'Til We Meet Again Book 2

Chapter 15

Today was easily the most awkward day I had at work. The time I have worked for Dre til now has never been so awkward but ever since what happened between me and that perve Tom Miller things haven't been quite the same between me and Dre because I couldn't ask him for help or asked Deshaun for help. Nancy hadn't come by work today which is strange because she always comes to work. I have to see Cole today and honestly, I'm afraid of what might happen, I don't expect anything but anger from him because I kept a really big secret from him and I don't expect him to understand why, I would have felt weird if I told him as soon as he asked me about my love life that I dated the rap star Eminem, I did want to tell him on my own terms when I started to feel comfortable enough to actually utter those words to him but it wasn't the right time.

As I'm working getting Marshall booked for his Up In Smoke Tour, my phone on the table laying face down vibrates. I pick up my phone and check to see that Marshall has texted me which is odd because I never gave him my phone number. I check the text and it reads "Tom got what he fucking deserved" My eyes widen, what the hell did he do? I get up and head outside the room I was in so I can get a little privacy. I recline myself against the wall near the staircase and call him up "Yo" He picks up after two rings "What did you do?" I ask him getting straight to the point "I'm fucking fine thanks for fucking asking" Marshall says sarcastically "Marshall" I say sternly "Hey, don't fucking take that tone with me, if your bitch ass would stop being so stubborn about asking for some fucking help I wouldn't have gone down to Tom's office and beat the shit outta him" Marshall says angrily "You beat him?" I ask him shocked "Kicked his fucking ass to next week, showed him where the gates of hell is" Marshall laughs

"Oh my god" I rub my hand down my face "Was so funny, he was begging me to stop he was like "Oh please stop, please don't hurt me" wahh" Marshall laughs "This is all some big joke to you, huh, what would have happened if he had called the police on you? He could have easily done that and pressed charges on you for assault because you were reckless" I raise my voice at him "Relax, I only punched him in the face" Marshall chuckles "That doesn't make it any better, Marshall, he still could have easily pressed charges on you then you would end up in the media and have people talk shit about you" I shake my head "So that's fucking it, huh Amanda? I go over to Toms office, punch him in the fucking face for the way he treated you and you are giving me an earful about the shit I already know, fuck outta here, man, any bitch would be grateful for the shit I did for you" Marshall raises his voice "I'm not gonna say thank you to you and pretend what you just did isn't wrong, you should have left him alone" I raise my voice "What the fuck do you take me for? I wasn't gonna let his ass get away with it" He raises his voice at me

"Then you shouldn't have punched him in the face" I shake my head "My fists like to do all the talking" I can sense a smirk "Bye Marshall" I try to hang up the phone "Wait, so I don't get no fucking thank you?" He asks me clearly angry "No because you didn't do this for me you did this for yourself, you did this so you can make yourself look good since everyone was talking shit about you about the way you were treating me in Detroit" I tell him "Fuck you, Amanda, I defended your ass and this is the fucking thanks I get" He yells and hangs up the phone. I expected that because Marshall always used to do this, I thought now he would be different since we are adults but nope, he still sometimes acts like a teenager.

I walk back inside and accidentally bump into Dre as I was putting my phone away in my purse, I gasp "I'm sorry, Dre" Dre looks at me with a blank look "That's fine, just get back to work" Dre says and walks away from me. I work for over an hour and managed to get Marshall booked in four venues and forwarded the emails to Dre confirming the bookings. 16 more to go. I pack up my stuff and drive over to Cole's place since we need to talk. I knock on his door and nervously wait for him to open up and allow me in.

He opens the door "Hey" Cole gives me a blank look "Hi" I want to crack a smile because I am happy to see him but he isn't happy at all to see me "Come on in" Cole steps aside for me to step inside his home "Thanks" I step inside his home which now feels foreign to me, it just feels new even though I have been here a thousand times but the vibe is throwing me off because it's no longer a happy cheerful vibe I would get visiting Coles house, it's more cold and awkward, to say the least, it's like we don't know how to be in the same room with each other, I just want things to go back to the way they were but seeing as Cole knows Marshall who in fact is Eminem my ex-boyfriend then I think things will be a little awkward as it may take some time for Cole to adjust my previous relationship with Eminem and even if he does adjust there's not much chance that he'll be okay with that fact.

"Want something to drink?" Cole asks as I follow him out to the kitchen and sit down around his black marble island "Just water" I nod "I can make coffee since you look pretty tired, hard day at work?" He asks me "Yeah pretty hard, guess coffee will do" I shrug and he makes me a cup of coffee and places it in front of me. I blow gently on the hot coffee to cool it down so I can take a sip of it to avoid the awkward silence because that's what I'm sitting in right now.

I guess it's time to apologize for Nancy's stupidity "I'm sorry about Nan-" I get cut off "I don't need to hear an apology, Amanda, do you realize just how hard it was to hear that Eminem/Marshall was your ex-boyfriend from your best friend?" He rhetorical asks me "That's why I wanted to apologize because Nancy blurting it out was none of her business" I say "You're right but why didn't you tell me about him? You had so many chances to tell me" Cole glares at me "Because it's not simple to just say "Hey, I once dated your favorite artist" Cole, I wanted to tell you but you just have to understand why I couldn't tell you" I sigh "You want me to understand this? I can't understand this because if you really trust me then you would have told me despite it being the fact you dated my favorite artist" Cole raises his voice at me "You can't say I don't trust you because I trust you with my life I just couldn't tell you this because I wasn't comfortable enough to even wrap my head around it myself" I raise my voice at him

"So it was best I find out from your drunk best friend?" Cole glares at me "No, I never expected her to blurt it out" I raise my voice "Then what? why couldn't you tell me cause I don't think it was about you being uncomfortable with telling me something like this?" Cole asks me "Because I was ashamed" I admit "I was ashamed for dating someone like him as a teenager" Cole looks relaxed now "Now that I can understand" Cole nods "I'm sorry" I sigh "Don't be, it's normal to feel that way" Cole walks over to me and pulls me in for a hug "Are we good?" I ask him "I love you, that should answer your question" Cole looks down at me and smiles as he holds me in his arms "I love you too" I kiss him softly

"Do you still want to celebrate my promotion?"I ask him as I pull away from kissing him just to be sure he still wants to "We don't have to" I give him a small smile "No of course I wanna celebrate your promotion, let's do Saturday" Cole smiles at me "Saturday is good" I nod "You staying over on Saturday? I miss having you in my bed" Cole asks me "I'll have Nancy look after Kristy for the weekend" I nod "I'm surprised you are still talking to Nancy" Cole says shocked "We're not, we argued yesterday about what she did and she didn't show up to work today" I tell Cole "I wanna make things right with her, she's my best friend and I'm gonna be her bridesmaid" I smile at Cole "Baby, I'm gonna say this because I love you but I think you should give it some time before talking to her again because blurted out something that wasn't any of her business to" Cole says "She was drunk when she blurted that out" I defend her

"Just give it til tomorrow at work and see if she'll apologize to you for that" Cole nods as he now takes a sip of his coffee he had also made for himself "I doubt she will" I nervously chuckle "Well she is gonna have to because it wasn't right for her to say that in front of me and Phillip" I nod in agreement "You're right" I smile at him, he is right she shouldn't have said that in front of my boyfriend and her fiance.