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“I managed to work something out,” I murmured. “Brooklyn…you seem like you’ve been doing well.”
At some point, I’d even hoped that she was unable to forget like I was. Only, thinking that way was unfair, wasn’t it? If I couldn’t be with her, then she deserved to be happy with someone that would treat her right. That was the attitude I was supposed to have, anyway. I just didn’t like the idea at all.
She smiled mysteriously. “I have.”
I frowned slightly, wishing she would elaborate more. What do you mean by that smile, and what do you mean by ‘you have?’
She wasn’t even going to ask how I’d been the past six years. Even knowing I didn’t exactly deserve it, since I had been the one to end things between us back then, but I couldn’t help feeling a thread of disappointment.
“Can I ask if the two of you are busy right now?”
Brooklyn looked at Nora. Her expression was complicated, but I could see the contempt she felt for me and the care she felt for Brooklyn. I stiffened, wondering if she would get in my way and what I would I would do if she did. If Nora was around, Brooklyn and I talking for more than a few minutes wouldn’t be a simple thing.
In the end, though, she sighed and looked at Brooklyn with eyes full of apology.
“I actually have to get home now. Paul was supposed to call me today, and I don’t think it’s going to be a quick conversation. He’s out somewhere on a business trip and I won’t be able to see him for a while.”
Brooklyn didn’t look happy, and I wondered if Nora had another lying, cheating boyfriend.
“It’s fine,” Brooklyn said.
“Actually,” I cut in. “I was wondering if you would go out with me for drinks?”
She arched an eyebrow at me. “What, for old times’ sake?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “Why not?”
They shared a glance, then Nora sighed and picked up her purse.
“Do whatever you want, I need to go. I’ll come get you later, there’s still a lot of stuff left to do before the wedding.”
My lips flattened at the mention of a wedding, and Nora threw me a challenging look as she walked away. I was sure she’d done it deliberately, and I wondered how close it was to this wedding. My thoughts started going down a dangerous direction, but I cut them off. If Brooklyn knew what I was thinking, she would probably look at me with the same disgust as Nora was.
Besides, if she found someone she agreed to marry, could I even change her mind? I hurt her…
My heart ached, but I realized I brought this on myself, like shooting my own foot. During our relationship and when I chose to end it, I had been too young to be making such life changing decisions.
Brooklyn’s voice broke me out of my thoughts. “I want to head back and rest before Nora starts driving me crazy again, so why don’t we exchange numbers and we can meet some other day?”
I was already pulling my cell out, and I unlocked the screen and pulled up a new contact page, then handed it to her. She looked startled, but handed her own cell over then took mine. First, I searched through her contacts, frowning when I realized she really had deleted my number. I didn’t still have hers in my cell, I had hoped getting rid of everything that reminded me of her would help me forget, but I still had it memorized. I input my contact into her cell, then handed it over. When I got my cell, I looked at her name and number in my contact list, and felt a little short of breath.
“Friday,” I said suddenly, looking at her. “It’s Tuesday today, but can we meet this Friday?”
“Sure,” she said with a shrug and a smile. “Give me a call and I’ll let you know when I’ll be free. Laters, Abe.”
I watched Brooklyn turn her back to me and walk away without hesitation. I raised a hand to hold her back, mouth open to call her name. But I hesitated for a moment, and she was gone.
Just like six years ago.
Chapter Three
Brooklyn
I sat on the bed, hugging a pillow as I watched Nora going through my case, in a daze.
What the hell am I doing?
It was Friday, the day Abe and I would meet up. The whole day, Nora had kept me company, and we didn’t even talk about any wedding stuff for once. I had been panicking for most of the day, while she read me the riot act, but when I got the text from Abe, she was the first to jump up. I felt she was more anxious about this date than I was.
