Chapter 2

Chapter 2

A phone call woke Tris from her sleep, she looked for her phone that she put on her bed last night, she found her phone under the pillow and immediately picked it up without seeing who was calling her that early.

“Tris!! Wake up!! I passed!! I was accepted to work at that company!! Wake up!! I’ll come to your house soon, we have to celebrate,” Chris said.

Hearing her boyfriend’s voice made Tris excited, she immediately got out of bed shortly after Chris hung up the phone.

Tris cleaned her face and brushed her teeth, tidied up her hazelnut hair a little, and changed clothes.

Coming out of the room she saw Gwen who was already in her rocking chair in the living room, facing the window with knitting and wool yarn on her lap.

“Morning Gweeny,” Tris approached Gwen and kissed her cheek, making Gwen surprised.

“You surprised me, Tris, Morning sweetheart, it seems like there’s happy news this morning,” Gwen said.

“Yes, finally Chris can work in the company and will soon marry me,” Tris said, she went to the kitchen to prepare something before Chris came and celebrated the happy day.

Tris didn’t make much, just a simple breakfast to celebrate her boyfriend’s happy day, Chris came with a happy face, not alone that time he came with his mother and father. The three of them sat opposite Tris and Gwen.

“Thank you for inviting us, I asked Chris to just come to our house since this is our son’s happy day,” Maureen, Chris’s mother said.

“It’s okay, we already consider Chris as part of the family and my granddaughter is very happy to hear this news, it seems like they’ve been waiting for it for a long time so she’s very excited to have breakfast this time,” Gwen said while Tris and Chris just looked at each other with smiles on their faces.

Chris’s father, John didn’t look so happy, his face looked gloomy, he didn’t even say anything and immediately went home after breakfast ended. He went home with Maureen, but not with Chris.

The man was still there because he wanted to go to work with Tris, that day Chris would not come to the bar but he would come to his new office to work, actually, this was a 3-month trial period if his work results were satisfactory he would be made a permanent employee.

Chris was very sure he could do it because he wanted to marry Tris and his job at the bar was unreliable.

"How does it feel? Are you happy?" Tris said the two of them walked hand in hand towards the bus stop.

"I can't describe how I feel right now Tris, this is more than happy, after so many times I tried to apply to companies and they all kicked me out, finally someone saw another side of me, and I am very happy because this way I can marry you soon," Chris said.

"I am also very happy to hear that, you have been waiting for it for a long time and I think this is the answer to your wait," Tris said.

Chris took Tris' hand to kiss it and they stopped right at the bus stop, Chris looked at Tris' face at that time with a smile.

"I will marry you soon," Chris said.

“I can’t wait for it,” Tris said and Chris saw that his bus had arrived, a different bus from Tris’ so he had to go first.

“That’s my bus, I’m going first, I’ll call you at lunch, I love you, Tris,” Chris said and he pecked her lips before getting on the bus and sitting in his seat, waving at her as the bus started to drive away.

Tris was about to turn her body to sit down when a man ran towards her and bumped into her until she fell.

“Aahh..” Tris sat down as did the man, the man immediately stood up and helped Tris to get up, the man with the hat and his face covered by a mask seemed to be in a hurry.

“I’m sorry,” The man said, his voice faint because he looked panicked and quickly left. Not long after that, some people were seen chasing the man, but Tris just avoided them so she wouldn’t fall a second time.

“Are you okay?” An old man who was sitting there spoke to Tris.

“Yeah, I’m okay,” Tris said.

“That man might be a thief that’s why they’re chasing him, you better be careful,” The old man said.

“Yeah, I don’t think he hit me on purpose either,” Tris said.

“Make sure your stuff is safe, that’s my bus, be careful,” The old man said and left Tris sitting there alone.

Not long after the bus arrived Tris immediately got up from her seat to get on, she sat on an empty seat and intended to text Chris but when she reached into her bag she couldn’t find her phone.

Tris looked panicked and she searched all her pockets even Tris decided to get off the bus to look for her phone at the bus stop where she had fallen earlier.

But Tris couldn’t find her phone anywhere and she realized what the old man said, maybe the man who hit her had done it on purpose and had taken Tris’ phone.

When she arrived at the library, Anne saw Tris’ gloomy face, she then asked her friend.

“Hey, what’s wrong? Did something happen to you?” Anne said.

“This should be a happy day for me but someone just stole my phone,” Tris said.

“What? Where did you lose your phone? Have you reported this incident to the police?” Anne said.

“Yeah I went to the police station to report this before coming here that’s why I came late, and it seems like it will be hard to catch the person because he was wearing a hat and a mask,” Tris said.

“I think you need to buy a new phone,” Anne said.

“No, I think I still have my old phone, I have to save up to marry my boyfriend,” Tris said.

“Ohhh I’ve never seen your boyfriend, how long have you guys been together? Why didn’t you ever tell me? I’m the only one who always talks about that guy,” Anne said.

“We’ve been together for 2 years, not too long but I feel very comfortable because he’s a simple person,” Tris said.

“I can see how handsome and kind he is, people say our partner is a reflection of ourselves, and believe me 2 years is not a long time but if you think about it there isn’t enough time to get to know each other, you’re lucky if that guy wants to commit and marry you, I wish you the best Tris,” Anne said.

“Thank you, Anne, I hope you also find a good guy who can make you happy,” Tris said.

“I hope so, I also don’t expect to be able to get back with my ex, because you know my father doesn’t even let me be a little bit away from my fiancé, he always comes to my house every night with a different dinner every day, rich people are different,” Anne said and Tris just laughed.

“Anne, can I borrow your phone to call my boyfriend? I’m afraid he’ll be worried because he can’t contact me,” Tris said.

“Yes of course, here,” Anne said and Tris immediately went away to call Chris, but at that time Chris didn’t answer her call maybe he was busy on his first day at work, so Tris decided to leave a message for Chris.

To Chris: Chris it’s me Tris, I’m using Anne’s number, my coworker, my phone was lost while I was waiting for the bus, I’ll use my old phone and call you when I get home, I love you and fightinggg, I’m sure you can do it 💖

After sending the message and it was sent, Tris deleted the message returned the phone to Anne, and worked as usual.

To be continued…