Rafael decided to go for plan B, after his unsuccessful meeting with Nicole, he needed to speak with her twin and smoothen things out between them, if he wanted Natalie back then he knew he had to make up with her twin, Rafael missed Caleb’s presence so much, he didn’t know which way was the right way to go and he didn’t have anyone that was close to him enough for him to be comfortable asking such questions from him or her.
He decided meeting Natalie should do some work and lessen Nicole’s hostile attitude towards him, when he had left her yesterday, he had driven away from the studio and waited for her far from it, she had passed by him about thirty minutes after he had left, he still wasn’t used to her driving, and didn’t think he would ever get used to it.
When Rafael had gotten to work, he took his time to check through his contacts for Natalie’s number but then he had them deleted a long time ago and couldn’t restore them, so he tried to look for someone who had her contact, he would have asked Nicole but he didn’t want her to know he was meeting with her sister until he talks with Natalie and clear the air between them.
It was pretty easy for Rafael to get Natalie’s number from one of her close friends, Juliet who had been Nicole’s bride’s maid, he had gone to Juliet’s workplace and thankfully he had seen her there, she had willingly given the number to him. Now he sat in his office thinking if this was a good idea or if he should just focus on getting on Nicole’s good side before meeting her sister, but no matter how long he thought about it, he felt it would be best to talk to Natalie and just, makeup with her and maybe Nicole won’t be so distanced, it felt so strange talking to her yesterday, she didn’t even give him a chance to talk, she had been in so much hurry to leave his presence, he made up his mind and dialed her number waiting for her to pick up.
“Hello, you are on to Natalie Evans, may I know who I am speaking with please?”
Natalie said, her voice sounded so much like Nicole’s voice but they didn’t give him the butterflies like Nicole’s voice would have.
“Natalie, this is Rafael, can we meet up? I have something to talk to you about,”
He said and the line went silent for a moment that he thought she had ended the call, he checked and the call was still on and placed the phone back to his ear.
“Natalie, hey,”
“Hi, Rafael, what do you want to talk about? This is Natalie, not Nicole, in case you are mistaken,”
“I know, I called you Natalie, right? Can we meet up?”
“No, I can’t Rafael, I have very busy,”
She said. He knew she was exaggerating, he wanted to meet her so he didn’t mind going over to where ever she was.
“If you can’t, then I can come and meet you where you are, I really need to talk to you, Natalie,”
“Fine, I will text you the location of where I am Rafael,”
She said, he thanked her and the call ended, he only had to wait for a few minutes before his phone beeped with an incoming message, he checked and got off his seat picking up his suit, he stopped by his secretary office and told them he was off, he walked out of the office and got into his car, imputed the address she had went and zoned off towards it, he hoped that he could at least get through to Natalie.
It took him about thirty minutes to get to where she had described, it was a fabric shop or a place where dresses were designed, he asked the receptionist at the entrance who pointed him in the direction he should go.
“Rafael,”
He heard her call as he almost walked passed where she was, he stopped and saw her, and walked into the room where she was, the lady with her excused herself and left.
“Rafael, welcome, you can sit over there,”
She said pointing at the seats, he nodded and sat down waiting for her to sit too which she did.
“As I said over the phone, I am not Nicole, just putting it out there again,”
She said rubbing her hands together, she was nervous, Nicole does that too when she is nervous.
“I know who you are Natalie,”
“Okay, What do you want to talk about?”
Natalie asked him the same question Nicole had asked him yesterday, he stared at her, this woman, she looked so much like the woman he had met yesterday but the way he reacts to the both of them was completely different, his heart didn’t flip-flop at the sight of her neither did he feel like hugging her, he could even look at her and he didn’t feel a thing.
“Rafael?”
She called, she sounded like Nicole too, but the sound of his name from her mouth didn’t feel the same like it does when Nicole calls his name, same face and everything yet they invoke different emotions from him, one could get him on his knees with just her words and the other was just there.
“Huh, if you don’t have anything to say, as you can see I am a very busy woman, I have to get back to work,”
She said when he still didn’t respond to her question, she said almost the same thing Nicole had said yesterday, they were very similar yet so different and compared to Nicole who had been unbothered by his presence, Natalie was nervous, she hadn’t stopped rubbing her hands together and have even started stamping her feet which were something his woman also did a lot, they have the same habit too, how had he expected that Nicole would do what he had asked and send her sister to jail? It would be like sending her other half away, why hadn’t he thought about that? He had been stupid, he should never have arrested Natalie in the first place, she looks like she went through a lot too and was only recovering now, he felt bad.
“I am sorry,”
He voiced out after a while, she looked up at him in shock.