The Pact

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

“Emma, Paul has just sent me a text asking me to ask you if you have done it yet, and that if you haven’t that it has been a week and you need to get on with it,” Rory said over coffee after work, “is there something going on I should know about?”

“Tell him I’ve been too busy to book the flights to Honolulu, going to do it tonight, so he is just going to have to wait for a bit before we run away together,” Emmy smile over her black coffee, the bitter aftertaste sitting well with her.

“Funny Emma, I think you’ll find I won’t give him up that easily, he’s just far too yummy,” Rory grinned like a Cheshire cat. “Oh and Paul says to tell you to stop talking to me and go and book the tickets, so you can get on with your life. I'm starting to think that you two are using me as a mule in the middle of a very important conversation.”

“That’s because we are Rory,” Emmy leaned down kissed him on the forehead, before turning around and leaving the café. Rory watched her until she left the café and then called Paul, “She gone babe, I think she’s gotten the hint and gone to dump him. Thank God, and your right I shouldn’t hand out advice, I really suck at it.”

“Heyya Paul, oh hi Rory, how was your day, my day was good, thanks for asking, what about yours, I’ve just finished talking to Emma, she’s just left, hopefully off to see Justin, thank you for fixing my…”

“I love you,” Rory said, as he got up from the table, the cold wind bit his cheeks as he stepped out into the street.

“I love you too babe, did you get the email about the flower arrangement?”

“Honey I love you, but I’ve just got off a long shift and all I want to do right now is you, not talk about…hang on two seconds Paul, I’ll call you back.” Rory hung up on Paul before he could get another word in edge ways, before sprinting across the road. His eyes transfixed on Justin helping some tall brunette into a cab, waving off the sounds of blaring horns from pissed of drivers he was dashing out in front of. “Justin you seen Emmy? I was met to have coffee with her but she never showed,” Rory said, but his eyes flowed the cab driving away with a girl he looked to be far too close to for her to be a family member.

“That was my sister Courtney, and no I haven’t seen Emmy, but I've got to get going,” Justin replied coolly, and Rory’s eyes narrowed at the obvious cover up, “I’ll see you later mate,” Justin patted Rory’s and hailed another cab, sliding in it he pulled away in the opposite direction of his ‘sister’, Rory knew something was wrong and was just glad that Emmy was about to dump him.

Across town in her apartment, Emmy soaked in her bath tub, she was in no rush to go to Justin’s. She had had a long stressful day; the ER had been rushed off its feet, and she was enjoying soaking hers, and the rest of herself, at the moment. She was vaguely aware of a phone ringing in the background, but she just closed her eyes, and concentrated on the music echoing around her apartment, faked it by Jasmine Rae was playing, and Emmy couldn’t get over how fitting it was.

Emmy’s eyes fluttered open when she started to shiver. She had fallen asleep in the bath again. She jumped out the fridge water, her body starting to shake with uncontrollable shivers. She made her way to her bedroom door, running a brush through her hair, to remove the knots that had accumulated there over the day. She pulled on an over worn pair of jeans that Justin hated and she had missed, and a plain white tank top. She flung her blonde curls in a ponytail and pulled on a pair of converse about two uses away from giving up and falling apart. Grabbing a jumper, she left the apartment. Stepping out of her apartment, the cool air of February numbed her bare arms; she slipped on the jumper as she made her way to the curb. The smell of Zach’s cologne floated up from the sweater and she realised that is was Zach’s football jersey she had borrowed months back and never returned. She smiled to herself at the memory of going with Zach to watch the Giants play in the superbowl, she had gotten cold and he had given her his jersey to keep warm. Justin would never have done that, she missed her and Zach, but she wasn’t going to chase him after he so publically and callously dumped her.