Right Where You Left Me ✔

Chapter 18: Phase Three.

Kai

I have gone to work after taken two days of leave. Even when I tried to avoid seeing Hayes's face after the two... no three incidents that had happened between us, I can't just fully avoid him. All I know is that we work at the same company... we're colleagues and that if things like this were to continue, it might just ruin the work mood.

There's no avoiding anyway when we're in the same building.

When I was being dropped off at work by twenty-year-old Stan, I couldn't even get myself to say something mushy or sappy towards him. As much as I wanted to, I couldn't get myself to say those three words of colouring hearts. It seems so difficult to open my mouth as well. 

He wanted to drive me to work since it was the only thing that he could do while I was at work. The more I said no, the more he insisted and would never let me off to go. The stubbornness that he wore was really just irritating that I had to grip my hand and clench onto something invisible so that I wasn't triggering my anger or my frustration towards him.

I had told him that I would call him or let him know if I was finishing my work. Although I believe if I do, he would be down there with the car parked and waiting for me to come out. If there's one thing that would describe Stan, it would be that he was an early person. Well... not when he was seventeen though. That time the man just went to school like he owns the place. Yet, I still wonder how on earth did his parents not being called to the school for their son's behaviour?

Pulling myself away from my thoughts, I went to continue doing my job. Working here means that I need to do my best in every single way possible. Moreover, it was my dad's company. And I was working here - taking the advantage of being his son and getting the spot of the head engineer that easily. At first, I thought about what other people might think when they knew about this. It would be the head of the talk.

But after working here long enough, I had come to realize that if those talks came in... I just need to work harder to show that I wasn't clinging onto my dad. It was another reason why I didn't want to work under dad's company but at that time... I just had to give up before I lost all other opportunities. 

"Kai?" Amber called, standing at the doorstep of my office with her hand touching the frame. I glance at her from the files in my hands with a 'yeah?' look. "Boss wants to see you," She continued, walking inside my office with a meek smile.

Frowning, I put down the digital file. "Really? Why does he want to see me?"

"I don't know either, but I think it's not about work. You work pretty hard to even show a weakness," She replied, chuckling about my work behaviour.

"Is that so...? I'll go meet him after this, need to sort these files first," She nodded at me, then goes on to walk away from my desk. But then she turns back. "Oh yeah... I was wondering... is there something going on between you and Hayes? He got a blue eye and when I asked him where he got it, he only said your name... in a not so friendly tone...," The woman asked, raising her blonde brows.