The Last Moreau

Chapter 9 : The unexpected attraction

I woke up to a bright light emanating through the window. I glanced at the clock and it showed 7 am. Great. More time I thought. I changed into my grey sweats and jogged slowly down the pavement listening to Adele's set fire to the rain while I was at it. I still couldn't believe what had happened yesterday. My mind was afloat with a million thoughts. Had everything been a dream. I wished so too. However the mark on my leg began to burn strangely disproving my point.

"Good morning Jenny". Mike cooed. "Today I want you to go through the paper work for the next meeting and make sure we have the documents ready by then". He said. "I'll be on leave from tomorrow till 5th of next month .Jeremy says he wanted to go to fishing plus Martha and I need to catch up with my folks "He winked. I looked at him frowning. Way to go boss, give me the work that you are supposed to do while you go on vacation. As if it's not bad enough you don't give me a raise."Whatcha lookin at me for? Hop to it chop chop "He said. "OH and don't forget my coffee .I want decaf this time "He ordered before returning back to his seat.

I sighed .Okies let's get down to business.

It was lunch time and my team and I were traipsing down 5th avenue towards the new Chinese restaurant that had opened. A few meters away my eyes strayed and met a familiar pair of green eyes with gold flecks.

"Um you guys go ahead .I'll be right back". I walked down to him and said "Hey, fancy seeing you here was sup?" "He was wearing a white shirt underneath with a blue blazer and khaki colored pants. He had chopped his locks off and had gone for a neat trim look.

He looked so dashing that my heart began to leap a few beats. Wait what?

"I just came to see how you were doing "He said thoughtfully. "Did you get any sleep?"

"Surprisingly I did "I said. It's weird how I hadn't been having any nightmares given the fact that I would flinch at the sound of a pin drop.

"Fine I'll be off then "He said turning his back to me.

"Wait don't go "I said trying to control my tongue but it was too late.

"Why?" he said looking at me intently. "Um um... I uh .. "I said trying to think of what to say, when Mike yelled "Jen are you coming or not?""Ah do you want to join me for lunch?" I muttered. He smiled amused. "And I imagine it wouldn't be awkward for you if I did? Maybe next time. He declined. "Oh and be ready tonight I will visit you "He said.

My face went red.

Does he care so much for me that he wants to come at night just to watch over me? I thought. Man I guess guys find me so attractive I thought. As I went in I flipped my hair with a sense of oomph while passing Ulrich the clerk.

"What's with her hair?" Mike said. "Not sure, must have got caught on something "Ulrich replied as they sat down.

"Later that night I took a nice bath. I made sure to use my latest shower gel and scrubbed to be extra sqeaky clean. After towel drying my hair I put on a new pair of pyjamas I had bought last week. Jo came in and took one look at me and said "Wow someone is finally learning the art of Jo " She winked. "I'm glad I have started to rub on you the right way" she smiled teethily. "Oh I'm not doing this for you " I said smugly.

"Hmm ,so if you are not doing this for me .. then ... Jo trailed off for a moment thinking hard. "I'm sorry I can't think of any plausible reasons" she said smirking.

"Fine ... go ahead and smirk all you want .I'm not going to tell you anyway " I finished .

Jo kept her mouth open for a moment trying to think of a way to hit back. But then she went to the living room without saying anything.

Later that night I still hadn't gone to sleep. It was 12 00 am and a few inches next to me Jo was sleeping soundly. I was hoping he would show up but my energy started to go low and I was fast drifting towards sleep.

Then I heard a small but audible tap on the window.

I woke up with a jolt. Not because of the noise but because of the person who had woken me. I quickly straightened myself and took a glance at the mirror once before turning to meet those familiar eyes.

I gave him a small smile before opening the window. Oddly enough I felt nervous.

Why was I starting to get attracted to him ? Every time we had met we always got into arguments save for last time .Did he too feel the same way about me or was it out of pity he had been nice to me last time ?

"What are you thinking about now ?" He said making me come out of my thoughts. "Oh nothing ... so why do you want to see me tonight I asked giving him a hopeful glance.

He leaned close to me to whisper something to my ear." We have to go now "."Huh ? go where " I asked before he took my hand and started towards the window. We both stood over the edge and he made a small motion to jump. "Wait" I started to panic. "I'm not good at jumping. I might break a leg. Besides we are at the fourth floor now. I don't know how you climb to get here but I'm not going to jump." I said .But before I could say anything else he pulled me and we both jumped off the window.