"Aileen! What are you doing here?"
"Am I allowed to come inside?"
He nodded, the assistant left
"You sent me breakfast and I wanted to share it with you"
"You didn't have to" he said with his focus still on that file he was working on
"You don't even want to look at me have I done something wrong?" She wanted to ask but she couldn't
"If you don't eat then i won't"
He stopped whatever he was doing, got up from his chair took the food from her and set it up for her on the table in front of the couch she was sitting on, she smiled
They started eating, he was too silent
"Why are you eating so little here" she offered him food and he ate it from her hand,
"It's ok don't bring more this food was made for you" he said
"I miss your voice and care" she said in her mind
Since he broke his silence, she was going to give him an earful of her words
"You...."
"Shhh! Have you forgotten your manners?when you're eating you shouldn't talk" he said placing his finger on her lips Aileen stared at him and hiccuped, he got her water
"When have we ever cared about that manner, we were always talking and not to count how many times I have said that to you but you never listened" she thought
"Be careful" he said and did another thing that stopped her hiccup, he wiped a food stain from the edge of her lips and put in in his mouth
"What's happening to me" she thought
"Aileen go back, I will have this place cleaned up. I need to go back to work"
He didn't leave any room for her to speak, she returned back to her workplace
"Still he's not talking to you?"
"Yes sis"
"You went to his office the other day right? Wasn't he busy as he said?"
"His eyes looked tired"
"Then he's really busy, what's wrong with you?"
"I don't know sis but I can't stand his silence, I feel I am losing him and I don't want to lose him" she worriedly said
"He was always there when you needed him, he made time for your every needs. So why don't you be there for him too, go to him if he's not coming to you then. If you feel there's a gap between you guys then you close it"
"Thank you sis, he was always annoying me with his presence till I got so used to him, now I am going annoy him double for even trying to go away about me"
"Thinking about it doesn't his girlfriend live abroad and we were there, what if something happened"
"He was with me all the time he never met Nina and Nina was not in that state"
"But she could have made time for him, based on what you've been saying, he started behaving like this since his return from abroad, what if they're going through something"
"Then I am going to be there for him" she said and sel laughed
"What's wrong?"
"Julius is all you think about these days"
"That's because he's driving me crazy"
Aileen wanted to be there for him like he was for her, she was now going to his office everyday just like he used to do
"Sir, your girlfriend is here again" his assistant said and he smiled
"She's not my girlfriend"
"But the other time she introduced herself as such"
"Huh?"
"Yes sir"
He smiled and said
"Don't misunderstand her she meant she's my girl-friend a very close one at that too, don't spread rumors"