When It Rains: The Umbrella Collection by Prudence Hayes Page B

guy wants and saying exactly want he wants to hear so he falls for you.  I know you have him there at your beck and call. Put him on the phone.”
    I heard the fumbling of the phone and a deeper voice speak, “Hello.”
    “You fucking prick. If you didn’t want to be with me you should have said something and not dragged me through the dirt.”
    “I wan ted to.”
    “Oh, shut the fuck up and go fuck someone else.   I hope your penis falls off because of something you catch.  You know what?” I continued, “You two go be together, two sluts living happily ever after,” and I threw my phone across the kitchen.
    I sat there on the ground next to Skylar with my head leaning against the bottom cabinet.   There was laughter exuding from the voice and I shook my head in disbelief.
    “Well, then.   When are you going to regret that?”
    “Already do,” it was the truth, regret was filling me up inside.   Did I mean what I said? Yes, a part of me did, but I probably wouldn’t ever have said any of those words if not for the combination of the voice and the way they hurt me, “So, what happened after you confronted them?”
    Skylar sat back and explained that she had spun around in her c hair and got up to go over.  She noticed Scott was already a few steps ahead of her.  When they reached the table, Lauren’s lips were so enamored by Adam’s that it took them a few moments for them to realize that people were standing above them, hunched over the table trying to get their attention.  When Lauren finally looked up, she was shocked to say the least. She pulled away from Adam and slid across the booth acting like that’s where she had been the whole time.  While Skylar yelled at Lauren, Scott took care of Adam, making it very clear that they shouldn’t be doing what they were doing and if they felt that way for each other than they should have the guts to tell me.  Skylar said Adam just shrugged his shoulders and was angry that Scott was in his face.  Lauren started crying, mainly because she was caught.  She and Scott paid their bill and left immediately.  As they were getting into her car Adam came running out trying to fight Scott as Lauren was begging Skylar not to tell me anything.  At one point, Lauren tried to bribe her with tickets to a concert.  Ridiculous.  Scott isn’t the fighting type, so they promptly got in the car and left. 
      “Ha, I’m going to have to thank Scott.  By the way, thank you for telling me and saying something to her,” I said as I wiped away teardrops from my cheeks
    “Of course.   Now, we should really get to work in cleaning this mess up.”
    “My life or the ceramic pieces shattered everywhere?”
    “Let’s start with the ceramic pieces,” she stated as she patted my leg.  I began to pick up the bigger pieces and she went to grab the broom from the closet and began to sweep them all into a pile. 
    Pops walked into the kitchen and stopped dead in his tracks and his eyes examined the floor from one side of the room to the other.   With each piece of mug he saw, his mouth gaped more and more.  His face grew a rosy color and then as quick as it came, it left.  “I see you guys have been busy,” he stated and then tiptoed through the mess on his way to the refrigerator to retrieve his pitcher of OJ.
    “Yeah, sorry Pops.   It just slipped out of my hands.  By the way, you look put together; I’m guessing you have a date,” I said through my sniffles.
    “Uh huh,” he replied unconvinced by my excuse about the mug, “Yeah, I am going to dinner with Molly.”
    “Ugh, again?”
    “Yes, we are leaving now though.   Going to spend the day walking around some old town and eating at the “Rose Garden” I think it’s called.  I don’t know, but what I do know is that it’s a long drive.”
    Skylar and I locked eyes and fought back the laughs that were trying to force themselves out.  What were the odds? 
    After we finished cleaning up my mess and