the wrong kind of love #16

“You think I’m having an affair?” he gasped, looking down at the floor.“Well, aren’t you?” she asked, putting her hands on her hips.“How could you even think that?” he asked in shock, but then raised his voice, “How the fuck could you even ask me that?”Mandy bit her lip and remained quiet, looking away from him.“I cannot believe this!” he yelled, getting up and pacing around the room with his hands on his head.“Well, the signs are all there!” she huffed, folding her arms.“Signs? What fucking signs? What the fuck are you on about now?” he shouted, banging his hand furiously on the door.Mandy jumped slightly and looked at him with tears in her eyes, “You never want to me around me, Nicky. You spend more time in your office than with me! And when you are actually with me, you come up with some pathetic excuse not to be with me. I can never go on business trips with you…You are just never around anymore, Nicky. Well guess what mister, I have had enough of this!”“I am trying to earn a living!” he screamed back, “And anyway, I spend the whole day with you the other day didn’t I? Took time off work and everything!”“Yeah, you did. For the first time since we got here, but that proves nothing. And anyway, you left at night to go back to that precious office of yours!” she cried.“It was an emergency!” he huffed exasperatedly.“Yes and that is always the excuse isn’t it, Nicky?” she sobbed, sitting back down.Nicky looked at her and shook his head, “I just cannot believe you are accusing me of having an affair!”Mandy sighed and wiped her tears away, “Well, what else was I supposed to think?” she squeaked.Nicky continued flinging clothes back into the suitcase, “Well, didn’t the fact that my workload has doubled as a result of my promotion ever enter your mind?”“Yes, at first it did. But every night? You have changed, Nicky. Ever since you got promoted, and ever since we came to Dublin, you have changed and I do not like the person you have become!” she cried.“Well, why don’t you go and find yourself someone who you DO like then?” he growled, continuing to fling clothes into the almost full case.“What?” she gasped.“Maybe your friend. What’s his name again? Brian? Yeah, that’s him. You seem to have become really close friends all of a sudden!” he sneered.“Brian and I are just friends, Nicky, and you know that!” she screamed.Nicky sighed and shook his head. Mandy watched him fling more clothes inside.“That’s an awful lot of clothes you are taking for 2 days, isn’t it?” she questioned.Nicky stared at her menacingly as he locked the suitcase, “Yeah, maybe I want to impress my girlfriend!” he spat, grabbing his briefcase and storming out. Mandy quickly put hr robe on and followed him.“Where are you going?” she screamed, running after him.“To the office. But then again, you should have guessed that, Unless you thought I was going to my ‘girlfriends’ house!” he spat, continuing walking away without looking back at her.“But we haven’t finished talking!” she cried.“No. You haven’t finished talking. I am through with talking and all the accusations you are throwing at me.” He snarled back, “I dunno what time I’ll be back!”“Nicky, it’s the last night we’ll be together before you go!” she sobbed.“Yeah well. Tell it to someone who cares!” he hissed getting in the car.Mandy stayed rooted to her spot with tears streaming down her face, “Don’t you dare drive off. We are not finished yet!” she screamed letting all her frustrations out.Nicky paid no attention to her and drove away. Mandy sobbed hysterically and walked back into the house. Still crying, she quickly got dressed and then left the house again. She just walked and walked until she got to a house. Hesitantly, she pushed her finger on the doorbell and waited. The door opened and an unfamiliar face appeared.“Hello. Can I help you?” he asked, looking at her curiously. He stared at this stranger before him for a while, seeing her tears cascading down her cheeks.“Is Brian here?” she finally managed to utter.“Erm, yeah sure.” He said, now guessing who she was, “Please come in!”Mandy tried to smile gratefully as she stepped inside. She waited by the landing and shuffled on her feet for a while.Kian looked up, “Brian! Someone for you!” he yelled.“Yeah,. I’ll be right down!” Mandy heard Brian’s voice shout back.Kian looked at Mandy and smiled, “He won’t be long!”Mandy smiled and nodded as she dried her eyes, “Thank you!”This might be a bit of a stupid question, but are you ok?” asked Kian.Mandy shrugged, “I’ll be fine!”Kian smiled sympathetically, “Do you want a drink or something?”“No, I am good thanks!” she answered.She then heard the thunderous sounds of Brian running down the stairs. Both Kian and Mandy looked back and looked at him. Brian stopped running half way down when he saw her standing there looking upset. He walked the rest of the steps down.“Mandy? What are you doing here?” he asked.Mandy just looked at him. Her lips started quivering again. Brian sighed and pulled her in for a hug, “OH come here. Are you ok?” he whispered, stroking her hair.Mandy sniffed and wiped her eyes, “Can I talk to you for a second?”Kian gave Brian a meaningful look. Brian just shook his head and then lets go of Mandy.“Let’s go up to my room ok? Do you want a drink?” he smiled.“Your mate already offered me one and I said no thanks!” she sighed.Brian nodded and they both made their way upstairs to his room. They both sat on the bed. Brian looked at Mandy as she fidgeted with the strap from her bag. He sighed, took the bag away from her and put it on the floor.“What happened?” he asked.Mandy bit her lip and shrugged, too scared to speak again because she knew she would break down once again.“I take it the underwear plan didn’t work out and you talked to Nicky!” he sighed.“Well, the plan worked at first. He really was falling for it, but then he stopped and said that he couldn’t because he had to finish packing and he had to go to the office!” she explained, as the tears fell from her eyes again.Brian nodded, “And then you asked him?”Mandy looked at him as she dried her tears again, but in vain as more trickled down, “He went livid. We had this huge argument and now he has gone back to the office. He won’t even talk to me?” she sobbed.Brian sighed and hugged her, “So he denied it then?”Mandy thought about this for a while. She pulled away and looked at him.“What? He admitted to it?” he gasped.Mandy shook her head, “He did not admit it, but he did not deny it either!” she whispered.“So you are still none the wiser!” he sighed.Mandy nodded, “All I know is that he got really offended that I asked him that and that he does not want to talk to me again. I probably won’t see him again until he gets back from the trip!” Brian shook his head.Mandy sighed and got up from the bed. She started pacing around the room, “And now I am still as confused as ever. I just wanna know what is going on. Is that too much to fucking ask?” she yelled.Brian shook his head and got up. He walked to her, and held her tenderly in his arms, “Hey, hey. Just calm down. It’s ok. Everything will be ok?” he soothed her.Mandy stayed there for a while, taking in the luscious smell of his aftershave. She closed her eyes and listened to his rapid heartbeat. She felt so safe in his arms. She pulled away from him slightly and looked at him, as her arms still wrapped themselves around his waist, “I just don’t know what to do, Brian!” she squeaked.Brian stared at her and sighed as he brushed his hair back, “He is the idiot, babe. Anyone would be suspicious with the way he has been behaving!”Mandy looked up into his eyes and sighed, “Thanks for being here for me, Brian. I don’t know what I would have done if I had to go through this alone!”Brian smiled, “Hey. We’re friends, right?”Mandy swallowed hard and nodded, “right!”Brian leaned his head down and placed a soft kiss on her lips. He was so sure Mandy would pull away, and he really didn’t want to do this. He knew how vulnerable she must have been, and the last thing he wanted to do was take advantaged of that. But he couldn’t help himself. To his astonishment, she responded well to it. She removed her arms from his waist and flung them around his neck, kissing him back with equal force. She kissed him like her life depended on that kiss. He let out a soft moan and walked her back to the bed, where he lay her down gently on it and climbed on top of her, without taking his lips off hers. Every now and then, she let out these little moans, which just enticed him even more. He started unbuttoning her shirt, making sure she would allow this. When he felt she was allowing this to happen, he took his lips away from hers, “Are you sure about this?” he panted.Mandy opened her eyes and looked up into his almost black eyes, “Make love to me Brian!”Brian smiled and planted his lips back on hers. He removed all her clothes, leaving her in her underwear he fantasised about earlier. He started kissing down her stomach.“Sexy. So fucking sexy!” he grunted huskily.Mandy raised her head and kissed him again. This time she removed all his clothes and found themselves making love on his bed.