Chapter 3: You're Not My Type
Matthew has been sitting at the other end of the bar when he noticed the lady at the other side of the room sitting at one of the bar stools at the far corner, she seems to be all by herself, she dismissed everyone who tried to hit on her, she’s been watching for a while now, just out of curiosity she kept his eyes on her, and then all of a sudden her tears were welling from her eyes then flowing freely down her cheeks, he suddenly felt bad, maybe she is here after a break up he thought, and feeling sympathetic towards the lady, he asked the guy tending to him to go check on her before she totally breaks down just in case ,which the bar tender willingly obliged. And after that the lady seem ta came to her senses and quickly paid her bill and started walking out the door, that is when he decided to approach her and offer to give her a ride home, she looks a so drunk already she looks like she’s gonna fall anytime, it might not be safe for her to drive or take a taxi on her own.
And as the girl was about to drop face first on the floor he was able to grab her by the waist, and steady her on her feet, he ushered her outside, she was offering her a ride and asking her for her address but she seems so out of it already, she looks like she drunk more than she could handle, and perhaps it has something to do with those tears earlier, she looks like a lady who came to drown a heartache? She probably just got divorced or maybe just broke up with someone? Who knows, maybe he will ask her later whet she is finally sober.
He asked the attendant to bring his car over and she propped the lady in the passengers seat properly and before he started the engine he asked for her address, but all she could hear is mumbling from her lips, she is just smiling and her eyes are lazily staring at him, he thought she is really cute, and surprisingly is not wearing make up at all, how unusual for a girl to be in a bar without a lot of make up. And he finds her really beautiful but somehow senses innocence in her, she doesn’t seems to be very young she has this maturity in her but he senses innocence in this lady. Now she has closed her eyes and seems t have gone to sleep. And now he doesn’t have a choice but to take her to his flat.
When they arrived at his building he guided her through the elevator into his place, unfortunately when they got there she started vomiting on to herself getting her clothes soaked in vomit, he was a little bit frustrated and annoyed because he never had to deal with anything like this before and now this
total stranger which he just pitied, he doesn’t even know her name, is now vomiting all over his apartment, and on him and on herself, she seem to not able to handle alcohol very well, but somehow he doesn’t seem to get mad at her at all in fact he felt concerned for her. He couldn’t help but think what could have happened to her if he was not there. He felt a little angry towards her, How could someone like her be so stupid, and allow herself to be in such a dangerous situation, what if it was someone else who picked her up? It is somehow weird he is feeling deep concern for some he doesn’t know, but anyway, what should he do now? Puke all over the place, she is so messed up, her clothes are soaked in disgusting vomit. He has never done anything like this before. He is usually the one drunk and the ladies are the ones who takes care of her.
He has no choice but to clean her up before putting her in bed, he can’t allow her to lie down in such a disgusting state. He has no choice, He took her to the bathroom and cleaned her up.
Lola woke up with an intense pain in her temple, she tried opening her eyes but the pain in her head gets more intense when she tries, so she kept them close and tried to go back to sleep, so she turned over propped herself nicely under the sheet, she thought the sheets are smelling really extra nice and extra soft today, and she is smelling something nice, like sweet honey with butter toast and bacon, it’s making her hungry. She tossed and turned a few times and she is really feeling hungry now.
When suddenly she opened her eyes so wide her head felt like it will explode but she doesn’t care because she felt naked, she looked under the sheets and indeed she was naked! the room is unfamiliar,
it is not her room, she closed her eyes again so tight that it hurts her, and tried to remember what happened last night. She couldn’t remember no matter how much she tried, her last memory of last night was her trying to drink herself to death because she finally surrendered from her plan of getting a man to “mate her” so she can have her own baby, a very selfish plan and very disgusting now that she could look back at the past weeks of man hunting!
But Why is she naked in an unfamiliar room? Did she manage to pick up someone in her drunken state last night? was she raped? Is she kidnapped? But she is in a nice room, rape usually doesn’t happen like that is it? Or maybe it does? She couldn’t think anymore more, what else happened after she got drunk. She couldn’t remember!
She was about to cry when the door opened and a handsome figure appeared by the door fully dressed in pajamas very fancy pajamas actually like silk a bit glossy and it is cream with a black lining. And the guy looks so good in it.
Good Lord she is admiring a total stranger who is probably her kidnapper and rapist and why is she not worried, why is she not angry and she is not scared.
She tried to say something but the guy beat her to it.
“ Ok good you’re awake. Your clothes are at the foot of the bed, by the way they are washed and clean, get yourself dressed, come and have breakfast and I will take you home”! And he closed the door.
“Washed and clean”? She thought, ‘do criminals take you home to get your clothes washed and clean now? She looked around the room and found her clothes at the foot of the very large bed she is lying on, She couldn’t stop thinking of what could have happened last night, Did he do something to her? Did something happen, shit!, why can’t she remember, but she is naked so maybe something did happen and if it’s so why can’ she remember it even just a bit!! So she felt her self down there but nothing feels unusual. She is ok. And as unusual as it is she is not afraid at all, worried yes, but fear none at all, he seems to be a nice person though!
She hurriedly put on her clothes, found the bathroom and washed her face, fix herself a bit and walked outside the room, following the smell of coffee towards a very nice kitchen with a view, He was there putting two cups of coffee on the table, toast eggs, bacon and butter are all set on the table with two breakfast plates, a nicely set breakfast, He pulled one of the chairs for her and offered her to sit which she did. She took the coffee with both her hands and took a sip, she looked and saw him staring at her intensely across the table with his hands folded across his chest, this time he doesn’t seem too nice anymore he seems annoyed. She tried to speak again but was so intimidated she couldn’t make a sound.
“I am Matthew by the way” he said “ nice to meet you I am Lola” she responded.
“ Ok ! Great! Lola nice to finally know your name, I was thinking of going through your purse earlier but that would be inappropriate isn’t it? “ She just kept staring at him. No words are forming in her lips still so she listened. “ And just to remind you that what you did last night is just plain stupid, you don’t look dumb to me, I will just assume that last night was hard for you, or maybe you are going through something rough at the moment that you will drink yourself to death all by yourself, as I have said I know you are not dumb, I am just glad I was the one who came to your aid last night, could you imagine if it could have been someone else? You are a very nice looking lady, do you understand what I mean? She just nodded in agreement, but in her mind she was asking “how about you what did you do to me? Why was I naked? Did we do something”? So many questions racing inside her head which he seemed to have read clearly. “ No” he said “ I did not do anything to you, don’t even dream about it” he said. “ you were a mess you puke all over yourself and all over my apartment, I had to clean you off, and had to clean the house all night. And don’t worry you are not my type”!
Hearing what he said, Lola felt blood rushing to her face, she is probably as red as a strawberry right now, but somehow was relieved that she was safe and the guy was a total gentleman but at the same time embarrassed and most of all she felt a bit rejected. She’s a bit angry too, he is implying and saying to her face that she is not attractive enough for his taste. That is making her feel mad.
She finally got the courage to say the word thank you, and said, she will take a taxi back home, of course she is not gonna tell him that she is all the way from stamford, and had taken the train the previous night. “I really appreciate what you have done for me” she said “sure I can call a taxi for you once you are finished with your food” he replied. So she tried to finish breakfast as soon as possible and stood up, found her purse sitting on the kitchen counter, she picked it up and said thank you again, and told him that she prefers to just walk outside and try to hail a cab from there, which he agreed to. He took her to the elevator and she said goodbye!
Once the elevator has closed, Matthew realized he’s till smiling, and he seems to find lola interesting, their meeting is not very ideal, but his curiosity has been aroused,
he wants to know her a little bit more. Will he see her again?
Katie needed to call Mrs. Adler right away, How could she have forgotten the details regarding food allergies? But it is still early thankfully, at least now Lola will have an opportunity to check out the venue herself and most of all to meet the Hosts. Thankfully The Lady has always been accommodating specially when it is her who is making the request. And on top of that she was informed that Theo has been talking about taking a break from the city this week end so He might just be there on Saturday.The thought of Theo just bring her girlish feelings of joy, she can’t help her excitement every time his name is spoken of. She is just so giddy happy. She thought it would be such a pleasant surprise for Lola to introduce him finally to her if they will get to see him this Saturday. The man of her dreams the one she had been speaking of for so long. And it will just be fitting to have Lola meet him first since she is her best friend in all the world. The sister she always wanted.
Lola knows their presence had made so much difference in her life today, Their happy and worried faces that greeted her earlier and their tight hugs had opened a window in her darkening world letting a warm ray of sunshine in. That overwhelming sadness and heaviness in her heart is somehow alleviated with the presence of those three. What would life be like for her without them? They enable her to to always put one foot in front of the other.Life has been tough and rough but having her friends had made it bearable specially not having any family around. She pushed herself to stand up and move around do a little tidying up moving and keeping herself busy would take things of her mind. She picked up the cups they used for tea and brought it to the sink, it warms her heart to know her friends remember her mom through the sweet tea. This makes them a family indeed. Once done with her cleaning she went up the stairs to her bedroom, she intended to do some work on her laptop but real
Katie was the last one to leave, they didn’t talk a lot, but Lola knows her friends understands her silence. They are aware that when she keeps things to herself, she is struggling and trying to work things out, that she is in the process of gathering herself together.Now that they are all gone, she realized that, making her friends worry was selfish on her part, and this makes her feel really guilty, she didn’t realize early on that she will make anyone worry. When she got up this morning all she had been feeling was her frustration, and hopelessness, she felt suffocated that is why she felt the need to go out and get some air, her mind had wondered so far that she did not bring anything with her, not even her phone, she took a light sweater and got out the door and just started walking to any direction to where her feet chooses to take her, she walked and walked thinking of all that she had done in the past weeks, was everything had been worthless and pointless? Will nothing come
Its been more than a month since She and Matthew had met last, but until now Lola is not getting a positive result, she’s been getting a little bit depressed, she will again try it this morning, because again according to what she has read online it is best to check in the morning when you just wake up, so she went again and peed on the stick, she sat their and waited for both lines to show, but again just like the result yesterday, she stared at the stick in like forever, praying for a second line to form, until her eyes got tired and started to blur with tears, Her heart again disappointed and broken, she let herself cry, she stood under the shower, and turned the cold water on top of her, and she sobbed like a little girl, she cried like when she lost her mother, she cried under that shower for a very long time, She prayed but how come it didn’t happen, a lot of girls do it once and they get pregnant not even wanting the baby, but her! she wanted an
Lola had been taking things really seriously for the past two weeks, Matthew had sent him a few messages already, but she has not given him a definite answer yet, just as she had wanted, she will stick to her plan wait and see! She has the urge to say yes sometimes, and it requires so much will power from her to prevent herself from replying yes. She is finding it really hard to refuse the mans invitation.There are times when she wanted to see him again really badly, she admits to herself that she misses him most of the time, there are no days that she doesn’t think of him. But she is always wary of what would be the outcome if she lets go of her emotions. She will never want to be like her mother. You fall in love and end up suffering, that will not happen to her. For now, she will concentrate with the business, she will figure out the next step when she gets there. As they usually say. You cross the bridge when you get there. She will think what to do next depending on the result o
When morning came, like last time she woke up to the smell of brewing coffee. “this guys likes his coffee” she thought.She got up and got herself ready to go. She already knows her way around the apartment so, she went to the kitchen directly and indeed he already has breakfast ready. This impresses her every time.She said good morning to him. “Breakfast is ready, I hope you are starving” he said with a smile, she looked at the table and there was already an array of breakfast stuff prepared like he prepared for an army. He got eggs, bacon and already had fresh baked croissant delivered to him early. And fresh bread. There are also a selection of yogurt set out.“Are you having people over for breakfast?” she asked “No! Just us! Why?” He asked .She gestured to the pile of food on the table.“Oh, well I don’t know what you might want to have so I just put out and prepared some choices” he explained “come on sit down and eat” as she pulled out a chair for her