Nonetheless, I reached into my purse and pulled out a bottle of Vitamin Water. I cracked it open and chugged it down, relishing the sweet, tantalizing taste of the pomegranate strawberry water. The cold helped to cool me down while the silence of the parking garage gave way to a clearer mind.
And even though it was only my lunch break, it felt good to pull away from my desk.
“Hey! You!”
I jumped at the sound of his voice and spilled water all over myself.
“Tommy?” I asked as I looked around.
I peered out my window and saw him charging my car. “Get out.”
He tried to rip my door open, but I quickly locked my car doors. “What in the world? Tommy? What are you doing--?”
He slammed his fists against my window. “Open this fucking car and talk to me like a human being!”
My eyes widened. “Then start acting like one.”
His face grew red with anger. “You’re the reason I lost my job, you stupid cunt.”
I nodded slowly. “That’s fine if you believe that.”
He snarled. “If you hadn’t tricked me into thinking you were single in the first fucking place, I’d still have my job. I never go after taken women. Ever!”
I furrowed my brow. “But I’m not taken. I haven’t been in years.”
He narrowed his eyes. “I know you’re sleeping with Mr. Ryker. He all but confirmed it.”
“I mean, that’s how it looks on the outside, sure. But--.”
“Don’t you “but” me you fat fuck! Get the hell out of this car and talk to me like a man!”
I shrugged. “I’m not a man, though. So, no.”
He vibrated with fury. “Get the fuck out of your car or I’m calling the police.”
I snickered. “And tell them what? That you charged up to my car, you called me names, and now you’re two ticks shy from threatening my life at a place where you no longer work? If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were stalking me.”
He scoffed. “Only pretty women get stalked. You’re just a beached whale. I gave you the courtesy of trying things out with you. I have options, you know. I didn’t have to look your way!”
I sipped the rest of my water. “Okay.”
He kicked my car so hard that it rocked on its chassis. I thanked my stars that I wasn’t outside to deal with his tantrum and tirade, but I was frightened to my core. All I wanted was for people to leave me alone. How hard was that?
Then, the look on his face changed.
“Tommy? Whatever you’re thinking…”
He chuckled. “I know exactly how to get you out of that car.”
I blinked. “Just leave me alone! How hard is that, you idiot motherfucker!?”
He sprinted back to his car and I looked over at the elevator. It wasn’t too far away, and if I could get into it, I’d be safe. So, I gathered my things, unlocked my car, and started sprinting as quickly as I could toward the metal doors.
But being a bigger girl didn’t do me any favors, and before I reached the doors, I felt someone shove me from behind.
Before I went soaring into the cement wall off to the side.
“There we go,” he growled as he stood in front of me, “now you can talk to me like a person.”
