Bumping Accident | Englot

Chapter 16

Charlotte’s POV

It’s Wednesday. It’s been 4 days since I last saw Engfa. We’ve been texting, but she’s been too busy to meet up. She’s meeting my dad in two days, and I can’t help but be nervous.

Today, though, we have a meeting for her parents’ school, and she hasn’t showed up yet. The past month that I’ve known her, she’s usually been on time for everything, so I’m getting worried. I’ve been dodging the guy that we’re supposed to be having a meeting with.

All of a sudden, my thoughts are interrupted when I hear the door to the building opening, and Engfa walks in. She’s wearing sweatpants and a long sleeve, totally not the kind of clothes you wear for a business meeting. When I went to her house and had to pick something from her closet, basically all her pants were tailored pants. Every time I’ve seen her outside, she’s had tailored pants on, except the first time that we met.

She spots me and quickly walks over to me. She looks exhausted like she hasn’t slept in days. “Where have you been and what are you wearing?” I question her.

“I’m so so sorry I can expl—” “Later we’re late for the meeting,” I cut her off and say. She frowns but doesn’t say anything and follows me. We enter a room and sit down to start the meeting.

“Sorry, Mr. Smith, we can start the meeting now,” I gesture for him to start. We quickly talk about what steps we want to take to furnish the school and when we want to start hiring people. Throughout the meeting, I couldn’t help but glance at Engfa. When she’s in business mode, she is totally a new person. The meeting is done quickly, and we say our goodbyes and head out the door. Engfa doesn’t say anything until we’re outside the building.

“Let’s go to your car, and we can talk about it there,” I say, and she just nods and takes us to her car. She’s driving the Audi.

We both get in, but no one speaks.

“My father has been on my ass about stuff, and I was at the club last night until 4 am, sorry I slept in,” Engfa breaks the silence and says. I don’t say anything and only look at her.

I can slightly see the tattoo she has on her collarbone. I wonder if she has any other tattoos? I quickly shake my head and try to focus again.

“You’re working yourself too much,” I finally say. “Do you really need to be at the club that late?” I question.

She sighs, “Joe got the flu this week so I’ve been doing everything on my own.”

“You need sleep; you look like a truck ran you over.” “I know but can I please get kisses now?” She asks, which makes me laugh. I grab her face and bring her lips to mine and give her a deep kiss.

“I missed you,” Engfa says when we pull apart. “I missed you too,” I confess and peck her lips.

“How’s Olivia?” Engfa questions. “She’s good; she keeps asking for you and she wants a dog,” I respond. Engfa starts laughing, “I can’t wait to see her Friday.”

The car is silent after that, and we’re both looking at each other. “Can I ask you a question?” I say, and she nods. “Why do you call your dad father?” I question.

I look at Engfa and see she tenses and looks down. Then she takes a deep breath and looks at me again.

“Because a dad is supposed to be there for you and love you no matter what; I guess with father, I distance myself a little bit from him,” she answers, and I nod. That makes a lot of sense; she’s only called him dad in front of me like two times.

“Why has he been working you?” I ask.

“He thinks I’m being lazy and not helping him with the business, which I don’t even need to help; I just do it because of my mom. Anyways, he’s been sending me papers to look at and go over; I swear it’s like two hundred pages,” Engfa says and sighs.

“Do you and your mom have a better relationship?”

“Yeah, I don’t see her often though my dad doesn’t really let us see each other; the last time I saw her was at the event,” she says, which breaks my heart. I can’t imagine not being able to see my mom for that long.

“Come here,” I open my arms and wait for her to hug me. She quickly wraps her arms around me and hugs me tight. Her head moves to my neck, and she takes a deep breath. “You smell good,” she mumbles in my neck, which tickles me a little bit. We pull apart, and she pecks my cheek.

“Do you have anything to do for the rest of the day?” Engfa questions, and I shake my head no.

“You should go home and sleep,” I say. “Come with me.” “What?” I asked confused. “Come with me to my house; when I fall asleep, you can leave.” I take a moment to think. It will just be me and her, which makes me nervous, but she should fall asleep fast since she looks really tired.

“Alright, okay, but I can’t stay long; I need to pick up Olivia from daycare,” I say, and she nods.

“I brought my car so I’ll meet you at your house,” I add and get out her car and go towards mine.

I get in and start my car. Her house is not far from here, so we get there quickly. She gets out her car and comes towards mine. She doesn’t let me open my door and opens it for me.

We go into her house and go towards her living room. “Have you eaten anything today?” I ask her. “No, but I’m good,” she responds, and it looks like her eyes are closing. “Why don’t you sleep in your room?” I question her and sit down on the couch.

“Too much walking,” she mumbles sleepily and lays down on the couch with her head on my lap, which catches me off guard.

“Can you pass the blanket? It’s right next to you,” she gestures towards the blanket, and I grab it, and she covers herself with it.

I put my hand in her hair and start slowly massaging it. She looks so cute right now all curled up into a blanket.

“Please don’t break my heart,” she mumbles all of a sudden half asleep. “What?” I ask, but she doesn’t answer.

I look down to see her eyes are closed and her breathing is slow. She looks so beautiful.

I don’t know what she meant by saying that but I would never intentionally hurt her.

I wait a few minutes to make sure I don’t wake her up before I slowly move and put one of the cushions under her head.

I move to her kitchen to make her something for when she wakes up. When I open the fridge there’s barely anything in there. I need to go take her grocery shopping and make her buy actual food.

She has eggs so I settled on making a quick omelette. I write a note for her to let her know I left it in the microwave.

Before I leave I go towards the living room again and quickly kiss Engfa on the cheek. “Sweet dreams.” I mumble next to her and go towards the door.

I use the spare key she gave me and lock her door. I get in my car and go towards Olivia’s daycare.

I’m really nervous for Friday. My dad has been way more protective after Liam which is understandable. I really hope he doesn’t scare Engfa away.