Alexandra
Frustration! Frustration!! Frustration!!!
"What is wrong with you?" Gwen asked as I ransacked my office in search of God knows what.
"Do I look sick?" I asked irritated.
"No. You look dead. What are you looking for?"
"Stapler"
I know it's not solid but I had to come up with something.
"You mean this stapler" she said as she raised the stapler from my table. It was right in front of me. Real smooth.
"Well, I'm still looking for something" I said
"Yeah and what is that?"
Gwen was always a pusher. "Um..."
"Save it. You don't know what you are looking for cause you are not looking for anything in particular than to vent your anger. And I know you are not the sharing type, but before you tear up your office, please tell me why?" Gwen said.
I took a long sigh then sat down before I could compose my sentences.
"My dad dropped by on Monday"
"Really, it's about time what did he say"
"It wasn't for make up. He came to tell me that my grand pops left me a shit load of money for me and a house here in DC"
"Okay. That's great, now we can spend more money why are you worked up about more money"
"The problem is, I can't access any of that money till I fulfil a certain condition"
"And what is that?"
"I have to get married"
"Whoa, that's a lot. What are you going to do?"
"I have to get married cause he froze my account and now am broke. I have till the end of the month to get married and prove that my marriage is real and all that other bullshit before my assets can be given to me. And it is pissing me off"
"Does your dad have hand in this?"
"I know he does but he is using grand pops name to hide and then froze my account"
"Then just get someone to play house with you. Ah, what about Steven. He has a thing for you. Don't look at me like that like you don't know he has a thing for you. You see the way he looks at you?"
"Okay, am not agreeing to anything but not Steven. And I keep my reasons to myself. But..."
"But what?" Joe said as he barged into my office with Steven behind him cutting me shut.
"But it is rude to barge into someone's office and chip in" I said
"No, it's just a kind gesture" he said and Steven chuckled
"Hmm" Steven said
"Like what ladies do when they say you are good looking" Gwen said and Steven and I chuckled while Joe frowned.
"Oh don't get mad, it's just a kind gesture" Gwen said again and we all busted into laughter.
"I'm sorry dude but I couldn't help it" Steven said
"But given Gwen's track record I think it was really a kind gesture" I said as I continued to laugh.
"Yeah, yeah. You guys laugh on, but I know you love me"
"You wish" Gwen said.
"Well we will be taking our leave now I think Joe has had enough energy drink" Steven said as they left the office.
"I hope you have all the boost you need" Gwen said as they left and we laughed.
"So, as we were discussing before..." Gwen was saying before she was cut shut again by noise from outside and Joe barged in.
"Before somebody barged in again and everywhere became noisy" Gwen said with irritation.
"Snow your boyfriend is here"
"Boy friend? What are you..." I was saying when I heard his voice. Loud and clear.
Frustration! Frustration!! Frustration!!!
I quickly stepped out of my office to stop him from acting crazy again.
"What is wrong with you" I whispered to him as I got close to him, he smiled and before I could say jack he got down on one knee, reached for his pocket and brought out a small box and opened it and low and behold, it revealed a diamond ring. Which appears to be more expensive than my entire wardrobe.
The tension was building up and the gasping crowd was not helping at all.
"I know we might be crazy but that's our story"
Our story! What the hell is he...
"I have been searching for a better way to say this, but there isn't any way better if it doesn't end with your smile and you saying yes".
Yes for what?
"Alexandra for as long as I've known you, I've loved you, and your love is all I ever wanted, you love is all I ever needed. It was what got me up in my worst mornings and gave me strength when there wasn't any left in me cause I knew I will met a smile the will brighten up my day or the one that will make all the days stress go away like it never happened, making to want to work more as long as I still have that smile"
What is he talking about
"I don't want to see that smile from afar anymore, I want it close to me. I want it smiling at me when I wake up every morning. Cause when I wake up, you're the first thing that comes to my mind and I couldn't spend on more daythinking about the right way. So before this becomes a long, sappy love speech, if it already isn't. Alexandra Mary Snow, will you marry me?"
What. The. Fuck.
Oh my God! What do I say, I'm practically frozen here. Deep breaths Alex.Deep fucking breaths.
"Yes"
And I have signed my death warrant.
We hugged and everyone kept applauding which was by the way driving me nuts. I took him to my office as gently as possible and slammed my hand on my desk as I got in.
"What on God's green earth was that?"
"Who still says God's green earth?"
"Me! And answer my God damn question"
"What did it look like sugar pie? I was proposing, you said yes, we hugged and looked like a happy couple"
"Firstly, don't ever call me sugar pie. Secondly, you had no right to do that. I was completely lost out there, you almost made me look like a fool"
"Almost. But I didn't, that counts. But what I did do was to make us look real. Now when Christopher Baxter walks into any building, all the ladies are amazed, but when the playboy prince gets on his knees publicly with a ring in his hand, everybody, both boys and girls bring out their phones and start recording. And when they start recording the post and twit and do whatever they do on social media. Now our parents are eventually going to see this and from what I deduced, our dads are the same. And once they examine the video and find the slightest fake smile, we will be done before we started. So in plain words I couldn't tell you cause I was the only smart one between us and you wouldn't be able to understand why I wanted to see your shocked look on camera. Irreversible moments"
"You are a little piece of shit"
"I know, that's why I'm things like these. I mean what I'm I if not shitty"
"Okay you listen to me and listen carefully"
He stayed quiet to listen.
"You get the hell out of my office right now before I snap both of your wrists, break 33 bones, punch you square in the face, break your chiseled jaw and turn that head of yours with a well jelled hair to that of a cancer patient"
He looked at me angrily, still trying to keep his smug smile intact.
"Get that smug smile off your face, it makes you look worst than you already do. And leave now, the slow ones need their time and space to process" I added and he got up and buttoned his suit and left my office angrily.
Prick. He hasn't seen nothing yet.