Unaccepted Flowers

I was running late for work, I don’t know how it happened, but somehow the whole apartment building I lived in had lost power so my phone never charged during the night and my alarm never went off.

It also didn’t help that Emery and Sutton had been over late last night, they had pulled me out of my head and made me realise that things had meant to happen and if Spencer and I are meant to be together we will find each other again.

I hastily opened the door, leaving my apartment and almost got hit in the face by the delivery guy standing on the other side.

“Adrianna Innocenti?” he questioned, shocked at first, but put his hand back down at his side

“That’s me” I replied and he handed over a slip for me to sign, I did and then he bent over and picked up this large bouquet of flowers and my god they were stunning, I took them off him and thanked him heading back into the apartment to look for a vase to put them in.

Once they were sitting on the kitchen table I pulled a card hoping they were from Spencer, Spencer had always been one to surprise me with stunning bouquets like this and I just hoped this was his way of reaching out to me but instead I read the card and knocked the vase off the kitchen table before storming out of my apartment deciding to clean it up once I finished work.

I didn’t know who I was annoyed at my mother, myself or Nathan. The flowers had been from him and I didn’t know of my mother had given him my address of if she had organised the delivery herself but either way I was annoyed at myself for thinking that Nathan would leave me alone.

I made it to work and wasn’t exactly surprised to see Harvey sitting in my office, he was one of the senior partners and I had a meeting with him this afternoon about the case I was helping him with. Normally he showed up in my office earlier than expected when something was pushed back, I guess today was one of those days.

“You’re late Adrianna”

“I know and I’m sorry Harvey, I didn’t have the greatest morning but our meeting is this afternoon. Can you get out of my chair?” I raised an eyebrow at him and he eventually stood up and held my chair out for me.

I took a seat and placed the files I had in my hands on my desk before looking at him, wondering when he will explain why he was here in my office first thing in the morning.

But he didn’t speak, he just took a seat on the other side of my desk. “What are you doing here Harvey?”

“Our meeting has to be moved”

“When?”

“As soon as possible” I let out a sigh, everything was as soon as possible with Harvey but that was why he was so good at his job, he was the best and there was a reason he always came to me. I was able to do his requests whenever he wanted

“Alright I need some time to go over my files and make sure everything is finished”

“That’s fine Adrianna, I will see you in the conference room in an hour?”

“Of course” I gave him a smile as he got up and left me in peace in my office.

Where I worked was the once place I knew my mother couldn’t find me here, I never got around to telling her where I worked. If I was telling the truth she never really cared to ask where I worked, she wanted me to be the perfect house wife but I was more interested in a career.

My meeting had just finished with Harvey and it went well into our lunch breaks that he had sent his assistant to go and get us some lunch so we could have something to each now that we had finished.

“Can I ask your advice Harvey?” he was looking over the files and I was hoping he had some insight into the whole Nathan thing.

“Depends how much trouble are you in?” he had a smirk on his face

“None but how much experience do you have with sexual assault cases, restraining orders and the like?”

“I’ve had the cases but it’s not something I work with, it’s more Carmen’s area of expertise Adrianna”

“Yes but I not Carmen’s biggest fan…” I trailed off while grinning at Harvey.

Carmen was a junior partner and Harvey was the reason why she didn’t like me, they both asked me to help them with cases but Harvey’s was more urgent so I spent more time on his case and Carmen’s got pushed aside.

“Alright fine I give, what is going on?”

“What would it take to have a restraining order put back in place after it’s been ended for some time?”

“It would depend on how long it’s been since it ended, I haven’t looked at one of those in a long time I would have to look into it again or you could do it on your own. It could be something as simple as him trying to contact you or something as extreme of him assaulting you again. What is going on?”

“Just someone from my past for now it’s been quiet for years but all of a sudden a received a letter from him a couple of weeks ago and then this morning flowers turned up from him. I want to get this nipped in the butt before it gets worse”

“Very well, you work in a law firm with access to this stuff. You are more than welcome to look into it yourself and if anything needs to be done I will help in any way I can”

“Thank you Harvey, it means a lot” he nodded at me as he stood up to grab the Chinese food from Wendy his assistant

Break-ups

“Do you think she is alive?” I heard Emery’s voice

“I don’t know, I haven’t heard from her in a week. I wonder if she’s actually going to work” and there goes Sutton.

I groaned before placing the pillow over my head and rolling over.

“She is probably hung over, did you not see the empty bottle of scotch on the table”

“Go away” I finally spoke but I didn’t look at them

“Come on Dri it’s been three weeks, you can’t keep moping in your bed. Are you even going to work?” Emery spoke and I finally sat up and looked at them both, I could tell they were worried.

They both sat down beside me on the bed and I finally spoke, “of course I’ve been going to work, I would have been fired and then I would have more problems to deal with. Oh and just so you know, I didn’t drink the scotch last night. It’s been the last few nights”

“We’re just surprised you drank it, you never drink that scotch” Emery was right, I rarely touched my 18 year old scotch. It was the last thing I got from my dad and I didn’t want it to be empty but now it was and I didn’t know what to think.

“Em is right Dri, Spencer broke up with you three weeks ago. You need to stop moping around, get out of your bed and shower because we have plans with the girls tonight” at Sutton saying that Spencer broke up with me I broke down in tears again.

I still couldn’t believe he did it, everything seemed fine before he said it hell I wasn’t even sure if what he said was us actually breaking up. I haven’t tried to contact him and he hasn’t tried to contact me, I knew Emery wouldn’t be giving him updates at work but something was telling me that Sutton was filling in Alex and he was passing information on to Spencer and I wondered if he cared at all.

“Dri what actually happened with Spencer?” I shook my head not wanting to tell them, I hated thinking about it.

I had come home from work early one day because I wasn’t feeling well, I was allowed to given that I completed my work over the weekend and I agreed because it wouldn’t be a normal weekend if I didn’t. But instead of coming home and enjoying a nice hot bath I found Spencer in my room clearing out his things, I stood there in shock staring at him, I couldn’t even question what he was doing.

All he had to say to me was that he didn’t know how to be there for me through everything with Nathan, he couldn’t sit there and watch me break down and not know how to fix it. He kept saying he couldn’t give me the support that the girls could offer.

I was finally able to speak and I told him all I needed from him was for him to be there but he just replied saying he didn’t know how and that he was giving me my space. After he left I just collapsed to the floor and broke down in tears.

“Come on Dri, tell us what happened. You never keep secrets from us, we have always been there for you”

In the end I gave in and told them what happened with Spencer, they were just as shocked and confused as I was and didn’t know how to explain what he meant by it, even Emery who spent more time around Spencer than I did due to the both of them working together.

“So what you came home from work and found him packing his shit?” Sutton questioned while she got up and grabbed some sodas from the fridge.

At some point during the explanation we had moved from my bedroom into the living but none of this was able to clear my confusion, I was still just as confused and hurt.

“Yeap, he couldn’t even give me a proper reason. He just kept saying that he couldn’t be there for me”

“That’s bullshit, I’m going to have a word with him on Monday” I starred at Emery, she couldn’t be serious.

“No way, you are staying out of this Em! I know you will find a way to insert yourself in to this issue, the only reason I know Sutton won’t is because of her relationship with Alex” I shook my head before leaning back on the couch and staring at the ceiling.

“Dri…” Emery tried to reason with me but I put my hand up

“Don’t, please promise me you will stay out. Spencer will just think I sent you in to try and find out information for me”

“Fine…” Emery eventually gave in to my request even though I could tell she wasn’t happy about it. “How is the whole thing with Nathan going? Please don’t tell me he has turned up here”

“No he hasn’t thank god, I don’t think my mother has stooped that low yet but she had numerous comments on how we are just perfect for each other whenever I actually answer the phone” I put on the fake voice I perfected to imitate my mother and both of the girls laughed at it

“Does she know about you and Spencer?”

“God no, it was the only thing both Spencer and I agreed on. Until Nathan is gone and out of the picture completely my mother is not too know about the break-up”

There was a deafening silence after my comment and none of us knew what to say after my mention of the break-up. “He must still care about you to be willing to protect you” I looked at Sutton and tried to so hard to keep the tears away.

“But not enough to stay by myside throughout all this Sut, I understand he doesn’t know the whole story and it’s probably my own fault for not telling him everything but I have you two and he knows that. When that first letter turned up he was surprised that I didn’t call you two straight away”

“Why?” Emery questioned

“Because he knows that when it comes to Nathan, I run straight to you two”

“I guess, look we can stay in tonight but we will get you out on a girls night eventually, maybe what you need is to find some hot guy to help distract you” Emery suggested and I agreed knowing I would not be able to get out of it any time soon.

Confusion

It has been a week since the letter from Nathan turned up and a week since I had seen Spencer, sometimes this was normal for us. Spencer would be busy with work, I would be busy with work or sometimes we would be busy with our own friends. It was fine, we both agreed it was normal and if it happened then we would deal with it.

But this time it felt different, it was almost like he was avoiding me. I didn’t know if I was overanalysing everything because of the letter from Nathan but there was something in the back of my head telling me that Spencer didn’t know how to be supportive over this whole Nathan thing. The whole time I’ve known Spencer I haven’t heard a word about Nathan, yes my mother would bring him up over dinner when we went out there but other than that it was silent.

So tonight I decided to turn up and surprise him, I came home from work showered and got dressed putting on the lingerie I bought earlier in the week as well as the tight red dress that he loved seeing me wear so much and Sutton hated that I hadn’t gotten rid of it yet. Once my hair and make-up was done I headed down to the street and hailed a cab handing over Spencer’s address.

When I entered Spencer’s apartment I could hear him talking and just assumed he was on the phone, I put my bag down and headed towards the back and I found him sitting in his office with his back to me. I leaned against the door frame hoping to surprise him when he finally turned around.

When Spencer spun around on his chair he was shocked at seeing me there and I smiled at him, “Sorry Alec I’ve got to go, I’ve got a smoking hot girl standing in the doorway” my smile grew at that

Alec must have said something causing Spencer to laugh, “oh of course Dri doesn’t know about the girl” he winked at me and I knew Alec was teasing him.

Alec and Spencer were best friends, I swear those two can’t go a week without seeing each other but Alec had always made jokes at Spencer about how I was too hot for him and I would have to be an idiot if I didn’t say those jokes didn’t make me feel more confident.

“So what do I owe the pleasure of this visit, surely you know what that dress does to me” Spencer spoke as I walked closer to him once he got off the phone.

“I haven’t seen you in a week” I spoke softly before leaning over and softly kissing his neck

“I’ve been busy with work, I still am busy with work babe”

I stood up and reached around to grab the zipper of the dress and undo letting the dress slip to the ground, Spencer’s eyes went wide at the sight. “Are you still busy with work babe?”

Spencer leaned his head back on the chair and a groan of frustration came out, I took the hint and picked up my dress putting it back on.

“Babe come back here” Spencer finally spoke when I was at the door to leave his office, I turned and looked at him but didn’t move closer to him. “I’m sorry alright, give me an hour to finish up and then I’m all yours”

“No it’s fine, I will go and you can just call me when your finished being busy” I spoke but didn’t move from the doorway, Spencer must have realised this and he stood up from his desk and made his way over to me.

He stopped in front of me and placed a hand on my neck, “Adrianna, I’m sorry alright but work has been hectic. Normally you have no problem with this, what’s going on?”

“Nothing…” I trailed off but he didn’t question it, he just softly kissed me.

“Look I promise, only an hour. There is wine in the fridge…”

“Why is there wine in the fridge?” I cut him off and I knew how it came across and it shouldn’t have come across that way. I didn’t mean to accuse him of anything

Spencer ran a hand through his hair dropping his other hand from my neck, “if you stopped jumping to conclusions and let me finish. I was saying there is wine in the fridge, I was planning on inviting you over for dinner tomorrow to make up for not seeing you all week. I saw the bottle the other day and grabbed it, it’s been in the fridge ever since”

“I’m sorry babe”

“It’s fine honestly, an hour is all I need I promise” I nodded and he kissed my forehead before turning around and heading back to his desk, I stayed there for a couple of moments smiling at him and I didn’t leave until he looked up from his paperwork and raised an eyebrow at me.

I left and headed towards the kitchen and opened the fridge shocked at the wine in there, it was my absolute favourite. We had it at his sister’s wedding a year ago and I fell in love with it, I asked her what the wine was and when I found it in the store I decided I didn’t love it that much and decided to stick to my much cheaper options.

Spencer stuck to his word and an hour later he joined me out in the living room saying he will sit through any movie I wanted but we barely made it 30 minutes in until we were heavily making out on his couch.