Chapter 09
‘Are you serious?’ Rachel didn’t really know what to say. ‘Yea, of course I am. I was gonna walk up to him and talk to him and suddenly they kissed. I mean like, that the fuck. Why is he treating me this way? This is so stupid.’ Alyssa was so mad. ‘And we work together! How is that suppose to go? I mean, I can’t just say oh I don’t care. I wish I could.’ She took a deep breath.He was the first guy where I thought this could be something, after all that shit with Jake.’ Alyssa put her face in her hands. Rachel was rubbing her back.
‘We should probably go home. What do you think?’ Rachel said.
‘Maybe you could wait for a second?’ a man’s voice asked. Alyssa was looking up, stood up and turned around. She tried to wipe away the last tear that was running down her face.
Rachel was giving her a comforting smile and walked away. Bruno came up to her.
‘I.. I guess…’ Bruno was looking to the ground. ‘I guess, I have to apologize to you.’ ‘Can you at least look me in the eye?’ Bruno looked at her. ‘I am really sorry, Aly. Let me explain that to you. I didn’t mean to hurt you but I saw you with this guy…and… I dunno..’
Alyssa crossed her arms infront of her chest ‘So, explain it to me! I’m listening.’ ‘Naaah, not here. Let me take you out for dinner tomorrow. Alright? Bruno looked at her with his brown puppy eyes. She nodded. ‘See you tomorrow then.’ ‘Yea, I’ll pick you up at 7!’
Alyssa didn’t say anything else but walked away towards Rachel. The girls walked home.
Bruno got back to the pub, Phil was already waiting in front of it ‘Dude! Where have you been? And do you know where Aly went? I wanted to introduce some people to her.’ Bruno lit on a cigarette and said ‘She went home. Gotta do that another time.’ ‘Oh man. But she’s okay?’ Phil asked a little worried. Bruno looked at him and Phil knew. They had a couple of more drinks and went home pretty early.
The next morning. It was sunday. Bruno spent the night at Phil’s house, because they had some more whiskey at his place. Both of them were still sleeping until Urbana and the kids came downstairs and they started playing in the living room, which is where they slept.
‘Daddy! Wakey wakey!’ Zadeh came up to Phil. He slowly opened his eyes and saw his beautiful boy. After a while he was realizing Urbana standing next to the couch as well.
‘Good morning baby!’ he said to her and got up to kiss her. ‘Oh Phil. Go shower and brush your teeth you smell so bad!’ she said to him, but not mad at all. And take him with you. I bet he needs it as well.’ Urbana smiled and pointed on Bruno. After Bruno finally woke up they both got upstairs and got ready. Thankfuly this house has three bathrooms.
Alyssa also woke up on her couch, because she couldn’t sleep all night and was watching TV instead. But most of the time she was thinking about what happend. How stupid, overdone, childish and over dramatic it was. She turned around and tried to catch another five minutes of sleep. Didn’t work, she just couldn’t sleep. So she got ready for the day. Which means, taking a shower and throwing on the sweatpants and the sweater. Going downstairs to the diner and getting breakfast. The rest of the day she will decide what she is going to wear and smoking a lot, because she was so nervous.
‘This is so crazy and ridiculous. I don’t even know this guy. I should have takin’ the other one. He probably isn’t that stressful.’ Alyssa said to Damian thinking of Phred.
‘Oh by the way, Al. Did you know, that you got new neighbor? He is living above you.
‘Lord! Is Mrs.Withers dead??’ Alyssa was shocked. ‘Noo babe, don’t worry. We will still get our coconut cream pie.’ Mrs.Wither makes the most amazing coconut cream pie in the whole damn world. But that’s just for the record.
‘So yea, she is still there. But the mexican family moved out. They’re moving to New Jersey. And this new guy is so damn hot, you won’t believe it.’ Damian was all excited about it.
Alyssa started laughing. ‘How do you even know? You don’t live in this house and you know like everything! And I live here and have like no fucking clue what’s goiing on. Something is going wrong!’ Damian laughed at her.
