On the ride home I kept thinking about what Emily said and in as much as I was pretending to be Oki was hurting so fucking bad inside. And I just couldn't find sleep that night. The next day at work I was very tired and now I had accepted what was being thrown at me. Emily come and asked me to act as normal as I can and pretend that I don't know about Mr Rimu's plan. I went on with her and I did it perfectly.I had a new idea on the display and I had started working on it since I found Stacy already working online and I said I won't confront her since they were all giving me the silent treatment. Our boss walked in just as I had started working on the display he gave us a general greetings and out of nowhere my colleagues started being busy for nothing. Which was very petty since there was a cc tv but anyways I shrugged and went on with my work alongside John and at the same time helping Emily with color combos for the the days shoot. The disply come out so fucking gorgeous and a few pics had to be taken from that spot and then John come to my ear and whispered "just look of how jealous Stacy and Andrew are of you". I told him to ignore them and went on with the work untill Emily come again with the same accusations as John but I still choose to ignore them and advised them to do the same. Our camera man then come to me with the pretense to show me how the pics were only for him to show me pictures he had taken of Mr Rimu stealing a few glances for every once in a while and then he low-key asked if there's anything going on or if he's trying to court me to which I said" cort me or firing me coz apparently i only have this month before i get fired a good one." He looked at me with his eyes wide open and asked what am talked about and I had to explain everything according to Emily's statement but made him promise not to tell a soul . He raised his pinky to seal his promise and just as we sealed it Mr Rimu called me to the store to help with the arrangements and I followed him as we were one box remaining he cleared his throat and asked" are you still mad at me? " I looked at him and said a firm no then he went and carefully locked the door and this alerted me though I kinda liked the growing tension. He just asked why am not conversing with him that much as before and I had to admit that things had changed. He come closer and I just blurted out " you do know am a grown up and I can handle anything by now so kindly if you want to fire me just tell me and not my colleagues". He was shocked by my outburst and he asked what I was talking about then I told him what Emily said and he admitted to saying that but it was out of anger and frustration since he was handling the online clients. He then proceeded to ask me what we were promising each other with the camera lmao and I come out clean. We stood there in silence only for him to give me a hug and that's all it took for me to breakdown and we actually hugged for what seemed like ages while still affirming and giving promises to each other. When we pulled away our faces were so close that we almost kissed but we managed to pull away and continue with our work just in time for his wife Tracy to walk in. She helped us with the last box and we all made our way out of the store and lemme tell the smile that was etched on my face was speaking volumes. My heart was In a lot of pressure and my emotions were all over the place and I just couldn't make my blush and goosebumps disaster from eye views. When I lifted up my head our eyes met and I quickly looked away only to be met by Mr camera man who was looking at me intently and I told him that we were going to talk about it later and obviously he made me promise him that I sure will. On my way home much later on the day Mr Rimu was already waiting for me and we boarded the carriage lift and he locked it.