Out of Control

“What do you think?” Wanda said and dismissed them with a wave of her hand.

Nick saw where Wanda was sitting and approached her.

“Hello, Wanda,” Nick said and stood over her.

“Have a seat, Nick,” Wanda said wanting to get this over with as quickly as possible.

“Thank you,” Nick said and pulled out a chair. He wondered

where he should start. He sat there for a moment looking at the expressionless look on Wanda’s face. “I just want to start by sayin’ that I’m sorry.”

“You said that already,” Wanda said coldly.

“I know that.”

“Well what else do you have to say to me?”

“Come on, Wanda, you’re makin’ this harder than it already is,” Nick said and Wanda could hear the frustration in his voice, but she didn’t care. She wasn’t about to make this any easier for him.

“Look, Nick, I really don’t have anything to say to you.”

“Then why are you here?”

“I’m here because Mike said that I need to make peace with you. The same reason you’re here. Am I right?”

“Yeah, he called me too, but this is the conversation I was trying to have with you when you stormed out of Jackie’s.”

“I did not storm out of Jackie’s,” Wanda said angrily.

Nick smiled a little. “Yes you did, Wanda. You can’t sit there and tell me that you weren’t mad as hell when you walked out of that office. I’ve never heard Black yell at you. And then he didn’t take your side, come on, you’re in unfamiliar territory.”

“I don’t have to sit here and listen to you try to insult me, Nick,” Wanda said.

“Insult you? With what? The truth? I know that you’re mad at me and you have every right to be, but let’s be for real about this. Black has been protective of you since the day I met you. I still think the reason we got into a fight that first day was because he didn’t like the way I was looking at you.”

“Was not.”

Nick laughed at the way she said, was not. “Whether he did or not, doesn’t change the facts. That’s probably why you thought you could get away with this.”

“Why is that, Nick?”

“Because you thought he would take your side the way he always does.”

Wanda didn’t say anything, because part of her knew he was right. She was sure that if she had been given a chance to explain what she did and why she did it to Black on her own terms that he would have seen that she was right and the move had to be made.

“Nothing to say?”

“You’re doing all the talking.”

“I didn’t come here to argue with you. I just wanted to say that I’m sorry. Sorry about the way things turned out, sorry about where we are, sorry about Rain, sorry about everything.”

The mention of her name made Wanda’s blood boil. “Why her?”

“What?”

“Why her? Of all the women you could have had, why did you choose her to humiliate me with?”

“I never meant to humiliate you.”