Hello Consequences
960 Words
Crest Galani sat at the bamboo chair in his mother's garden, cool breeze blowing past his olive skin as he vaped. Inhale, exhale. This simple act gave him so much peace.
The incessant ringing of his phone begun, the next minute and the silence was disrupted. It continued for what seemed ages only to end with a ding, in real time he had five missed calls and a text message.
He knew who was calling, he had been ignoring the calls all day long. Glancing at the phone he read the text message.
"Pick up". It read as the phone rang once more.
So he answered the call, putting it on loudspeaker.
"I've been calling all day, why haven't you answered" A feminine voice questioned.
"I've been busy with school". He replied
"It’s Saturday, I know you're ignoring me, you've been back for two weeks Crest".
"I'm not ignoring you" He lied through his teeth.
"You should know better than to. Anyways our usual spot, don't be late". The feminine voice warned as she ended the call.
If it wasn't the consequences of his actions coming back to bite him in the ass.
The boy reluctantly got up from the chair, leaving the garden and into the main house.
"I'll be at the beach house" Crest said a few minutes later giving Estrellita the usual excuse before getting into his sleek black Aston Martin and driving off.
He hated lying to his step mother since she was a very understanding person, "a cool mom". But the situation at hand was bigger than that, how could he tell anyone that he was in a scandalous relationship with his therapist.
The whole thing had begun earlier that year when Estrella suggested they switched his therapist since they weren't making much progress with the last one.
Crest reminisced on the first day he set foot in her office. Talking wasn't his strong point he preferred to be left alone, so he sat down on the chair, waiting for an hour to pass by so he would leave.
Her behavior towards him was funny. "Was she flirting? He wondered. On their third session he decided to address the situation.
"Do you always act like this to your patients?"
"Only to a certain green eyed hottie" she slyed.
"Definitely flirting" he concluded, giving the lady a one over. His therapist was a very sexy lady in her late twenties.
"Now..." She started getting up from her chair and walking towards him.
"Are you making the first move, or should I" She purred shamelessly.
They say the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest, he was in it for the thrill, pleasure and fun while it lasted but after a while, it needed to end.
"We have to end things" He spoke calmly to her.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"You and I, Us. This has to end, we've been going on for months now'.
"You're breaking us up Crest? What do you take me for, some silly high school girl you could use anddump?" She scoffed.
"What the hell are you talking about? We used each other, this is a mutual relationship. You're married for f***s sake".
"That wasn't a problem earlier".
Why was she making this difficult for him.
"Look, I'm sorry okay. I thought it was just some short termed thing. I mean we shouldn't even be doing this in the first place, you could get arrested. We've gone on long enough"
"This isn't ending, we're not ending this until I say so".
Was she catching feelings? Impossible he thought.
"This conversation is over, thank you for your services S". Crest dismissed, getting up from the chair.
"I wouldn't walk out that door if I were you, I didn't want to result to this but you've pushed me too the wall" she said coldly.
He planned on ignoring her but the next words he heard shocked him. She was blackmailing him. At this point he was conviced she needed to see atherapist not him.
“You’re in dipshit and you know it, what are you going to do, tell your father? You’re dead meat, involve Estrella and you know what will happen”. If we go down, we go down together and you have a lot too lose, the choice is yours" she concluded.
He did make a choice though, "I'll see you at our usual spot on Saturday".
*****
Crest pulled in at the familar drive way. "Their spot" was a hotel at the outskirts of town. Far enough for people to not recognize them, getting there was a three hour drive.
He walked to the suite he always reserved for them, knocking on the door as she was already there.
"Crest, I've missed you. Haven't you missed me too?". She purred on seeing him.
They had been apart for the summer as he went on a trip to Estella’s home country, Aegeus had newly opened a branch there and sent him to learn the ropes of being a CEO.
"I missed you too” lies.
“Black suits you perfectly" He complimentedwalking in.
That wasn’t a lie though, the raven haired ladylooked stunning in her sexy black gown. He always did have a thing for dark haired females.
The choice had been made and he had one job, to keep her happy till whenever this was over. She had too much leverage on him and he couldn't risk it.
By 5am, his alarm rang waking them up.
"Go back to sleep" he whispered softly giving her a kiss on the forehead.
The morning routine was simple, take a shower and start the three hour drive back home. He always got home in time for Estrellita's Sunday morning family breakfast by 9.
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