be with King, I chose him. I wouldn't tell him I had a crush on him since I first met him, but I crushed on several guys. Even stupid Donnell at one point. Thankfully he had no interest in me.

He was to root of all of this. His indiscretions caused all the drama in my life.

After waiting over an hour, finally Diallo walked out of the elevator. He stopped when he saw me sitting there.

I jumped up to face him.

"Diallo, you have to let me explain."

"No, I don't. Can you move so I can go into my room?"

"Diallo, you don't even know what happened! Allura and Twyla are mad at me because of my friends, so whatever they said to you, they are just saying it to hurt me." I did not move from in front of the door. I feared if I moved, he would go inside and slam the door in my face,

"Look Rave, it's not even about what they said or what you did. I just think you aren't ready for a boyfriend. You can't walk around campus with some other guy that clearly wants to get in your pants and then-"

"What? King isn't like that, we're just friends."

"You're acting naive about this," he said with a frustrated sigh. "I saw the way he looked out you. If you think otherwise, you're fooling yourself."

"Okay, okay, he likes me, but so what? I told him I wanted to be with you and we could only be friends. Why is this a big deal?"

Diallo looked around the hall as a few people walked off the elevator. He grabbed my arm and pulled me away as he took his key to open his door.

"I'm not having this conversation with you out here. I don't want to talk about it at all but come inside so we don't cause a scene."

I didn't even know if I wanted to go in the room with him, he was so upset. But this was Diallo, Mr. Perfect...though he was losing points from that quickly. I stood there in his room, not sure what else I could say to make things right.

"Diallo, I'm sorry." I wrung my hands, as I tried to get out the right words. "I went to King asking for advice about this Chantel, Twyla Donnell mess. Chantel thinks he is serious about her and Twyla still wants to be with this boy so I-"

"And you couldn't come to me with that?"

"I tried! You always tell me to stay out of it."

"Because you should!" He walked to his fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. "It's not up to you to monitor who Donnell sleeps with or not. He's slept with several girls on this floor and around this campus! Even my damn sister, but it's not my business."

Whoa! I did not know that. He was disgusting!

"Do you think that type of behavior is okay?"

He sipped his water and walked over to me. "Obviously I don't believe in having sex with everybody like that. I'm not that type of guy. And I want a guy that is not the type of girl running around with other guys, it's like a slap in my face."

I looked down at my hands. I did not know how to do this thing called a relationship. So I was not supposed to have any guy friends? I would not tell him I hung with Todd for studying, though that had dropped off recently. Todd too had feelings for me, but why couldn't we just be friends? I could only be friends with guys that were not attracted to me?

"So...that's it. You don't want to be with me anymore over a misunderstanding? I said he's just a friend but that's not enough for you."

He picked up my hand and held it. "I like you Rayvn, a lot. I want us to be together but..."

A tear rolled down my cheek.

"I'm sorry Rayvn, I'm not trying to hurt you."

"Then don't do this!"

"Maybe you need to go be with King." He kissed my hand and walked away from me.

I stood there with no feeling in my body. I was numb. Dumped by Mr. Perfect. I was "the loser." Of course, why did I ever think I deserved someone like him?

I finally turned away and walked out of his room before the tears took over me. I ran down the hall to my suite and into my room, slamming the door shut. I did not want to see my roommates ever again. They were the ones that did this. If they had not told Diallo I was hanging with King, none of this would be happening. I would still have a boyfriend.

I was not going to beg a boy to not break up with me. If he did not trust me with another guy, then well...it was not meant to be.

I told myself that as I cried myself to sleep.

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The next morning, I pulled myself out of bed. Good thing it was a short week and I would be heading home to see my family. That was the only thing that was going to make me get through this. I dressed and headed out of the room before my suitemates would even get up. Before I could see Diallo.

We had a class together, how was that going to go down?

I headed to Starbucks to get my drink and then slowly made it to class. I took a seat in the front as I did not want to even face Diallo. I busied myself with my phone as students filled the class. I wondered what Diallo was thinking. Did he miss me as much as I missed him?

This was kind of depressing. I didn't even know who I could talk to about this, so I had to deal with it my way.

After class, as I was heading out, Diallo walked over to me and my mouth went dry. Maybe he would unbreak up with me.

"Hey." Why was he still so perfect looking? So hot! Perfect face, perfect hair, perfect body. I guess he was not perfect for me.

"Hey."

"Can we still be friends? I really want that."

His nerve! I could not be friends with other guys, but now he wanted to be friends with me?

"S-sure," I said weakly, not telling him how I really felt about that. I had things I wanted to say but none of it could come out at that moment. "Well, I have to go. Umm, see you later."

I walked away from him as fast as I could. I was going to get over him. I had to. He was going to get over me.

I had one class on Wednesday, and I did not want to stay for that. I emailed my teacher, finished my classes for the day, went back to my room and packed my things. I left without telling my suitemates. They could suck it far as I was concerned.

I would rather be with people that cared about me and loved me.

After my two-hour-plus drive to my parent's home, I could not wait to see them.

"Step mummy, daddy, I'm home!"

A/N: I didn't want to break them up😢
But Diallo has control issues, shown early on before they got together (how he deals with his sister) and our girl deserves better.

Will it be King?