ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Cross Pov

“What? Why? I thought, I, I don’t even know how to fucking respond to this, what the fuck happened? Dude,”

Did I ask, of all the ladies his sister? Okay not his sister, they are not blood-related, her mom raised him, for about ten years or so and he saw her as his sister, or maybe not.

“I don’t know what came over me, I lost it for a moment and it happened, now she is not talking to me,”

“Dude, this is bad,”

“I know, and it has been bothering me all week, I couldn’t even get a hold of you, you were in the Bahamas having the time of your life,”

“How did it happen though, you have never told me you fancied her, or was it a weak moment gone wrong?”

“I can’t explain it alright, I came back to New York after your wedding and met her in the house alone crying and drinking, all I wanted to do was comfort her but I went too far, she didn’t seem to have a problem with it, she went as far as saying we were both adults and that I didn’t have to feel bad, I apologized and she left, and since then I haven’t been able to get a hold of her, she blocked my number and when I called her with another number, she ended the call as soon as she noticed it was me, I don’t even know what to do, she has a court hearing in two days and I still can’t get a hold of her,”

He explained.

“Wow, this is intense, but I am sure she will show up, Grace might be everything wrong but she isn’t one to shy away from something, just give her time,”

I advised.

“I hope so, I want her to be okay before the stuff that happened she said she was going to get her life back together, you have no idea how happy I was, now I don’t know what to think, she has been through so much and the thought that I added to that is not sitting well with me,”

He said.

“I understand how you feel, you just have to give her time, she knows what’s best for her, I believe so, just make sure to let her know she got you whenever, I don’t have to tell you that for real, you already do so much for her, I am sure she will pull herself back together and reach out to you, what about you though?”

“What do you mean,”

“I mean are you okay? Grace aside,”

“Yes, I am fine, just that I don’t see myself looking at any other lady all I think about is her, I think she bewitched me or something,”

“That’s just your guilty mind, and about my wife and me, we de…”

“Wow, she is a wife now, that’s nice, I knew something would happen, you were on about a marriage for the show, and now not up to a week later, you are going the ‘my wife way,”

“Okay, dude shut up, at least I am not the only one who can’t keep my hands away from a woman I shouldn’t be touching,”

I said, I didn’t know how he would take my joke and considered apologizing right after I said it but he butters our laughing.

“Okay, that hits but yeah we are both in this together, and the fun part is, I don’t regret what happened,”

He replied, I felt the same, I don’t regret what happened with Kathy and me and how I shifted the focus only after a week, I liked having her with me in bed, I liked how she felt beneath me and on me, I liked the fact that she wasn’t shying away from me.

“Neither do I regret what happened with Kathy,”

“So? Does this mean the contract she signed is none and void and also does this mean all the other ladies are in the past or are you going to keep up your fling lifestyle?”

“Contract has been forgotten, I ain’t a cheater so yeah other ladies gone too, until we call it to quit, and we are a real couple but more like friends with benefits, I don’t love her neither does she live me and I have no plans of falling for her neither does she,”

“You sound so sure, as sure as you were when you said the marriage won’t be real, but just a week into it and it on friends with benefits with you proudly showing off your wedding ring, I will bet my whole fortune that in the next three to four months it would be a love thing,”

He replied.

“That’s not gonna happen and you know it,”

“I use to know but times change, a hell lot of things have changed, you changed too, I did, I use to just see Grace as my little sister and closest I had to a family but now I can’t look at her that way again, if anyone had told me that will happen I would have punched the person, so never say never dude, especially not with that wife of yours, she already got you around her fingers, it won’t be long before you are head over heels for her,”

“It’s not going to happen, man, this was unavoidable but falling in love is not gonna be possible, ten whole year’s nothing happened and she ain’t gonna change that,”

“Let’s just watch and see, don’t say I didn’t tell you,”

I knew it won’t happen, the only woman I have ever loved and lost, Ginna, she is the only one my heart has ever beaten for, no one else, if she shows up right now whatever hots I have for Katherine might fade away, I have tried to fall for other women in the past but it never worked, I gave up and choose to deal with women who didn’t want anything to do with commitment at least that’s how they appear at first until they start demanding for more and I wall away without feeling anything, it wasn’t my fault that my heart only opened for one woman.

“Have you heard from Anna?”

He asked changing the topic, I gladly smiled and nodded.

“Yes, and she is having twins,”

“Wow, that’s nice, is she doing okay? What about the babies?”

“Yeah, I asked and she said the doctor said they are all fine and she was glowing the last time I talked to her,”

“That’s another thing that has changed too, Anna, she came out of nowhere and she got you wrapped around her fingers too, dude just admit it, you are a sucker for the women in your life,”

He teased.

“Look who is talking, you are no different from me man,”

“Yeah, maybe that’s why we are friends because we have nothing else in common, but for real though I wish everything will work out fine, I am seriously considering taking a break from work and just traveling around, maybe that will give her space because each time I go home and know she is somewhere there but not talking to me, I feel bad all over again.”Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

He revealed I didn’t even know she moved in with him, they use to live apart.

“You guys moved in together?”

“Yes, sometimes last month, she had issues with her renter or something.”

“I see, but don’t worry though, she will be fine,”

“I hope so,”

He replied.

“I just thought I would stop by to say hi, I have something to do so I will be off now,”

He said getting up, we exchanged a handshake and he left, leaving me with my work again, I expected Kathy to call me but she didn’t which means she really knew her way around New York, I let all thought of other stuff go and concentrated on finishing the work I had on the ground…