“Well, I’m sorry that you’re annoyed. I don’t know what you want me to do.” 

“Stop trying to make me feel guilty. I know something could have happened. I know.” She whispers, feeling her eyes well up with tears.

“It’s not like I just ignored my phone on purpose, though. You know how those events go. Someone else always takes control of them and I had no choice.” 

“I’m sorry.” Gigi whispers, feeling incredibly guilty now. She doesn’t know if she should go into the room behind him so she just lingers in the hallway.

“I’m not mad at you, Zayn. I wasn’t ever mad. I was confused and then once I found out, I was just disappointed.” 

“I know you did. I do know that you wouldn’t have just missed it for nothing.” Gigi says quietly, looking down at the floor for a second.

“It’s not like I can change anything, Gigi. I’m sorry that I wasn’t there, but our kids didn’t have anyone. I couldn’t just bring them with me..”

“Alright. You did what you could. Whatever. There’s no point in us having this conversation because it’s literally going to get us nowhere. I’ll just get over it cause that seems to be the only thing I can do.”

Gigi had been trying to remain at least mostly calm, but hearing that choice of words from him set something off in her. “News flash? Are you kidding me? Of course I know that our children need someone with them, don’t be ridiculous.”

“I understand that, but you still should have gotten some more information,” she shrugs. “Did you not just say that you weren’t going to come if we didn’t get a sitter?” Gigi asks, running a hand through her hair.

“What kind of other plans? You should have asked more questions. Cancelling something she had a commitment to do because she’d rather go get drunk with her friends is ridiculous. Alright, you’re right. You weren’t going to come in the first place so I guess it doesn’t really matter that you didn’t.” She rolls her eyes.

“That’s not what I said. I’m saying that we should have made sure the sitter was going to be there for the time that I had to leave. So that the whole thing wouldn’t have gotten screwed up at the last second.”

Hearing that made Gigi feel like a huge jerk at first because she probably should have called. After a second, though, she’s offended that it seems like he’s putting this all on her. “And this could have been resolved if you would have just come with me like you were supposed to.”

“I didn’t think to ask someone to call cause I thought you were just going to be late. I never imagined our babysitter would cancel at the last second and that you wouldn’t come.” 

“I’m sorry that you’re dissapointed, but I really can’t do anything about that. No one was answering their phone, I didn’t know what to do. I was kind of stuck…”