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Chapter 2 : Symptoms of Lie
When Zoe entered the Rammer Jammer, the first thing she saw was Tom and Wanda kissing passionately each other. This was like they were not going to stop, they were going to suffocate. The doctor could not help herself roaring in front of such a romantic scene. Because this love seemed a little excessive, according to her. Even if all things considered, she envied their actual situation. In fact, it tempted her to become closer and closer to Wade, as if it was a kind of provocation to incite her making things better than them. She decided to keep this thought in mind, like a real cunning girl would do.
"Hello you two ! Wanda, the doctor advise you to not be overwhelmed by a little wave of love, and to go to work ! Tom, stop putting her off !", Zoe took pleasure to tease them, with the steady idea that Wade would come here soon to meet her.
"Um... Yeah, you're right, I… I should return carrying out my tasks !", Wanda replied with an unnatural tone.
After having said these words, she suddenly let go of Tom's hand. Zoe wondered if she was too hard on her at the time. Therefore she started to hope discovering a positive answer in the young man's look. Unfortunately, he reacted as strangely as his girlfriend's attitude was. He did not even dare to face the New-Yorker. The gossips. But she could not know. She must not.
"Tom ? I'm aware that I can be scary sometimes… Okay, most of the time. But… Are you seriously trying to avoid my look ? No no no, if you fall in love with me again, it's not going to be possible !", Zoe began to go astray and panic like a lost but cute child.
A few seconds passed, and noticing the silence, she put her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow at the same time. Despite she was of average height even with heels, this pose clearly expressed a will of looking a bit scornfully Tom. In the hope of obtaining a reaction from her target. That she did not immediately receive. So it became harder and harder to contain her anger. Before she started to explode, Tom ran away, pretending he felt a little sick and needed to rest at his home.
"But I'm a doctor, Tom Long ! That's why I was trying to understand your attitude !"
He went out of the Rammer Jammer without saying goodbye or even listening to her.
"And… In vain, apparently…", Zoe added, her voice depicting inside her a desperate feeling.
Now that she ended up alone, she noticed a strange silence reigning in the bar. People did not chattered as loudly and enthusiastically as usual. They just noiselessly ate their food and muttered, glancing sometimes towards her. Something was really wrong. She feared that she recently had made an unforgivable mistake as a doctor, or as an inhabitant of Bluebell. Instinctively, she began to shake her head all over the place, waiting for a familiar figure to appear and perhaps in a way help her out of this embarrassing situation. And she thought of Wade straight away.
Wade. He did not yet deign to come forward. Zoe felt a little annoyed and disappointed. Nevertheless, she was aware that a part of her will always make up an excuse to forget her boyfriend's clumsiness and to find a cute side related to this in spite of all.
And although she wanted to show goodwill, he was too late. Definitely late.
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"Hey, BB ! Let me get out of here, I must… !", Wade struggled against Lemon's hold.
"Oh, no no no ! What if you leave me alone in your place and if someone else come to see your face and perceive mine instead ? I don't want to be humiliated like this, Wade, understand ? And... WHAT MEANS BB EXACTLY ?", Lemon did not stop to blink and stamp, all the movements defining her stress. Her voice became also strongly quivering.
"Baby Breeland. You know what ? Whatever. I DON'T CARE, because everybody already knows, it's so predictable. So, if you don't want to be… humiliated… let me go first, stay here a moment, and…", Wade made a pretense to speak as a clever boy, with a serious and seductive tone at the same time. However, he was in a hurry, and this was absolutely not the right time for joking.
"But what if somebody sees me ? It's not so easy ! Why aren't you worrying about this ? And you said everybody knows, it means you don't care about Zoe's feelings either ? It's not that I like her, but at least I thought you…", Lemon insisted, despite she early knew that her interlocutor's answer would be unpleasant to hear.
"I guess I have to repeat… I don't care ! Zoe doesn't know, otherwise she would have called me to offend me or to tell me she wanted to break up with me ! And if it's not easy for you, well… Do the things as you think best, that's all ! NOW, sorry, I really have to GO.", he fast opened and closed the door, without turning round, without glancing behind him.
The young man felt though ill-at-ease about what he said about Zoe. He knew he used the worst words. Indeed, it was not that he did not care about her feelings, it quite simply turned out that he was not gifted with this kind of things. Although he went out with her, he had the queer impression he was not yet ready to grow up. And even if he was aware of this problem, he knew he could not so easily turn into a different man, a great man, a man entirely opposite to who he was before.
Slipping on a red squared shirt, he slowly sighed and little by little started to quicken his pace, until he finally achieved to reach the Rammer Jammer, to reach his girlfriend.
Unfortunately, Zoe did not seem to be over there. But Wade saw George instead. "Maybe George made her go somewhere else…", he immediately thought, and he was surprised by this first reaction. Was he becoming jealous ? This kind of cliché was just totally not him. But he could not help himself sticking this fear in his mind. And it did not delay to influence his behavior.
"Um… George… Have you seen Zoe ? She was supposed to wait for me here, and you know how I can become impatient in this case… Oh, you don't know ? So do you now !", the young man began in a serious way to get information from Lemon's ex fiancé, but in order to try staying as cool as usual, he intended to ask him so as to make this problem become funnier. "So ? Have you seen her ?"
"Well… Yes, it seems to me that she was in the Rammer Jammer… I'm not sure, because it's not a long time that I'm here, but… I think I have seen her go out. BUT I think also you can catch up with her, after all, she can't go very far... Yes ?", George was entirely shaky. He felt not guilty about the doctor's disappearance; however being a witness of this fact was able to make Wade believe he has something to do with the matter.
"Stop talking, Mr. Lawyer. I have understood.", Wade laughed a bit at George's answer, but he did not want to waste time. He decided to send himself on the mission consisting in finding Zoe.
As he went out, his mobile rang. It was his target.
"Sorry Wade, medical emergency ! Bluebell calls on my help ! I know you will forgive me, because tonight, I'll be yours, and I know you like to dominate, isn't it ?", Zoe's voice seemed to come from a long way. Mobiles were diabolic.
"Y..Yeah…You're right. And the more I wait, the more I will relish our moment. So… Yeah, see you tonight, doc !", Wade hung up before exploding. He really started to realize how serious the mistake he committed with Lemon was.
He felt like bawling, because of the distance. He scratched his hair at the same time as he hazily turned his look to the sky. The rays of light dazzled him, made him go to work and try to forget his girlfriend for a day.
A day of lie.
