"It's really not a hassle!", "Are you sure ma'am?!", The chauffeur asked as he withdrew his gloved hands from Emily's luggage. Somehow, Emily was able to get the luggage to the car trunk, before she went to settle in the car. After five long minutes when Tessa didn't show up, she phoned her, " I'm the beauty queen here, why does it take you so long to get ready?", Emily asked rubbing the skin above her eyebrows.
"I have to look my best, we're going back to the home country!", Tessa said chuckling, "Fine, just get to the car real quick, we don't have all day!", Emily said before she cut the call. While they were waiting for Tessa who took longer as she had to check out of the hotel, Emily checked her emails and their flight schedules to make sure everything went as planned, the chauffeur, on the other hand, had his hand filled with checking the car to make sure it was ready for the ride to the airport.
" I'm here, I'm here!", Tessa squealed her coat in hand, and hilariously ran in heels as she made her way to the car. She slowed down to open the door before she sat beside Emily. Breathing heavily, she managed to flash a smile to the chauffeur before she said, "you can start the car now!". He nodded his head before moving the car and heading to the airport.
" How long are we going to stay at the hotel?", Tessa asked, facing Emily, "Maybe till we find a nice apartment!", " oh okay!", Tessa paused before she continued, "do you think the agency is going to assign another manager for you?", Tessa finally asked the burning question she wanted to ask all day long.
Emily smiled at her best friend/manager/assistant's antiques, she replied, " I think they are!", she said, teasing her. "Ohh!", Tessa said looking out the window as she felt really bad she was going to lose her job as Emily's assistant.
Deciding not to take the teasing too far, Emily said, "But I probably wouldn't take the offer!", " why!?", Tessa asked still looking at the view through the window as the chauffeur drove them closer to the airport.
"Cause I have someone better, and she's sitting beside me, feeling bad seconds ago because she thought I was going to replace her!", Emily said watching Tessa's expression. Tessa turned with a smile on her face wrapping Emily in a hug. " Thank you!", she said while they were still hugging.
Pulling from the hug, Tessa said, "I don't get it though?", " get what!", Emily asked, "why do you want to go back when you have this amazing career here!", Tessa said earning a smile from Emily.
" let me tell you something I never told you before, do you know why I left my home country in the first place?", Emily asked, "no!", Tessa replied before Emily continued, " I left my home country while I was still young, way before I met you. I had an important goal I wanted to achieve back then, and that is to be among the top five in the class A model list!", Emily said.
"Well, you achieved that all right!", Tessa said sarcastically, rolling her eyes. Emily sighed shaking he head, " I did get to that position after several hours of work and commitment. However, during the pursuit of my riches today, I left something, or rather someone, a very important someone, and I'm going back to get him!", Emily said leaning on the seat, a big smile plastered on her face.
Tessa smiled because she didn't need to be told twice, it turned out Emily liked someone else, 'no wonder she didn't entertain the other guys!", Tessa thought.
They got to the airport in no time, going through the checks and making sure their documents were legible, first-class seats or not, Emily and Tessa still had to go through the normal processes. They had to wait for an extra twenty minutes as the airplane headed to Eustopia was slightly delayed.
EUSTOPIA
"You know what, I don't actually care if she's coming or if she's around whatever, I don't care. She left a long time ago, and I've moved on from the silly crush, I even have a beautiful girlfriend at that!", Lucas said, a smirk on his face as he leaned properly on his seat.
" Huh?", Martin asked, be continued, "that's good then, and in case she thinks of anything else, you tell her you're no longer single!", Martin said clapping his hand… he really thought he came up with the best solution.
" Hmm!", Lucas trailed before he continued, "seems like you have too much time playing around these days!", Lucas said, sitting up as he was about to make Martin stay longer hours at the office.
"No, no, it's okay, I do, I do have work, and ill be on my way now!", Martin said, standing up and leaving his office in hopes that Lucas wouldn't give him more workload. He was wrong however, Lucas had already sent the files before Martin left his office.
" Ohhh come on!", Martin helped when he saw the amount of workload he had to deal with. "More time with Audrey!", Lucas said, a smile on his face after he heard Martin yelling from his office.
The day passed by swiftly, and a smile clustered on Audrey's face that she had been able to complete her fair share of work assigned for that day. Her smile grew even wider in anticipation of how she was going to spend her evening.
After packing her things, she leaned on her chair, taking deep breaths as she was fairly tired. Audrey stretched her hands to take her phone, she had to inform Prisca that she might be out late.
Audrey was surprised however to see a notification from her bank, the message read that she had been sent a huge amount of money and the reason behind it was according to the terms of some contract.
'Contract? contract?', Audrey muttered before she finally remembered that she did sign a contract, but with Lucas. 'He remembered!', Audrey thought smiling. Her mind started thinking of ways to ask him about it