The atmosphere around here has became stuffy. Luke is having an emotional breakdown. Regina is trying to get hold of the situation where else Mike has no idea what was going on. Dalton stayed quiet and served drinks to the other customers.
" I know I have lot to say to you guys. So, please just hear me out okay?. It wasn't easy for me either."
I began to talk about the whole incident regarding the marriage contract between me and Stella, my relationship with Regina and how I fell in love with Stella during this time. Four of them including Dalton stayed quite and heard my story. Luke was some what a bit calmer than before after hearing everything.
" Dude you're such an idiot." Luke yelled out
" You're such an idiot." Regina yelled out next with a nasty and disgusted face.
" You are an idiot-" Mike said but I cut into his speech.
" Seriously?! You too Mike?" I gave them a
'what the heck is wrong with you' type look.
" It's your fault to begin with. Why the hell you had a fight with her and most importantly, you haven't even apologised to her!" I hadn't told the Ray thing yet so, they put the blame on me.
Fantastic!
" Guys! Will you listen the whole thing then judge me please?" I pleaded holding my two hand and told them the Ray incident.
" You were jealous." Regina stated with straight face.
" Wha?" I was surprised.
" Ray is trying to make you feel jealous by spending time with Stella. How can you not see it? Isn't that obvious?" Regina scolded me like a child for doing something wrong.
" Yeah man. Regina's right beside, that's a childish move bro. How can you fall for that?" Mike added also with Regina's vicious scolding.
" I don't understand how come you didn't told me any of this? Was I dead ?" Luke blurted out like a dumbass.
All of us moved our head to see him and literally rolled our eyes at his behaviour.
" Luke!" Regina shouted at him to shut him up.
" A male best friend of a girl is always a great pain in the ass. They stay in the friend zone with them during the whole time and when she gets into a relationship they just have to confess their feelings around that time. Most annoying thing ever." Dalton spoke up while making a cocktail. His sudden appearance made us realise that he is also in the conversation.
" That doesn't matter because Stella doesn't like him so, Theo may have a chance." Mike stated that there is a possibility.
" I think you are right Mike. Theo should confess to Stella before Ray decided to tell her about his feelings." Regina said.
" Wait! You guys are forgetting something. First he should apologise to his wife then he should tell about how he feels towards her." Dalton spoke up in the middle.
" I guess there's no other option. I have to tell her." I blankly replied with a half hearted smile.
" Yeah dude! Show her how much you wanna pound her like a beast." Once again Luke said something that was completely unnecessary.
" How much did he drink?" Regina asked Dalton since he was giving his the shots of alcohol. Mike carried Luke to the bathroom as he was feeling sick. He wanted to puke after consuming so much alcohol.
Damn it! I'm the one who should be drunk and depressed not you Luke!
" I am happy that you found someone to love." Regina started to speck to me.
" Well, for an ex, you are being quiet supportive of my relationship with Stella." I chuckled and laughed softly.
" What's there to not support? Stella is my friend I'm happy that she won't have to divorce you." Regina pressed her lips together and flattened her eyebrows.
" I'm sorry for what happened between us. I should have apologised to you first. After all I had wasted almost two years of your life." I politely told her.
" Don't be. You know I'm really thankful to Stella. Honestly if it wasn't for her I would have never broken up with you. I didn't knew what was an actual relationship before she came to my life."
" You're talking like you fell in love with her."
" On the country if she was a guy I'd definitely dated her."
Regina chuckled while taking a sip of her drink then continued
" You and I are same. We only gave value to our work and rest is just unnecessary stuff. I never realised that our relationship was so empty, everything was so mechanical and instrumental like a robot.
As much you wasted my time, I have also done the same to you. In fact if it wasn't for Stella we would have married each other and had an empty relation, perhaps we would have gotten a divorce later in our life."
Listening to Regina's words made me look into myself and think deeply about the way I had spent my whole life.
Did I ever spend my life like a human?
Or lived like a human?
" At least you had the courage to break up with me. You were honest to your feelings. Sadly it took me so long to figure out what I really wanted and even now I couldn't expressed my emotions to her." With remorse I replied back to her.
" You know I had started to notice the changes in you. I thought that Stella was leaving a good impact on you. But not even for once I felt that you were in love with her."
" It's so bizarre that you were my girlfriend and you trusted my wife more than me. To be honest Stella also left good impact on you. Remember the time you were eating fried chicken when you only eat food cooked by five star chefs." I mocked her with my sarcasm.
" You know my father grew me up like a princess. I always got what I wanted. We had three chefs at home who always cooked any type of dish I asked for. I had never really had fast food. But you see, it's not the food, it's the person you are eating with." Regina took another sip of her drink and a smile appeared on her face. She continued again
"When you told me about Stella I really wanted to just look down upon her but my first impression of her made me feel so comfortable. She was so welcoming and had a laid back attitude. I didn't had any good friends because of my bitchy attitude. Somehow she totally understood me."
~to be continued