Victoria's Forbidden Kisses

Chapter Three - The Decision

"Omar did not answer your call

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Would you like to;

Leave a Message, Send a video message, Call Back"

Victoria read the message which came up on her laptop screen for the fourth time.

"Where could he be? We spoke earlier and it was decided that we would Skype tonight at 8:00pm.

Victoria grew frustrated after she tried a fifth time and didn't receive an answer. She wanted to talk to Omari about the offer she had received from Professor Sobitan. She called her mother and spoke to her about it and she told her the decision was up to her and she saw no harm in taking the job offer.

Victoria wondered if her mother would think this if she knew the impact that Professor Sobitan had on her. He made her hands sweat, her tummy ache, and she found it difficult to breathe around him. She couldn't quite diagnose what it was that he did to her, but she knew there was no way it could be good for her health.

She gave up trying to call Omari and decided to go and have her bath. She popped her takeout into the oven and ran her bath water.

She seemed to have been soaking in the bath for an entity. God She needed it. Working 20 hours a week and doing school full time could take a toll on a person.

She decided that she would stay in tonight and catch up on her favourite series and have some wine.

"Castle maybe, oh I know I will catch up on the latest Bones episodes"

As she ponders over what to watch she sees her phone lights up on the sofa. She takes it up and sees a message from Omari . It was now 9:15pm.

Omari Webster ~ 05/16/2015 9:15pm:

"Hey babe. I stayed back after work and had a few drinks with the guys"

Now he sees it fit to respond she thought rolling her eyes in annoyance before she throws the phone back on the sofa and went back to scrolling through Netflix. She decides on Castle. Victoria took the food she had warming in the oven and poured herself a glass of wine. This was what she did mostly when she didn't have any work to finish up.

It is times like these she wished she had a 'normal' relationship. She loved Omari, but lately she wasn't sure if she was in love with him. He's very generous and supportive, but she needed more. She need an actual shoulder to cry on when she was having the worst of days, she needed not to always be the third wheel whenever she went out with her friends, and she also need to have someone to hold her, touch her when she needed to be touched.

she tries not to let herself think about things of such nature as it would only stir up things in her that couldn't be addressed at the moment. Omari had promised on several occasions to visit, but had failed in actually following through with these promises. However, Victoria had made it clear to him that if he didn't visit her this summer she would be ending the relationship as she needed more. She had not seen him in a year! and this was a long time to wait for someone.

Not that she was in a hurry to have sex. She only ever had sex two times with her boyfriend before Omari and it was less than pleasant. Omari was a very handsome guy and she was very much attracted to him, but she was not really looking forward to sex again. What she desired greatly was companionship.

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Victoria open her eyes and found herself face to bace with patterned light blue leatherette. She rolls over to her other side facing the entertainment set. She had fallen asleep on the couch. She stretched and took her phone up from the coffee table. Checking the time she sees it 8:32am. She thought of going back to sleep, in her actual bed this time. It was a saturday and she didn't have work. But she decided that she would get up and prepare some breakfast and cook something for lunch as well.

After eating breakfast she sat down with Professor Sobitan's business card and her phone and wondering what she should tell him. She look at the time, it is now 10:30am. "I think this would be a respectable time to call" she thought "But what will I tell him that I have decide?"

She sits there for two minutes typing and deleting Professor Sobitan's numer. She could now recite it from memory now. She types and deletes, types and delete. The last time she types it and went to press delete she pressed the call icon instead. She quickly cuts the call.

"Lord please, don't make it go through" She begged

"It was like 0.00001 seconds, there's no way it went through" she said trying to appease herself.

A minute later her phone lights up and looks down and she the number she had typed and deleted several times. God it went through!

Victoria: "Hello, good morning"

Adebiyi: "Good morning. I received a call from this number"

Victoria bit down on the left side of her bottom lip. Something she does when she's nervous.

Victoria: "Yes I called you Professor Sobitan. It's Miss Richards"

Adebiyi: "Ah, Victoria!" He sounds excited "You are calling with your decision I presume?"

Victoria: "Yes Professor. I-I have decided that I-I will...ah I"

Adebiyi: "You will what Victoria?"

She was not prepared for this conversation. She hadn't even made a decision.

Victoria: "I-I will take the job"

"I knew you were a Judas!" the girl inside screamed at her "why would you tell him that!"

Adebiyi: "Wonderful! Can we meet on Monday at my office, say 11:00am to go over the details?"

Victoria: "Yes Professor Sobitan that would be fine"

Adebiyi: "Ok Victoria. Until then"

She hang up. She knew that her inner voice was wrong. Because that was her and she definitely wanted to say yes. Though she couldn't not diagnose what it was that Adebiyi did to her, she was certain she wanted to feel it again. Not that she would ever admit it to herself.

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She said yes. Adebiyi could not be happier. He had called her employer Mr. Wells to ask if he could acquire her services for a period of three months. Mr. Wells was hesitant, but accepted the proposal when Adebiyi told him that payments would be made through his office and that he would be the one to pay Miss Richards after taking his percentage.

Moments after he received her acceptance he sat down at his patio table and drafted up the plan on his tablet for the three months that Victoria would be working with him. He wanted to present her with some form of itinerary at their meeting on Monday. He decided that he would have six parties; One every two weeks for the three month period. They would have themes of the major US national holidays that would take place within the summer. This would give his family a taste of American culture.

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