37 days: Holding on 2 broken promises

Figure it out

POV
Millie

As we're finishing up our two-hour-long walk, stopping plenty of times to sit and talk, we make it back to the hotel entrance.

"I had a really good time, Em," Nick says genuinely.

"Yeah, me too," I say with a smile.

"I still can't believe the way you jumped when you saw that mouse crawl out of that garbage bin," I say with a laugh.

"Hey! I was startled!" He says with a laugh.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say," I say teasing him.

"Well, I should probably get goin', you have an early morning," Nick says tilting back and forth on his heels.

"I mean...yeah...but we could maybe just have one drink?" I suggest.

He lifts an eyebrow at me, "Okay, yeah, sure."

We walk into the lobby together and go up the elevator, for some odd reason, I have this gut instinct that something is just off, not particularly with Nick, but just in general. It's probably just from the guilt I'm feeling or my nerves.

As we walk down the hallway, my gut instincts were right, he's leaned up against the wall, arms crossed, and one foot propped up behind him.

X is staring at us.

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

I don't have any idea what to do next. Nick notices my feet concreting to the floor beneath me. He looks down at me in confusion and then to him.

"Took you guys long enough," X says.

"Long time no see Nico," he snickers a laugh shaking his head.

"Wait, what?" I ask not really knowing which one of these guys I'm talking to.

"Uhh, hey X..." Nick says nervously.

"You two..know each other..?" I ask out.

X is the one to answer, "oh yeah, we go way back..don't we Nico?" he says shaking his head again.

"Millie, you should probably go," X suggests.

"No. I'm not going anywhere, I don't trust you right now." I say slightly scared.

"Yeah..you shouldn't," he says chuckling.

What the fuck.

"I'm gonna go, Em," nick whispers to me.

X chuckles, "You got a nickname for my girl?"

He starts to slowly take a few steps towards us with his hands in his pockets with eerie calmness. Nick is officially sweating bullets and so am I.

"I..uh..I didn't know she was your girl man." Nick says in a more confused manner.

Nick looks down to, "I'll call you later."

"No the fuck you won't," X says charging at Nick with lightning speed. Before I can even wrap my head around what's happening, X takes one single punch to Nick's face, knocking him out.

Nick has fallen to the ground and I have no idea what to do.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" I scream out to X.

"Me? Me? What the fuck is wrong with me?! You were just out with this fucking..." he kicks Nick in the side and spits on him.

"Would you fucking stop?! He's not even conscious right now!" I scold.

"Yeah like I give a fuck?" He says enraged.

I don't say anything.

He paces around, tugging at the roots of his hair, "Answer me this Millie, what does he have that I don't?" He asks frustrated.

"Trust X, what he has that you don't is that he has my trust," I say looking him in the eyes.

He stops pacing around and releases his hair taking a step towards me, to anyone else I'm sure they'd feel threatened, but I don't.

"You are fucking whacky in the head if you think you can trust this guy." He says pointing to the still unconscious man on the ground.

I furrow my eyebrows at him waiting for him to continue.

"He worked for me for two years Millie, I think I know a little better than you," he says chuckling with a laugh.

"He..worked for you?" I ask quietly.

Holy crap, when Nick told me he used to work with Penelope...it was at X's house...?

"I..uh.." I start saying and scratch the top of my head not knowing what to say.

"Yeah..he ain't no saint Millie, far the fuck from it," X says calming down only a touch.

"I'm not saying I am either because I sure as fuck am not but don't let him fool you into thinking otherwise." He says.

I nod my head slowly looking at Nick. How in the actual fucking world could this have even happened? Los Angeles is so populated how could it be that I just chose to work for a business where my coworker not only knows X but was heavily involved with his business? I understand people can change, I don't know the whole story but I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter at this anyway.

"I don't know what to do anymore Millie, I love you but you clearly can't make up your mind on what or who you want, I can't do this in between shit anymore," X says pacing around again.

"I told you I'd wait forever and I will if in the end, I know that you're trying to get there but I can't wait around if you're not taking it seriously, I don't want another woman in my life, I only want you but the feeling on your end are not reciprocated." He says stressed out.

"What do you want Millie?" He asks expectantly.

"I don't know X," I say honestly.

"Well figure it the fuck out and come find me when you do." He says shaking his head, turning his back to me, and leaving.

When X is no longer in view I look down at the unconscious Nick, "What am I supposed to do with you now?" I ask.