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Chapter 5
He was coming towards me with a confused look on his face. I quickly put my head down pretending to be engrossed with the nails on my hand. A minute later I could feel his presence over me. It was tense and exciting all at the same time. I slowly lifted my eyes to meet his and what I saw hurt. He looked puzzled, surprised and shocked but not in a good way.
"Hey. Uhhh What are you doing here?" he asked, looking at me intensely.
"I..I work here now. Um didn't your mom tell you?" I replied. I cursed myself for stuttering.
"No she didn't. I mean why would she?" he asked giving me one of those What-the-hell-are-you-talking-about faces.
"Well she got me the job here. I thought she would've mentioned it to you." I said giving him the same exact look he just gave me. He was staring at me amusingly while I was glaring at him with an irritated look on my face. I wanted to slap that smirk right off his face. I mean first he tries to flirt with me using my bra as his pickup line, then he has a bromance going on with my brother because lord knows Adel hasn't stopped talking about him since the dinner, and lets not forget he comes so close to kissing me even though he has a girlfriend! And now he has the gall to sit there and smirk at me after practically attacking me on my getting a job here! I was about to give him a piece of my mind when Ally unfortunately decides to butt in.
"um hey guys, don't you go biting each others heads off. Heh heh." She says nervously as she quickly glances back between the both of us. "How do you two know each other anyways?"
"Our mother's are high school friends." I replied not taking my eyes off of him. It had suddenly turned into a contest, with neither one of us wanting to admit defeat by turning away.
"We actually met last week, at dinner." He said with a grin as he raised an eyebrow. God he looked so sexy doing that... NO stop that I can't think of him like that. He has a girlfriend for god sakes! Then why did he kiss you? Said a voice coming from the back of my head. He didn't mean it, I mean I know he's not interested in me, he couldn't be. Don't be to sure of that.
"oh Shut up!" I burst out. I saw both Ally and Rafe looking at me with a funny looks on their faces. "sorry just talking to myself."
"you do that a lot don't you." Rafe said giving me a crooked grin.
"Beats talking to you." I replied defensively before getting off the stool and leaving them both to go talk to some old lady I saw sitting on one of the leather chairs about to fall asleep. Even she was better company than Rafe.
"Ouch, that hurt." He replied with both hands covering his heart. "hey wait up." He called once he saw I was leaving him. I looked back to see Ally had returned to her magazine with a knowing smile plastered on her face. What was up with that? I quickly kept walking on, hoping to reach the old lady before he reached me. No such luck. He grabbed my hand and whirled me around.
"What? What do you want from me?" I asked him with a frustrated look on my face.
He was taken a back. He quickly dropped my hand, but not before replying. "I just wanted to talk to you about last week. I mean I've been wanting call you but I've been busy and..."
"Save it. I don't need to hear your poorly made excuses and I certainly don't need to be lied to right to my face. Oh and don't worry I've already forgotten about what happened last week. I'm sure that 's what both you and your girlfriend would want." And with that I walked off leaving him with his eyes open wide and his mouth gaping at me. Serves him right thinking he could mess with me. Well think again. I might be a shy person and I might not be social but one thing I'm not is weak. And no guy is going to make a fool out of me, of that I'm certain. I promised myself I would never be vulnerable enough to be hurt again and I'm keeping that promise. I am never going to be played for a fool ever again.
After our little encounter, I steered clear of Rafe. Whenever I saw him coming towards me I would walk the opposite way. Ok I know what it looks like, like I'm running away but I'm not. I am just choosing to avoid the situation, and to me that seems like a wise choice. So I spent most of the day hanging out with Ally and getting to know her better. I learned that her mother was a model who left when she was 2 and her dad is a director who is never at home but calls her every day and who she's really close to. She loves indie movies and is a hardcore fan of 80's rock. I didn't get to see much of Liz since she was running around the store making sure everything was in place. Apparently she was OCD about a lot of things, the stores neatness being one of them. And as for Rafe, besides avoiding him I also didn't talk about him and Ally didn't ask about him either although I could tell that she was dying to. It was almost time for me to clock out when I felt a buzzing in my pocket. I pulled out my cell phone and checked the caller ID. Mami.
"Hey Ma is everything ok?" I asked, curious as to why she was calling me.
"Yes, yes. Everything is alright I just need to borrow the car, so I'm going to pick it up and you can have Rafe drop you home." What?! No way was I going anywhere near him.
"Ma, can't you just get someone to drop you wherever you need to go or can't you drop me home on the way since I'm almost finished with work. Please!" I whined. I hate whining but this was an extreme situation in which whining was required of me.
"Mija. No I need to be there now and I already took the car, I was just letting you know so you wouldn't get scared when you didn't find it where you left it. I'm sorry mija but at least Rafe is there to take you home. Your so lucky he's such a hard working honest boy."
"Ya, he sure is honest." I grumbled.
"what I can't hear you, what did you say?"
"Nothing ma, I'll talk to you later. Love you, bye." I quickly hung up the phone not waiting for a reply. I could see Rafe across the room helping out a middle aged woman with a box of shoes. Walking over to him I waited until he was finished before going right up to him and asking if he could take me home.
"Um Ya sure. Just give me a sec." he replied as he grabbed his jacket and went to the employees room to clock out before he came to meet me at the front doors. He opened the door for me and led me to his car. It was vintage looking, that was all I knew about it, oh and it was black.
"what kind of car is this?" I asked while proceeding to get inside the car. He had beige leather interior with a black trim and a pretty updated sound system for an old car.
"This baby is a 1965 Chevy impala. It was my uncles but he gave her to me for my eighteenth birthday." He said looking at his car with adoring eyes. Men really are weird about their cars. He started up the engine and drove out of the parking lot onto the highway.
It became quiet as I was looking out my window, staring at nothing as all the trees became meshed into one giant blob passing before my eyes. However, I was snapped out of my trance a moment later by him.
"Well it looks like we're here." He turned off the ignition and turned to face me. "Listen about earlier I-"
"Its fine really I just don't want to talk about it." I interrupted him before turning to look out the window again.
"No, its not fine and we are going to talk about it." He replied resolutely while glancing towards me. "I know it looks bad but its not what it seems..."
"Really cause it seems like you were about to kiss me even though you have a girlfriend!" I said sarcastically. "I can't believe your tying to worm your way out of this. Your caught red handed so just save me the pity excuses and admit it." I huffed before crossing my hands over my chest and looking stubbornly out the window. I probably looked like a three year old throwing a tantrum but I didn't care.
"Isadora..." he sighed before he grabbed my shoulders forcing me to look at him. "I do have a girlfriend. But at the time I was with you we were broken up. So technically I didn't cheat or do anything bad."
"oh so after realizing you were this close to kissing me you decide to get back with your girlfriend because, god forbid, you actually kiss a girl like me. Oh I get it, I just helped you get back to your senses. I'm glad I could help you."
"No it's not like that." He let go of me and turned back in his seat. "I've been with the same girl since my junior year of high school. We went to the same college together and have been together ever since. But we've been on and off again this past year and before I left for the summer we broke it off. I thought it was for good and so I didn't think anything about it when I was with you. But she called me the next day and we got back together. I was going to tell you before then because I didn't want to lead you on or anything, but I just couldn't. I'm sorry." He slowly turned to look at me expectantly waiting for me to say something, anything, but I just couldn't. "I never meant to hurt you, and I really want us to be friends and put this whole thing behind us."
I couldn't believe it. He still wanted to be friends? I mean how could I, he basically told me I was just his rebound girl that helped him get back together with his on and off again girlfriend. How do you go from being pursued by a guy to rejected by him and then befriend him. I know I'm naïve but I'm pretty sure this wasn't a normal relationship between a guy and girl. I don't even know why this is affecting me so much, I mean we didn't even kiss or anything like that. I should just brush it off and be friends, it was the best thing to do.
"I agree, we should put this whole thing behind us and be friends. Besides we do work together and that would just be awkward." I plastered a fake smile on my face and quickly got my bag from the backseat of the car before turning to look at him. "Well thanks for the ride, I guess I'll see you at work tomorrow." I said while getting out of the car.
"I'm glad we worked past this cause I really do think you're an amazing girl and I would have been devastated if we couldn't be friends." he replied with a wink. I quickly shut the car door and watched as he drove off leaving me standing there, in a cloud of exhaust with a dumbfounded expression on my face. Once again, he was able to knock me off my feet, leaving me utterly confused and wanting more at the same time. Damn him.