Chapter 18

She was mad with rage and she had been holding herself back just because she wanted to console her and make her feel better, but it was obvious that Georgia wanted to keep playing the dummy over a man that doesn't deserve her.
"Jake cheated on you with his ex-girlfriend and here you are crying over him like a baby, seriously Georgia?", she raised her voice at her.
Only at that moment did Georgia realize that she gave birth to a situation that she was not expecting.
Crystal reminded her of all the heartbreaks she has had in the past, all the cheating and pain, yet she was still seated there and crying for a man?
" Don't you ever learn my friend, it simply means that Jake had never stopped seeing his ex-girlfriend and you were the person who did not have a place in his life and it is his lost not yours", Crystal went on with the words and Georgia opening her eyes in surprise, was the one telling her friend to calm down but Crystal said she will not calm down till she stops behaving like a teenager that just had her first heartbreak,
"Jake or whatever he is been called does not deserve you Georgia, know this and know peace", Crystal yelled out, walking by the table where her plate of the food was and started up with the eating that she had left halfway because of some silly guy calls Jake.
Georgia who had stopped crying and was looking at crystal mad in rage, wiped Off the remaining tears that were drooping at the nook of her eyes, as she informed her friend that she was not going to cry anymore.
" Good cause I am tired of you going through the same thing over and over again with some idiots that do not even deserve you in the first place", Crystal spoke out sipping some juice from the glass that was by her.
As the room had become ardent, Georgias phone was heard ringing in the space but she could not identify where the sound was coming from.
Searching altogether, Crystal noticed that she was seated on her phone, which was under the sheets, she rose to her feet, taking the phone to hand over to her friend, and she caught a glimpse of the caller and it was none other than Jake.
Looking at the face that Crystal had on, Georgia could tell that there was something wrong so swallowing the lump that had formed in her throat, making the gulping of saliva difficult to go down, Georgia had a sweaty face and a skittish posture as she asked,
"Who is the caller Crystal?".
Crystal giving her an extended stare, handed over her phone saying it's Jake that was phoning.
Crystal loves her friend so much and could defend her anywhere and anytime, but she was also aware of the fallouts of interfering in a love dilemma as it was always disastrous.
All she could do was to advise her friend and leave the rest for her and her thoughts to decide on what is best or not.
Georgia peeping at Jake's name on her phone felt a rowdy resentment that she could not explain and she dropped the call looking at the end of her room breathing like a person who has been involved in a fistfight.
Crystal who kept on staring at her is her food like never before feeling the sweat running down on her friend's forehead, so she mumbled,
" Why don't you put on the air conditioner since you are roasting in here", Crystal's mouth made rousing noises that made Georgia look at her like she was a warlock.
Voices could be heard from Simons's room as he was in a heated argument with Becky, who had come to take her place.
"I will not let you be for any other woman Simon", she yelled out walking all over his room scattering his items on his table.
Simon, not knowing what today to her again as he had said everything he had to say to her.
Simon could not understand why a beautiful lady like Becky, will be making ridicule herself and behaving like she does not understand when a man doesn't have an interest in her anymore.
Pushing down his flat-screen TV, Simon could not control himself faced with this action, so he slapped her and Becky fell on the floor, holding her cheek like someone who has been hit with a mighty stone.
Getting up to her feet, she could not believe that Simon had slapped her as the shock was too much for her to contain.
With tears setting in her eyes, she asked,
" You slapped me Simon?", twitching like a leave that had been plucked out.
Simon, without any regrets about what had just happened, told her that he will
slap her again if she does not behave herself.
Becky could not withstand the slap as the sound of bells rang in her ear making her feel dizzy.
Holding on to the last thing she remembers before the heavy slap met her face joining her ear to it, she screamed out in pain and her telling Simon to be ready for what will come his way.
Simon who went back sitting on the couch looked at his hands as he had violated the promise he had made to his mother and that is to hit a woman.
Muttering in his seat, he felt bad for Becky for laying his hand on her but her nagging attitude and insecurities were driving him crazy.
Simon, taking up his head and glimpsing at Becky behave like a possessed woman in his bedroom, he could only imagine what he will go through in the hands of such a character if he ever listens to his Mother's plan of getting married to her.
To Simon, going out Becky was a huge mistake that he had done and that will take him some time to get out of as she was not ready to accept the fact that it was crystal clear over between them.
Taking up to himself and rising to his feet walking towards Becky to apologize, she was sobbing heavily on his bed and he sat on the bed by her and let out,
"I am so sorry for hitting you Becky, and I promise it will not happen again", Simone spoke out with regrets as he saw her in that state but his mind was made up not to have anything with her anymore.
Becky raised her eyes to look at Henry, she spat on his face telling him to go to hell.
Simon peered through his room and the thought of hitting her till she passes out, was inevitable in his mind but he had to hold his fists tight so as not to commit an error that he was going to regret.
Calming down himself like a man he got up from the bed and before he could lose his temper any further, he told Becky to get herself up from his bed and use the door before he does something they both will regret.
To the hearing of this, Becky laughed out loud like a conjurer that has been promoted to a higher rank of mysticism.
Simon, lifting his right hand and placing it on his chest, touched his heart from beating too fast, as he will not be able to control himself for long.
Becky raised a question about his sudden change and walking closer to Henry she interrogated,
" Are you doing all these because of Crystal?", she let out waiting behind him to listen to his answer as she was very certain that she was the cause of all these problems.
Simon kept quiet and walked away from her as he head for the door, but Becky was bent on receiving some beating that night as she ran to the door, closed it, and put the keys in her pocket.
"I will not let you out of my sight, you think I do not know that you are having an affair with Crystal?", Becky continued with her nagging and unfounded accusations.
It was very valid that Simon had strong feelings for Crystal since their school days and he had never had the aptitude of erasing Crystal's portrait in his head and heart, but what he was not sure of is whether or not Crystal feels the same way for him or not.
Simon just stood there looking at the kind of strange lady he had been with and his blood clot in his body for some seconds before beginning to flow through again normally.
Becky continued with her rankings and speculation telling him how she will never love someone like him, and that he could keep dreaming for the day when Crystal is going to look his way because it will never happen as she is a loose woman.
Those last words that came out of Becky's maw, drove Henry insane as he could not stand there and act silently any longer.
" What did you just say girl?, did you just call Crystal a loose woman?", What are you them?", Henry questioned Becky, walking closer to her and she was stepping backward with the anger that she could observe in Henry's orifice and the irritation in his vocalist.
Frightened by his animosity, Becky's lips shivered as she became conscious of what was going on.
Simon reminding her of who the loose woman is between Crystal and her interrogated Becky who the most brilliant one in their school days was, as well as asking her who is running matters that concern her family's business that she is treating her as being loose.
"Does crystal appears loose to you? does a loose woman behave, act, and dresses like her?", he proceeded with his phrases, and each word that came out of his mouth, hurt Becky so much as she realized that moment that Simon never cared for her and was never going to be able to love her.
Simon had always had high esteem for ladies including the ones that he had dated but Becky's stupidity, cheap nature, nagging and idiotic attitude could make him go mad.
She was constantly insecure whether because of Crystal or some other lady Simon was talking to and she always wanted to be around him, following him all over and monitoring who he talks with, observes, works, and sometimes where he goes.
As a man, Simon was feeling choked to have a partner who wanted to live in his skin and could not get a life for her.
Yes, she is from a super-wealthy family too and she has everything she could ask for but Simon also knows of a lot of ladies who are from more comfortable families with super hard-working skills.
All Becky ever wanted was to nag, control him, have sex, go out partying, ask when they will get married, and adopt and that was just the most terrible attitude he hated in her.
Becky's hatred for kids was something he could not get to explain in his life and her constant refusal to ever have them.
She started nursing the feeling of adopting a baby after a heated conversation with her someday and Simon told her to leave his life if she was not ready to be a mommy.
Gawking at Becky in front of him, Henry only had regrets for tasting so much of his time on a brainless lady like herself.
She was so beautiful on the outside but had nothing to offer to a man on the inside apart from her countless attitude and expenses.
Shivering like someone who has been through hell and back, Becky mustered the courage and voice to ask,
" Did you just rain all those insults on me because of Bethany?", she asked melting like ice cream on a cone.
Simon, extending his left hand at her, asked for the keys to his door as he wanted to leave the room for her.
Simon's mother who had just arrived at the house could give attention to the disturbance that was coming out of her house and from her son's room in particular.
Dropping her luggage downstairs as she was out of town for some days and returning home, that was what the welcome she got, she called out on the maids that had hidden in the kitchen from the voices that were coming upstairs.
"Clara, Milan, where are you ladies?", she called out their names waiting for them to come out.
On catching a glimpse of them both, she asked what was going on upstairs as the noise was getting too much.
" Who is causing this kind of commotion in my houses in such a calm and seen environment?", she raised a question as she was looking for her bag on the floor to search for her cellphone to call the police.
The maids shaking in fear informed her of what has been going on in Sir Simon's room right from the minute that Ms. Becky walked into the Mansion.
"Becky?", Simons mother asked in confusion.
Wondering why Simon and Becky could be fighting, she told Clara to take her baggage upstairs while she went in the direction of Simon's room.
Crystal had finished eating her food and she was feeling better than she did some moments ago.
She kept down her palate and emptied her glass of juice, she looked at Georgia who was making faces.
Finishing her drink and arranging her back on the beg as she placed some pillows while sitting upright for her good to digest, she consulted her friend to know what the matter was and she asked a pertinent question following the look on her face,
" Are you thinking about picking his calls, because if that is what is bothering you so much then you can as well do it?", she let out.
Georgia was surprised by what Crystal had just said and she got more furious with her.
"Is that all you are going to say to me Crystal?", she raised a question.
Crystal was aware that her question was going to irritate Georgia but she had to do it as it was so clear that she wished for the opportunity to talk with Jake and get hurt from the argument that they were going to have because comprehending Georgia, she will always want to talk about what she saw at his shack.
Crystal had dried her throat trying to make her friend understand that Jake had chosen his path and so she needed to choose hers but Georgia portrayed traits of excessive stubbornness, she did not want to let go of whatever she thought she is feeling for him.
Crystal peeking at her friend and wanting to console her told her to come to sit by her so that they could work something out.
Georgia behaving like a baby, came without her friend having to ask her again.
When Georgia was well seated on the bed and Crystal opening her arms so that she could get into them, she interrogated,
"It has been more than three times since you have experienced something like this friend, why don't you try to focus on something else other than these men who just spend their time hurting you?", Crystal spoke out as calmly as possible knowing that she was in a good position to talk to her.
Georgia, wiping her eyes, asked her friend what she can do to always be strong like her, as she had always realized that Crystal was constantly living in freedom and harmony.
Raising a question towards that angle, Crystal could feel her heartbeat so fast that she had to find her way to get up to her feet, sloping her friend to one side, she was on her talons caressing her hair as she moved all over the room.
Georgia had realized the change in her friend's attitude so she cleared her throat and asked,
" Is there something I am missing out on?", her face glittered with her brows raising in an up and down movement as she kept teasing at the end.
The blushing on crystals cheeks could be seen clearly though she tried her best to hide it from her friend.
"Oh my goodness, are you blushing Crystal?", Georgia screamed out in joy as she stood on her hoofs walking towards her friend to give attention to the gist that was going to drop on the ground.
Releasing a deep sigh, Crystal was aware that she was into a deep soup as Georgia was not going to leave that issue anytime soon.
Crystal was delighted that her friends had forgotten about her heartbreak for a moment, but thinking of the fact that she will have to narrate something that she does not know about was something that was going to be difficult.
" Bestie love, come and have a seat here and tell me who that lucky dude who has swept you off your feet is", she giggled in happiness shaking like a young girl who is been made advances for the first time.
Georgia was burning with passion to hear what Crystal had to say, but as always Crystal said she does not have anything to say to her apart from the fact that she has someone in mind.
Georgia stood up and climbed on her bed she danced with all her strength shaking her waist and body while making so much noise that she did not listen to Mirabelle's knock on the door.
Crystal watching how crazy her friend had become, got up from the couch and head to the door to open up for Mirabelle.
"Excuse Ms. Crystal, I am sorry to bother you both but I need to get the platter I left if you have finished eating off course", she spoke out reasonably.
Crystal letting her in told her not to be bothered by her mistresses behavior as she laughed out loud.