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
Everything seemed pretty gloomy at that point as I was lying on the couch. Going to the bed upstairs would only remind me more of my pain and that would only make me feel worse than before. “Oh my…” I let out a sigh as I was trying my best not to get my mind on those hurtful feelings that had me paralyzed. There on that couch, I made up my mind that I was going to head right over to his office and pour out my heart to him one more time. After that, I would take my hands off. The phone buzzed with a seeming urgency to pick up. I hadn't been in the mood to answer any calls all evening, except if was Michael calling to tell me that he was going to hear me out one more time. I looked over to see the name of the caller. Disappointment gripped me from inside as I saw Tamika's name on the screen instead of Michael's which I had been expecting. I had just too few words to spare at that point, even though there were a lot of things that I had been storing up in my heart which was seeking
“There you are…” Phil said as he seemed to have been expecting me ever since. I still didn't know what exactly had made me come out there. It was simply a horrible thing for me to be able to come out there and have a talk with the man who had been the cause of everything in the first place. “I have just five minutes to spare…” I said as I was simply in a haste and I wasn't going to have any spare time for that. “And you had better make good use of them to explain what exactly you have come here for.”He paused for a couple of moments before he let out his usually annoying laugh. I almost felt like strangling him at that point, as his laughter seemed to show just how remorseless he was about what he had just done in my life. “May I come in, sweetheart…?” he said the last part of his question in a way that made me feel like strangling him at once. “You know, we can't have this conversation outside here.”“Are you high on something?” I was wishing I had come out with something to whac