Mia's pov:
I hate when people do that. I be scared that they will read me and understand everything from my look. As much as I hate stepping back first, I had to. So I turned my head away and made space between us. No one had this effect on me, no one scared me just by gazing at me, not even my two ex-boyfriends.
I'm not scared of him of course. I can defend myself and he is no harm but I'm scared of him finding all the secrets my eyes hold. As they say, eyes say what the mouth doesn't.
Jason's pov:
When I heard the little kid thanking someone for the food, I turned to see who it was and it was no one other than her. So her name is 'Mia', short and sweet.
( Really man?)
I thought in my mind. I couldn't help myself wondering what she's doing here and the first thing I could think of is her stalking me. She had a crush on me in high school that everyone knew about so she is capable of stalking me now.
I walked toward her asking her my doubts to make things clear. But why am I expecting her to be honest with me? I mean, even if she's stalking me she won't be like 'Yeah, I still have this crush on you and I'm stalking you.'
Talking about that, does she still have a crush on me?
(Why do you care?)
I ignore that voice in my head because if I listen to it, things will be bad. It's been eleven years since I knew about her crush on me. It's now that I realise it's been SO long. I doubt she still does. And her attitude towards me while answering me proved it. Her face is so close to mine and her hazel eyes are glaring at me. I couldn't stop myself from finding her beautiful, her eyes are even more.
(You literally are saying about this woman that she is beautiful, do you realise that or I should make you?)
Damn. Yes she is a beautiful woman with gorgeous eyes but I shouldn't be thinking that. I have to stay away from her but for now, I couldn't do anything other than staring deep into her eyes, more like into her soul. Before I could find anything she turned her face away and put space between us.
Well, well, well. She is hiding something. I can tell that from the way she stepped back. She's anything but the type to step back first. She kicked a big man's balls after all.
(And you liked that.)
'It's not every day I meet women kicking men's balls to stand for themselves.' I answered my subconscious that doesn't stop its stupid comments on everything I think about.
When the silence started to get awkward, my friend jumped from behind me. "Hey man, I was looking for you." And when he noticed Mia's presence he added. "And...who is this beauty right here?" He confirmed what I was thinking.
"Hi, I'm Seb. It's actually Sebastian but everyone calls me Seb." He shook her hand and smiled at her. If he didn't have a girlfriend I'll think he's flirting with her. "I'm Mia, I'd be grateful if you don't call me 'beauty' it makes me uncomfortable."
"Like you can get uncomfortable." I muttered under my breath but from the look she gave me I bet they heard it. Just when she was on her way to answer which I'm pretty sure will be an insult, someone saved me. "Mia?! Hey!!" Whoever is this guy, I thank him in my heart for saving my life.
Mia's pov:
"Mia?! Hey!!" I turned to find no one other than Stephan. I didn't answer him so he added. "I was looking for you. I knew I'd find you here." He smiled that stupid smile he always does whenever he feels proud of himself. Why would he feel proud? He knows I be here every weekend at this time, this has been my routine for the past four years.
It's not like he discovered something new. I already feel annoyed with his presence. "Looking for me? Who'd think you're interested in me." I mocked him but he didn't take it bad. "You know I was."
"I insist on the past tense." I may sound rude but he deserves it. This Stephan here is my second ex-boyfriend. The first one, I didn't meet with him since we broke up. So, I was with Stephan two years ago for two months. He couldn't handle my routine for two months.
Stephan cared more about physical appearance. The only reason I was his girlfriend was because he asked me to be in front of a lot of his friends in a party and I couldn't embarrass him by saying 'No' so I said 'Yes' obviously. That may be stupid but still I did it and regretted it.
With this done, I decided to give him a chance. Stephan couldn't take it not meeting me the whole week. I'm busy in the restaurant at nights and during the day he is busy. He doesn't know where I work of course, that's a secret and I didn't trust Stephan enough to tell him. And then on weekends I be busy in the orphanage so he came with me to spend time together. That's how he knew I'll be here.
When he couldn't take more, he sent me a text saying that he was breaking up with me. Who the hell breaks up with a text when he proposed in public? The answer is 'Stephan'. Anyway, I'm not a person to take a breakup by text so I called him and asked to meet to solve the issue but he refused.
I didn't insist on meeting but I insisted on the reason of the breakup. There came the answer that made me hate Stephan and want to take his heart from its place whenever I see him. Yes, I met him many times after the breakup.
He told me that he thinks the reason I'm busy at night is because I work in a nightclub, as a w**re. I still don't know how comes he's still alive. He was definitely right for not accepting to meet because if we did, I would have killed him for saying that.
I know it's suspicious that I'm not free at nights especially that he doesn't know where I work, well I told him I work in a simple restaurant where the busiest worker leaves at 10pm, but that doesn't give him the right to think of me like that. That's an insult I would never forgive.
He should be grateful I didn't beat the sh*t out of him but no, he had the nerve to talk to me again and more, ask to be friends. "What do you want?" I didn't care about what he wanted but I had to get rid of him. "Just to meet and...maybe have some time together?!" That was more like a question than a request.
"Is your girlfriend busy or she just left you because she found out what kind of an a**hole you are?" Here is something about me, when someone did nothing bad to me, I would never and I mean never think of doing something bad to them or even embarrass them. But when someone hurts me or disrespects me, I would never and I mean never miss the chance of embarrassing them. Still, I do nothing to hurt them emotionally (except embarrassing them when I get the chance) but physically, I do.
From the side of my eye, I can see Jason and Seb looking at me with shock but trying to hide it so Stephan doesn't get...embarrassed? Why would they care? Anyway, to finish this, I spoke. " My future husband here is taking me to dinner, so, I can't." I thought I was gesturing at Seb but I was gesturing at Jason. Oh come on. He raised one eyebrow to what I said as to say: "Really? Future husband? Me?"
I ignored that look and turned back to Stephan hoping he won't ask any further questions and just leave. Thank heavens he did exactly as I hoped. Now I have a problem. I just called Jason my future husband so to correct the mess that may be created, I turned giving him the deadly glare I give every time I'm angry. "Don't flatter yourself, I'm not even interested."
With that, I left without waiting for his answer or even saying goodbye to Seb and if my hair wasn't in a bun, I would have flipped it behind my shoulder like I'm so proud of what I said.
I barely leave my hair free because I'm all the time in the kitchen and I can't take the risk of people finding hair in the food I make.