Chapter 5

For the rest of the week after we had lunch I busied myself with work and enrolling into community college to maybe start pre law classes in the spring.

Another week passed with out a word from Chris as he had promised and I was done watching my phone waiting and hoping that the handsome, kind and funny man I had meet would call and set up a date like we had planed to.

“Come on Sash please for me” Sofia has been asking me to go with her to this new club but it’s not really my kind of thing so I really don’t want to go.

“Please, please, pretty pretty please just one night it will be fun”

“Fine okay will you get back to work now” I laugh pushing Sofia away from the register and point to the shelf she had been dusting when she first asked me.

Closing up the Shop for the night me and Sofia walk to the max and go our separate ways agreeing to meet up in two hours at my house since its closer to downtown.

Walking through the front door I see a bouquet of beautiful red roses on the kitchen table and walk over to them seeing a card in the middle I carefully take it seeing my name written on it.

“Those where on the porch when I pulled up after work” Tommy informs me as he pulls his suitcase to the front door.

“Did you see anyone as you were pulling up”

“Nope just the roses and the card” he gives me a hug and tells me to open the card to see who could of left them. I open the small ivory card and read aloud.

“I’m sorry” is all that it says and I turn it around to see if maybe who ever sent them left their name but the card was blank on the back.

“Okay then well don’t burn the place down or get knocked up I'll see you in a month” Tommy gives me a tight hug, kissing me on the top of the head like he always does to remind me that I'm short. Tommy has to go away every few months for work and stays away for a month or two and I hate it when he goes so we agreed he wouldn’t tell me before hand when he would be leaving, he would just send a text or call me from the airport or like today just give me a quick hug and kiss on the head and off he would go.

I've been dancing with Sofia for the last hour turning down not so attractive guys and drunks who think they can dance due to liquid courage. A few more song changes and I'm more then ready for a drink or two and I need to get off my feet.

I grab Sofia by her hand and drag her off the dance floor and make a b-line for the bar ordering us both a vodka tonic. While I'm waiting for our drinks I spot a familiar face at the end of the bar. Chris is standing with a tall girl on his right with her arm around his waist and she seems to be talking to another girl whos standing with a few other guys and a couple more girls.

Our eyes meet across the bar and with an expression I can’t read Chris leans over and says something to his friends then comes walking over to me with quick steps. Once he’s reached me he leans down so were almost face to face and I can feel the anger coming off of him so to lighten the mood I jokingly say “Stalking me now”

"What the fuck are you doing here Sasha” taken back by his cold tone and very rude question I push off my bar stool and start to walk away but he stops me by grabbing my arm “What did you think that because I fucking sent you flowers you can just start to fucking follow me around like some hungry bitch”

"Fuck you Chris I'm here with Sofia” i try to pull my arm out of his tight grip but he only grabs me harder "Let go Christopher your drunk and your hurting my arm" he let's go with a little shove and stumble back a little bit bumping in to a waitress with a tray full of thankfully empty classes.

"Fuck you Chris you fucking asshole" I have never been so hurt or mad at someone I had just meet in my whole life, here I thought Chris was a nice guy and then the flowers even though I didn’t know they were from him.

I had a feeling they were but still he doesn’t know me well enough to call me out as if I had been following him around like some kind of stalker. I mean how do I know that he didn’t follow me here and drag his friends along to make it seem like he was just randomly here.

I make my way through the crowded dance floor looking for Sofia and I find her with some tall good looking guy dancing as if they were the only once here and in a very sexual way that I'm sure would make a stripper blush.

"Hey I'm gonna head home k I've got to open the shop tomorrow" I yell into her ear.

“Okay we can go” She yells back in my ear making me move my head away so she didn’t blow my ear drum.

“No it’s ok you stay and have fun just call me when you leave and when you get home” she tells me okay and I give her a kiss on the cheek and a wave as I push my way back through the crowd of dancing drunk weirdos and out the entrance to wait for my Uber.