Here it is the return of Maggie. I could not leave her out off the drama, I mean no. Someone has to put some sense into all of it.
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Fran
She never thought she would cry this much in her life. She had no more tears left. How come a happy situation could turn into a sad one in matter of days? If Steve hadn't told her how he felt she could be happy right now, she could have moved on from him and in years she would have probably forgotten about him. But he had opened his mouth and ruined what was supposed to be her new perfect life. Now she was so confused and utterly miserable she thought she wasn't going to make it.
Thank God Dylan had been working late for the last couple of days; she couldn't even come up with a reasonable explanation for all her tears, not to mention she didn't know what to say to Dylan if he had asked her about her distress.
Then she remembered how much she missed her friend Maggie, because there was one person in the world she could trust to and she wasn't with her to give her advice, making everything less complicated. She did mention something about 'write me or call me whenever something superb happens' and this soon to be married to someone other than Steve kind of falls into that category.
"Maggie.
First of all; please come home soon! I need you here. Why did you have to leave anyways? My world is not the same without you; can you please hurry the hell up? Second; there's one tiny (not so tiny) bit of news I need to share with you, please don't freak out okay? Alright, I'm getting married. Not today, not tomorrow, but I will. Dylan proposed to me and I said yes.
Surprise!
I cannot give you any further information until you come back. Make it quick.
Kono"
Not the best way of telling your best friend about something like this. Her phone rang minutes after sending her email and she did not need to look twice to know who it was.
"Hello?"
"What the fuck are you doing?" Maggie screamed in the other line.
"Hi friend… how are you?"
"Don't give me that crap and answer my question now, Kono!"
"Well, I already told you. I'm getting married."
"Why? Are you pregnant or something?"
"No! I'm in love." She wished she could believe that.
"Yeah, with Steve."
"Not anymore."
"Are you sure you're getting the right man?"
"Of course I am. You know Dylan is wonderful, he loves me and I… you know? Care about him deeply enough to spend the rest of my life with him."
Easier said than done.
"He could be prince charming in all his glory, but let me tell you something, he ain't Steve."
"You're not helping Maggie."
"Who said I wanted to help? I'm in your life to make you a little bit miserable about all the wrong choices you make."
"This is not the wrong choice, this is the RIGHT choice. I'm doing the right thing, Dylan is…"
"Wonderful and perfect and whatever. You already said that and if you ask me I do find him sort of boring."
"He's not… okay, you know what? I knew this was a bad idea."
"Marrying Dylan?"
"No, telling you about this. I knew you were gonna get mad about this."
"How could I not be mad? You are making the biggest mistake of your life!"
"No, I'm not. God I told you about this already! This is the only choice I have, what do you want me to do, sit around and wait for Steve? No. This is the best decision I've made in… years."
She did fail to tell her about Steve confession because she figured, if she freaked out about this, she was going to go nuts about the other.
"I trust in your better judgment, I always do. But when it comes to men, you absolutely suck."
"Thank you, honey," she said ironically.
"You're welcome."
"I trust you will be here for my wedding, right?"
"Wouldn't miss it for the world."
"Thank you."
"Oh hey, you told Steve McGorgeous about your engagement?"
"Yeah, I told him today."
"What did he say? Did he cry? Oh my God, please tell me he did."
"He cried for a different reason."
"If he didn't cry for you, then why?"
She suddenly remembered Mamo and how Maggie did know him since she had grown up in the island just like she did. God she hated doing this sort of thing on the phone, bringing bad news to people.
"Mamo died."
"WHAT? How? Oh my God, Mamo!"
"He died of a heart attack this morning. I'm sorry, sweetie."
"This phone call is full of bad news. I'm not liking this at all."
"This is the only bad news I told you about."
"Oh God, please don't get me started. Besides you told me Steve cried when you told him about your engagement, but then you said he was crying because of Mamo. Don't tell me you talked to him after he find out about it?"
"No, I told him while we… were at his funeral."
"You did what?" she yelled. Seriously, Maggie was getting louder with each passing day. "What kind of insensitive woman are you?"
"It just came out! I couldn't stop it…"
"You could of at least waited a couple of days. Poor man, his friend died and you drop this bomb. Perfect timing my friend."
"He was going to find out anyways."
"At least tell me he wasn't happy."
"You could say that…"
"That's a sign then."
"A sign of what exactly?"
"A sign that you shouldn't marry Dylan, but Steve. And you should tell Steve how much you love him, while he's awake, and want to have pretty babies with him. Or if you don't want to actually have babies, you could totally have fun making them."
"Just for how long you've been thinking about this?"
"And chances are he could tell you he loves you too."
"Yeah, well… about that…"
The key on the door makes her jump a little. Dylan was home and the last thing she needed was him listening to her conversation with her friend about another man.
"I gotta go, Dylan is here…"
"You don't want him to find out how you drool over Steve?"
"Bye Maggie!"
She hangs up the phone and smiles at her fiancée. Truth be told, Dylan had no idea about her feelings for Steve as he never asked about their relationship, never wondered if there was something more. She wasn't about to give him reason to suspect so.
TBC