Divorced, But Not Broken
Divorced, but Not broken Chapter 84

I was standing outside the house on the driveway. waiting for my uber seeing James still standing in the doorway, frowning when he knew that I was going out to meet up with Jonah's friends like he called them. But he got it all wrong, they where my friends too, and he didn't get it, me being friends with too younger guys, trust me I didn't get it either.

"You call me if you see him, right Andrea?!" He was half yelling it after me when I just turned and gave him a fake smile in return, I don't know why he was acting like this. We were friends and he wasn't my husband standing there being worried that I was going to cheat on him, eyeing my dress that was not showing under the coat, too short he had told me, it was just above the knee for God's sake.

"Relax James. Nothing is going to happen, Tom and Joseph are good guys, just like you are." He made a frown when I called him a good guy, always did.

He just crossed his arms harder and looked like he was thinking about following me, tell me to stay home for the hundredth time when I finally saw the car coming up and just waved at him when he was about to say something more, honestly, I didn't want to hear

it.

I was snapping Tom, and he was meeting me outside the place I never heard of, and I started to search for it making a big sigh, I had hoped for a restaurant, but it seemed that it was a bar of some kind... I guess that they thought a night of having fun was not just catching up having dinner, they wanted to get drunk, or at least Tom did.

I paid getting out of the car, seeing that it was just younger people here, making me even more not wanting to go inside, seeing that I didn't see Tom anywhere that son of a bitch.

The wind was making me cold when I looked around, having just the dress on that was not as good for warmth in the beginning of march. Making me avoided a drunk guy that was going my way, trying to start up a conversation I didn't want to have.

Where the fuck was Tom?! He better not have found some girl and decided to just dump my ass, then I was going to kill him the next time I saw his smirking face!

"Hi." I turned around, expecting another drunk guy only to finally relax seeing the trench coat and glasses on the hidden badass that was actually smiling at me, he did like me.

"Joseph, oh thank God!" I just made my way, hugging him hard and making him get stiff like he didn't do the same thing to me when he was drunk the last time, that a*****e.

"Andrea get a fucking grip, you are giving the impression that I care about p***y when I don't." He was whispering it my ear making me giggle without being able to stop, oh yes, I forgot about that part.

I just smiled at him stupid, and he rolled his eyes taking my hand like he was sick off waiting on me and just started to drag me inside, not that I was giving him much of a fight, I really wanted to get inside and not being turned to a corpse from the bitter cold still sweeping the streets.

It was a bustling bar where everyone was around their twenties making me start to realise that this was a place that was not meant for my age, a college bar probably when Joseph was still guiding me thought out the drunk kids that was around us.

I was just about to ask where Tom was when I saw him, sitting over by a table and just being surrounded by girls of different types, nerds, cute girls, slutty girls, they all wanted to pretend to hear what he had to say flexing his arms like he was fully aware that he could pick anyone of them and they wouldn't say no, ugh men.

I made a small frown when he looked up from the girl, he was talking to like he just realised that he was supposed to meet me outside, making his broad body stand up and looking at me slightly drunk and ashamed that he had forgotten about me, that idiot. "Oh fuck, pretty! I was just about to get outside, I promise!" he was staring me down when I just made a sigh, sure he was.

Joseph helped me take off my coat and raised his eyebrows like he hadn't seen it yet, that I was different, and I was expecting him to do the same thing that Tom did, check me out when he just made a frown like he wasn't approving making me do a sneer back, who the fuck needed his approval anyway?! I was f*****g hot and he knew it!

"Look at that, look at you pretty! fuck you are so f*****g hot these days! "Tom was clearly more drunk than before when I smiled back at him, looking at Joseph, see that wasn't so fucking hard to say wasn't it?!

He just made an eye roll and we walked over the last step; I wasn't sure how the hell we were going to fit seeing that the table was already filled with girls staring at me like I was going to get my a*s kicked for even walking over here.

"Okay girls, I'm sorry but I need the table, I love you all, but I need to talk to my bro here and my other bros girl so snap me and let's catch up." He was making them all leave when they just did it and I watched in amazement, maybe Jonah wasn't the only one with persuasion, but Tom didn't do it with dominance like he did, no. he was using his charm.

I was finally sitting down and had Joseph to my right when Tom just was smirking at me, staring like he still couldn't believe that it was me and not some other woman that was sitting there at the table, just waiting for someone to speak.

"Pretty... you are lucky that I think of you more like a sister because the way you look like these days, you are dangerously close to getting that offer back from the beginning..." He was smirking more when Joseph just scoffed and I made a giggle, shit he really was on a roll today wasn't he? not a trace of the serious boy sitting down and almost not being able to speak about what happened before.

"Yeah, go ahead you idiots. do that and Jonah is going to kill you, both of you and I wont help when he does it." I turned around surprised to Joseph stern look making Toms flirty face disappear and the heavy feeling of knowing that he was right just hugged me hard. He would do that, no doubt.

"Hey man, why the fuck do you have to say shit like that?! you know that I'm just talking for fucks sake! I like Andrea more than just fucking her, but that doesn't have to mean that I can't say that she looks fucking amazing, because she does!" Tom was sneering back, tipping back his beer when I just felt bad. he was trying to be nice, just like he always was, and I was stupid enough to believe that he was saying shit that he meant when he didn't.

"She always looked amazing you dickhead, even before she was blond and thin, you are just a shallow bastard." Joseph was smiling when I stared at him, blinking wildly, did he just call me pretty? Even before all this? What the f**k? He was the one that called me average and stupid, that's what I remembered.

Tom looked super guilty all the sudden making me feel bad too, this was not how I thought this night was going to be, the two of them talking about my looks, comparing the old me to my new one. making me feel even worse for some reason in the blue dress and light curls I had in my shoulder length blonde hair.

"Fine. I'm fucking shallow. I'm sorry Andrea, you did look beautiful before too, alright?" Tom was giving me puppy eyes, here in the crowded bar making me start to wonder if the hard lump in my throat was going to be there all night, just one nudge and then I would cry.

"Give it some goddam rest, you baboon...." Joseph was squeezing my arm when he wrapped his arm around my shoulders and made me feel better and I just smiled thankfully, him being the nice one, never going to get used to that. "Okay, lets just drink.... God knows I f*****g need it...." Tom was moving out from the booth and when I stopped him with my hand and made him look up surprised at my thankful smile.

"Tom, just... thanks....... I know you mean well...." I said that when he was getting up and walking over to the bar when he just made a charming smile at me that made me smile back more, oh he was such a flirt that one.

Joseph just made a small chuckle when he left us and he still had his arm around me when I turned my head against him and gave him a curious look, why was he holding onto me when he clearly could have let me go right away?

"Don't look at me like that, I'm using you, so you know. making sure not every f*****g bitch around this place comes breathing down my neck." He smiled more secretly when I made a giggle, always so f*****g calculating, would it hurt him to talk to some girls even if he didn't want them?

"What if a guy checks you out and you are holding me like this, and what if he is hot?" I wiggled my eyebrows when his face made a frown, like he hadn't thought of that and before I knew it, he had let me go, actually moving a few inches away, making sure that I didn't sit right next to him that asshole.

"He better be fucking hot Andrea...." He was mumbling making me laugh loud and pulling him along smirking, glancing at the bar where Tom was taking his time, probably talking up some girl, maybe this night wasn't going to be so bad after all.

That's when I saw him, making my stomach turned to a big knot, standing by the wall further back and jus stared at us, at me. Jonah.