Chapter 12.

It was Gina who informed me that her brother was gone. A part of me was relieved, but another part of me couldn't stop thinking about him and I hated that part.

The week passed quickly, since I had nothing to do. Flo always left early for his job and came back in the evening, he was an assistant in a law firm. So the whole day I spent it looping around the apartment, and when I was fed up, I would go for a walk outside. Gina had come to see me to apologize once again, she was still blaming herself for telling her brother where we were the other day. She thought I was mad at her, but actually I was mad at myself and unwittingly I may have reported it to her. I was angry because despite the fact that I kept telling myself that what happened with Mr. Davis was just an illusion, that he would never be attracted to me, that he was an engaged man ; still, I kept thinking about him, about the kiss, and the words he said to me outside the bar. I dreaded having to see him again one day and the reaction I was going to have. I just hoped that the urgency he had had would take him some time, and that when he came back, I would have come to my senses.

I had almost no more pain in my arm but I continued to take the painkillers. I had removed the bandage, the wound was ugly and I knew it will take time to heal. And the scar was going to stay for a while. I had heard from Greta that the giyy who did this to me had got 19hours of community service and was fined. It made me happy because he deserved it.

I was in the apartment on Thursday night watching a movie in the living room, when Flo came home.

"Ah, there you are!" he told me taking off his coat , and came and sat down beside me. He looked super excited, which didn't surprise me because it didn't take much to get him excited.

"What's going on?" I asked him without giving him too much attention because I was still watching my film.

"Ah, you haven't seen the article that came out in the tabloids." he took his phone out of his pocket.

"You know that I don't give a damn about those gossips."

"Oh I'm sure you'll give a damn about this."

He handed me his phone. The first thing I saw was a picture of Mr. Davis and his girlfriend.

The title of the article was "False Alarm", basically it was talking about Mr Davis that had published a tweet which debunked the rumors of his engagement. There was a pic of the tweet and it said.

"Marriage is a big decision, and despite what's been said recently, me and @Macy_Mackenzie are not at that point." the article went on to say that Macy Mackenzie had also spoken out on her twitter account. saying. "What he meant is we're not there YET, but all of us know that the day will come sooner or later, meanwhile I hope that y'all girls are aware that it will only be me and no one else."

"So what?" I handed the phone to Flo.

"Oh no, don't be a killjoy!! Admit that it matters to you that he did that"

"No, why would that do anything to me? I don't see what it has to do with me"

"Oh no, you're not going to pretend with me. I know you're reacting like that because you don't want to get your hopes up, but deep down you know he did it because of what you told him the other day "

"Even if it was true, and I'm not saying it is. It's obvious that this girl is not likely to let go, and you think that I can make the weight against that? No. So stop dreaming, this story is over, full stop we move on OK ?"

Flo rolled his eyes disappointed.

"Can you try to look on the bright side for once?"

"And can you

try to find yourself a girlfriend and leave me alone please?"

"What? We're not talking about me here." he got up from the sofa to dodge the subject he took his thicket and went towards his room.

"Yes, but we could talk about it." he turned a deaf ear and did not answer me.

A few minutes later I heard the water running in the shower. So I took my own phone, and opened instagram and typed in Macy Mackenzie. There were a lot of accounts but hers was the top one. I knew from Flo that she was a trending influencer of the moment, that's why she had 1.2M subscribers. Her account was bombarded with photos of her. Frankly she was a bomb, which did not necessarily please because even if I tried to convince myself of the contrary, it had shocked that he denied the fact that he was engaged. But my logical side told me that it meant nothing, that it had nothing to do with me. But there was my other side that was hoping. Of course I didn't want to pay attention to that side.

I left Macy Mackenzie's account, and looked for Greg Davis' account. He had 3.2M subscribers. There were lots of pictures of his nightclubs, there was a picture of him with his mother and Gina on the day of their father's funeral. They looked crestfallen, especially Gina. But of course there were some pictures of him.

I heard Flo come into the living room, I was so caught up in my stalking that I didn't hear him get out of the bathroom. I immediately hid my phone and pretended to be focused on my movie. Fortunately, he didn't notice anything and he came to sit next to me with a beer.

We watched movies all evening, we ordered pizzas and we went to sleep around 10 p.m. Once in bed, I looked at my phone and noticed that I had a new message from an unsaved number. I opened it.

It was written:

"There's no more 'girl somewhere waiting for me' LOL.

Good night.

~G.D"

And there I couldn't contain the smile that appeared on my lips.