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"I am so proud of you my baby and I will be fine, see you shortly." she smiled at Alexa and let go of her hands finally as she entered the theatre and the door was shut.
Few minutes later, Alexa could not bear the anxiety anymore, the whole thoughts of not knowing what was going on with her mother inside the surgery room was making her feel she should just badge into the room and stay by her mother's side but this was not possible.
So instead of pacing at the entrance of the theatre door, she decided to go and get some coffee, maybe it will ease the tension.
Just as she got a cup a coffee, she heard someone call her name so boldly.
"Alexa."
It was a familiar voice that called, she turned and behold it was her ex boyfriend Richie.
"Richie, what are you doing here? Are you following me?" She asked.
"Look who we have here, the queen of the hospital, who feels she owns it and no one else can come in to get treated without her permission," Richie sarcastically said out loud.
"Come on Richie, you know I did not mean it that way," Alexa said feeling intimidated because he was shouting and people were beginning to notice them arguing.
"What on earth will make you feel that I am following you. You that tortured me, starved me of happiness, you pretend to be innocent meanwhile you are as annoying as as hell, you.."
"Enough... keep it down and stop talking to me in that manner. I would not have you speak to me like that." Alexa shouted back at Richie.
"Just yesterday we were still dating and you claimed you loved me just as I did. But then, you ended it. So I would not tolerate you disrespecting me in the public. What has come over you?" Alexa was shocked at the way he was talking to her.
Yes, they had broken up on the phone the previous day yeah but she did not still expect him to be that rude and besides they were in a public place.
"In love....? I was the only one in love. I cared about you. All I asked was that you be fun and do crazy things with me. Be a little bit wild. That was all and yet you could not and yet you wanted me to keep supporting you. I could not Alexa, I definitely could not."
"So ,why are you here? To torment me with your words? Well, if that is the case you wasted your time. I am done with you making me feel bad for a relationship you, yourself ended. I am here with my mother and I am sure that the times we spent together being a couple you definitely remembered that she got her treatment from this hospital. So that is why I am here and stop following me about. You said we were done so let us stay that way, please." Alexa stated. Just as she was about to walk out in him, he blocked her path.
"You are not going anywhere." Richie said. By now, people had gathered around them as they argued.
"Are you not going to pay me back for everything I have done for you? Or are you going to pretend and lie as if I did not spend on you?" Richie attacked.
"What are you doing? You are embarrassing me, Richie. I know you were kind and all I wanted was for you to be patient with me."
She said still trying to escape this whole charade of a conversation from her ex.
While they were still arguing, the crowd around were whispering and murmuring among themselves saying all manner of untrue and salvage insults at Alexa.
"These kids of nowadays, all they do is to follow men and cause them to spend on them and yet they break their hearts," one if the onlookers said.
"Most of these men have families and responsibilities. But yet, they take care of their girlfriends. But those girls would end up being ungrateful," an elderly lady spoke to her friend who was witnessing the argument by Alexa and Richie.
"Look at her, she has an innocent face but yet she could do this to the poor man. Look at hi. He is feeling so bitter. Yes, she should pay for all his cares."
"I hate tramps like her, they are everywhere nowadays." Another man said to his wife.
As Alexa looked around the hospital, hearing all manner of insults been spoken about her by people who did not even know her, she sighed in frustration.
"Richie, is this what you wanted? To come here and humiliate me in front of everyone here, when you know my mother is ill and is in surgery right now?" She asked with folded arms.
"I should be by her side or at least by the entrance of the theatre so I can hear any news concerning her. You have kept me her ridiculing me, and for what? For what Richie huh?" Alexa now boldly spoke back at Richie,
"If you could not sleep with me then pay me back for all I did for you," he said.
"I will not pay you anything, because you claimed to have done it out of love for me then. So why ask for payment?"
"She has got a point there," another passerby said.
"Yeah. Why should she pay with her body?"
"It looks like he was after her body instead."
"Hmph. Pot calling the kettle black."
More whispers arosed from the people gathered. They could now see how the two youngsters' past relationship was about.
"All the times I was with you as well will you pay me back? Or is it sex? That is all you think of. Right, Richie?" Akexa asked tauntingly.
"I thought you were different but I can see you are not at all. You are just like every other man. You just want what is between my legs."