Roselle woke up and she felt her whole body aching. She realized that she had been dreaming about her past again. Slowly, she stretched her body until all the muscles in her body relaxed. When she looked around, everywhere seemed different and she was in a strange room. She became alarmed peering around. Immediately she slid her hands under the bed sheets on her body and she realized that she had no clothes on.
"Hell! Where am I?" She panicked. She struggled to remember all that happened but all attempt to do so was futile.
Quickly, she tied the bed sheets around her chest and went to the door but it was locked. She became afraid glancing around in search of a place to escape before her kidnapers comes. She went to the window and noticed it was not locked. Quickly, she opened it and made to jump but it was too high for her to be able to jump.
Fortunately for her, she saw a stool beside the bed. Quickly, she took it to the window and stood on it, then she raised her legs ready to jump.
"Roselle,"
Roselle's leg froze and out of fear, her legs wobbled and she fell from the stool.
"Roselle, don't panic it's me, Tina."
Roselle glanced up and saw Tina standing at the doorway. "Oh, Tina it's you." She heaved a sigh of relief holding her hands on her chest.
"I thought I'd been kidnapped," Roselle said aiding herself with the stool to stand properly. She held her waist as if it had already broken, nearly scared to death thinking that she had been kidnapped.
"Roselle, you scared me. Thank goodness you are awake. I thought something bad would happen to you. I thought I was going to lose you." Tina said almost in tears, she ran towards Roselle and hugged her. Roselle did not respond to the gesture instead her inquisitive eyes scanned the room.
"This is my new apartment. You passed out in the car yesterday, remember?" Tina asked taking Roselle's hands. "I had to take you here and I called your doctor. He was the one who checked you up." She explained further.
"You haven't told me you live in a new apartment," Roselle said.
"I wanted to yesterday, but I couldn't when that fight came up."
Roselle thought for a while and at this point, the memory of what happened yesterday came running back into her mind. "Where is Nate? What happened to him?" Roselle made to move but Tina held her back.
"Relax friend, I took him to the hospital. He is still unconscious but the doctor said he would recover soon. Everything will be fine with him okay?"
"Thank you for always helping me in time of need Tina."
"It's okay, what are friends for anyway?" Tina said and pulled Roselle back to her bed. "Here sit. I made your favourite fruit juice, you will love it." She took the juice out from the small fridge which was in a corner of the room.
Roselle nodded and took the juice from her. She sipped the juice and let it linger in her mouth for some minutes as she took her time savouring the taste.
Tina watched her do this and she giggled. "That is one of the things I love about you, you always make the best of everything Roselle."
Roselle smiled and said, "The juice is sweet"
"Thank you." Tina smiled and just then, Roselle glanced up at the clock on the wall and saw that it was 9 a.m.
"It's morning already?" Roselle asked eyes widened.
"Yes, it's morning and a new day."
"Why didn't you tell me? You should have woken me up. I have a lot to take care of at the office. How am I going to catch up now?" Roselle hissed.
"How could I have woken you? Come on Roselle you passed out remember?"
"Where is my dress?" Roselle asked and held her hands on her forehead. "And that reminds me, how come I have no clothes on?"
"Do I have to explain that too? You sweated a lot yesterday and when I got you here, I had to remove your gown to be able to clean your body so that your temperature would calm down " Tina explained and raised the red silk gown which Roselle had worn to the bar yesterday.
"Not that Tina, I mean my office clothes."
"I have no idea, this was what you had on when I took you here."
Roselle thought for a while and remembered she had left her office cloth in her car yesterday when Nate was driving her to the hotel. "My car, it's in my car go and get it" Her request came as an order.
"Alright but calm down a bit. You will pass out again if you continue like this. In fact, you still need some rest to recuperate."
"Tina, please hurry, there's no time to rest."
"Okay, am on it." Tina's voice vibrated in the room as she ran out to get her order. She busted the door open again.
"Where are the clothes?"
"I forgot to take the car key."
"What?" Roselle screamed running out of patience. Just then Tina found the key and ran out again immediately.
Roselle began to search for her phone and found it inside her purse on the table beside the bed. When she unlocked the screen, several notifications popped in on the screen. Twenty missed calls and ten unread messages. She skimmed through the notification to see who the missed calls and messages were from.
Santiago was the first on the list with ten missed calls and three messages, followed by other messages from mum and Lana. "They must be so worried about me." She muttered to herself and she was startled by the door that suddenly busted open and Tina batched in.
Tina flagged Roselle's bag where her office clothes were and exclaimed, "I found it, here take it."
Roselle took the cloth and unfolded it. It had all rumpled and only then did she realize that she had worn the cloth yesterday and she shouldn't wear it again today without washing it. "Tina, I wore this yesterday how can I wear it again? Do you have something simple I can wear?"
Tina groaned. "Oh Roselle, you had made me run down the stairs and back now…"
"I'm sorry Tina I forgot about that." She interrupted.
"Fine, let me find one for you," Tina said and went to the wardrobe. After dangling through the dresses, there was nothing suitable for her to wear to the office. The gowns and skirts were either too short or too revealing.
"Oh Tina, your wardrobe is good for nothing." Roselle snorted.
"Go and take a quick shower Roselle and I'll try to find something."
"No, no time to take a shower."
"But Roselle you will look haggard."
"I have no time to waste," Roselle said and wore her dress and smoothed her hair with her fingers. She took her phone to reply to her mum's message. 'Mum, I'm okay, I will call you when I have settled everything.' She pressed send and took a moment to skim through the other unread messages.
Just then, she saw Dave's message and then she realized that she had totally forgotten about her blind date. "Oh my goodness, my date with Dave what am I going to do now?"
"Stop it, Roselle, it's enough now. You had a very bad yesterday and you can't change what happened. So please, try to calm down and settle everything one after another. Don't have too much to chew at once." Tina said and patted Roselle on her back.
Roselle took her purse and made to leave but Tina's sudden call made her halt again.
"Look I find something less revealing." Tina brought up the sleeveless gown.
"But it is still revealing so forget about it." Roselle rejected immediately, leaving Tina in awe. "Where did you park my car?"
"Outside the house," Tina answered and scurried behind Roselle and out of the room.
Outside, Roselle went to the place Tina had parked her car. She entered the car and turned on the ignition then turned to look at Tina. "Thank you once again, Tina, you are really a friend."
"You are most welcome, Roselle," Tina shouted back waving at Roselle until she drove out of the place.