Autumn POV:

Being with someone completely different can change your perspective on things, especially relationships– for example, if you're so used to doing one certain thing all the time with someone then you get with a different person and you no longer do that, it changes your view on relationships.

That's what I learned when I started a relationship with Damian, it was so different then what I was used to, but I'm not complaining, ever since we went out on that date and made the relationship official that same day, I felt even more comfortable and happy.

Our relationship is just like any other relationship, we check up on each other, we visit each other whenever we can and we listen to each other vent when we need to.

Damian Piere is a wonderful person to be with, he's caring, and lovely, I don't know how I didn't meet him before, but I guess the universe wanted us to meet each other in our somewhat lowest points of life a few months ago.

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Right now, I am currently walking to Damian's job as we agree to head back to my place to chill after he gets off of work. When I walk in, and the host lets me follow them to my table, I notice someone familiar, when I walk past them, that's when I see him again.

Of course, Matthew had to be at the same place and the exact time I'm here, it's like the universe wants to torture me with Mattew's presents.

I pray to god that he won't notice me and just eat his food as fast as possible and leave.

When I'm seated at my table, of course– he looks up from his phone at me, I quickly look down to avoid his eyes, but I can feel his eyes burning into my skull.

I kept my eyes down as I hoped that he would stop looking at me, I briefly looked up and I gasped silently, as he's standing over my table right now, looking down at me.

A cold sweat sweeps across my body.

I held his gaze for about a minute, he looked like he's going to say something but no word came out.

"What do you want Mattew?" I finally asked, breaking the tense silence.

Without even asking, he pulls out a table across from me and just sits down, not even asking if I wanted him to sit there.

"I need to talk to you" He says firmly.

My eyebrow knitted together, is he serious right now? First he canceled our wedding and doesn't talk to me without a reason, then he ghosts me. Then instead of him, his mother brought back my stuff and whenever we did see each other, he just left without saying anything.

Is he actually serious right now?

Does he really think he's going to easily talk to me? After doing all that to me, the pain that he caused me, crying myself to sleep every night for weeks, wondering what I did wrong.

As he waits for me to answer, his hands are clenching together, his knee is bouncing up and down, I have known him for quite some time to know what he's feeling.

He's nervous, he's nervous at the fact that what he did was wrong, knowing he purposefully avoided me, knowing he is going to be confronted about all the shit that went down between us.

I can't make someone marry me, I know that, but Mattew leading me on, making me think we were going to have a good life together, and then just leaving me altogether is what I'm mad for.

At this point, it's useless, I don't want to hear him out, I don't care what happened, I just want to move on with my new relationship and my life.

"No" I said.

"What?" He asks, staring blankly at me, acting like he has never heard the word no before, which is probably the case with his parents.

"I don't want to talk to you, not now, probably not ever" I replied.

"Autumn, this is important"

"I don't care, our wedding wasn't that important if you canceled it the day before" I snapped.

He tried to reach out to hold my hand, but I quickly moved it away, hoping he could get an idea and just leave me alone.

"Please Autumn, just a minute of your time" Mattew begged.

"No Matthew, just leave"

Then I noticed something, not one time when he had so much time to talk to me when I was thinking, he didn't even say 'I'm sorry', not apologizing for the way he made me feel was saying a lot about him.

It seems like he didn't care one bit.

I was going through so much when he broke up with me, and while I was going through so much, crying and being locked away in a room for so long, he was probably being happy and doing whatever he wanted without a care in the world.

And now he wants to talk to me, all of a sudden.

I had enough of his games.

When I looked back into his eyes, they seemed genuine, but knowing him, he can't be trusted.

"Mattew, I don't want to talk to you" I firmly said "Please leave me alone"

"This is really impor-"

And before he can finish his sentence, someone comes up behind him, I look up and it's Damian. He has an apron on, indicating that he is in the middle of cooking something and he's staring down at Matthew in confusion.

As Matthew abruptly stops his sentence, noticing that I wasn't looking at him anymore, he turns in his seat and stares up at Damian, almost giving him a challenging look, then he stands up from his chair, coming face to face with Damian.

I don't know why he is acting like this, he hasn't even met Damian.

"Is there a problem here?" Damian asked, looking between me and Matthew.

As I was about to answer, Matthew answered instead, "We're fine, thank you" saying it in a dismissing way.

"Well, I can't help but overhear, but she restated to you to 'leave me alone', so I would suggest that you leave and not cause any more trouble for yourself"

"Listen buddy, it's none of your damn business, we are working out something that has nothing to do with you" Matthew aggressively said while pointing his finger.

"Matthew" I said, stepping into the conversation, "We're not talking, I asked you over and over again to leave me alone"

"Matthew" Damian whispered under his breath, then his eyes went a little bit wider as he suddenly came to the realization that this is who I was supposed to be marrying, the person that pushed me to go to the beach that night when I needed to calm down.

When I talked about Matthew to Damian and just ranting out my issues with him, I would have never thought that they would meet each other, even though Matthew doesn't know who Damian is in my life but I'm not planning on telling him.

Damian looks at me as I'm still sitting down, almost questioning the entire situation. I gave him a weak head shake, hoping that he could tell that I didn't plan to speak to him, he hummed under his breath as he returned his stare into Matthew's eyes.

"Listen, there is no problem whatsoever, we are just having a discussion, and things got a little heated, but we're fine now" He said as he looked at me, hoping that I would play into his little games.

But enough is enough.

I slowly rise up from the table, my chair scraping against the floor. By this time, mostly the whole restaurant, including the staff, is staring in our direction, wondering what the commotion is all about, but trying to not make it obvious that they are being nosy.

"Matthew" I warn, "I said multiple time to leave me alone and you just not getting the message"

"You weren't saying that when you begged me to talk to you for weeks"

That one hit me, hard, such a low blow–knowing full well he is the reason why all of this is happening, knowing why I was calling him constantly, and for him to push it back into my face is showing that he does not care.

He must have noticed what I was thinking because his face turned from mad and demanding to regretting but it's too late.

He said what he needed to say.

"You need to leave Matthew" I said as I looked over to Damian, he gave me a nod as he turned to Matthew, and gave him a final warning look.

Matthew must have realized that he can't argue his way into talking to me or staying in the restaurant any longer– he aggressively grabbed his stuff and scoffed over his shoulder as he proceeded to march out of the restaurant.

I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding, my nerves are somewhat settling down as I practically threw myself down back into the chair.

Damian is still standing above the table, looking out at the door, probably thinking about what just happened.

He then turns to me, "Are you okay" he gently ask "I mean that had to be nerve wrecking"

I give him a tight smile, "Yeah, I'm fine just confuse at most"

"You can go home and hang at your place another time" He suggested.

"No, no I'm fine, it's not a big deal" I reassure him.

"Okay, if you're sure" He says as he gives me a warm smile and returns to the kitchen to finish what he was doing.

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As me and Damian are now in my apartment, watching a movie and enjoying each other presence and the silence, I can't help but wonder what Matthew had to say to me, maybe he finally came to apologize or maybe he would confess that he may a mistake, all though– I highly doubt that both theories would be the case.

I know that I should focus on my current relationship with Damian and myself, but in the very back of my mind, I am still wondering what Matthew would say if I had given him the chance to say what was so important.

Matthew wanting to talk to Autumn...ew.

What did you guys think about this chapter?

Will Autumn seek out what Matthew had to say?

-Summer Roe