THE EXCAPE

chapter five

The day went rather slowly on Sophie’s end. All she could think of was getting home and settling into a comfortable position with Brad and just cuddling and talking. But she was in this hell hole.

Luckily for her, it was time for lunch break. Riley seemed to be friendly but also a bad ass. She was so pretty and hot but she seemed like the type that didn’t let it get to her head.

“Hey, you guys are so rude you haven’t introduced yourselves to Sophie” Riley said out loud. She must have noticed how lonely Sophie looked.

Sophie was quickly jerked from her thoughts forced a smile and said “No, its fine really. I mean I’ll get to know everyone sooner or later”.

Riley smiled and said “O please, it wouldn’t kill you would it?” They all introduced themselves. They seemed like a bunch of really nice people Sophie thought.

One after the other they introduced themselves. There was Clara, Simi, Tony and even the janitor, Bob.

They were all so free with her like they had known her for ages. She felt better during this period. Then that feeling disappeared.

A really cute guy came to sit beside her, probably the office heartthrob, she guessed from the way Clara and some others suddenly changed the way they sat, laughed and spoke.

He asked her a question loud enough but in a way that wasn’t obvious that it was his intent so he could have everyone’s attention. Which he succeeded in doing.

“So how did it go with your new boss? I heard some major arguments”  “Trevor come on really, you’re doing this now? She’s barely settled” riley said angrily clearly disgusted by his action.

The name Trevor suited him Sophie thought “what? If nobody will ask I will. We all want to know don’t we?” said Trevor as he lay back into the chair he was sitting on.

Sophie caught a side glimpse of him. She loved the way he looked. His brown hair the way it fell into his face.

He looked like the type of guys only seen on the front cover of magazines. He had this aura around him. Sophie couldn’t quite tell what it was but she liked it.

It excited her a bit. She had to mentally remind herself that she was with Brad.

“No, Riley its fine” Sophie said as she managed to force a smile. Not wanting to draw any more attention to herself today.

She continued “yeah we had an argument but his dad stepped in before I made a horrible decision of quitting already. It wasn’t really a big deal though.”

They could tell she didn’t want to go into details. But Trevor wasn’t ready to let it go just like that he wanted more information. “So he asked you not to or what?” Trevor pressed on.

“No he’s too proud for something like that his Dad did” Sophie said as she tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear.

Some people couldn’t hide the shock from their faces. Even Trevor tried to hide it with a grin as he lay back into his chair.

“wha…what did you..did you just say Mr. Pierre himself asked you not to quit?” Riley asked this time.

“Well not really, he just told Zack that he can’t let him fire me and made me realise that despite my anger, I didn’t really want to lose this job” Sophie said.

It surprised Sophie why everyone thought it was such a big deal so she had to ask why they were all surprised.

She found out that it had never happened before. Mr. Pierre always let Zack have his way.