Chapter 386 - All my friends are getting married (1)

10 May, LY Studio, City K

Lexi, looked across he desk at Sally, who was not leaving her alone, before saying "You have a job…"

"Lexi, you need support presently, and I can be here for you. Anyway, I spoke to my father, and before you ask, without getting into specifics of what is going on, and he has no problem with me taking time off presently."

"But I do not need you."

"Lexi, you are hurting. Not only because of how the truth has come out, but also Matthew's reaction. I do not blame you. Andrew and I spoke last night, and while I have my issues, they are mine, but he was right, your parents would never have let you marry Matthew if you told them he was Dominic's father. So do not blame yourself but be honest and do not blame Matthew. He was given so much to take in at once and what did you expect, he would simply accept everything without an issue. No matter the person, they will take time to process. That includes you, you need to work through what happened, but need someone to talk to. That is me."

"No it is not…"

"Matthew would be the best person, but he needs to be ready. And your brothers. Ha. Phillip has some awareness, but I know you and you do not want to unload on him, given his current cancer battle. Chester, he loves you and will do anything for you, but will not press too much because upsetting you and Matthew will impact on him and Phillip. And my husband…"

Sally paused and shook her head before saying "I love Andrew to bits, but when it comes to emotions, he has little idea. It took him years, and three starts and stops to our relationship before he had any idea about how he felt about me, but if John did not find us…"

"What!"

Sheepishly, Sally said "We forgot to tell everything. You know the day Andrew got caught with one of your cars…"

"I remember John earlier in the year calling me about one of them."

"Let me just say that it was lucky John did not locate us ten minutes earlier…"

"Uh-oh, that I did not need to know. No matter how much I love my cars, maybe I need to get rid of it."

Smirking, Sally said "I'll buy it. It will make something to reinforce the stories to our children. But we are getting side-tracked. Even then, I still had to work on Andrew to get him to realise what his emotions were. If he can avoid them, he will, hence why it took us so long to get to where we are. He would have no way to understand you. And let us be realistic, men…"

Lexi gave a stilted laugh. Sally looked at her and waving her tablet "I have things to do, and are ready when you want to talk, but I will not be leaving you alone today…"

"Alone. Never. I have all my staff is out there who are family."

"Lexi, you may consider them your family, but in truth you pay their salary, I am your family."

Before Lexi could retort, the phone on her desk rang and she answered it quietly saying after listening to the messages "Show them in."

Sally looked at Lexi, wondering what was going on. When they had spoken before sending Dominic to school, she had no appointments. As she watched the door, Lexi stood up and she noticed Joan walking in behind a man. Sally racked her mind before realising that the man was David Hwang. The meeting she had with him and his team when they pitched for upgrading Nang Enterprises. There was just something about him that made her feel uncomfortable, but she was never able to work that out.

Lexi moved over and kissed Joan on the cheek and shook hands with David Hwang, before directing them to the sofa beside the chair Sally was sitting on. As they sat down Lexi said, "I was surprised to get your text Joan, what can I do for you."

Silence ensued, and Lexi noticed David Hwang carefully pick up Joan's right hand from her lap, and gently rubbed her palm, drawing her to look at him. It was like some unknown message passed between them before Joan quietly said "David and I have gotten engaged and have set a wedding date of the 28th of June. We have been talking, with David trying to convince me to look to an overseas designed for my dress, but I convinced him that if you could do it, I would love you to design my dress for me."

Sally, in shock spat out "Married! He was just recently chasing after Abigail Mo. He is just using you Joan."

Lexi watching them, noticed Joan, squeezed David's hand, as if to forestall his reaction before saying "Sally, shut up. You know nothing."

"I know you Joan, and this is nothing like you."

Lexi noticed Joan tense, before David Hwang responded in a menacing tone "I hate people disrespecting my fiancée, but as you are a friend, I will give you this one warning. Do it again, and you will not like the consequences."

Seeing the look David Hwang gave Sally, Lexi was glad that she did not respond as she had thought. There was something about this…

"Sally," came the angry retort from Joan. "Shut Up. Respect my choices or otherwise our years of friendship will mean nothing."

Sally sat there; mouth opened. Lexi watching this wanted to laugh as much as she could remember Joan never reacted like that with friends. That told her all she needed to know; this relationship was incredibly important to her. That made her think about designing for Joan.

Note that the title for this chapter was inspired by the Australian Band Skyhooks song by the same name

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