Give Me 15 Days

Chapter 14 : I'm Sorry

"I know that's what people say– you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him."

― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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It is almost 2 pm, lunchtime. Jasmine looks at the familiar building in front of her. She takes a deep breath and releases it, trying to calm her heart.

Why am I so nervous, she thought. 

She gets into the building and goes straight into the elevator.

As she arrives in front of Zach's office, she knocks on the door. She could hear the boy telling her to come in. She smiles as she opens the door.

Zach sighed, he never thought that the brunette would be back, not after they had a fight.

"What do you want, mi amor? I thought I told Thomas to never let you come back here, not today, tomorrow or ever again." He massages his forehead, the meeting this morning made it worse for his head. He really needs to get his surgery as soon as possible.

"Aw come on, you know you don't mean it. You were the one that wanted to make me fall in love with you, so why not you take me to lunch- But, it's my treat of course." She tells him.

"What happened to you? Did you accidentally bumps your head or something?" He furrows his eyebrows. Is there something going on with her while she was in the car with Thomas or something? He thought to himself.

"Come on, get your butt off the chair and let's go eat lunch. I heard from your very beautiful assistant that you don't eat lunch when you are busy. Thomas also said the same thing." She rolls her eyes and tries to pull the guy so he could stand up but to no avail. It's like she is pulling an elephant. So heavy, she thought.

Suddenly, he stands up making both of them fall to the floor. He is now on top of her, he pins both of his hands on the floor so he will not injure the girl. They make eye contact, again for the third time in a day. What a record. He smirks.

Jasmine's eyes are wide open, she quickly stands up pushes the guy from her, and punches him softly in the shoulder.

"I hate you, if you don't want to bring me to lunch then I will have to call Harry." Jasmine has her back facing the guy so he will not see her smirking right now. Harry. It has been a few days since they last talked. But for some unknown reason, Jasmine hasn't thought of him at all.

Zachary smiles. He knows that the girl is trying to get to him. He could see her reflection of her in the mirror. So he thought he will play along with her. Two can play this game. He smirks.

"Alright, go ahead. Anne invited me to lunch already. Your loss." Zachary takes his coat from the coat hanger stand and put on the coat. He sprays some of the perfume just to make a certain brunette jealous.

"Why the hell are you wearing the perfume if you just want to go to lunch with your annoying assistant?!" She asks him taking the perfume from the boy's hand., trying very hard to not sound like she is jealous.

"Well, go on then. Call your boyfriend, you said you want to call him." He puts both of his hands into the pocket of his pants. She fidgets her finger and bit her lips.

"Are you seriously going to lunch with that girl even though I asked you first?" She asks him with a very slow voice knowing he has a soft spot for her.

Zach sighs. He goes to the girl and pats her head. She smiles when she hears him say,

"Alright, fine princess, I will take you to lunch. Let's go." Zachary intertwines his hand with the girl. It feels so natural when he does that.

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"Seriously? There are a lot of restaurants and steak houses, but you decided to eat lunch here?" She asks him.

"Yup, I mean, you never try the food here yet right? You should try them today. The food in this cafeteria is really good. I am the one who evaluates the food here." He smiles cheekily.

"Of course you are, I mean it's your cafeteria after all." She rolls her eyes. She looks around and everyone was already looking at both of them. She averts her eyes and looks at the menu. She found her food for the day which is-

"Nope, definitely and most certainly not the salad. I know you are trying to be healthy and I respect that but you cannot just eat salad for the whole day now, can you?" Zachary protests then he sighs. Even though her boyfriend is not here, he mentally abuses her to only eat salad which is absurd and violates the human right.

"Your mom said you like macaroni cheese so why not order it and also some Fajitas? At least it has meat in it." He tells the brunette silently hoping she will agree with him.

"I'm not sure if I should, if Harry-

"But Harry is not here now, is he? I will protect you, I said this before and I will happily say it again. You should not be scared of him. I will be here, and I will protect you okay mi amor?" He softly says to her as he hold her chin and kisses her forehead.

They could hear the picture being taken and all the people in the cafeteria gushing over them.

"Keep your heads up, princess or your crown will fall." He winks at the girl.

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A/n : That's it for chapter 14, I hope you like it. Thank you for reading :)

See you next chapter!