A Step Closer to Love

In no time Arabella was well and able to resume back to work. It was her first day at work after almost two weeks it felt like she was just resuming all over again.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“I am so excited to see you” Chole squealed as she looped her hands into Arabella’s arm. Arabella studied her face. This girl barely knew her so why was she so excited to see her?

“I am dead serious” Chole added when she read the expression on her face. Chole knew it might be hard to believe what she was saying but she was only being sincere with her. She indeed missed her.

Maybe she was getting ahead of herself and getting overly excited that she might finally have someone to call a friend in her. She had been lonely in the office especially because of her tank at work.

“I guess I missed you too,” Arabella said.

Chole smiled toothily which gave her a warm feeling. “You don’t have to say it if you don’t mean it yet, I am sure you will mean it very soon,” she said with a wink.

Arabella was thrown back by her strong and courageous personality. She spoke like she was sure or maybe she had seen the future and knew what was going to happen.

“You resumed finally,” a voice said from behind them.

Arabella spent only a few days at work before she had to go for the sick leave but the torment she got from the voice she just heard was not one to be forgotten in a hurry.

Both girls turned to face Aurora standing there with a taunting smile splattered across her face. Chloe’s grip tightened on Arabella’s arms.

“I just got better now” Arabella replied with a gulp. She knows that she had said that she would try and butter up the woman and make sure she escaped her torment. Looking back at her again made her think otherwise. It did not feel like a wise thing to do.

“Well then I am glad” Her voice sounded like she did not mean it and her expression proved the fact that Arabella was not just being paranoid. “You resumed back to work after taking almost two weeks off, do you want us to throw you a party?” she asked.

“What?” Arabella was confused. She had barely been standing at the office grounds for thirty minutes what about her suggested she wanted a party?

“Well since you have refused to get to work, I was wondering if you wanted us to get confetti and throw you an elaborate party to welcome you back to work” she added.

Arabella sighed. This woman was one who definitely would not back down but would showcase pettiness at every given opportunity.

“What would you have me do?” Arabella finally said after running all the possible ways to be rude in her head and finally settling on trying to keep her dignity as an officer worker.

“Both of you to my office immediately,” she said and walked away.

Chole smiled again at Arabella. “Shall we go see what the devil wants?”

“Chole” Arabella gasped lowly.

“What? It’s not like I am telling lies”

Arabella had received a big order from her immediate boss. she promised herself that no matter what Aurora decided to do to her she would not regret coming all the way here from her hometown.

“Oh trust me, Ara, I never lie, that woman is the devil,” Chole said as they walked to their cubicles.

“I will not correct you on that matter,” Arabella said as she pulled out her chair and dropped her bag to the table while dropping into the chair. it was quite difficult to resume back to work after not doing anything for a while. the hour she had spent in Aurora’s office was full of torment for her.

she noticed that her table and chair had been wiped clean. “Oh my god Chole, thank you for wiping down my table and chair” she voiced out as she pulled the wheeled chair closer to the table, the wheels making slow sounds as they moved.

“I did not do that,” Chole said tapping away on her open laptop.

Arabella was sure it could only be Chole who would do such a thing for her. Among all her colleagues, Chole was the one who checked up on her the most while she was resting up after the accident.

“Who then?” Arabella asked.

“Aaron” Chole said gently before raising her head to give her a wink.

“What was that for?” Arabella asked as she tried to maintain eye contact with her.

“It seems Aaron has a thing for you”

“Impossible,” Arabella said with almost a shout. If he did have a thing for her she would have heard from him in the two weeks but he did not for once send a message or put a call through to her.

“You should always trust my hunch,” Chole said.

Arabella did not want to talk about it. She did not want to even think about it, she had to reply to the cute doctor and finally give him a day for their date since she had finally left the house but she was skeptical. His apology was one a girl would appreciate but it still did not sit well with her. She had assured herself countless times that a single date would not hurt her and Seraphina was also trying her best to cheer her on.

“Where is everyone anyways?” Arabella asked as her eyes darted everywhere in the house.

she had noticed that Kieran left the house quite earlier than usual and he did not take her along even after he knew was resuming today. After the incident, he went back to being his cold distant self.

She was the one who told him to let her be but she was surprised he took it to heart and went all the way. She had quite difficulty trying to sync together the bus run times and almost missed her bus this morning.

“They went for a retreat”

“Why did we not go too?” Arabella asked. she had always seen how movies portrayed retreat and how it might be a good time for her to bond with her workmates. She was not entirely interested but thought it might be fun.

“Because you did not come to work for long hence we lagged on our schedule,” Aurora said standing in the distance.

“I expect you both to get on with the work I delegated and not sit there chatting away the time” she added.

Arabella cleared her throat and stood to her feet. she tilted her head and smiled with a tiny bit of anger in them. “On them ma’am”