Knowing People

Chapter2 "Meeting badly"

Alice's POV

So I was just about to leave the house when the phone rang. Since I was the only one home, I was the one to
Answer it.
"Hello?" It took some time before the caller replied.
"Oh dear me, Alice is that you? It's me, uhh .. David Jaxon. You're mom worked for us years ago.
Do you still remember that you used to at our garden and-"
Before he would even continue, memories came back to me and it made me speak eagerly.
"Oh yeah! Well uhm...What made you call today Mr. Jaxon?"
"I was kinda hoping if your mom and dad are still free to re-organize our house?"

That made me scratch my hair with shock. "Oh, uhm .. My parents are away for now, they went to
Detroit to organize a wedding reception I think."
I could tell that he was disappointed because I could hear him sigh.
Before he could reply I kind of spoke up.
"But I can do it on their behalf .. Well, if that's ok with you."
"That'd be great! It will be such a pleasure to see you again. So see you here after school then? Same place."
"Yes sir."
We both said bye and hung up the phone. But for a moment there, I was kind of excited.
It's been a long time since I saw Mr. Jaxon, he was like a father to me,
But some this telling me that I'm even more excited to see someone else.
Dominic Jaxon, the Jaxon Prince a.k.a. My childhood friend and ... long time crush?
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After school, I threw my books in my bike basket then rode off to the Jaxon place.
As I got there, Mr. Jaxon was so glad to see me. He even fed me me first before sending me off
To work. Then he would show me the areas I was gonna organize. The music room, the library
And the Jaxon Sons room which is Dominics.
It didn't took long I finished with the library and the music room. Mr. Jaxon would check me from time to time to see if I was ok and would bring me snacks and plenty of time to rest.
So to finish off, here I go to Dominic's room. As I went in, it wasn't so bad.
And by wasn't so bad, I mean that it's not such a mess after all.
I realized that his wardrobe was very unorganized and his room is very pale.
It needs more decorations.
So after I arranged his clothes, bookshelves and drawers, I took some scissors and tried to cut off
some cloth and paper for decorations. Since I pegged him as a sporty type of guy, I bought a poster
Of a NASCAR driver with his signature at the bottom and took a huge pic frame from their basement
and hanged it on the wall where his bed was.
And voilà! ... All the walls are filled with decent decorations for a guy and it kind of suits his room.
So I was cutting some random paper to ease my boredom when a guy suddenly snapped and made me cut myself.
It was him.
I guess he was sorry for accusing me as a monster or a ghost or whatever because the next thing I knew,
We were at their mini clinic and there he is nursing my hand!

My heart stopped whenever I was with Dominic ever since when I was little and I played with him
Whenever my mom would organize in their house but I guess he doesn't remember me anymore.

We were walking in their garden as he showed me the way out because their house was so huge,
even a house rat would get lost .. If ever there were rats there.

Then we got into a fight. That's where I told him who I was and my mouth bursted out things
I've always wanted to say to him.
I ran off with my bike then suddenly ...
"ALLIIII WAIT!"

He called me using my nickname. That nicknames only us would call each other. Mine was Ali
And his was DJ. But I was through with him.
Then I knew, I just threw away someone that could have been a great friend to me.

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Dominic's POV

After school I went to the cafeteria. It was loud. I guess people had already piled inside but there
was one girl sitting at that table all alone. So I went there and sat next to her.
She was reading a random book and eating a sandwich at the same time. I couldn't see who she
was because her hair is covering her face.