Broken Rings

Chapter 11

Autumn POV:

As I'm walking out of my office building, I'm still thinking about what happened at the restaurant with Mattew and how Damian suddenly appears and what Mattew had to say to me, and the low blow comment he made.

I realize now that he's a piece of shit, and I still don't know how I didn't see that when I first met him.

But I can't dwell on the past and how many mistakes I have made, I have to move forward.

As I get into my car to go home, I quickly go on my phone to make a list of what I need to do when I get to my apartment. While I was making the list, I got a message from an unknown number and based on the wording and demand they had requested, I could tell who it was.

'Hey, We really need to talk'

Even though I stated that I wanted to be left alone and deleted his number from my phone, I guess he still has the drive to try to make me talk to him about whatever he wants to talk about.

I sigh as I toss my head back, I have made up my mind. I decided to give him one more chance, even though he doesn't deserve it, why not see what he wants so he can finally shut up and get out of my life, permanently.

I texted him back saying, 'Fine, where do you want to meet?'

After a few minutes, Matthew texted back saying we could meet at that same cafe where we saw each other that one day, but he was too scared and ran off.

I groan, dreading this, I know I shouldn't meet him at all, but if I don't see what he wants to talk about, then he may never leave me alone, probably even in my best moments.

Plus I don't want him to bother me and my relationship with Damian any more than he already has.

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As I parked in front of the cafe where we agreed to meet, I got a chill running up through my spine. Maybe it's that I'm nervous about actually getting what I wanted for so long, talking to Mattew and finding out what went wrong.

Or maybe something bad is about to happen and that would be my sign to drive off and disappear permanently from Matthew's life.

I can't tell.

I decided to suck it up and go inside the cafe. From there, I look around for Mattew, trying to see where he is sitting. After a few minutes of looking, I spotted him in a corner, his hand in the air, waving over at me, having a big ass smile on his face.

What does he want?

That chilling nerve has run up my spine again, now I'm really not sure whether or not I should even be here.

I slowly go over to where he is sitting, he has chosen a table with two seats, side by side, he probably did that on purpose. When I got over to the table, Matthew stood up from his seat, almost like he was going to greet me with a hug.

I dodge this by quickly grabbing the chair and moving it to the opposite side of his chair, from there I quickly sat down to avoid getting in physical contact with him.

My eyes were trained on the very interesting table as I heard Matthew let out a little scoff, but eventually he sat down, placing his hands in front of him.

A few awkward minutes have passed as the rest of the noise in the cafe was more entertaining to my ears, listening to people's conversations and what is going on in their life gives me nostalgia.

Being the shy high schooler who had her earphones in 24/7 does have its perks, people would talk about all the bad things they have done or the latest drama when the teachers weren't listening, but they think that you wouldn't care or you were not listening.