CHAPTER 18
“What?!” Faith turned around to see Alex step into the coffee shop in jogging sweats and a spandex shirt on. After grabbing what looked like green tea, he turned around and his sight landed straight on Faith and Lana.
“Don’t get your hopes up man. She’s just a look alike. I bet it still hurts to look at her, huh?” The barista said to Alex leaning over the counter.
“Yeah.” Alex began to walk outside and to his car with a look of disapproval. Faith unconsciously ran and followed out the door.
“Alex!”
He turned around his hand already on his car door and tea on the top of his car. “What?”
“Can we please not be like this to each other?”
“Me in pain, and you not giving a damn? It’s happened before, remember?”
Faith put her hands on her hips and looked dead at Alex. “If I didn’t care, would I have run out here in pumps to talk to you?”
Alex sat his tea in the car and closed the door leaning against the car. “What do you want Faith?”
“That’s what I hate about you! One day you’re all affectionate and the next you’re pissed like it was the other person’s fault!”
“Oh, you hate that about me? How about trying to be with someone who will go to whatever it takes to prove a point? You’re so stubborn!”
“I’m stubborn? You should be the last to talk about stubborn!”
“Please do explain! Sixteen years ago I tried to explain myself but you didn’t want to hear shit until a few months ago!”
Alex groaned loudly. “Sixteen years this, sixteen years that. You think out of everyone, you would be the one to not bring up the past.”
Faith looked out at the parking lot with a sigh and back at Alex. “Look, last night…you said five weeks.”
“Yeah. What about it?”
“What day is it on?”
“The 11th…Why do you care? You’re not coming anyways.”
“Yes I am.”
Alex looked at Faith astonished. “What?”
“I’m going to the wedding. I told you that I’d always support you…even if it’s your wedding to the devil.”
Alex laughed lightly. “I’m not going to dignify that last part with a response, but I’d love to have you there. Think you can behave?”
“Can you?”
Alex looked closely at Faith and smiled. “Guess I’ll send over an invitation for you and the kids.”
“Don’t you think that’s pushing it a bit?”
Faith looked up at Alex and laughed along with him. That was the first moment of without any hostility between each other they had in a long time.
Faith walked back into the coffee shop and back to the table to Lana with a smile on her face. “Alex told me to tell you hello.”
“Okay…but what was that all about outside?”
“Nothing too serious.”
“Faith…”
“Okay, okay, okay. I’m going to the wedding.”
“Woah, what!?”
“I’m going-”
“No, I heard you, I just can’t believe that you’re going. Why would you even let that thought cross your mind?”
“After realizing our little yelling session was going on, what you said made sense. I will always have that connection with Alex no matter. I promised I would always support him no matter what the situation was. If I can’t have a relationship with him, I at least want a good friendship with him…For the kids’ sake.”
“Or do you mean your sake?”
“There’s some other reason you want to go to the wedding.”
Faith looked back out the window to the city. “There might be. But until I know it, I’m staying around for support.”
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Played Affair
RomantikWith her band-mate getting married to her high school sweetheart, Adrian Wolfe, Faith knows drama will only follow after... including her slowly falling in love with his older and more intellectual twin brother, Alex. She knows her relationship with...
