Dreamt About You...

Chapter 22

'Is he proposing?! What?! We haven't been dating that long!! Marriage was a huge deal!! I've only just met his parents! I was waiting for him to finish his sentence, but I knew the ending of it. I couldn't bare to say no, but I didn't know how I'd feel if I said yes?!' I thought to myself.
"Sal.." I began until I heard his parents' door slam shut. It immediately caught mine and Sal's attention. We saw Gary run out of the house.
"Oh great" Sal said sarcastically, standing to his feet.
"What  now?" I asked, with no hope in my voice to Gary.
"Look, Carly wait!" Gary said running down to me.
"Just go away!" I shouted at him. Gary finally stopped in front of me and Sal, and had a look of sorry in his eyes.
"I'm sorry. All of this! It's all my fault. I don't want the business for money... I want it to be with you! I love you!!" Gary told me. I looked over to Sal who already began to walk away.
"Sal wait!"  I shouted. I turned back around to Gary as he held out his hands to hold mine. "What Gary, no!" I said as I ran off to find Sal. I got to the bottom of the path and saw he had already driven off.
"Great!" I sarcastically said.
"I'll give you a lift" Gary offered.
"Your actually insane!" I shouted at him. I got my phone from my pocket and rang Q.
"Hey Q, are you busy?" I asked down the phone.
"Nope" he replied.
"Could you pick me up please? I'm at Sal's parents place. I wouldn't ask but~" I began.
"Of course. I'll be right there!" Q said.
"Thank you so much!" I replied and hung up. I took off my jacket and laid it down on the path and sat onto it. My face fell into my hands as I began to cry. I felt Gary place his hand on my shoulder.
"Get off!! You've ruined me and Sal just because your not over our relationship which ended ages ago!! Just GO AWAY!" I shouted.
"But~" he began.
"No! Have the business... have whatever! I honestly don't care! But from now on you leave me alone!" I shouted. At that moment, Q pulled up in his car. He got out straight away and saw me upset. He sat right beside me and hugged me.
"What's wrong?" Q asked. I could see Gary slowly walking away down the street. I couldn't bare to get any words out, I just continued to cry into Q's chest.
"It's okay. I'm here" Q said, as he hugged and gently stroked my back.

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Q didn't want to leave me alone as I was very upset so he took me back to his place. I didn't say a word for the whole journey home. Q unlocked the front door and led me to the sofa. I sat next to him.
"Are you gonna tell me what's wrong?" Q asked. I wiped away my tears and took a deep breath.
"Well Gary came back and ever since everything has went wrong, and now Sal is angry with me and~" I began, until Q interrupted with a hug.
"It's alright. Sal will calm down, and Gary is an idiot" Q said with a light laugh which made me smile. He glanced over and saw it was getting quite late.
"Do you wanna stay here tonight?" He offered. I gently nodded. "Great! We can watch a movie yeah?" Q asked.
"That will be great" I replied with a warm smile.
"Right! You chose a film and I'll get a tub of ice cream" Q said with a smile. I walked over to his DVD cabinet and picked out a film at random.
"This one?" I asked.
"That's a funny one! Hey, are you comfortable in that dress?" Q asked. I looked at him confused. "Well you have leggings on, so if you want to lend a t shirt" Q offered.
"Aww thanks" I said. He threw me over  at shirt then I got changed in the bathroom. I came back out and Q had the movie set up. As I sat there, eating mini spoonfuls of ice cream.
'Maybe I should sell my business to Gary, and move away. It's clear Sal doesn't want me...'