"What's in the bag?" Loretta asks. She'd been wanting to see what was in the bag since Octavious dropped it off. It's not like it's been long since he left, but that was how impatient she was.
"It's actually for you. Here you go." Kendrick says, handing her the bag.
"Is it? What's in it? "
"Open it and see what's in it."
Opening it, she gives Kendrick side looks that just make him laugh and say, "Go on, open it."
She brings out a transparent plastic food container, and she looks at the contents, trying to find out what the food was.
"Lasagna! She says her face brightens up so much. Did you make lasagna for me? Wait, is this leftover from that night? "
"Oh no it's not, I threw those away." The three are fresh new badges, different flavors.
"Three? She looks into the bag and brings out two more food containers. Wow, two more, and you said they're different flavors? "
Yeah, different flavors. The fir
On the 30th of August, Loretta's birthday is finally here, and she finds herself in her bedroom, sitting right in front of her dresser, still in her PJs, staring down at Alex's card, doing her usual contemplating.Till now, she still didn't know if calling him was the best idea. What if his wife finds out? Would she have caused a serious family problem? Should she keep her shit to herself, and maybe wait some other day, and not be a homewrecker?But there was no other day. Today was the day. They both had birthdays today, so it was right to remember and wish him, even if no one had called or sent any birthday cards.You would think as everything went well in the office this month, that people would flood her phone with calls, wishing her happy birthday. But there was no single one, not from Roy, not from Kendrick, not from Lauren, or even from her parents.She was seriously ashamed of everyone she knew... or at least thought she knew. Well, she didn't wan
Forgive him, can you just call back in the next few minutes? ""A client?" Loretta asks loudly, slightly irritated that she didn't know when the words escaped her mouth.Yeah, sorry, most clients don't exactly like to be called that. I understand. If you could just give me your name and tell me what appointment you have with him, then I could tell him and have him call you back. ""Er..."It's alright, I promise to tell him right away. Don't be worried. I am his wife, Vanessa, and not some psychotic person that wants your personal information. So you can tell me your name, plus you have a nice voice. ""Er..my name is Loretta I guess..you could tell him Loretta called. I don't exactly have any appointments with him, so it's ok if he...""Wait, let me stop you there," Vanessa cuts. Did you just say your name is Loretta?"Yes, I just said that.""As in Loretta Wayne?"Shocked, she says slowly, "Yeah, that's me. How do you
You don't get to miss opportunities like this one. Soon she'll be all grown up and move off to college, and she'll be all grown up making decisions by herself, and all of that. I mean she's already started making decisions by herself.” "Well Alex, she won't remain little anymore, but surely she'll still be your little girl." Yeah, my lady, you are absolutely right. But be careful, she talks a lot. Her mouth just keeps running like tap water. I always tell her she got
"What!" Alex exclaims."What is it, darling?" Vanessa asks."What do you mean, Stenz, my lady?""Alex, darling, what is it? What is the matter? " Vanessa keeps asking."Loretta, what do you mean she'shaving an affair with Stenz? Stenz is dead. ""That's what you said, Alex, but apparently he's been talking to Matt and giving him information filled with lies. He's been trying to break them up, and it looks like he finally did.""So Stenz is talking to Matt?""That's what I just said, Alex."Alex stands up from wherever he was sitting and starts pacing. His ears couldn't believe what Loretta was telling him. And if his ears couldn't believe it, there was no way his mind was going to process all of it.Vanessa tries to calm him down. She stands up too and tries to sit him back down. Loretta could hear her telling him to sit down, not pace, and to try to listen to everything before reacting.Lorett
Now it was just her, alone again, not knowing what else to do. She had spent close to two hours talking to Alex. How is that possible? Some may ask. Well, when you are by yourself on your birthday and the ones that claim to love you don't even remember you, you'll have no other choice but to talk for two hours with the only person that cares, and also happens to be your birthday mate.True Lauren had finally called, but she was in a hurry, so it was just a happy birthday wish, a small joke, and then goodbye. where she was headed in such a hurry. At least she didn't miss wishing her.Sitting alone all by herself, praying the day would just end quickly because it was taking longer than she anticipated, her do
"I know you're staring, but I don't want to wear anything fancy because today was a flop.""No no, it's nice. You look nice, beautiful. You would look nice in anything. Rags, I mean you would look nice in rags. ""Huh?" Loretta looks at him with an eyebrow raised. "Why would I ever want to wear rags?"
I'm sorry Loretta, I messed up again. "Loretta walks up to him, places her palm on his cheek, caressing it, while he leans on it, enjoying the caress.You did all of this for me. I don't have any reason to be upset. True, you could have called, but this whole thing you did makes it up. It's all beautiful Kendrick, I love it so much. "Kendrick smiles and says, "They're your flowers." Loretta, they're now yours. True, the gardens in my house, but the flowers are all yours. ""Are the solar ones mine too?" she asks, trying to avoid the tears that want to stream out. She didn't plan for any of this, and now Kendrick was telling her the garden was his, but the flowers were hers. To her, that is the sweetest thing ever. Who knew CEO Kendrick could be this soft?"Everything's yours, Loretta."She pulls his head down, and places her forehead on his, saying the softest, most assuring, and heartfelt 'Thank you. No matter what happened today, g
Kendrick saw Loretta's expression, but he somehow read it wrong. He didn't know if she was happy or not. Her hand remained cupped on her lips. He had to go in front of her and call her back from wherever she went to."Loretta, are you OK? You don't seem OK. Don't you like what I got you? "Slowly, her hands come down and she says, "Kendrick, you bought me a kitten. Of course, I'm not OK."Damn it! " Kendrick sighs, "I could have thought of the possibility that you might have allergies, or maybe you wouldn't like it, or maybe you..."His words were cut short, as Loretta quickly dropped the box, and wholeheartedly embraced him.He was indeed shocked by this approach. He was short for words.
I'm going to take Loretta into the gaming room right now. Are you planning to attend? Alex inquires."Yeah, I'll be there in a sec. Allow me to finish emailing this to my employer, Diego,""All OK, see you then."Loretta's favorite room in Alex's huge mansion was undoubtedly the gaming room, which she had discovered recently. They used it to play a variety of entertaining games. They most likely did it on a regular basis. Loretta had no idea, but they had been going in there every Friday night since she had started working there and having Olivia spin and fall on whatever game was on the game board to select what they were playing to determine what they were playing. They were now playing checkers, and Olivia had a good chance of winning. She appeared to be an adult trapped in the body of a four-year-old.Loretta wasn't actually on the winning side, and this was most likely due to the fact that she was preoccupied. She was glancing across the room a
"Loretta! Loretta!" yells the crowd. Lauren's voice may be heard in her dreams or her mind's ears. Was she in a coma once more? Was this something that was going to happen again? Lauren's speech was becoming clearer, so it didn't appear like she was in a coma; rather, it appeared that she was in a dream that she was now waking up from. "Loretta, get the heck out of bed."Her eyes pop up, and the first thing she notices is Lauren's face, which is near to her. Lauren doesn't hear her murmur a few words that she says."Can you tell me what that was? "Sorry, I didn't hear you.She expresses herself more firmly today."I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." She gets to her feet and assists Loretta in getting to her feet."Can you tell me what happened?" Loretta inquires."You had a fainting spell, which was strange. Since then, I've been attempting to jolt you awake.We encountered Stenz in a dream, and I'm not sure what occurred, but I'm sorry I'm
"Who the heck is that?" "If you don't mind, I'd be happy to do it once again." When she answers the door, she is greeted by the one person she did not expect; Lauren."Lauren? What... and why? "What the heck is going on?!"Lauren hugged her tightly, and you could tell it was particularly tight due to her pregnant belly.Laura, don't squeeze yourself so tightly, you're going to burst.""Come on, Loretta. You can do it." "I'm very sure that's not how it works; everything is working wonderfully.""What are you doing here, Lauren? What are you doing?" You've arrived at my friggin front door. I feel like I've been paid a surprise visit."I'm aware that I'm at your door, Loretta, and I was wondering if you would mind letting me in? The travel was lengthy, and I know you're aware that I'm expecting a child."Why didn't you simply take a plane or something?" says the other."Pregnant.""Who says pregnant ladies can't fly by plan
Lauren was dealing with Matt during the first week of December, but she was also thinking about a lot of other things at the time. It didn't appear to be much of an issue at first, but it turned out to be. When Matt returned, the first week of December had been a complete and utter disaster. She had just completed tidying up her flat in preparation for Lorenzo's arrival for supper at her residence. It had taken her hours, but she had finally completed her task. After then, someone outside pressed the buzzer.Loretta not only had a good doorbell, but she also had a good buzzer to go with it. It represented the word "home" for her. She assumed it was Lorenzo, but he had arrived far too soon for the time they had agreed on. It didn't matter whatever way she opened it; to her dismay, it turned out to be Matt.She closes her eyes, perhaps out of shock, but perhaps not out of shock. "Get out of here.""Lauren, come on, let yourself be seen. "Let's speak about it."
The knocks were soft on the door. Loretta thought it couldn't have been one of the nurses coming to check up on her because they'd knock once and come right in. Loretta's first guess was Kendrick, so she tries standing up to go check. She reached out for her crutches next to her when her mother said not to."Don't worry, stay where you are. I'll go see who's at the door.""Mom, it's my hospital room. I can get the door myself.""Yeah, strong head, when you don't have a broken leg, you can get your doors yourself. She walks over to the door, muttering, "I leave you to live on your own, and soon you will have an accident and land yourself in a hospital with a broken bone." This was why Loretta would never mention that she had just woken up from a two-week coma.She opens the door while Loretta tries leaning forward to see who's at the door. "Who is it, Mom?"Oh, it's just a nurse that just told me hi, a really attractive nurse.""Let him in, M
Sixteen hours had passed, and Kendrick still hadn't shown up. Loretta had to force herself to believe that Kendrick was OK, and he was either still asleep, which was very unusual but also expected since he was a zombie because he wasn't sleeping, or he was probably at home doing whatever. She was sleeping now. She had a big day in the morning. She had told her mother about her accident. She called her on Kendrick's phone, not because she wanted to, but because she had to. Now her mother would be in the hospital with her in the morning. Like every other mother, Loretta, too, didn't like to be late. Okay, not every mother, just a reasonable number of mothers, liked to be punctual. Loretta ate punctuality for breakfast, so she would be there pretty early. Sadly, punctuality eating wasn't passed down to Loretta, and no one else besides her, because she was the only child. Nurse Beatrice was a really good help, but sadly, she was a human being and she took
True Loretta had just told Kendrick that she was the said universe stopping their relationship, but she left out the most important part, the part where she doubted herself and she wanted not to let go, but as she'd been telling everyone to let go, no one told her to let go.To think of it, there wasn't much to let go of, except the fact that she felt no one could ever love her forever. It was actually in her past when her college boyfriend broke up with her for a really stupid reason. She couldn't believe it. While she was busy loving him, he was busy thinking of ways to leave her.Why would you break up with a reliable human being for some chick that said she would buy him the latest sports car? That was dumb and stupid, and Loretta felt every guy was just the same, dumb and stupid, and the last couple of years she's been asked out by that gender, they prove her right.Except for Kendrick, he somehow succeeded in proving her wrong, and now here she was with hi
Loretta was sort of happy that Nadine didn't see her in her terrible state, but also sort of wished she had because she could have told her exactly how she was without withholding. She would want to withhold, but Loretta would tell her not to, and she wouldn't hesitate to not withhold."Doc wouldn't let her, something about may not be able to stand seeing you. I think he needed just positive energy, which I found out she was the one with the most positive energy. For someone her age, she took it pretty well. ""What did she say? Did she say anything? ""She did say something. She said she'd talk to you when you woke up. That was pretty nice to hear, especially since I and Sebastian were freaking out. Mostly me anyway. Sebastian was too busy telling me to get your parents, but I told him I didn't know how to because I hadn't met your parents, and he was sort of disappointed that I didn't. He was pissed."Kendrick, how did you find me?" Loretta asks, and sh
Kendrick must have thought it was all a dream because it felt like it was, because jumping awake to Loretta saying his name, surprisingly loud, felt like he was dreaming. I mean, what are the odds that he would just close his eyes after his grand speech, and wake up to Loretta staring him in the eye?He reached out and touched her eyelids. She flinches. You can't blame him. He'd hardly slept in more than a week. For all he knew, she wasn't real.She calls his name again, but this time in a slow whisper, like she didn't believe he was there for real. "I remembered your name, Kendrick. I remembered." She reaches out for him and stops.Normally, in situations like this, all you could think of is calling a nurse in, or even calling a doctor directly, but Kendrick was stuck. He was confused and didn't understand what Loretta meant by remembering his name. He was brought out of his current confused state and placed into another. When her HRM started acti