Rose and Damien finally came out of the restaurant.
"Aren't we supposed to eat in there?"Damien asked Rose.
"I don't wanna eat at that restaurant anymore, let's go there" Rose pointed to the rundown restaurant.
"Mmm" Damien nodded.
As they walked down a few metres more, they saw Bella, frozen on the floor. She didn't notice them, still shocked that she was now unemployed.
"You"
"You"
Both Rose and Damien said at the same time.
"You go first"
"You can go first"
They said again as they laughed together.
"You go first" Damien quickly said.
"Ok"
"Where you the one who posted that stuff on their company homepage?" Rose asked Damien.
"Yes" Damien said.
Rose understood clearly that it was because of that that Bella would not be able to work in any reasonable company again.
"Why? Do you feel sorry for her?" Damien asked.
Rose did not reply.
"You told me to stand up for my self" Damien said with a frown on his face.
When Rose saw this, her heart felt hurt, she immediately reached out to Damien and hugged his waist.
"I don't mean it like that. Yes, I felt that she's too pitiful but she had it coming from the moment she disrespected you."
The frown on Damien's face eased and he hugged her back.
Bella happened to step into her senses after what Rose said, she thought to herself,
'Was it really my fault?'
'Maybe if I had not transferred my aggression to a "innocent standby", I wouldn't be in this position now,'
'Or maybe if I hadn't mess around and just done my job right'
'Or maybe if I hadn't been greedy and had just focused on Josh'
'Maybe all this will not have happened to me' Bella sighed before she stood up, and took one last look at Rose and Damien who were not paying any attention to her.
"Hehe... Probably they never put me in their eyes from the start" She said as she started walking away silently.
"So yes, Damien" Rose disengaged from the hug and looked at her.
"You had something you wanted to ask me?"
"Yeah, you..." Damien paused as he thought how how fierce and authoritative Rose was, and felt that there was no need to bring it to her attention, fierce or meek, as long as she was his Rose, he didn't mind.
"Nevermind, you must be hungry, let's go"
*Tring*
The bell rang, as they opened the door to the restaurant.
Rose and Damien were shocked as they entered into the rundown restaurant. Or maybe it shouldn't be called rundown anymore since it was the complete opposite of it's exterior.
"Wow, it looks so beautiful" Rose said as her eyes glittered.
Damien who was looking at her also said, "Yeah, beautiful"
"Huh?" As Rose looked at him, Damien turned his face to the interior and said,
"The design is beautiful"
"Yeah. Let's go sit"
Rose said as she walked hand in hand with Damien.
Damien pulled out a chair for her and took his seat directly opposite her.
A middle aged lady came out to meet them.
"Oh lovely, we have customers. It's been so long since we've had customers. You can call me Madam" The woman said, she had a bit of French accent. Damien nodded in response while Rose said,
"Madam"
"Yes, you too must be couples"
"Yes, we are" Damien immediately affirmed, he held Rose's hand and Rose blushed.
"Oh beautiful, and what will you be having?"
"Steak Please" Damien said.
"Coming right up. While it's getting ready, would you like to have some cookies?" Madam asked.
Seeing as Damien was about to reject, she quickly added, "It's no ordinary cookie but fortune cookies"
"Fortune cookies?" Rose sais again curiously.
Damien who wanted to reject saw Rose's curious face and stopped.
"Yes, Fortune cookies... they contain little notes about the future that are sometimes on point." Madam said.
"Woaw... we'll have it" Rose clapped her hands together.
"Coming right up" Madam went in and came back in a few with a tray of cookies.
She placed it on their table and said, "Carefully pick one"
Rose and Damien both reached out for a cookie. Madam smiled, lifted up the cookie tray and left for the kitchen.
Rose nibbled on her cookie carefully and checked at interval if the paper was out, whole Damien broke the cookie directly into two and took out the paper.
"Oh, That works too" Rose forgot about hers and watched as Damien opened the paper.
Damien looked at the content of the paper, then he looked at Rose curious eyes. He directly handed the paper to her as she read out loud,
"When your building is on the verge of collapse, you decide if your choice will be the pillar or the caterpillar"
"It doesn't make sense" Rose said as she dropped his and opened hers up.
Damien looked at the paper on the table and felt that whether or not his building will collapse is none of his business, since his foundation is strong.
"Your life will be full of joy and happiness, if nd only if you can withstand the test of time."
Rose read out loud. Damien in hearing this finally felt that these fortune cookies were really inaccurate and a load of crap.
"Don't think too much about them. Don't forget they were put in there by someone" Damien said when he saw Rose trying to make sense of the words. He grabbed the paper and placed it in his pocket.
"Ahhishhh... it really doesn't make any sense" Rose said as she ran her hands through her hair.
"That's why I said not to give too much thought into it. The power to our lives is in our hands."
"You are right. I decide what happens to me and my happiness, and I choose to keep it." Rose said, as she said that she felt invigorated again, Damien smiled seeing as she had gotten past those words.
"When is the food gonna be here?" Rose asked getting impatient already, while Damien just patted her hair.
Damien and Rose discussed in low tones. After a few, clashing of the wheels against tiles was heard, meaty aroma could be perceived as Madam rolled a trolley to their table.
"Hope you enjoyed the cookies,cause you are in for the real deal" Madam said, she placed the covered dish on their table.
"Bon appetit" Madam said as she opened the dish.
Steam of hot air was first let out before the meal was revealed, as Rose saw the juicy and tender meat she swallowed are saliva.
"It's french for enjoy your meal" Madam said as she took her leave.
"Rose"
"Rose" Damien called.
"Huh" Rose finally tore her eye from the meal and looked at Damien.
"You have a bit of drool"
"Huh, where?" Rose said as she touched the side of her lips. Not finding anything, immediately looked aggressively at Damien and pouted her lips.
"Hahaha" Damien laughed out.
"Big brother Damien, it's not fair" Rose pouted.
"Ok ok, I'm sorry for pranking you. Here you go"
Damien swapped his nicely cut steak with Rose's.
"Thank you" Rose said as she placed one nicely cut steak in her mouth.
"Damien..." Rose called out.
"Huh?" Damien placed down his knife and looked at her.
"I... I just wanted...."
"I just wanted to"
"Wanted to" Rose never thought it I'll be this hard just to say some three words.
"Wanted to say..."
Rose gave up, but seeing Damien's eyes on her she has to say something... anything.
"I just wanted to say thank you, for coming for me."
Damien looked at her for long and said, "Was it so hard to say that?"
"It's no big deal for me to come save my girlfriend" Damien continued his meal.
When Rose heard this she smiled and continued with her meal. The whole time was filled with Damien giving Rose napkins intermittently. None of them talked after that, but the atmosphere was filled with comfortable silence.
**********
In the hospital,
Bella had been down for a while. She's been doing nothing but thinking and regretting.
Her rent is due in a few months but she still has no idea on how to go about with the payment since her job was gone.
Few days ago, she notice that she was feeling nauseous and that she vomited twice this morning. She also noticed that she been feeling irritated at lot of things too. So she decided to just go to the hospital to have a checkup.
"Miss Bella? Miss Bella" A male nurse called out.
"Here"
"Please come in"
Bella grabbed her bag and went in.
"Good day, Miss Bella."
"Hi"
"So how have you been feeling?"
"I have been feeling irritated of some sort late, also a little nauseous. I also vomited a bit."
"Ok, with all these symptoms, I suspect that you are pregnant. But do you have your urine sample with you?"
Bella did not respond, she was dumbfounded...
'Pregnant?'