BAMBOOZLED

Broken

Monica looked terrified as she let George and I into her home. I was glad to see her so shaken. It's what she deserved.

George helped me sit down. I was still pretty sore, but hey at least I'm alive!

"Um, can I get you anything? Water? Tea? Whiskey?" Monica questioned.

I truly had never seen her like this. It kind of gave me hope that maybe she did feel even slightly bad about this.

"No." George snapped. "Knowing you, you'd probably poison the drink or something."

"Georgie." I rubbed his thigh. "I thought we were going to be mature and calm about this."

"She almost killed the most important person in my life, maturity just isn't realistic, my love."

"You're sweet, babe." I smiled. "Now Monica, I want nothing more than to make love to my boyfriend, so let's get on with this. Why did you try to murder me?"

"It was an accident." She said.

"So you accidentally followed me and George into the muggle world, waited until he was away from me and then accidentally pushed me into the street knowing cars were coming? You accidentally did something that horrendous to me?"

"Sound familiar, Vice?" Monica snapped. "Huh? 'It was an accident' or 'I didn't know' or your all time favorite 'no hard feelings'."

"What are you talking about?" I questioned.

"Every time you stole one of my boyfriends that's what you would say, Vice. 'No hard feelings' as though it wasn't important. As though my feelings didn't matter."

"Monica, they were just boys! Silly school boys. It was never that serious."

"It was to me!" Monica examined. "That's what made it all the more frustrating, Vicelia! You didn't give a shit about those boys but I did! I cared about them, I thought I could fall in love with them, and they were nothing but a shag to you."

"I-I didn't realize." I stammered.

"Of course you didn't. People don't matter to you. You're so selfish, you only think of yourself. And you manage to convince yourself and even other people that you're not by saying you're just being honest or you warn people before they get with you. But that doesn't change anything. Look what you've done to Lucian."

I shook my head. "No, I will not take responsibility for that. He's known me for years! He saw how I was in school. He knew I never truly took romantic relationships seriously and I was never going to."

"But you are now Vice! You have a serious romantic relationship! Not to mention it's with yet another boy you stole right from under me! And you didn't even apologize this time. You didn't explain yourself. You just took him and then started falling in love with him." There were tears in Monica's eyes.

I was starting to feel incredibly bad. She was right. I hadn't even apologized about George.

"You guys went on one date, I didn't think you would care that much." I admitted. "And our relationship just happened so fast, I never expected this to happen."

"I really liked George. I thought we could have something and of course once again the great Vice Richardson swooped in and took that away from me. I never stand a chance with anyone around you. Even Rick has a crush on you."

"Actually I set him up with my friend, so I think he's over me."

"And what does that change for me?" Monica asked. "I'm still alone. You've still taken five boys from me. Five, Vice. There's no way this could be an accident anymore."