Mason stood staring at his front door that had been slammed in his face like he was a common beggar. He pounded angrily on the door. "Jason!" He kept hitting the door severally but no one answered the door, it was as if Jason and his companion had both decided to completely ignore him.
Mason ran his hands through his hair as he blew out a breath. It was beginning to get dark and he was supposed to be in his house resting. What wrong has he done to deserve this from his brother? Why would Jason choose to bring his girlfriend or whoever that lady was to his house when he had his own apartment?
"Jason, I'm so going to kill you!" He groaned, balling his fist.
After standing there for several minutes and realizing that no one was going to open the door for him, he decided to go back to his car. The first thing he was going to do before breaking his brother's nose would be to take his house keys back from him, that's if he doesn't kill him first.
Mason sat in his car with hopes that his brother would finish up whatever he was doing with his companion and let him back into his apartment. But after an hour of waiting, he began to get restless, he was starving and needed to eat something. He dialed Jason's number again, but there was no answer it kept going to voicemail.
"Jason, you had better be having R.I.P hanging on your neck when I see you because I'm so going to kill you!" Mason said, dropping a message for his brother before driving out to get himself dinner.
*****
"Maddie....." Ava pulled back her friend as she was about to walk into the fancy restaurant. When Maddie suggested that they go out to celebrate her new job, Ava was thinking they were just going to grab a bite and not come somewhere as fancy as this.
"What is the matter?" Maddie asked her.
"This place looks expensive," Ava said eyeing the doorman who was holding the door open for them. Maddie laughed off her worries and pulled Ava with her into the restaurant.
"You worry too much," Maddie said to her.
"We can't afford to eat in this kind of place Maddie," Ava said, but Maddie didn't listen to her as she followed a waitress who showed them to a table.
"Maddie!" Ava called out in a warning tone.
"Ava sit down, don't worry I'm paying," Maddie said with a smile, flashing a credit card in her face.
Ava pulled out a chair and sat down across from her friend. "Who's card is that?"
"Ricke's, he gave it to me, he said to use it to take you out," Maddie said.
"He did?" Ava asked in surprise. She didn't quite believe Maddie's boyfriend gave her his credit card.
"Well not technically, I told him I wanted to get something for myself and he gave me his card, what better way to spend the money than with my best friend?" Maddie said.
"Really?"
"Yeah, but I'm not to exceed a certain amount of course. Girl, you just landed a good job, it's worth celebrating, now stop worrying and order something, you look famished!"
"Oh yes I am," Ava said laughing as she picked up the menu. "Thank you," she said to Maddie, meaning it.
Maddie reached across the table and gave her hand a gentle squeeze, before going back to looking at the menu.
"What would you like to have sir?" A waitress asked Mason after she got him a table. "A glass of water please," he said as he glanced through the menu.
After the waitress had left to get his water, Mason looked up from the menu, taking in the slightly filled room, this was his first time coming here, all his regular restaurants were fully booked as you had to make a reservation in advance before you could dine there. Even his name couldn't get him a table this time.
As he looked around he caught sight of a blonde hair that looked familiar, he couldn't miss that hair even if it was in the dark, Ava! She was sitting two tables away from him with another lady that looked quite familiar but he couldn't seem to remember where he had met her. The lady said something and Ava threw her back laughing, this was the first time he had ever seen her laugh and it was a beautiful sight to behold, the way her hair bounced, her eyes slightly closed as she laughed hard, Mason couldn't stop himself from staring, he felt like taking a photograph of her and keeping it because she looked so beautiful as she laughed and he wanted to always get to see it.
"Here is your water sir," the waitress said pulling him out of his thoughts.
"Would you like me to get you something else?"
"Umm," Mason cleared his throat as he went back to looking at the menu, not being able to decide on what to have, he looked up at the waitress with a smile, "why don't you get me the house's special?"
After the waitress left, Mason kept looking at Ava and her friend as they conversed and laughed like they had no worries in the world he thought of going over to say hello to them, but decided against it, it would be rude to interrupt them, and he was content from just watching her laugh.
When his meal arrived, as he ate he kept glancing at Ava and her friend they were both oblivious of him being so close and he allowed it to be that way. By the time he was done eating, he paid for both his meal and that of Ava and her friend.
"Could you please not let the ladies know until I've left? And also don't tell them it was I who paid," Mason said to the waitress before quietly slipping out of the restaurant.