Chapter 2-Reconciliation
It had been a couple of weeks since that day, with almost no communication from Veronica. I spent most of my free time trying to distract myself with working out and surfing, but that day kept replaying in my mind, haunting me in my dreams, and when I was awake. No matter what I was doing, talking to clients, watching tv, or taking a shower, in the back of my mind I could still hear Veronica's pleasure filled moans.
It was torture knowing that while I sat home obsessing, she was most likely fucking her brains out with this guy, with absolutely no thought of me at all. Then just when I had given up any hope of reconciling ever again, she texted me.
"Can you meet for lunch?"
There she was, always calling the shots.
"Yeah sure"
"Great maple at 12:30?"
"Sounds good" I texted back, as butterflies filled my stomach.
Much to my surprise I almost immediately began to get aroused at the thought of seeing her. I showered and must have changed my shirt 5 times. What was I doing, why did I still care, especially after watching her with someone else? I hated that I loved her still.
Lunch time came and I walked awkwardly into the restaurant. All of my movements felt robotic. I tried to play cool and unaffected, but I was already thinking too much. I saw her seated in a booth so I quickly moved over and sat opposite her. She looked up from her menu, sunglasses still on, and smiled. Not big, not fake, just enough to be nice. I sensed she felt vulnerable. "Hi" I said anxiously. Damn I was nervous.
"Hi" she said nicely.
"So what's up?" I asked.
"Just looking over the lunch specials" she said, obviously trying to act as normal as possible to make this less awkward.
"No, I mean why did you want to meet up?"
"Oh, ok. you want to jump right into it? Don't you want to have a drink first?"
"Haha, yeah.....that's probably a good idea" I said, finally breaking a smile.
After we ordered drinks I looked over the menu just so I didn't have to think of what to say. The silence was uncomfortable and felt strange. Once the drinks arrived I must have sucked mine down in a minute and ordered another.
"What are you nervous?" she asked, kind of laughing.
"Huh, no. I mean, maybe a little" I said, also laughing at myself.
"Ok, so, the reason I wanted to meet" she said, clearing her throat.
"Yeahhhhh......" I said, my foot tapping floor.
"I think we should consider trying to work things out"
My stomach was tight, I was blindsided and unprepared to hear anything like that.
"Ok" I stammered, "why, I mean what changed your mind? Only a few weeks ag....."
"I know" she said, cutting me off, "you know how I am. I ran away and tried to get over you."
"And?" I said, slightly frustrated from being cut off.
"And we have too much history, a family. That's not easy to just disconnect from, and having time to myself, well, I was able to consider all that happened. I know it wasn't all you. I think I just needed that time to clear my head. And I think we should at least see if we can't work on this again."
As she spoke I barely heard her. I just stared at her mouth and thought of her lips wrapped around his dick, and how she made him moan. I felt my cock twitch, and at the same time realized she had stopped talking, I needed to say something.
"I agree, but....." I started to say.
"But what?" she said, again cutting me off slightly.
I continued, "A couple weeks ago when I picked the kids up you were, you were on your way out to a third date."
"Yeah, and?" she said, starting to sound annoyed, obviously hoping this wasn't going to be brought up.
"Well, um" I said, feeling pressured to say something quickly. "you said that you were going to get some.......well, did you?"
"Dude, I am trying to move forward, that's the past, and we were separated, it's not relevant to us now what I did then. You and your questions, I swear!" she said even more annoyed.
Here we go, I thought, but I wasn't letting her off that easy.
"Look I understand, but please understand YOU made me aware of that situation, and so I need to make peace with the questions that loom in my head or I'll never be able to move on. I'll always be distracted by them." I said confidently.
She huffed, "Ok fine, I'll do my best so you can move on. what did you want to know?" she said sounding irritated, but less defensive.
"Well, what happened between you two?" I asked calmly.
"That night, or in general?"
"Mmmmmm, both I guess."
"Do you want me to be blunt?" she said sort of daringly, like are you sure you want to go down that road.
"That would help." I quickly responded with a smile. I loved how uncomfortable she already was.
She shifted in her seat and said "We hooked up."
"Haha well according to you that could me anything from a kiss to........" I started to say.
"We fucked.....ok!?" she blurted out.
The words echoed in my ears as I sat silent for a moment, letting it hang between us.
"Yeah, ok. So....just that once or?" I said, trying to remain cool.
"Does it matter?!"
"Obviously it does to me" I said, obviously annoyed. "You need to stop making everything that matters or doesn't matter to you something that I should fall in line with. I am not you. I have different turn ons, tastes, hobbies, opinions, priorities, etc, so please, just because you think or feel a specific way does not mean that should be the norm for me, you do not set the bar for everyone else!" I said back, almost yelling towards the end.
"Wow, relax!! You get so worked up!" she said sternly.