Apart

Paul

After I played Counterstrike for three hours straight my sister Sally knocked on my door with a ridiculous rhyme, "don't come in" I said dryly, "what are you doing for the past three hours" she demanded, I want to be alone at this moment I haven't shared the soft side of me with the world, to be fair I didn't know I had a soft side but after discovering that I wanted to be left alone. I could hear Sally twist the knob on my door "I told you don't come inside" Irritated by the situation I don't want my elder sister to give me "relationship advice"; "I don't care I'm coming in" with a little tease in her tone. Every time she comes into my room that is always followed by a major change or some news with some cookies in bearing. I looked her in the eye its my way of telling her to leave and not to tell me whatever the news she has to share has to wait for some other time or conceivably never. She placed the cookies on the table, towers a chair in her direction and placed herself on it, with a guilty smile all over her face her hands between her thighs and of course the nerves waddling feet.

"What is it now" my face with the expression of not interested in the topic at all,

"What," she said. "I can't bring my baby brother with some cookies to cool down the tension of his finals around"

"You and I know that this isn't something we do and I'm not baby brother"

"For me you are"

"Can't you just get this over with?"

"Okay"

 I knew she was bearing some sort of news with her but this was different. She never played the "big sis" role; her waddles, hands, sweating on the temple something was up. She took a deep breath exhaled it with a following sigh and finally broke the ice. "You know about our businesses right?" with a smile; god I hate how much she is smiling at this very moment but businesses? Why would she ask me that? "Don't tell me we're poor or something bad happened?" I asked with lines that rose above my eyebrows, "No, Oh god no nothing bad happened. It's just that Dad is expanding our business with some TV journalism we won't own the whole company but it's a bit of a merger half of the company will be owned by Mr.Rufus Gale" I interrupted her before she could say anything "Wait, Rufus Gale? That scumbag billionaire with multiple vineyards and has its own customised wine which is hopeless can be owned by big fat bucks and has preposterous in taste?" Sally swung her so I could stop talking " Yes that Rufus Gale, apparently he is interested in TV business now" she said with a little smirk on her face. "I have a feeling you're not telling me the whole thing is there something else I should know ?" I asked with my pupils wide open just like my jaw "Yes there is dad is making me VP of our new business also the company is finalised almost but I guess we'll be going for GW Entertainment" her voice got to a high pitch noise in excitement, "Well I'm very happy for you. You deserve it more than anyone else" She grabbed my hand and continued " Are you? Are you really happy because I feel like I'm on the top of world I can't wait".

 "I am " with a genuine smile on my face

"Anyway I shared everything and kept on top of everything but after eating the cookies I made for you, you have to study" as she was letting herself out of my room

"Don't remind me" I threw a pillow before it could reach her.

I was struck with such news I couldn't process my mind that THE RUFUS GALE will be our partner in future. I saw the look on Sally's face when she was delivering me the news she had a spark in her eyes. I never knew and still don't what I want to do in life, but according to my father someday I'll take over the company perhaps that's the right path for me. I wanted to distract myself from this heavy and no backing responsibility, so I took out my books from the shelf and started going threw one chapter at a time. After my graduation, my father wants to groom me for the company I don't why he wants to give away the thrown so quickly well I do know I asked him when I started college he told me he wanted to retire as soon as possible, travel around the world with my mother, new experience as for the company he told me he wants a fresh face with new ideas that could take the company to the next level.