The Right Man [SLY2] n.h.

Chapter 7

Amy Farrington:

 

“Okay, so I’ll manage the Dublin office from here, and you manage the LA office. We will still manage both of the offices together, but this will work out best, so then neither of us has to make emergency flights, unless it’s dire for both of us to be present.”

“Of course, Amy. You know your dad is still really upset about this, but we can make this work. I think it’s what’s best for the company anyway.”

I looked up to the screen to see Connor smiling at me. It wasn’t even a fake smile. I could tell it was genuine. I could tell that he truly meant it.

I smiled back at him and nodded, “I think so too.”

“Yeah,” he said quietly, suddenly sounding a bit different. “So how are things?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, how’s things with Niall?” he questioned.

Truly things are a bit strange right now, but I didn’t want to admit that to anyone. I especially do not want to admit that to Connor. 

“Uh, things are g-good,” I forced a smile and nodded. “Things are great.”

But there was no point in doing any of that, Connor knew me well enough to know that I was lying to him. He knew, and I knew that he would call me out on it. I just slightly hoped he didn’t. I could always just end the call and blame it on the wifi losing connection.

“Don’t lie to me Amy. What’s wrong?”

“Well, honestly it’s stupid.”

“I don’t care. Tell me what’s wrong,” he said sternly, and I had no choice, but to tell him.

 .,.

“But Niall, you said you didn’t care what kinds of flowers we got for the wedding.”

“Yeah, that was until I knew that you wanted to get fucking lilies and orchids.”

“What’s wrong with lilies and orchids? Honestly, I don’t understand what your fucking problem is and why you’re fucking opposing the idea of lilies and orchids.”

“It doesn’t make sense for you to want to have those two flowers together. I mean, honestly, what’s wrong with the traditional red roses?”

“There’s nothing wrong with the traditional red roses, but that doesn’t mean that I want them at the wedding. I just don’t understand why you don’t like the idea of lilies and orchids.”

“No reason, I just don't like the idea of it,” he said insensitively. Something in his eyes told me he was being truthful. He really had no reason to oppose them it seems.

“I don’t understand why you’re being such a dick to me right now. It doesn’t make sense,” I said clearly upset at the way he was acting.

“Amy,” he said softly in realization of how upset I was, but I didn’t want to hear it. He wouldn’t mean it anyway.

“No, Niall. Stop. I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to hear a thing.”

“Amy, please,” he begged.

“No, just leave.”

“But, Amy,”

“Niall, please, just leave me alone.”

.,.

It strangely felt better to share this with Connor, but still it didn’t make a difference. I was still upset that the whole thing happened.

“I haven’t seen or heard from him since then. We had that argument last night,” I explained to Connor.

“You know, I would never do something like that. And I wouldn’t have questioned you about the flowers. Obviously, I would have given you exactly what you wanted.”

“Yeah, but that’s because you know the reason why I want them in the first place. He didn’t give me the chance to explain to him before he started bitching about them.”

“It doesn't matter if I know; I still would have given you what you wanted if I didn’t know. You wouldn’t be having any of these problems if it were me instead of him. He obviously doesn’t care enough to find out.”

“Look Connor, I don’t appreciate you talking about him that way. I wouldn’t be having these problems with you because you’ve known and agreed to everything for years now. You know the reason behind everything I wanted. You know all this, but that doesn’t make you any better than him. He doesn’t know, because I haven’t told him, not because he doesn’t care.”

I shook my head unable to keep this conversation going anymore.

“You know what; I’m going to go now. I’ll talk to you if anything comes up at the office. Good bye Connor,” I said as I ended the Skype call.

I didn’t even give him the chance to respond or even apologize. Almost instantaneously, he called back, but I didn’t answer it. Instead, I turned off my computer and got up to walk away.

When I turned around I was surprised to find Niall standing at the doorway. How long had he been there?

“Niall?” I questioned.

“Amy, I’m sorry. I really am. I didn’t realize how much these flowers meant to you. I didn’t realize I was being jerk. I’m sorry.”

“Its fine Niall, I can’t blame you for that. You don’t even know why it’s so important for me to have those flowers, so I’m sorry that I expected you to read my mind and figure it out. I’m sorry that I yelled at you,” I said quietly before slowly looking up at him again.

“Amy, you have every right to yell at me,” he said and I laughed lightly. “But, I do want to know why it’s so important to you. And I want you to know that it was really childish of me to want to enforce the red roses down your throat. It’s just that anytime I pictured myself getting married, I always pictured slowly looking up and seeing my bride walk down the aisle, first seeing the white dress and next seeing a bouquet of red roses in her hands.”

I smiled at the thought of Niall picturing his wedding.

“That’s cute. Maybe, I can I have red roses too,” I nodded as I spoke.

But he shook his head lightly, “not unless you want them, baby.”

“I do want them,” I nodded again.

He smiled as I looked up to him and kissed him lightly on the lips.

“So tell me, why lilies and orchids?”

I sighed before talking, “well, to be honest, it’s because of Molly. Before she died, she had told me that she wanted orchids at her wedding, and I thought this would be a good time and place to remember her by. And also, I read somewhere in her things that she had planned on giving me a bouquet of lilies at my wedding. And so, I thought I could do that too. I could do both at one time, because that’s what she would have wanted. If she were still here, she’d be my maid of honor. She would be, but since she’s not, this is the next best thing I could think of.”

“Wow, I’m sorry. I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that it was something that important. I was just being selfish, because I wanted my fantasy to occur. I’m sorry.”

I shook my head, “its okay Niall. You didn’t know, and I can all three flowers rather than just the two. Everyone wins.”

He nodded before saying, “everybody wins.”