Heartbreak Girl (H.S) (New Girl Sequel)

Chapter 37: Quiet Dinner & Angry Car Rides

Ivy's POV

Ben and I sat and quietly ate our dinner while typing away on our phones; him dealing with work, while I responded to texts my friends had been sending to check in on me.

-How's the hunk? xxxLivy-
-MY hunk is doing well. Get your own man 💁- I sassily replied.

-I already do 👫 Mack and I are back together ☺️-

-That fantastic! 😁 How's it going?-
-Great so far 😍 Can we stop with the emojis? I feel like I'm over using them-

-You can if you want👍-
-*eye roll*-
-You know you ❤️ me 😁-
-I'm beginning to have my doubts tbh-

"Ivy!" Someone squealed.

Both Ben and I looked up from our phones in surprise. I quickly shot up to hug the blonde lady that stood next to our table.

"Crazy running into you all the way in Birmingham," she chuckled.

I chuckled and let go of her. Ben frowned in confusion.

"Ben, this is my best friend from High School; Shelby, this is my boyfriend," I introduced.

Shelby grinned at him, "Nice to meet you Ben."

"Mommy," a little girl cried. "Mariah, Matthew, Daddy, and I are hungry."

I crouched down to somewhat meet Violet's height the best I could and smiled at the little girl.

"How are you?" I asked her.

The little girl quickly got shy as she hid behind her mom.

"Can you tell Ivy hi?" Shelby chuckled.

Violet shook her head 'no' up at her mom, making all three of us laugh.

"I see you had Matthew," I stated as I stood back up on my feet. "Could I meet him?"

"Of course," she gasped. "How rude of me! Let me go get Carson and Matty. You'll love him."

Shelby quickly turned around and ran back to get the rest of her family.

"Is this the same Carson I'm thinking of?" Ben pouted as I sat back down at our table.

I bit my lip and nodded.

He didn't say anything else as he pouted down at his almost empty plate.

Violet innocently stood there watching us both.

"How's Mariah?" I tried to ask her.
"She hungry and tired," she pouted. "Mariah hates taking long car rides but I just couldn't leave her at home alone."

I grinned at the adorable toddler.

"Last time she hurt Mr. Tiger's feelings during tea time and I wasn't there to stop them from fighting. So now she lost pwivlages."

"Cause it's not good to fight," I replied.

The little girl nodded in agreement and grinned a bright toothless grin at me.

Shelby eagerly returned with her husband who gently rocked their baby boy back and forth.

Once again I rose to my feet to see the little boy fast asleep and curled up on Carson's leather jacket covered chest.

"He's adorable," I fawned over the small baby that already had long blonde curls.

"Goodness he has so much hair for someone so tiny," I gently rubbed the baby's back, careful not to wake him up.

"I know, when my parents first saw him they thought we had put a wig on him as a joke."

I glanced over her and chuckled before returning to the baby.

"So how have you been Carson?"
"Not too bad. I'll be taking over my parent's restaurant in a few weeks."

"That's great news!" I grinned. "How are your parents? I haven't heard from them since high school."

"They're holding up pretty well. My dad's retiring and then they're gonna go travel the U.S."

"Well tell them California is a must."
"Will do," he chuckled.

Ben stood up and interrupted our short conversation, "I hate to break this reunion up, but we have to go; I'm needed at work. Some idiot interns screwed up some paper work."

I glanced back at him and found him rolling up the sleeves of his shirt; something he only does when he gets really annoyed or angry.

"Well whenever you're in London, we should totally have lunch or whatever would work best."

"Totally," I nodded in agreement.

I exchanged a quick hug with her before grabbing my purse and practically running after a very annoyed Ben.

He hopped into the driver's seat, started up the engine, and waited for me to get in.

"Did they screw up the paperwork that badly?" I frowned as I closed my door behind me.

"There wasn't any emergencies at work," he innocently commented as he pulled out of the parking space.

"Then why did we leave?" I frowned.
"Because I couldn't sit around and chat like best buddies with your ex boyfriend," he spat.

"What's your problem?"
"My problem is that it bugs me that you were whoring around in high school. It bugs me that you were with a lot of guys before me."

I felt a sting of pain in my chest from him bringing that up.

"I thought we got past this Ben," I sighed.

"You might have, but I can't," he spat.
"You can't judge me for my past. How much you want to bet you were with plenty of girls before me?"

"I was with a few through college, but I was dating them. I didn't sleep around with a bunch of people in my school."

My eyes were starting water, but it only started fueling my anger.

"What do you want Ben? You want me to go back and change it? Because trust me, if I could I would change a lot of mistakes I made in high school," I yelled. "And it fūcking hurts when you sit there and straight up calling me a whore."

Ben went silent.

"You can't judge a person by their past," I spat.

The car went silent but you could still feel the angry tension between the two of us

"Can you pull over?" I requested.
"What? Why?" He frowned.
"I just want you to pull over, is that so much to ask for?"

Ben sighed and pulled over like asked.

I popped my door open and slammed it behind me before I started walking down the sidewalk.

"What the hell are you doing?" Ben yelled from the car.

"I'm not riding with you. I want some air right now," I yelled back.

The car remained parked before Ben shifted out of park and sped off, obviously even more ticked off than before.

I wrapped my arms around myself and continued walking as I tried my best to keep from crying.

Ben and I have been in small arguments about my past before, but he's never been this angry at me before.

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I know I suck for taking a week to update, but my life has been hell this past week.

With school ending, friend drama, boyfriend drama, and three people I know passing away, my life is just... out of control.

And when I stress I can't think, so I've been totally blanking on where I want to take this story.

Things have been clearing up somewhat, so I'm gonna try my best to start updating more.