I wont do it do you hear me Christine! Im tired of this shit Amanda glared at the cellphone she had in her hands, she always does this she thought out loud she was pissed right now at how lucky her step mom was because she couldn't see how angry she was right now. Oh i hear you very clearly Amanda Christine replied you could tell annoyance in her voice at how she was talking down on Amanda.never the less i think you owe this to your father and its a small favour to ask after he raised you and showered you with love and care. Im simply asking you to spare us a couple of weeks of your life that can't be too much, Christine said. Us? Us? Are you kidding me? You're are the one asking me, father would never ask such a thing of me he knows i have life here,if he wanted me there hw would have told me himself and not make you the messenger so i suggest you give up your fabulous trip to Cape Town and start showing him back the love and money he has showered you with over the years . Amanda slammed the phone down shaking with the anger in her body she walked to her bedroom and lay down for a while to calm down. She was never a aggressive person or even violent but her step mother had the tendency to bring out the the worst in a person, everytime they spoke she would be upset for days following that conversation. They never had a good relationship from the beginning since she was a child but the difference now was that she was nolonger a child , hell no she was a grown up adult . To make everything worse she knew who Christine would take with her to Cape Town the one man she once thought she was in love with more than any words could describe and finding out that he was cheating with Christine had torn her apart. What made it even worse is that they looked good together. She could already imagine them holding hands un public where nobody knows them and making love under the Cape Town sky surprisingly enough after all this years it still hurt. Jake wouldn't risk taking Christine where her father would see them and to make it worse Jacob(dad) trusted Jake with everything he has i mean they were business partners. Amanda suddenly felt like she needed a hot cup of coffe, she walked to the kitchen. She looked around her business and felt the anger she had get replaced by pure pride she was a interior designer and a party planner lately she seemed to be planning wedding ha ha u know what they say about the unlucky ones but atleast i wasn't a maid of honor i mean that could be worse.selly came through the back door putting her coat on she glanced at Amanda ansa noticed her troubled face. Are you ok? She asked silently. Amanda just shrugged and nodded. Selly walked over to her and gave her a hug, its not healthy to bottle everything inside Manda sometimes its good to share your troubles with someone and let them carry your burden for a change she said. Amanda hugged her back its nothing i can't handle selly for real its just might need to go back home for a while and i need you to run things around here for a while. Selly was Amanda's personal assistant they've been working Together for a while now and in many ways she was a friend but the were some things that even a Friend shouldn't know e.g Jake and Christine affair. The last thought made her frown, she glanced at the clock in the wall it was quite late. You get off selly. I'll close up here plus its already closing time. Selly sharply glanced at Amanda silently for a while and finally nodded are sure you're gonna be ok? Manda simply nodded she wasn't sure if she was gonna be ok so that was the best she could do right now. As selly left Amanda closed the window blindes and locked the doors. Before Christine called her she was looking forward to spending the night alone but after that call she wasn't sure if being alone was a good idea she thought about calling Matthew for a while and decided against it. Later as she walked in her apartment she went straight to take a shower, she felt so alone the was nothing she could do to wipe away the past and the was nothing she could do to stop the memories from coming back right.she was fighting to keep the bitterness away, fighting to cast off of the pictures that raised into her head. She once told herself she would never go back home that place held too many memories not all bad but sometimes the bad over shadowed the good.she could not stand being in the same room with Jake and Christine. Their guilty relationship had washed off on her making her feel guilty too. If she went back home she would not be able to pretend anymore and she would explode maybe even infront of her father she could not hurt him like that. She wasn't even sure if Adam was still there according to her father he had his own wonderful place of his own. Her father was very proud of him he still really adores Jake... Hadn't they both at one time? She couldn't tell him that his wonderful prote'ge' and partner was having a affair with his wife.
