As I was waiting for either Gabby or Aurora to turn up with the apartment key, Missy came and sat beside me.
"Hello Missy, what brings you here?",I asked her and she looked at me and pointed towards Roy, who was standing a few steps behind her.
I was surprised to see him with his niece but my questions were answered when she handed me my set of keys I had lost.
"Oh, thank you Missy. You've helped me with my biggest problem", I said and opened the door and added,"Would you like to come in Missy? I've got ice cream".
She looked at me longingly but turned towards Roy and so I turned towards him as well and said,"Roy, do you want to come in?"
"Sure Issy, I would love to",he said and I rolled my eyes at him. He grinned at me as though he hadn't saved me just a couple of minutes ago.
I invited them in and went to the fridge to grab the ice cream I had stocked last time. I reminded myself to restock it, as recently I had started to crave for ice cream.
"Here Missy, help yourself",I said as I handed her some scoops and helped myself with some as well.
"What about me?",Roy said and I replied,"You're not getting any",and Missy gave out a giggle, which surprised me and from the looks of it, even Roy.
In order not to make Missy feel awkward for her giggle, I added some more scoops into her bowl and said,"Have some more dear, even your uncle's share".
She giggled once more as she happily devoured the ice cream. Roy looked at her with a startled expression and I guessed that it might not be often that she giggled.
He looked at me and our eyes met for a brief moment, and he mouthed me 'thank you'. I smiled back at him and shrugged, to make him know that it wasn't my doing she was expressing herself with giggles.
After she had finished with her ice cream, she stood up to take her bowl to the sink and I let her.
"Do you want to go to the park with Missy and I? We were actually heading there when I saw you walking in a daze",Roy said to me
I wanted to go to the park and spend time with Missy as well but I didn't want to go there with Roy, lest he thought I was trying to get close to him, and with Alyssa in picture, I didn't want to be a home wrecker.
"I actually brought home work with me, and I can't afford to go to the park today",I shrugged and he nodded in understanding.
"Sure, no problem. Issy, about everything I said, I'm sorry. You know I say things before I think and I've hurt you the most",he said and when I didn't say anything, he continued,"Today when I saw you almost hit by Joshua's car.."
At the mention of Joshua's name, I looked at him, not so surprised that he might have known Joshua.
He smiled at me and added, "I didn't recognize it was him before, but today when I saw him with Elizabeth, I kind of figured that he was Dr. Joshua Williams. So, I know he isn't actually your boyfriend"
So much for making up a lie, I thought. I felt like a pathetic fool now, though it wasn't me who had made up that lie about Joshua being my boyfriend, but I hadn't denied it to him either.
"As I was saying, when I saw you almost getting hit by his car, I felt like my world had come to a stop. I have taken you for granted for long, but when I saw you just inches away from getting hit, I realized that I love you and you alone."
What nonsense was he spouting again? Why was this man so fickle minded? I couldn't afford to lose my heart to his sweet talking anymore, so I stopped him and said, "Roy, please don't start again. You already have Alyssa and I have moved on. Right now, nothing matters to me more than giving birth to my baby".
He started to say something but Missy entered the room and went to hold his hand, apparently gesturing to leave for the park.
I looked at her, got down on my knee to her level and said,"Missy dear, I live right here, so if you want to hang around sometime, I'm right here ok?"
"And we can have more ice cream and other good stuffs",I added which seemed to make her excited and nodded her head happily.
I laughed with her and they left, but as soon as I closed the door and turned to leave, the door bell rang again.
I thought it might be Roy and Missy coming back for some stuffs they might have left behind, so I opened the door and said,"You guys forgot something?"
"Who forgot what?",Joshua asked me and I was momentarily surprised to see him at the door.
"Missy and Roy, I thought it was them",I shrugged, not bothering with his changed expression at the mention of Roy's name.
"I see. Are we going to carry on the whole conversation here?",he asked and I smiled sheepishly and invited him in and he made himself comfortable in the living room, while I went to the kitchen to fetch him some fresh lemonade.
"So, you and Roy back together huh?",he asked me and I chuckled.
"Nope, I'm not 'back together' with Roy",I said,finger quoting the 'back together'. "But it looks like so to me",he shrugged.
'Why was he asking me all these questions out of nowhere?',I thought. And it didn't matter to him if I got back together with Roy or not, just as it didn't matter to me if he was together with his ex.
So I answered him,"I could say the same about you and Dr. Elizabeth"