"DON'T worry, just trust me." Saying those words like a promise and a conviction to be taken seriously and forever. That little boy’s life has changed ever since the day that he met her. “Will you recognize me after all those years, Rainne?”He calls the name, but rather the nickname that he gives to the little girl that he met then. He then closed his eyes and remanence of the days, where he soon promises to be back just for her. “I know that you are hiding behind the tree." Laughing in silence, pretending for a while that he did not notice her presence."I already noticed you the second you arrived and tried to hide. You can come out now.”He teased her while washing some vegetables alone in the open dirty kitchen of the orphanage. Where the rest of the kids went back to take a rest.“Don’t worry, I won’t bite.”Amused and giggling to see her timid self-hesitating to come out. He then drew one big smile facing her direction, and catching her eyes, as she looks back at him b
COULD contain it anymore, Brian smiled wide at what he is seeing in front of him and right now. “The most important person in your life. I heard it loud and clear, and not just I. Right?”Sam's words and a teasing question that wasn’t hard for the rest of his employees that witness the little sweet scene in front of them to agree. Most especially for Brian. “Brian?”Cath calls out in question. Pleading with her expression to be saved, but Brian will not have any of it for he’s with Sam’s side. “What I have seen and heard will be the thing that I will believe is the truth.”Shutting Cath casually and professionally with those words. Sam smiles proudly, upon knowing that he just won this little fight of them. “I should have known.”Cath protested under her nose. Yet she couldn’t blame her stepbrother knowing his nature as a true and faithful one. She is left to suck up the misinterpreted scene that no one could deny to be her little way of caring for Sam. “Now. Can I be honest to y
“SO, you are that girl?”Suddenly approached by one of the nutritionists of the company with a wide smile and expression that is both intrigued about her and requesting to know the progress between her and Sam. Cath awkwardly smiles, pretending that she didn’t know what she is talking about. “Stop that Olive. It’s rude to ask her that question when we all know the truth.”Words that made it worst for Cath to think of the possibilities and screams that Sam had done and been feeding his employees behind her back. “Truth?” Curiosity hits her, asking for the meaning of their words while hiding her irritation for Sam, while still in her composed and professional nature in front of his employees. “What do you mean about that truth?”The other employee who stops the first one that she calls Olive turns her head away, but Cath knew that she is guilty. Olive didn’t hesitate and gladly cheerfully answered her. “Well, we all know that you are the woman behind the CEO’S smiles for quite a w
“ALRIGHT!”Cath cheers herself. Shaking out the words, thoughts, and the recent conversation that she just had with the employees at the nutrition department. “This is just for a day. Only this day. Just how hard it is to cook a single meal for him?”She then comforted herself while preparing the ingredients and all after wearing the spare uniform and apron from the employees. “Can she do it?”“She can, I believe it!”The rumors are buzzing a bit to her ears with Olive cheerfully on to her side. “Lunch meal.”Cath though, thinking if that is the right name to call for that particular time or does it need some fancy ring to suit the position that Sam is currently holding right now. “So, what are you making?”Olive suddenly asks which took her a bit of a surprise. Making her remember what she just said a while ago. Most especially the news that just slap her unexpectedly for the second time around. “Our CEO’s girlfriend.”She wanted to burst with her disappointment towards Olive. F
A sudden knock on the door breaks Sam's concentration. “Come in.” He commanded and allowed the request. But unlike his usual attitude and anger issues from the past when his employees disturb him he prompted them to push each other on the task of delivering his lunch for the day. “Mr. CEO.” One of the nutrition departments enters and announces his presence by almost stuttering. Expecting Sam to scold him hard. Yet. “Mike?”“Yes, Sir! Sir?” Taken aback and acted like a military cadet for a second before realizing that instead of scolding Sam, their company’s CEO calls his name. By which Sam never did, for the whole year that he’s been an employee. “Nothing.”Disappointed by seeing his employee rather than Cath. That he is sure by now that she then again is distancing herself from him. Like he is a big virus that Cath should run away from before she could catch it. “She didn’t come and deliver it herself unlike what I told her.”A bit irritated while whispering those facts
“IF only you know how much I wanted to kill you.” Cath whispers to herself and protests in anger while pounding the meat like brutally killing it into the grounds with her hands. “You want to eat my original recipe? Then, I will let you eat the most delicious meal that you ever tasted before.”Now laughing like a villain in any movie with the dark ulterior motive at hand. Everyone from the nutrition department and the cook from the station kitchen is looking worried and puzzled towards her. “This image right here is what I call a sparkling love.”Olive giggles. Forming with her thumb and pointer fingers a photo frame while looking at Cath with her other eyes closed. Deep with her fantasy, she doesn’t run away from how Lindsey is shipping Cath and Sam. “More like a death sentence.”Carol says otherwise and immediately pulled Olive back to work. “Now, for the perfect sauce.”With a proud smile, Cath is acting like a professional chef in that instant. Feeding her anger by proving to
BACK and forth. Unlike the usual things that Sam does. Brian is almost at his limit with a headache in two from Sam’s undecided plan for the night. “Should I ask her out tonight?”Sam asks himself in deep thought. Walking back and forth while making Brian dizzy. “But how could I ask her for a dinner date that will be just the two of us? I got away with it the last time with the twins, but now.”In a dilemma, but for Brian it is more like a dating problem of a teen that once wasn’t a problem for Sam. For the fact that he is the Casanova. “Will you make you make up your mind?”Brian demanded while checking the time ever after fifteen minutes and straight for almost three hours now.“I may remind you Sam that the office hours are almost over. You may have asked Cath to be your personal nutritionist for the day, but that doesn’t include the hours after the working hours.”“Why didn’t you tell me that sooner!”Finally snapping Sam out of his trivial dilemma with a bit of scolding. Brian
“DONE?” Cath asks sarcastically while staring at Sam, with her irritated expression. “Almost.”Sam replied in a seductive way that any noodle commercial with a hunk and handsome endorser would play. “You are enjoying this, aren’t you?” Glaring back at Cath’s deliberate intention of doing the same thing that Sam is doing as a game. That’s turning this little charade into a test of seducing endurance. “You have no idea.”Now with their eyes unto each other and close enough for a kiss. Cath couldn’t help but trace Sam’s facial features with her eyes. Reminding her of the past and how those eyes of his made her trip and fall deep for him. “You still have these pump cheeks just like in the past.”But then, Sam unknowingly ruins the moment. Noticing that one feature of Cath’s face that she hated. Sam’s teasing and pinching of her cheeks irritated Cath. “Stop!”Screaming in anger that immediately stops Sam and turns the supposed be going smooth moment into ruins.“You never change, an