Accidental Encounter (Gabenath)

Part 7: Awaiting the Text

(This will be a longer chapter because I haven't been posting as often as I should.)
"So I would like to thank everyone for coming for this special event, Me and the staff are forever grateful. All of you are welcome to stay for a few more hours to dance and to have so more drinks. Thankyou." Mayor Bourgerious finished. All the music and all of the talking then resumed. Except more people were heading over to the area where the Mysterious man and her danced together.

Nathalie looked over at his table. It was quite full with many rich-looking men and women all chuckling with champagne in their hands. It looked like what Nathalie had described as the Richest of the others, which certainly was true. She then decided it was time to have a well deserved drink. She had been so focused on that man, that she hadn't remembered to get a drink. Since Nathalie and Penny and the rest of the table were extremely close to the bar, all she had to do was go up to a tall stool and sit on it, ordering as many drinks as she pleased. She decided to do as she wanted and got up to order herself a nice glass of wine to enjoy as she still thought of that mysterious yet extremely attractive man. "One Chardonnay White Wine Please, with two olives" She said. The Bartender just nodded and went to take another persons order. "I'll have a whisky." Said a familiar voice behind her.

It was the same guy she danced with.

Nathalie looked up to find the dark blue eyes piercing her own. He gave a small smirk as he took a seat next to her.  "Your wine, miss?" The Waiter whispered as he placed it in front of her. She immediately took a small sip, whilst still looking up into his eyes. "So do you live around here or? He asked

"I live around the Dupan-Cheng Bakery." She answered.
"Nice. So not that far from here, right?
"Yes, that's right." She smiled
Before she could ask any questions about him, the bartender came back with his drink.
He slowly reached for his drink and took a small sip of it as he turned towards her.
"I haven't been to one of these parties in years," He chuckled
" I haven't told anyone about this, but before my wife fell sick I-
"Oh I'm so sorry, how did she fell ill?" She quickly asked
"She accidentally did something that led her into a coma, she was sick before hand so.."
"I'm so sorry for asking, I didn't know."
"It's alright, it's in the past and I've moved on."
Nathalie blinked.
"So you want to play a game?" She asked, changing the subject
"Alright."

"Can I have a bottle of vodka please?" She asked the waiter. He gave a small nod and came back with the bottle. "So, how this works is that we will ask questions about each other, and if we can't answer we have to take a shot." "Alright." He replied.

"So, what's your name?"
Gabriel knew he couldn't tell her. He had already told her about his wife. He had to make up a lie, he couldn't bear the truth getting out about him going. The reporters would go crazy about this.
"Adrien"
"Ok your turn Adrien."
"Alright what's your name."
"Nathalie" she immediately answered
"Alright Nathalie."
It hurt to hear her name. It was impossible for her to come here,she would be working by now. After all, she had amazing talent.

The questions carried on, but Nathalie had taken around 10 shots and was extremely drunk.
But before she could do something really crazy, Penny came up to Nathalie
"Nathalie are you drunk?" She asked
Nathalie giggled.
"No.." She hiccupped
Gabriel got up before he could make this more awkward then it should. "Call me." He whispered loud enough so Penny and Nathalie could hear.
Penny stared at him until he left their presence. Penny looked back and rolled her eyes at Nathalie.
"I'll drive you home, you've had enough fun for tonight." Penny said whilst grabbing Nathalies hand a little hard.
"Hey!" She groaned.

Penny took her down the stairs to Nathalies car. She took the keys out of nathalies purse, whilst she was too busy staring off into space.
"Get in." She demanded
Nathalie did as she was told and hopped in the front seat.
"I'll drop you off at your place, then I'll call a cab so I can go back to the Party, Alright?
"Ok." She groaned
Nathalie was too busy thinking about 'Adrien' to even realise that she was almost home.

Nathalie got back to her apartment and immedientaly threw everything on the ground. She was so tired from all the dancing, thinking and drinking that she had done at the party.

She kept thinking about how she felt something for 'Adrien' but still felt something for gabriel. She has loved gabriel for almost 16 years and only felt something for this guy for a couple of hours But she still felt something for this guy, like she's loved him for years.

She opened up her phone to see if she had gotten any texts from him. She went into her messengers and found no new texts from when she last checked. (Which was at the start of the night.) She realised that she probably made a mistake when writing down her number, and knew she would just text him and it would all go smoothly just if she texted him first.

She took out the napkin that had his number on it that she saved in her bag, and started to type in his number. Once she finished typing in his number, she typed a message saying "Hey I had fun tonight" and sent it. But it didn't send properly.

It turns out, the number was blocked.

Gabriel couldn't get the image of her perfection out of his head. When he got in the car, he immedientaly took his phone out of his pocket and started to Text the number he gave her. He texted her "Hey I had a great time. Adrien" And pressed sent. But it didn't send properly. "The Message you have sent has failed, because the person you have sent this message to has blocked you." Popped up onto his screen.
"That's weird," he thought. "why would she block me if we only met tonight?"
He then realised something.
What if she truly was his Ex Assistant?