Aileen
“We are over, Aileen! I don’t want to look at your face any longer.”
“You grew jealous over Layla. She’s my old childhood friend. I can’t cope with your jealousy any longer.”
Wait, please listen to me, Jack.
I won’t get jealous any longer. Don’t break up with me. I can-
“No, there’s nothing left between us. I was never into you anyway.”
This is not true right? Jack. You are breaking up with me?
Jack! Jack!
The vibration on my legs made me snap open my eyes.
I looked around me to find myself in a taxi.
I took out the phone from my jeans and picked it up.
“Hello?”.
“Aileen, where are you dear?” my mom spoke from the other end of the phone.
“Um…”.
“Where are we?” I asked the driver.
“20 minutes from the destination.”
“You heard him.”
“Give me a call when you get out of the taxi.”
“Dave will come and pick you up by the car.”
I blinked for a second in disbelief. “What?”.
“Come again?”.
“I said Dave will come and pick you up with a car. Give me-“.
“W-why’s he coming to pick me up?” I stuttered. “He could send any servants or a driver!”.
“Yes, I was planning on doing that. But, one of the drivers is absent today. And that’s why he said he’ll go and pick you up himself.”
My heart started beating loudly when I heard this news.
“Anyway, take care. I’ll see you after you arrive.”
“W-wait, Mom-“ she had hung up on me before I could finish my sentence.
Why is she sending him to pick me up?
Gosh! I need to mentally prepare myself for that.
Meeting him after two years…..I wonder how much has changed in him.
I, myself have changed a lot.
I’m not the little girl that he used to see me as.
The taxi stopped by the side of the road, and I got off standing with my luggage in hand.
I called Mom, but she wasn’t picking up the phone.
Where is she at? Do I have to stand here on this hot afternoon?
I roam my eyes here and there while dialing her number several times.
The sound of a car horn drew my attention.
And as I turned around a black car arrived in front of me.
I stepped away in fear.
“Did you wait long?” a voice asked from inside the car.
“What?”.
The window came down, and I saw Dave staring at me with a warm smile.
I felt my heart racing at the sight of him smiling at me.
God, why did you have to make him look so handsome and charming? I can’t take my eyes off him.
The noise of the traffic and everything didn’t bother me any longer. And I felt like there were only the two of us in the world, looking into eyes each.
A moment felt like an eternity.
“Aileen!” he raised his voice, calling towards me.
I snapped back to reality, looking at him in shock.
“Did you wait long?” he asked again for the second time.
“Uh…um…” I lowered my gaze feeling embarrassed for looking at him like a creep.
“No….not that long….”.
“Good to hear that,” he replied, opening the door.
He got out of the car and took my luggage in hand.
“Come and sit at the front. I’ll put your luggage at the back,” he suggested.
At front? I’ll be sitting next to him.
Should I tell him I’ll sit at the back?
Well….I looked up at him.