She Still Wants You

Disturbed

Oscar's POV 

"Let me see if I got it right, you are saying your game is a romance, action and adventure game, right?" One of the investor asked, he looks pretty old and boring, and judging from his attitude he seems to have no fun and interesting hobby other than making money. 

"Yes, the game will be mainly about those tags, the story behind the game is what makes it unique and addictive. The best part is that the story is neutral, gamers coming from rich backgrounds and those from poor backgrounds can relate to the game plot." I do my best to reply the investor correctly while battling thoughts about Meagan. 

"I wonder if it really caters for both societies. Can you summarise the story for me. Let me see how much I can relate with it in terms of romance." A certain lady requested, she looks like the flirting type. The type of ladies who make their way to the top positions by getting laid. 

I think she might relate with Valeria and Elaine's story in the game. If my guess is right when she entered the business world, her heart was like that of Elaine, kind and loving like a dove. Then after going through the ups and downs of business, learning about the unfairness of reality. I think that's where she probably inherited Valeria's heart, when she paid the price to be a boss lady. Thinking about how ladies change in the business world made me think of Meagan. I take a deep breathe trying to focus on the reason am here. She wants to hear the romantic side of the game so I guess Elaine's story is not in her best interest now. 

"Give the lady what she wants"' I heard a voice pieced through my bubble of thoughts. I thought I was imagining only to realize that I had froze for a while when I was thinking of the lady's taste while battling with thoughts about Meagan.

"Oscar, what are you waiting for? give the lady what she wants" Mr Hendar of Elusion Studios repeated himself. He is the only one am familiar with among the project partners, for the investors I am blank, there's no one I know among them. I have worked with Mr Hendar a couple of times on his projects. He loves working with upcoming media. 

"Oh yea a summary of the game plot." I replied trying to recap."Alright so the game plot, it is uummm..., uummm... romance is part of the core concepts of the game plot." I hesitantly say trying my best not to say out loud what I was thinking about Meagan. 

"The romance story in the game is mainly about five characters. Marlyn, Jeque, Le'Ola, Priest, and Deon." I manage to quickly say a sentence doing my best to ignore conspiracies about Meagan in my mind. Thinking of the love triangle and entanglement that was going on between the characters poked the elephant in my head. 

'Could it be Meagan started cheating?' A thought crosses my mind. Just thinking about it disturbed me like it has already happened. I pause for a second before I start narrating the story. 

"Deon is the leader of a gang in his hood, he is the ladies man in the hood, Marlyn and Le'Ola, were both his girls during different times. The game starts when Le'Ola is Deon's girlfriend.Marlyn is Deon's ex and the wife of Elvis who is Deon's right hand man. Marlyn and Deon were childhood lovers but they couldn't be something serious when they grew up. Though Marlyn still had a thing for Deon. She would cheat on Elvis with Deon in the name of gang reverence, when she actually loved Deon.

Jeque is Deon's sister, she was dating Priest. Despite knowing that Priest and Deon are enemies Jeque chose to stay with Priest, which made her to be in bad terms with Deon. Priest is a leader of a drug cartel in a city near Deon's hood. He was sleeping with Le'Ola, he used to do it just to insult Deon." I miraculously manage to explain the relation of the characters and the thought that Meagan could be cheating became strong, it made me feel like am Elvis. And I just can't stand that feeling.

I pause for some seconds lost in my thoughts trying to guess who Meagan could be cheating on me with. "She can't do that to me" I said to myself arguing the thought in my mind, unconsciously I happened to say it out loud. 

"Huh, what do you mean? Who can't do what to you?" The flirty lady asked looking curious while giving a seductive vibe.

'Oh s**t, they heard me' I say to myself as I realised that I had just thought out loud."Aaah...,  excuse me" I nervously look at everyone in the room before leaving the room. 

"I can't do this I can't focus on my work with Meagan popping up in my thoughts." I say to myself staring at the mirror after rinsing my face."That was so not like you to freeze like that, what's going on, is everything okay?  " Mr Hendar asked as he was washing his hands after peeing. 

"I am okay" I replied looking down.

"Your mind will create and solve your problems, but rejecting help makes your problems more complex than they should be." he said putting his hand on my shoulder. I can tell he knows something is wrong, but still I don't know how he can help me out now.

"There's just something that's on my mind." I replied avoiding eye contact. 

"I don't know what is disturbing you, but try your best to keep it together son, I have a feeling your project is going to be big, but the people in that room need something to convince them. I have worked with you on several projects and I know you are a good developer, but I am not the world. And I should say you're really lucky to have those heads in one room, think of them like dragon ballz. Make your wish wisely." Mr Hendar says before leaving. 

His words remind me that this my only shot to making this game conveniently. Once I mess it up, the game will be a whole lot harder to make and it will take longer to develop as well.

"Alright, I'll do likewise." I reply staring in the mirror debating if I'll manage to continue presenting the game as Mr Hendar was leaving the john's room.

"My apologizes for keeping you waiting, there was something on my mind that was making me lag and I had to catch some air. Hope am forgiven. I won't let it happen again." I resume with an apologize before recapping. 

"You're forgiven, though I was enjoying the showing." One the investor replied. He is the C.E.O of a big marketing company. Hearing his reply gave me some courage though it was somewhat provoking. I guess I still have a shot at convincing these people.

"So yea, I was talking about the game plot." I took up from his reply.As soon as they were done laughing at the C.E.O's comment, I continued presenting the game, this time I had become more focused on work. I reminded myself that my plans to engage Meagan early depend on this presentation.  ...... After about half an hour, I pulled out my phone to see how many minutes am left with to conclude my presentation, then I saw Joel's text than distracts me. I pay more attention to the text than the number pattern of time I wanted to check. He sent it after a number of his calls. ~ Bro, what's happening with Meagan, she called me, complaining about you, and she was sounding very drunk. ~ Joel's text disturbed me, I try my best to keep it together long enough to end the presentation. 

I quickly and anxiously wrap up the presentation. To avoid another episode of me freezing while explaining, I released them with write and patent protected PowerPoint presentations of the game.

As soon as everyone left I called Joel on my way out and fortunately he was on his way home as well. We decided to link up at a certain quiet bar in town. In less than an hour we were together catching up on our way to the seats.Joel, I always call him El. He is my oldest and closest friend, we have been friends from the time I was learning how to walk. He is more than a friend to me he is a brother.

My late mother always used to say our friendship is evidence that racism can come to an end. El is black and am white, buh we still get along more than I do with other whites...."Sorry bro I was in the middle of a presentation when you were calling, yo bro s**t was crazy mahn, I was freezing lost in thoughts when presenting." I said as we were going to our seats."You were saying Meagan called?" I asked as we took our seats.

"I think she wanted to speak with you, she was talking like she was talking to you directly. So I rode along with it to hear what she wanted to say." El said filling his cup with a mixture of liquor and a soft drink.

"Shhhh, What did she say" curious me asked hoping El's reply will help me understand why Meagan behaved like that at home.

"She was drunk so I didn't really get everything she said, buh I noticed that she was complaining. I don't know what you guys are going through, buh what I could pick up from what she said is that 'she wants a ring'. Am sure you would have an idea of what she meant" El said leaning back casually holding his cup. 

"Sshhh, she wants a ring, this s**t does make sense bro. A few months ago she acts like she wants to dump me and now she wants a ring? This crazy mahn." I say after taking another dry shot of Best scotched whisky. "Meagan, has been acting weird lately. You know ever since she moved out she has been acting different. I don't know what Kate has been teaching her, buh it is f*cking up my relationship." I replied pissed thinking about when Kate took Meagan to a nightclub.

"Kate may have been misleading Meagan lately, taking her to nightclubs and all that wild stuff of her's, but I think Kate had nothing to do with Meagan's call... Just think about this bro, Meagan was talking about rings, lifetime commitments, engaging her and marriage stuff... and you know that doesn't sound like Kate's doing bro. I know Kate, she had nothing to do with this.There's just something that's going between you guys. Just try to think, what it could be." Hearing El defend Kate makes me frustrated, so I take another shot.

"Mmmm, nah bro. I seriously don't get what's going on, everything was going well. We were living happily together, making money toge, and loving each other.Then from the blues she decided to move out of my house saying s**t like she wants to find herself. I wonder where the f*ck she got that s**t from." I start pouring my complaints to El as the liquor gets to my brains. 

"I think she wants you to engage her, that's why she has been acting weird. You know how girls are, they always expect us to figure things out on our own. That's what I think based on her complaints, it could be something else who knows?." El's thought made a whole lot of sense even to my drunk brain. 

"If it is an engagement that she wanted she should have said instead of stressing me like that. Besides I have been planning for our wedding, I even had to change my cartoon into a game so that it could make enough money to sponsor my engagement, and marriage expenses without leaving me broke. I don't want to be that guy who gets into marriage bankrupt like someone who survived from a burning house." I reply realizing where our lack of communication has led us. "You guys just have to talk about it..." El replies before taking a sip."You know, that is one of the reasons why I don't want to get into a relationship, it is cause of the same mind game plays you guys play with each other. I love my peace of mind." El says as he put his cup down."That's why I love clubbing, when I take a girl like that one to my crib for a night, the next morning she won't bother me about no ring commitments and s**t like that... it is stress free s*x just the way a nigga loves it" El said pointing at a certain beautiful lady with a hot body. He had started getting tipsy now. he has a higher threshold than mine and I was drinking rapidly to drown my bad mood. I was already drunk by then.

"Psshhh, you're just poor at commitments bro. I also get s*x" I could feel myself that am drunk as I replied. 

"Enough bro, it is time to go home, am starting to get drunk and if we both get faded no one is going to escort the friend home." El stopped me from refilling my cup after I down it with an open gullet sip.