CHAPTER 9–– INTIMACY AND INTERACTION

After, Alexander, my boss who was being all nice and chivalrous still retained his being nice form of behavior with me, dropped me home with a hug and a kiss on the cheek and all I wanted to do was kiss his cheek back to see if his ears too get red or if his heart does beat faster but the thought itself made my heart beats faster and cheeks redder.

His arms encircled me and his embrace warm, it was a very friendly yet intimate hug. I have been hugged like this many times and it wasn’t surprising with them but with him, it felt like falling into the cloud and feeling it wrap me in a warm embrace.

I moved back a little and looked at him as he said again to encircle my arms around him, but something wanted me to hold back yet his eyes told me to do as he says. I kept my head back on his shoulder and hands encircled his back.

As soon as he let me go, I turned and entered my home where my mom and dad smiled and gave me a glass of water while speaking of all the dramatic thoughts, they had like my boss’s mother throwing a check at me or his sister pushing me into the swimming pool or adding something to my food or being rude to me.

“But how cool it would be if she threw a check at me. I mean, I’ll just pick it up and come home and cash it before letting Alexander know of it.” I said as I looked at my parents to see them node.

Who says no to money?

An idiot.

Plus, in dramas they mostly throw before they take the promise of leaving their child.

No promise, no contract, and no agreement.

“Anyways, how’s his family? With you, I mean.”

“His family was super big; I mean you’d need a banquet hall to invite them for a simple dinner. Though, I think it was because his mother also invited all the relatives and had a homecoming to introduce me to everyone. Usually, he lives in his penthouse and his family mostly is all away at their work. Victoria, his mother, is usually flying with his father but she was here to help introduce people to him, but she saw me and thus, invited me back to the casa. Casa means home in Italian.” I smiled at the scene that flashed through, Victoria being all happy about leaving to accompany her husband in peace.

I smiled at me parents who seemed to be conversing in some private language with eyes and smiled back at me.

For the first time, their PDA didn’t make me jealous rather it made me remember the moments and touches of a certain someone.

“You still cannot score better than this? An eighty-five! Amy, how about you read the file I provided you about me again?” my boss, my very diligent in putting me down boss was amazing while being a bastard with no god damn shit.

I looked at him with a face that could kill hundreds, but my boss was no lesser man. He could pretty much kill thousands with just his looks.

And in those thousands are all mental cases.

“Sir, how about we first decide how you should call me?” I am pretty tired of him calling my nickname and my stomach going mad.

“We don’t need to decide that at all. I am comfortable in calling you Amy.” There he goes, preaching. Let’s really talk today.

“But I am not!” his rolling eyes can just roll back in his head.

“Do you have a million dollars?” I feel like I met a debt-collector.

“Let’s change the topic.” I don’t have a million dollar, thanks.

“Great, let’s get back to––”

“Let’s not. I would like to ask for a––” and as soon as I wanted to ask for leave, we welcomed his cousin.

“Well, Ciao.” The guy entered the office with such ease causing Alexander’s face to scrunch over the blatant show of no obedience.

“How about you go back out and ask to be invited in, Marco?” the stress on each word was so high that Alexander could have broken his teeth.

“Uh, no, I am good. Hey, Amy. Working with bro isn’t cool, right?” Marco took a seat on the sofa and then, picked up the papers with score eighty-five.

There on, I wanted to die in a hole.

I looked at my boss and then at Marco and gave a very strained smiled “I wanted to ask for a leave and I have work to do, so I will be in my office. And I’ll get someone to send refreshments. You both enjoy.”

“Actually, how about Amy, show you the office today. It’s your birthday today and I am sure you would like to spend some time with me, but I have work. So, Amy, how about you show my brother around.” His eyes could kill and the stress on my name burdened me.

“Uh, bro, I think I’ll leave––” Marco looked ready to run away with the papers, but now, I’ll show him around as stated by my dear boss.

“No, actually, he is right. I’ll show you around.” And then, I smiled and left his office while banging the glass door and picked up all the files in my office and entered his again with them.

“How about my dear boss finish these documents, after all, I will be showing him around and won’t have time to complete them. The markings are all with red and completed ones are already submitted.” With a big grin, I held Marco’s elbow and pulled him out.

“Amy, do you think bro will roast me and eat me?”

“No, he will sprinkle some pepper as well.”

“Oh.”