Chapter 34
Weekend came pretty quickly and we had finally moved out of Joshua's house to our very own apartment. Gabby and Aurora would be sharing the room together so they took the master bedroom, and I took the smaller room.
It was a busy and chaotic day, and I was grateful for the extra help that Zeke and Joshua provided. The whole time, all of them wouldn't let me lift a single thing, except for asking for suggestions every now and then.
These people could really spoil me if I'd let them.
Since they were all tired, I ordered some takeaway for dinner and waited for the delivery guy to show up.
"Issy, someone's on the door, go get it",Gabby's voice sounded from her room, where they were trying to fix the bed.
"I'm on it",I said and went to the door to get the food I ordered. "Hi neighbour, do you need any hel..",Roy's voice trailed off when he saw my face at the door.
"Issy?", Roy spoke out my name as if he was shocked to see me there. "Are you stalking me?",he said and it made me feel so furious that I could hit him right now with whatever I could get my hands on.
"My girlfriend doesn't need to stalk anyone",Joshua's voice came from behind me and as I turned to see him, I noticed that he wasn't alone. Zeke was with him as well, with a look of hurt in his eyes.
"What was going on here?""Why was Joshua spouting nonsense?"" When did I become his girlfriend?",all these thoughts ran in my head without any definite answer.
Joshua put his hands on my shoulder in a protective way and smirked at Roy,"You think my girfriend needs to stalk someone when she has a boyfriend like me?".
Arrogant much? I looked at Joshua and then at Zeke, then to Roy who was trying to search my face to see if what Joshua was saying was the truth, and Joshua only held me tighter.
"Wow Issy, you do move fast. And to think I believed you for once that, that bastard child was mine",Roy spat out and I couldn't hold my anger in anymore. I removed Joshua's hands from my shoulder and slapped Roy, hard on the face.
"Don't you dare call my child a bastard. You'll regret someday Roy and that time, you'll have only yourself to blame",I told him.
Amidst all those commotion, the delivery guy, who had reached just moments before the slap,came and delivered the food, which Zeke accepted and took to the kitchen.
I didn't want to create any more drama so I followed Zeke to the kitchen as well. "Leave, and don't hover around here",I heard Joshua tell Roy.
I was already fuming with anger when Gabby and Aurora came to the kitchen, oblivious to everything that happened just a few minutes ago.
"Wow, food smells good",Gabby exclaimed, opening up the contents of the Chinese takeout I had ordered, and starting setting it out on the table.
"Why do you all look like you've just seen a ghost?",Gabby, the ever so chirpy one, spoke out with mouthful of food. "Ew,Gabby, swallow your food first",Aurora sighed helplessly.
"Apparently, Roy's our neighbour and Joshua here, is my boyfriend", I summarised the whole thing for them in a brief words.
At my words, both of them gaped their mouths wide open,and they looked at Joshua and me, as if we said something like the end of the world.
"You two together and you didn't tell us?",Gabby said and I rolled my eyes at her, while Aurora, the smart one, understood the whole situation and simply laughed out and said,"I think its best he thinks that way Issy. At least, that would deflat his ego".
"What am I not getting?Are you or are you not dating?",Gabby asked us and we just rolled our eyes at her, at which she pouted.
During all these exchange, Zeke and Joshua didn't say any word, and simply had their dinner. I didn't even want to know what was going on in their minds.
All I wanted to do for now, was to be alone, swinging in a swing, in a garden surrounded with beautiful hydrangeas and roses. Wait, the garden I imagined was looking so much like Joshua's garden.
I shook my thoughts away and brought my mind to the current problem in hand, what would I do next if I bumped into Roy, now that I knew he was my neighbour.
"We can maintain this facade of being in a relationship and don't bother with him anymore even if you bump into him", Joshua said as if reading my thoughts.
"Why does it have to be you Josh? I mean, I could've been the pretend boyfriend as well",Zeke said and I could only roll my eyes at them.
"Neither of you needed to be my pretend boyfriend. I didn't need you to rescue me",I turned to Joshua and told him.
He only shrugged and replied,"It didn't seem to me that way when he rendered you speechless with his accusation of you stalking him".
I was dumbfounded. Did I really look that pathetic? I didn't want to argue anymore so I said,"You don't need to pretend anymore".
"But what about Roy? He already thinks Joshua is your girlfriend",Aurora said and I replied,"It doesn't matter what he thinks. I don't owe him any explanation concerning my life".
We all had our dinner in silence after that, and seeing that most of the works were already done, Zeke and Joshua took their leave and only the three of us were left.
"You guys must probably be exhausted, you go ahead and rest well. Let me take care of this garbage",I said and started cleaning up the mess and went down to throw the garbage out.
"Issy", came his voice from behind me, as I was dumping the garbage into the dumpster. "Are you really dating that guy from earlier?",he asked and I replied,"Roy, its none of your business who I date with. You mind your business and I'll mind mine."