Chapter 118. I took tentative steps into the agency. Everything looked just as I had left it and different at the same time. A wave of deja Vu hit me like I had experienced this moment before as I stepped into the lobby. With each step I took I could feel eyes following my every step. The whispers got progressively louder as I moved across the hallway. I had prepped myself for the stares and the whispers but nothing prepared me for how much I'd hate it. I tried to ignore them by putting a little pep in my step. They could say whatever they liked. I didn't care. A gust of wind escaped my lungs as I felt something like a brick wall hit me from behind. "What the hell?" I exclaimed.I heard Myra's voice before I could turn around."Oh my God, Zora it's you" she squealed, her voice laced with excitement. She sounded happy to see me."You are choking me, Myra…" I coughed "Shit, I'm sorry" Myra lets go of my neck abruptly and jumps to stand in front of me. She hugged me again and I smile
Chapter 119.It was exactly 5:30 pm when my alarm went off. It was time to go home. I stretched my hands tired from the day's work. Overall it was a good day if not for Sharon of course, it would have been a great day but I decided not to dwell on negativity. It only fueled unpleasant feelings and I was already getting over negative feelings after being stuck with nothing but them for months.Elliot had still not come to see me or called back all day and I felt a little hurt.I was hoping he'd come over so we could talk but I guess even he had tried. Deciding that I didn't have to wait around for him, I could just go see him. I made a decision to stop by his place. I didn't want to admit it just yet but I missed him and I wanted to be enveloped by his big arms once more. I picked up my phone and decided to call Kathy, to tell her I wouldn't be home tonight. She picked up on the second ring."Hey, Kathy," I chirped. "Hey, Zora," Kathy said, surprised but also happy to hear from me."
Chapter 120.I struck a pose as I stood in front of the cameraman making sure to keep my eyes away from the flash as it beamed brightly and the shutter sound filled the room. I held the lotion closer to my face as I struck another pose and waited for the bright flash of light again. The camera man smiled in satisfaction as he leaned down and reached for his camera.Myra sat in a corner while a makeup artist worked on her face. She was excited that we were working on the commercial together. She had always wanted to work with me and I was also glad to have a familiar person working with me. We had mutual interests and it made agreeing on certain conditions and corrections much easier than it would have been with a stranger.But that wasn’t the only thing that made me glad, it was everything else. From the way the lotion smelled as I held it close to my face to the way the air seemed to caress the exposed parts of my skin and to the way the silk gown I wore swayed as the fan blew at it.
Chapter 121.Heavy beads of sweat sat on my temple and ran down my face slowly. I stood frozen in place as my eyes shook in fright, an overwhelming feeling of fear and nausea crept through my veins, and at the same time I felt a spark of pain and hurt flicker in my chest and soon it felt like my entire chest was engulfed in a raging inferno.It wasn’t true, it just couldn’t be, there had to be an explanation, a reason the entire thing had to be a joke. It had to be.But as my eyes lingered on the Tv screen, a harsh wave of reality hit me like an angry storm, pushing me off my balance. I reeled back and was about to reach the ground when I felt Myra’s arms struggle to break my fall. I wished inwardly that she didn’t. I wanted to hit the ground, I wanted it to break open and I wanted to be buried inside the depths of it.It felt as though there wasn’t any point in living anymore, my heart had shattered into multiple fragments leaving painful shards piercing my chest, the air was suffoca
Chapter 122.Time travel doesn’t exist. That statement felt like a hoax the following days after I met with Elliott. I felt as though I had been plunged right back into the past. A past I had struggled to crawl out from only a few months before, a past that left me devastated and locked up in my room was now replaying in the present.Only this time, there were no flowers or midnight texts, this time I was truly alone. I couldn’t see a future for myself anymore, part of me knew that there was still one for me but how on earth was I supposed to get there after all I’d been through?I’m only human and there’s only so much I could take so why on the earth was the world so unfair to me? Why was I being saddled with more weight than I could lift? What on earth had I ever done to be treated like this? Was it so wrong to fall in love?I missed the old me, strong, independent, self-willed, and determined, and whenever I thought about it I realized that the greatest mistake I had ever made was
Chapter 123.At this point in my life, I wasn’t sure I could handle another shocking news.It felt as though I was in a tragic slice-of-life drama and I was the main character. There was absolutely no other explanation as to why amid everything that was going on I stood at the hospital with results from a pregnancy test in my hands.And it read positive.I had gone to the hospital to get a prescription for nausea or fever at most but instead. I found out that there had been a living thing in me for two whole months. My mind flashed back to moments when I had felt dizziness and fatigue but I thought they were from work-related stress or at most the effect of mourning my father in an unhealthy manner for so long.Meanwhile, I was pregnant. I couldn’t even understand my emotions anymore as I stood frozen on a spot while the doctor explained the result with a wide smile on his face. Ordinarily, I would have been happy, no, I still should have been happy no matter the circumstance but the
Chapter 124.I rounded up my chores for the day, dusting off surfaces and spraying air fresheners in the different rooms. I was just about to retire to my room and take a rest before heading for the shower when I heard a light tapping on my door. I froze for a moment as I wondered who it could be. Kathy and I hadn’t been getting visitors for a while so I wondered if it was a friend of Aarons.My chest began to beat harder as another possibility crossed my mind. Maybe Elliott had gotten tired of waiting for me to text back and had come to me himself. If that was the case then I was screwed. I wasn’t sure I would be able to successfully keep the truth about me having a baby from him if we got into a heated argument.I shrugged it off immediately, there was still tension in the media, and his marriage to Sharon was still being talked about everywhere. Elliott was a smart man, he wouldn’t risk coming to my place at such a time.Well, there was only one way to find out who was at the door.
Chapter 125.I sat on the couch breathing in the coffee-filled air into my nostrils as I held the cup of freshly brewed coffee to my face. There was a calming effect coffee always seemed to have on me and I hated that I couldn’t drink it all the time. It wasn’t like there were any healthier alternatives.It was either that or alcohol.Aaron walked into the sitting room and sat beside me as I finally brought the mood to my lips and slurped loudly. I hummed inwardly as the bitter-sweet taste massaged my taste buds and the warmth reverberated through the walls of my mouth before sliding down my throat. I let out a satisfied breath as I closed my eyes. “Hey sis, can we talk?”Can’t I just have my damn coffee in peace?The past couple of days had been filled with countless pieces of advice and lectures, mostly on my little brother’s part. I knew he cared about me but I couldn’t understand why he was hell-bent on letting Elliott know about the baby and why he refused to understand why I jus