MY Sweet Interlude

Part 36 - Love Maze

It's the start of the week and Aliya had been on her feet for the most part of the day going from one department to another. By the time she got to her desk, she was just exhausted and counting the hours until work is done for the day. She checks her phone which she hasn't touched since lunch break and sees that she has a message from Yoongi. He is asking if he had plans on Friday. Although Yuna had been asking her to join them on their usual Friday clubbing, she didn't make commitments with her yet. Before she can text her reply, her phone starts to ring. 

"I decided to call you because it's taking you forever to answer my text." Yoongi tells her as soon as she answers the phone.

"Well I was in another department earlier and I just got back at my desk." She tells him as she stretches out her back with a soft grunt.

"Busy?" He asks her. 

"Yes so busy that my legs are killing me." She tells him.

He chuckles before asking again. "So are you free on Friday after work?" 

 "Uh, yeah I am free but..." Before she can finish her sentence, he cuts her off.

"What time do you get off work?" 

Is he full of questions today, she thought. "I want to leave at five because the day had been so toxic for me." 

She could hear the smile on his voice when he said.  "Ok, I'll see you later then." 

"Wait." She said but he already hangs up. This guy is something else, she told herself as she goes back to work. He doesn't have any patience, doesn't bother to say hello or goodbye. And what's happening on Friday anyway? 

"Aliya, how do you get to be friends with all these good-looking men?" 

"Pardon me?" One of her co-workers is standing next to her. She looks at the time and realized an hour has passed since Yoongi called. 

"Some hot guy is asking for you outside." She said before leaving, mumbling on how some people can get so lucky.

Aliya makes her way towards the waiting room and finds Yoongi, as the "hot guy" her workmate had mentioned earlier. He is standing next to the window casually looking out and she can see why she referred to him as that.

"Hey, is this what you meant with see you later?" She greets him.

He turns to her studying the printed dress she is wearing which accented her figure and the high heeled shoes she matched it with. 

He nods his head before speaking, "If you're ready to leave then let's go."

"Go? Go where?" He mentions a name of a high end mall. 

"Why are we going there?" Aliya asks feeling lost.

"I need to pick clothes for Friday and you need to get one for yourself too."  He answers.

"Wait what? Why would I need to get clothes and what's with Friday?" Now, she's the one full of questions. 

"It's for the kick off party of the project I am working on. Clients, vendors and all the people involved are coming. You said you are free so I'm taking you with me." Yoongi tells her looking a bit impatient as he answers her questions.

"Oh," Aliya said then added "You must've missed the part to ask me if I'd agree to come with you."

He scowls at her. "Are you saying you don't want to go?"

Yoongi looks confused and Aliya can't help but smile over the fact that this guy isn't used to getting a no for an answer. He looks so puzzled when she gave a different answer than he expected. Even if their friendship has gone better, he still needs to ask. "I didn't say that, but why would you like to take me?"