“I don’t even know how to start talking to you when you are giving me this kind of attitude, Nicole,”
“Rafael, I would really go straight to the point if I were you because last I checked we are not cool, so don’t expect to be treated nicely, you can’t expect to be treated nicely, especially not from me,”
She replied, she was already getting riled up by him again, she shouldn’t let him get to her but he was, being rude to him was her only way to keep herself from thinking too much about their meeting and what he wanted to talk to her about, she refused to be a fool for love, refuse to be a slave to it, yes, the man in front of her was the one she loves and might love until the day she takes her last breath but that didn’t mean she has to be weak before him, if she does that then she would be nothing but a pushover.
“I wasn’t expecting you to be nice to me, trust me, I wasn’t,”
“I don’t trust you Rafael,”
“I know you don’t and you have every right not to trust me and I also know you won’t be nice to me but at least can you be respectful enough to not be so rude? You don’t have to be nice and you don’t have to be so rude either,”
Nicole shook her head, a bit hard on her lips, and curled her hand into a fist, letting out a breath to calm herself.
“Okay, fine, I will not be rude so please, what did you want to talk to me about?”
“Are you dating the guy I met you with the last time, Aron? That’s his name right?”
“Be calm, be calm,”
Nicole whispered in her head at his choice of words, she shouldn’t give in to the urge to chase him out of her office, because she would have to deal with him again and she didn’t think she could do that.
“Like I said the last time, Rafael, that’s not your business, you don’t see me being nosy in your relationship and I don’t expect you to do that to me,”
She answered as calmly as she could hands still in a fist.
“I am not in a relationship with anyone, I haven’t dated anyone since I met you, even after our divorce,”
“Liar,”
She screamed inside.
“That’s none of my business, I don’t care,”
“You should care, because I care about you being with that guy, I don’t like it,”
He said, it was the audacity for her, he was lying through his teeth when photos of him and his girlfriend graced the internet when the said girl even went as far as warning her to stay away from him.
“You know, I didn’t want to call you out on your lies but I can’t help but do it,”
“I didn’t lie, I won’t lie,”
“Yeah, right, you don’t have a girlfriend, yeah, those photos are Photoshopped and your girlfriend threaten me to stay the hell away from you is false too,”
She said, proud of herself for remaining so can despite her inside boiling with anger.
“Josie ain’t my girlfriend,”
“Aha, she is your fiancee since you guys will be getting married soon,”
“Where the fuck did you get that from?”
“I kind of got this from your girlfriend, Rafael when she told me to stay away from you, you called me to come to meet you, I went, we ended up in bed together, your girlfriend comes the next morning and chase me out of the house while you were still sleeping, I wanted for you to call and when you didn’t I decided to do it only for her to pick up, we met and she told me you guys were getting married and that you told her our night together disgust you, now what do you say about not lying again?”
She asked, keeping herself in check for so long was stressing her out more than she could take and she was close to losing it, she looked up at him after she finished talking and he didn’t say a word.
“What? Did I make you speechless?”
She asked.
“No, God, that’s not it, I never said that Josie, she is a liar, we were never in a relationship, she was just a friend that Caleb introduced to me in New York, that day at the party, that was the first time I met her and oh my God,”
“What? You are calling her a liar? Because she is not here to defend herself? Then how do you explain the photos? Or you think I didn’t see them? It’s really none of my business what you do with your life but please don’t get involved in mind, if this is what you want to talk about them you have to leave now because I really don’t have the strength to do this,”
“This is all a misunderstanding, I never dated Josie and certainly didn’t tell her our night together was horrible, heck I can’t even remember what happened that night, I didn’t even know it happened until I told Josie off, and she let it slip, I didn’t even know you were the one that came to pick me up that night,”
He said, she believed him, he didn’t have any need to lie about those things and he was certainly not a liar, she knew that much but she didn’t care.
“Right, then why are your happy cells increasing?”
The voice in her head asked. She didn’t bother to say anything that was her heart, she couldn’t control her heart but she had her brains too, she wasn’t going to listen to her weak heart.
“Rafael, okay, let’s say all these are it, is that all you came to talk about if yes, then all the misunderstandings are cleared.”
She said.
“That’s not it, that’s not why I came, that’s not what I want to talk to you about, I just cleared the air but that’s not why I am here right now.
“Okay, then why are you here?”
She asked, sitting up properly.
“I am here because I want you back,”
“What did you just say?”
She asked to make sure she heard him right.
“I said that I want you back, I want you to give me a chance to fix things between us, I want us back together with the way we were before the unfortunate things that happened and brought us apart,”
He replied, she sat there looking at him, he was out of his mind, there was no way he was talking and saying those words to her.
“Are you drunk Rafael?”
She asked, she had to ask because if he wasn’t drunk then why else would he say such words to her after the way he dumped her?
“Do I look drunk to you Nicole? I am sitting opposite you, do I smell like alcohol?”
“Well, if you are not drunk then you must be high on something, why else would you say such foolish words to me?”
“Foolish words?”
“Yes foolish words, words that shouldn’t be spoken, we are divorced Rafael, we didn’t just date and break up, we are fucking divorced, you must be sick to think I will listen to you,”
She yelled at him, he looked shocked by her choice of words but she didn’t care, he was the one that was riling her up intentionally so he should be ready to face the consequences.