'One must not only put their trust in fate but always be prepared for it as well.'
Waking feels so much lighter and easier than it was while going to sleep, I feel grateful for the morning because the night was much worse and so dragging not ending at all. I feel something on my forehead and when I reach for it I realize it's a cold towel on my forehead.
I put it away but I know it's Samantha who put it there last night and the thought of her fully wakes my body and senses up.
I lay back on my back and sigh suddenly thinking of her.
'My God.' Yesterday, I just thought about it and I just let out a defeated sigh.
Of all the times that I had to get sick, why did it have to happen to be yesterday?
I pull my phone and smack my lips when I reach for it to text her and realize I don't have what to text her, texting a thank you to her on the phone would do but again I don't think it would be appropriate or mean anything to everything she did for me so the best I could do is thank her in person too.
Yesterday she showed me another side of her that I never would have imagined a girl like her to have but her, she is been out of my notebook since I met for the first time.
Am about to get out of bed to go get a shower and get to work but I think I just got an idea of what to start by texting Samantha.
Yesterday she drove me here so I could just text her requesting a ride and just hope she came through for me.
I write a message up then hit send.
"Good morning Samantha."
"Thank you for yesterday!"
"May I count a ride to work from you?"
I know it's still so early but am hoping if she wakes up she gets to read and reply.
I would be much more mortified if she were to see it and ignore me or worse, see it so late that she would just laugh it off on how am making her my personal driver now.
I know am being ridiculous but whoever would say that it's because they haven't met Samantha Adams.
Am twenty-eight but the teen girl is something else I have never met in my whole life. She outgoes all my exceptions. Hearing me say this you would say am exaggerating but I know am not.
I wake up from the bed and sigh heading to the bathroom because I don't want to be late if she is going to come and pick me up.
I get ready by myself with everything by almost six thirty and am heading out of my suite to the lobby when I receive a text message from her.
'Oh yes no problem, I will be there in twenty minutes.'
I text back when I get her message.
'I will be waiting down in the lobby.'
Am glad she is coming to pick me up because now I can thank her freely, I don't have to do it over the phone.
I walk down to the lobby and then to the restaurant and order two coffees as I wait for her.
She doesn't disappoint nor make me wait for her for a lot of time, in just twenty with some add-on minutes am working out of the hotel.
I see her white Range Rover walk to her and get in the passenger seat.
"Good morning, how are you feeling?" She beats me up and greets me first.
"Good morning Samantha," I say to her before I reach for the other cup of coffee that I bought and hand it to her. "And am doing alright thanks to you."
She takes the cup of coffee and takes a sip before putting it down in the cup holder of her car.
"Thank you and am sorry that I have to say but yesterday your actions were senseless Kai, what were you thinking?" I quirk my eyebrows in questioning.
"Senseless?" I repeat in disbelief.
She seems to catch on to it and quickly adds.
"I didn't mean to hurt you but seriously Kai, what were you thinking laying there as if somehow Mother marry would be coming to you and treat your sickness." She is pulling in the gates of the embassy.
She drives and parks right at the entrance for me.
"Thank you," I say when she stops the car and I pull my seatbelt off.
"I don't mean it for the ride only, am grateful for what you did for me last night and I know it may seem careless but senseless is a whole other level of insulting." She picks up her cup of coffee and then sips it before resting it back in her cup holder.
"Am sorry if it hurts you but to me it was senseless." It stinks hearing her be so defensive about how my actions are senseless and it hurts for real.
A teen girl is somehow lecturing me about my actions and as much as she is insulting the age gap between us, I also don't mind it much which is a first coming from a guy who wasn't used to people addressing him informally in professional life.
I turn to look at her as she is drinking her coffee nonchalantly.
"Okay, I will take it even though it's still offensive but in repayment of you hurting me with your words. I was hoping to make it up for you after school today." She shrugs her shoulders. "Fair enough, but instead of you sucking about it just say you will repay my gratitude and don't make my morning so guilty."
"Today after school I would like to repay the gratitude you showed me yesterday Samantha," I say to her and she smiles.
"I will allow it." I try hard not to chuckle but I still feel a vibration of it radiate right from my chest.
"See you then," I say and she nods.
"Thank you again for the ride," I say as I open the passenger and she turns to nod her head to me.
"Thank you for the coffee too." I nod. "Drive carefully Samantha and have a good time at school."
I walk and stand there watching her drive away and somehow at the moment, I feel a pit break down in me. Earlier I was anxious about how I would thank her but what I didn't think was what I would be doing if she allowed it like she just did now.
'What do I do this evening to appease her?'
Samantha is not an ordinary girl and her being that way it's what is unsettling in trying to meet her standards.
But no matter what, tonight I want to pay her kindness.
SAMANTHA LILY ADAMS
After dropping Kai off at the embassy am a little late at school but am lucky enough that am not caught by the discipline master to deduct my marks.
Am all on cloud nine and nothing can bring me down from my spirit not even the history class that I have first in the morning that I so hate.
'Kai just asked me out?'
Am I dreaming or am I just going crazy in particular?
'He just asked me out like for real?'
God, I wonder what tonight will look like.
The whole morning of my classes is so colorful that I don't even give Lucas shit for sitting with me for Lunch instead I give him one big smile feeling like it can't do him fair enough to how am feeling.
"Lucas," I exclaim at him when he puts the tray of his food on the table and pulls the chair behind him to sit in front of me.
He quirks his eyebrows looking surprised. 'But why would he seriously?'
"This is a first." He says and I know exactly what he means but I play dumb because seriously yes, I know it's my first time being joyful at his company but it's also my first time being asked out by a guy, no I mean by a hot, handsome so manly guy. 'So mother Mary in heaven please don't make Lucas kill this for me.'
I look at him and smile before saying. "There is a first of everything all the time." He nods his head and we start eating our lunch which am grateful for he is also supporting my good mood by not adding anything.
Am so happy and gleaming with fantasies about my time with Kai after school but I also don't miss noticing how unusually quiet Lucas is.
It takes me a moment to process our last time together and it brings me directly to our arguing yesterday after school.
Kai's sickness and now his offer blanked me out of my own life for a second. "Lucas," I call and he raises his head to look at me.
I bite on my lower lip unsurely of how to put my words.
"About yesterday I…"
"Am sorry, I guess you were right somehow and I was wrong too. You came up to me the way you did and taught me something I guess, I realized telling someone no doesn't stop them from dreaming but in my defense, of all the other girls I have slept with none has ever had a problem with it being a one-time thing." I look at him and roll my eyes.
"Yeah, none had a sister that came hunting you down for the responsibility of breaking the heart of their sister."
He chuckles at my words. "Yeah, that too."
"Oh am glad you are finding my words laughable." He looks at me and I do the same. Am messing with him but I want to make fun of him a little.
"I thought we were on the same page now." I narrow my eyes at him.
"Are you crazy or something, you have the nerve of hurting my twin sister and you think me and you are on the same page. Are you always this nuts or are you just forcing yourself to be?" He blinks at me looking taken aback.
He opens his mouth and tries to find what to say but he doesn't find one because he opens and closes his mouth like a fish.
I look at him and can't help it anymore, I lean closer to him look him in the eye and say.
"You should have seen your face." I pull back and a strong laugh bursts out of me that somehow I know it attracted attention from other students but I don't care because I can't help myself for sure.
Lucas' expression was priceless like he just saw a dead person he knew rose to life.
I laugh so hard at him that at some point my stomach starts hurting, by the time can hold myself.
I have tears in my eyes and my stomach still hurts but if it were to repeat itself I would still do it all over again. "Oh my God Lucas," I say and he just glares at me.
"You are insane." He says and I nod my head. "Yeah, whatever." I wave my hand dismissively which is holding my elbow on the table while the other clutches on my stomach.
I look at Kai and smile at him.
"Remember to apologize to my sister though if you still want a ride at home." He narrows his eyes at me.
"Apologize and say what?" He asks raising his voice a little. "Am sorry I fucked you?" Am glad the last part is said much lower than the first but it still annoys me how my sister had to regard herself in this way to this jerk but as I said before I will say it again, it's her life.
I look at Kai and nod. "Yeah, it sounds reasonable enough to me."
He smacks his hand on the table.
"You are insane," I smirk at him.
"I've been called worse."
"I can tell." I laugh at that and the rest of the lunch break we spend bickering with one another and before I know it am walking out of the school doors to my car.
My feet aren't touching the ground.
'I never knew being asked out felt this magical now I think I can understand Chloe and Abby.'
I walk to where I always park my car and today Lucas isn't here, I don't think much about it and get in my car.
I reach for my phone and there is a text from an unknown.
'Wait for me.'
'Need to solve something out beforehand.'
'L'
I don't have to read the initial to know who it's from but the nerve of this boy.
'Am I his personal driver?' I roll my eyes but I still send him I won't want to wait for a long text back to him before I write a text to Kai that I've been wondering all day.
He told me he would like to repay me for my gratitude but not like it was necessary or like I did it to earn a reward from him but who am I to deny him? Now I wonder if we will be working first then go to wherever he has in mind afterwards but I want to know if I need to go home and doll myself up or something.
'Am I to come to the office or we will be going some other place today.' I just put it like that and then hit send.
I wait for his text back but it takes a long, I lean back in my seat wondering how I don't have someone to share with the news but Chloe and Abby come to my mind.
I know to our time difference back in America they could still be sleeping or getting ready for the morning but I don't care so I video call them all.
It takes a moment to answer, Chloe the early bird takes it first and I can tell she is out of the shower by her still dripping body and the pink towel around her.
"Sam, did someone die?" Am offended by her first question and before I answer Abby finally answers. "Good morning bitches."
I roll my eyes at her. "Yeah, good evening girls," I say to them and Abby knots her eyebrow.
"Well, good evening Rwanda, and good morning to Virginia." She says and I chuckle.
"So Chloe why would you offend me and think that I would call because someone died?" She rolls her eyes and it's when I realize her face is no longer there only the ceiling of her room.
"It's so early Sam and am in my period and don't you even dare to start it with me." She says and I bite my lower lip not wanting to laugh.
"No way," Abby exclaims and I know she is thinking of what her day will be looking like with Chloe on her girly monthly basis.
I look at her and say. "I can feel sorry for you all the way of this distance of a thousand hundred miles away."
"Shut up idiots I can still hear you, anyway Sam's what's up with you this early?" She asks and am reminded of Kai again.
I intertwine my hands together and look at them.
"Am going out with Kai," I say in a whisper as if saying louder would make it unreal.
"No way," Chloe says but Abby squeals so loudly that I have to quickly mute the sounds of the phone call and when I realize she is stopped, I unmute while Chloe is glaring at all of us in particular, the look in her eyes is that of a killer.
"Am out." With that being said she hangs up the phone, her actions don't surprise us because like I said I pity Abby's day, that is what I was talking about.
Chloe's periods put her in a mood swing that is circled between anger, annoyance, pain, and uninterested of everything. She is been like that for two years now and somehow we've learned to make peace with it because what girl wouldn't?
"Don't mind her, tell me how it did happen."
Am going into the details of everything from me and Kai to Abby when Lucas joins and they both go crazy about one another that somehow my conversation with her becomes second base.
Lucas picks up my phone and as I drive, I hear him flirt with my friend unashamedly like am not there at all and like it's not my phone he is using talking to her and Abby is like that too.
They talk for some time before I hear a message ring tone and Lucas turns to look at me.
"A guy named Kai Royal says just head to Radisson Blu Hotel."
I don't wait for him to say more, I snatch my phone out of his hands.
"Bye Abby's." I hung her up and clicked into the message app being careful not to crash the car or get in any kind of car accident.
'Samantha don't head to the embassy.'
'Just come to Radisson Blu Hotel.'
I know we've had lunches and break times in the restaurant one too many times but as he tells me to still go there I don't feel annoyed with the same place. Instead, I just can't wait.
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