Two’s Company, Three’s A Crowd

After some flirtation and calling me Miss. Belle each time he passed by my office I was somewhat crushing on tall, dark and handsome Michael. He was always friendly to me and we had this silent attraction to each other. So silent it only took him 256 days for him to ask me out for dinner but who’s counting?!

Michael: Good Morning Miss. Belle, would you like to go for dinner tonite after work?

How could I say no to that and the voice along with it?! The outfit I was wearing could work for dinner. Ah, yes, how the mind works. We don’t work for the same employer and our offices are in the same vicinity of office space so we made quick plans on where to meet. I was looking forward to it all day. We ended up taking his car and ended up at a restaurant of my choice. We settled in comfortably still laughing a few hours later when I hear a very familiar voice.

“Hi Belle”……..low and behold it’s my ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend I split up with a year ago and he is standing there at the side of our table with what I can only describe as looking seriously pissed off. I leaned back………..I was going to enjoy this.

You see my ex-boyfriend and I were together for two years and some would say I was madly in love with until we split up a year ago. Cheating does put a damper on things.  I in fact caught him cheating on me so this looked quite good on him for you see Michael and my ex were accquaintances. In fact, my ex-boyfriend may have been the one to have introduced me when he and I were together. How ideal! As a couple we always use to run into Michael and my ex was always brief with him but civil. He didn’t like Michael for whatever reason which I always chalked up to be jealousy. My ex was competitive and Michael struck me the same. Hmmmm.  Michael didn’t even skip a beat. He actually stood up abit and extended his hand as his usually did with people. Talk about awkward. My ex hesitated and with a hello he shook his hand exchanging small talk then turned to me with his eyes blazing asking if he could speak to me in a choked effort. I couldn’t help smirking.

In my mind I was both amused and annoyed he actually approached us. He actually left who he was with to come to OUR table. Wow, talk about luck. In a brief moment I almost said yes but for what reason? To throw salad down his pants? The guy had cheated on me. I dumped him. End of story.

Ever so sweetly I told him I was in the middle of dinner with Michael . Okay, so I got a look that could have made me choke on my food and land on my plate but it was fact.  How dare he come up to me and act territorial!! After he stormed off, Michael was really good about the whole thing. We ended the dinner exchanging telephone numbers and by the time I got home I saw 6 blinking messages on my machine. Guess who? uh-huh the ex. I found 3 messages from him and put it on speed forward so I could hear the first one quickly and painlessly.

The ex-chipmunk: How the hell could you move on so fast?! And with Michael?? The guy I don’t like!! Acorns are great.

Okay I added the acorns part but you know what? Delete. Delete.Delete.