Chapter 2

"Valerie?" a voice yelled from the living room and I knew straight it was Aiden but he was not supposed to be in the city. 

I couldn't remember why but I for sure knew he would be out on the weekend.

Aiden and I had started dating a year ago when I had met him at a party, Shay and I were attending. I was tipsy when my eyes found him and yeah I was shameless. Our eyes met and the chemistry was overflowing. He appeared before me, in all his grandeur, A tailored black suit with a charming loose red tie. His chiseled jaw lifted with a sexy devilish smile. His eyes were a sparkling blue, and his soft, feather-like black hair brushed away from his brow. He was charmingly devilish. He oozed off hot sex.

There was no denying the fact that I had wanted him and hence I had made the move only to succeed. 

From the minute we started dating, I was honest with him, telling him that I wasn't ready for anything serious, especially love and marriage. Well, not the serious kind of love. He said he was fine with that and it had hurt for a second that he was fine with that but one good look at him naked everything was forgotten. Old wounds always twisted me up. However, his touch lit me up and there was no way I was going to trade him ever. 

Wrapping myself in a towel, I made my way to the living room to find an angry pacing Aiden. I wondered what had him fuming especially right now. This wasn't like him.

"Aiden," I paused. "Why are you here?" I asked.

"Why am I here? Why are you here? Why are you not even dressed?" He snapped taking me by surprise.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, placing a hand on my hip, really not liking his attitude.

"You forgot, didn’t you?" he paused staring at me furiously.

"God! Val, why can't you remember things? I thought you would be the one to remember everything, but in this relationship, I’m the one that has to do everything,” he complained, his voice a little on a higher note. I could sense from his tone that he was trying to keep his anger at bay. I still had no clue why he was angry.

“Today is our first anniversary, Val," after hearing him say that it suddenly dawned on me and my eyes widened. That was what I was forgetting earlier.

I remember us discussing plans for today almost a week ago while we lay in bed after a good cardio. It was going to be a lovely romantic dinner followed by a getaway for the next two days where it was all going to be about being spicy and yet I had forgotten all about it. 

Shit. 

Aiden looked at me with disbelief in his eyes. "I’ve been waiting for you for the past half an hour in the restaurant making a fool of myself when you don't give a shit about us. You didn’t even remember," by now he was in front of me and his eyes burned with fury. I had never seen him like this, his anger was justifiable though. If the roles were reversed I was sure I would have burned half the world by now, especially his. 

“I’m, sorry, Aiden,” I apologized in a soft tone hoping it would calm him down. We just stared at each other until his eyes softened. He looked at me for a whole minute before shaking his head slowly. I knew he wouldn't stay mad at me for that long. 

“I just wanted today to be perfect," he paused. "Maybe I'm being too hard on you," he sighed heavily.

"I'm sorry for forgetting, Aiden. I had too much on my plate. So many hours I was putting in that I just forgot." I explained to him while apologizing as he wrapped his arms around me. 

“I get it," he said understandingly. "Thank god, we still have two days away from here to make it better. I’m sure you’ll redeem yourself on our getaway," he said as he kissed my neck. My hands that were reaching for his hair instantly stopped.

God! My life couldn’t get any better. Note the sarcasm. How should I tell him that I hadn’t asked for leave and my boss would be fuming if I disappeared just like that? If I did ask for a holiday right now she would surely snap on me.

"Aiden," his name left my lips too sweetly. "I haven't taken any leave, and I can’t leave without the boss’s permission..." I said detaching myself from him.  For more than a whole minutes, we just stared at each other, his boiling anger returned and my lack of remorse just added fuel to the fire.

"What?” he asked stunned and I just closed my eyes.

“You forgot to ask for a time off? We made this plan almost a week ago." I could hear the hurt in my voice.

“I took a holiday for this once, just to have a romantic holiday with you and you didn't even apply for the time off? I wouldn't have been this mad at if you said your boss didn't allow it but you saying you didn’t even ask is just a whole other thing,” he shouted at me. He stopped and put his head in his hands.

“You know, I’m tired of your attitude, Val. I feel as if I’m the only one trying to make this relationship work while you’re off being busy in your own little world. I just don't know what to do with you,” he said with irritation.

"You think you’re wasting time with me, Aiden?" I asked as his words enraged me. Truly I was being the irrational one but what could I say about me. More importantly, how could he think something like that? I know I'm not perfect but I had tried my best to keep him happy.

"Yeah I do, because I love you, and you don’t love me even dime's worth," That one hit a nerve. Just one mistake and he was acting like I had done something worst than that. 

"Hey, I already told you, I wasn't looking for something serious in this relationship and you had told me that you were fine with it." I should have kept quiet but damn I couldn't. "You are the one who is determined to make me fall in love with you madly. I’m sorry that your charm didn't work on me that well but that’s not my fault and I'm not the one to go for lovey dovey shit." Clearly, my words didn’t help the situation at all. 

"Just forget it!” he screamed out frustratingly as I saw the hurt on his face. I could see he was taken back my words.

“Maybe I was a fool thinking I would get over you after sleeping with you once but I just can’t. You just had to get into my head more and more and I’m fucking sorry about that. But you know what? I’m out of here," He stomped out of the apartment banging the door before giving me a chance to apologize.

I was really mad at him, at myself and everyone. Fuck where did the things go wrong for me. As I looked at place where Aiden I almlost instantly missed him. I was so accustomed to having him around me that it suddenlt felt empty without him. I was sure that he was the most romantic person but I still didn’t love him like I loved Drew because I dared to do then I won't be able to nurse back my heart this time. 

If only I had never met Drew, I never would’ve had my heart in pieces. He messed everything up.