chapter sixteen

EDWARD’S FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW

The waiter brought my usual order with wine glasses. It was the most expensive bottle of wine on their shelf. The waiter helped to open the bottle and filled the cup almost to the brim. He bowed and left.

People had been staring at our table- me, but there was this particular lady seated not too far from who had been making eye contacts with me. She was really beautiful and seemed different from the other thirsty ladies that had been making eyes at me all along. She was seated with two other ladies discussing and laughing together occasionally. They were decently dressed relative to the others too.

“Eddie man, it has been a while you hung out like this. You just abandoned the streets for your art man. It should not be so now.” Tony complained as I sip on my wine.

“It is not like that, I had just been a little withdrawn because of some things that happened, not that I did not want to hang out with…” I trailed off as I saw the lady stood up from her s