Isabella’s P.O.V.I was having an inner turmoil with myself. I agree that I am angry at Mason for avoiding me and seriously want to kick his ass. But seeing Ryan pissed at him, did not settle well with me. I don’t know what Ryan saw but his expression and comments kind of point out that he has a vague idea about why I’m angry at Mason, it looks like he is totally accepting my anger towards him, which for some stupid reason I never wanted to happen.
I seriously don’t want my family or friends to hate Mason. I know what he did was wrong, but I cannot say that he did it intentionally. I mean he is a man, a sexy ass man to be precise, and flirting does come to men naturally. What if he did it without even realizing, old habits don’t just go away in a matter of few days, do they? I know I should have just slapped the shit out of that girl, when she first flirted with my man; to make her aware about him being with me. Or I should have just kicked Mason, then and there so he knows to do better than flirt with some bimbo in front of me. But I was already consumed by guilt and clouded by self judgments, to actually sidestep from the voice of Jealousy; I let it get to me and left my man in the presence of that fiend.
What if Mason actually thinks she is better than me?
I am brought back from my thoughts, due to Rose’s voice who asks Ryan with curiosity, “What did he really do?”
Ryan huffs and replies, “He had another woman in his arms.”
“WHAT?” Rose shouts.
“It’s not what it looks like. Maybe it wasn’t his mistake” I whisper my thoughts out.
Ryan is shocked by my words and looks at me with a gaping mouth, after a few seconds he gets hold of himself and asks, “Are you serious?”
“Yes” is my one word reply. All this while Rose is looking back and forth between us, to catch hold of the conversation. Ryan scoffs and says, “I saw him with the girl today, she had her arms wrapped around his neck and he had his hands placed on her arms. If you think that isn’t his mistake, than you need to get your head checked.”
As his words leave his mouth, he registers that he went a little overboard and his expression softens at the same time when Rose shouts, “What the fuck Ryan? Did Caleb rub on you today?” I don’t understand what she means by it, so I ask “What does that mean?”
“Oh nothing you need to worry about sweetie” is her sweet reply. I know something is definitely up, when she uses the word SWEETIE to cover it up. I look towards Ryan and Rose to notice that they are having their own secret conversations through mind link as both their eyes look clouded and also because they don’t notice me staring at them. A few minutes pass by and still their conversation doesn’t end, getting tired of their behavior, I take the pizza box that is on the kitchen counter and move towards the stairs without making any noise.
I walk up to the movie room and settle down, playing Avengers on the large screen I start stuffing my face with the first slice; that’s when I hear footsteps outside the door. It doesn’t take a genius to know who it might be, so I continue watching my movie being unbothered by their intrusion. Rose crawls on the bed towards me and links her arm with me, whereas Ryan sits on the bean bag that is beside the large bed. I don’t even spare a glance at both of them and continue to focus on the movie. After a while a ding voice resonates through the room. Rose takes out her phone and clicks on the screen. By the sound I can say that it most probably is a message notification.
I ignore her and move my attention back to the screen, fan girling over Chris Evans is more important than these idiots who wouldn’t even tell me what everyone is up to. I am engrossed in the movie, when Rose nudges me a little and I turn towards her with an irritated expression, to notice that she is tilting her phone towards me. I look at her skeptically when she moves her phone towards me and turns it, so that the screen is in my clear view. It shows a long list of messages from Matt.
Babe: How is Bella?
Babe: Did she tell you what happened between her and Mason?
Babe: Mason is being a pain in my ass and a nosy bastard. He is literally sneaking glances at my phone whenever I take it out.
Babe: Seriously love, what am I supposed to do with Mason?
Babe: Did he do something bad to Bella? Am I supposed to kick his ass? If yes, do tell because I have Rachel with me, who has agreed to do the same.
Babe: God woman. Will you tell me anything?
Babe: I am going to kill Mason if he doesn’t leave me alone.
Babe: He has asked me about Bella at least a million times since morning, it’s only lunch time yet and I AM GOING CRAZY.
Babe: Please call me or if Bella is okay, could you please tell her to call him or at least text him.
Babe: Because I can’t take this ANYMORE.
After reading all these texts, I couldn’t help but laugh at his miserable condition. Rose looks at me with narrowed eyes, as if to say, bitch you think this is funny? I continue laughing and say, “It looks like your BABE is going crazy” emphasizing on the word Babe. She shrugs her shoulders and whines, “YOUR MAN is making my man go crazy” highlighting the word Your Man in the same way as I did. I can’t help the smile that forms on my face after hearing her refer to Mason as my man.
She looks at my goofy smile and says, “Just talk to him already. See what he has to say.”
I don’t say anything thinking about everything that happened today, when she grabs hold of my hand, linking her fingers with mine and says, “I saw him in the morning Bella. He was miserable about what happened.”
“Did he tell you what happened?” I ask.
She shakes her head to decline it and continues, “No one knows what happened but I can assure you that he didn’t do it intentionally. He is really heartbroken about the fact that he might have screwed up his only chance of having something beautiful with you due to his stupid mistake.”
“No he hasn’t. Maybe I over reacted a little bit” I say inaudibly.
“Tell me what happened and then I can be the judge of it, whether you over reacted or he did a silly, stupid mistake” is her demand.
I know she is the only one who will understand it from my point of view and then tell me if I’m right or wrong without being worried about my reaction to it. She has always been the one who supports me when I’m right and to beat my ass down when I’m wrong; this is the reason why I love her more than I love myself. She is like a mirror to me, shows me the reality no matter how beautiful or how cruel it is. And that is why I end up telling her everything, right from the time I called him till the time I walked out of that café, as well as the part where I saw him with the woman’s arms wrapped around his neck, just as Ryan did.
I sense Ryan’s anger radiating towards Mason’s existence and I don’t really blame him; he is being a good brother and he believes what he saw with his own eyes. But what Ryan does not understand is that Mason is not that kind of a guy. When I first met him, I could sense the happiness blazing through every pore on his skin and making my skin tingle with the same. He was happy, more like he felt blessed to meet me and he will not throw away something he treasures so much just for some busty woman he met at the diner.
“Took you too long to realize” I hear Aurora mock.
SHIT. What did I do?
“Nothing that bad, to say that it can’t be mended” she whispers.
“I need to talk to him” I don’t realize I said that out loud, until Ryan says, “NO.”
I look at Ryan to see him clenching his fist so hard, that they are almost pale due to the pressure. I move from my place and walk to sit in front of him, with his hands now resting in mine, I say “Ry. Listen to me. I’m not going to say that you are wrong, because as a brother you are definitely NOT. But now when I think about it, I realized that he didn’t actually flirt with her. She was throwing herself on to him, asking him questions and he was just being polite to her with answering them.”
“NO Bella. He could have addressed you as his girlfriend in front of her and she would have just got the fucking hint, but he being the asshole that he is wanted attention from her and that’s why he didn’t say anything” Ryan addressed.
He was partially right, he could have given her the hint that he was with me, but there is a possibility that it just didn’t clicked in his mind at that particular moment. So I try to convince Ryan again, “Yes he could have addressed me as his girlfriend, if I was. But the fact is I am not his girlfriend Ryan. How can he call me his girlfriend without asking me out, He knows I would be pissed at him for such behavior.”
Ryan starts to speak again, “But it’s …” but this time I cut him off and continue speaking my thoughts out, “Look I’m not saying that I’m going to let him off the hook so easily, but I need to hear his side of the story too. We all know he is not as bad as people say he is.”
“Yeah she is right Ryan. She needs to listen to his part of the story, before passing any judgments. And if after that she feels he isn’t worth it than you can be the one to kick his ass” says Rose, to console Ryan in order to ease the idea of me talking to Mason.
Ryan looks at war with himself for a few seconds until he says, “Fine but just this once. And I’m still going to kick his ass for being a dickhead to my sister.”
“I wouldn’t like it, you see. Your sister has grown quite fond of her mate” I state timidly.
“I knew it” shouts Rose. Ryan stares at me amusingly whereas Rose looks at me in a teasing manner, wiggling her eyes and asks, “What did he do to melt our princess’s heart to mush huh?”
“Ewww woman, he did no such thing” is what I affirm as a matter of fact to her. She visibly sulks with a pouty face.
“Then why do you like him?” this was Ryan’s question at my rejection towards Rose’s thoughts.
“He makes me happy” is my simple reply.
“We make you happy too woman. You never made googly eyes while thinking about us?” states Rose.
“You remember the time when I first told you guys about Mason” I ask. Both of them nod at my question so I take it as my cue to continue, “The way everyone reacted, I almost thought we aren’t going to be able to make it. But then he started being there for me, if not physically then emotionally. His texts, his touch, his thoughts never failed to make me smile. They never disappoint me, kind of makes my day without even realizing. I never thought I’ll be able to be myself and talk to anyone except Rose after my Interrogation sessions. The anxiety was always too much to handle, but he made me feel that it wasn’t necessary to judge myself. He doesn’t even know anything and I plan to tell him about myself, because I know he won’t judge me and if anything, he will be there for me to help me through it.”
They both look at me dumb folded after my rant session. I smile and add, “I always thought Caleb was the one who made me happy, until I met Mason. Mason just doesn’t make me happy; he makes me fall in love with myself. He makes me feel worthy and I don’t plan to throw whatever we have, away for anyone or anything in this world.”
By the time I’m done with spilling my thoughts, there’s total silence. Until a hard thing comes flying my way and falls on my lap, I look at it to see that it’s my phone. I turn to look at the person who threw it my way and see Rose smirking at me. She gives me a small nod and says, “Get your man back.”
I hear a chuckle from Ryan and look at him, who has a small smile plastered on his face when he articulates, “She is right sis. Call him. If he makes you happy and is the reason you are fine today than I have to thank him for it” taking a small pause, his expression turns serious as he continues, “Only after kicking his ass for the mess he’s made.”
I can’t help but laugh at his antics. Switching my phone on with just one thought in my mind, I’m going to get my man back, no matter what I have to do or who I have to fight; I will make him MINE.