"Me! Me! Me! That's all you talk about! Who you talk about! What I did. How I ruined prince charming. Did you even care to ask me why I did it? You were right; I was fed up Rich. I wasn't happy, I felt choked! Did you know that? Did you care to know that? I got married to you at the age of nineteen. At that age, I was young and in love and thought the whole damn world was under my feet. That's not me anymore. That's never going to be me anymore. And you need to accept that and move on; cause I already did a long time ago" Viv shook her head, blinking back the tears she knew were close, coming down from all that high

"Wow" was all Rich got out, in the face of her outburst.

"We're friends now Rich. Business associates even. Please don't try to jeopardize that because of an already failed relationship" Viv said, reducing her voice to a whisper, biting her lip softly

"Friends huh? Since you've already acknowledged that we're friends, let's be friends with benefit then" a deadly twinkle evident in his eyes

"Friends wit benefit? Oh please Rich. I'm not exactly so sure we're that sexually compatible either. Cause I would have stayed. If not for any other thing, but for the sex in the marriage. We just don't fit. Sexually or otherwise. Now please let me go in and rest. It should be around 2am now and I've got a busy day tomorrow. Gotta be at court 8am prompt. I'm the judge presiding on a new case"

"Invite me in then"

"And Muslims could finally roast hotdogs for dinner. " she muttered sarcastically, rolling her eyes "listen, I'm not sure I can okay? I need to eat, bathe and sleep and not necessarily in that order"

"Well I'm not going anywhere until you invite me in. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. We either stay out here in the cold, or we both go inside, and you can treat me to that brilliant bottle of wine you promised me earlier"

"Fine. Come in then" she was honestly tired of arguing. Weak didn't come close to describing how she was feeling. She didn't even go with them for the breaking in operation. All she did was go to a ball and she was feeling this fucking tired? Men, she needed to see her doctor again. She opened the door widely enough for him to enter and then stepped in after him. They journeyed upstairs in a companionable silence, with Vivienne trying not to wake her house mates, Amelia in particular, who was probably already in bed by now.

She ushered him straight to her personal kitchen and proceeded to bring a bottle of wine out from the fridge, pouring a cup for him"

"Relax and enjoy yourself Rich, while I go bathe and freshen up. I'm gonna be back in a few minutes" pulling her heels right there in the kitchen, she began walking bare footed, out of the kitchen, through her corridors, with the huge dinner gown already weighing her down.

"No problem. Take your time" he chuckled out to her already retreated form

Soon enough, she got to her bathroom and started removing her clothing, piece by piece, littering them all on the floor around her and unpinning her hair, every other thing down to her jewelries, coming off too, all to pool on Mable glass floors. By the time she reached the shower stall, she was already sufficiently naked. She had a visitor waiting for her so she regrettably didn't have the luxury of time to treat herself to a warm jacuzzi bath. So she had to settle for showering. Pampering herself was going to have to wait till another day.

"Getting into the shower and closing the glass screen, she let the lukewarm water slowly cascade over her features, and her mind went back to the events of today as she gently lathered herself up with a sweet scenting lavender soap. The ball and what had happened, seeing a diamond so big, Ethan's words and predictions, and now Richard: her acclaimed ex, who was currently sitting at her kitchen counter waiting for her while she bathed. Today had generally just been weird. I mean life was so fucked up sometimes...

Viv strolled back to the kitchen thirty minutes later, her wet hair wrapped in a tight towel leaving just a few tendrils to frame her face; she wore comfortable bedroom slippers now and was presently donning on an apparently comfortable, red long shirt that stopped mid thigh. She had like five of these shirts. The blue, the white, the green, the red and the yellow. She used it to sleep, like a makeshift nightgown, not to mention they were crazily comfortable. Even when she wasn't ready to go to bed yet, she still loved wearing them. During the day, watching Netflix, breakfasts, lunch, dinners on days she decided to remain indoors... She loved them. Simple.

"You're still here" she smiled tiredly. Why wasn't she surprised? She thought

"I am"

Looking over at the counter, where he was seated, she saw a pizza box laying idle and raised a questioning brow.

"Oh I took the liberty of ordering us a box. To go with the wine I mean. You can come eat your share, I've take mine already. I hoped you would still like pepperoni just as much as you used to, all those years ago"

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