After working out at the gym and finishing his errands, Emma asked Chord to eat out with her at some trendy restaurant that he doesn't care to remember the name of. Though the food was impeccable and the workers were friendly, he couldn't help but feel irritated at the amount of attention they were both getting from the customers around them. Unlike Emma, he enjoys quiet one-on-one dates where he can be with his date without other people lurking around. Therefore, in order to catch a break from the chaos that surrounded him, he excused himself and made his way to the bathroom leaving his phone exposed on their table.
Meanwhile, Emma started signing autographs for the other costumers in the restaurant – completely ignoring the fact that Chord's phone is on the table. As customers began to double in numbers, surrounding Emma and Chord's table completely, a mysterious-looking man in a blue baseball hat joined the crowd. He was the only one looking at the phone on the table. The man knew it was Chord's and thought that such a phone costs a lot of money if sold to the right buyer. Almost as if it were an immediate instinct, the man picked up Chord's phone while making sure that no one was watching him.
However, just when the man was about to open the phone, Chord pushed his way through the crowd (knocking Emma down to the floor) and grabbed the phone as quickly as possible from the stranger. "That's mine, sir," Chord tells the customer in a polite manner. The man, in shock and embarassment, began to apologize. Security quickly came over and took the man away from the table. The rest of the customers were asked to return to their tables as well. Once the crowd had died down, Chord helped Emma up and helped her sit back down. "A-are you okay? I'm so sorry," he tells Emma apologetically. Emma, on the other hand, seems none to pleased with Chord's actions.
"You just ran over me to save your phone? Are you crazy?"
"I'm... I'm sorry. I panicked. I didn't want him taking my phone and there's a lot of people in here. He would have gotten away if I didn't get to him as fast as I did."
Chord began to feel guilty and ashamed of himself. He didn't know what had gotten into him. He had nothing to hide from Emma. Nothing on his phone anyway. But just as Emma was about to continue lecturing him, Chord's phone started to ring and vibrate on the table. The couple looked at the phone and Chord immediately saw the name flashing on the screen. As he was about to pick it up, Emma takes the phone from the table and ignores the call.
"Why did you do that for?" he asks her, holding in his frustration as much as he could. "Why not? She shouldn't be calling you right now anyway. You two don't even work together anymore so it can't be anything important," Emma tells him matter of factly.
"I was expecting her call."
"Why?"
"Because she's my friend and I haven't talked to her in a while. Why do you need to know?"
"Because I'm your girlfriend!"
The amount of chatter in the restaurant suddenly died down. The attention was once again, for all the wrong reasons, on Chord and Emma.
Calming down from her pit of rage, Emma closes her eyes and lets out a deep burdened sigh. Chord looks on with a worried and confused look on his face. "What? What's wrong?" he asks her.
"She's been calling you, you know. Lots of times. Especially a few weeks ago. You leave your phone a lot so I usually ignore those calls and delete them from the phone log. I thought she would have stopped calling you by now but..."
"You what?"
The amount of anger inside of Chord had finally bursted out. Without thinking twice, Chord took his phone from Emma and walked out of the restaurant leaving Emma by herself.