Branch One Hundred and Two

"Why were you on the phone with your ex? Were you thinking of going back to him?" Xavier asked pointing the phone back to Jessica.

Jessica felt like she was caught red-handed while trying to steal something valuable. Why was she on the phone with him? Did it make sense that she was still moved by his mere name on the call?

She was now open to the fact that he was a gas-lighting narcissistic person but did it make sense that she still wanted him to ask her to come back?

"He called and I thought maybe I might have what he wanted. I thought we could work out our differences and move past all the arguments and be friends again" Jessica said.

What she said was half a lie. To be honest she did not want to be friends again she wanted to be lovers. She wanted to go back to the days when they could stay up all night talking about their future together.

"I thought girls blocked the number of their exes?" Xavier asked.

He was antisocial but he still picked up one or two things occasionally