EX CEO BOYFRIEND WANTS ME BACK

BREAK UP

ENZO KING

“Nandipa. What are you doing here?” I froze right on the spot when my eyes lay on her.

I looked around to see if anyone was watching us, and yep, there are multiple stares around us. Oh God, this is so embarrassing. Nandi is embarrassing me in front of my colleagues.

“Are you not happy to see me, babe?” She asked, so sweetly and innocent. Only if she knew how that is making me feel right now. I feel so damn guilty.

“Come, let’s go,” I harshly pull her to the exit, but she yanks me off and looks at me shocked.

“Enzo, what has gone into you. When did you become this vile towards me?” I can tell she is trying not to cry by how her voice changed.

“Let’s go, Nandi,” I snap.

“My bag, Enzo,” She whines, walking back to get her bag.

“What is in there, Nandi? Clothes in your bag?” I ask her as we walk to my car. “Are you planning on sleeping here?” I pray not.

“I am hungry,” She says, finally dropping her tears.

“Get in the car,” I say, going around my car to get in the driver’s side. I wait for her to put her bag in the back seat and then she got in the front.

I drove out of the parking and went to McDonald’s drive-through to get something for her because I don’t think I have any appetite. It is getting dark now, so I will take her with me to my apartment, but she needs to go back home as soon as tomorrow morning.

Ten minutes later, I drive into my apartment’s building and park at my spot. She has been very quiet since we left my workplace and I also have a lot of things and questions running in my mind.

Why did she come here; why didn’t she tell me that she was coming? Now I hate that I am going to disappoint her face-to-face and be the bad guy that I am.

I unbuckled my seatbelt and sat quietly, looking to the front without even unlocking the car as the madam ate her food completely finish. I don’t even know what to say to her, and maybe she is now scared to talk to me because I have been a ticking time bomb to her lately.

“Uh-hum,” I clear my throat. “Why didn’t you tell me that you were coming? How do you even know where I work?”

“I wanted to surprise you, and you told me where you work, plus you also dropped this card in my room the last time you were there,” She showed me the company card of where I work.

“You should have told me that you were coming, Nandipa. What if I wasn’t at work?”

“I would have called you, Enzo. Enzo, I thought you would be happy to see me; what changed between us?”

“Nandi,”

“What? You feel embarrassed, don’t you? I don’t look like a girl belonging in the big city, I don’t wear makeup and I can’t afford nice clothes, so you felt embarrassed by me, Enzo. You couldn’t even look at me, hold me, hug me, or even open the door for me yet you still think I embarrassed you. You are not embarrassed as I am, Enzo. I travelled for hours on a bus just to come for you. The people here looked at me weirdly and laughed at me because they just think what a girl like me is doing in a city or a place like this. How they laughed at me so loudly, how the receptionist was so rude to me and you treating me the way you did, was just so embarrassing,” She looked down and wept. “You dragged me out of that building like I am some cheap street hooker that demands for the money you promised her after using her services last night. I feel embarrassed. How could you do this to me, Enzo?” She cries her heart out and I’m just sitting, watching her cry and have hiccups in between. Oh, my baby girl.

I messed up big time. My stay here has changed me, and I have turned to be a different person from the one I was back at home. I won’t lie, the life here is so much better than the one back home. No, we are not poor at home, but this place is more advanced, and I like it a lot. I have adjusted to this life here. Nandi is… what can I even say? She won’t fit in; she just doesn’t. I am happy here and I found new friends here, Nandi is just going to take me a step back.

“Let’s get out of here.” I unlock the car and jump out of the car, going to her side to reach for her door, but she has already opened it, getting out of the car. She looked into my eyes, and I looked into hers. I could see the disappointment right through her wet eyes.

The least that I could do was to take her bag and carry it. We got into the elevator, and I pressed the fourth-floor button. We reached the floor and we got to my one-bedroom apartment.

“Welcome,” I said, not sure if I meant it. Would you like anything to eat, drink, I don’t know… I have snacks in the cabinet,” I walked to put her bag in my bedroom and then came back, finding her sitting on the bar stool by the kitchen counter. She fidgeted quietly with her fingers as if she wanted something but was scared to ask.

“I don’t understand how you could leave Ma alone,” I started, as I undressed my upper body and stayed shirtless.

“I did tell you the other day on a call that Austin is home for a short while, but you were too distracted or not interested to talk to me,” She is now calm, but still not looking at me.

I opened the fridge and took out cold water and grabbed a glass at the sink before I poured the water in. I passed the glass to her and sat down on the stool next to her.

“Thank you,” She said. The water was meant for me, but she looks like she needs it more than I do. She is nervous like something is worrying her.

“Nandi,” I softly call her. “How long are you planning to stay?” I asked, bluntly.

She looked at me, shocked.

“I just got here, and you already want me gone?”

“I need to know, Nandi. I have a life here now; I can’t always stay in here with you and…”

“I will leave soon,” She answers, imperturbably and rolls her eyes.

“When?” I ask, harshly.

“I said soon, did you not hear me?” She snaps, rolling her eyes again, and laughs softly. That is a sarcastic laugh I tell you.

“What are you laughing at?”

“You. I am laughing at how hypocritical you are. What happened to all the promises that we made to each other? ‘I am glad you are my girlfriend and I know that you would never stoop so low. I love you for you’; was that not you? You criticized this place and made me your reigning queen but now look at you today, swallowed by the same city you were criticizing. Gosh, you are so deceitful. I should have listened to my mother, now I regret ever giving you my innocence. You didn’t deserve it. I hate you, Enzo. I hate you,”

“Hey! You decided to come here without even telling me and now you want to insult me in my own place? Do not even start with the bedroom story. I didn’t force you to do it, but we both wanted it. I ate, you benefited and now I am full!” I yelled and when I didn’t expect it, she hit me across my face, and everything that I just said rang in my head and I instantly regretted it.

“Why are you hurting me like this? What did I do so bad that I deserve this from you? Enzo, I love you and I thought you loved me too? Baby, what happened? Tell me, please,” She cries, and I want to cry too.

I stand up and walk into the lounge and sit down and sit on the couch. I buried my face in my hands and heaved a sigh.

“You did nothing wrong. You are the most sweetest person that I have ever been with, but we can’t be together anymore. I am not right for you, Nandi. I want you to go back home,”

“No, I am not going home until you tell me the reason for all of this. Don’t you love me anymore, Enzo?” She comes and kneels in front of me. “Don’t break up with me, please. I am sorry,” She holds my hands.

“Nandi, stop,”

“Baby I am so sorry. I promise I will do better in our relationship. I know that you have a workload and might be the reason for these predicaments, but please don’t leave me. I will be a better girlfriend, I promise. I am sorry for everything,”

She has done nothing wrong, why would she apologise so much? Why is she making things so hard for me?

I yank her hands off me and stand up, wiping my tears with my hands.

“You can sleep on the bed and I will take the couch,” I say.

“Enzo, don’t do this, please. I don’t want the bed,”

“Do you want to take the couch, huh?”

“I want you,” She squealed in her cries.

“I am going out to get some air. Find your way around the apartment.” I left the apartment and she kept calling me back but I never dared to turn back.

A lot has happened these past few weeks and Nandi does not belong here to see all of that. I cannot hurt her more than I have, so it is better if she and I break up.

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