shivian: a forbidden love 🖤🫶🏻

chapter 3: vivian?

Siobhans pov:

I'm working at the knight nursery again today with marjorie since Autumn is off sick again.

It gives me a break from being with Roger, so it works fine for me. Plus, I'm really hoping that I can see that parent again.

I walk into the downstairs bathroom as quietly as I can since Roger would be getting up with his alarm in the next 5 minutes.

If I wake Roger up before the alarm goes off, It would not be a fun outcome for me.

I find the foundation that I keep in my drawers as well as the concealer so that I can hide any bites and bruises that he has given me.

Nobody can find out about what he does.

5 minutes pass, and Roger finally wakes up. I try to avoid him as much as I can, but he's being really clingy again today. He walks towards me, bit I try to walk away.

Before I can get anywhere he grabs my arm and slaps me straight around the face and says "Where the fuck do you think your going you little slut?"

"I'm covering for autumn again she's called in sick. I need to go NOW ill see you later."

I leave the house without saying another word. It kills me to know that in 10 hours, I'll be back with him. It's a loop that I can't escape.

I arrive at the nursery and am greeted by marjorie. She wants to hire a new apprentice or something Roger won't allow any new apprentices to work in the nursery since we already have carly with us.

If anything its the sister nursery that need an apprentice but Roger won't hire one because we need "qualified staff."

I try explain that to marjorie but she tells me that's how we invest in qualified staff.

"New apprentices come In, we teach them everything that they need to go and within a few years, we have qualified staff."

I know she's right but Roger really won't allow it.

Our conversation gets interrupted when a parent storms into the office and rants about how someone has parked their car in the spot that they normally park their car in.

It's absolutely pathetic, some of these parents need to actually grow a pair.

She starts rambling in about how the nursery stole her drive way so we could have more room for the car park.

"We didn't steal your land, you gave us it and that spot isn't your, yes I know that you are allowed to park on the car park but you do not have a designated spot."

It's like talking to a wall to be honest, she just completely ignored everything that i said and told me to ask her to move.

"Fine I'll go talk to them."

I look out of the window and i see that parent stood in the carpark. She seems to be making quite a few enemies to be honest. She's not doing good at making any friends to say that she is new to town.

I can't help but smile when i see her. Luckily marjorie left the office just as that parent walked in and the other parent didn't notice that I was smiling for.  Even if she did, it's none of her business.

I walk out into the carpark and am greeted by her.

I approach her and say "seems like your choice of parking space is causing quite the uproar."

"Oh hello again." She responds, "I see she's taken the complaint all the way to head office this time."

I was in the building anyway and what business is it of hers what I do???

"I'm not here to tell you to move the car, I just want to make it look like that so that other parent stops chewing my ear off about It."

She smiles and says "handy because I wasn't going to move it anyway." The nerve this girl has.

I can't help but think there's something about her that I really like but I can't put my finger on it.

"Any particular reason your choosing this spot? Its the furthest away from the building" I ask trying to hide my smile.

"That Siobhan is exactly why I do it. Yesterday morning I saw 3 dings with people trying to get as close to the door as possible so atleast back here I know I'm safe. "

She made a fair point there. I'm really impressed by her.

"You do realize that you parking here irritates the parent living next door to the nursery?" I asked Still trying to hide my smile.

She knows full well it does. That's exactly why she does it. She says that "in addition to not having the paint scratched on her car her being annoyed is an extra bonus"

Why does she want to annoy this neighbor?? I'm loving it but I can't help wonder what's going on with her and this other parent so I ask whats going on with them.

"What's going on with you too? And given that your brand new to town, your not doing yourself any favors about making any friends."

She looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "When it comes to making friends I wouldn't say your the authority on the matter."

WHAT? the audacity this girl has.

I give her a stare wondering how on earth she knows this about me?

"Oh yeah I've heard all about Siobhan serpent former manager at the other nursey, you've got quite the reputation." She told me smiling.

What does she know? And how does she know it? I can't help but wonder.

I tell her to have a nice day since it's about time I start heading back into the nursery.

Just as I go to walk away, Roger starts blowing up my phone. Every 2 seconds I'm getting a notification. Annoyingly that parent is still stood with me so she can see the irritation on my face as I keep getting spammed with messages.

She looks at my sympathetically and says "you know you could just throw it in the bin."

She wants Me to throw my phone in the bin?? I didn't realize that I said that out loud.

"I wasn't talking about the phone. I was talking about the person sending those texts." She says.

Oh my God I wish It was that easy. I made sure that I didn't say that out loud because if I did there would be hell to pay. I can't risk anyone finding out.

"It's what I did with mine." Wait she's been through the same thing that I have?? I feel so bad for her. I know exactly what this feels like and it isn't a good feeling at all.

"Or you know just be a typical melenial and just stick it on silent." When she said that I couldn't hold back the smile I had been keeping In any longer.

She's tries to walk a way but I didn't want her to. I wanted her to stay with me and talk for abit longer.

"I didn't get your name." I say, luckily the smile had faded, can't let anyone know that I might actually have people in my life that have the ability to make me smile.

"Vivian but all my friends back home call me Viv. its kind of like the sound my car makes when I turn it on, it's really loud another bonus for annoying the neighbor." I couldn't help but smile again. Was this her way of saying that she wants to be my friend??

"You seem really hellbent about annoying this neighbor." I say.

"She turned the sprinklers on the first time I ever parked my car here and got Jamie all wet right before he went into the nursery so uh this mamma bears got a grudge now and I have alot of free time on my hands."

I smile again before she walks away. I head back inside to marjorie to continue the day before going back to my version of hell, Roger's.

Vivian seems like a really nice person and I would love to get to i on her but Roger wouldn't allow that at all. He would go mental if he ever found out that I had any friends.

Maybe this friendship isn't meant to be...