Love in the theater

Chapter 28

"Loretta! It's been such a long time!"

"I'll take the next one." she immediately said when she saw who was standing in front of her in the elevator.

"Come on let's catch up, it's been a while" the man said.

"Teddy, I don't want to 'catch up with you', now leav-" she started saying but stopped when she heard Oliver's voice.

"Loretta, wait ! I'll go with you" he said as he joined her to the elevator.
"Teddy! Hey, how are you?" he asked as he shook his hand with a stupid smile on his face when he saw him.

"Well not that good since the last time I paid for your play and it closed the second night" Teddy said as he looked seriously at Oliver.

"Oh you know, that was a year ago, I'm pretty sure you got all that money back" he said, still stupidly smiling from embarrassement.
"By the way, I see that you two already met, Teddy that's my girlfriend Loretta, Loretta that's my uhm...Co-worker or friend or I don't know, anyway that's Teddy Dimas" he said trying to change the subject.

"Nice to meet you Loretta" Teddy said with a big smile, acting as if he didn't know her in front of Oliver.

"Yeah same for me, such a pleasure" she ironically said.

"Well it was nice to see you Teddy but we are busy. Loretta is gonna live with me here at the Arconia so we are bringing all of her things up here" he said still smiling.

"Oh so you're selling your apartment?" he asked, looking at Loretta.

"Yeah, I really wanted to come here to live with Oliver" she said, giving Oliver a kiss on the lips.

"You know it's funny, you two talk as if you knew each other" Oliver said chuckling a bit.

"Well no n-" Loretta started saying until Teddy stopped her.

"We actually do" he simply said.

"What? Really?" Oliver asked, looking at the both of them in shock. "I'm really surprised. Where did you meet?"

"Oh that was long ago, a theater thing you know" Loretta tried to explain, not really telling him the exact truth.

"Oh well that's really a small world we're living in" Oliver said, not seeing Teddy smirking at Loretta over his shoulder, which made her uncomfortable.

"Yeah well it was nice but we need to go, bye" Loretta said, taking Oliver's arm and leading him to the stairs.

"What are you doing? We could have taken the elevator" he asked, confused.

"The stairs are fine, at least we'll do some exercise" she said as they started walking down the stairs.

"Uhm okay if you want" He said, feeling that something was wrong but not wanting to upset her.
"By the way, why didn't you tell me that you knew Teddy?"

"I didn't think it was important" she simply said, not looking at him.

"Hey stop for a minute" he said, walking in front of her and blocking her way.

"Oliver we need to take everything upstairs so we can unpack" she sighed.

"We will in a second but for now just tell me what's wrong" he said, looking at her seriously.

"Nothing's wrong, everything's perfect" she said, trying to escape this conversation.

"No Loretta, don't lie to me, I know that something's wrong, I can feel it. You're definitely not the happy and full of life girl you were earlier, what happened?" he said, taking her hands in his.