100 Days With Mr Romero

MEMORIES TO FORGET

It was exactly 7pm and Gideon Romero held the glass of whisky firmly against his palms. If only he could have held unto his family as firm as this, then maybe they would still be together. Ryan wouldn’t be dead, Emma wouldn’t have left and Gideon wouldn’t look like shit. He honestly didn’t care how he looked at this a point. All he cared about was how many bottles of whisky he could drink to forget. He was on his second bottle and it was working hours. It’s the good thing he owned the company. He had specifically told Judy not to allow any visitors into his office, absolutely no one. He wanted to drink till he passed out. He was about pouring more whisky into his already empty glass when the door to his office opened.

“I thought I told Judy no one was allowed innnnnn” Gideon slurred, his eyes fixed on the glass cup.

“I’m not classified as anyone man, I’m your best friendddd” Roderick said mimicking Gideon. He was here for a reason. He had to get his best friend back, he was sick and tired of seeing him act this way. Emma was gone and that was it. He had to move on, there were countless women in this world. As for Ryan’s death, that was extremely terrifying. He loved that little kid and no parent deserved to lose their child. It was a pain Rick knew he wouldn’t understand but knew how unbearable it was nonetheless. Gideon still hadn’t looked up from his glass of whiskey and Rick used that opportunity to access him, his friend looked at absolute shit. Not the handsome billionaire that owned over 30 bars and clubs across the globe. Rick was more than a friend to Gideon, his brother even and as his brother he needed to help him get his shit back together, but first he needed to convince him to come downstairs to the bar. Rick was very much aware of the fact that Gideon had cancelled all appointments today even the one he so badly wanted to have since early August with Aria’s Whine and whisky. He had called the company back and apologized on Gideon’s behalf and the appointment was tonight. In less than twenty minutes.

“Your attention is needed downstairs man, stop acting like a pussy and come and handle business” Roderick started, trying to talk some sense into his friend. Gideon’s attention didn’t waver, he stared at the glass as though it was the most exquisite thing he had ever laid eyes upon.

“I cancelled all appointments today” Gideon tried to explain unaware that Rick already knew that. Rick knew what he was about to say would piss Gideon off, but he decided he would say it anyway. Yes yes yes, he knew he was going through a tough time but that was life, it would throw things unexpectedly your way and you just have to bounce back.

“I called back Aria’s company and you have a meeting with them downstairs in the next 20 minutes” Gideon finally looked up, his eyes bloodshot and clear irritation on his face. If Rick wasn’t his best friend he would have slapped the hell out of him, beaten him even. He was in no mood for a meeting especially not with Aria’s company, he was barely prepared.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

“I have all preparations in this file” Rick said as though he had read Gideon’s mind and dropped the file into his table. Gideon glanced down at the file then at Rick, his mind seemed to be in some sort of turmoil . Rick prepped him trying to make him see reason as to why he should have the meeting and he was able to win him over. The two friends headed down to the bar with ten more minutes to spare before the meeting would be held.

“So you never really told me what happened between you and Emma, I thought I was your best friend” Rick asked feigning hurt as the two friends sat at the VIP section watching as bar tenders poured glass upon glass of alcohol unto glasses and served them to people who had come to forget. Gideon sighed at the question how was he to explain that he cheated on Emma without any remembrance on how it had happened. Of course he had confronted Judy on it and she even swore she didn’t know how it had happened. She looked genuinely shocked when he had showed her the picture and honestly he believed her.

“I honestly don’t want to talk about it, I’m trying to forget not remember” Rick nodded his head in understanding and patted Gideon’s back as an indication that he understood. The two friends buried the matter and used the opportunity to catch up on each other’s life. They talked about their life’s before marriage, childhood experiences they could remember. The first time Gideon has ridden a motorcycle and fell off of it. They avoided conversations that brought up Emma or Ryan or anything related to them. Gideon just wanted to forget about the terrible pain he had been going through for over two weeks.

It was over twenty minutes when they both realized that the representatives of Aria’s company had not showed up.

“They must have been held in traffic” Rick voiced out, he had gone through a lot of enable that meeting got held, there is no way they could not just show up. In that moment, they saw Judy rush across the floor trying to get through the swam of people into the VIP section. After so many agonizing minutes later, she succeeded and passed the phone that went unnoticed unto Gideon mouthing the words “from the representative of Aria”. Gideon understood immediately and talked to the person on the other end. His facial expressions went from happy to confused to irritated and both Judy and Rick were curious as to why. Finally the call ended and all Gideon cared to tell them was

“We lost the deal”