Laura eyelids were literally closing on their own and she had dark circles under her eyes at work. This was because she and Andre talked till the early hours of the morning that she hardly got three hours of sleep.
Last night.....
Immediately after Andre got inside his room, he sent the pictures to his mother and grandfather and then decided to call Laura. He plugged his airpods in his ears and dialled her number while undressing.
After the fifth ring, Laura picked up.
"Hello... Sorry I didn't pick up on time"
"Where were you?" He asked her.
"I ... I was in the bathroom." She was already red from embarrassment because it felt weird telling him where she was as he must have imagined what she was doing. "Are you done with your mum and grandfather?."
"Yes I am. After they saw your pictures, it seems like I'm no longer the adorable or gorgeous one. You've snatched the spotlight away from me."
Laura lightly chuckled at his words. Andre smiled as well, by now he was done undressing and wanted to go and freshen up.
"You're not sleeping yet right?" He asked her.
"No, not yet."
"Good I'm about to go take a shower. I'm going to call you back when I'm done. Then we can start talking about the things you want to know about me."
The last statement Andre made was enough to build Laura's curiosity to the peak. She thought he wouldn't answer her anymore after their discussion in the car and they he would expect her to figure them out herself. All the sleeping senses in her were jolted awake and she couldn't wait for him to finish whatever he wanted to do.
"Okay?"
"Okay." She replied and he ended the call.
Fifteen minutes later, a message from Andre popped up on Laura's phone screen.
Future husband: 'Hi, I'm done'
Laura: 'Ohh, okay'
Future husband: 'Why don't we make it a Q&A session. You ask a question and I reply you.'
Laura: 'That's fine by me.'
And that was how the both of them spent the whole night asking questions and answering them, not knowing that so much time had passed.
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Even though Laura's resignation letter was approved of by now, she still had to work till the end of that day. Immediately it was lunch break before anyone could leave their seats m, she told her colleagues that it was her last day of work today.
"What?!... Why?!" one of here colleagues, Annie asked as others also bombarded her with questions.
" I have some family issues to resolve in Country Z as they ( her family) reside there. It might take months or even years to resolve this so taking leave us not an option since I'm not coming back anytime soon." She replied to all of their questions at once with a heavy heart. Even though she kept to herself most times, majority of her colleagues were really good to her and she was going to miss all of them.
" So you're leaving today?" another one of her colleagues, Mike asked.
"Yes."
Kiara hugged her and said " huuuuuh😩... you should have told us before, we would have planned something for you. "Laura patted her back and replied "It's okay, I don't mind". Her other colleagues also took turns in hugging her, some said words of encouragement while some thanked her for all she's done for them.
After work hours.
Laura cleared her table. She returned the company's things while she kept her personal belongings in a backpack. She then went to Andre's office as he had said before.
"Good evening." She said after she was permitted to come in by him.
"Evening. You can sit on the couch or get yourself busy with something else, I'm almost done."
'He seems to have a lot of work to do. How is he going to finish all of that in a short period of time.' She thought. "Okay."
Laura sat herself comfortably on the one-sitter couch and she picked a fashion magazine. She was so tired that it was not up to ten minutes that she dozed off. After a couple of minutes, Andre went to where she was sitting and carried her inside the room that was made for him to rest. He placed her on the bed and covered her properly.
After two hours, Andre was far done with his work but Laura still didn't wake up.
"Sigh, I don't have the heart to wake you up but it's late already."
"Laura... Laura" He kept repeating her name as he tapped her.
Laura fluttered her eyelashes and finally came back from dreamland.
"Hmm.... Where am I?" She said.
"Oh my God, did I sleep off?!" She sat up on the bed.
"Calm down. Yes you slept off but we are still in my office and I had to wake you up because it's late already. We even missed your appointment with the optician." He explained to her.
"I'm so sorry for troubling you." She apologized.
"Who said you're troubling me?" He showed her the way to the restroom. "You can go and wash your face and do any other thing you want to do over there."
Andre dropped her home and drove straight to his own house. They talked in the phone for a while before wishing each other a good night. After Laura lied down, she blushed and shook her head as she remembered her conversation with Andre in the car.
In the car...
"I'll mail the papers to you tomorrow since you won't come to work. We weren't able to complete everything today."
"Oh... okay, that's fine by me. You can take your time." And silence reigned in the car.
"It seems like a lot of guys come to visit you at your house." Andre finally asked what he had been itching to ask since he saw her pictures.
"Excuse me?" Laura had one of her eyebrows raised up as she stared at him.
"Don't get me wrong. In one of the pictures you sent to me, you were in your apartment and in another one you were at the beach. From what I heard, you like to keep to yourself a lot so I thought it must have been your boyfriend?"
" Oh no no, it's actually my cousin Dave. He comes over to greet me every Sunday so it was one of those Sundays that he took the picture and there was a day we went to the beach together. That was when he took the other picture. Those pictures were actually taken when I was unaware."
"Ohh..." None of them didn't say anything anymore but after a while Andre broke the silence again. "I'll come to pick you up by noon tomorrow in order to meet my mum and grandfather."
"Ohh.. Okay"
"Try get enough sleep tonight."
'It's your fault I didn't get enough last night.' She scolded him in her head. "Hmmn." She hummed in reply.
And they continued the rest of their journey in silence.