Set the morning after the reveal from Roxy's point of view. Reviews welcome.
Chapter 1
Christian Clarke and Syed Masood!
Roxy shook her head in disbelief thinking of the events of last night. One minute they were "enjoying" a rather weird flat warming party – which wasn't even in the said flat – the next she and Jane were dragging Christian out of the house before the in-laws decked him.
She knew Christian had an on-off relationship with someone mysterious – but never in a million years would she have thought it was Syed! She would have been less surprised if it had been Jack, he had a string of conquests and was at least good looking! How could he, her best friend, have kept this from her? Mind you she knew he was good at keeping a confidence, he had kept enough secrets for her in the past. Loyal that was Christian, loyal to a fault.
No, Syed wasn't Christian's type at all – she should know she had been on enough nights out with Christian to know what kind of men he went for, and none of them had looked anything like a weedy Syed. Christian preferred them tall and muscular, like he was; he liked confident sexy blokes, uncomplicated and fun loving. Syed was none of these, he was a pretty boy under the thumb of first his mother and then his wife, he was serious, focussed on business and religion – and most of all he wasn't long married! OK she could see how an airhead like Amira might find him rather cute, but he wasn't a real man. He was tied to his mummy's apron strings – at least he was until the spectacle last night.
After they had got him out of the house Jane had really laid into him, told him he should have left well alone, that it was typical of him to chase after something he couldn't have, that he destroyed everything that he touched. Syed had made his choice and he should have respected that and not chased after him again.
Maybe that was it – forbidden fruit, risky and exciting, the thrill of the chase, so why the confrontation? Syed may have outed himself but Christian had pushed him into it. That wasn't like Christian, he valued honesty and he was more than able to stand up for himself but he showed respect for people's feelings. It was totally uncharacteristic for him to put someone on the spot in public.
Christian just kept repeating that it wasn't like that, that they loved each other. I was having such a problem taking it all in I didn't know what to think – the one thing I was sure of was that Christian, my friend, was hurting, so I told her to lay off him.
When Syed finally emerged and rejected him with such anger he was devastated and I wanted to kill Syed too, I wanted to make the pain go away, but didn't know what to say, I didn't know what had gone on so I just dragged him back to his flat, poured him a drink and stayed with him until cried himself to sleep. If I hadn't had to go back to Amy, I would never have left him on his own, deserted by everyone. So now Amy was fed, I have to get back to see if he was OK.
I have to get some answers to the thousand questions running through my head.