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Thankfully, he did.
Tanya answered on the second ring. I explained to her what happened. She just listened. I was so damn worried. I hadn’t spoken to her last night because my phone was lost. Now, this crap was all over Chatty Pepper. I didn’t need this. Sedona didn’t need this. We didn’t need this.
I must have called 10 times and left messages each time. John finally took the phone away from me.
All day, I was on the edge. My last message was for her to call me through John’s phone.
It was already 7 at night. Our team was now at the airport, waiting for our plane to leave in an hour and a half for New York. She still hasn’t called.
Every time, John received a call, my heart jumped. Maybe it was her. But each time, it wasn’t. I was so nervous that she wouldn’t call back.
Sedona was a no-nonsense girl. If she saw the photos, she would run through the facts. The glaring fact was that I was that I was hugging a girl who was not my girlfriend, pretty intimately. She would ask me what happened, right?Right. How come she hasn’t called?
I was standing at the far end of the airport’s lounge, away from my teammates, looking through the window. The plane that we were about to board was on the tarmac. We were going to be in that floating bus for almost 3 hours. 3 hours of no contact with her. What if she called at that time?
John came up to me, handing me his phone “It’s for you.”
Finally, it was her. Relief rushed through me.
“Babe, I was so worried you wouldn’t call,” I rushed.
She was quiet, I listened to her breathe. Finally, she asked, “Who was she?”
The overhead intercom made the announcement that our plane would start boarding in 15 minutes.
“I just hugged her. Nothing happened, babe,” I staggered, “Nothing happened.”
“Ok, I get it, Zander, nothing happened.” Her voice was cold, distant. “My question was, ‘Who was she?’ Did you meet her at a bar? At the hotel lobby? Last time I checked, the football team didn’t travel with women.”
I winced, “Holly is one of the members of the cheering squad that travel with us to away games.”
“Oh,” her voice was definitely off, “You guys travel with cheerleaders?”
“Yeah,” I explained, “They go on different flights and buses. I’ve known her for a while.”
“How long?” she asked, “And what was she doing in your room? It looked like you were ready for bed.”
“She was, umm,” the next words were going to screw me royally; there was no going back from this, “my ex-girlfriend.”
Her voice was deadly calm, “You travel with your ex-girlfriend to away games? We’ve been together for how many months now and you’re just telling me this?”
She let out a sigh.
“So let me get this straight, you were getting ready for bed. Your ex-girlfriend travels with you. Then, she hugs you in the middle of the night or morning, whatever. In your sleeping clothes.” Her voice was really strained at this point.
“It’s not what it looks, babe,” I dug myself in a deeper hole, “I didn’t tell you she traveled with us because it was insignificant. Holly and I were only together for a few months. It was a long time ago.”
I saw my teammates lining up to board the plane.
She spoke again, softly this time, “I’ll talk to you when you get back.”
I struggled, “Babe, I’m sorry. Please, it’s not what it looks like.”
She let out a sarcastic rasp, “Zander, it is what it is. I’ll talk to you when you get back.”
“I’ll call you when we land. I really want to talk to you some more but we have to board the plane now.” I did not want to let this go but we were boarding.Great fucking timing.
“Just text me or email me. I have a lot of stuff to do,” her reply was terse, short.
