Anette stood at the entrance to Joshua's office. The foolishness she had displayed over the past few months flashed before her eyes as she gulped down the bitterness she felt in her throat. She was not sure if Joshua would see her but she knew that she had to try. She would not feel good if she did not at least try to make amends. Richard had made a small proposal for her in the last week and they were currently planning the party.Leslie was still very against the entire situation but there was little she could do except plit within herself. Anette was there to invite them to the engagement party.Richard had told her that her mom would find it difficult to do anything suspicious with Joshua if she managed to invite him to the party. She saw the sense in what he had said but after standing in front of his office for thirty minutes she was not sure if she could do it.She heard her phone ring in her pocket. She took it out and tried to avoid the stares of the security guards. They al
As Anette walked the walls she tried her best to be as confident as she had been in time past. She stopped at Aletta's desk and tapped her hands lightly to draw the attention of Aletta who seemed deeply buried in whatever it was she had in front of her.Aletta's eyes widened as if she had seen a ghost and she stood up pushing her chair back. "Ms... Anette" Aletta stuttered trying to remain calm.She was not sure of the right way to address her so she stuttered. Anette pressed her lips into a straight line and stared at her."I am here to see Joshua," she said silently.Aletta could not tell how she knew but there was a strange kind of air around her. It was not like she was there for trouble or any of its sorts."Let me check with Mr Delgado if he will be receiving any guests today," Aletta said taking up the receivers.Anette's hand grabbed her hands and her eyes glistened. "Please, I am here to apologize" she said and Aletta gently dropped the receiver to the table."If you asked hi
"There are no words I can use to describe how much of a nuisance I have been over the past few years" Anette started. Her head was hung low as she fiddled with her hands. She did not want to look up in case she could not find it within her to complete what she had started."Tell me about it," Jeanne said. She was not interested in giving her the satisfaction of apologizing and getting away with it just so easily."And I have done so many questionable things but I only did it because I thought I was doing the right thing" She wanted so badly to point fingers at her mom but she knew that doing that now would make her seem shallow and not as remorseful as she was supposed to be."I am here" she started raising her head to meet the gazes of the people in front of her. "this morning to say I am sorry for everything, for spreading rumours and lies, for using Jeanne to gain popularity, for pushing forward with my relationship with Joshua even though I know that he was not interested in me,"
Anette had successfully invited them to her party and she left feeling a lot lighter than she felt when walking in the building."Can you believe that?" Jeanne asked as she stood up from the sofa dusting her hands on her clothes."Miracles do exist" Anette said following her up and both of them walking to the door."Aletta, are you just going to leave like that?" Joshua called making both ladies turn around to face him."Yeah, why not? I have to get back to work" Aletta said like it was an obvious fact he was supposed to know."Aren't you going to stay for a cup of tea?" Joshua sounded as nervous as he could be. Aletta was unable to decipher his emotions from his face."I know a request to get lost when I see one" Jeanne said pushing the door open with a smirk on her face. She stood in the doorway using her body to keep the door open. "We are at work so keep it rated for kids okay," she said and closed the door in a hurry before any of them could say anything in response. "You want t
Aletta found her mind wandering to Anette, she wondered how she felt telling others she was getting married. The idea of marriage had always been a no-go area for her as she had decided for a long time now not to get married.She occasionally had feelings of jealousy when she saw her high school and college mates get married but they only lasted for a while because she had a strong will and prejudice against marriage."I wonder how she feels about getting married" she murmured to herself as she tried to bring herself back to her work.If she could tell someone how she felt she would let them know that she did not feel good about the fact that someone who tried so hard to ruin her relationship was getting such a clean finish while she was still unsure about marriage.She had always been sure about her choice but these days when she looked at Joshua she always had a series of what-ifs. She wanted to know what it might feel like to get to call another person a husband and what it might b
"When I heard Anette speak about marriage I thought about myself and you" Aletta felt her heartbeat rise as she watched his face. She had just been thinking about the exact situation and he had to go ahead and speak about it. "You thought about us? Why?" she tried to stay calm as she swallowed the knot in her throat. She did not want to jump into any decisions because of how she felt at the time. "I don't know, I guess hearing her talk about settling down made me want to do so too" "Joshua" she stopped him before he went any further. He might get on one knee and begin a proposal if she did not stop him there."I am not saying you should marry me now" he said and she gave a subtle sigh of relief."I know you have said countless times over and over again that you don't want to get married and I wanted to try my best to understand but I could not," he said sincerely. She let out a loud breath as she pressed her fingers together. She did not like the situation, she wanted to think mo
Aletta was too stunned to speak. She blinked multiple times to try and mask her expression. She bit her lips."That caught me off guard" she finally said and he nodded. "But can I think about it?" she asked."Sure sure" he said trying to make it sound like it was a normal conversation."I would think about it and also about the marriage thing but I do need time to think about it" She said and he agreed with her.They tried to spend some time together but the awkwardness could not let them be so they both decided to go home and rest."You look like you received bad news" Alethea said as soon as Aletta walked through the door into the living room.Aletta looked at her sister, she might give good advice about the situation. She lived her life loving as well. It seemed like her family was cursed with never having anyone to love them truly but out of the three ladies she was the one who gave up on love."Are you seeing someone?" Aletta asked plopping onto the couch."Of course," Alethea sa
"So what happens every time you get your heart broken?" Aletta aksed.She believed love should have been simple and not so complicated. How can you love a person today and then suddenly you do not feel the same way again?"I may cry a little and wallow in self-pity for a while but then I know that there would be someone out there who would love me for me. I even try to convince myself that it is the loss of the person who left me and then I try again" Alethea's words made sense to Aletta.Somehow it was simple logic, when she failed her classes in the first year she did not give up just because she failed instead she worked harder and then went again and then she passed."So what's this all about?" Alethea asked disrupting her train of thought."What?" "The questions, it seems as though you are plotting something" Alethea said and Aletta rolled her eyes. Her sister was not only a lover girl but a serial gossip. She had to know what was going on in everyone's business every time."It