Jude’s P. O. V
I got ready and made my way to office. Stephanie had already left and we had decided to meet for dinner. I went to office and my time was immediately consumed in meetings, and approving designs. Before I knew it, it was time for me to go to Wade’s for lunch. I hurried up and got into my car and drove to Wade’s apartment. I rang the bell and waited for someone to open the door. Wade opened it and Natasha was hanging onto his back.
“Hey Jude! Come on in was just giving Natasha a piggy back ride”
“You were?” asked Natasha. I looked at them in confusion and Wade forcefully said, “Yes I was, now lets not keep Jude standing there, come on in Jude” I stepped in and Sean waved at me and turned to watch the television. Great so he was now sulking with me.
“Sean”
“Yes?” he asked not turning away from the television.
“Dude at least looked at me”
“uh oh” said Wade, “he doesn’t like being called dude” and right then Sean threw a pillow at my face.
“Sean! Not cool” I said running a hand through my hair.
“oh no no no” said Sean and Wade muttered, “here we go again”
“You don’t say what’s cool and what’s not cool”
“What do you mean?”
“What the hell was Stephanie doing on your couch?”
“Sean” interrupted Natasha, “let it go. We decided to meet for lunch and that is what we are going to do. We are going to eat ok?”
Sean took a deep breath and nodded. I looked at Natasha and smiled at her gratefully. She looked away and started warming the lunch. Oh great, now she is going to ignore me as well. Perfect.
We sat down to eat and Wade asked, “How is your project shaping up?”
“AS good as I can expect it to be”
“That’s nice”
Natasha and Sean ate in silence.
“Oh come on guys!” I exclaimed unable to take this anymore, “look before Stephanie cheated on me I had been really happy with her.”
Sean snorted and said, “that is not called being happy its called being ignorant.”
“Come on guys give her a chance. I really want to make it work this time”
Silence again.
I gave up and finished my lunch quickly while Wade tried to make conversation. I looked at Natasha she had been studiously avoiding my gaze and she looked visibly upset. I wanted to talk to her but not in front of these baboons. We finished our lunch when Natasha got a call, she excused herself and went in the guest room to talk. Wade and Sean stared at me and it was making me uncomfortable.
“I don’t get it guys, I thought you’ll wanted me to be happy”
“WE do” said Sean, “that is why we think Stephanie is bad news”
“But I am happy, so be happy for me”
“You know I have a gut feeling that she is just not nice” said Sean, “call it women’s intuition”
“Sean!” exclaimed Wade, “you are a man”
Sean shrugged and said, “I am in touch with my feminine side”
“Well guys why don’t you’ll just give her chance? Spend some time with us ad see for yourself that she has truly changed!”
“Oh please” Sean said disdainfully “I don’t even want to breath the same air that she does”
“Sean do it for me, please?”I said giving him the best puppy eye look.
“What if your parents come to know?” asked Wade.
“They wont I have it all planned out”
Sean and Wade exchanged a look and said, “Ok we are giving her one chance that is it, she ruins it and that’s that.” I smiled at them and said, “ok! We are going to meet up for dinner tonight, why don’t you guys join us?”
“Ok. What about Natasha?”
“Well of course she has to come too!”
Wade smacked his palm to his forehead and said, “That’s not what I was talking about, I was going to get her anyway!” I narrowed my eyes at him, “So then what are you going about?”
“You owe other an apology; you literally kicked her out of your house last night.”
“I did not!”
“Yes you did!” said Sean rounding up on me.
“She felt discarded” said Wade.
I caught my head in my hands and said, “Are you serious? I never meant for her to feel this way. I have to talk to her”
“Speaking of which where is she?” asked Sean.
“I’ll go check” I said and knocked on her room door, when I heard no reply I opened the room and found her lying on the bed on her stomach. She was wearing denim shorts and a white knit cardigan, her hair was splayed around her shoulders. I gulped as I saw her well shaped, long legs. They did seem to go on forever.
“Natasha?”
She got up with a start and grabbed a pillow.
“Oh it’s you” she said and turned her face away again.
“I want to talk to you”
“What do we have to talk about?”
“About last night”
“Jude there isn’t anything to talk about, Stephanie is back in the picture and I am out, I get that. We don’t need to dissect every situation!”
“Well then why are you mad at me?”
“I am not”
“Yes you are, why won’t you look at me?”
“oh go away! Where is your Stephanie anyway?”
I furrowed my brows and looked at her, “Are you jealous?”
“What! Oh that’s right just go ahead and boost your ego. Like it isn’t inflated anyway!”
“Well good because you really shouldn’t be. I employed your services and did not make any promises to you!” This time she looked at me, like really looked at me and her eyes were shining with unshed tears.
“Natasha I am sor-”
“No you are right, after all you did employ my services” she spat the last word out, “I really think you should leave Jude”
“Nats ple-”
“Either you leave or I will”
I sighed and felt like an idiot. I wanted to kick myself! I had done it again and now there was no going back. I wanted to go in there and beg her for her forgiveness but right now in the mood she was I was just going to get a kick in my family jewels. I went out to see Wade looking at me in disbelief and Sean wouldn’t look at me at all. Well so much for privacy. I left with a ‘see you tonight.’ As I drove back to office I thought back and decided that I was way out of line with the ’employed your services’ line but I had been right about not making any promises to her. I prayed for the day to get over soon so that I could see Natasha at night and apologise to her. But true to Einstein’ theory of relativity the time did go slowly when you wanted it go by quickly.
Sean’s P. O. V:
I entered the room and saw Natasha sobbing. I climbed on the bed and hugged her. Wade climbed in on the other side and hugged her too. We sat there in our awkward group while Natasha cried her heart out. Finally she stopped crying when and I said “Natasha Jude is a douche and he is an idiot. HE doesn’t know what is good for him.”
“Yeah” said Natasha sniffing, “but that doesn’t stop him from being with Stephanie does it?”
“Natasha have you heard Affirmation by Savage Garden?”
Both Natasha and Wade stared at me in disbelief. “What does that have to do with our situation man?” Wade asked. I spared them a glance before I started singing, “I believe that junk food tastes so good because its bad for you” Natasha snorted in a very un lady like manner and burst into a fit of giggles. Now Wade and I stared at her in worry, the poor girl had lost her marbles.
“Unless I am mistaken, you just called Stephanie JUNK FOOD” I laughed and so did Wade, “I guess I just did”
“So all we have to is make Jude realize that Stephanie is a bitch and you are everything that he has dreamt of” I said dramatically. “Oh I love playing cupid!”
Wade smacked me in the back of my head and said, “There’s a fat chance of that happening, he seems to be blinded by her!”
“Oh we will make it happen”
“How?” asked Natasha in a small voice.
“Well first we have to make you visually scintillating. Now you are a pretty girl Natasha, gorgeous” I said cautiously, “but look at you right now!”
She looked at herself and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Well you are a mess! Unless it’s a special occasion you don’t dress up! Look at Stephanie! At any given point during the day she looks like she has just stepped out of a photo shoot from Vogue” As Natasha opened her mouth to speak, I spoke up again hurriedly, “Not that I am saying that she is pretty or anything she is ugleh”
“But- but” stuttered Natasha, “she is so superficial! I mean is it always about the looks”
“I wish I could say otherwise honey but men are dogs”
“No we aren’t! Sean! Do you keep dissing your own gender all the time?”
“I am a woman stuck in a man’s body” I said sighing dramatically which got Natasha giggling again.
“Look my point is” said Wade, “if you have two dishes kept in front of you, one may not taste so good but looks really lip smacking delicious, the other looks like dog poop but is delicious, what would you pick?”