Inhale, Exhale and Wait.

ch.9/ Vee

I dont know why I stayed through the whole thing. I watched them the whole time. I've never seen such chemistry between two people in my life.

My coworkers, Donovan and Samantha were ferociously fucking up against the soda machine in the break room right by Mr. Manyard's office. They were completely oblivious to the fact that I was standing at the doorway.

I was on my way to Mr. Manyard's office to go over some policy changes that we're going to be going around the company for the greater good of saving money for the program that we had instilled for ROTC Cadets. I had almost made it to his office when I heard a loud crash coming from the break room.

I went to open the door but the door was locked , that wasn't a problem for me because I was the personal assistant to the boss and he gave me copies of the keys to every door including the break room. I swiftly but quietly unlocked the break room door and poked my head inside.

That is when I caught a glimpse of Donovan and Samantha. My first thought was to confront them on their indecency but as I stuck around and began to watch, it was like my feet were glued to where I stood. I couldn't look away.

As I kept watching Donovan and Samantha, Mr. Manyard's door opened to reveal a flustered and Confused krys. She stumbled out of his office with blotchy cheeks and a red nose almost as if she had been crying. Her shirt was disheveled and her skirt was wrinkled on the side.

I quickly closed the door on Donovan and Samantha and decided to deal with them later.

"Krys, baby what are you doing here?" I asked her as I took in her bedraggled appearance.

She looked at me shocked as if she expected me not to be in the building. Just then, an unkempt-looking Mr. Manyard busted out of his office calling krys' name.

"Kristine, I wanted to-" Mr. Manyard trailed off as he looked at me, then Krys, then back at me.

" - tell you... you left your briefcase on my desk, I'll go get it for you"

Before he walked back into his office I took note of his untucked shirt and Loosely hung pants. He also was not wearing his suit jacket and his tie had been pulled loose. His hair was also a mess, it looked as if somebody constantly ran their fingers through it.

Krys looked at him with an expression I couldn't read as he retreated back into his office.

"Hey baby, are you ok?" I asked krys.

She looked at me as if she had forgotten I was there. She began to walk towards me with a limp which concerned me because she looked as if she was in some real pain. She grabbed me by the back of my neck and ferociously planted her lips upon mine. It was as if she was kissing me for the last time.

"Baby, I missed you" she said breathlessly against my lips.

" I missed you too, Krys" I said with a chuckle.

I was quite confused about why she was acting the way she was acting. We hadn't even been away from each other for three hours. She's naturally clingy but not this clingy.

" when's your lunch break?let me take you out to eat for lunch" she says to me in a hushed manner.

"I just want to be alone with you for right now if that's okay with you", she looks me deep in my eyes to make sure I understand every word that she was saying.

Mr. Manyard walks outside of his office with krys' briefcase, he looks much more put together than he did a few minutes ago. Chris avoids eye contact with him at all costs as he hands her the briefcase and she takes it without looking at him.

"Krys, I don't get off for my lunch break for another 15 minutes, can you wait that long?" She looks at me with sad eyes pleading for me to just take off right now. I couldn't give in because I had other work to do and it was only a short 15-minute wait for me to get off and have some free time.

" baby, what's going on? Why do you keep looking at me like that?" I fire off question after question at her to try and get to the bottom of why she looks so flustered and what she's doing at my workplace unannounced.

Krys doesn't meet my gaze she just looks down at the floor with an ashamed expression upon her face. "Nothing is wrong babe, I came here to talk to dar- Mr. Manyard about my proposal for the funding of ROTC cadets"

" it's okay that you can't join me for lunch, I know you have other things to take care of I'll see you at home" she says to me as she walks past me toward the elevator with a slight limp. I stare on it her wondering what that whole debacle was about.

I shake the negative thoughts from my brain and turn around to head back to my office and finish up some work when I smacked right into a hard surface. I fall down but before I could clearly land on the floor Mister manyard catches me by my waist. I look up at him only to realize he had been standing behind me watching Krys and I talk the whole time.

"Are you alright, Miss Hendrix?" He looks down at me concerned , squeezing my waist a little bit to get my attention. I wiggle out of his Embrace, embarrassed with a blush coming to my cheeks.

" oh, I'm so sorry I didn't know where I was going, thank you for catching me before I fell." I apologize profusely looking down, not wanting to make eye contact with him for the fear that he might see how embarrassed I was.

"No worries, um...was your..." he waves his hand in the general direction that krys just walked in, "...was your friend doing alrigt?"

I wanted to ask why he cared, I wanted to ask why he didn't know how she was doing himself since she came out of his office only minutes prior, I also wanted to ask why he was acting so brand new when he and chris clearly were familiar with eachother. He had pictures of her in his office for God's sake. But I had to hold my tongue because this was my boss, my Superior, the man who writes my checks, that I was talking to.

" I guess she's doing all right, she seemed a bit shaken up, do you have any idea why?" I tried to ask him as innocently as possible as to not give away my suspicious demeanor. When it came to Krys' well-being I didn't take shortcuts.

A slight pink Hue came to his cheeks and his neck as he rubbed the back of his head nervously, looking everywhere but my eyes. " no, she came in to make a proposal, we discussed some compromises, and then we came to a conclusion on the deal. She didn't seem flustered when she came in, I honestly have no idea why she seemed so out of it."

I looked at him with narrowed eyes, I thought back on how flustered he looked when he came to tell Krys about her "briefcase". What was he hiding?

He frowned as he regarded my narrowed eyes so I quickly schooled my features into a face of Innocence. I gave him a slight smile, "welp, I'll talk to her about it when I get home tonight thank you for hearing her out on her proposal."

And with that, I walked away and continued with my business for the rest of the day.