It’s Complicated Novel – We are married, but complete strangers. “Natasha, Nathan is with another girl and now sticking his tongue down her throat.” I looked in Nathan’s direction again with disgust. “Only you can be so calm about this, if he was my husband, I would kill him right now,” Natasha smiled and shook her head. “My name is Miles. Girls, do you mind if I join you?” “Sorry I’m married.” I said quickly. “Her husband is a jerk, right there.” Natasha pointed in Nathan’s direction. At this time, Nathan came over.
Loud music is blaring when we entered the club, without wasting a moment Natalie pulls me to the dance floor. It was packed due to the weekend, but somehow we managed to squeeze in. Natalie being Natalie, starts to sway her body instantly along with the music. Seeing her enjoying, actually made me happy, as at least there is someone who I can make happy. When she noticed I am not dancing, she started dancing around me doing some goofy moves. This girl is crazy I close my eyes and let myself relax and move along the beat. Soon we both are, laughing and dancing like crazy. Dancing and cooking have always been a stress buster for me, and my friend knows it too well and I am thankful for that.
After half an hour we decided to take a break from dancing and head towards the bar. “We should do this more often, it is been ages since we had this much fun,” Natalie bobbing her head to the music then she shouts our orders to the bartender. “I totally agree with you, work and studies are making me crazy…nights like these help me to de-stress myself,” I fan myself with my hand, trying to cool off. I realize how much my life is getting complicated day by day. Work, studies, and above all my strained relationship. Everyone expects me to behave in a certain way, and in somewhat to live up to their expectations, I am losing myself. Natalie senses my worry. “Abby I know you are going through some rotting egg, but do not let this dull your personality. Do not lose yourself. I love my Abby and do not want her to change,” she lightly squeezes my hand. “I know Li, I also do not want to lose myself,” I smile at my friend’s concern.
Taking a deep breath, I slowly exhale, “All this, is too much to take. It is not easy to fulfill everyone’s expectations, but I promise you, every time I feel like going insane I’ll ask you to take me away from this drama.” “That’s gonna be so much fun, you and me exploring new places and having time of our life without the worry of the world,” she excitedly says. She opens her mouth to says something, but suddenly I feel her expression, turned into a scowl. “WHAT THE F-CK?!” I turn my head towards where she is staring, and there goes my fun night. Nathan Knight standing there with a girl hanging on his arm. Why? Why do I have such bad luck?The last person I wished to see, is in front of me. I turn my head back to Natalie, who is trying to murder him with her deadly glare. “Natalie.” No response. “Natalie.” Again no response. I shake her a bit, “Natalie.”
This time I get a response. “That f-cking prick! I gonna-” before she could say anything else I interrupt her. “There is no need to spoil your mood, leave it.” “Okay! but, we are leaving,” she holds my hand and tries to drag me. “No, we are not leaving! We are staying here and going to enjoy our night as we have planned.” “But how can you stay here… He is here with another girl and now shoving his tongue down her throat,” she again looks in his direction with disgust. “I don’t give a d-mn,” I say deadpan. To lighten her mood I joke, “Tell me if he is eating any boy’s face, then, it will be something new and worth seeing. I’ll snap them together and make some money out of it.” This makes her laughs, her glare softens a bit. “Only you can be so cool about this if he was my husband I would have killed him by now,” she shakes her head, with a small smile.
“Tell me truthfully, does not it hurt?”She asks in a serious tone, the previous smile disappears from her face. “It does hurt.” Without missing a beat I answer her truthfully. She gives me a sad smile, but she does not ask me anything further, which I truly appreciate. “I wish I could do something about it, Abby.” “Hey, there beautiful.” A new voice gets our attention and I am so glad for this distraction We shift our attention to the source of the voice. A handsome looking man is standing in front of us and he has eyes for my girl. I smile when I see Natalie face which holds a flirtatious smile. “Hey,” we both say in unison. This man definitely knows how to carry himself. He is attractive and for some reason, he does not seem to be a threat or danger. So, I relax a bit and thought to let Natalie have a little bit of fun. “My name is Miles. Do you mind, if I join you, girls?”
He smiles, “My friend is busy somewhere and I definitely would not want to miss the company of such beautiful girls.” I quickly say, “Yeah sure why not. But, I am married,” I raise my hand to show him, my wedding band, so that he knows that I am unavailable. Even if I was not married, then also I would have declined any advances from guys. As I am not comfortable with such attention. “But she’s single,” I wink at Natalie, who seems interested in him. “I am glad she’s single,” he smiles glancing Natalie, “However, I won’t lie I am a bit surprised that you are married,” he briefly looks at me. I am feeling relieved, that because of him, Natalie will forget about Nathan and enjoy herself. “Yeah…it is so unfortunate, right? That she is off-limits, I really feel bad for all the hot males out there,” Natalie mocks fake sympathy. I am sure internally she is cursing Nathan.
“So, do you came here with your husband?” he questions me but keeps stealing glances at Natalie. “No, actually he’s a busy man and usually not around due to his work commitments,” I give him the well-versed answer. Anyone who asks about my husband I give them this same answer. So it saves me from further explanation. Natalie looks pissed at the mention of Nathan. From the corner of the eye, I can feel somebody is coming in our direction. “Is he a businessman?” he asks, to which I simply nod my head feeling slightly irritated. Why the h-ll is he so interested in my husband? Please drop this conversation and focus on Natalie man.
“Maybe I would know him then, whom are you married to?” he seems interested. Before I can ask him to stop him with the interrogation. Natalie answers him in an annoyed tone, “Prick.” We both snap our head towards Natalie who is angrily looking at someone besides me. “She’s married to a prick.” I look at my side and find prick…I mean Nathan, in a disheveled condition surely which is a result of some action, standing there. He is looking at Natalie with an amused expression and then finally he notices me. I keep my face expressionless because I do not want to acknowledge him at all. He does not deserve it. I internally groan as our mood goes from happy to frustrated in a matter of some hours. Natalie holds my hand and drags me not before throwing a dirty glare at Nathan and this time I allow her to take me away from here.