SHARK BUILDING COOPERATION
"You have a photoshoot by 3:00 Ma'am!"Kim said and Lavender just nodded as she continued pinging on her keyboard.
"Wait, what's the time Kim"Lavender suddenly asks, looking up from the laptop.
"This is 2:20 ma'am"Yet again, Kim replied professionally and Lavender began smiling, causing Kim to raise a brow.
"Ma'am.. You're okay?"Kim pooped her head forward and asked.
"Do I have any other thing to do before the photoshoot?"Lavender asked and Kim smiled lightly.
"No Ma..."
"Good then!!"Lavender cut Kim off, standing up from her chair confusing Kim the More.
"Let's go to the coffee restaurant" Lavender smiled as she spoke.
"Yes. Yes. Yes, Ma'am!!"Kim stuttered and without waiting for Kim to say a word, lavender grabbed her jacket which was on the chair armrest.
"Bestie!!!!"A voice shouted the moment Lavender opened the door.
"Hey Charlotte!!"Lavender smiled, hugging the Charlotte girl.
They both have been besties right from high school.
"Wassup girl? Where to???"Charlotte asked and Lavender smiled.
"Off to see someone. Care to know him?"Lavender smiled and Charlotte gasped.
"Wait.. wait lavender, Did you say him? Or am I hallucinating?"Charlotte laughed funnily while gawking at lavender.
"You're not hallucinating girl! I did say him, so?"Lavender rolled their eyes and Charlotte began laughing.
"Woah Charlotte! You haven't stopped dreaming right? Can you wake up from this sleep huh?"Still, yet, Charlotte continued and Lavender folded her hands under her chest as she watched her friend blabbering.
Charlotte suddenly stopped laughing and turned to Kim.
"Kim come give me a Deep slap, I seriously need to wake up from..."Charlotte wasn't chanced to round up her statement when a thunderous slap met her cheek, her eyes rotated in their sockets as she stared at Kim with wide eyes.
"Kimberly!!!!!!!"
••••
COFFEE RESTAURANT**
"Welcome Miss Lavender! Manager Ken greeted with a cheerful smile the moment Lavender approached him.
Charlotte and Kim were already seated and when she couldn't find Hardin, she had to walk up to the manager.
"Actually. I'm looking for one of your employees"Lavender began and manager Ken nodded slowly.
"We have lots of employees here, so if I may ask which one of them are you searching for?"
"He's a guy. Average height...." lavender was still talking when manager Ken cut her off with a grunt.
"Oh!!! That dumb@ss? What did he steal? I promise to deal with him. How dare he...."
"I think you're mistaken here, Mister!!"Lavender hit her hand angrily on the counter, gaining Charlotte and Kim's attention, plus the other customers in the restaurant.
"What's happening over there?"Charlotte asked Kim who shrugged.
"No idea!"She simply replied.
"I'm..I'm. sorry Ma!"Manager Ken bowed respectfully and Lavender scoffed.
"I'm done for the Day..."Hardin stopped talking when he saw Lavender with his Boss.
He made to rush back inside, but seems luck wasn't on his side, cuz Lavender already saw him.
"Oh, there he is!!"Lavender smiled, pointing at Hardin who clenched his jaw tightly.
"Uhmmmm, I.. need.. I mean, my friend and I need a hot cup of Americano" She smiled and Hardin scoffed.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but I'm already done for the day. Other attendants can help bring your order"Hardin replied bluntly while rubbing his thigh gently.
Lavender only smiled as she took a few steps closer to him.
"Well, I want you to serve us!"She replied, making Hardin groan loudly.
"I..."
"No protesting Hardin! Go serve her right now" Manager Ken butted in.
Though he was fuming in anger, he still needed to intervene, or else he might lose a rare customer.
Gritting his teeth angrily, Hardin stormed back inside to get the coffee.
"That's the guy?"Charlotte asked Lavender who was already pulling out a chair to sit down.
She was back already.
"Hmmmm! He looks cool right?"Lavender smiled and Kim only coughed before looking away, lavender glared at her before turning her gaze back to Charlotte.
Charlotte looked at lavender from hair to toe, before imagining Hardin's face.
"Lavender!!!!"She couldn't help it and Lavender hummed a reply.
"The guy? What happened to him? You're emotionally attached to him?"Charlotte asked with a disappointed look on her face and lavender pouted her lips.
"Ava needs him and not me!"She defended herself and Charlotte scoffed.
"Ava needs him! Can you hear yourself speak?"Charlotte began nagging and just then, Hardin came back with the cups of coffee.
"Here ma's!"He bowed respectfully and Charlotte's jaw dropped completely as she found herself, drooling over his handsomeness.
"Close it up!!"Lavender immediately closed back Charlotte's mouth which was still wide open.
Kim only made a muffled sound as she grabbed her cup of coffee, sipping hurriedly from it.
"Lavender..."
"Charlotte Don't think of it!!!"
••••
"Oliver come eat your dinner please!!"Hardin begged for the umpteenth time, yet Oliver wasn't having any of it.
He was in his room, the door locked and Hardin had been begging for ages, asking him to come and eat.
"Daddy go away and go see Ava!!"Oliver's angry voice came out and Hardin exhaled tiredly before resting his hand on the door.
"Oliver I can explain, just come out already please!!"
"Go away, Mister!!"Oliver shouted and Hardin raised a brow.
Mister? Did he hear right? His son was calling him Mister? Oh, God!!
"You won't hear Daddy explain first huh? You and I saw how she jumped on me. The girl might be sad, she misses her Dad and adding to the fact that she was being bullied by the students, she misunderstood me for her dad Oliver, can you just try and understand?"Hardin continued and Oliver scoffed.
"I need to cool my mind down Dad, just go. I'd join you soon" Oliver replied and Hardin heaved.
He knew staying there and begging Oliver to come out wouldn't help unless he decided to, so he just thought it right to leave him, maybe he needed to cool off his mind.
"I'd be waiting, son!"
••••
"Guess what Nanny?"Ava asked Nanny Esther who was busy dishing out her meal for her.
"What cutie?"Nanny Esther asked with a smile, lavender who was busy with her phone looked up from the phone, her whole attention now on Ava who was still smiling.
"I saw my daddy today!"
"What?!!!!"
Both Lavender and Nanny Esther shouted at once, though Lavender knew Ava met Hardin, but she wasn't expecting her to say it out.
"What did I tell you about table manners?"Lavender asked and Ava smiled.
"Don't talk when eating"She replied softly.
"Good then, so keep to it"Lavender said and Ava nodded slowly as she picked up her fork and continued eating, but after two minutes.
"Nanny, you needed to see how the students were drooling over my Dad"Still yet, Ava continued and Lavenderwastaboutt toaboutersspikedit out immediately.
"Ava!!!!"
"Mom just this once please, after today I'll keep the table manners rule"Ava pleaded with a smile andLavenderr rolled her eyes as she continued eating.
Nanny Esther only ruffled her hair, knowing that maybe, she was not sure of who she saw, but didn't want to cut her off.
"Nanny, my Dad is the most handsome dude I've ever seen"She continued as she munched on her meat.
Lavender only shook her head.
"Really?"Nanny Esther asked and Ava hummed a reply, whilst pushing More meat into her mouth.
"And guess what?"She asked in between mouthfuls.
"I took over my Dad. I mean, Daddy is very handsome, I'm a beautiful Angel. Daddy is smart and looking, and his angel is the smartest too, with his curly hair, abs and lips. Nanny, my Dad is a Demi-God!!"She muttered out dreamily with a giggle and Nanny Esther chuckled.
"But there's something that's still bothering me!"Ava turned to her Mom this time and talked.
"Mom?"She called and Lavender hummed a reply to her, not lifting her face off the meal.
"Did.. you perhaps, break up with Dad cuz of his handsomeness?"
Lavender immediately choked on her Meal, the moment Ava asked the question.