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“That's good enough. Dad asked me yesterday if I wasn't sure you were gay. Phew.”
“You two sure have a lot of time for gossip on your hands. He hasn't called me all week. Does he even know I'm in Thailand?”
“You always travel all over the place; he stopped keeping track all the time. We all did, actually. And he knows you're busy; you know he doesn't bother you until the weekend.”
“Sure,” I replied.
“Alright, before we get distracted, tell me what's wrong. I'm excited, by the way. Can you tell I'm excited?”
“Stop.”
“Alright,” she replied. “I just wiped my mouth shut; you can't see it.”
“Um…” I didn't even know where to begin. I didn't even know why I was so mad at her. And that bastard, Felix.
“It wasn't her fault,” I said. “I mean, I know it wasn't her fault. And she knows as well, but... I got mad at her.”
“Okay,” Piper said, no doubt finding it very hard to understand what I was saying or even talking about.
“She was being harassed by someone else.”
“What?”
“Not fully harassed, just he was unrelenting in trying to get her attention, and she was obviously beginning to feel uncomfortable.”
“And let me guess, you punched his lights out?”
She laughed, and I remained silent until she realized that that was exactly what had happened.
“Oh no,” she said. “Hunter, you didn't.”
“I broke his nose.”
“Hunter!” she yelled. “Cool and all that, but Hunter! She must have been terrified.”
“Not terrified, just… this is why I'm mad at her. She tried to defend him.”
“What?”
“Not exactly defending him, she just tried to say there was a misunderstanding of some sort, but at that point, when she was so clearly uncomfortable by his advances, then why the hell would he even?—”
I stopped then as the answer hit me like a bag of bricks.
“What?” Piper asked. “You just realized something, right?”
“Yeah,” I replied and sighed. “I thought she was being too lenient and too nice by trying to come to his defense.”
“And now?” Piper asked.
“Well, now I know that what she was trying to do was to help me.”
“What do you mean? How was she helping you?” Piper asked.
“He's a business associate. We're currently exploring avenues in expanding into Asia, and this guy, in particular, has proved to be a helpful connection thus far.”
”Ah--,” she said. “But wait, she works with you? I thought you never did that? Something about clearly not mixing your personal and professional lives. Why did you change this?”
“I didn't change it.”
