Spoken Lies And Broken Ties

Mark's P.O.V.

"Rebecca" I called her out again. It took everything in me to not snap at her but couldn't afford to do that right now. So, I thought it was best if I was more careful this time with my words and my tone. I decided to choose it wisely or she would explode completely. "I know many things have changed since we last met but we shouldn't let those changes imperil what we have, our friendship. It is the best thing that can happen to a person. We shouldn't let these changes and differences take away our treasured friendship." When I was done explaining, I looked at her with hopeful eyes thinking this might make a difference. I was sure this would definitely work; emotional blackmail always works on her.

I waited for one minute, then two and then three and then so on but nothing happened. It seemed like she didn't even blink during that whole time pretending I wasn't even there. Once again, my ears met with silence and eyes with ignorance. God, this was like the hundredth time today that this girl has ignored me. I am seriously tired of her shit. Neither she wants me to do be on my own and listen to those songs nor she wants me to talk to her. Then what the f.u.c.k am I supposed to do? Pretend like I'm not here? What the hell is going on in her head? She is too difficult to pretend now unlike her old self.

I am starting to like her old self more at least she wasn't this stubborn and short-tempered. Although she looks much beautiful now but at least she was easy to talk to then. What have I got myself into? It's getting as good as dead here. But a man can try, right? After all, he has a bet to win.

"Reb" she glared at me "ecca" I completed it almost immediately. "How come you never told me you could drive. Who taught you to drive?" It suddenly hit me that Reb didn't know how to drive earlier. But she's driving quite well now. So, I figured out maybe I should know who taught her to drive and hence I asked her. Even though I knew I would not get a reply this time too but I was secretly hoping her to answer, I really wanted to know who must have taught her this.

"One of my ex-boyfriends," she said suddenly while still not looking at me. I immediately turned my head towards her, I couldn't believe my ears that she actually answered me. Maybe my emotional blackmail did work out pretty well. This was the first time when her tone held no hate when she answered me. I was filled with glee but then my attention shifted towards her words and my mood turned completely sour.

"Oh" I replied but it came out strained. I turned my head back towards the window and strained my eyes peering into the gloom. She must have been thinking about that guy when she answered me that's why there was no hint of hate in her voice this time. And here I was feeling happy that she actually replied to me sincerely. I was hoping we would at least be on speaking terms with each other after this ride but this answer exploded my head with tons of questions. I don't why but the thought of Reb being involved with a guy romantically didn't sit well with me. Could she be lying?

I know for sure she would have stuttered if she was lying. She has always been a bad liar. But she didn't stutter and seemed confident. So, does that mean she actually had boyfriends back in Miami? I guess it could be possible seeing how good she looks now. Three years has done her justice. But wait she said one of her ex-boyfriends, how many did she have?

Holly god, my head was hurting with all these questions, I desperately wanted to ask her but I know I couldn't. I don't know what was happening to me. I have had so many girlfriends myself; it is no biggie then why was the idea of Reb having boyfriends killing me? Am I feeling jealous of her ex-boyfriends? Oh, shoot does she have a boyfriend at present? I never bothered to ask her this before because it never hit me, she could have a boyfriend. I thought she didn't believe in all this. How could she have a boyfriend then? All these questions were killing me. I couldn't stop thinking about this and the more I thought about it the angrier I got.

"How many did you have?" it came out of my mouth in a manner which made it obvious that I was angry hearing about her ex-boyfriend. I made me look so desperate in front of her. Who does that? Wo asks someone how many boyfriends they have had. This was so embarrassing for me but like always she ignored me. When I was about to turn my head back towards the window, I guess I saw a hint of a smirk on her lips or maybe I was just seeing things. So, I just ignored it believing it was possibly the latter one.

The ride eventually turned back to silent; it's not like it was a chatty one anytime. But this meant that I quit trying to make a conversation. The car finally came to a stop after what felt like years of silence. Just when I was thinking I could go out and have some fresh air a hand came in front of me. She just placed her hand in such a manner that it was restricting my movement but at the same time it wasn't even touching me one bit just close enough to stop me

"You are not coming with me" she demanded with her eyes still looking out of the window. This made me think, 'Hey, am I such an ugly face to look at?' but I didn't mind that now. All that mattered now was that she was totally commanding me but I am not going to lie it was kind of a turn on but seriously I would have loved it even more if it the situation was something different, you know. This time it was getting me angry.

I chose to ignore her and undid my seat belt when she suddenly snarled, "What part of you are not coming with me did you not understand?" and without waiting for my reply she banged the car door loudly and locked me inside as if I was some puppy whose master just left without him.

Could this day get any better?