8. You did both.
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"I am asking about the beautiful blue dress you wanted so much! " when he said, he could have knocked me down with a feather!
"What!" I shouted. What the hell is he talking about?
"Why? Didn't you receive it? " he asked confusedly.
"No... No... I received! But I didn't know it was you." I said.
"I sent you a text. You haven't read it!" he said, laughing.
"Ah!" I said, thinking about how stupid I have acted. Without even reading the text he sent me, I went to Chris's house and accused him. No wonder why Chris got all fired up. I have never acted so recklessly in my entire life.
"Em..." Jeff said worriedly, as I was quiet...
"How you know I wanted this dress, I can't understand anything," I said confusedly.
"That girl you got into a fight over the dress... She is my cousin..." he replied.
"Ah! I didn't fight with her anyway." I said embarrassedly...
"Yeah... Yeah... Almost fought!" he said, laughing.
"How you know about that anyway?" I asked.
"Well... I came to pick her up. When I come to the shop, I saw you were talking with her. But I was stopped by one of my friends before I enter the shop. You have left before I come to you. Nella told me what happened." he said.
"Oh! But you shouldn't have to get this dress for me. Your cousin also likes the dress very much." I said.
"You don't know about Nella... That dress was not her type, actually."
"Then why she wanted to buy it so much." I wondered.
"She was just checking the dress when you came to her and talk. She wanted to buy that just to make you annoyed. That's how Nella is, she is an evil little brat." Jeff said.
Really? I told her how much I needed that dress, but she chose to have it just to annoy me. I can't even believe someone can be that cruel.
"When I told her you are one of my friends, she got really upset. She told me how much you liked the dress. But to make her give up the dress, I had to pay for the rest of the clothes she has selected. " Jeff added, laughing.
She had two to three dresses in her hand, so he had to pay for them as well... It definitely cost him a lot.
"Yes, I like the dress so much. It was the only dress that could catch my attention. But you shouldn't really go through so much trouble, Jeff..." I said sadly.
"Don't worry about that, Em... I just wanted you to have this dress, so I bought it and sent it to your house as soon as possible," he said.
"Thank you very much, Jeff. I don't know what else to say. I will pay you on Monday for all the dresses..." I said.
"What? Pay? Don't bring down what I did for you by paying me back." he said firmly.
"But, Jeff, it is an expensive dress... Also, you had to pay for the other dresses as well..." I objected.
"I told you not to worry about those, Em... I anyway wanted to make it up to you for what happened yesterday night. Accept this as my apology," he said.
Oh! Jeff... You are so sweet... To compensate for what happened last night, you thought of doing something big like this. But Chris... He is the one who initialized the tense situation, but he doesn't even feel sorry about that. He just treated me like s**t even today.
"I accept your apology, Jeff... Please do more and more mistakes if this is the way you are going to apologize." I said, smiling. Though thinking Chris sent me the dress made me furious, knowing it was Jeff who did this made me happy. Not like Chris, he always shows how much he cares about me... So what he did feels so sweet and precious.
"Haha... I will... " he replied, chuckling.
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Though my heart melted after knowing Jeff went through so much to get this dress for me, now I have a problem to solve!
Chris anyways deserves an apology for wrongly accusing him, right? But when I remember the way he treated me, I felt like I should never ever even look at his face. I still remember the way he lit his cigarette and the way he threw the dress at me. I have never met someone so indecent like him.
Maybe he got offended because I blamed him for something he didn't do... I felt so confused... For some time, I kept on thinking about what should I do.
If I didn't act so hastily, none of these problems would occur...
After giving a lot of thought, finally, I decided to go and apologize to Chris. I am not going to forgive him for how he treated me at his house or how he ignored me, but I will just ask him to forgive me for scolding him for something he doesn't even know.
The next problem was when and where to do it.
I am not going to his mansion ever again. They treat me like I came to steal something from them.
Apologizing to him at the campus is not even an option. That would just make me humiliate in front of everyone. His stupid gang would definitely poke fun at me.
How about doing it while we both are on the balcony. Maybe I can show him a board written: "I am sorry." I have watched a movie where the heroine did that. At first, her boyfriend didn't pay attention, but she kept on doing that. Finally, her boyfriend also shows her a board with a heart drawn in the middle.
God! What the fu** am I thinking? This is not a movie but real life. I can't do such silly things. I had enough following those movie scenes and going to his house. Usually, in movies, when the heroine gets furious and goes to her crush's home to scold him, they two end up having s*x, right? See what happened in the real-life... He literally chased me out! So, I am not going to try anything I have seen in movies. I must act more maturely...
I decided I should meet him on the road... I will stop his car and without out even get in, I will ask him to forgive me.
Since I have to wait until Monday to do that, I had to spend my entire Sunday nervously.
I couldn't resist looking at their balcony to see him. But I couldn't see him at all... On Saturday night, lights in his room were also switched off... But on Sunday night, I saw his room lighten up, but he didn't come to the balcony.
On Monday, I went to the bus stop earlier and wait until he comes. I know what I am going to do is also not a mature thing. There is a high possibility he doesn't come today, or he goes without stopping the car.
I was anxiously waiting for him to come... Three buses left since I came... It was so close to the lecture starting time as well... I was confused without knowing what to do... Finally, I thought I must get on to the next bus and go to the campus. I can't afford to miss a lecture.
Then I saw his blue mustang taking the turn from the bend just before the bus stop.
I put my hand towards the middle of the road and waved. From the way he was coming, it seemed like he has no intention of stopping.
I don't know what has got into me. Without thinking twice, I jumped to the road and waved!!!
I know... I am a shameless fool!!!
I think he had to hit the break so hard...
However, he managed to stop the car, right in front of me. Then he opened the shutter and put his head out.
"What the fu** are you doing? If you want to die, just go and find someone else to hit you," he shouted angrily.
But more than what he said, what stole my attention was his new hair cut. Wow! He got even sexier with it.
When he honk angrily only I realized I was just staring at him...
"Chris, can you give me a lift?" I asked, ignoring all the promises I made to myself for not getting into his car. Only one day left without seeing him, and I didn't know I was this desperate to see him until I saw him now... Maybe it is his haircut that makes me do this.
"Lift!" he repeated sarcastically.
"I thought you are not getting into the vehicles of indecent people like me. " he then said.
Okay, now you are going to take revenge from me. Please, Chris, we don't have time for that now.
"Please... I am getting late to the lecture." I said.
"Ah! I forgot you are another nerd sharing the front row with Jeff." he then said sneeringly.
"Chris, please..." I said nervously looking at the watch.
He released a sigh and opened the passenger side door for me.
I literally ran to his car and closed the door. I didn't forget o wear the seat belt.
He again released a sigh looking at me and started driving.
I did something which was not in my plan and totally unnecessary. Now it is time for me to do what I really wanted.
"Chris!" I said, having butterflies in my stomach.
He gave me a quick glance...
"I am so sorry for wrongly accusing you. I got to know it was not you who sent it..." I said.
He didn't say anything.
"It was just you who was nearby... That's why I suspected you. " I again said.
"Who has sent it to you?" then he asked out of the blue.
What? That is not your concern, Mr. Handsome... But I didn't want to make him angry.
"It was Jeff..."
As soon as he heard Jeff's name, he gave me a piercing look...
"So passing the having dinner together state, you two are now at gift exchanging state..." he said...
I don't know how to explain the way he sounded... His voice was mixed with so many emotions... Anger... Jealousy... Worry...
"What states are you talking about?" I asked.
"States in your relationship with him." he then said. Are you mad, Chris?
"We don't have that kind of a relationship... We are just friends! " I exclaimed.
"Really... I have so many friends, but I don't send gifts to their houses anonymously..." he said.
"He just wanted to help me. We don't have any other relationship than a friendship." I said. Then I explained to him what happened. I don't know why I was trying so hard to make him believe that I don't have any relationship with Jeff...
"Hmm..." that was all he said after my explanation... God! How arrogant he is? Why the fu** I get into his car in the first place?
Anyway, I wanted to ask him one thing more,
"At the mall, why you acted like you don't even know me ?"
"Because I don't know you," he said simply.
"What?" I yelled.
"I don't even know your name," he said calmly.
Ah! You don't have to know my name to just smile with me, Chris. You gave me a lift, even without knowing my name. Why can't you just accept you acted that way because I didn't come home with you that night?
"My name is Emma..." I said.
"Hello, Emma..." then he said, smiling at me... God! That smile! Why can't you keep on smiling like this, Chris? Why you have to act so arrogant and pretend to be a bad boy.
"We recently moved here from Sweden," I said.
"Are you Swedish!" then he asked.
"No... We moved there because my dad got an appointment there... We came back because he got another big opportunity here." I explained.
"Sweden is a nice country, you should have stayed there." then he said.
Then I won't get a chance to know you...
By then, we had reached the campus...
After he parked the car, we both were silently sitting in the car...
"Thank you for giving me a lift, Chris... And forgive me for coming to your house and shout at you like that..." I said.
He just nodded.
Is that all you could do, Chris? Scolding him silently, I got down.
When I was about to close the door, he called me, "Emma!"
I looked at him.
"I am not used to people say no to me. Also, I can't stand it when people accuse me of things I didn't do. You did both, and it made me pissed off... Anyway, forgive me for the way I treated you at my house." he said, making me startled. After all, he knows how to apologize as well, though he sounds aggressive even when he apologized.
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