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Reluctantly, Lexi clicked on the message and read it to herself. "Sorry it's early and for everything else. Call me. Please. Miss you."
Lexi banged her head back and against the pillow case several more times in frustration. This could not be happening to her right now. She knew that she should wait to make the phone call. She had an incredibly attractive male making her breakfast downstairs and the last person, well second to last person if you counted Jack, she needed to talk to in that moment was Ramsey. But she couldn't just ignore him. Something was up or else he wouldn't be calling her. She couldn't just leave him hanging like that and despite her better judgment, she phoned him.
"Lexi," he breathed into the other line.
His voice sent chills up her spine and the intense way he said her name only made it worse…or better depending on how you looked at it. A wave of peppermint seemed to overtake her at the sound of her voice. She couldn't believe that the taste of him could be so alive in her mind when he was thousands of miles away in Atlanta. She shook her head from her imagination and answered him, "That's right."
"Hey," he muttered surprisingly at a loss of words.
"Hey," she said back.
"Uh, how have you been?" he asked obviously fishing for information.
"I've been great Ramsey. Did you need something?" she asked cutting the conversation as short as she could.
"Yeah, we have a lot to talk about."
Lexi shook her head. No. She could not do this right now. "I don't think we do."
"Come on. You know we do," he told her.
"Well now isn't a great time," she said glancing around the loft.
"Oh, yeah, it's early. Sorry about that," he said. She could almost feel him scratching him head at that statement.
"It's fine. Did you need something or were you just calling this early to chat?" she asked being as rude as she ever had been with Ramsey. Depending on the day he could bring that side out of her better than anyone else she had ever met.
"No I have something to ask you," he stated hesitantly.
"Ok," she said curiously. She knew that it would be better if she got off the line with him. She was at some other man's house, and it was too early in the morning for this kind of conversation. The last thing she wanted to do was be reminded of her past right now.
"Look I don't really know how to ask this of you so I guess I'll just spit it out. Will you go to my sister's wedding with me?" Ramsey asked in a rush.
Lexi sat there in silence unable to believe what she had just heard. She couldn't honestly believe that Ramsey would be asking her to go to the wedding. She had been doing everything she could not to have any knowledge of the wedding at all. She didn't know any of the specifics regarding the happenings, and it hadn't exactly been easy to keep her head down and out of the news. She hadn't received an invitation, which hadn't surprised her all that much. On one level, she had been surprised Bekah's vindictive side hadn't surfaced and invited her out of her spite. Another part of her was even more surprised that Jack hadn't been begging her to come back again. After all, another year had rolled around, and it was about time for him to try to ruin her life.
She hated having to think about Jack that way. Even though she had let him go back in the Atlanta airport, she couldn't help but reminisce back to the good times of their so-called relationship. Apparently, he hadn't been thinking about that or else her comments when leaving him behind had struck home.
Either way, she hadn't received the invitation to which she had been silently praying against. Thus, she had no idea of the date, time, or place of the wedding. She told herself this was more for her sanity's sake, but she wasn't sure if that was the only reason. She didn't trust herself enough to not to go, and she knew that she would only make a fool of herself if she made the mistake of attending.
That brought her back to reality. Ramsey had just asked her to attend the wedding she had been pointedly avoiding at all costs for the past year. He wanted her to go with him to see Jack and Bekah say their vows and become legally tied to each other. He wanted her to go to a wedding that he didn't even want to attend.
There was only one explanation. Ramsey had lost his mind. There was no other way to describe it. He must think she was completely crazy or possibly even a different person to suggest this course of action to her. He had to know, if anyone knew, that there was no way she was going to be in attendance.
"Lexi, are you still there?" Ramsey questioned anxiously into the phone.
She snapped out of her trance. "Yes."
"Yeah?" he asked excitement evident in his voice.
"Yes, I'm still here," she mumbled.
"Oh," he said sullenly, "I thought you meant yes you would go with me."
"Oh, no," she replied shaking her head side to side even though he couldn't see her.
"Lexi, please."
"Ramsey, are you out of your mind?" she asked running her fingers through her long brown hair as she tried to keep her voice level and under control. The feat was proving rather difficult to accomplish. How dare he ask her such a ridiculous request!
"Probably a little bit," he admitted his voice wavering.
"You'd have to be crazy to think that I would go with you," she said pinching herself to keep from yelling at him over the phone.
"Is this about me or Jack?"
Lexi huffed out an angry breath. "Do you really have to ask that?" she grumbled.
"You're right. You're right," he quickly amended. "Sorry for asking."
"Whatever. Ramsey, I'm not going to that wedding with you or with anyone," she told him firmly.
"Lexi what happened a couple weeks ago…"
"Please don't," she whispered into the phone laying her forehead into her hand and wishing she had gone with her first instinct and ignored the call.
"I am sorry about…everything," he murmured his voice filled with emotion.
"I know. You said that."
"I just…I don't want to go with anyone else," he told her.
Lexi could feel the tears beginning to well in her eyes at the admission. She really did not need this right now. She quickly swiped at her eyes hoping the effect of his words wouldn't show through on her face.
