Anger and Calm


    “What about what she said in particr?” Ace asked as if he didn’t understand the point of my


    question.


    “Everything. Everything that she said. Every…little and huge ass thing that she said,” I replied through


    gritted teeth.


    Ace seemed surprise at how much my anger was showing and I was surprised at how he didn’t seem


    to realize just how angry I was. Regardless, Ace remained just as calm as before.


    “I think she said some strange things and some of that must have bothered you. She can take her


    jokes a little too far but I’m sure that she doesn’t mean any real harm. If you’re upset, I can apologize in


    her ce,” Ace told me before smiling a little at me.


    I gasped at his words especially the part where he was going to apologize to me on her behalf. It never


    urred to me how we could misunderstand each other this badly. I thought that Ace would surely


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    understand what I thought and how I felt.


    “I don’t need you to apologize in her ce. I don’t even want an apology from her. I just want to know


    why you allowed a dinner like that to happen? What with all the things you said about wanting me to


    learn from her and getting better acquainted with her? It just doesn’t make any sense to me and it’s


    driving me mad,” I confessed honestly as I started to lose my head.


    Ace listened to me vent my anger in silent without taking his eyes off of me. I took a pause as I


    struggled to catch my breath. Ace was silent for a moment as if waiting for me to continue and that was


    exactly what I did.


    “I felt so horrible all throughout the dinner, didn’t you realize that? I couldn’t wait for it all to be over and


    done with, so that we could just go home. I hated everything that she said to me, and I don’t even


    understand why she seems to hate me so much. I also hated that she seems so close to you…” I


    blurted out so fast that I had to pause again to catch my breath.


    To my surprise, Ace still seemed veryposed as he listened to mein on and on about all that


    I had suffered during the dinner that we just had. My shoulders trembled and then my entire body


    seemed to tremble as well. It felt like I was about to burst into tears, but I didn’t want to cry. I felt too


    angry to let any tears out.


    “How dare she say those things to me like that?” I spat before I ground my teeth together in my


    frustration.


    I could feel Ace’s eyes on me and when I looked up, our eyes met. His hazel brown eyes didn’t betray


    any emotion and I wasn’t sure what he was thinking about what he was seeing and hearing from me. I


    closed my eyes and took in a deep breath before letting it out. I repeated that a few times as I


    desperately tried to calm myself down.


    “Do you feel better now?” Ace asked after giving me a moment topose myself.


    “Yes…a little…” I replied truthfully.


    Letting it all out honestly made me feel slightly better but that did not mean that I had forgiven Elizabeth


    and Kyle for turning up out of nowhere to ruin the date that I had nned with Ace or all the insensitive


    things that she said to me all throughout dinner.


    “Some people are like that,” Ace said softly before he shrugged like it couldn’t be helped.


    “What?” I asked in a shocked whisper.


    “Elizabeth can be a horrible person just like you’ve witness for yourself tonight. Unfortunately and for


    reasons that I don’t understand, there are people like that in life and you’ll end up meeting them. If you


    think Elizabeth is the worst, you can think again. You’ll run into difficult situations that you want to get


    out of, but you can’t, or at least, not immediately,” Ace said while still sounding very calm.


    I had no idea why he was lecturing me about life and its difficulties at this point in time and his calm and


    mature attitude truly got on my nerves. All the things that he said didn’t quite match up with what I


    wanted and expected to hear from him. Why couldn’t he just say that it was unfair that I had to take that


    and that he promise that it would never ever happen again?


    Instead of reassuring me, he was calming telling me that there are much worst people out there and


    that things like this might happen again. He may be right but that wasn’t want I wanted to hear at that


    moment.


    “Why are you saying this?” I asked as I held up a hand in front of my chest to gesture for him to halt his


    words.


    I held up my hand as I closed my eyes for a brief moment because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to hear any


    more from him. My emotions were a mess and I felt like the smallest thing could trigger an


    unreasonable emotional breakdown that I wasn’t sure that I wanted Ace to witness.


    “Because you’re supposed to be learning from this experience rather than crying and screaming over it,


    Rina. People will say unkind things to you, and you have to learn various ways to deal with it. I’m not


    saying that what Elizabeth did was the right thing to do and it’s not wrong for you to feel the way you do


    either,” Ace said before he smiled at me and nodded his head to show me that he understood how I


    felt.


    “I don’t know. I just…I just hated it…” I muttered while feeling as irritated as before.


    “You’ve been quite concern about the time that I spend with Elizabeth so I figured that if you’re so


    concerned about it, you should get used to seeing her,” Ace exined.


    --To be continued…