From Tokyo With Love - A Norman Reedus Fanfic Romance

Chapter 27 - Pikhoved!

NORMAN

Tokyo + one year – New York

"YOU FUCKING....PIKHOVED!"

I swing my head up and stare in disbelief at Helena.

What?

"Pikhoved....pik....oh what is the English? Dickhead!  That's it!"  She spluttered out at me.

"What the....? Thanks a lot for the sympathy, sweetheart"  I respond, not a little sarcastically.

"Stubbornness doesn't deserve sympathy, Norman. You've got no one else but yourself to blame for this mess you've created."

She peered from me to Mingus, who'd just completed a full length of the monkey bars.

"Well done, Tarzan"  She called out to him.

We're down at their local park. Well bundled up against the freezing March cold while Ming played on the jungle gym.

I finally told her about Ollie....what happened in Tokyo and ever since then. I've wanted to for a while now, though I had me a feeling that she'd already guessed.

Because I usually wear my heart on my sleeve, and Hel knows me only too well.

But after what happened this morning? Well....my hand was kinda forced. I'd hoped for a bit of understanding and much-needed advice.

But instead, she's angry.

No....not at the fact that I've found someone else. Moved on....and fallen in love. She'd already done that and only wanted the same happiness for me.

Nah....she's way pissed at how I dealt with my situation afterwards. And is more than indignant on Ollie's behalf.

'Yes, you're a stubborn dickhead. You could've easily found out where she lived....written to her. Got those friends of the Japanese man to get her phone number in Australia. So you could call when you didn't hear from her."

"Could've even flown down there to see her in person!"  Helena spluttered.

'....planes fly....phones ring....texts and emails get sent....'  I remember sadly.

"But noooo!  You sat around on your ass waiting for her  to call you. Expecting her to do all the hard work and chase after you. Because your ego was hurt....when she didn't ring."

"Typical male! Making yourself miserable when there was no contact."

"Now a whole year has passed. You've finally found out why she didn't....couldn't  contact you. And why the hell would she even want to? This Ollie? She obviously believes that you dumped her....and left to come back home without a single word! That poor girl! "

Awwww, fuck!

She's right....dammit!  😖

***

When I woke up this morning? I trundled down to the lobby to retrieve my mail. Then ordered a coffee in the café next to my apartment building.

I was still on a high from last night. The first exhibition in Soho of my artwork and photography. It'd gone down really well and there were an incredible amount of red 'sold'  stickers by the end of the viewing.

Sitting at my usual table which is tucked into a quiet corner, I grabbed the biggest envelope. It'd finally been redirected from my old residence in L.A. So has taken quite a while, making it to me here in New York.