Chapter 03 - Making You Nervous

The week went by petty fast and I was loving it at work. Before I knew it it was Saturday and I was at the pub again. Right at this point I had a plan on how to get ahold of her if she didn't come again. The bartender knew her, so I'd communicate with her and find out her name and all that. I knew that was a bit stalker(ish) but a girl has to do what she has to do.

The door made noise and I looked at it. Two guys walked in laughing, my eyes darted behind them and that's when I saw her outside. She was standing there looking at me. She then turned around and I realized she was not going to come in.

Fuck!

I took out my wallet and left a R50 note then quickly walked out. Really? So she has been seeing me and not getting in because I was here?

I looked to my left and she wasn't there, then to my right and saw her walk up to a car. Today she wasn't wearing uniform, dissapoited me a bit because I loved her in a uniform.. She looked really good.

But this was great for me. She can't use an excuse saying she was working.

I quickly walked up to her and cleared my throat as she was trying to open the car door but it refused. Looked like it was jammed.

"fuck!! Really??" she muttered to herself.

"I think you need a new door..." I said and she stopped trying to open it but kept standing the way she was with her hand on the door. She didn't want to turn around.

"... Or a car." I said and she sighed and turned around, "what do you want?"

I lifted both my hands up, and suddenly could smell her again, God her scent was so strong, and it kinda made me feel a bit bad about myself coz I could even feel how nervous she was, "not to fight.. Please. I just need to talk to you it's all."

"about what?" she asked then turned back around to try and open the door. It refused.

"do you need help with that?"

She moved from the door and lifted both her hands up, giving me a change to go to her door and actually attempt to open it.

She shrugged, "I don't know. I've been trying for a bit now and..." she immediately shut up when she had the door make a sound and finally open.

I smiled at her, "you were saying?"

She laughed a bit nervously, "you're awful.."

"that's true... I'm really awful and I really don't like it." I said suddenly becoming serious. I cleared my throat, "look I'm really sorry for how I was to you first day. I swear that wasn't me."

She bit the inside of her cheek and smiled a bit, "it wasn't you? I swear it was you.. You definitely both have that birth mark around your chin.."

After she said that I quickly took my hand and started to hide the birth mark. God she saw that it was not very much in view, you'd have to be paying attention to me in order to see it.

"why are you hiding it coz I already saw it?" she asked and I swallowed and removed my hand slowly on my face, "umh... It's embarrassing... And I'm surprised that you saw it."

"couldn't miss it..."

We stood there awkwardly with her car door opened, me next to it and her a few feet away. You'd swear this was my car and I was ready to leave.

"so.... were you going somewhere or avoiding me?"

She scratched her head and then sighed, "a little bit of both."

"I suppose that's why you are very hard to find umh.. Sorry I didn't get your name..."

"Anzania... I'm Anzania Mooi..." she said taking a step closer to shake my hand and I gave her a small smile for being so weirdly formal with me, before shaking her hand, "Allison Bush.."

She ached her brow and let go of my hand, "Bush...? As in..."

I shook my head as quickly as it registered what she could possibly say, "don't you dare Anzania turn into my 2nd grade bully."

She shut her mouth as soon as I said that and kept quiet. I looked at her and saw her smile a bit, then her smile became a bit weird. Her body started shaking and that's when I saw that the weird smile on her face was her suppressing laughter.

I pushed her off a little bit, "oh my God! are you kidding me??"

She busted out with laughter and a small smile creeped on my face when I realized how cute her laughter was. I could do with hearing that sound once in a while.

I bit my lower lip and watched her and she lost balance and came to lean on her car to try and not to fall. She tried to keep a straight face, "Nice to meet you miss Bush."

I kept quiet and just looked at her, that's when I noticed that she had one dimple on her left side and her eyes were a bit small. I smiled, she was cute... Worse in her uniform.

"nice to meet you too miss Mooi."

She nodded her head, "alright... Thank you for opening the door for me.. But now I think I have to go."

I furrowed my brows, "where are you going?"

She didn't answer immediately, she looked at me as if she was looking for something, then she shrugged after a few seconds, "I don't know.. Maybe in there.. Maybe back home."

"please don't leave on my account.. I mean I haven't seen you in there since the incident.. And it's been how long? 3 weeks...? God I have been stalking a cop for 3 weeks."

She smiled a bit, "should have made you look for me longer.. You were really rude that night. And I was not trying to be a nuisance, I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Coz I know how the guys can be."

I knew she meant it coz her face was serious and that made me feel even worse. But a question struck me. Since I saw her a bit interesting, I wanted to know if she does this to every woman because she's a cop or she only did it for me. I mean.. To me.

"do you do this to all the girls the guys annoy in there.. Coz I'm sure there is plenty. I literally overhead them plot on who can bed me first."

She furrowed her brows, "what? How did you hear that coz you were so far?"

Shit! Shit! Shit my big mouth. Of course I was far, but I have abilities that's how I heard them. I sighed and smiled to hide the lie I was about to utter, "oh come on.. They were loud enough for me to hear them. I mean they were not even being discreet about it. That's what pissed me off, made me feel like an object of theirs or something.."

She closed the door carefully not to bang it, "I can imagine.. I don't know how many times I have stopped them with that stupid game but they always tell me that I'm a lover and shouldn't pass that disease to them coz they are still young."

"so how many ladies have you checked on? Like be their superwoman after they were annoyed by the guys?" I pressed on my question. Somehow I really wanted to know how many.

She bit the inside of her cheek and I noticed that was a cute thing that she did way often than she actually thought. She did it when she was nervous about something. A habit I was starting to like about her.

"two... I mean mostly I would try to stop the guys.. Sometimes they listen and sometimes they don't."

"me the bitch and whom?"

She laughed, "Ava the bitch also... God I should have actually learnt from Ava's experience. She was also a bitch like you. I guess women really don't want to be helped huh."

Ava...? Who was that?

"well I'm glad you came to check on me even though I was a bitch. I mean I felt horrible when I got home after calming down. Then I vowed to look for you and find you and apologize."

"is this you apologizing?" she asked and I went next to her to lean on her car also, "not really. I was hoping you'd have a drink with me. So I can properly apologize. I mean right now we are out here in the wind and it's starting to be cold..." I had no idea what I was doing, but I couldn't stop coz I started already.

Her phone started ringing, she took it out and looked at me," sorry I have to take this..."

She put it on her ear, " hey you what's up?"

" what... Hey.. Ava.... Slow down. Ava listen..."

I looked at her worried. She groaned, "what? Where are you?"

"Ava where the hell are you?" she almost yelled that one.

She tried to open the car door but it was jammed again.

"fuck!"

"let me..." I said and she moved a bit as I got into position.

"I'm on my way.. No stay there don't move. I'm coming."

I opened the door and she quickly went in.

"is everything okay?" I asked, then I mentally hit myself a thousand times in my head. How could I ask such a stupid question? Of course things were not okay. She was kinda panicking right now.

She looked at me and then swallowed, "fuck... So you umh.. You wanted grab something with me."

"hey it doesn't have to be now.. I can see that your... Ava needs you. It's okay. So we can do it some other time?"

She nodded her head, "thank you so much Allison... We will talk okay."

I shifted a bit from her car, "yeah... Just don't avoid me this time."

She gave me a sad smile and left.

I hit myself on my head and thought, _please don't avoid me this time?_

What the fuck was wrong with me and my vocabulary? Why was I acting so weird around her?