Akilah

Chapter 4

Akilah was by the bar; she had just ordered some shots for her and her friends. The bar tender kept on checking her out, winking , basically doing anything to get her attention and she of course did not give him a second thought. She was too busy having fun with her girls, and besides the only person that was hot in her eyes was her boss which is actually a bad thing now that she thinks about it.

Soon after the girls were joined by Ian and William who as always were arguing "dude come on you cannot deny the fact that those girls were extremely hot!"

"William they were in high school for god's sake! I was not going to dirty dance nor do anything else for that matter with those kids"

"Boohoo you're no fun at all" William said while stealing Ivory's shot.

"HEY!!" Ivory yelled at William in a screechy voice and gave him a good punch in the stomach; she was clever not to aim the punch at his shoulder since William had pretty impressive muscles.

An oomph sound came out of William's mouth and before he knew it Ivory ran out of his sight before he could do anything to her as payback. To be honest it was quite impressive how she ran with 6 inch pumps on.

Akilah and Alex stared at each other for a few minutes before they erupted in laughter while Ian just smirked at William then whispered into his ear "wow, you're going to let her get away like that?" and not too long after those words were said William was running in the direction Ivory headed to get some sweet revenge for what she had done.

"This is my favourite song come on Akilah we have to dance, and Ian you're coming with us too don't think you can run away!" Alex said with so much enthusiasm just looking at her after a long and hectic day at work just drained all the energy from Akilah.

She nodded and let Alex take the lead skipping away towards the dance floor.

The girls started dancing together and to Ian's surprise Akilah was a phenomenal dancer, and just by looking at the way she swayed her hips and bobbed her head to the song he was getting turned on.

He suddenly felt a cold hand touch his shoulder "hey, do you want to dance?" whispered a voice in his ear. Turning around Ian saw a sexy brunette woman wearing a tight pink dress which showed off some of her cleavage.

"Sure" said Ian while grasping her waist and pulling her close. He murmured something in her ear and she laughed while grinding against him. Akilah who was observing the situation carefully felt jealousy seeping through her but of course did not show it. After all Ian was her boss only and even if he was a total Greek God he was also a big jerk and she had to keep reminding herself that. What Akilah did not pay attention to was a smirking Ian staring at her.

The weekend flew by and before she could blink it was already Monday and she was back at the company. About to head into Ian's office she suddenly hears giggling and sees the door opening. To her surprise she finds the same brunette girl from the club coming out, she stares at Akilah and gives her a wicked smile before hurrying of.

When Akilah turns her head towards the door she finds Ian wearing his shirt but no buttons were done , thankfully he had just zipped his pants. Ian was wearing his famous smirk on his face while Akilah's mouth was hanging wide open. She quickly closes it and gives Ian a pointed look.

"What? I was just having some fun; she gave me her number when we were the pub on Friday and I decided to give her a call this morning but to be frank she wasn't so pleased that she had to wake up at 7:00 am but I made sure it was worth her while." He said with his usual smirk plastered on his face.

Akilah's face turned bright red but she quickly got over her embarrassment and said "Do you even know her name or is she your new girlfriend?"

"Ian Maxfield doesn't have any girlfriends nor does he date, and as for her name I have no clue."

Akilah stormed off back to her office while Ian just laughed like a lunatic.

When Friday finally came Akilah couldn't have been happier; she was having a sleep over with Alex and Ivory at her place and they were going to watch a movie, horror of course since Akilah loved watching anything scary. She loves watching romance and thriller movies but she really preferred watching horror. They were going to watch (The Conjuring) much to Alex's dismay since she hated watching horror movies, they just gave her too many nightmares.

When the elevator dinged to signal that it had arrived she walked towards it but didn't pay attention that someone was coming out and collided with a bunch of folders and papers. They flew all over the place and created a terrible mess, she quickly apologized and looked up to find Ian standing in front of her fuming "next time look where you're going Ms. Worthington!" he exclaimed while trying to take calming breaths. He then bent down and started to pick up all the work that ended up on the floor, "I'm really sorry please let me do it I'm the one who bumped into you." she said while bending down to pick up the folders of the ground and at that moment something odd went through Ian's chest. He couldn't explain it but he just stared at Akilah with an odd look; could he actually be having feelings for this girl? No impossible; Ian had never been in a serious relationship and he never felt like this about anyone else so why her? He hated her in the beginning because she took a deal he really wanted to have, then he started to understand why she was so good.

She did work really hard and he began to respect her but why would he have somewhat intimate feelings about her? He quickly pushed those thoughts aside as he continued to help her but his knuckles brushed her small hand by mistake and they suddenly looked at each other. She quickly drew her hand back and stood up handing her pile of the papers and folders that were on the floor and quickly walked into the elevator without saying a word, leaving Ian staring at her back with an unreadable expression.

That evening Akilah and Alex and Ivory were all chatting and playing with Marshmallow. Akilah was wearing a plain grey t-shirt and pink and white striped shorts that were from Victoria's Secret. Alex was wearing a black satin button up shirt with a small pocket that had a white line on it , and matching shorts. As for Ivory she wore a grey t-shirt that had a monkey wearing glasses on it and coral shorts that had a busy floral print.

There were two bowls which had different flavours of popcorn; one was the basic butter popcorn and the other was Akilah's favourite caramel popcorn. They dimmed the lights and started watching. Halfway through the movie Ivory snuck up behind Akilah and Alex and jumped on them; the girls almost got a heart attack then started attacking Ivory with pillows until she apologized and promised to never do it again.

They decided that they had had enough of horror for the night so they started chatting and gossiping instead but Akilah's mind kept reminding her of what happened earlier that day with Ian in the office. She eventually snapped out of it since Alex and Ivory kept on prying and asking her what was going on but she kept her mouth shut and didn't mention the incident, she instead started changing the subject and chatted until Alex and Ivory forgot about her space out and joined her on the topic; each one adding her own input and idea.