I stood there staring into those grey eyes. My hands were trembling in anger. My blood pressure was rising way over 180 and I swear I could feel steam moving out of my ears. I slowly looked away from those grey eyes and looked down to my see through top. The left hand side of my black with white polka dots bra was clearly visible due to the coffee stain splattered all over my left boob.
Never in my life have I been so furious and embarrassed at the same time. I wasn't even this embarrassed when I was 8 years old and decided to put in my face into a plate of spaghetti during my birthday party.
"Okay look, staring at me and then your.. " he paused for awhile, cleared his throat and continued.
"bra, isn't really going to help the situation. So how about, you apologize and go somewhere, where you can get yourself cleaned up?"
I didn't reply as I was still counting one to ten for the 5th time to control my rising anger.
He took my silence as a signal to continue.
"Oh and listen, you don't really have to pay for my shirt. It's all good."
I slowly scanned him from head to toe. Messy hair, expressive grey eyes, sharp nose with baby pink lips and a French beard made up his face. A white shirt with a few coffee stains here and there. Black skin tight jeans to go with it and finally sketcher sneakers. Nice.
I looked back into those grey eyes and asked innocently.
"Are you sure you don't want me to pay for your shirt, that I ruined?"
He replied "Yeah! It's totally cool. You are forgiven."
"Really?" I took one step closer. "Cause I feel terrible about running it." Taking another step closer.
I played with the curls of my hair and moved closer once again.
I could feel his body tense and that's when I placed my palms on his chest. He smelt really good, but this shouldn't distract me from what I must do!
"I'm really sorry. I should've seen where I was going." I slowly moved my face closer to his chest and quickly wiped off the lipstick on my lips on his shirt and ripped it off.
"You loser! Did you really think I would apologize for something I hadn't done?"
He still had a dazed look on his face. Before he could recover and ask me to pay, I ran off in the opposite direction.
*FLASHBACK*
"Hey Cy! I going down for coffee okay? Once I'm done we will have some fun okay?"
He replied by barking twice. Now don't get to ahead of yourself.
Cy isn't my boyfriend. As a matter of fact, I don't have boy friend.
Cy happens to be my beloved Siberian husky. I got him when he was 1 year old.
He has this white fur with black patches on him.
I locked my apartment door behind me and went down the wooden stairs. I worked as an interior designer in Maxwell Corporation. One of the largest architectural and designing company. I had to be in constant touch with the boss to show him my designs for his upcoming projects. I had a healthy relationship with my boss.
He was in his 50's, bald and very friendly. I was earlier his secretary but he was impressed by my work ethics and my innovative ideas. So when the main interior designer left, he made me take that post.
Sadly, I heard he was being replaced by the real owner of the company. Oh well. I hope he is as good as Mr Samuel.
It was a cloudy day. Unlike several people, I loved this kind of weather. I have always dreamed of spreading my arms wide and turning in circles in the rain. I have also imagined my first kiss to be in the rain. Yeah yeah. I know it's cliché, but hey! I it's my life story right?
And yes I haven't had my first kiss yet. I have had boyfriends, but I just never let them kiss me. And maybe that's why 2 of them left me. I walked into Starbucks like I owned it. I walked over to Sophia with a grin plastered on my face. She was my best friend. She actually comes from a very rich family, but is just working in Starbucks before she officially starts working in her dads company.
"Hey Soph! Wassup?"
"Hey Chn! There is a hot guy right behind you. Don't make a fool of yourself."
I rolled my eyes, took my hot coffee, turned around and walked toward my spot. I just looked down for a second when I felt a hard wall hit me and hot coffee spilt all over my left boob.
I look up and see this well sculpted man. For a second I was drowned in his beautiful eyes, before I realized he was asking me a question which didn't register at first.
"People usually look where they are going. I wonder why you don't."
*END OF FLASHBACK*
I kept running for quite a distance. Just when I thought I lost him, I see him standing infront of me with a smirk plastered all over his face.
"Trying to run away huh? Listen, I still don't want a new shirt from you. But I do need an apology."
"Yeah. In that case, keep waiting and hoping that one day I will hit my head and forget EVERYTHING. Because that will be the day I would apologize to YOU, for spilling MY coffee all over ME."
And once I was done talking to him, I ran off towards my apartment. As soon as I unlock the door Cy starts to bark. Clearly he was excited about me playing with him. But before I do anything else, I need to change my top, I thought to myself.
I grabbed a loose grey T-Shirt with numbers printed all over it and walked into my bathroom. My apartment was relatively big and cozy. Being an interior designer, I got to decorate my entire apartment.
Once I was done changing, I washed my hair and tied my hair into a pony tail. As soon as I walked out, m smart phone started to ring. I didn't even have to see the screen to know who was calling me.
"Sophia."
"Channel."
"Ugh. What do you want?"
"I told you not to make a fool of yourself. That doesn't mean you should act worse than a fool would!"
"Yeah. Yeah. It was intentional. And I wasn't the one who spilt the coffee. He was."
"I don't care. The point is both of you were doing NOTHING but staring at each other while I was mopping the damned floor!"
I laughed and said "Oh Sophia. I'm so sowwy. I wiw never do it again."
She sighed and finally said "Do you wanna come over to mom and dad's for dinner tomorrow night?"
"Sure. I haven't met them in a very long time."
"Awesome. She you tomorrow evening then. Bye!"
"See ya! Bye!"
I disconnected the phone and looked down at Cy who was wagging his tail excitedly and staring up at me in excitement.
We went down the stairs and headed towards the park. I had taken a ball with me so I could play fetch with CY. Once we reached the park, Cy and I went to an empty plot of land and started playing fetch. Once he was tired, we walked over to a bench and stand down for a while.
I looked around to admire my surrounding. The clouds were gone and the sun was out. The park was well maintained. It had a few street lamps by the jogging path. A small lake at the center with several fishes and pinkish white lotus plants. There was some duckweed scattered here and there. There where ducks which were being fed bread by some small kids. Over to my right was the empty plot of land. Several people were there. A few making out, having picnics, some playing with their dogs and some playing badminton with their friends.
I closed my eyes and thought about what all happened in the past few years. Those memories always haunted me. I still blame myself for what happen that night.
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So the first chapter is up!!
Hope you liked this chapter :D
This chapter has been dedicated to xxxKyra for the pretty cover on the side :D
