Bring Me Back

chapter seven

I prepare a blend of casual and formal look with yellow pencil skirt, white strappy sandles, and blue blouse with white polka dots.

My hash brown straight hair are now curled as I took good amount of time to do that.

My life might have been the deciding factor of the shittiest moment I fear to talk about.

But, the fire in my gut tells me that my ambition might take me to places even with a broken heart, that's not going to repair anytime sooner.

While getting ready and hailing the cab to my office building, I don't know why, but all I can think about is that faceless person today.

Over years, Ben and my sister gave me hints about him and I knew he's someone famous and richer and possibly running his own empire on the other side of the country.

For him, I might have never mattered but my heart never forgot him.

It will sound stupid to many who might think that spending a night like drunk heads with a guy so gutsy to lie on your face should never be trusted and long dissed into the trash can of other heart broken memories without a chance to simmer to surface.

I know it all, okay.

I can even say been there, done that, bitches.

Yeah, yeah.

Or maybe I need to start dating other people. I have never really dated a guy before except the one in high school who took me to wonderland to fuck my brains out.

It was an amazing night of felony but I never cried over that guy who broke up with me two weeks after we had sex.

So, this makes my whole mind and body so much more complicated. Are you getting my point here?

I hope you do, because my eyes start to burn only to saved by a unwanted phone call from Ben.

He's after my life.

He has been calling me like hundreds of time already.

And hes dropping me texts as soon as I pay the cabbie, enter the building and greet other people while nodding generously.

Some people even bow in front of me sometimes, following some Japanese tradition and I do then same.

Unfortunately, as the elevator dings open on my floor, a hard body collides against me.

I am about to cry out loud for whoever is it thinking they might be ruining my dress with coffee or something.

But then the chance to see the face of my collider never utters as he zooms out of my way pretty quickly to the right, and I only see him carrying himself toward the numerous chains of conference rooms that we have on this floor.

His walk is full of confidence but somehow I end up feeling uneasy when I walk toward my desk.

For all I know he might be someone famous and all over the news already, as we keep getting hotshot clients to our office frequently.

But most of the time, we have a special entry gate for them. So, the whole gestimate about this man is pretty tangled.

Luckily Kassy in her black and white bodycon dress catches my attention.

"Wow, aren't you looking someone unbelievable today?"

I quirk my brows in her reply because she knows she's equally looking hot. In fact, with her experience in this field, I am sure she much more confident than me.

But she's generous enough to not rub it on my face like other experienced snobs in this whole building, who we occasionally encounter in the cafeteria.

"What? C'mon, it's your first day! Rock it, woman!"

"Can you keep your tone down, Kassy?"

I look here and there as if this is literally my first day in office but she negates my anxiety with a hand like it's no big deal.

"Oh, please! Now is not the time to---"

My land phone starts to blare up, interrupting our conversation.

"Wait a sec,"

I reply to her and she's like, "be my guest, sexy."

I end up rolling my eyes and laughing when I pick up the receiver, not knowing the fact that I will end up regretting it later.

"Hello, Hunter & Pearson's office! How--"

"Essie...thank god you picked up the phone!"

"Ben? What the...," I circle my eyes around before keeping my voice low. For now, I am not sure whether to be angry at him or disappointed to be making a call at my work place. That was strictly forbidden. Hes becoming clingier than my twin sister. He seriously need to get a grip over his wedding jitters!

Argh!

"Why did you call here? What is wrong with you? Ben listen... I can't---"

"Landon is here, Essie!" He interrupts me with a sort of information that I think I might have heard wrong at once.

So, I ask again just to be clear before starting my day.

"What? Excuse me? Who?"

"Agh! Essie... Landon is here, in Hudson. That is what I have been trying to tell you if just once attended my calls or texts, baby girl."

"What the hell... Ben... I..."

"I am coming to get you, tomorrow."

"No! What? Ben, stop jonesing over my life issues like my father."

"But, Essie..."

"Look, Ben... I got to go right now... and I never saw his face. Neither did he. So, let's just talk about it later... I am running late, seriously, bye!"

He said something more which was incorrigible to my ears as I ended the call abruptly.

My heart is beating out of his range like on a impulse right now, so I ask Kassy to fetch me water bottle.

She asks me if I am alright as she prepares her pad, camera, and other stuff to go on the field.

"Yeah,.. yeah... Im alright. Just over anxious about this day, i think."

We both stand up facing each other as someone calls my name from the right side of the floor.

"Go, it's your time, Honesty. You will always remember this day, woman. Make the most of it!"

She hugs me tight and pats my back knowing very well how much I need currently.

" Thank you so much, Kass, goodluck to you too "

She fares me goodbye as she goes on about her day and I part with my notepad, pen, recorder, and ID; heading towards the room that is deemed to radically change my life forever the moment I enter it.