Ophelia stopped at a store from her run back, she was going to gift him something to apologize even though she did not feel as though she had done anything wrong. She was being honest with herself but she knew that their being at loggerheads was going to affect the way they acted in public and they did not need all that drama at all.
She did not know his preference so she did not know what to get him instead she got him something very pricey without considering if he would like it or not. The issue was not the gift because any gift she was about to gift to him, she was sure he could afford it. She just wanted to give the gesture so he would not be mad anymore. She would have gotten him a custom-made gym wear if she had enough time but she settled with getting him an ordinary set.
She waited in the living room for him so there was no way for him to run away from her. She heard him come in and the door open. She picked up the paper bag and bottled water she had prepared and went to stand in front of the passage so there was no way he would get past her.
“You are back,” she said pushing the bottled water into his hand and dropping the bag to the floor. “You were gone a while that I thought you might have been lost,” she said.
He was new to the neighbourhood after all so it was not unlikely that he had gotten lost in the estate while jogging around. “Get lost me?” he asked making a weird sound with his mouth.
“Wait did you actually get lost?” she asked this time feeling like he had really gotten lost and she just had such a lucky guess.
“Thank you for the water,” he said opening the bottle and chugging the entire content in under a minute. It was as if as he finished the entire water he remembered that he was angry with her. He turned his face to the side and frowned trying to pass by her to his room. “I have to go change” he murmured but the tone of his voice was grumpy like someone who had been denied his right.
“Are you still angry at me?” she asked stretching her hand to block him from slipping away from her sides as she wasn’t big enough to stop him from pushing her to the side and walking away.
“Ophelia,” he said. Unlike the frown on his face, his voice was smooth and calm. “I am not mad or angry at you, I just feel messy and need to get up to my room to have a shower and change” he said. He wanted to tell her that since they were married they had the right to have s*x but he did not want to seem as though he was stuck on one thing she considered not important. After all, he could do without it, being celibate for a few more years was not something he could not pull off.
“Okay then if you are not mad, how about we have breakfast together?” she asked.
He wanted to have breakfast with her but his words from last night rang so loudly in his ears. “Do you like having breakfast or any meals at all with strangers?” he asked tilting her head to the side.
“You are still angry,” she said clapping her hand in the air before bending down to pick up the paper bag on the floor and dangling it before his face.
“What is this?” he asked not making any effort to take it from her.
“A gift” she said shaking it hoping he would take it and she could drip her hands.
“Do you like to give strangers gifts as well?” he asked and she pressed her lips together.
“Oh shit, I do not think I can be the bigger person after all,” she said taking her hands down and dropping the bag to the floor again. “Okay, I am sorry that you have to throw a huge baby tantrum because I refuse to have sex with you but I am not sorry at the same time” she screamed in his face and turned on her heels.
She wanted to start walking away when she realized that she had not said all she wanted to, so she turned back to him and stuck her finger out to his face. “And when I asked us to act like strangers at home I meant we do not get too close because if we do we could become fond of each other and not let go when the time comes for that”
She turned and stormed away, it was the first time she had tried to be the bigger person and this was what she got, she should have given him a hard time in the house and he would have had no option but to come back to apologize. “Ophelia” he called after her as he picked up the bag and jogged more so he could catch up with her.
He reached her door just as she was about to close it and he stopped it leaving the door open with his foot. “What are you doing” she cried as she tried to pull the door shut.
“Can you at least hear me out?” he asked and she shook her head still pulling the door that her entire body shook.
“I heard you out so you should at least do the same with me, shouldn’t you?” he asked and her pulling began to reduce until it finally stopped.
“You have one minute to say what you have to say” she said stepping back from the door.
“I am sorry that I acted like a d**k that was wrong and childish of me but I at least expected that we would be good friends if not lovers,” he said.
She looked up and smiled. “I guess we can be good friends”