Separated In Love

Chapter 4

Ryan and I had just settled in a small booth in the diner. I chose a small booth so I could have an excuse to sit close to Ryan. He is currently sitting opposite me but not for long. Ava, Raina, Lucas and Larson would be joining us and then we would have to sit so close. Ryan had just ordered for the group when they walk in. 

    "Hi!" I greet cheeringly.

    "Hi" they greet as a group.

    ''Wow, looking good'' Lucas comments pecking my cheeks.

    "I was just about to say that" Larson adds.

    ''Thanks" I smile. Ava, Raina and I exchange hugs and kisses. Ava is putting on a short flowered dress paired with white heels while Raina is wearing a biker short, a huge shirt and black heels. Ava and Lucas seat beside Ryan pushing him towards me while Raina and Larson seat on my side pushing me to Ryan. We were sitting so close that our arms and legs were touching. I smile at Ryan and discreetly place my hand on his thigh as though I needed support to adjust my sitting. He sucks in his breath. 

    "What time is your lecture?" I ask Raina ignoring Ryan. She is not in the same department as Ava and I. She's majoring in Mechanical engineering minoring in Business while Ava and I are majoring in Computer Engineering minoring in Business. 

   "12" she replies.

    "Same as ours" Ava states.

    "My class is at 1" Lucas comments. He is studying Electrical Engineering.

     "What about you?" I ask Ryan. I again place my hand on his thigh a bit closer to the crotch and turn towards him. Because he towers over me even while sitting, he gets full view of my cleavage.

    "Hmm... 1" he tries to comport himself. 

    "We all still have time to hang out then" Raina says. I look over at Larson, he would have to go to work.

    "Don't you have to go the the office?" Lucas asks voicing my thought.

    "No. If my girlfriend as time, I have time" Larson says not taking his eyes off Raina. She blushes and Lucas gags.

    "You are going to have to get used to them" Ava says.

    "Never!!!" Lucas shouts standing up dramatically. Ava pulls him back to his seat. We all burst out laughing and I use the opportunity to tighten my fingers on Ryan's thighs. He coughed and adjusting his sitting. 

    "Sorry, do you want water?" I ask innocently passing the glass of water on the table to him. He gulped the whole water before putting the cup down. The whole group stare at him.

    "Someone is thirsty" Lucas says.

    "I wonder why" I state smiling.

    "The food would soon get here if you are hungry" Larson says. Just then the waitress arrives and serves the table.

    "Finally" Ava says and starts digging. Everybody was engrossed in their food. Larson and Raina were in their own little world feeding each other food and smiling. Lucas and Ava were engrossed in a conversation, Lucas trying so hard to ignore Raina and Larson. Leaving Ryan and I. I ordered pancake with maple syrup and strawberries. The red of the strawberry matched my lipstick. I take a bite of the berry and a drop of juice fell on my breast. I turn to Ryan keeping intense eye contact, I wipe the juice off with my finger and licked my finger. I return to my meal as though nothing happened.

    "I know what you are doing?" he whispers to me.

    "What?" I ask feigning innocence.

    "You are lucky there are people around" he says and faces his meal. It takes me a minute to compose myself. Many thought, dirty thoughts flooded my mind. I take my phone and shoot him a text.

    What would you do if we are alone 

    Let's be alone and you'd find out

I bite my lips.

    ''Don't do that, drives me crazy'' he whispers beside me placing his hand on my thigh. The sudden action took me by surprise, I involuntarily suck in my breath. He smirked.

    "What time are you meeting Scott?" Ava asks. Ryan eyes clouded with rage immediately. His grip on my thigh tightened. 

    "3, after class"

    "Who is Scott?" Lucas asks.

    "The date I set up for Mae" Raina answers staring at Ryan. He didn't notice cause his eyes were on me. 

    "A date, huh?" Larson says smirking at Ryan.

    "A friend date" I answer placing my hand on Ryan's. That didn't seem to make it better as he just squeezed y thighs more still glaring at me.

    "I am leaving school by 3 with or without you" he says referring to the condition of my accepting his apology.

    "It's fine, Scott can drop me off"

    "Like hell he is" he replies.

    "Huh Huh" Lucas says.

    "Let's go, we'd be late for class", Ava says. It seems like everyone was waiting for that because they all stood up ready to leave.

    "Wait up, Ava, let's go together. Lucas you go with Ryan" I say giving Ryan's hand one last squeeze before getting up and leaving the diner with Ava. I feel Ryan's eyes on me but refuse to look back. 

    "A date, huh?" was the last thing I heard from Lucas to Ryan before exiting the diner.

***

Class is different today maybe cause I am not tired today. I had an awesome breakfast, I don't have any work on standby. It's amazing. The lecturer says something and I quickly jot it down. The rest of the class goes on without a hitch and Ava and I decided to go for a smoothie after. We are walking down the street when I sight an ice cream truck, it's pink and blue, love it. Changing my mind about the smoothie, I drag Ava to the truck and get an ice cream cone. I also have to take a picture by the truck, it is just so cute. Ava kindly obliged but on the condition that I take a picture of her as well. I did and she took a couple of pictures. I love the pictures so I posted them online, Ryan is the first to like the pictures, he did within minutes, made me smile. I decided to go home to change before meeting Scott for the friend date. My outfit for today was for Ryan.

    "Call me after" Ava calls as she got into her car. I walked to my car, I called Suzie earlier to tell her that a security guy should bring a car for me to campus when I decided to change my wear for the date. Ava wasn't going to my house or I would have hitch a ride with her.

    "Sure" I answer as I start my engine.

    "Promise?!" she yells as she drives away. I just shake my head and smile cause she didn't even wait for me to promise. I drive home quietly thinking of what I'm going to wear for the date. No one is home when I get there, I also notice Ryan's car isn't in the driveway. I didn't want to get grilled about my day so I use the opportunity of Suzie not being in the foyer to run upstairs to my room. I have a few hours to get ready for the date, it was changed from a lunch date to a dinner date. Something apparently came up with Scott's class and he wouldn't be able to make the lunch date so he asked to reschedule it and I agreed, I wasn't doing anything in the evening anyways. I go to the bath and take a well needed soak in the tub before going to the closet. Thirty minutes later, I am still here looking for what to wear, I don't want to dress too nice, it's just a friendly date after all and I do not want to look like I just rolled out of bed and didn't at least try. I don't know what to do so I did the reasonable thing, I called my girls. I run to my phone and face time Ava. She picks up and we conference in Raina. 

    "Missing me already" Ava teases smiling.

    "No" I said and poked my tongue at her.

    "What then?" she said giving me the stink eye.

    "I'm in a bit of a pickle" I said ignoring her face.

    "Wardrobe emergency?" Raina asks.

    "Yes!" I whine.

    "I hate not knowing what to wear" Raina says

    "This is a big problem" Ava says all serious. I hate cloth issue, they are the worst.

    "Take me to your wardrobe lair!" Ava shouts.

    "You are weird" Raina says to Ava as I carry their faces to my closet. She just laughs.

I turn the camera to face my clothes. After yet another thirty minutes of going through everything, we finally choose an outfit. It's a wine long sleeved top with a deep plunging neckline, I pair it with a short leather skirt and lace up heels. I decide on two gold chains, one longer than the other, they drop in the plunge neckline drawing attention to my breasts, I pair them with stud earrings and gold bracelets. I let my hair fall to my waist. I decide on a small channel clutch bag. I look good so I make my way downstairs and out the door before Ryan would know I'd left home, I heard him come home earlier. I  drove to the restaurant I was supposed to meet Scott.

I immediately notice the coziness of the restaurant when I enter, it's really nice. Scott, who I recognize from his picture, is sitting at a corner. He raises his hand when he sees me, I smile politely and walk over to him sitting down after hugs.

    "Hi, Mae" he greets politely.

    "Hello" I answer smiling.

    "You look so pretty" he says almost shyly.

I smile, "Thanks, you look good too" I say sincerely. The button down shirt and corporate pants are working for him. 

    "Sorry I rescheduled, my last lecture took longer than I anticipated and I had some other work to catch up on and submit today" he explains.

    ''It's no problem" 

    "Thanks for still meeting up" he says smiling. I return the smile.

    The date is actually going well, we order our food and talk about many things like school, personal lives, friends and so on. Conversation with him is easy, we instantly connect. If I wasn't pinning after Ryan and he after some other girl, maybe we would have gone somewhere. He says something funny and I pull my head back and laugh so loud, his laughter accompanying mine, when I suddenly feel like I am being watched. I look round the restaurant and finally set my eyes on Ryan. He is actually in the restaurant and he is not amused at all. He looks so pissed. 

    "Is something wrong?" Scott asks putting his hands on mine drawing my attention away from Ryan.

    "It's nothing" I answer placing my other hand on his and smiling at him. I could feel Ryan burning a hole through me with his eyes. Scott smiles and lets go of my hand. He gets back to his conversation, I could hardly listen to anything he said cause I could still felt Ryan eyes on me. I turn to look at Ryan and we stare at each other for a while before Ryan smiles devilishly at me. This isn't going to end well.

    "Do you know him?" Scott asks following line of sight.

    "Uh?" I say halfheartedly still looking at Ryan. We are still looking at each other when I hear Scott cough, that got my attention. I look at him apologetically and smile.

    "Sorry about that" I apologize.

    "It's no problem" he sys, "Is he the guy you like?". I nod and he smiles. Why don't we put up a show, I know what drives we guys crazy. 

    "I'm in". The takes my hand on the table drawing gentle circles on the back of my hand with his thumb, he then proceeds to pull a hair away from my face tracing my jawline and below my lips with his finger. If I do not know better I will think he is going to kiss me. That must have been the last straw cause I see Ryan walk towards us. 

    "Hello, Mae" he says sitting down.

    "Do you know him?" Scott asks playing dumb. I didn't answer.

    "Yes" Ryan answers for me. "Let me introduce myself since Mae wouldn't" he adds.

    "This is Ryan Black" I quickly say before Ryan could say anything.

    "I'm Scott Palmer" Scott introduces himself.

    "Nice to meet you" Ryan says giving him his hands to shake. Scott uses his other hand as one hand is still over my hand. Ryan notices it too.

    "You too" Scott says while shaking Ryan. "How do you know Mae if I may ask'', he asks after the shake.

    "I'm her husband" Ryan says smiling sweetly. He just had to do what I did to Celine didn't he. Good thing Scott already knew that. Scott's hand is still on mine and Ryan doesn't like it as he removes Scott hands and replaces it with his own. Scott smiles and his phone rings just then. He excuses himself.

    "What are you doing here, Ry?" I ask.

    "We are on a date" he answers casually.

    "I am on a date" i correct.

    "If my wife is on a date, I am on a date" he counters. I look down at his hand that's on mine and see is wedding band. I am happy he is still wearing it, I instinctively rotate mind around my finger. Ryan notices and smiles.

    "Still as beautiful as ever" he whispers in my ear, his lips slightly grazing my ear. I immediately stop the rotation as currents runs through me. Good thing Scott comes back to the table. 

     "Sorry about that" he apologizes as he sits.

    "Its fine" Ryan answers. I look at Ryan waiting for him to leave instead he faces Scott, "Where were you. Your conversation looked interest from my side of the room and I did not want to be left out" he says. Scott didn't seem to mind as he continued with the conversation. Ryan lets go of my hand but places them on my thigh, the connection just sends more electricity through me. I couldn't concentrate on the conversation cause the more Scott made him laugh, he higher his hands went and the stronger current that wash through me. I can't take it anymore and luckily Scott's phone dings at that moment. 

    "Sorry but I have to cut this date short. It's from home and I have to leave immediately" he says after looking at his phone.

    "Hope it is not an emergency?" I ask concerned.

    "No. Should I drop you off?" he offers.

    "No'' Ryan answers, his grip on my thigh tightened. Scott and I look at him. 

    "No, I brought my car" I answer. He stands up to leave and I stand up too, hug him and peck his cheek. If eyes could kill, Ryan's would have.

    "I hate you sometimes" I tell Ryan as soon as Scott exits the restaurant.

    "You know that's not true, honey" Ryan says smiling.

    "We should go home, wife" Ryan says standing up.

    "Is this to get back at me for what I said to Celine?" I ask outside the restaurant.

    "No" he says as we and walk towards my car. "Celine isn't important to me" he adds.

    "Why did you do that then?" I ask when we get to my car. I unlock the car door and I'm about to enter when he pulls me, shuts the car door and pushes me against the car. All in one full swoop. He presses his body flush against mine keeping my trapped between the car and his body. He looks down at me, my breast in full display pushed against his chest. I feel excited with his body pressed against mine like that.

    "I did that because nobody can have you, Mae. Nobody" he says, his voice deep and hoarse. I could feel his eyes on me but I dare not look up at him afraid of what I may do.

    "Ryan" I whisper.

    "You are beautiful Mae and you are mine, all mine". I lick my already drying lips.

    "I told you stop doing that" he says and before I know what is happening is lips are on mine.

    "Ryan..." I moan against his mouth as he bites my lips. He kisses me passionately and I can feel his excitement pressed against me. 

Just as quickly as he kissed me, he stops and walks away leaving me there wondering what just happened. I stand still pressed against the door for a whole five minutes trying to compose myself before I get in my car and drive home. I am going to kill Ryan. I see Ryan's car in the drive way and I park beside him. I rush inside intending to go straight to my room.

    "Mae?" I hear Ryan call from the den. I run up the stairs to my room and close the door behind me. I go straight to the bathroom, run water in the tub and strip naked, I need a soak after what happens earlier.

    "Mae!" Ryan calls from outside my bathroom.

    "Go away Ryan" I say trying to shake the thought of what happened away.

    "Open the door Mae" he said. I still didn't answer. 

    ''I just want to be alone, Ry''. A lie.

    "Open the door, Mae".

    "No"

    "Open the door or I would break it down'' he threatens. I step out of the tub, dry myself and wrap myself in the skimpiest towel I have. It hardly covered my breast and stopped just below my butt. I have to make Ryan know what he is missing. 

    "Mae" he calls again. I open the bathroom door and step into the room. He scans me up and down, his eyes cloud with lust. Mission accomplished. I walk to my closet making sure to sway my hips, the towel goes up and down with my movement. I drop the towel before going into my closet. 

    "Why are you here, Ry" I ask from the closet. No answer. "Ry?" I call again. I heard him cough and I smile.

     "I'm sorry, Mae" he finally says.

    "For ruining my date or for leaving me hanging like that?" I ask still in the closet. I was looking for my most racy night wear.

    "Does it matter?" he says. He is still in my room so I might as well make the most of driving him crazy. I finally choose a lace V-neck backless top, the design of the neck doesn't leave much to the imagination. I pair it with a satin short, very short shorts. 

    "Yes, it does" I answer stepping out of the closet. He's eye got so much darker when he sees what I have on. He's breath gets deeper and I can see it is taking so much willpower to resist me.

    "I'm sorry" he says resisting his urge. "But why were you laughing so much, one would think he's a comedian".

    "He just knows how to make me laugh, that's all" mistake. Ryan is angry now. "Besides I don't think I laughed that much maybe a couple of times" I quickly add.

    "More than a couple times, I was there remember" Ryan said.

    "How can I forget?" I say rolling my eyes. 

    "Don't do that" he say.

    "Don't lick my lips, don't bite my lips, now don't roll your eyes, what exactly can I do, Ry?"

    "Anything that doesn't provoke me, Mae"

I walk towards him and nibble on his hairs and neck, "Like this?" I whisper in his ear.

He holds my arm and walks holding me with him till my back is against the wall, he presses his body against mine and I can feel his excitement for me. He snakes an arm round my waist pulling me even closer to him, like that was possible. I put my hands round his neck, standing on my tiptoes. I run my fingers through his hair and we just stand there looking at each other, the electricity between can power a city.

    "Go on a date with me" he says.

    "What?" I ask dumbfounded. I was definitely not expecting that.

    "I want to take you out on a date" he says calmly. I snicker. 

    "You are not joking, are you actually asking me on a date?".

    "Yes"

    "Why?'' I ask, curious.

    "Yesterday made me realize some thing"

    "What?"

    He takes a step back, "The truth is the way you were laughing to what's his name, made me realize how much I miss your laugh. I got so jealous, I almost punched him yesterday. You always laugh to me, who was he to take that away from me and make you laugh. I want that again". I just stand, still against the wall and stare at him trying to make sense of what is happening. What the heck is happening?

    "Mae?" he calls me pulling we away from my trance. I focus my eyes on him.

    "Go on a date with me" he says.