Scars

Chapter Three

Chapter 3- Patty
Have you ever bought an ice cream so creamy and tasty and as soon as you
wanted to munch up on that ice cream some jerk with a bicycle comes and knocks
your cream over and it topples to the ground so that there's nothing you can do
about it anymore? well this is how annoying it was having to see a jerk slobber his
hands on my friend's bottom tonight, The party was awesome and Cinderella was
even having fun tonight till this freaky-slobbery-broad-space faced-jackal headed...
okay, okay maybe I am going overboard, but the point is he ruined a night that I
worked so hard for, to see Ella smile once again.
As I being patty her best friend I really have to make sure she's alright, just like
I always did back in pre-school and high school and then college and even at this
very moment. I and Ella go way back, right from when we were little girls Ella was
the most beautiful girl in school, but It was strange as wherever she went in school,
people tend to bully her apparently because she was better than them in every way,
First time I met Ella in pre-school, I remember her being so shy and lonely and as
always ever radiantly beautiful, I was drawn to her by nature and we became best
friends for the rest of our lives
I always admired her kindness and very cheerful behaviour. Ella is a special
person and a special kind of brunette, The natural curls on her hair made it so
beautiful as the sun shone on it and on an average day her hair would look so
bright it'd make any girl want to be her, plus Ella was 5 ft 3 in height and was quite
skinny like all her life no matter how much she ate, her brown pupils were
awesome... why do I sound like a fan? Well she's my best friend after all. Myself
and the girls had taken her home to her apartment and we hung around to make
sure she was alright, besides that, after I came back to my apartment and having
taken a well deserved shower am sure I must have left her fifty voicemail messages
which pretty much were like "hey...it's me again just checking up on you" or "... I
hope you're not listening to Beethoven and sulking in your pillows again" I guess I
couldn't help feeling sorry for Ella since she'd dated every guy in her life
everything went wrong in all of the relationships, and now she impacts the feeling
of wanting everything to be perfect at her work place, She is a very hard worker
and very committed to what she does, I can't even compare myself to her.
Ever since we'd joined Stride we've been dedicated to saving the company from
finally fading away, sometimes I really had to admit that stride sucked! like
seriously the drink tasted like Pepsi mixed with homemade broccoli juice, but since Ella always works nonstop towards achieving excellence which she couldn't
achieve in all her relationships... poor girl, I just had to make sure I kept my mouth
shut from insulting the drink, though later on I began enjoying stride
Anyway I'd slept off and way past time, though it was partly my fault but who
doesn't do it? yeah like stopping the deafening sound of the alarm clock and then
going back to bed like it never woke you up, anyway it was way past time so I got
into the shower and finished and did all the brushing my teeth and making sure that
I was Ms Patty Turner the weird marketing manager and the bodyguard of my
favourite person EL... Ella!!! I thought within me, shit! I'd totally forgotten about
her so I rushed out of my apartment and headed straight for work to find her, I
arrived the front of the building which for no reason I stood to admire, the work of
art clearly, the magnificent all glass building that over saw other rising stores, read
stride on the top of the roof, don’t mind my sloppy way of describing architecture,
I am a marketing personnel not an architect. Arriving in 15mins after all the stops I
rushed in.
"Hey franky!, you seen Ella this morning?" I asked
"Yeah I think she was ...." I didn't let him finish his sentence "thank you franky!!" I
paced up to the elevator and pushed the button for the 8th floor, seriously I couldn't
wait around to hear franky talk about his night or how he saved a kitten for a little
girl or how he got rid of his legendary wart... eww gross just thinking about it
grosses me out, the doors open and am on the 8th floor as everyone seems so busy
pacing up here and there while others were typing figures on their computers and
here was I just arriving! As usual I was always late. I find my office and call Katie
to again adjourn the meeting with the board and replace the schedule with
Anderson, I really don't care if Anderson comes to me and starts babbling about
how I always change his plans, in the end Anderson is Anderson he'll eventually
walk out.
Today we would have to make Ella go on her blind date and no meeting could
stop that from happening, though I did fear Mrs. Hamilton would be finally
thinking of firing me if I keep doing this. I arrive Ella's office and find her on the
phone
"Yeah? Well am supposed to have a meeting with the board"
"What? Adjourned when? On whose orders" uh-ohh wrong timing I thought to myself.
      "Yeah Katie I'll be with you in a minute" she put down the phone with her face
looking all red and obviously angry at me for calling the meeting off
"Patty how many times did I tell you not to reschedule for me?"
"Well for starters you could say thank you and I'll say you're welcome and we
could greet good morning while I grab the latte on your desk once again" now I
was feeling hungry, after feeding on wine and shots which pretty much don't count
as food, my stomach began growling at the sight of hot latte and the smell of sweet
doughnuts!
"I told you am fine patty"
"Yeah? Is that why you never returned all the voicemails?" I furrowed my brow at
her and hopefully she'll concede, she always does
"I was about to when...”
"Were you crying again Cinderella?" I still furrowed my brow persistently
"I... I wasn't crying, I didn’t cry"
"I sense a little hesitation Ella" I replied as I began walking out of her office
"I wasn't crying!!" she called across as I left her office, she'd definitely know that I
knew she was up to it last night as well
Anyway a couple of hours had passed and I had to hurry for the board of
directors meeting with Anderson since obviously I had to be present at every
meeting no matter how boring it was, so I hurried to my office took my files and
laptop and soon enough I was at the conference room but I guess I was always
going to be The late patty turner (am not saying late like dead, please save that
thought first, I have to have kids)
"Ms. Turner, you are late again" one of the directors voices resonated in the room,
well make that the C.E.O, My boss. Mrs. Hamilton started, she's always one of
those punctual principled directors that I really don't like because she'd always like
to talk to me about the essence of being punctual and blah blah blah, and well here
she goes again.
"Am really sorry something came up, I just had to take care of it" I gave a
pleadingly fake smile as I walked over to a chair and sat while the rest of the board
just knew it was another usual day with Patty late for a meeting.
    "You better do something about that tardiness issue of yours, and very soon you’d
have to answer to me about all the meetings you cancel at your own time, need I
not remind you the consequences." Mrs. Hamilton replied with her heavy British
accent
"Yes Ma'am, I’ll be sure to do something about it." No Ma'am!! I thought within
me who does she think she is? My mum? Calm down patty I thought, this is only
going to take fifteen minutes.
Anderson began his not so important speech on how he thought we could
improve Stride by increasing stock options and trying to promote the drink to other
countries and well other things I wasn't really paying attention to because I'd been
too busy looking at the clock and counting down till I looked at my phone and saw
a text. It was Tyler, my boyfriend; I picked up the phone and opened up the text
"Hey buttercup, wanna go out for dinner tonight?"
That darn Tyler why did he have to text now while I was in this meeting! I looked
over to find Mrs. Hamilton glaring at me, I almost feel she's about to drill a hole in
my skin just by doing that so I turned to look at the rest of the directors while
pretending to take down some few notes from Anderson’s boring speech though I
guess the directors were finding it rather interesting, I still cautiously took my
phone and began texting Tyler.
“I really can’t make it tonight, I guess I’ll take a...” I looked over and Anderson
was keeping Mrs. Hamilton busy, alright so I kept texting
“..Rain check on that” pushed the send button and shortly another text came
through
“Its sushi night you know? Your favorite”
I felt my stomach growl as soon as I saw the words sushi night, Tyler knew I loved
sushi so much and whenever he treats me to sushi I tend to fall for him over and
over again, yeah well you might think am cheap but am not I just love sushi I mean
who doesn’t? But I had to stay focused because tonight Ella would be going on a
blind date and I and the girls had planned a stake out to watch the action unfold
from afar, see we were good friends but not that Ella knew about our spy mission
anyway and there was no way I was going to miss seeing this happen so I began texting back.
   “I love the offer but I don't think I can make it I'll be really busy this night, could
you please adjourn?" and then I hit the send button while paying close attention to
Mrs Hamilton who was paying very close keen attention, though one of the
members of the board kept eyeballing me
Phone vibes and then I open up the message " 😢 okay, anything for you boo" I
just loved Tyler even more and I didn't even realise I chuckled out loud
"Ms. Turner would you like to share?" Shoot Mrs. Hamilton had heard me and now
she’d just made me the Centre of attention in this meeting, I looked at my watch
and there were just 3minutes left to end this meeting, alright let’s do this I thought
within me
“Well I think Mr. Anderson has actually stated his facts clearly on how we
need to enhance Stride with sweeteners and other stuff, but I think we all have the
wrong idea”
“Well Ms. Turner what do you suggest in that case?” Allan Grayson a member of
the board now looking interested in what I had to say, so I stood up and out of my
seat
“Well Mr. Anderson said things about shipping the drinks to other countries but
how can we ship a drink that no one wants to buy here?”
“So cut to the Chase Ms. Turner” Mrs. Hamilton replied, though they didn’t seem
to notice that I was stalling for time so I could get out of this situation, I kept
pacing the room a few seconds and placed my hands on the table finally
“Consumer Stock options” I said and this time the board really seemed intrigued
and started murmuring amongst themselves, Anderson looked confused as to who
was now in charge of this meeting
“Ms. Turner enlighten us about this consumer stock options you are talking
about” Mr. Allan with his fingers interlocked looking so absorbed in the idea asked
for a better in sight, but I wasn’t ready for such and actually consumer stock
options was the reason why Ella wanted to see the board so I couldn’t screw this
over for her
“Am afraid, I’ll have to leave that to someone better suited for this case” I replied
having known that the time was up I was as happy as any high school student was when the bells rang and school was finally over.
“And who might that be?” Mrs. Hamilton asked
“Ella Chase” I smirked as I began to walk out of the conference room with my
laptop and files as the board began to call after me
“Good day gentlemen” I replied not even turning to look at their faces as I walked
out, and as special assets to this company that is I and Cinderella could do
whatever we wanted and still not get fired because this company would be down
the drain without us, just presuming we don’t overstep our boundaries.