“Oh no…” before I could finish my sentence, I was more shocked about what they said at the same time.
“Lily?!”
“Michelle?!”
“You…” I cleared my throat,” You know each other?”
“She is my boss.”
“Yeah, she is my employee and friend.” Lily said and smiled,``Wait, is he your husba…”
“No,no,no, he is not.”
Lily gasped,” Are you cheating on your husband?”
“What?! No! She, I mean he is family. He is my husband’s cousin.” I could only look at them in shock.
“I think it’s better that you go with Ryan.” I grabbed her by the shoulders and lightly started to push her towards the door.
“Yeah, I think that’s better.Bye, Lily.” She waved and for a moment I glanced towards the direction where Emma is standing and she is smiling. That made my heart feel happy and I couldn’t lie to myself.
I have totally fallen in love. It was a strange feeling, it was not the same as the love I had for Ryan or any of his family. I wanted to make that girl mine, spent every minute with her.
“ The world really is small.” Lily spoke and I snapped out of my trance.
Feeling awkward I could only smile ,” Yea, it really is.”
“Oh, uh, I came here to tell you I could not have lunch with you. I don’t have your phone number and I didn’t want to be rude.”
“That’s fine, thank you for letting me know.”
She nodded and then walked towards Emma before walking away. I couldn’t do anything but put my head down on the desk.
“Well, that was the best show I have ever seen.” Ryan came in laughing with Michelle.
“It looks like the plan was useless.” Then I remember Lily’s reaction and I put my head up.
“Actually, no.”
“What do you mean?” Ryan asked
“Well, usually if you like someone there is a reaction, but she was normal, there was no hint of disappointment.”
“Her not liking you does not stop the marriage though.” Michelle spoke
“Yeah.I can’t deny that.”
“Well, we are going to lunch, You want to come?”
I shook my head at Ryan.
“Okay, I’ll bring you something since I know you will just stay here working.”
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“Here.” Ryan put a brown paper bag on the desk along with a water bottle.
“Thanks.” I only looked at him for a minute before looking back down at the documents that I was holding. After a minute I still felt his presence and decided to stop what I was doing.
“Do you need anything?” I put the papers down and gave all of my attention to a standing Ryan that looked like a kid trying to gather his courage before asking for something.
“...you should eat something.” He pushed the back forward and moved the papers to the side before taking a seat in front of me.
“...Okay.” I looked at him suspiciously before taking out the sandwich that was in the bag and taking a bite.
“I want you to go somewhere with me.” Not being able to speak I could only narrow my eyes while I tried to chew faster,” I will take your silence as a yes, Okay, I will see you once work is done, Bye.” he stood up before I was even finish chewing and once I was done, the door was already closing and I could only be stunned.
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“Okay, let’s go.” Ryan entered my office once again but this time I was getting ready to leave myself.
“What is so important that you had to wait for me to not speak?” I turned the lights of the office off and we started to walk towards the elevator.
“You will see once we get to the place.”
“Come on, just tell me. Are you surprising me with something?”
“Well, something like that.”
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“Tell me again, Why do I have to park here? There is space in front of the store.”
“Come on, fresh never hurts anyone.”
“Hey, wait a minute, are you okay?” He stopped walking, turned around and his face was serious. He was about to say something before he was interrupted.
“Stop!” said someone loud enough that made Ryan and me move our heads towards the voice.
“Come on, stop being such a bitch and just give me the money, or do you want me to tell my parents!” said a male voice this time and Ryan and I started to walk closer to where the crowd had gathered.
“Please, just stop, this is embarrassing, let’s just go home.” said the girl loud enough for the man to hear, who clearly looked like he had a few drinks. He kept getting closer and closer to the girl who had put some distance. I started to walk closer before I felt someone pull my arm.
“What are you doing?” Ryan said
“I can’t just ignore that.” I pulled my arm, and escaped his grasp.
As soon as I got closer to the front I saw that the man had gotten a hold of the girl’s wrist.
“Hey, I think you need to let…” before I could finish my sentence I made eye contact with Emma.
Her face matched my face of shock too and for a minute we could only stare at each other until she looked away and the guy started to talk again.
“I said give me the money.” Emma looked in pain since the guy was still holding on to her. Feeling anger I grabbed the hand of the guy.
“It’s better that you leave and stop harassing her.” He stumbled a little bit once I pushed him by the shoulder. The crowd had become bigger and Ryan had gotten to the front .
“ No, I think you should leave, this is none of your business.” He tried to go back to where Emma is standing, but once again I pushed him by the shoulder.
“I think you should really walk away.” he said visibly getting angry.
“Get the hell away!” he ran up to me with his fist formed but I only moved to the side and saw how he felt to the ground from how unbalanced he was. Slowly he stood up again and I felt someone grab my arm.
“Please, stop. I know the man, so stop, I will give him the money.” From the corner of my eye I saw that he had already stood up and he was charging towards us. I pushed Emma out of the way and punched the guy on his left cheek. Instantly, he fell to the ground, and then the sound of police cars were heard.
“You need to leave now.” Ryan came running up to me, pushing me to go away but I could only stare at Emma who was shocked.
”Go!!you need to go!!” Ryan pushed me harder and I could only run, since I had to be hidden. I couldn’t appear in any news or I would end up getting the beating.
Damn, I messed up.
I kept running until I got to my car and drove away.
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