He's My Boss

VIII.

I early this morning. I wanted to leave the house early, I don't want to even look at him I'm just gonna get mad again. I took my shower and stuff and out on a white blouse, some black slacks and some black pumps since it was gettin cold. After that I made my way downstairs.

"Hey baby!" Khalifa said handing me a plate of bacon, eggs, grits, sausage, and biscuits.

"Cooking me good isn't gonna fix things. But I'll take It." I reached for the plate but he pulled it back.

"Gimme a kiss first." He puckered up his lips.

I grabbed an orange. "Well I guess I'm not gonna eat then."

"Why you gotta do that? I'm trying, you said you wanted me to start showing that I'm at least trying and when I do you always brush it off." He threw the apron and a small box on the counter and walked up stairs.

"Ugh! Why am I all of a sudden the bad guy." I opened the Pandora box and saw a charm bracelet and one of the charms had our date on it. "Aww."

I looked at the clock and it was already 8:30. I didn't have time to thank him but I out on the bracelet and took the food to go.

***

"Hey Jordan!" I said opening the door of his office.

"Good morning Zani!" He said handing me a cup of coffee from Starbucks.

"Ooo, thank you. I needed this."

"No problem. You know we having a Halloween party next week."

I stale faced him. "Yeah I kow, I'm the one who made the posters and hung them up around the office."

"Oh that's right. What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." I said in a blah tone.

"Yes it is. It's Khalifa isn't it?"

"Yeah, we had another argument."

"About?"

"I think he got a girl pregnant."

His jaw dropped. "He has a baby?"

"I think, he said it wasn't his. Some girl texted him last night asking why he didn't come see his baby."

"Was the number saved?"

I shook my head.

"It was probably the wrong number. I'm not taking his side or anything because you already know I don't like him. But you gotta think about that."

"I guess." I looked down and played with my fingers.

"Are you gonna be okay to work today because we have a lot to do today."

"Yeah I'm okay."

"Great!" He sat a stack of papers in front of me. "You should get started now then. I'm going to a meeting. You can work in here if you want."

"Okay, thanks."

***

It took me 3 hours just to finish the paper work, I'm exhausted! Jordan was still in that meeting. I thought the assissant was supposed to go to all the meetings but I guess not. The only good thing about doing all of this work was that it got my mind off Khalifa! I really hope he was telling the truth, I can't let him go. But if he got another girl pregnant I can't do it.

Ding ding

Baby💛

Happy Anniversary to you too

Oh shit! I forgot about our anniversary. I've been so busy with work I didn't even keep track of the day. That's why he did all that this morning. I feel terrible! Once again I'm the bad guy.

Baby💛

Happy Anniversary to you too

I'm sorry I've been so busy. I'll make it up to you when I get home.

Don't worry bout it🙅

He replied in seconds, that's how I know he was mad. He never texted back fast unless he was mad or it was important. How is he the one mad when it's a possibility that he had a baby on me. He asked like a 25 year old kid!

I slammed my phone on the desk and screamed. "Oh my god!"

Jordan walked in. "Well hello to you too!"

"I wasn't talking to you." I said sharply.

"What did I do to you?"

"Nothing. I'm just irritated."

"I know we may be cool and all but this is your job. You need to leave all of that drama at home. What if I would be brought somebody important in and they saw you acting like that huh? I asked you if you needed to take the day off and you said no! So you need to act like you have at least a little bit of sense. Understood?"

I nodded my head. Here we go again! I get that this is a place of business but damn. I just can't catch a break today.

"Great. Are you done with the party?" He sat behind his desk.

"Yes. All I have to do is send the invitations."

"Okay. You can invite some of your friend if you want. I wouldn't mind meeting Khalifa. I want to see why you can't let that man go."

"Sure."

"You can leave if your gonna be like that."

"What are you talking about?"

"Cause you doing to much! I'm trying to lighten up the conversation and you just blah."

How sway? How you gonna go from strict to street? This is the shit I'm talking about.

"I'm just not in the mood to talk to anybody. I just wanna hurry up and get my work done so I can go to my other job."

"Wait what?"

"I don't feel like talking I'm-"

"No not that. You have another job?"

Dammit

"What? No. I was talking about dealing with Khalifa." I nervously giggled. "That's like a job."

He chuckled. "Oh, cause I was about to say. You can't have another job if you work as my assissant. That's the reason why I hired you."

"Why is that?"

"Because I might need you to do something for me and how can you do that if your at work?"

"That's true. You know we never talked about how much I was getting paid." I said trying to change the subject.

"Oh yeah I forgot about that. What about 20 an hour? That's what I gave my last assistant."

"Yeah that's great! When will I be getting paid?"

"You can get paid every Friday." He looked at his calendar. "So in 3 days you'll get your first check."

"Okay. Do you think I can leave early today?"

"That's what I've been asking you since you got here. Just make sure you finish sending the invites."

"I will. Thanks Jordan, see you tomorrow!" I packed all my stuff up and left.