Re-acquainted
As he was driving back home, Aaron's excitement was seemless and touched the skies and above. He was too eager to share his experience and how happy he was that he could finally finish the video before his examinations began.
However, he reaches Ravine's house to see her car from the garage was taken by her. She was out of home. He immediately dials her number.
"Hey, baby girl!" He's attended his call on the third ring. He was quite curious about her sudden busy schedule. She didn't even talk to him about it.
"Hi, baby boy! How are you?" She responds vividly slower than usual. It roughly took her a couple of seconds to respond to him.
"Where are you?" Asks the man.
"I've come to my studio. It's going to take some time! Wanna drop by?" She asks in a louder voice, pitching against the background noises that disrupt their conversation.
"Okay! Want me to grab something for you?"
"Yes please! Buns and cream!" Saying swiftly, she cuts the call. He was curious about her busy-ness, he wanted to check it out quickly.
He makes a stop at a local bakery to grab something for his girlfriend. He enters the shop filled with customers as he walks to the counter to order.
"Hello..." his voice dies down. The waitress in front of him was none other than the only woman he loathes in his life.
It was his nameless ex-girlfriend.
He refuses to even acknowledge her by her name.
"You." She hears the incredible loathing he had in his voice towards her. Tears begin to form in her eyes as they look at each other.
"Aaron! Aaron, wait!" She cries behind him, the customer who was walking away without giving his order.
"Aaron, wait! I'm sorry!" She cries again.
It seemed to him that she was doing better now than before.
Those were the days he supported her in more than one ways. He was supporting her financially as well as emotionally, physically and everything a good teenage boyfriend could provide to his girlfriend. She took the next step and fell into the ditch for herself, he walked past her so easily since.
The girl clings to his arm as he was about to abode on his bike. He regrets not borrowing one of Ravine's cars to fetch her back. At least he could have avoided the nuisance that stung to him like a bee, the poison leaving very slowly but surely.
He imagined, that he would roll up the car window even if it broke her fingers and just ignored her while she threw her shoe on the car as he would be leaving. He also imagined to beat her up for what she did to his naive heart a few months ago. But his super-ego sorted him out and told him jail wasn't a nice place.
Also, he would be lonely without Ravine in the prison, even for a day.
He sharply exhales when she clinged to his arm. He glares down at her ugly crying face. Now that he realized, she never looked beautiful. She was only pretty from the outside and rotten from the inside. Till date, he did not know the reason why she left him for that man. That too, in his own room and house. What made her do that?
"Aaron, please. I'm sorry. J-just hear me out." Says the woman.
"Hear you out?" Fours months of bitterness towards her flowed out in that question. She gasps sharply, loosening her grip on his well built arm. She stares at him who's changed so rapidly just in a few months.
He's grown manlier and sexier, not to forget the maturity that bloomed on his face.
Maybe this was the perfect effect of symbiotic company. They bloomed and helped each other bloom together. They were each other's support, unlike the girl and Aaron who were only dependent on each other for sex. The girl went as far to exploit his naivety and take money from him for her own benefits.
Looking back, he realises how much of a fool he was.
He just imagined one more thing. If she ever discovered he was Skiez, what might have actually happened to him? He would become a forced labor of that woman and devote his life only to fulfill her needs with his money.
"Okay, I'll hear you out." He says, yanking his arm away from her to listen.
"Aaron I'm sorr—"
"Jump to the point, or I'm leaving." He threatens her with actions as he begins to climb his bike and turn it on. She tugs him by his arm again. It seemed to him that her explanation might be genuine.
However genuine, she will never be forgiven by him. He's learned to be strong while staying with a woman like Ravine. She was the strongest of them all, he regarded her highly in that aspect. She was wise and filled with knowledge to keep herself safe. But at some point of time, even she was a failure in love.
In a condition much worse than he was ever in as a man, in comparison.
"Aaron, I did that because I had a sugar daddy before I got into a relationship with you." Aaron takes some time to process her words. As he did, he scoffs loudly.
Not at her, but at himself. He was such a fool to be used by a taken woman. A woman who stooped low to sell her body consensually for money to an older man.
"You loved money more than me? You loved money... before me?" He asks the girl. Her eyes were as wide as saucers. Somehow, they both were reconnecting their memories as she speaks in a whisper tone.
"I've never loved anyone other than you, Aaron. I'm sorry for what I've done. I really am. You- you're the best man a woman could ever ask for." She says, her voice shaky as ever. Her ingenuity and sincerity scares him.
She was actually in love with him.
That's why she came back the next day to rap on his door and beg him to take her back.
Because... a man like Aaron cannot help but be loved by whom he chooses. Even for a couple of months. They should and must fall for him, head over heels. That's just how the man is.
