Autumn POV:

As I'm walking out of my office building, I'm still thinking about what happened at the restaurant with Mattew and how Damian suddenly appears and what Mattew had to say to me, and the low blow comment he made.

I realize now that he's a piece of shit, and I still don't know how I didn't see that when I first met him.

But I can't dwell on the past and how many mistakes I have made, I have to move forward.

As I get into my car to go home, I quickly go on my phone to make a list of what I need to do when I get to my apartment. While I was making the list, I got a message from an unknown number and based on the wording and demand they had requested, I could tell who it was.

'Hey, We really need to talk'

Even though I stated that I wanted to be left alone and deleted his number from my phone, I guess he still has the drive to try to make me talk to him about whatever he wants to talk about.

I sigh as I toss my head back, I have made up my mind. I decided to give him one more chance, even though he doesn't deserve it, why not see what he wants so he can finally shut up and get out of my life, permanently.

I texted him back saying, 'Fine, where do you want to meet?'

After a few minutes, Matthew texted back saying we could meet at that same cafe where we saw each other that one day, but he was too scared and ran off.

I groan, dreading this, I know I shouldn't meet him at all, but if I don't see what he wants to talk about, then he may never leave me alone, probably even in my best moments.

Plus I don't want him to bother me and my relationship with Damian any more than he already has.

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As I parked in front of the cafe where we agreed to meet, I got a chill running up through my spine. Maybe it's that I'm nervous about actually getting what I wanted for so long, talking to Mattew and finding out what went wrong.

Or maybe something bad is about to happen and that would be my sign to drive off and disappear permanently from Matthew's life.

I can't tell.

I decided to suck it up and go inside the cafe. From there, I look around for Mattew, trying to see where he is sitting. After a few minutes of looking, I spotted him in a corner, his hand in the air, waving over at me, having a big ass smile on his face.

What does he want?

That chilling nerve has run up my spine again, now I'm really not sure whether or not I should even be here.

I slowly go over to where he is sitting, he has chosen a table with two seats, side by side, he probably did that on purpose. When I got over to the table, Matthew stood up from his seat, almost like he was going to greet me with a hug.

I dodge this by quickly grabbing the chair and moving it to the opposite side of his chair, from there I quickly sat down to avoid getting in physical contact with him.

My eyes were trained on the very interesting table as I heard Matthew let out a little scoff, but eventually he sat down, placing his hands in front of him.

A few awkward minutes have passed as the rest of the noise in the cafe was more entertaining to my ears, listening to people's conversations and what is going on in their life gives me nostalgia.

Being the shy high schooler who had her earphones in 24/7 does have its perks, people would talk about all the bad things they have done or the latest drama when the teachers weren't listening, but they think that you wouldn't care or you were not listening.

But secretly I enjoy it, it helps me by informing who to stay away from in high school.

I get back to the present by someone clearing their throat, I look ahead of me and Matthew is staring at me, waiting for my attention to be on him.

I took a deep breath and stared at him back, waiting for him to tell me what he wants or what he wants to talk about.

After a few more minutes of staring awkwardly at each other, I decided to start the stupid conversation. I should have learned my lesson, he is a coward at the end of the day.

"What do you want, Matthew?" I said tiring, while leaning my head against my hand where it sits on the table.

To this, he sits up straight, like he's happy that I ask him that question, I tilt my head at him, confused.

"What? I can't see a girl I've been in love with anymore?" He questions.

To this response, I squint my eyes at him, is he serious right now? He questioning why I'm questioning him about wanting to see me. Like everything that happened between us somehow doesn't exist in his mind.

The right side of my mouth twitches upward, indicating that I know I'm going to challenge him. Whenever someone acts clueless about a situation they cause, it opens a door for someone to question them and make them break a sweat and that's exactly what I'm about to do.

"You've been in love with me?" I ask, knowing how stupid he's going to look.

"Of course Autumn, you know me, I wanted to have a future with you and maybe possible children" He says, taking my hand and squeezing it.

Disgust fills me, how can he say all of that and then betray me in the worst way possible.

I go in for the kill, "So why did you cancel the wedding, and never even say a word?"

His small smile drops as he looks down in shame, knowing that he can't escape this, and the only way out is to confess about what happened.

"Autumn, come on, you know it's complicated"
"No, actually I don't, but instead of telling me, you just left like a coward" I huffed "And now, you expected me to be all nice and cool with it, I did so much for you and you are just going to use me like that"

He drops my hand, "If anything, you use me, the moment we broke up, you somehow got with a different guy, I can tell" He angrily said.

Is he serious right now, instead of owning up like an adult that he is, he is instead going to blame me and try to change the subject to my dating life, which is none of his business whatsoever.

"That has nothing to do with this and you know it Matthew"

"Maybe it does, I bet you were talking to this person when we were together, maybe you were secretly happy that the wedding has been canceled, you always know how to play your cards right Autumn" His hands balled into fists, clenching the table cloth.

My eyebrows rose, for him to even suggest that I cheated on him while we were together and while planning our future was insane.

This cafe meeting was getting me nowhere, this was a waste of time.

I know I shouldn't, but I decided to dip deeper.

"That's bold, coming from someone who canceled a whole wedding for no reason, and not talking about why, maybe you had someone else on the side that you see fit better"

"Autumn, you know that I only love you" He states as his face softens a bit.

I shake my head, becoming tired of his manipulative game. The whole reason I even agreed to meet was to finally find out the reason why he left and went radio silence on me.

I don't know what came over me but, I guess I was so tired of just trying to hang on to Matthew and believing that what he did was justified.

So many days, I would just sit in the shower and cry about this, thinking there is something wrong with me and why hasn't anyone told me why I was the problem. All they did was sugarcoat it and tell me over and over again that things will get better.

When I finally started to let Matthew go and focus on my future and what I want in my life, I have healed.

But now that Matthew is trying to enter my life again, I caught myself almost wanting to go back to him.

I refuse to let myself go again, I will not go back to the source of my pain and I will not let myself go back to square one.

I took a deep huff in as I stared wildly into Matthew's eyes, oh, to take that grin off his face.

"Why?" I said in a deep voice, feeling my eyebrows being pulled together.

"Why what Autumn?" Matthew asks, confused.

"You know what" I grabbed my purse, getting ready to leave if he doesn't tell me why, Matthew sees this and before he can say anything I interrupted him, "If you don't tell me why in the next ten seconds, then clearly you just want to waste my time"

"Autumn-" He started.

"The next words coming out of your mouth better be the reason why you did all of this" I warned him, shooting my pointer finger at him "And if you don't tell me right this second, I will leave and you will never see me again, and that is a promise"

Shock grew on his face as I threatened him, the only way out is to confess, that is the only way, and if not, he risks not seeing me, which I'm fine with, but I don't know about him.

"Please, just calm down-"

Before he even thinks about finishing that sentence, I move fast, getting up from my seat. While I can tell that Matthew is freaking out, I hear movement behind me.

Not even three steps away from the table, I felt a tug at my wrist, I look back and Matthew suddenly says as he looks back in shame, "I need a baby, Autumn"

What?

Matthew revealing part of why he needs to see Autumn, wonder what he could mean.

What do you think Matthew wants when he says that?

-Summer Roe