Mind Games - Win or Lose

Chapter - 8

Eda was so excited she felt like she had a date with her husband tonight. She and Kiraz played in the yard by the pool. Eda found her inflatable duck and set Kiraz in it to splash about. She was having so much fun with Kiraz that she took a photo of her and sent it to Serkan. She knew that she did this regularly by the pictures she saw when she was going through her phone. While Kiraz was down for her nap Eda decided to prep the ingredients for dinner. It wasn't going to be fancy, just grilled fish with salad and roasted vegetables but she wanted it to be just right.

Ferit was in Serkan's office talking to him about the fiasco from dinner the previous night when he got the text from Eda and the picture of Kiraz in the pool.

"I haven't seen that look from you in a while, what has you smiling?"

"A picture of Kiraz in the pool. This is the first text that Eda has sent me since the accident."

"Well it's good to have you smiling after last night. To have Eda send you something has got to be a step in the right direction, much better than when Ceren and Melo visited her. After hearing about that visit I'll admit that we were all surprised when Eda moved in with you a week later. How are things going?"

Serkan relaxed a bit in his chair as he looked at Ferit, "Better? She's opening up more which is good and she's done some drawing with me. She asked if I could bring more for her to work on so I'm bringing several of her projects home with me tonight. The crazy thing is that she's better than me even without her memory. She's the one who did the Towers Project, I gave it to the client and they love it. She's in there Ferit, I just wish I knew how to get her memory back. I'm hoping that we can talk while we work tonight."

"The girls wanted to try to ask her for karaoke again tomorrow, do you think she might go?"

"They can ask, she might want to go this time. Fifi and I talked the other day and she seems to think that Eda is trying much harder. They should text her and try to include her."

"Great, I'll tell Ceren. Back to Mustafa bey, what do you want to do about him? What his daughters did was pretty bad, you know once that garbage is out there people just love to make up stories. We got all the retractions, you saw the piece Adina put together, but I don't know how I feel about working with him."

"Eda was not happy. Apparently she saw it on Instagram before it was taken down. Remind me again why I have an Instagram account? That's going to go too, I hate the stupid thing, ArtLife can have one but I don't want one. Anyways she saw it in the gossips this morning too. It at least got us talking. I like the guy but his daughters are out of control. I think he needs to focus on family more than he needs to focus on us for a while. Let's step back from the table and give him a chance to get his house in order."

The workday dragged for Serkan because he was looking forward to going home in time for dinner. When Leyla tried to schedule a late call for him he flat out declined it and told her to try for the following week, he had plans for the evening. On his way out of the office Serkan stopped by Melo's desk.

"Are you going out for girl's night tomorrow?"

"Yes, why you want to come eniste?" giggled Melo.

"I was hoping that you might ask Eda again."

Melo's face fell a bit, "Oh, Ferit mentioned that to Ceren too though she did suggest it first. After the last time I wasn't really keen on the idea but we can ask. It doesn't mean that she'll come."

"It doesn't but she is trying harder and being around her girlfriends might be good for her. Doing something that is fun and no pressure might help her loosen up a bit. If you don't want to ask I understand, just think about it," Serkan walked away hoping that they would. He thought that a night with her friends could help.