love finds its way around

Chapter 10

The lady walks gracefully towards Derrick and I with a smile plastered on her face.

"Derrick Sawyer right?" She asks bringing out her hand for a shake

"You know it's me" Derrick says airily not taking her hand
She withdraws her hand looking at me. "Who's she?"
"I don't think it's any of your business to know" Derrick says massaging his temples

"Alright" she plainly says turning to me "I'm Sonia his fiancé pleased to meet you" she beams at me stretching her hands to me
I take it smiling at her "I'm Lorraine"

She swiftly turns back to Derrick "it's also nice to meet you in person too. I arrived yesterday you know I didn't know your dad and grandma would throw a party. Your grandma got me this dress too, she's so sweet" she says looking only at Derrick who doesn't seem to be paying attention to her but looking at me.
"I'd be back, I need to get something" he says to me before walking away.

Sonia doesn't look surprised at his behaviour. She simply turns to look at me with her her lips jammed together. I don't think I'm comfortable with just me and her.
"So let's get a drink then" she sweetly says walking away, I follow behind her feeling weird to be among all this people. It seems like Derrick and Sonia are just meeting for the first time but still yet they're engaged though Derrick doesn't seem pleased about it could it be the reason for his change of mood on Saturday. Whatever, I shouldn't think much about this.

Sonia leads me to the kitchen which is filled with people hanging around drinking and talking amongst themselves. Sonia hands me a glass of champagne, I smile in return.
She sips from her drink in a mannered way. She lifts her head to look at me, her smile isn't there anymore but she now has a plain expression.

"I'm not pleased to meet you at all" she simply says like she just told me the nicest thing. Her smile appears back on her face as she leans on the counter "Plus I know you work as his personal assistant" she adds feigning a sweet smile

I look at her taken aback by her sudden change of behaviour. I can see she played an act in front of Derrick earlier.
"You should know you don't belong here at my party. What do you think people would think with you clinging around my husband to be when it's his fiancé's welcome party. Don't you think you're dumb enough to show your low self here besides you shouldn't just think you're dumb cause I also think so" she says lowly still having that annoying smile plastered on her face.

A wave of hurt engulfs me but I'm not bothered about her insult. I smile at her if only she knew how much I don't want to be here. "I'd rather you don't get the wrong idea. I'm only here cause I'm his personal assistant" I explain wanting so much to be away from her

"But I don't think so don't you think" she says maintaining her calm posture and expression. I'm amazed at how she maintains her cool, I'm must say I'm impressed. To a random person around they'd think she just having a normal conversation with me.

"I'd like to use the restroom now" I say to her
"Aww" she pouts "You haven't even had your champagne yet, my bad" she says feigning to be sad, she moves away from the counter walking to stand close to me, she leans like she's about to give me a peck "Derrick and I would be married soon till then I don't want any obstructions...I can really be a bitch when I'm upset" she whispers in my ears before walking away.

I heave out a deep sigh, I drop the glass in my hand on the counter walking out of the kitchen. I turn to see Derrick walking to my direction
"Where were you, I didn't find you where I left you" he says looking deep into my eyes with a worried expression.
The same foreign feeling of last time overwhelms me again, I want to hug him now so he'd keep me warm and tell me it's fine but I can't it going to be wrong especially after my brief meeting with Sonia his wife to be. What is this foreign feeling that I haven't felt before.

"I want to go home" I say looking away from him. I want to go home to cuddle Carmela so she'd give me the warm feeling I get when I'm with Derrick. I guess they have it in common. I want her to smile at me so I won't loose focus like I'm doing now and also to concentrate on just working with Derrick.

"Yes I should take you home" he says taking my hands in his walking away. I don't react to this, his hold is firm on my hands so I won't be able to pull away and besides it's giving me the warm feeling I'm craving.

Hello!

So what do you guys think of Sonia and we're all guessing the foreign feeling our dear Lorraine is having.

Let's just see how things turns out.

Love proxy.