Hacking into my Hyper-linked Heart

Chapter 25- Three's a Crowd

Ethan looked at me with a frown, "You shouldn't miss any of your meals it's not healthy. I think I need to monitor your eating habits at work."

I felt my cheeks warm up, "No need."

We started to eat in silence the only source of noise was our cutlery clanking with the plate. I was middle of piercing my pasta through my fork when Ethan asked, "How are you feeling?"

I knew instantly what he meant, "I feel better," I said softly as I gazed at him, "Thanks to you."

"I didn't do anything."

"Well you did even if you didn't realise it." I gave him a grateful smile.

"Just remember don't let anyone get you down for believing in something so strong."

I nodded my head at his response before looking down at my food. We continued to chat about useless things such as, are my friends always that excited to see a guy I hang out with. Obviously I told him the truth that he was the only lucky person to gain so much excitement from them which resulted in us laughing really hard. Ethan ordered dessert as soon as we calmed down from our jokes and laughter. The waiter placed our plates before disappearing, "Yum, my favourite." I said as I licked my lips in anticipation like Sally taught me. I looked up to see Ethan's normal blue sea eyes turning dark like a storm was raging as he licked his dry lips in the same motion. My breathing hitched up as I stared at him lick his lips in a seducing manner. I wouldn't mind that tongue all over me! I felt myself blush cause of my stupid mind going overdrive with stupid erotic thoughts. I realised I must have been ogling at him so I shook my head to get away from any dirty thoughts that came into my mind.

At that moment I saw from the corner of my eye someone stopping at our table. I assumed it was the waiter I looked up with a smile but my grin rapidly changed to shock. I stayed seated as I looked at the person standing there looking down at me with anger, "Chris."

"Hi Myra, how are you?" Chris asked me with fake smile plastered on his face.

I gave a small smile before answering, "All good, what about you?"

"Oh not good at all, what can I say I was waiting for someone to get back to me but I can see now why they were busy." He spat every word at me. "So are you guys having g a nice cosy date?"

"Sorry but who are you?" Ethan asked with a confused expression.

I cleared my throat, "He's Chris, my friend" I rambled out the words. Chris looked at me in shock like I slapped him across the face. Well I couldn't say he's my boyfriend cause come on we had one disastrous date and another nice evening as friends. Plus I don't have strong feelings for Chris compared to Ethan. At that point when my mind was rambling on about Chris I comprehended what I needed to do. I couldn't really string Chris around. I will need to do this on a different night when Ethan wasn't sitting across me as she stared at me and Chris curiously.

"Oh wow, I never knew we were friends." Chris muttered. My body froze in fear, oh no please don't say anything front of Ethan please, my mind chanted over and over again as I gawked at Chris.

I cleared my throat again feeling like something was stuck in my throat, "Erm yeah we are." I said slowly not sure how to respond.

"Oh well let me introduce myself," Chris turned towards Ethan and took his hand out, "I'm Chris, Myra's friend." He emphasized on the friend as he shook Ethan's hand.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Ethan."

"So how did you guys meet?" Chris asked curiously. WHAT!! Why he is still here and why is he asking that dumb question, it's none of his business but before I could voice out my answer Ethan answered it for me but with honesty.

"Oh she works for me." Ethan stated. Okay maybe not honesty cause that was definitely not how we met.

"How nice, it's really funny how I and Myra met," He stated to Ethan with an evil glint in his eye before turning to me and plastering a sweet smile, "isn't it Myra?"

Oh no he won't! I started to panic. I didn't want Ethan to know that I am on a dating site he must think I'm pathetic and desperate to look for guys online. "Shouldn't you get going?" I asked politely.

Chris ignored my question and turned to Ethan with a smile like they were best friends. Chris took a chair from the other table and made himself comfortable sitting in between us. "You wouldn't really believe this but we met on a dating site." Chris laughed humourlessly whereas I sat there not blinking or breathing as I bit my lip and looked at Ethan to see his reaction. Ethan seemed shocked at this information he turned to look at me with confusion written on his face. "You didn't expect that did you? Oh it's hilarious how we chatted for such a long time without seeing each other so I asked her out well Myra hinted at me to take her on a date." He rambled on as I glared at Chris. " So I did and when I saw her for the first time she blew my mind I mean look at her," They both turned to look at me, I just gawked at Chris in annoyance. "I then realised she lied to me about her appearance, her name and where she lived so I got so annoyed and felt hurt so I left her there at the dinner and left."

OMG! Someone please just shoot me, why the hell is he telling everything to Ethan? It's not like they are best friends. I wish I never came to this stupid dinner then I wouldn't be sitting here and getting embarrassed as my so called crush tells my boss/the guy I like, how I fricken met him. Arggh!

"I then told her I like her and now when I see her she calmly introduces me as a friend!"

They turned to look at me; Ethan had a hurt expression on his face whereas Chris was glaring at me. I stared at both of them with an 'oh shit I'm caught' expression. I did the first thing I could I gripped my wine glass and gulped the content in one. I felt shattered like I didn't have the energy to do anything, I mean the way Ethan is looking at me is breaking me apart, I know for a fact Ethan must think I'm such a player, no I can't have him think like that I had to make this right. "E-Ethan it's not what you think. I mean yes it's true but-"

"But what?" Chris asked with annoyance. I tried not to bite his head off so I took a calming breath so I could try again with Ethan.

Before I could say anything, "Myra you don't have to explain, I understand."

This is what I feared, he thinks he understands that I went out with someone else and I introduced him as a friend. Chris has made me look so bad, I haven't even done anything to Chris, okay maybe I'm not that innocent but I never meant for things to turn out this way. Ethan must think I'm such a loser and I don't want him to think of me like that. I want him to see me as for who I am but unfortunately he has seen or shall I say heard, yeah he heard about a part of me that is confused with all this shit. This is the damn reason I stayed away from dating and men because include me in it and it will all go wrong.

"No you don't!" I screamed in frustration.

I looked at Chris who was the cause of this situation, I stood up from my seat and glared at him. This was his entire fricken fault, why did he have to come and ruin everything for me? I had a plan to see if Ethan likes me, but no, he had to ruin everything. I'm sure Ethan must hate me right now! Oh I wish looks could kill because I would be murdering this son of a b****! I did the only thing I was good at I stormed out from there thinking why does everything awful happen to me?