Forbidden

The past

Michael's POV

I've been in meetings all day and when I finally get back to my office, I see I have eight missed calls on my phone all from a private number and whoever it was hasn't left a message or voicemail which is really weird since whoever it was clearly wanted to get hold off me. I'm about to leave to get some lunch and my phone rings and again it's from a private number and this time I pick up.

"hello?"

"Michael?" A female voice quietly says "yeah, who's this?" I frown confused "it's me. Please don't hang up"

"who's me?" I say a little irritated "Lisa" she mumbles and I don't say anything for a moment shocked she'd call me after all this time. "Michael? Are you still their?"

"um.. y-yeah I'm still here" I say shakily "what do you want?"

"I was wondering if we could talk.. About us"

"there's is no us. Don't call me again!" I frown about to hang up and she continues talking "Michael, please? I know you must still be angry with me and I completely understand, but I need you to know I'm so sorry for what I did and..."

"angry doesn't come close!" I snap cutting her off "I'm sorry. Can we talk? I really want us to work this out. I know we can move past this"

"there's nothing to work past! We're over don't call me again!" I snap shakily down the phone and hang up as she's about to say something.

I can't believe Lisa called me after all this time and to be so casual about it. It's taken me so long to get over her and now everything just come flooding back to me. I can never forget or forgive her for what she did, not this time. I gave her chance after chance and she still continued to fuck me over and I'm not gonna let her do that to me again I'm not got let any woman do that to me.

There's a knock on the door and and I quickly wipe the tears from my face and compose myself before opening it. "you ready for lunch?" Randy asks "mhm" I nod faking a smile and he looks at me for a moment "have you been crying?"

"no, I just got a bit of hay fever" I lie which he see's straight through and closes the door behind us "what's happened?" he asks concerned and I tell him about Lisa calling.

"dude, fuck her! And whatever shitty excuses she has this time. You don't need someone like that in your life"

"I know that and I don't intend to have her or any woman in my life"

"well maybe not now. But you'll find someone someday. There's the right person out there for you somewhere" he smiles through pursed lips. "all women ever do is fuck me over and whoever I meet is gonna do the same thing Lisa and the others did. I'm never putting myself through that again" I shake my head "Mike, your 25 trust me one day your gonna meet a woman who's beautiful and sweet and..."

"and then I'll wake up" I shrug cutting him off "not all woman are like Lisa" he shakes his head "look, I know she hurt you and..."

"didn't you wanna go for lunch?" I cut him off not wanting to speak about this anymore and he nods and smiles through pursed lips taking the hint and quickly drops the conversation.

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Leanne's POV

Since we both have the morning off Mia and I decided to go shopping and so far we've been having a really good time. I love our shopping days because it's the only time I get to feel normal again and be just like everybody else which is an extremely rare feeling I get these days.

"how hot is this!?" Mia smiles a me showing me a red dress that's caught her eye "yeah, it'll really suit you" I smile still looking through some clothes "what about you?" She smiles "I haven't found anything I like yet" I shrug. There are some nice clothes here, but everything this store seems to sell is either really tight or revealing and I get why Mia brought me here, but it'll be nice to have some casual clothes too. The only casual stuff I have is one pair of jeans and a hoodie which were the clothes I was wearing when I got here. I did have more, but my aunt Mary threw it all away and made me get new stuff because she said they made me look to young and I have to try and look older. "well I'm gonna go try this on, I'll be right back" Mia smiles and goes towards the changing rooms and I nod still looking around the store and suddenly hear a familiar voice