Worried

"What's wrong Dom???" asked Lia as she turned to look at Dom.

"You seem to absent minded, and something is bothering you" said Lia.

"It is nothing Lia, really" said Dom as he looked up from his laptop and he looked at Lia who was sitting down on the couch as she looked at him.

"Oh I know!!" said Lia.

"You must be tired of working all day" said Lia as she smiled.

"How about we go and eat dinner" said Lia.

"But it's only 4pm Lia" said Dom as he looked at his watch.

"Yes I know, but an early dinner never killed anyone??" said Lia as she smiled brightly at Dom.

"Mhmm, you sound very convincing, but no Lia, I cannot go out right now" said Dom as he looked back at his laptop and he began to type something.

"Oh come on Dom, pleaseeee" said Lia as she pleaded with him.

"Pretty please, let's go out for dinner, just for today, I am very bored, and I don't want to go out and eat alone" said Lia.

"Then don't" said Dom as he looked at Lia.

"Oh come on Dom, please, who else would I go out with if not for you??" asked Lia.

"Well we have Nine, Charlie, Michael, and Natasha" said Dom as he smiled at her quickly and then he went back to seriousness.

"Oh come on, Nine has been in a sour mood as always" said Lia.

"Charlie and Michael, well those two are something else on their own" said Lia.

"Natasha always tells me that she's busy when I want to hang out with her" said Lia.

"So you are the next best thing" she said as she smiled.

"Miss Cecilia Thomas, if I did not know you as well as the back of my hand, I would have thought that you did not purposely make sure that no one else was available, before you came straight to me" said Dom as he sighed.

"Okay, I cannot lie to you Dom" said Lia.

"I came all the way here so we could go out for Dinner together" said Lia.

"So pleaseeeeee let's go out" said Lia.

"I am sure that leaving your work just for today will not kill you" said Lia and Dom eyed her.

"Oh come on Dom" said Lia.

"Is this the face of a person that you would say no to??" asked Lia as she smiled very innocently.

"Yes... yes it is" said Dom and Lia pouted.

"You are so annoying and unfair" said Lia as she pouted.

"Well then I guess that if I am so annoying, you will get angry and leave" said Dom.

"Never in your wildest dreams!!" said Lia quickly, she was going nowhere at all.

"Of course" said Dom as he laughed and he used the intercom in his office and he picked up the phone.

"Hello, please cancel all my appointments for the rest of today, I am going out" said Dom as he spoke to the person on the other side of the line.

"Okay Sir" said the secretary as Dom ended the call.

"There, we can go out now" said Dom as he turned to look at Lia as he placed the phone down.

"Oh Yayyyy, I knew that you would never disappoint me" said Lia as she laughed.

"I could give you a kiss right now" said Lia as she smiled and she stood up and walked over to Dom's desk.

"Hey, hey, hold it right there, I do not want any of your red lipstick stains on my cheek" said Dom as he stood up.

"Oh what a meanie" said Lia as she was wearing bright red lipstick, her light brunette hair was tied up in a messy bun, with her curtain bangs hanging on her forehead, she wore a pink button down dress, with short lantern sleeves.

"Right, let's go" said Dom as he laughed and he walked to his office door.

"Yes, yes, let me just get my handbag first" said Lia as she rushed to the couch and she picked up her black handbag as she rushed after Dom.

...

"This food is so good" said Lia as she ate.

"My mom said that she and my dad went here for their last anniversary" said Lia as she talked even more, the restaurant that they were in was not very crowded and she and Dom sat opposite each other.

"Doesn't it taste good??" asked Lia as she looked at Dom.

"Mhmmm" said Dom as he replied while he was eating.

"Do I look pretty??" asked Lia as watched Dom carefully with a smile.

"Mhmmm" said Dom once again.

"Are you ugly??" asked Lia.

"Mhmmm" replied Dom.

"Will you marry me?" asked Lia.

"Mhmmm" replied Dom once again and this time Lia hit his hand.

"Dom, you are not listening to me!!" said Lia as she was annoyed, his mind was clearly somewhere else.

"I am sorry Lia" said Dom as he came back to reality.

"Look Dom, I know you, and you are not here at all" said Lia.

"Something is clearly bothering you" said Lia as she looked at Dom.

"You can tell me what's wrong, I am your friend after all" said Lia as she was annoyed, Dom was not paying any attention to her, so it was best that she find out what made him so absent minded??

"*Sigh* You do know me well Lia" said Dom as he sighed and he looked at Lia.

"Isn't that obvious???" said Lia as she laughed.

"Now tell me what's wrong??" asked Lia as she held Dom's hand.

"Is it work??? is it Grandfather?? come on you can tell me" said Lia as she was geuinely worried for Dom.

"As much as I would wish for those to be the problem it isn't" said Dom.

"Then what is it?" asked Lia as she looked worried, what was it that could make Dom look so miserable like this???

"It's Natasha" said Dom as he looked at Lia, and as soon as Lia heard Natasha's name she withdrew her hand from Dom's.

"What about Natasha??" asked Lia.

"Well she said that she no longer loves me" said Dom.

"Wait what???" asked Lia.

"Did she tell you that herself??" asked Lia as she looked at Dom.

"No.... no she did not, I overheard her talking to Joy, and she happened to say that she no longer loved me" said Dom.

"Okay..." said Lia.

"But then, why do you look so miserable????" asked Lia.

"Is that not what you have always wanted??? for her to finally leave you alone, and now that she did, you look so devastated, I don't understand???" said Lia as she was annoyed, she knew it. all men were the same, they immediately started paying more attention to you once you started to ignore them, they came back running, and Dom was no different.

To tell the truth Dom did not know himself why that affected him so much, maybe because he felt like something was missing, or that he had let Natasha down, when he was not supposed to feel such.

"I don't know" replied Dom.

"What do you mean that you don't know???" asked Lia angrily, she was fed up, extremely fed up with this all.

"I don't know" said Dom once again.

"Since you don't know I am leaving then!" said Lia as she stood up and she picked up her handbag.

"No, Lia don't go" said Dom as he held Lia's hand and she stopped moving.

"Please sit" said Dom.

"Hmmphm" said Lia as she sat back down.

"Look, I feel like maybe I feel like this because I don't know... it's all just so sudden, Natasha starts acting weird, and then she starts going to who knows where, and now she jumps to the conclusion that she does not love me, it is just so sudden and suspicious" said Dom as he explained.

"So what you are saying is that you are worried for her sudden change??" asked Lia.

"Of course" said Dom as he nodded.

"It's only that and nothing more???" asked Lia as she looked at Dom carefully.

"Yes" said Dom.

"Natasha is still the mother of my child, and she needs to be alright for Joy to be alright" said Dom.

"Hmmm" said Lia.

"You better remember this Dom, you better" said Lia.

"Oh come on smile Lia" said Dom.

"Frowning does not suit you at all" said Dom as he smiled.

"Well okay..." said Lia as she pulled her hand away from his.

"I will only smile, because the food is delicious" said Lia as she smiled and Dom laughed.

"Oh wipe that grin off your face, I am still very angry with you" said Lia as she pouted.

"Oh well okay then Lia" said Dom.

"I guess that the chocolate cake desert I ordered will just go home with me" said Dom as he smiled.

"No way, no way Dom, that belongs to me" said Lia.

"But you said that you are still very angry with me" said Dom as he laughed.

"That was in the past, now we are very good friends again" said Lia as she smiled sweetly.

"Mhmmm" said Dom as he laughed, he knew just what to say to make Lia smile.