Why? Why me? - He was wondering.
Several hours had passed since his conversation with Catherine and his mind kept comming back to her over and over again.
Vincent still remembered the moment he kept regretting for the past 5 years, when his beastly istincts had betrayed him.
This would be his first night without Catherine.
Vincent was sitting on the couch, two bottles of wine on the table next to him, one already half emty. – Sometimes people don´t see the good things in their life, only the problems and difficulties, until they mess it all up – and while he was thinking about this eternall theorie he was reminded of the woman who stole his heart and saved him from becoming insane in that dusty warehouse, when his only company had been JT, a friend so close for over a decade.
Suddenly the door of the house boat opened and JT searched the room with his eyes for a second, fixing his gaze on Vincent.
"Hey Dude, it´s bad when you have to drink! What is it?!"
With one swift move that was supposed to go unnoticed by Vincent -which was virtually impossible- he snached the full bottle away and placed it on the ground next to him.
„Give me the bottle! Leave me alone!" a very pissed Vincent grumbled.
When JT didn´t seem to move Vincent looked up and with a bitter look in his eyes started: "I screwed up!"
JT attemted to make a joke but Vincent blurted:"Cat saw me with Mary at the office."
„You cheated on Cat? Because I´m sure, ´see´ doesn´t mean she saw you talking to that girl."
JT shook his head slowly when the look on Vincents face gave him away.
„Oh, man! What were you thinking? You proposed to Catherine a week ago, you love her. You are not even married and you already happen to cheat on her?
What happened to you? You would never have treated her like that before your amnesia!
I hope for you that it only happened once?"
„She kept flirting with me and I did tell her to stay away-" but this time JT interrupted.
„I hope that, judging from the old you this is ´beast-upgrade- related´ but you can´t do that to Catherine, jump every other woman you find attractive."
„I guess I won´t get to figure that out wíth Catherine. She left the ring behind." he pointed at the ring that still rested on the table where she had left it.
„If I were Cat, I would have acted the same way.
She loves you and you break her heart... she had given up so much to be with you! Pretty obvious that this is quite a lot to deal with, this time!" he finished and realized what he had just told his friend, that he didn´t actually believe that Cat would come back this time.
He stepped oun onto the balcony and enjoyd the wind that was still comfortably warm at this date of the year.
JT had always been his anchor, his solid point and even now he had to think about those wise words his best friend had said.
Catherine
She was lying in bed with Noah, awake thinking about the good memories she shared with Vincent, those little details that she loved and while she enjoyed the comfort of the warm bed one specific memory made her smile.
Carefuly she got up, anxious to let Noah sleep, – who had had a long and exhausting day at work – and dressed to go for a walk at the beach.
Tess had helped her to go cold turkey on Vincent after they broke their engagement of, part of it was to delete several fotos of them from her phone, except, Catherine didn´t totally go through with it.
One photo was hidden, not in the gallery but in the folder of old notes between long expired grocerie shopping lists.
„Catherine, you ready? How can a pretty woman like you waste so much time with make- up? He leaned against the doorframe and studied her.
„It´s the rehersal for Heathers wedding. You know she want´s us all to look ´suuuper- pretty´" she said and started to put lipstick on.
„And it takes a woman 20 minutes to colour their lips?" he asked sceptically.
He stepped behind her and showered kisses all over her neck, distracting her.
„I could do it faster...!" he murmured between kisses.
„You should sooo not start wearing lipstick!" she chuckled and looked up into his eyes through the mirror.
„There is always a first time to give it a try."
Now she was curious, turned around and handed him the lipstick dareingly.
He took it, a sceptical look on his face, more like a scientist who was witnessing an interesting experiment and Cat took a step back to let him step in front of the mirror.
„Don´t laugh at me, I do that for you!" he said when she couldn´t surpress a laugher.
„as a challenge!"
When he had finished after not more then 30 seconds, he turned around, smacked his lips and now she couldn´t hold back from laughing anymore.
Quickly she grabbed her phone for a snapshot with him.
„Hey, delete those pictures. I don´t like it when people have ´blackmailing- worthy pictures´ about me on their phones Not even my girlfriend!" he protested but when he saw how happy she was he picked her up and sat down with her on his lap onto the floor.
He grabbed a towel and got rid of the color on his lips.
„No..." she pouted and kissed him hard.
But soon she didn´t care anymore when his hands opened her robe to let it slide down her body and pool around them on the floor.
Catherine's thoughts snapped back to reality when a wave of cold ocean- water washed over her feet.
Hey guys ! I feel a lot for taking so long to upload the chapter. I have been overseas exchange and have had some relationship problems, but now I'm here and very happy. Hope you like the chapter. Please review.