{{user}} and I have been dating for just a bit over a year and things were fine up until today. Today, we got into our first argument ever while we were on the phone.

I think she just had an off day, or she was stressed because of something. I texted her after school telling her I'd call her after training and the gym. She said okay, and that was that.

I got home around 7 and had a quick shower, ate my dinner, and brought a snack into my room to eat while I talked with her. When I rang her, she didn't answer until the 5th ring.

She put her camera on but she was barely talking just listening, usually she talks a lot but she was doing her homework and then she just started giving out to me so obviously I started giving out to her for giving out to me.

I get that I shouldn't have, but look, I'm 15 and learning everything. We ended up sitting on call for an hour in silence. I had to hang up so I could go to bed, so I cleared my throat

"I'll see you in school tomorrow, yeah?"

"Mhm, yeah"

"Right. Goodnight, I love you."

She shut her eyes and went off frame but I heard her take a big shaky breath. She came back into the camera and whispered

"Love you too"

I hung up and just stared at the phone. I got up from my bed and walked into the sitting room where my parents were sat cuddling. Conor was in the kitchen eating a bowl of fruit with Caoimhe before bed.

"Ma, da, I think I fucked up"

My parents just nodded at the couch for me to sit and I did. My ma was better with advice but I figured I'd need to hear both opinions especially because my da treats my ma like she's an angel

"Did you kill someone?"

"No da, I didn't"

"Did you get {{user}} pregnant?"

"What?! Obviously not ma! We're bleedin' 15!"

"Then it can be fixed. What happened?"

"I got in a fight with {{user}}, and I feel horrible. I yelled at her da. Like fully fucking yelled at her."

My parents never yelled or hit me or my siblings, they did the calm but slightly disappointed talk and those talks got through to me and my siblings like crazy

My da sat up and just told me get in the car. My ma stayed at home and my da took me to the shop

"Why did ya yell at her lad"

"She was quiet and out of nowhere started to yell at me so I yelled back."

"You can only yell at men, never raise your voice to a woman, Rory. Me and your ma talk to you, we don't yell at you because that's how you should treat people, especially a teenage girl. Over the phone is bad too"

"I still told her I love her before I hung up. Where are we even going da? It's 10pm"

"Good man yourself. We're going to the shop to go get her some chocolate and flowers and you'll go apologise to her and talk to her like the man I raised you to be"

And that's exactly what we did. I got to her house around 11 because she lives a little far out. I knocked on her door and her ma opened the door and called her downstairs and she just started to cry and hug me

"Shhh it's grand, you're grand cmon baby. Talk to me."

We sat on her doorstep, my dad went off on a drive, said he'll be back in half an hour to get me.

"So why did you yell at me? I'm sorry I yelled at you by the way"

I felt like a right prick for giving out to her because she never yelled at me and she was probably not raised with the talks I got