Second day of our trip was still the weekend so it was considered as free and easy i guess , Ethan took me to every Museums he could think of and and even took me to the London Eye. During our lunch we just entered a restaurant and sat down, looked over the menu and ordered.
"How was the situation yesterday?" Ethan asked curiously , " Oh it went well , no worries there " I said as I took a sip out of my tea . when the food came we took pictures like any other normal person these days and ages and started to eat and have a normal conversation.
"Can i join your company ?" I looked at Ethan as these words are channeling into my brain , " is something wrong? Why the sudden suggestion?" I asked .
"You need someone capable of handling your work don't you? And you are pregnant Stella , you will have to go on leave for 3 months and what happens to your kid then? You will miss its first words , first steps these and that , i want to be that person to help you " he said
"Ethan I appreciate the offer but I am well aware of what is going to happen after the little bean is going to come out but reassure me I will reconsider the offer alright , i just wanna have some quality time to myself first." i said
We continued to finish our remaining part of the meal and went to make the payment before going to the shopping districts and tourist attractions . At the end of the day both of us were very very tired so we decided to sleep early this time around .
Morning came around and I got up with a sudden urge to puke. I ran towards the toilet and started puking so much of yesterday's food , Ethan heard what was going on. He dashed into my room immediately and held my hair for me as I continued to puke in the toilet. When i was done he smoothed my back and gave me a few pats on the back before handing me a bottle of water .
Once I was done I changed into something comfortable and headed down to the lobby restaurant to have breakfast. When we were having breakfast i got a call from Home which is really odd Pram doesn't call me unless the house is on fire anyways i picked up the phone call
" Hi Pram , is there something wrong? " I asked . "Ms Wong , I should let you know … Your father's assistant came by today and said your father had a heart attack and currently He is in the ICU . " Pram said .
"Oh… " that was all it came out of my mouth , " the assistant said she wasn't able to reach you so tried to come over to your place and tell you herself but you are in London for 2 weeks . i told her i will inform you asap and i didn't know what time is in London until i checked on google. " he blurted out
"Uhm Pram don't panic, since i am unable to come back at the moment to see my father , could you go on my behalf? " i asked while fidgeting with my fingers
"Yes of course Ms Wong, I'll send my regards as well " Pram said . " Okay that will be all , i will be back in a week more just remember to pick me up okay . ``I said , he agreed, then ended the call .
I may look like i do not care about my father but deep down he is the only true family blood i have left , i am not even close to my external family like my aunts and cousins are all long gone , didn't even bother to contact them and this is the first time i heard my father got a heart attack i always thought my father was a healthy man but turns out his heart is starting to fail on him too.
But motherless i need to get my work here in London done ASAP so today is the meeting with the other company in London and i am very very excited for it like it is my first business outside of Asia and it is a milestone for me. Once we were done with breakfast we both headed back up to the rooms to change and left the room to the lobby to meet with the rest of the team.
I decided to let Ethan join us since he will be rather lonely during the whole duration and he is the one taking care of me so I need to be in his sight at all times according to him. Well we got into the cars and it took us to the central business district and to their tallest building there from there we went up to the 55th floor then the front desk brought me and my marketing team to the meeting room and there I shook hands with the CEO of the company Mr Aether .
I let my marketing team take the lead of the entire meeting, and hopefully Mr Aether will love it and will agree to helping us start our business here in London with that at the end of the meeting and presentation Mr Aether and I went into his office to further discuss the matter at hand .
Mr Aether was well aware of my losses lately and gave me his condolences , and he is doing the business with me not out of pity but he said he reminds me of someone like his sister who was also long gone as well , Ambitious , strong and independent women that was what he said about his sister.
"Ms Wong, I do hope you will do well here in the business in London as you can see business here are blooming everyday i'm sure you will be at the top once again in Next year's Business conference " Mr Aether said with a slight chuckle.
" Oh Mr Aether you are too kind , I sure do hope to start the business here soon , with your help in this I'm sure we both are going to make Millions just by helping small businesses and older businesses who need help to get more sales . " i said
"It is pleasure doing business with you, Cheers to our partnership " Mr Aether said as he poured the tea into my cup . i clanked my tea cup against his and drank a few sips before finalising the documents with him for the media conference in 2 days from now and when everything is in order we bid our goodbyes at the lobby and just like that I sealed a deal in London.
The entire team and Ethan were so happy they all decided to head out to celebrate which i declined and gave them the company card and told them to go and have fun while i stayed in the hotel to rest up .
While i was in the room replying to emails and looking through social media i could not help but to think of Damien once again… all these memories with him , the texts i have been looking through from time to time makes me miss him so much .
I got up from the bed and took my cup of tea and stood by the window to have a look around the city , sighed . " If only you are still alive , we could have gotten married next year after having Little bean , you would been a great father " i sighed drinking my tea
Suddenly my laptop rang. It was a video call from My best friend Janice.
" Hey Stella , How's London?" Janice asked while adjusting her laptop screen.
"Hey Janice , London is fine so far surprised at you will call me" i replied
" Hey come on i need to talk to you once in a while and i know my job isn't very fantastic but hey i miss my best friend too " She exclaimed
" ya ya i know , how is the workload back there you know i miss you too" i said while getting comfy in bed
"The workload is mad here , did you know that I have to file for Taxes! Like ever since I became a lawyer I didn't know I had to file taxes! " she said in disbelief
"Gurl , i file taxes every month for the company , you only need to file taxes for your parents don't complain. ``I laughed between my words.
"Okay fine , i wont complain but How is my little you doing in there? Is it behaving well? " Janice Asked
"It has been treating me very well , well not this morning where i puked out what was left of dinner gross " i laughed
"Listen here little bean , i don't know if you can hear me , but you are very lucky your mother doesn't have a temper like i do so treat her well , if not when you are out of there Aunt Janice is going to teach you a lesson " Planting her face so hear to the camera making weird faces
"Oh don't be silly Janice , Little me can't hear you it's the size of a little bean you know , and its part of the first trimester puking early mornings but i don't have much of a craving tho to begin with i just eat whatever i feel like eating lately , but i'm a little homesick already. " i said
"Well , this means you will need FUN AUNT JANICE to come and look after the little bean! "Janice replied with a really huge grin on her face
" Don't you have to work ? , plus it's 9 months from now ish? I will hire someone to take care of the little bean when it's older and a nanny all the way , for now you can take care of me!" i exclaimed
Janice laughed her socks off when I said that and from there the conversation got deeper and deeper discussing her work life balance these days and talking about her still filing taxes cause she has never done this before but overall i enjoyed talking to Janice , it made me forget what i was missing for the time being .