MARRY ME NOW

I walked out of the courtroom, my eyes watery, I couldn’t believe I was crying for what she had said. But, it did hurt me, a lot. I wiped my tears away. Stop it. My subconsciousness scolded.

“Wait up,” Jake called. I wanted to stop and wait but my brain wasn’t obeying my mind. I got out of the courthouse but he got to me before I could walk any further.

“Are you okay?” He asked. He is so patient, I expected him to be mad or something but as usual, he didn’t show any sign of being mad. I smiled. “Yeah, I’m okay,” I replied.

“You’re sure? You don’t look okay, is it because of her? She got what s-” I cut him off. It wasn’t because she got imprisoned or something, just because of how she fooled me all this while. I was such a fool.

“Yeah. Can you take me home? I’m so tired…” I said. He nodded with a smile.

After the judge had given both Yvonne and Cris three years in prison. A part of me was happy, and a part of me was sad. Curse that part.

I got to the passenger seat and Jake got to the driver’s seat and drove off. The drive, as usual, was silent. After a 20mins drive, we got to my house.

“Thanks for the ride Jake, I’d… Call me later.” I said. He smiled and then waved. I got into the house and walked to the living room.

There, I saw Anne, she was on a chair, a bowl of ice cream placed on her legs as she dug from it, she looked at the screen before her which was playing Dora.

She looked in my direction, she probably heard me coming. She grinned showing her small set of teeth.

She amazes me.

“How did you get that?” I asked.

She pointed to the freezer. A little chair behind it, oh, she must have climbed on that to get it. I walked towards her and sat next to her.

When I left the house this morning, she was asleep. I walked towards where she sat. I took the bowl of ice cream from her. She’s had too much already.

She whined. “Noooo.”

“Baby, you’ve had enough of this already, I’d go make you cheese to eat,” I said and she stopped whining and nodded her head.

Yep. She loves cheese as much as she loves ice cream. I got up and strolled to the kitchen. I prepared her cheese. Today was Thursday. If I go back to work on Monday, how am I going to have time for Anne? I groaned at the thought.

I’ve to tell Jake. He’s done so much for me, I know… But.

I’d have to call him later. After what happened, I don’t want to hire another nanny.

What was Zara even up to?

Just thinking about Anne hating me is eating me up. It’s a good thing I found out on time, right?

Right.

I got done preparing the food and served it to myself and Anne. I tried to clear any form of thoughts from my head.

~

“What am I going to do?” I asked Jake through the telephone.

“What happened to Zara?” He asked. Oh yes, I never told him. I would have told him, but I just didn’t want to say anything about Zara, I felt the less I talked about it, the less she’d be in my mind.

“Well..” I said. Sighing, I told him what happened. The other end was silent for a few seconds and it felt like hours.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” He asked. “I’m sorry, I just…” I couldn’t finish my statement. I didn’t even know what to say.

“You could just reduce your office hours?” He asked. Is that possible? I don’t think Mr Kings would allow that.

“But, Mr Kings..”

“I could ask him to reduce your time, it’s okay, don’t think about it.” Aren’t I lucky to have someone like Jake in my life?

Yeah, I am.

“Thank you so much, Jake,” I said.

“No problem.” He replied. Exchanging goodbyes, the line went off. What position am I going to go back to? I hope I’d go back to my old position. You know, the one I was in before I became his PA.

It’s less awkward there.

And besides, Mr Kings must have already gotten a new PA. There was no way he could go a week without help there.

I sighed sitting down on the sofa.

*skip to the next Monday*

I jacked off my bed when I heard the loud alarm. Groaning, I got up. I had shifted my usual morning wake which was usually 6 am but now it’s 5 am.

I had to do it. That was the only way I’d have enough time for myself and Anne. I quickly walked to the bathroom and brushed my teeth before taking my bath.

I wore my black feminine suit. It’s always nice to look professional on Mondays… Not only Monday, but it’s my first day in a week, so yeah.

I did a little bit of makeup before going out of my room to go to the kitchen. I made breakfast in less than 20mins.

I looked at the time. 6:15 am. Okay, that was fast. I quickly strolled to Anne’s room. Opening the door, I saw Anne sprawled on the bed.

I walked towards her bed. “Baby?” I shook her a bit. She let out a whine but didn’t wake up. Yep. Waking her up takes a lot of time.

After 15mins of trying to wake her up, she woke up. I took her to the bathroom. Where she brushed her teeth and took her bath.

After getting ready, I took her to the living room and we ate breakfast. “Mommy?” She suddenly said.

“Yes, baby?”

“Where is my cheese?”

I promised to make cheese today for her because yesterday she was whining when I took her bowl of cheese from her. I had to. Or the toilet would be her best friend this morning.

“When you get back from school, okay?” I said and she nodded her head drinking from her milk.

We got done with everything we needed to do. Taking my bag and Anne’s school bag and lunch bag. We went to my car and I drove off to her school.

I made sure she was settled in before I went to my working place. When I got there, I didn’t come out immediately. I stayed inside my car for what seemed like hours. I felt nervous like a school girl on her first day in her new school.

I snapped out of the trance I was in when I saw the time. 7:59 am. I quickly arranged myself and got out of the car.

As I got inside the building, I noticed most of the worker’s eyes on me. That scandal is still up here from what I can see.

Ignoring them, I walked toward Jake’s office. A lady suddenly stopped in front of me. She is really beautiful. “Miss Carl! I knew the truth would come out and it did! Oh, poor you, you didn’t deserve to go through what you did.” She said looking at me with… Caring eyes?

“Uh..”

“I’m Gwyneth and you must be Tessa. I heard what happened… You see, I was also friends with Yvonne but she. She used me to get closer to my ex-boyfriend, I couldn’t believe she’d do something like that. But I was wrong.” She let out a quiet sob.

Well, I’m not the only one who fell for her tricks.

“I’m sorry about that-”

“You don’t have to be sorry. We learn from mistakes,” She said and I nodded my head. True. “Right now, I have some office work to do. We could talk later?” She asked.

I mean, there is nothing wrong with making friends right? Yvonne was the only friend I had in this work.

“Sure,” I said with a smile then continued my journey to Jake’s office.

~

I entered my office. I’m so surprised he didn’t employ a new PA. The office was just how I had left it. Cleaner though.

I wish he employed a new PA. There would be so much awkwardness today.

Sitting on my office chair. I silently prayed he won’t come to work today.

Well. God didn’t answer my prayers today as my office phone rang. Groaning I took the call.

“File 45d.” Came a husky voice that gave me shivers. “In a second,” I said to a dead call.

Getting up. I went to the file keep and found the file after 2mins of searching. It’s a good thing I found it. I don’t want his insults today.

I walked to his office door. I breathed in and out a couple of times before I turned the door knob. On the office chair sat Mr Kings in all his glory. He looks so good.

Again, when does he not look good?

Shut up.

I went to his table avoiding eye contact as much as I can. “Here’s the file sir,” I said then quickly turned around and headed straight to the door.

“Miss Carl.” I heard him call. My hand was already on the doorknob. Pretend you didn’t hear him and walk out that door.

But, my body wasn’t responding to my brain. I turned around to look at him. What does he want to do? Insult me?

“Yes sir?” I replied. I waited for what seemed like hours before he replied.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

“I’m sorry,” He said.

I looked at him confusedly. What was he sorry for? That he interrupted me from the walk to my office?

“For judging you. Without proper investigation.” He continued making my jaw drop. Did he- did he just say sorry? For what happened?

Never in a million years would I have thought he would say ‘sorry’. Gulping, I said. “I-it’s okay s-sir.” I stuttered.

Damn stutter.

I quickly open the door and walked to my office. My heart was beating faster than usual.

I would surely collapse if my heart keeps beating like this. It’s not normal. I went to the refrigerator and took a bottle of water.

Ah.

Jeez, calm down, he just said sorry and you’re like this. My subconsciousness scolded me.

After minutes, I composed myself and managed to do some paperwork. Everything felt different to me.

The office phone rang. Taking the call, I said to whoever was calling. “Yes? How may I help you?” I asked the person.

“File ER54.” I heard Mr King’s voice and then the call went dead. I sighed getting up to go get the file and it took me 5mins to find it.

At least I found it, right?

I walked to his office. And placed the file on his table. “What is this?” He asked. His face formed a little scowl.

Bipolar much?

“The file you asked.”

“I asked for file ER54.” He said. I looked at him unbelievably. I gave him what he asked for. He’s probably looking for another reason to insult me.

“Uhm. This is..” I said reading the file number from the file out loud. My eyes widened in realization. This is file FR54.

Oops, my bad.

“You’re not going to keep this job if you keep being clumsy.” He said. He didn’t bother to hide his cold voice.

What have I ever done for him to hate me this much? I know I’m clumsy at times but still.

“I’m sorry sir, I’d go get the file now,” I said spinning around quickly resulting in me almost falling but he caught me. This was the second time we’ve been in this situation.

And God, he is so fast, I could swear he was in his sit a second ago. His eyes stared deeply into my eyes. I got lost in his beautiful hazel one for a minute but snapped out of it when the door snapped open with a loud bang.

“Baby!” A lady’s voice screeched. Mr Kings let go of me immediately and I composed myself. What just happened?

“What’s going on here?” I heard the annoying fake voice again. I looked at the lady.

She is very beautiful but the caked makeup on her face was hideous.

She wore a seemingly expensive gold-like gown, note that it is short and exposing, and matching heels. A Chanel bag on her left arm.

Just the jewellery on her cost more than my house.

“I-i tripped and he uh. Caught me before I fell.”

“He should have just let you fall..” She said lowly but enough for me to hear it.

She arranged her hair and wore a smile then the cat walked toward Mr Kings. “Oh baby,” she practically moaned.

I felt highly uncomfortable.

“I missed you so much! I told papa I was coming today and he asked for you to come to dine with us tonight..”

“Uh. Excuse me.” I excused myself and walked out.

Woah.

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