(Dan's POV)

We were in my kitchen, eating cake and talking about random things. I realized how we never really did this. Never sat down and really got to know eachother. "You know, before you called, I poured the wine I had down the sink." I say and she looks up at me. "Really?" She asks and I nod. She pulls me into a hug and I smile.

"Oh, Dan I'm so proud of you! That's  such a huge step." She says and I chuckle. "I know, I know for once I actually did something right." I say pulling away from the hug and she frowns. "Dan don't put yourself down. You're a good person. You mad down mistakes is all. You need help, and that's okay." She says softly and I give her a lopsided grin and simply shrug, and take a bite out of my cake.

"Mm I haven't had cake in so long. It's so good." I say and she smiles. I take some icing onto my finger and wipe it on Ellas face. "Oh I see." She says and takes a bigger amount off her cake and wipe it directly down my face and I gasp as I look at her. I take my slice and smush it on her face and she squeals out of surprise.

She reaches for the cake and I stand up and run out of the kitchen while laughing and run outside. I go to turn around to see if she followed only for a cake to be smushed into my face. It slides off my face and falls to the ground and I look at the cake, and up to Ella who shrugs. "I.." I didn't know what to say, and as we looked at eachother, we both burst out laughing.

"Y-you look ridiculous!" She says in between laughs. "Yeah, w-well so do Y-you!" I laugh, and once we calmed down, we head back inside to get stuff to clean up the cake. "Imma go take a shower." I say, once we finish cleaning all the cake up. "Okay, imma wash my face in the downstairs bathroom." She says and I nod as I make my way up the stairs. I get into the shower and as I'm washing my hair, sadness filled me. I don't know why. I had no reason to be sad. Hell, it was my birthday. Shouldn't I be happy? Well, other than the fact that I'm getting old, I should be happy. I shrug it off and finish doing what I need to.

I get out and as I'm brushing my hair, someone knocks on the bathroom door. "Dan, someone calling you." I hear Ella say and I sigh. "Let it go, I'll be out in a minute." I say back. I hear her say an "alright" as she walks away. Once I'm done, I head downstairs and grab my phone off the counter.

I missed call from 'The witch'

Of course. Why wouldn't she call me on my birthday. She has to ruin everything right? I decide to call her back, because maybe for once she'll actually have something logically to say. It rings 3 times before she picks it up. "Hello?" I say cautiously. "Hey, uh I know I'm the last person you wanna hear from right now. Which is understandable. I know it's your birthday, but I really wanna talk to you. We can go somewhere public if you don't trust me. You can even bring uh.. your friend? I don't know her name, but you can bring her too." She says.

She sounded calm. She wasn't screaming at me. "Okay, uh where do you wanna meet up at?" I ask. "Meet me at the coffee shop." She says. "Alright, I'll be there in 20 minutes." I say and we hang up. "Who was that?" Ella asks. "Jemma. She wants to speak with me about something. Probably regarding our divorce. She said you can come with, you wanna?" I ask and she nods. "Alright, well uh let's go I guess. " I say as I grab my car keys. I swear if Jemma makes a fool out of me.

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We pull up to the coffee shop and I can see Jemma's car was parked a few spots away. I let out a deep breath as I take out the keys. "You ready?" Ella asks and I nod. "I suppose." I state as I get out of the car. We walk in, and the smell of coffee and pastries hit me in the face. I smile a bit at it, and look around. I love the smell of coffee. I should drink it more often. Though, tea is better. I'm snapped out of my thoughts by Ella shaking me a bit and I turn to look at her.

"You good?" She asks and I nod. "I was thinking about coffee." I mumble embarrassed and she chuckles. I can see Jemma at a table in the corner. She was looking down and I don't think she noticed we were here yet. I walk over and right when Ella and I sit down she looks up. Her eyes were bloodshot and filled with tears. Her cheeks were flushed. Her makeup, smeared a bit. She looked broken, much how I looked when her and I separated. I raise an eyebrow and she lets out a sigh.

"You actually came.." She says and I nod slowly. Why do I have a feeling she's gonna throw a table at me or something? "I, I wanted to apologize. I know, me apologizing won't help. It won't fix anything but I feel like shit. I haven't slept I slept in two days because I need to. I need you to know how sorry I am. I would have done it over call but thats not sincere. I'm so so sorry, for putting you through hell. For trying to ruin your career. For going out of the marriage. I know it's my fault. All of this happened because of me being a petty bitch." She says and she places her phone down which she was holding.

"The way I acted was purely out of being hurt. I was hurt that you didn't wanna try and fix anything. I understand now. You had every single right to tell me to leave and never come back. I would have to.  I know it was wrong to call you everyday. I know it was wrong to call you all those mean names, for no reason. You're such a sweetheart. And now I realize that someone like me, doesn't deserve someone like you. I'm sorry for ever coming into your life. I never deserved you." She says, never breaking eye contact. I couldn't believe it.

She apologized. She actually seemed sincere. I stare at her with wide eyes. She turns to Ella and I can feel my heart beat increase. Oh no. "May I ask your name?" Jemma asks and Ella turns to look at me and I shrug. "Its Ella.." She says softly. "Well, Ella, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I tried to ruin whatever is going on between you and Dan. Whether it's a friendship or more, which is none of my business. I'm sorry I hurt you. I should've stayed out of it. You seem like a sweet person and you didn't  deserve it.  I dragged you into something you didn't need to be dragged into. I understand that you're helping Dan, and I appreciate that I really do. I know you're taking care of him. I'm sorry for everything. " Jemma says and Ella smiles a bit.

"And you mean this? Like you genuinely mean it?" Ella asks and Jemma nods and I couldn't read her expressions clearly but she did seem sincere. "Thank you, Jemma." I say and she turns to look at me. "Thank you for apologizing." I say. "You don't need to accept it, in fact if you still hate me, I'm fine with that. I deserve it." She says and I sigh.

"People handle things differently. You handled it with anger. And as long as you know you were wrong, I'm happy to accept it." I say and she nods. As Ella and I leave I hear her call out a "Oh and Happy birthday, Dan! I hope the rest of your day is lovely." And I turn back and smile a bit. Maybe today wouldn't be as bad as I thought.

Authors Note

This was nice to write. I hate writing about Jemma being mean. She's such a sweetheart.

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