Ok, here's chapter 7. I've been so busy with school that I haven't really had time to update my story, but I try…Enjoy!
Chapter 7
Angela had gotten out of the hotel and she took a taxi back at the bar she'd left her bike. She found the bike untouched in the parking lot. She got on it and drove straight to the garage. The whole drive there she was thinking how she could face Johnny after all that had happened. And she was scared of how Johnny would react on that she was gone all night and late from work.
When she got to the garage, she saw Mack standing outside looking pissed.
"Where the hell have you been?" he yelled at Angela.
"None of your business." Angela said wryly. "The place closed? Where's Johnny" Angela asked surprised.
"Probably looking for you." Mack said. "What happened to you last night anyway?" he asked.
"I only wish I knew." Angela thought and smiled a little. "Ummm… I spent the night at your place if anybody asks. Ok?" Angela said looking at Mack firmly.
"I don't know Ang, I don't like lying to Johnny…" Mack said hesitantly.
"Oh, but lying for him isn't a problem?" Angela said angrily staring Mack with her icy eyes.
"Well…" Mack started but was cut off by Angela.
"You want this bike ready today or not?" she asked. "If you do, you'll say I crashed at your place last night." she said firmly, crossing her arms under her breasts.
"Fine." Mack said and Angela started working on the bike.
After about an hour Johnny came to the garage.
"What a… Where the HELL have you been?!" Johnny yelled at Angela.
Angela just looked at Johnny with a cold stare.
"What do you care?" she just said bluntly and turned back at Mack. "The bike's ready."
"Don't you try to ignore me." Johnny said angrily. "What the hell happened? Why did you leave like that and where the hell did you go?!" Johnny was still yelling. "I tried calling you and I looked all over for you."
"Hah, I guess you weren't looking hard enough." Angela just said not even looking at Johnny.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"I just had it with you at the arena. You just ignored me, you acted like I wasn't even there. So I left." Angela explained. "And that's not even the whole thing." she continued. "I went for a ride and then came back to the house just to find nobody there. Then I went to Tommy's and saw you sucking that damn whore. Were you looking for me there too?!" Angela yelled at Johnny.
"Then I crashed at Mack's. Didn't wanna see you." she spat at Johnny.
Johnny was dumbfounded of Angela's rampage.
"I…" Johnny tried to think of something to say. "So you just went to fuck Mack then, huh?" he accused Angela.
"What?!" Angela just yelled not believing what she just heard.
"And you, you didn't say anything about her being with you!" Johnny now yelled at Mack.
"Well, I…" Mack started, but was cut off by Johnny.
"Well, of course you didn't say anything. You've always drooled over her, so now you finally had her…" now Johnny was cut off.
"Johnny! Shut the fuck up! And calm down." Angela screamed. "Jesus. Nothing happened at Mack's. He wasn't even home when I went there. I know where the key is, so I went in and fell asleep on the couch. End of story." Angela explained to Johnny and looked at Mack to confirm her story. He nodded.
"Now, give me some credit Johnny. I mean, though you seem to be able to cheat on me with what ever, I'm not." Angela said with a deadly stare but kind of smug grin.
"Hey!" Mack said with a warning tone and gave Angela a 'What the hell' look.
"Well, I'm done here, so I'm out. I don't wanna be this close to that rat any longer I have to." Angela said in disgust pointing at Johnny. "See ya Mack." she said to Mack and started to the door when Johnny grabbed her arms.
"What the hell? Let me go." Angela said and tried to get away.
"Now, shut up you little bitch." Johnny said between his teeth. "Who the hell do you think you are talking to me like that and acting this way?" he yelled and shook Angela.
"Oh you wanna hit me, huh? Is that it?" Angela yelled back. "Well go ahead. Let's get it over with. Come on." Angela taunted Johnny.
Johnny was very angry and he looked like he was gonna hit her.
"Johnny! Don't do it!" Mack yelled.
Johnny turned to look at Mack and loosened his grip on Angela. She got out of the grip, looked at Johnny with her icy eyes and said: "Didn't think so." and she left the garage, took her bike and drove off.
"Hey man, she just slept there and I thought you didn't wanna be interrupted." Mack said to Johnny with his hands up. "Look man, I gotta go and test drive the bike. You gonna be alright?" Mack asked Johnny who was now sitting on a bench with his head in his hands.
"Yeah." Johnny said.
"Hey, I know you wouldn't have done it." Mack said and took his bike outside and drove off.
Johnny ran his hands through his hair and sighed. He stood up and yelled: "Son of a bitch!" and punched the wall. "Shit." he cursed 'cause his hand hurt. He had never hit Angela or any other woman.
When he was a kid, he saw his father beating up his mother and sister and he beat up Johnny too. So he swore he would never be like his father, he would never hit a woman. And now Angela pushed him so far he almost did it.
"I got to get her back." he thought.
Angela drove straight up to her hill. She turned off her bike and just sat on it looking down at the valley. After a while she dug her wallet out of her pocket and took a picture out of it. She looked at the picture and tears started filling her eyes. She blinked them away and kissed the picture and said: "I love you and I miss you." and put it back in her wallet and the wallet back in the pocket. She felt something in the pocket and took it out. It was the piece of paper with Mark's phone number on it. She looked at it for a while, then took her cell phone and dialed the number. After the first beep she suddenly hung up. She shook her head: "Idiot."
Suddenly her phone rang and she startled. She looked at the display. It was Mark's number.
"Shit." she said. "Damn caller id's." she cursed. "Hello." she answered the phone trying to sound casual.
"Angela? Is it you?" Mark asked.
"Um… yeah it's me. What's up?" Angela tried to sound surprised that Mark called her.
"Well, nothing much. Did you just call me and hung up right away?" he asked and smiled at the other end knowing that's exactly what she did.
"Um… yeah." she answered a bit embarrassed. "I freaked out. I thought you might not want me calling to you." she continued.
"What? Where did you get that idea from?" Mark asked.
"I don't know." Angela said. "I… I still can't believe anything that has happened."
"What?" Mark asked again. "Hey, that all happened. And to tell you the truth, I'm glad it happened. I'm glad I met you and I do wanna see you again." he said firmly but softly.
"Really?" Angela asked still not believing this man was serious.
"Really." Mark answered softly still not believing this girl didn't believe he was serious. "Now, is everything okay my Angel? You sound a bit sad. Have you seen Johnny?" Mark asked concerned that Johnny might have done something to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Angela said trying to sound convincing.
"Uh-huh." Mark said, not convinced.
"What? I'm fine now, talking to you." Angela said with a smile and a flirty tone.
"Oh, glad to hear that." Mark answered with a smile. "But something happened, right?" he asked more serious.
"Well, yeah. Johnny came to the garage and all hell broke loose." Angela said.
"Shit." Mark thought to himself. "What happened? He didn't hurt you did he?" Mark asked starting to get mad.
"Oh no, no he didn't." Angela quickly answered. "I told him I spent the night at Mack's, 'cause I couldn't tell the truth. So he started accusing me of sleeping with Mack and I said I don't sleep with just anybody like he does. And then, then he… I…" Angela started swallowing and tears started filling her eyes when she realized what she'd done.
"What? What did he do? Angel?" Mark asked concerned and he was now really mad at this guy.
"He um… grabbed me and I, I almost made him break his promise to himself." Angela said almost crying.
"Break his promise? What are you talking about Angel?" Mark asked.
Angela told Mark the whole story what happened and about Johnny's promise that he would never hit a woman.
"And I almost made him do that by taunting him about it. I'm such a bitch. He should have hit me." she said now angry at herself.
"No. No way he should've hit you. And I'm glad for him that he didn't, 'cause I swear to God if he'll lay a finger on you, I'll break every bone in his body. And you have to stop blaming yourself. You've done nothing wrong." Mark said now angry about Angela blaming herself.
"But…" Angela started.
"Shh, listen Angel. You gotta get away from that relationship fast. In the long term it's not gonna be pretty for either one of you." Mark said knowingly. "Let me tell you something about a bad relationship and what it can do to people." he continued.
"Okay." Angela said and listened how Mark started to tell her the story of his marriage with his ex-wife.
"Like I told you earlier, I've been in a very bad place recently, and that was because of my very bad marriage and an ugly divorce." Mark started.
"Oh. I'm sorry." Angela said.
"Yeah, well. This ex-wife of mine was just a typical gold digging vulture. I was or thought I was, so in love with her that I didn't see it. The problems started pretty early on. Well, the first sign was that we got married after knowing each other only six months. But I was so in love." Mark said sarcastically and rolled his eyes.
"That's pretty soon." Angela said and kicked herself mentally. "I didn't mean…" she started.
"It's okay baby." Mark said and continued his story. "Anyway, because of my job, I was on the road all the time and Deborah was home. I think she actually liked not having me around, just my money. She kept buying stuff to the house and new clothes to herself that she never wore when I was home. She had her own friends and she was cheating on me, well, I guess the whole time we were married." Mark sighed.
"Are you ok?" Angela asked concerned. She couldn't understand why that woman had treated him like that.
"Yeah. It's still kind of hard to talk about this shit to someone, you know. Actually, I haven't really talked about this with anyone, well except Glenn and now you. You still wanna listen?" Mark asked.
"Yes, if you wanna tell me. Come to think of it, it's your turn to pour your heart out." Angela said half joking and smiled.
"Hah hah. Yeah I guess it is." Mark laughed. "So she was cheating on me. And I found out and she said she loves me and she won't do it again. I believed her, 'cause I thought I couldn't live without her. So I took her back and gave her a second, third, fourth chance. Then one day I just had it with her. I found out she'd betrayed me once again and I told her it was over." he paused. "You still with me?" he asked Angela.
"Yes, I'm here. I can't believe that woman." she said.
"Well, you haven't heard the half of it." Mark said. "So, I told her we're thru and she hits me with the biggest bomb yet. She's pregnant."
"Oh." Angela gulped and tears were filling her eyes again. "What the hell's the matter with me." she thought to herself. "I'm not a crier."
"Yeah, and she got me convinced that it was mine. So, of course I couldn't leave her." Mark said
"Right." Angela said understanding.
"And then, after our baby-girl, Belle, was born, I just fell for her. She was the most beautiful thing on this earth." Mark said fighting back tears that were forming in his eyes. "And everything went quite well for a while. But then, right after Belle's first birthday came the bomb that blew my world totally in pieces. The guy that Deborah had "been involved with" came back and demanded a paternity test. And my worst nightmare came true: I wasn't Belle's father, he was." Mark said now crying.
"Oh my God." Angela sighed. "I'm so sorry Mark." she continued.
"Thanks." Mark said and wiped the tears off his face. "Damn, I'm such a cry-baby." he said and tried to laugh.
"It's okay. You can cry if you want." Angela said comforting. "I wish I could do something. I wish I was there…" Angela said.
"Oh man, what time is it?" Mark suddenly said more than asked.
"I don't know, I don't have…" Angela answered.
"Shit. I have to get to the airport. My plane leaves at eight and I need to get everything… I'm sorry Angel, can we talk later?" Mark said.
"Yes, of course." Angela said.
"Ok, well, I gotta go now. I'll call you later." Mark said.
"Okay." Angela said.
"Bye." Mark said.
"Bye." Angela said and hung up.
"Oh my God." Angela said quietly.
She just couldn't believe what she'd just heard. But then again she sees that kind of women all the time. Women that are only after the guys money, bike or just wanting to sleep with them. But also the guys didn't really care what the women want, just as long as the guys get laid.
Now Angela really realized that Mark was different. That he actually does have feelings. And that there is a sensitive guy underneath that tough exterior. She also realized something else; Mark calling her Angel doesn't bother her at all.
Angela sat on her bike five more minutes and then she drove home. She didn't really want to face Johnny, but she didn't have a choice.