Sitting Pretty bk2

34. My girl

".... Girl, look who just walked in... looking mighty fine too I must add..

Lucia glanced behind her and saw Haydn. She and Durrell had arrived at Courtney's after indulging in an amazing meal at Jo Jo's restaurant.
She had to admit though, Hadyn looked great, but she wasn't ready to fight with him. "I'm telling you as soon as his bullshit starts I am out!.."

"Stop lying to yourself... you are going to be bouncing on that dick like a damn pogo stick this very evening...." Durrell said and Lucia rolled her eyes. "The lady doth protest too much.." he mocked. He took his drink to the head and looked at her. "Well, this is my cue to leave... enjoy your evening... in fact, enjoy him... because girl, I know I would...

"Durrell get the hell out of here!." She laughed waving him off of her as he kissed her cheek. She then shook her head with a smirk to her lips as he left just as flamboyantly as he had arrived.

She watched Haydn for a while from where she was, she saw him talking to and laughing with Ross and Courtney. He hadn't seen her yet and she was happy to just take this time to drink him in, remembering them in what was only a short time ago, together.

-

"... you're in here on a week night... do we need to be worried about your drink Cuz?.." Courtney said to Hadyn.

"Naw I'm good," he smiled. "I am actually here to meet someone.." he looked around.

Ross had spotted Lucia sitting alone and he grinned. "Oh, yeah.. and I know who..." he nodded in the direction of Lucia.

Hadyn turned and looked at her. He fell silent and both his cousins knew just how involved his head and heart was with this girl, the way he acted when she was around, his whole persona changed.

Cortney cleared her throat to bring his attention back to her. "Umm.. I can bring over a bottle of the finest champagne..." she raised her eyebrows.

Haydn nodded and made his way over to the table. He stood and looked at Lucia, she glanced up at him. "You good?" He asked.
She nodded as he sat opposite her. "Listen umm... I'm gonna apologise before we even start, because I know whatever you are going to say will make this my fault..."

Lucia sipped her mocktail. " Why do you have to start the conversation like that?... straight away it's as if you want to spark up trouble..." she said.

"No Lucia... no matter what I do I can't seem to do anything right so I may as well apologise now.." they both went quiet.

"I'm sorry.. that I spoke to you the way that I did.. I was just angry...

"Why?.. why were you angry?.."

"Because you followed me, watching my every move like you just don't trust me...

"You admitted having feelings for him and wanted to know what that was like, how the fuck am I supposed to take that?..."

"I was being truthful with you so there are no secrets, doesn't mean to say that I wanna be with him.. I don't even care what the fuck he's doing right now. I've just been living my life with my friends with none of this added drama and bullshit..."

"if you don't want the drama and bullshit then I may as well jus' go right... there is no point in me even trying to talk to you...

"Don't go.." she said to him as he stood up ready to leave. He looked at her. "Please stay and talk... over everything Haydn I do miss you..."

He sat back down and sighed, "I didn't intend to follow you... I wanted to tell him to back the fuck up off of you ... the picture that I received had the two of you very close together and yes I did jump, but that is because I care about you and you were my girl at the time..." he paused. " I can't play games Lucia, I don't have time for them, I do not have the capacity to deal with drama on that scale having to watch my girl... you should know who to avoid especially when it comes to him, especially how he did yo own family..."

She looked down. " Sometimes I just find it hard okay....to be in love with a man like you, to stick to the rules... To try to be somebody that I'm not... I feel like I've lost a part of myself trying to be your girl... I want to be able to see my friends, go out with my friends have the freedom that I had before....but being with a man like you means that I'm tied to a certain regime.. I have to watch my back, I have to watch and assess the people I speak to... I don't know if I want this life... it was reason why I left my own family business.. plus what I did to my grandfather... I don't want it..." she told him with honesty.

"I hear everything that you're saying to me, and I want you to know that I want you to have everything that you need, I want you to have the life that you want... I'm not suppressing you... I'm just asking you to understand that there are certain limits you cannot cross when you're with me... But other than that yo life is yo own, if you wanna work, work....if you wanna go out with yo friends, then go out with yo friends... I'm not stopping you from doing anything that you want to do... I have never been that type of man..." he expressed.

The champagne was brought to the table. "Would you like a drink with me?." He asked her.

Lucia looked at the champagne. "No, thank you but I'm gonna pass...

He nodded. "Looks like I'm going to do the whole bottle myself then...."

Lucia watched him, he was so handsome and mysterious and she wanted him so badly. She was hard headed though, and sometimes that meant that she would cut her own nose off to spite her face.

Haydn had his third glass. "I can't stand this silence anymore... so... Where do we go from here?.."

Lucia sighed "you know I wanna be with you, that has never been in question... but if we are going to do this, can we take it back to how it used to be when we first started date each other? Let's just get to know each other again slowly.... But please understand I'm your girl and I'm not looking for anything else...." She told him.
She then closed her eyes and took a deep breath as out of the corner of her eye she could see Kingston, Dion and Draya coming in together.

Haydn noticed her face change and he looked towards the direction that she was looking in. He rubbed his head. "I swear these mother fuckers wanna die... what the fuck is Kingston doing back here!." He snapped through gritted teeth.

Lucia reached across the table and put her hand on top of his. "Let's go... take me back to your place forget about them I'm sure you will handle them another day..."

Haydn looked at her and then across at Ross and Courtney who were looking at him because they had also just clocked who had walked in. He received a text from Ross.

Ross
You don't wanna start here man, so far they haven't seen you just take Lucia and go, we can pick this up with them tomorrow.

Haydn nodded, he knew he needed to pick his moment and needed his men around to, he took Lucia's hand and led her out through the exit, which she was also very glad about....