I felt a vein popping in my neck. “There are not enough words in the English language to describe how dumb you are,” I told him and poked him in the chest. “Eres un invecil, tarado, un estupido, Baka! Aho! Atama warui de?  Sciocco, Idiota!!!”  I ended panting after my multilanguage rampage “Richard if you are going to cast me out at least do it in English” “all of them are the same! You are an idiot!” he lowered his head and nodded “I know, and I want to apologies, I though you would like this gesture… but like I usually do I end up casing you troubles” I took a deep breath he looks miserable “look you at least got right the flowers, I do like this two, but you have to understand that you did made my life more difficult, I will be needing to answer a lot of questions on Monday” he looked at me again, he coughed and told me “can I please explain what happen at the aquarium?” he plead with a fine uttered trough an exhalation of air he started, first he passed me his phone and I life my eyebrow “look through my contacts” I did as he told me, many names I didn’t knew basically all of them were new to me “and this proves?” “I don’t have any of their numbers, I don’t have any messages from them, Luis saw me in the rink and came to say hi, I panicked, okay? I didn’t want him to say something bad to you or make any type of comment, but I went about it in the worst way possible, and before I knew it, I had pushed you away just like I did back then. I´m sorry, okay? I´m an idiot and a jerk and a warui whatever.” his story unfortunately checks out; he doesn’t have any trace of them on his phone, so I give it back. “Okay, I accept your apologies, but I’m back on guard.” “Understandable, can we go home?” I nodded.

“So we need to set the timer to thirty-five minutes” I told Mari as I twisted the cooking timer in the shape of an egg she had over her oven, after the skate rink fiasco Mari sent me a message asking me if I could help her with some baking for her new job, as it was something she just signed on she didn’t want to tell us until it was certain, “Rich you are such a life saver” I took off the bandanna that was holding my hair and sat on a chair “don’t mention it, you know I love cooking with you” she chuckled and went to her cabinet for some drinks while the cakes and cookies were baking “Richard… I actually wanted to talk to you about something before telling the girls where I work. “Okay, what’s on your mind, girl?” She looked really worried, she adjusted her glasses and her ponytail, and sighed, “You know I signed with a new studio, right?” I nodded; she is great at 3D modeling and video production. Any company will be lucky to have her for their marketing strategies. “Richard… did you know Michel Sloun lives here?” I swallowed. She can’t be serious, she does not work at his studio, right? “I… I haven’t thought about him in a while” is it a lie if that while a go was like an hour? “well I signed a contract to work at De-Frag studio, and when I was looking at the people that were going to be my co-workers my eyes darted at his name” now this is going to be something I need to tread carefully, as this poses a good opportunity, if Michel shows how he has changed maybe Mari could put a good word with the others but if he told anyone that he sent a bunch of flowers to some guy she will get interested and tell everyone else and I will be dead, “well I mean, he was not a jerk to you maybe you could give him a fair chance, you know people can change” she squinted at me and I can feel the sweat beads forming in my forehead “Richars, that guy pushed you to the border of a psychotic brake, I’m not sure someone changes form that” “it wasn’t a psychotic brake… it was a maniac-depressive one… look just don’t go making enemies, not in my name, see how he behaves and choose for yourself, if he is still the same bully jerk you could report him to H.R… I need to use the bathroom for a second.”  

R: Michel, we have a serious problem!!! M: WHAT? R: Mari works at your studio, and she is not happy to see you. M: … FUCK! Okay, don’t panic, I SAID DON’T PANIC!!! R: Alright, look, I convinced her not to fight you on sight, but she will be hypervigilant of you… Did you tell anyone about the flowers? M: … EH-JE he sends me that last message followed by a gift of a character striking a cute pose with their tongue out R: … DO NOT EH-JE ME? DID YOU TOLD YOU ANYONE?!? M: Maybe a few friends know… that I bought flowers for a cool guy, but I didn’t say your name, so at best she will know I bought flowers for a mysterious stranger. R: Okay, that’s good. Come to my apartment later, and we will figure this out. M: … am I allowed to be in your house? R: … Mika will kill you if you try anything. She is really good with a knife. I took a deep breath, exited the bathroom, and went back to the cakes and cookies

At night, I answered to my doorbell been rang, Mika growled but was still behaving “I know, but we need to talk about somethings, I walked to the door and prepared “… you brought pizza?” I asked, Michel was holding a pizza box form Aletzio´s, reaped jeans and a patternless t-shirt “Sorry I tend to eat around this time more so when I’m anxious, do you have beer?” though I’m not a heavy drinker I keep some in the fridge in case I have visits or Bianca is coming “sure, put the box and sit down while I get us a drink” he walked to the table “Oh hi Mika” he tried to pet her but she snapped her jaw in the direction if his hand “… I see you are still mad at me” she growled at him and I begin to wonder if Mika actually understand human language, Michel pulled some dog treats form his pocket “what you got her?” he smiled and showed me the box “while picking the pizza I stepped by the animal shop nearby and got her some apology treats” I checked on the box ingredients and nothing bad sticks  out, Mika sniffed one and took it to her bed “why can you be so easily please?” he asked me and I rolled my eyes “because I’m a person that remembers more” “right sorry… what happen with Mari?” I cough him up to speed with the situation “yeah I remember that my boss did mention hiring someone that worked on 3D but I didn’t thought much of it” “well now you are going to have her near you and to be fair she is welling to not fight you or give you the hard time you deserve” he pouted and eat though a slice of pizza “well that’s good… an look I understand if you don’t want me to mention we have been talking” I took a sip at my beer and felt the bubbles pop in my mouth “I mean I should probably tell them at some point but I don’t know you know how protective they can be” he nodded and caressed his jaw, may be is because of the beers we been having but I could almost swear that its more chiseled “yeah, Bianca has one mean haymaker and I don’t want to find out what Elis and Lisa can do” I nodded “yeah they say something about neutering you”

With more drink in we figure out what will happen next Monday when he gets to work, he will try to speak normally with Mari, not trying to win her over just trying to be a good co-worker, if I just so happen to come in the conversation he is allowed to say that he has seen me in the subway but haven’t talk to me too much, and after we settle into this we found ourself in the couch watching a move and remembering the good parts of the past “that time we didn’t move from the T.V and played the entire Medivalring franchise?” and for the first time in a while next to him I laughed like I used to “I saw you rage at hip so many bosses and I had to beat them” he threw his arms over my shoulders and laughed “yeah-yeah but hip I had to fight the wolf boss because you cry on that fight” I get my head into his shoulder “she limps! She limps and wipers what was I supposed to do?” his sent and my current state is intoxicating we laugh for a moment then I notice how he licks his lip and I lose control, before I notice my lips are lock onto his, I think for a moment that he is going to pull away but then his fingers dive into my hair pulling me closer.