A glow from rising sun can already be seen. It’s been a hard week for Randy, and all he probably wants now is to sleep in. For the whole previous week he had been working his butt off, meeting different clients, and covering different events and illustrating advertisements; what a tough week for him. He will probably just ignore the alarm, stay in bed, and get up late. He thinks about spending his weekend by just chillin’ out at his home, trying to unwind from the heavy stress he has just gone through.
He was sound asleep and was like dead to the world when his telephone rang and gave buzz to his uninterrupted sleeping (which was now interrupted). His telephone was just located on top of an end table which was placed right beside his bed, so it wasn’t impossible for him to be awakened.Feeling disrupted, he slowly got up to answer the freakin’ phone.
“Hello?” Randy huskily spoke, hardly trying to produce a not-so-gruff-morning-voice.
“RANDY!!! Hey wassup, man?!” A loud voice answered back in a strong and familiar gangsta accent.
Recognizing who was behind that familiar voice, he annoyingly sighed as he figured out that it was only his always-overexcited pal, Zeke. Randy had enough knowledge about Zeke being born a “natural interrupter” on all kinds of levels, but he just couldn’t believe that Zeke could even try ruining the only long and peaceful sleep he would ever have at the time.
“Yeah Zeke what do you want?” Randy asked in annoyance.
“Oh are you sort of mad or something? Did I just interrupt your sleep? Lemme guess, you were supposed to intentionally oversleep today weren’t you, bro? HAHA!” Zeke sarcastically asked and mockingly laughed as he tried to playfully mess with Randy on the phone.
Randy paused for a while before answering back. He was annoyed and completely clueless as to why Zeke called him up this early. Whatever reason Zeke could’ve had for calling him up so early, Randy just hoped that it was as valid and as acceptable as he thought it to be, that it would be worth interrupting his almost-wonderful sleep that morning.
“Okay Zeke.. Just make sure that you have a good explanation for ruining my sleep alright? ‘Cause if you don’t have a good one I’ll break your face into microscopic pieces and I mean it.”
“Man now c’mon! Can you not be so hot headed? Haha. Listen, I got some news for ya.”
“Well yeah I could clearly see that barf-face. You only call me up when you’re up for spreading rumors. But will you turn the freakin’ music down over there first before telling stories?! What’s with the loud music anyways?!!”
“Oh that… well you see ahh, hahaha. I’m actually inside a hotel-like club right now, been here for the last 8 hours and tell you what, party here is just non-stop! I mean dude, could you even imagine a party at night that goes on till morning and I mean till sunrise?!! HAHA! MAN THIS IS JUST AWESOME! I knew going out with Carlene was the best decision I ever made!” Zeke joyfully exclaimed with bated breath.
“Who the fudge is Carlene?”
“I met her yesterday at the football field when I watched a game with an old friend. I don’t know man, it was very fast. It all started in a friend-of-a-friend-meeting-type-of-thing and it all just went so quick that I felt like something great was really comin’ up and it wasn’t any longer that we kinda got wired up with each other and felt connected and I ended up being invited to this night party of hers and BOOM! Everything just went great and totally fun and you know what dude? SHE’S JUST TOO MUCH OF A DAZZLING BABE! And that’s not all Randy boy, I also got to ---“
“ZEKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Randy loudly yelled at Zeke to cut him off and bring his endless talking to an actual end.
“Whoa did I say something wrong dude?” Zeke asked, quite shocked at Randy’s reaction.
“DUDE?! ARE YOU KIDDIN’ ME?! IT’S FREAKIN’ 7:15AM, IT’S FREAKIN’ SO EARLY AND YOU CALLED ME UP, INTERRUPTING MY SLEEP, JUST TO TELL ME THAT YOU HOOKED UP WITH SOME GIRL YOU MET FROM WATCHING A FOOTBALL GAME?!!!!!! WHAT ON EARTH MAN! “ Randy shouted, completely maddened.
“Whoa whoa hey! Easy cowboy! Will you get a grip? OFCOURSE I GOT SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU! I mean I ofcourse gotta let you know ‘bout who I’m going out with and all that stuff, but it’s not really about that, man c’mon!” Zeke explained.
“ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!!! Then what are you really supposed to tell me?!” Randy asked impatiently.
“Well I gotta know if you’re ready to know this, ‘cause I don’t know… it will surely surprise you, unless you don’t give a heck ‘bout it anymore you know and even if you ---“
“Okay man will you just get to the point and say it straight now?!” Randy impatiently asked once more.
“I will I will, but just be prepared and brace yourself and stand back ‘cause I’m not sure but you might splash when you actua---“
“FINE!!! FINE!!! I GET IT ALRIGHT, NOW WHAT IS IT?!!!”
“NICOLE IS BACK!” Zeke exclaimed, his voice full of excitement.
Randy paused before responding to Zeke. His eyes widened. He felt like he was not sure of what had Zeke just said or that he just didn’t know how to respond to what Zeke said. He was hesitant, but after a short while he responded to Zeke, wanting to clarify what he had just heard.
“Ni—Nicole who?” Randy asked, his voice quivered a little, full of uncertainty in his tone.
“DANIELLES.” Zeke said dryly.
When he realized that Randy wasn’t answering back, Zeke broke the awkward silence.
“Yes it’s your Nicole Danielles, I mean…. Formerly yours. I saw her yesterday at a restaurant when we stopped by there to pick up some of Carlene’s friends to go to her party. It was a quick glance though, right after Carlene’s friends got in my car I immediately drove our way to the club. But I was sure of what I saw; it was really Nicole, I just can’t be wrong it was her.”
Randy was completely taken aback. Zeke’s words just totally silenced him and left him all voiceless and just completely at a loss of words. He could not believe every word Zeke had told him.
“Ughh Randy? Hey man you still there?”
“Please… please tell me this ain’t some kind of prank or else…”
“Randy this isn’t a joke! I really saw her and if you---“
“OR ELSE I’LL KILL YOU BARF-FACE!” Randy yelled at Zeke deafeningly.
“Randy, get a grip! Now if you’re half-awake-half-asleep still then I think I’d better call you back later and you just go back to sleep first till you get enough rest, because I think you’re not in your right mind at the moment. Once you’re up later I will just have to retell my story and we’ll see if you can get it right by that time.” Zeke explicated.
“I am fully awake…but please! I feel like I’m dreaming because of what I just heard.” answered Randy.
“Hahaha. It’s your fault, man. I already told you from the start to be ready before hearing my news. But no, you wanted no time to prepare and wanted me to say everything directly! I knew you would be surprised in the first place. See? I warned you!” replied Zeke in what seemed like an “all-knowing” tone.
“Shut up, will you? Man! Heck yeah I’m surprised. I wasn’t prepared for this.”
“So now that you already know, what are you up to?”
“I’m not sure, dude. But… but, I THINK I WANNA GO SEE HER.”
“Well? That’s…. cool? I think? Haha. I mean nothing’s wrong with that I guess…unless if you let things get awkward between you two when you guys meet again, after a year. Wow, dude! It’s been a long time!”
“Yeah, I just realized that. I hope that seeing her again won’t be a mistake.”
“Yeah, well you won’t figure it out if you won’t try. So go meet her right away!”
“But where exactly here in Florida am I supposed to go look for her? Got any clue as to where she resides?”
“Actually, no. But when I saw her yesterday, it seemed like she was working in that restaurant. I could tell by the uniform she was wearing that she was employed there. She even served dishes to the customers so yeah.”
“Good point. What’s the name of the restaurant?”
“It’s called Bistro Juliana.”
“Right. I’ll search it around. Or better yet, I’ll try google-mappin’ it.”
“Okay, man. Just let me know if something happens alright?”
“Alright, man thanks. Later.” Randy hung up.
Randy put the phone down and sat on his bed. He started to think deeply about things. He still couldn’t believe everything him and Zeke talked about in their phone conversation. He never imagined that her old flame would ever be back, after they split up a year ago.
As he was having deep thoughts, he suddenly laid his eyes on his cabinet that had 3 drawers. For some reason, the 3rd drawer was slightly open. He believed that inside that drawer, he had kept everything that would remind him of Nicole. He pulled it open and found an old book. He took it and opened it on the last page. Slipped in between the pages is a photo of him and Nicole. He profoundly looked at the photo and tried reminiscing the old times, those special moments…the good times they had. He dredged up all the good memories they had; which he thought were already and will forever be buried. Randy knew how badly he hurt Nicole, one time big time. He was afraid, yes he had hurt her but he got hurt twice as bad. Over the previous year, all he did was to occupy himself with different things just to be able to get Nicole off his mind, and manage to move on with his life. But with a single phone call, it all comes back. He doesn’t have any clue if Nicole’s still mad at him; she might be even full of wrath against him…HE DOESN’T REALLY KNOW. But now that she’s back, all his hardships of forgetting her to move on for the whole year collapsed in just a snap of a finger. Nicole is back, he never expected it. He didn’t see this coming.
Chapter 2
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