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(32) Ama's Attraction

♡ AMA

X's driver picks me up early and I thank him. I'm done for the day. I'm going to stuff my face with pizza, drink too much wine, and then straight to bed. I hope tomorrow is a better day. After the first training with Noah, the mean girls, X swooping in to save me and my dad not believing I pulled the meeting off, I'm exhausted. I spent over an hour explaining it all to my dad until I got annoyed and walked out.

Yeah maybe not the smartest move, but I was done. He got in late and left it to me to save his ass. He overslept he said, but it felt like he was lying. And that made me even more pissed. 

I might have kicked the trashcan in his office. 

Okay, I did. 

It was a beautiful sight to see the papers and trash fly through the room, until...

Till I saw a condom fly and my brain just couldn't deal with it anymore. 

I grabbed my stuff and stepped into the elevator to go down to the IT wing, my favorite place to hide. The guys are all kind and silent there and no one else wants to be seen with the nerds. So I set up shop there and told Ashley to tell everyone I went home. I love doing that. She knows I'm not home and tells me every single gossip going around the office about me.

Anyway back to the pizza and wine. 

The driver stops in front of Mario's. Yep, you guessed it, as cliché as they come, but the best pizza in town. I walk in and find X already sitting in a booth with a bottle of wine and two glasses. He pours the wine and I sit down across from him.

He tells me he has ordered already. Which is easy to do, because I always eat the same pizza; pepperoni. Yeah simple I know, but I like what I like. I am not very experimental where it comes to food.

I take my shoes off under the table and raise my glass to him while looking him in the eyes. 

He smiles and says: "To us! We were on fire this morning."

I clink my glass against his and mumble: "Not the entire morning."

He stares at me and I know he wants me to explain. I should talk to him about it. Get a man's point of view. I start by telling him about the session with Noah and X chuckles as I tell him about my playlist. He knows all about my broad taste in music and that angry rock music has always made me feel powerful somehow.

X asks: "So would you like to train with him again?" I nod slightly and he says: "What's going on Ama? Who made you feel bad about yourself if it wasn't Noah?" 

I look at him and shrug. 

"Nope, don't shrug it off, tell me or I will start singing along with the Italian music here. Loudly."

I giggle and shake my head. I tell him about meeting Toren and that he told me I wasn't Noah's regular type. And then I tell him all about the barbies in the locker room. 

X swears between his teeth and puts his hand on top of mine. "Don't let that get to you Ama. And the girls Noah went for don't matter. It's the beautiful woman he's interested in right now that matters."

"I don't want to be played X. I don't want to get my hopes up for something that will never be." 

I stare out of the window and sigh.

X squeezes my hand and says: "Noah's not a player Ama. He's the opposite. But let's change the subject. What did your dad say?"

I cover my face with my hands and let out a muffled scream. X looks shocked, probably thinking my dad would be proud. I say: "Maybe you should have stayed to explain it to him too because he didn't believe I pulled it off. Doubted everything I told him." I bite my lip and avoid X's gaze.

He leans back in his chair and says: "And you got mad. What did you do?" 

I tell him about kicking the trashcan and finish the story off with the condom. 

X stares at me for at least a full minute and then says: "The fuck? Your dad's... he's... in his office... Oh, Ama."

I wipe a tear from my cheek and down my wine. I've got the DNA from both my parents, it's never going to get better. My mom's a drunk with no motherly instinct what so ever and my dad has no real faith in me and is clearly fucking someone in his office. I feel so lost that I'm not sure what I want anymore.

X chuckles softly and says: "At least he's wrapping his wiener up. Imagine having another brother or sister to share the company with."

I scrunch up my face and say: "Don't remind me of my dad fucking. I don't want to know. And I'm not even sure I want to take over the goddamn company if he has no faith in me."

The pizzas are brought to our table and I immediately grab a slice and devour it. I swallow the last bite and almost choke on it. He just walked in. 

Noah just walked in. Fuck me! Maybe I can hide under the table? I'm seriously considering it until X turns around to find out what I'm staring at.

And of course, he invites Noah over to eat with us. I watch him come closer with his sexy smile and his eyes locked on mine. I contemplate becoming religious instantly and beg God to save me here. Not that he would save me, because for some reason all the gods or the universe or whoever the fuck is in control here wants to screw me over.

I'm worried he is going to sit down across from me because looking at him while I eat will surely kill my appetite. But he doesn't. He sits down right next to me and greets me and X casually. 

X offers him a piece of his pizza but Noah scrunches up his nose. "Eww bro. Not the anchovies again!"

X takes that as his cue to lecture Noah about how healthy anchovies are and that it just takes some getting used to. I try to hide the laughter bubbling up in my belly. I get a flashback to when Noah lectured me about sugar. I bite my lip and stare at the table. 

When I look up at X, I see he even has the hand gestures down to a T. That's it, the floodgates are opened and I burst out in laughter.

I grab a hold of Noah's arm for support and laugh till the tears stream down my face. I hear X laugh too and it doesn't take long for Noah to join in. 

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That was Ama's POV.

What do you think, did X good here?

Next up is Montell's POV...
And it's hard to write... 

Do you think he's the owner of the warm body Mona bumped into? 

You'll find out when it's done. ;)

See you when I see you. 

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