Forget Me Not

Chapter Six

Chapter Six  

Finally I’d gotten that coffee I needed and was sitting at the table with it, mindlessly eating my yogurt. I couldn’t help think over what I’d said; how wise those words sounded.

I really had grown up and changed from that girl, she seemed so naïve to the person I was today with my worldly views.

I’d only seen the world in black and white then and now I had an open mind the world was like an abstract painting…

My face lit up like a match as I looked in my diary at the date, had it really been a month? Time felt like it had lost all meaning and we were the only two in it. I couldn’t grasp whatever we were had been going for a month.

“Hey I’m going back home for the weekend, I know it’s short notice but I’ve been meaning to ask did you want to come with me?” He was trying to sound casual though I could see him sweating at his brows.

I didn’t realise I’d sucked in my breath and was holding it, but when I finally let it out it came out like a massive sigh.

Did Ezra asking me to go to his house mean we were something more then I’d realised?

“Wow, I don’t know what to say. Do you want me to?” I asked nervously putting down my book I was clutching tightly.

“I really do, I sort of told my Mum I had a girlfriend and she wants to meet her…” He replied leaning up against my desk; I noticed his hands making a nervous twitching motion tapping against the side.

I took his hand and stood up; “You told her I was your girlfriend?” I stuttered to say smiling brightly. “I thought that’s what we were…”

He looked pained at me as if I was patronising him. “Sorry if I sounded condescending it’s just us is so new to me. I’m so honoured, of course I’ll come!”

“Are you okay Lacy?” Asked a voice waking me out of my daydream, I saw Nancy looking at me with curious eyes. “Off with the fairies aye?”

“Something like that…” I got up from the chair and threw my untouched yogurt into the bin. “Not hungry either, sure you are alright?”

“Trust me I’m fine!” I replied turning to face her middle aged face with its many wrinkles. “You’re as pale as a ghost; are you sure you are okay because I can call someone in if you’re feeling sick.” Her face was concerned and it reminded me so much of how my Mother use to look at me when I hurt myself playing in the garden.

Nancy was such a mother; “Maybe I’ve caught the Cheese Bug!” I said staring at her with a smile. “But you denied it Missy!”

“Work Romances never end well…” I walked out of the tearoom and let out a huge breath of carbon dioxide.

Father’s office door looked like a menacing fortress, my heart was beating a million miles a minute because I couldn’t believe I was about to lie to him.

I knocked on the door and waited for his response; “Come!”

I opened the door and entered the room filled with enough books to be a library, there was a coffee table filled with mountains of paperwork and empty coffee cups. The desk was just as messy where my Father sat behind more mountains of paperwork.

This room made me feel out of place and timidly I walked towards the empty seat behind the desk. I was biting on my tongue and it seriously hurt as I watched him peer over at me.

“Lacy what is it; can’t you see I’m busy?” Were his unkind words, and I was left wondering why I’d even bothered to come here and lie to his face when evidently I could get away with murder before he would bother to take notice of me.