“And that wraps up the first day of work for us...” I couldn’t deny how lively I was feeling as I started living like myself again. There were just too many things on my mind as I was about leaving the broadcasting house which was still bubbling from Tamika’s presence. After all of the goodbyes and other closing formalities, it was soon time to leave. I picked up my phone to dial Michael’s number, as I wanted him to come pick me up just like Dolph had come over there to pick up Tamika. I hated how it felt like I was comparing the both of them. But then, I just wanted it to happen that way. There was no other way to round up a long day of work besides, having my man coming over to pick me up from there. “Hello, Michael...” I said with the cutest voice that I could muster at that point. I was sure he had been too caught up in his work to listen to the broadcast. But I would forgive him for that if he would come over and pick me up. “How’s it going?”“Well... what do you think?” He as
“Quite a time and a place for old lovers to meet...” Phil was making it all look like some sort of unplanned coincidence but I had the strong feeling that he had followed me to that place. He seemed to have been devious enough to track my movements from the broadcasting house to that place. I wasn’t sure why, but it just had to be... somehow. I just knew him too well to believe that it was all some sort of coincidence. “What the heck do you want?” I inquired as harshly as I could as Phil wasn’t someone to be all smiles with. “Why in the world would you have to follow me from the broadcasting house to this place?”“Well, I also have a question for you. What the heck are you doing at a casino by this time?” He asked as he raised his eyebrows. “I never knew you to be the casino type for one day, but here you are, off to the casino like it’s some sort of ritual.”“You’ve been watching me all this while?” I was shocked, as I wanted to know just how much he knew about me and all the move
At that point, Phil's plan had become as clear as day and I hated the fact that I had fallen for it so easily. How couldn't I have seen something like that coming?To make it all worse, Phil exchanged stares with Michael like they both knew each other. That made it all even more unbearable. I felt like sinking into the ground while they both settled their differences. “Well, well… look who we have here… Assistant CEO, Michael…” Phil said teasingly as though he wanted to make it clear that they both had something in common. “Seems you happened to step out for lunch or something.”Michael said nothing as he stared Phil in the eyes like he had seen a sworn enemy of his. There were a lot of things that made me feel like I had made the biggest mistake of my life. I hadn't just kissed someone else, I had kissed an enemy of his and it made me feel even worse about myself. “I never knew we would have to meet under circumstances like this one we found ourselves in…” Phil wouldn't just stop s
“Alright calm down a bit, Julia…” I said, trying my best to get her to relax a bit so she could be able to explain herself more perfectly. “Take a deep breath…”I listened to the sound of her breathing in and out continually. It was bad that something of that sort was happening on a day that was meant to be a day of celebration for both of us as we were back in business after a long time of being away. “Alright Julie… talk to me…” I said as I was satisfied with her breathing exercise. “Tell me what's going on right now…” “It's Michael…” she was sounding like I was sounding during my first heartbreak. There was no other way to explain the absurd sobbing I was hearing at that point. “He just…”“What happened?” I asked, hoping nothing had gone seriously wrong in their relationship. I never thought Michael to be the cheating type and it would have me surprised if I heard that he had done something of that sort. “Are you going to tell me what happened or not?”“All right…” her voice beca
“Can't you go any faster!” I yelled at the driver who seemed to be startled by my urgent and desperate orders. Desperation was quite an understatement for what was happening to me as I was seated in the back seat of that car which was headed straight for where Dolph's accident had happened. There were no words to describe the pain that was welling up in my heart at that point as I wondered why all of that would be happening on that day which was meant to be all celebrations. First, it was Julia and Michael. Now, I was on the verge of losing Dolph. It was quite hard for me to understand all that was going on at that point. It was almost feeling like the dark cloud over me hadn't left just yet. “Faster!” I yelled at the driver of the car as he went on and on. There were a lot of things that made me feel like I wouldn't see Dolph ever again. The last I remembered of him was when he had left the house after he had dropped me off at home. He smiled at me while telling me he was about
“Will you marry me?” the look in Dolph's eyes had never been as sincere as they were looking at that point where the whole crowd cheered him loudly. “Dolph…” I was still yet to understand or grasp the fullness of all that had happened in the last couple of moments as that was simply like the most suspense-filled moments of my life, and it had all been a… prank… leading up to a proposal. I just couldn't believe it as I was still there on my knees, staring at him with that ring in his hand like he had been waiting all of his life to do that. There were just so many things going through my head. “Tamika…” he called out to me yet again as I had been out of my body for a couple of moments. “Are you all right, Tamika?” The smile on his face was fading as he noticed my lack of a response. I knelt there, quiet and wondering just how my life would have been without Dolph in it. That had been how far my imagination had stretched in such little time. “Tamika… what's the problem? You are sca
“Great…” I muttered as it was clear that Randy wasn't picking up my calls anymore. “What a wimp…” I had said that over and over and I wished that he was right there to hear me tell him to his face that he was a wimp. How could he have backed down after he had come so far in his pursuit of his lover?I took up my phone, hoping to see something that would lighten up my mood just a bit, as there was nothing and no one there for me right at that point. “Oh please…” I let out in disgust as I had been staring at my screen for the past couple of moments. There were just too many things that made me feel like I was wasting my time online. The whole internet was buzzing with news of Dolph and his newly found love whom he had just proposed to, and I just didn't like any of it. For some reason, I found myself wishing that the car crash he had faked had happened for real. At that point, everything seemed to be going their way. It felt horrible to know that all I could do was sit and watch eve
“I still can't believe that I pulled it off…” I felt awesome narrating my ordeal to Michael. “For a couple of moments, I was thinking that I had been in an actual car crash.”“Oh wow…” he said with a sigh. I had begun the narration with an unspeakable enthusiasm, but my enthusiasm was soon dropping as I was getting disappointingly low-energy responses from his end. It was beginning to get quite uncomfortable for me, as I was beginning to think of what I could have possibly done to make his mood fluctuate that much. “Michael… what's the problem?” I asked, with a readiness to listen to every single detail of the tone of his response. “You sound like you broke a finger and a big toe. What's the matter?”“There's just too much on my mind right now…” he replied vaguely as he sounded like he was desperately trying his very best not to spill all the details of the thing that made him feel the way he felt. “I had quite a day, and that makes it quite hard for me to feel any sort of…”“Are yo