The cure for my madness

Part 7: Jealousy

-"I tried to call you all morning. I got no answers so then I decided to come to your place to talk to you."

When she said that, I realized I had not looked at my phone yet. I had no idea what time it was.

-"And what is he doing here? Did you ditch me for him? You could have said something before you left at least!"

-"I tried to find you, but I couldn't! I was really drunk last night and you were not there. That's why he is here 'cause he helped me home. I had a breakdown at the club so he helped me calm down and then followed me home. Then I couldn't be on my own so he stayed over, nothing more. I'm sorry, but I really tried to find you so I thought you ditched me."

-"I didn't ditch you. I thought you went home because you were sad about everything and you actually ditched me."

-"It seems like this is just a misunderstanding." Said Alex out of nowhere. It took both of us by surprise, we both looked at him shocked.

-"Well I went home because I was sad and then I feel like you should have supported me." I said and ignored his comment.

-"I had no idea that you needed support. I thought you wanted space."

-"How could you know if you didn't ask?"

-"I just assumed. Okay? You were so selfish to leave me there."

-"She was not being selfish. She was upset." Alex said, trying to protect me.

-"What do you know? You don't even know her. You are just a stranger."

-"I know enough to see that she was completely devastated yesterday, and she didn't have anyone. So I felt sorry for her."

-"Don't get involved in this okay? This is a conversation between Dol and I."

-"I think I have to go Dol" Alex said, clearly couldn't handle Zoes attitude. She could be a pain in the ass sometimes, she is just so stubborn. Her comments can sound very rude but I think she is only trying to be nice, but she chose the wrong words.

-"Bye then" Zoey said, relieved that he left.

-"Sorry", I mouthed to him as he pushed himself between us. Then he was gone, why was Zoey like this? Especially to someone like him who helped me.

-"What was that for?"

-"What do you mean?"

-"You were quite rude to him, it was unnecessary Zoey. He really helped me last night"

She just looked away and sighed.

-"You don't know him at all"

-"It was kind of him to be there for me yesterday when you weren't there."

-"I didn't even know you were upset Dol," She said with an aggressive tone. The way she said my name felt like Marcus said it. When I was paranoid because I saw him flirting with someone else and he said my name and then tried to trick me and make me feel like the fool in the situation.

-"It doesn't matter anymore Zoey" Then I felt that feeling again, my eyes got all red and I tried so hard to hold back my tears.

-"Can you just go home now?" I said, desperate for some alone time.

-"Are you sure?" She said with a completely different tone to her voice. That shift was so fast that it scarred me a little. She went from being furious at me to comforting in a split second.

-"Yes, just go."

-"Okay then." She said and shifted her tone again to a passive aggressive one.

I sat down on one of my chairs at the balcony and the tears started pouring down. After 30 min I went inside cause it started to get cold outside. I picked up my phone from my bedside table. 12 missed calls from Zoey from last night. 6 texts from her, basically saying the same thing. Hello?!?! Where are you?

Then it was a text from a strange number that I didn't recognize.

I think I forgot my jacket at your place. Can you come by with it?

It must be from Alex, I remembered I gave my number to him last night. But he put his jacket on when we went to my balcony, maybe he left here on purpose?

Sure. What's your address?

He was a fast replier, after 5 seconds I got an answer back.

I will swing by soon then.

I felt nervous to come to his place, I don't know why. Those thoughts about him leaving the jacket on purpose came back when I went to his place. He maybe wanted a reason for us to meet again. When I arrived at his door I started to shake and started to second doubt if I should knock on the door. I took the courage to knock on his door. I heard him scream behind his dark brown door.

-"It's open!"

I opened the door to find him sitting on the sofa with a glass of margarita. His hallway led directly to the living room to the left and it felt so open in his apartment.

-"You're an angel. I'm so forgetful." He said when I gave him his jacket. I sat myself down on his sofa.

-"Want a drink?" He asked.

-"Yeah sure, thanks."

-"Be right back then" He said and sneaked to the kitchen.

-"Here you go." He handed me a glass of margarita.

-"Thanks" I replied and sipped on the drink he gave me.

-"This is really good." The drink was a perfect mix of bitter alcohol and sweet lime juice.

-"Thank you, It's me secret recipe." He said and wiggled one of his eyebrows to me.

-"Nice record collection." I said and pointed at a little table he had with a lot of records.

-"Can I play something?"

-"Go ahead."

-"I love this song so much." I put on Les cactus by The last shadow puppets.

-"It's actually-" I interrupted him.

-"Dance with me Al" I offered my hand. The alcohol made me confident, I would never do that if I were sober.

He looked up to me with his dark brown eyes completely fascinated by my enthusiasm. He drank his drink fast and rose from the sofa and stood next to me, waiting to see what I was going to do. I wrapped my hands around his neck and started swinging my hips to left and then right in time with the music. He followed my lead and wrapped his arms around my waist. He drew me closer to him and I could feel his heartbeats, it made me feel so comfortable. Out of nowhere he started singing the lyrics to the song, with full passion. Then I realized that he sang the song, he was in The last shadow puppets. He pushed me away to make me spin like a ballerina, that made me giggle like a child. Then he hugged me from behind and rocked us side to side. It felt like it was just us in the entire world and nothing else mattered. Nothing could hurt me, not Marcus or Zoey. The atmosphere around was flirty. It felt like I was alive, I was truly happy at that moment. The song that filled the whole room along with our laughter together. I looked up with a smile at him and kissed him. The way he made me feel is indescribable. Even though the song was only 3 minutes it felt like an eternity. I wanted to stay in that moment forever. I wished I could put that feeling I had in a jar and save it forever. The song ended but we danced anyway until the next song came on.

-"Now it's my turn, I wanna choose a song." He let go of me and put Miracle Aligner on.

-"I can't express the love I have for this song Al." My comment made him chuckle and he blushed a bit.

As the song started he started to sing the words so passionately to me. Looking at me and smiled as he walked up to me and took the lead, and started dancing with me again. Swinging me around and making me spin again, It was starting to make me dizzy. But that didn't matter, I just wanted him to continue. He really knew how to make me feel good. When the song was finished we were standing and hugging each other. My face buried in his chest, to smell his scent again. I looked up to meet his eyes, the eye contact made us both let out small laughs. Then we stopped laughing, The sexual tension between us was inevitable. He reached in for a kiss. His lips tasted like a margarita. He held my face with one of his hands. The kisses started to get more and more passionate and that led to him taking me into his bedroom.