no matter what decision your heart makes, I will be waiting for you...

Part 25

The weekend flew by faster than expected. It is now just 3 o'clock in the afternoon and I am sitting in my huge office. I've been working all day, I didn't even take my lunch break, but what was even weirder was that I noticed that Y/N didn't come out of her office for lunch either. A couple of times I heard Harrison going into her office, not that I was eavesdropping but he was always asking if she was ok and how her weekend was. It is odd for Y/N that she doesn't come to my office, normally she comes to my office at least 3 times a day when she is bored or has already finished her work. She usually organises her work for the week well, and since it is never too much work, she always has some time left. Today, on the other hand, it's different. She hasn't even left her office, not even to go to the bathroom, how does she manage that? I think she works herself to death in there, just like me. But she doesn't need to, she doesn't have a pile of work because some of the employees of this company are too incompetent to carry out tasks!!! I hope the reason she doesn't come to my office anymore is because we slept together. Still-
My shabby thoughts get interrupted when my door opens without a knock and Y/N comes into my office with a huge pile of papers.
"Oh god, I almost got it, I almost got it" she groans to herself as she tries to balance the mountain of papers on her arm to my table.
"need help?" I ask in an amused voice as she almost arrives at my desk.
"ughhh" she lets out one last loud groan, dropping the papers on my desk. I look at her confused, wondering what to do with this week's papers, after all I only gave them to her this morning.
"Before you ask, these are all the papers for this week, ready to be scanned. In return, however, I would like to ask to be allowed to leave tomorrow at 3pm" She exclaims under her breathe as if she had read my mind. She stands in front of me with all her courage, her hands on her hips and her face serious. I can't control myself any more and start to giggle, it's sweet how she pulls all her courage together and has done all this just to be allowed to leave earlier, she would have been allowed to do that without having to do all the work beforehand. I'm not one of those asshole bosses.... at least not to her.... mostly.
"What? what's wrong?" she asks, not quite keeping up with the situation
"Y/N, you didn't have to do that just so you could leave early tomorrow, I would have said you could leave early either way" I tell her with a giggly smirk on my lips. It's just cute how Y/N tries so hard when she doesn't need to. I can't fire her either way because Harrison would kill me. Good that I haven't had to think about it yet.
"Oh good, I just thought maybe you'd be angry when you found out I was only leaving early to meet derrek cause y-"
"you meet fucking derrek again?!" I said, getting up from my chair and throwing the pen between my 2 fingers on the table. She flinched a little but I didn't care. I just felt the blood boiling inside my veins.
"I-" she started but I was quick in interrupting her
"I thought it was just a date and you had no contact anymore!" I exclaimed, resting my hands on the desk to get a closer look at her face.
"It's not like what you thi-" I know I just can't keep my mouth shut, so I interrupted her again
"Y/N how long has he not contacted you now? 2 weeks? even you can't be that stupid"
"but-" she started talking with hurt eyes, but it just makes me angry. Derrek just makes me angry. If the date with Y/N wasn't great, he could have at least written her a message.
"you can leave tomorrow at 3, but for now, dismissed!" I pointed my finger at my office door, avoiding eye contact with her as I saw her leave my office with a sigh.

~your pov~

Well, that didn't go as planned, I already thought it would go badly, but damn if I hadn't opened my big mouth and blabbed, maybe he wouldn't be so angry now. I can't blame him though. A true gentleman would at least have left a message after the date and derrek didn't get in touch for a really long time. But what tom said about how even I can't be that stupid... that wasn't nice. I know what I'm doing, I'm already an adult. In addition, tomorrow I must either stop working earlier to be punctually at 3 in the cafe, or I let derrek wait a few minutes... Oh please of course I let derrek wait, he also deserves it. And since I've already done all the work for this week today, I now have no choice but to spend the rest of the day taking calls and forwarding them. So I did, but not very many came in.

~Harrison's pov~

"did you know Y/N is going on another date with that derrek guy tomorrow?" Tom asks through clenched teeth, not really pleased, as he throws himself down on the couch next to me.
"Oh, come on, let her. It's her business who she goes on a date with and who she doesn't" I try to calm him down, then look at my phone again where I am on instagram.
"How can you not care? I don't trust this derrek guy. She simply deserves better that's all I'm trying to say." he mumbles the last words, but I can still hear them. My eyebrows raise in confusion and so is my head. I look up from my phone and look at Tom with a raised eyebrow.
"like for example?" I ask
"I don't know... Someone who can give her more, take care of her, protect her and.... can kiss her better like him !" he pouts angrily, his arms cuffed and his gaze fixed on his lap. I really wonder since when he cares so much for her, of course tom has always been caring for her but something is different. And why the fuck would he say that last thing? 'can kiss her better' what does that have to do with anything?
"Since when do you care so much who she dates? Look, it's sweet that you care about her so much, but she can make her own decisions. If Derek hurts her, I'll let you kill him." I assured him. He looked up, clenched his teeth and let his jaw tighten once more before he stomped off a little annoyed and went to his room. Did he really expect me to forbid Y/N to go on her date now? Well, maybe it will help if he talks to his girlfriend now.