Two weeks later,
I am running to my office as I am little late because I couldn’t sleep till it was 2 hours before the time for my alarm to ring. I just wore an off-shoulder white top with a tight black skirt that reaches till my knees and has a small slit that shows little of my right thigh with little makeup and a chain that has a small bird charm on it. I wore the makeup while I was in the traffic. And my habit of wearing little makeup helped me in this case.
Today is the month end meaning I have to work overtime which actually is not bad nowadays at first it was worse as I had to do it alone. Nowadays my friends Cassy and Richard stay along with me as they recently got promoted to my block and Cassy being Cassy waits till the deadline to complete her work and later complains about it and though she has told us many times, she is going to change her habit, never has she done it.
Richard differs from both of us cause he is the perfect employee, the guy who completes everything on time. But then you may why do he stay to work overtime if he completes his work it’s because he stays to keep me company. And that is the reason why I said working overtime is fun nowadays cause I don’t actually do my work, but I do it anyway by taking it home. Richard and I are not in a relationship if that is what you are thinking we just have casual sex ‘no strings attached’.
As I walk through the passage, I said good morning to everyone seated on their desks on either side of the passage, heading to my cubicle. Yupp that’s the best part of this job I have my cubicle, everything was already prepared by my dad I only had to come in for the interview ace it and boom I got the job cause I did pretty good in my academics if the scholarship I got was of any proof. The interviewer was pretty impressed with the way I dressed, which by the way was full sleeve white t-shirt with grey coat and grey pants; I wore little makeup as in just eyeliner; I am not a fan of cosmetics that much hence with the light makeup. Finally, finished the look with updo hairstyle which by the way was pretty hard considering the fact that every 5 minutes some strands would come down from the updo. The way I spoke with confidence also surprised her, lets just say that’s the training from my father considering I am the future CEO of Marshal co. which was snatched from me.
The job I got was of an architecture in ‘Simiona Architects’ named after Mr. Simon and his wife Fiona. It was a highly reputed firm, though not that famous, but had enough name to get big clients.
As I sat in my chair and power on my computer, I saw an email of my deadline of the design I am working on for Waynst ltd. It seems the client is pretty big to take over this company if I don’t hand the design on time. Rude, I may say. The email made me remind of the letter I got from dad the events followed by it.
Soon after I decoded the letter and read it, I burned the original letter and added locks to the scanned letter. It’s just not any locks if unlocked by any person other than me, it will affect their device with virus. My dad taught that, he is very good in computer all the hackings and stuffs although I have no idea why or from where he learnt it from. He taught me many coding and told me to figure the rest out by myself which I haven’t done ever since but I will have to seeing that now every findings for any clue leading to reason behind my parents’ demise depends on it.
After all the burning and locking, I told Uncle that I am moving out to the apartment arranged by my dad and he said okay since he has nothing much to say in it. Though I am very grateful for every help, he has done for me I think I need to give him his space since I am not the only person who lost someone dear to me he lost his sister too; I need to move out so that the future drama taking place in my life will not affect him in any way this is the only way I can show him my gratitude.
Like dad mentioned in the letter soon after every essential item of mine was packed from my home and Uncle Nat’s house I went to Uncle Nick and told him about the letter which by the way was not surprising for him since he was mentioned in it. With Amanda’s support not only in moving the boxes to my new house but also mentally as going back to the house I used to call home was filled with too much memories that I couldn’t stay there without a tear in my eyes. I thought I had passed the stage of crying, but I was not how will I ever be.
After settling down, Mandy offered to stay, but I rejected it as I want my space as much as I wanted her to be near me. I think it’s time to stand on my own with no one’s help, which was hard, but I coped up with it.
The next instruction from dad was the hardest. Meeting Ryder. Forget about meeting him I couldn’t even get to see a glimpse of him. I tried many methods to find his number which I got through Mandy which was taught to her by her dad, Uncle Nick was also very good in coding seeing that my dad and he was not only best friends but childhood friends it was through them that Aunt Olivia Mandy’s mom and my mom became best friends. While I tried to get a glimpse of him, Mandy found his number.
I got his number; I got to hear his voice which made me tear up again but remembering the task in hand I said Hello and he hung up on me. HE HUNG UP ON ME. Well, I forgot this is not my Ry we are talking about. I tried to call him again, but it said the device was switched off. I felt something ran down my face and when I touched it; I understood I was crying. Now I understood why Ry never hung up on me in the past, though I did it many times either to irk him or because of our stupid fights, IT FREAKING HURTS.
I cried and cried the whole day and cooled myself down, but when Mandy came to the apartment; I started crying so badly that I felt like I would die I couldn’t even breathe which I understood much later that I hyperventilated if it wasn’t for her quick response I don’t even want to think about it. After crying the whole day Mandy took me out for a walk which really helped me a lot, later when I came home did I find the boxes in my living and when I looked at Mandy, she said nothing but went straight to unpacking. Well, that’s Amanda for you, even if I say I don’t want her help she will make it seem like it is she who wants it though it is just because of stubbornness that I declined her help but in reality I needed her help. More like I wanted her to support me like always.
So from then on she became my roommate. She was not only my roomie but my helper in investigation too, since I needed her to find the clues. She was the one who drove me to interview she was the one who calmed my nerves. I don’t know how will I ever repay her. The things she does for me mean the world to me, though it is what best friends more like sisters from another mother are for.
The thing that made me more broken was the magazine I saw in the café next to our office building. The magazine had a picture of Ry, though with excitement I took the magazine because of the shock I had to pay extra because of the cup I broke. It was a picture of Ryder and some model claiming to be his one-night stand caught kissing in front of a 5-star hotel. It seems he has been doing this for sometime more like 2 years. This is the time during which I lost his contact completely and was searching for him but didn’t get any news of his sudden disappearance. Seems like I was the only one loyal to our relationship while he was fooling around with many girls with that I quickly got out of the café and went straight home. Luckily Amanda was there and after telling her what happened she told me to go into bath which was confusing but she pour sweet aromatic bubble bath and let me say nothing can replace a bubble bath with wine and sweet music in my case I wanted a depressing song and it was played. I cried during the complete bath, but the pain was somehow less compared to the time he hung up on me. Amanda called to my office and asked for a medical leave. Gone to work for only two days and already started asking for medical leave. But they were understanding by making me work two overtime.
It was during these times; I met Cassy and Richard. First, I met Cassy as she was the one who showed me around the office and in within seconds we clicked we had so many similarities like our favourite shows friends and favourite character Damon Salvatore and Klaus Mikaelson, what can I say they are hot!!! Then she made me and Richard meet though her plan was for us to be in a relationship I said I was not interested same as Richard as he recently had a heartbreak.
But later he started having a crush on me, I could see that, like, the way he got angry as other male colleagues came to talk to me. And I talked to him about it and said I am not interested in any relationship, but then he was the one who suggested for ‘no strings attached’ relationship.
I shook my head, removing all the other thoughts from my head, and tried to focus on the job in hand. And that’s when my chief came barging into my office.
“KATHERINEEEE,”