Chapter 119

Nicol

Nicolas and I had a very relaxing evening, he held me the whole evening, in front of the TV as well as in bed it was like he knew I needed it. But it’s the following day and I needed to make my appointment with JP for lunch, I was alone at home as Nicolas already left for work, Nikki for school and Isabella went grocery shopping with Geoffrey, I told him I was going out for lunch but he didn’t have to worry about taking me, I’ll slip out, I’m sure the paparazzi will be gone, there was none when Nicolas went to work so why would they be there now? I waited until 10 am before I called JP “Hi Nicol.” “Hi JP how are you?” “I’m good but I need to hear all the gossip, when can we meet?” “You already ready?” “Yes, off course I’m very excited about this lunch, or should I say brunch.” “Okay let’s do brunch, can we meet at the Four seasons on 57th street.” “If you are paying, I’ll be right there.” “Okay see you in a few.” I went to grab my coat and ordered an Uber, at least I was dress fancy for the Four seasons I had my black knitted dress on with my black knee length boots and my green coat. I thought I looked good, my hair was hanging loose over my green coat, when I looked in the mirror, I decided green was my new favorite color, it went so well with my red hair. As I got in the lift, I called Nicolas to tell him where I was meeting JP. “Hi sweetheart.” “Hi Nicolas how are you?” “It’s a busy day here already.” “Then I won’t bother you.” “You can never bother me sweetheart. What’s wrong?” “Nothing I just wanted to let you know I’m meeting JP at the Four seasons for brunch.” “How are you getting there?” “I ordered and Uber.” “Okay thank you for telling me, use the credit card I gave you okay.” “I can’t it’s my friend I can’t use your money for this.” “Nicol please I gave you that credit card to use.” “For Nikki yes.” “Nicol I’m really not in the mood to fight, please use the credit card I gave you.” I wasn’t in the mood for a fight either so I just went with “Thank you Nicolas.” “Enjoy it Nicol let me know when you back at home.” “Will do, hope your day gets better.” “Thank you, Nicol, me to. Love you.” “Love you to.” When I got to the foyer the Uber was already waiting for me outside.

I got out at the Four seasons and I could see JP immediately with his yellow jacket, he looked fancy and chic. He walked over to me “Good grief girl you look hot.” I made a little twirl for him “Thank you very much and you look chic as always.” “Let’s get inside it’s cold out here.” We walked in I told the hostess I made a booking so she took us straight to our table. “Making bookings for brunch? Who’s moving up in the world?” I just laughed because I knew he didn’t mean it as an insult. When we sat down JP immediately ordered us some Mimosa’s I wanted to start with coffee or something but JP had other ideas “You do know you work tonight right?” “I’ll take a nap then I’ll be fine. Now spill girl how? When? Where? Did all this took place.” “Can’t we start with you?” “No mine is boring, he found someone else, he left me, I packed up and came back end of story” “But you were gone for almost 3 months.” “But that is the highlights now tell me what happened.” The waiter came with our Mimosas, JP took his and said “We need to toast.” “To what?” “Clearly to you finding your man again.” “I can toast to that.” We click our glasses and each of us took a sip. When JP was done, he said “Now spill it.” “Fine, I found Nicolas at a Christmas Gala, Dominique gave me his tickets, I had no one to go with me so I went alone.” “Oh wow.” “I wouldn’t say oh wow it wasn’t love at first sight or anything like that.” “Then what happened?” “He was with one of his models and she made a comment about him and red heads that he never goes for them, she thought I was the shit stuck on her shoe JP it was so humiliating, but then our song came up and he took me for a dance he asked if I would dance with him but he didn’t really give me a choice. We dance the whole song in silence and just as the song ended, he asked me why? I started to cry so I ran out grab a cab and went home.” “Fuck Nicol.” “Well, it wasn’t the only time I was outside in the snow that night, when he introduces me to Karen, I also lost it and ran outside he didn’t even follow me.” “Did you expect him to?” “No not really.” “Then what happened?” “Well, I went home and cried myself to sleep.” “Come on Nicol you know that is not what I meant.” The waiter came to take our order, JP and I both ordered the House breakfast I knew I won’t be able to eat all of the food but I ordered it anyway. When the waiter was gone, I went on with my story. “The Saturday Nikki wanted to go to Central Park, you know her right? She wanted to sit at the fountain and drink her hot chocolate.” “Off course.” “Well, we went and when I got our drinks someone ran into me. Like in right into me making me spill my drink.” “NO!” JP said in a gasp “Oh yes it was Nicolas, he was so rude until he saw Nikki and he realized she’s he’s.” “Oh yes I could see it immediately as well, they look so much a like Nikki is just the girl version of her dad.” “She is.” “How did you cope with that all these years?” “I don’t know I thought it was my punishment but it also gave me some sort of peace the fact that I’ll always have Nicolas close to me.” “Okay but how are you where you are now?”