Asher
In all my life, I’ve never had a night like the one I had last night. I’m flooded with all kinds of emotions and happiness isn’t one of them. I mean, I’m not unhappy- I’m just not jumping for joy about what went down last night.
Any way you look at it, Liam is still my sworn enemy. After everything that he did, I just can’t see how we can be “together” the way Samantha wants us to be. I know last night the both of us did what we did but we did it because Samantha asked. She really believes that all three of us should be together.
I get out of bed and then notice Liam is awake. He gets out of bed too. I motion for us to go into the den area of the hotel room. Samantha is dead asleep but what I have to tell Liam, I don’t want her to hear.
I grab my pants and put them on. I see Liam’s pants on the floor, so I scoop them up and then walk into the next room and throw them at him. He catches them and puts them on.
“We need to talk,” I say.
“I agree.”
Liam goes to the kitchenette that’s part of the den and starts to make coffee.
“Hey, we need to talk now- before she wakes up. There isn’t time for coffee.”
“Sorry man, but that’s the way I roll. I don’t say or do anything until I have my caffeine.”
“Figures.”
“What are you saying?”
“Nothing.”
“Whatever man.”
Liam goes back to making coffee. It’s like he is taking his time loading the machine with a coffee pod and pouring in the water. It takes a few minutes, but the machine spits out his coffee. I have no choice but to watch the whole thing.
Liam puts creamer in his coffee with some sugar and then goes to sit across from me on the sofa.
“So, what do you want to talk about?”
“Look man, what happened last night? It can’t happen again.”
Liam blows on his coffee to cool it. He says nothing. Don’t tell me that he liked what we did last night? Satisfied that his coffee is cool enough, Liam takes a sip. I’m really bothered by his silence.
“Come on. She’s going to wake up soon and I don’t want to have this conversation with her listening.”
“And why is that?”
I shift in the chair. Liam wants a confrontation. Well, if that’s what he wants, then that is what he is going to get.
“I don’t like you.”
“Oh, that. Can’t you rise above it? This is really important to Samantha.”
“Look, I am obviously really into Samantha- but she’s gone too far. I don’t like you and therefore, I don’t want to have anything to do with you.”
“Hey, the feeling is mutual.”
“So, how are we going to convince Samantha that the only relationship for her is with one of us and not both.”
“Well, with me of course. A relationship with just me.”
“Man, you are full of it, aren’t you?”
“I’m just stating the obvious.”