When trust is questioned
Chapter 8
In advance- English is not my mother tongue, I often use the translator, if there are text and sentence structure errors, I apologize in advance.
A few minutes later.
Mona comes into the kitchen. "Gooood mooorning!" she shouts out loud.
Angela puts her hand to her forehead "oh Mother, don't yell please!"
"Oh Angelaaa. Ahahah, what's up, do you have a hangover?"
Tony replies: "ha' yes and what a one!"
Angela looks at both of them and blushes.
Tony and Angela look at each other in embarrassment and smile at each other from the side.
Mona asks curiously: "ok... What's going on here?"
Angela quickly replies: "nothing, nothing...".
Tony stands with his back to them and continues to wash the dishes, but he can't help but grin.
"... aha..., ok you two" Mona looks at both of them suspiciously and notices what is going on.
"Angela, how was it yesterday?" asks Mona. Angela snapped out of her embarrassment and confused, "I bake your pardon?"
"Well, HOW was yesterday with Roger at the front door?"
Angela's eyes get big, she covers Mona's mouth "Mother, not here!"
Mona slightly slaps Angela's hand away "ahahah" she laughs out loud "ok..."
Tony looks over at them jealously.
Angela responds to Mona and says in a tense voice: "Mother, nothing happened, we said goodbye, so nothing dramatic and yes... He was very nice..."
Tony turns around again. "nice... Ah yes," he says with dismay, his voice in a biting tone. He shakes his head, "... tzzz..."
Mona looks back and forth between the two.
The phone rings in Angela's office room. Tony: "The phone rings in your office... It's Saturday, you're off?"
Angela quickly rises from the table : "unusual". She goes out.
Mona shrugs her shoulders questioningly.
Angela goes into her office and picks up the phone "Angela Bower, Bower Agency, hello?"
"Good morning Angela, Roger here on the phone. I wanted to inquire about you and ask how you are doing?"
Angela looks surprised and replies, "oh Hi Roger, why are you calling me on the office phone? I'm ok, my head hurts a little but otherwise everything is good so far"!
"I'm glad to hear that Angela, I'm sorry you have a headache. And excuse me, but I don't have your house phone number, so I'm calling you on your office phone."
Angela replies: "Oh ok, that's a logical explanation of course" she pauses..."I hope you got home safely, too?" She sits down in her chair at the desk, resting her head on her hand.
"Yes , I got home safe thank you for asking and thank you for the beautiful... Extraordinary farewell.. That was something special."
Angela's eyes get bigger and she stammers, "um, yes... It was nice..."
Roger : "nice... ok.." He doesn't sound very enthusiastic.
Angela doesn't know what to talk to him about anymore, she is uncomfortable with the phone call, she brushes him off and politely says goodbye to him and hangs up the phone.
She rests her head on both hands, her elbows on the desk. ... what am I thinking... She shakes her head and puts her face in her hands. She stays like this for 10 minutes. The door opens quietly, Tony enters cautiously.
"Angela? Are you all right?" He walks over to her. He stands at the desk.
Angela lifts her head, squints her eyes a few times and then looks at Tony "yes all good..." she says tiredly.
"Ok... But you don't look like that." He walks over to her. Angela gets up from her chair, they face each other. Tony takes Angela's hand and looks at her with a faithfully stupid doggy look. "Is it something serious, Angela?"
Angela's gaze lowers slightly "No, it's all good, it was just..."
He looks at her with a piercing gaze: "Who?"
"... anyone...", Angela says more quietly.
"ANYONE, ANGELA?" Tony's voice gets louder.
"yes TONY anyone…someone…., no one important, not what would concern you. It was all about the work!" Angela looks past him, towards the door.
Tony's jealousy is palpable, he takes her hand and holds it tightly, then he pulls Angela towards him, he looks deep into her eyes "Angela, you know that you are important to me, don't you? You're my best friend and more, I can never undo what happened between me and Kathleen... I just want you to trust me again... What just happened in the kitchen was unbelievably beautiful!"
Angela replies embarrassedly, "oh Tony... You are also important to me, very much so, our friendship is important to me and so is everything else. This will always be the case. But I still need time. I don't want to lose you again, but I have to see for myself where I stand..."
Angela's eyes fill with tears. She has to pull herself together.
Tony also looks sad, he had hoped for a different answer... He pulls even closer to her and takes her in his arms.
Then he looks at her again, he kisses her very carefully on the mouth, hoping that she will return his kiss.
He senses that there is something in the air, he doesn't want to let go of her for fear of losing her completely.
Angela opens her eyes again and releases herself from his arms. "... I have to get dressed..." she says embarrassedly, quietly.
"Ok..." Tony whispers.
She goes out.
Tony stops in her office for a moment. He's in thought. Now he really realizes what he has done and that he is about to lose her for good if he does nothing.
What is he supposed to do? He wants to give her the time she needs. But he doesn't want to move away from her either.
He has to swallow.
... Whether it was Roger on the phone... he asks himself, looking over at the phone.