| T.F. BUILDING |
– Finance department –
The remainder of the work day flew by pretty quickly. Fatima never responded to Zac's last statement because she didn't want to be rude in Kofi’s presence. Instead, she made a mental note to discuss her reservations about Kofi living with them tonight during dinner.
KNOCK KNOCK
–no answer–
KNOCK KNOCK
Fatima: (looks up from her laptop and looks at Kofi) Do you not hear that there's someone knocking?
Kofi: (scoffs) don't you?
Fatima: (smacks her teeth) Whatever! -gets up and walks to the door-
Noelle: hey girl. Jayla and I are about to head over to Kiki’s. Are you coming?
Fatima: wait, what?! Is it 5:00 pm already?
Noelle: (chuckles) girl, yes! Were you not paying attention to the time?
Fatima: I actually wasn't. I had a lot of work to do, on top of catching up and replying to like a hundred emails! (Sighs) And to think that I'm not even halfway through! This is definitely gonna be a long ass week for me.
Noelle: damn, a hundred?! That sounds hectic! So, I'm assuming that you won't be coming with us?
Fatima: unfortunately not. I totally forgot to contact Ms Golda and ask her to watch Orion for longer. Also, I'm exhausted! (Yawns) I'm so sorry for letting y'all down.
Noelle: girl, don't even worry about it. It's all good! After all, you were gone for months, so it's gonna take you a while to readjust to the workload.
Fatima: yeah, I guess so. Anyway, I'll call you and Jayla tonight, just to hear how the visit went.
Noelle: okay, cool. See you tomorrow. Drive safe.
Fatima: thanks you too.
Fatima closed the door and walked back to her desk to start packing up all her belongings in preparation to go home.
Kofi: Fatima, are we okay?
Fatima: excuse me?! There is no “we”. What the hell are you even talking about?
Kofi: (sighs) I obviously didn't mean it in that sense! Look, if you're in your feelings about me coming onto you earlier, I'm sorry okay. If I had known that you're practically married to my cousin, I wouldn't have done that. Can we please just forget it happened and move on!
Fatima: -doesn't respond. Just keeps packing up her things-
Kofi: (walks up to her and gently grabs ahold of her arms) Fatima, look at me!
Fatima: (flabbergasted) GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME!! (She snatches herself away) Nigga, you don't know me like that! Fuck wrong with you?!
Kofi: (steps back with his hands held up in surrender) I'm sorry, I didn't mean to overstep. I just wanted you to give me your undivided attention, so we can get to the root cause of all this sudden animosity that you have towards me.
Fatima: (irritated) Kofi, seriously! Please just stop talking to me!! I thought I made it abundantly clear that we should keep things strictly professional. You being my fiancé cousin doesn't change that shit! At the end of the day, your Zac's family- NOT mine!
Kofi: (lowkey heartbroken) ouch! I guess it's nice to know where you really stand.
Fatima: (feels bad) Kofi, I didn't mean it like that, I'm sorry. The bottomline is that Zac and I are about to get married. Therefore, any family of his, is technically also my family.
