Just Friends

CHAPTER- 23

THE NEWS (PART 2)

"So what brings you here?" Jade asked Alec.

They were sitting together on the little terrace attached to her apartment.

She was a little more composed.

She could see the bruise on his nose which had now become a blue colour.

"I wanted to meet you." Alec stalled.

He didn't know how to start the topic. He didn't even know what he wanted to say to her.

"We are meeting in the evening anyways."

"About that what time exactly are we meeting?" Alec knew his question was stupid and had no relevance to what he actually wanted to talk about but he couldn't help it.

Jade gave him a quizzical look, "I'm not sure... 7:30 I guess. Matt's picking me up at 7." She shrugged.

Alec's ears pricked at Matt's name, "Matt?"

"Yeah... I invited him as my date. I didn't want to come alone."

"But I thought you'll broke up?" A million thoughts were going around in his head while Jade sat there nonchalantly.

"We did break up,but that doesn't mean we're not friends. He's a close friend of mine and he agreed to come."

Alec thought that he saw a dreamy look in her eyes.

"Why did you'll break up?" He asked.

Jade snapped out of her thoughts, "He wanted different things from life and I wanted different things. But we had a great relationship. You know he's such a great guy. We were really happy when we were together...."

Before Jade could complete whatever she was saying Alec blurted out, "Emma wants to get married!"

"What?" She just stared at him with a bewildered look on her face.

"After you left yesterday she told me to ask her to get married."

Alec didn't even know why he was telling Jade all this. He was supposed to break the news to her more calmly and maybe after some time.

"And what did you say?" Jade said at once.

"I said I needed time to think."

"You had time. Almost one whole day. What did you think?"

She could feel her heart sink. This was not how this was supposed to go. She had been trying to make him a little jealous by talking about her relationship with Matt.

The plan had backfired horrifically.

"I don't know, Jade." He rubbed his face, "I really don't know!"

"Do you want to get married to Emma, or no? How difficult is this question?"

"It's a big decision. I don't want to end up getting a divorce. What do you think I should do?"

Jade looked up at Alec. Her best friend looked like he was on the verge of going mad.

"You know what I think of marriage. And yeah... Marriage is the reason for 100% of divorces."

Was this the time to make jokes?, thought Alec.

"That's bullshit, Jade!" He said.

"No it's not. If you don't get married you won't get divorced as simple as that!" Jade shrugged nonchalantly, though she could feel the tears pricking her eyes.

"Why are you so against marriage?"

"I'm not against marriage! I just think it's not for every one." She got up and walked to the railing of the terrace.