That Time Alexis Sent Jimmy a Break-Up Text

Every Wednesday night Jimmy’s best friend DJs at a hookah bar in Venice, and every Wednesday night Jimmy and his other friends show up, hang out, scope the girls and have some beers. They don’t smoke, but they like the scene and their DJ buddy can sometimes swing free drinks. Last night, the girl Jimmy’s been seeing, Alexis, was acting weird. Even though they haven’t been going out long, it’s been intimate, and they knew each other in high school, so there was a history. But at the bar, she wasn’t really talking to him. She was just texting people and sticking close to her girlfriends. So then today, Thursday—like an hour before he picked me up in his black Hyundai Sonata with spit-shined wheels and tinted windows; like, out of nowhere—she sends him this text message that says she thinks they should take a break. That she doesn’t want to be in a committed relationship. And it rocked Jimmy around. Slapped him down. He was heartsick. “I mean, I kinda said something bad to her in high school, but I thought we had gotten through that,” he said. “I mean, I thought everything was going good.”

An excerpt from "Uber Jimmy" by Tanner Latham; Photo/Illustration by Why Kei

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