Betrayal

Pictured You a Million Times

{Maeve POV}

"What the hell Maeve!!!" Ella screamed in anger. 

"Shhhh...my turn to talk Ella. You know what, I know that feeling. I do understand where you picture yourself right now. But babe, its just a matter of time. You will be where I am real soon."

"W...what do you mean?"

"Ouch...seems like you don't really know the person you are with. Well when I met Aman for the first time, he already had a girlfriend. But he left her and chased after me, making me believe I was special. Sounds familiar? You think the same right, that you are better than me, that's why he left me for you? You know, his love comes with an expiry date I guess. Anyways, enjoy your time while you are still together. I hope our paths never cross again. Bye, dear!"

When I walked away from her, I had a kind of relief, as if I took my revenge. Looking back, what a fool Aman made out of me for all these years. But not anymore. I am never going to let Aman or this girl anywhere near me ever again.

I was already out of the club when I heard my cell phone ringing "Hello Zane"

"Maeve, where are you? It's not fair to make a blind person search for you for this long."

"sorry. I am outside the club. Should I come in?"

"No, I am done here. I'll come to you."

"Ok bye"

"Ooh..."

"Zane what happened? Hello are you still there? Zane...hello?"

"Maeve I'm here. I...I actually fall down. If you don't mind, can you come and help me up? I can't find my stick.

"2 minutes Zane, don't hang the phone." It was too crowded inside, so it took me some time to find him." There you are." I helped him to get up. "Slowly Zane. You are not hurt, are you?"

"I'm fine Maeve, thank you. My stick Maeve, it should be here somewhere."

"Here it is. But...its broken. Someone must have stamped on it. Never mind I can help you outside."

"By the way, why did you go outside the club? Did my song bored you?" I helped him to sit on a bench outside the club.

"No...no you were so good today. I really enjoyed your performance. And Zane, I can see some girls over there staring you. Must be your fans."

"Woww I got some fans huh? Are they pretty?"

"What? Seems like you are like every other  man. Running behind 'beautiful girls'"

"Hey no. You can't generalize that way. All men are not same. And However pretty they are they can't be more prettier than you are."

"Now you are flirting with me, aren't you? And how do you know I'm pretty. You have never seen me."

"So what. I have pictured you a million times in my mind. And I do have a rough idea of how you looks"

"So how do I look like in your mind?"

"Talk for some other time. Now its time to go home." 

"Ok as you say."

On our way home we stopped by a restaurant to eat food. Zane was super happy the whole time. He couldn't stop talking about his songs. "Hey, you heard the last song right. I intentionally saved it for the last since it was my best." "You know what, a few more performances like this and I will be the talk of the town." "I'm in preparation of releasing my own song. When it releases, that's it. There will not be a going back."

He went on talking until he was interrupted by Neil. "Hey Maeve, didn't see you at office today."

"Hi Neil, I wasn't feeling well. So I took a day off."

"Hope you are ok now. By the way, haven't seen Aman for a while."

"He is usually busy with his office chores for a while." 

"Alright, and this is?"

"My friend, Zane. He is a singer."

"Wow, good to see you Zane.

Zane nodded back. "Hello Neil"

"Anyway I'm leaving now, see you tomorrow at office." He walked out of the restaurant to his car.

"That is your friend?" Zane asked

"No Aman's, but he works with me. By now he would have called Aman to tell that I'm roaming around with some guy at night. I don't know why I keep bumping on such people today."

"Keep bumping means? Who else did you see?"

"Aman's new girlfriend was there in the club. And we had this little fight."

"What? So that's why you went outside?"

"Yes. but not like that. After pushing her on to the floor only I walked out of the club."

"Now you sound like a badass"

Next day morning, Zane made sure he made the breakfast for me. He made sure the food was delicious. I could see the smile on his face when I praised his cooking skills.

"Zane I'm was thinking of going back to the office today onwards. If I stay back longer, I'll be the talk of the office. I don't need that to happen. And I'll soon find a place to stay."

"Going back to the work sounds great, but the other part...I mean renting an other place..."

"What is it Zane"

"I was thinking like why don't you stay here? I mean we can we can share the rent. How stupid of me. Leave it ok. I'm sorry"

"You know what, I'll think about it. I would actually love to have this kind of breakfast everyday."

"So you agree?"

"Like I said, I'll think about it.