A Little Push [On-Hold]

Chapter Thirty-three

'Oh how I love her... '

"Hey man, what's up with you?" I went totally back to my body after reliving my happy moments with Maxine last night.

"You were saying?" I asked Edward, my friend and business partner.

"I asked you if you'll come with me to Vegas, there'll be an auction and I am going to take two of your antiques there, we can use the money we'll earn for opening up our next gallery next year." he said, exasperated.

"What antiques? No. I won't let you, I tried so hard to collect those paintings and you wanna auction it? Come on, man! Why don't you auction your own collection? Why do you always see mine?" I asked him.

"Ahaha, you're greedy. Fine, I'll take one of mine and one of yours, Deal?" he asked.

I think about it and figured he can't possibly kid about this.

"Are you sure you really wanna sell antiques? Why don't we just buy something from there?" I confronted him.

"Sheena's pregnant, again. And we needed money. We're now having twins, bro." he smiled as he said that. He already have two daughters and now he'll be having twins.

"Figures, congrats!" I said.

"But tell me first, why do you have this creepy smile from your face? Is it that Angel of yours? The reason behind your Joker-like smile?" he asked.

He knows who Maxine is and they met a long time ago, and as soon as we started our relationship, he's been supportive about us, and annoying too.

"Well, yeah.. She's so lovely, I can't get her off my head." I admitted. He smiled at me like a happy daddy. I swear he looks so much of a pug wearing that look.

"Oh, my boy is now a man. Oww... Tsk tsk.... Wear a protection boy, you wouldn't want to rest abruptly for nine months, believe me." he said and I threw him the paper I crumbled in half a second.

"Go home to your wife, asshole!" I yelled. He's always like that, talking as if I'm also a married man like him. It's as if he's wanting me to sympathize with his qualms.

"Think about my kid's future, Don! You're their godfather, just in case you miss that fact. I'm going, bye! I'm sure your so excited to get screwed up—okay! I'm shutting up. Bye!" he ran outside our office. I can't believe he is referring my sexlife as screwing. He's nuts, that asshole. No wonder his wife is always irate. Tsk tsk.

I get up from my seat and reached for my phone charging in a corner. I unlocked it to see no missed calls or any message from my babe.

"You must be so busy.. You really are diligent, Angel." I think out loud.

I fix my things and soon took off to pick my girlfriend up from her job. She's so busy with her job this past six months, I'm missing her every moment of the day.

"Bye! Yeah, see you. By the way,  thanks for this morning. Ahm,—" Maxine's taking a little longer than usual.

She's saying bye to her friend Alice, her officemate too. But I really don't mind waiting, I will have her whole attention this long weekend anyway, just the two of us.

"Sorry, let's go." she smiled at me and kissed my lips briefly before resting her back on the passenger seat.

"How's your day?" I asked her.

"Busy, hey..can we grab a sandwich first? I'm so hungry." she asked while rubbing her tummy. She looks so adorable,  even with her untidy hair and worn out make up. She's wearing her long gray coat that I gave her last week, it really looks good on her.