Back To Me

Chapter 15

Karim's POV:

Staring at my reflection in the mirror here in mine and Lucia’s bedroom, I could not in such a sense help other than to let a loud sigh escape out from my lips. This is the last thing which I want to be doing now, the very last. My idea of a Saturday night after a football game is only to be laying across the sofa, watching a good DVD with as much junk food as I am all able to stick in my mouth. Not this, not going out to a club which I have no interest in for as of right now. But no, so it seems as of recent, whatever Lucia wants, she gets. So that also now, is to be the case. It was her idea for us to go out tonight, constantly pestering me on the fact just over and over again. I was not even given much of a choice, instead I was told about all of it.

To be completely honest with you right now, I would not have minded for Lucia to go there with her friends or something. As that way, I would have been able to enjoy my night. All by asking Thozi to come round for a few hours, to spend the night with me. Or, if that just to be a little too risky for her, then we could have done it in reverse. I could have gone to hers and told Lucia I was going out, with the guys. But no, like I said, I was not in the slightest then to have been given a choice. I was told what we were to be doing tonight, and god help me if I was to argue against it or to refuse. Knowing what Lucia is like, she would bite my head off.

She, Lucia, literally did just walk into the front room a little earlier on, standing in front then of the TV and demanding we go out. Really, I do not know what is with this woman from of a time to time. She just acts like this crazy woman, always wanting to be the one in which is in control. It is like she does not even take what I want into account anymore, it is like all of what I want does not matter. But then again, I guess that is just what she is like. Only at the very start of our relationship – when I realised this sort of trait of hers – it did turn me on, I have to admit. But, the longer and further down the line, the more it makes less attractive, the more it makes me want to run out of the door quicker than I have ever moved before.

My eyes do not see the woman I once saw in her anymore, I am just not all that interested anymore with her. I know that is the worst possible thing in which I could every say, but all of it is the truth. Ever since Thozi came back into my life again, that night at the club where she came with Adrienne after having being asked by Lucia, I realised what it is I want in my life now. Thozi. She is what I want, she is what I am in desperate need. And one day, I know for a simple fact that we will be able to be together again. I know that once she is then able to look passed her job and tell Lucia – with me – that we are back together again, that I will be able to make up for the hurt I put her through. Honestly, I cannot wait for that moment.

Anyway, straightening out the shirt I had on across my body I let another sigh escape out of my lips. But in doing so, I noticed the reflection of Lucia in the mirror looking at me. Her left eyebrow raised, and with her hand resting on her hip over her dress, I knew that she was to not be impressed by any means at all. “Oh come on Karim, you can’t still be mad at me over how I ruined your night in alone, are you?” Rolling her eyes at me as she spoke, I was only in then to watch her walk to me through the reflection of the mirror, soon joining all in front of me as she adjusted my blazer, causing me to groan in annoyance. “I swear, you can be such a child at times. Let me just sort it out for you please, the collar to your shirt is sticking out.”

But I did not give in to her by any means at all, simply sighing heavily as I shrugged the both of her hands off me. “Lucia please, I know how to dress myself so can you just stop?” Once I allowed those words to slip out from my lips in an immediately grumpy and annoyed tone, I immediately regretted it. For the sake of Thozi and making sure Lucia does not think any of my behaviour is strange, I need to act as normal as possible with her. “Look babe, I’m sorry, I just feel so tired after the game that’s all.” Looking at her from in front of me, I was soon to hold her to me and smile in a slight way. “I was kinda looking forward to spending all tonight with you on the sofa, being lazy.” Shrugging as of then. “But its fine, and you were right. It is a good idea for us to go out tonight, I mean, to celebrate us winning earlier on today, right?”