Dark Nights ✔️

Chapter Eleven

Work closed rather sooner and since it was a Friday, I had no work tomorrow which made me so happy. I wouldn't get to see that goat's face till the following week.
I packed up and was about leaving when I noticed I hadn't appreciated him for the phone he got me and so I made my way to his office.

"Hello Um sir. I want to say thank you for the phone." I said as he waved his hands at me as in telling me to go.

"Yeah yeah it's no problem. If you like break this one... it's banana phone you'll use next." He made an attempt at comedy again and even though it wasn't funny, I found myself letting out a little laugh.
I wrote my number on a little piece of paper and dropped it on his desk. He took a peek at it and of course made a foolish comment again.

"And what should I do with this? You certainly don't expect your boss to be calling you, do you?"

"Well I am your assistant aren't I?" I said with a shabby attitude as I turned to leave. "Ode" I said under my breath once more.

"You! You're still calling me that- he couldn't finish as I ran out of his office and made my way to the elevator. It was fun when he got mad especially since he couldn't do anything about it.

This was my first week at the new company and it certainly wasn't as horrible as I imagined. I may actually enjoy my stay here as long as Jeremy respected himself and stayed away. He wasn't my type anyways so there could not be any physical attraction between us. And if he had something to do with Bunmi who was a lot slimmer than I and had a model like figure, then I wasn't his type also and this made me happy.

I wasn't following the staff bus today since Alex offered to take me out and drop me off at home which I accepted almost immediately. I knew I was beginning to like him and honestly I wasn't trying to fight it, there was no point. If he could make me feel happy, I would gladly welcome him into my life and since my mom has been disturbing me to bring a man home, it wouldn't be weird if I started dating Alex Coker.
Alex came driving not to long after my closing time and he took me out for dinner at a fancy restaurant and we began talking. He didn't ask me anything that made me feel uncomfortable and majorly kept it on a friend level so I decided to break the ice.

"Why don't you have a girlfriend?" I asked him as he made a frantic laugh and sighed before answering me.

"Well I don't have a girlfriend because um a girl I really loved was snatched by someone I called my friend and so I haven't really paid much attention to ladies ever since then."

I found that hard to believe.. Alex was a really handsome guy and would probably have a lot of girls standing in line to date him, marry him even.

"Oh I'm so sorry about that." I managed to say after zoning out in my imagination.

"It was a long time ago. Okay so what about you? If you can tell me that is."

I didn't even know where to start off. The last man I legit dated was two years ago and he was one of my worst mistakes ever. He kept pressuring me for sex which I couldn't give him and so he started having sex with my friend until I found out and broke up with him. I decided to focus on myself and getting established.

"Well let's just say I have the worst taste in men." I laughed and took a sip out of my drink. He looked at me as in trying to find answers and I laughed when I caught him. It made me shy and blush.

"What?" I said all red as he shook his head. "Nothing I'm just trying to figure out if you think I'm also a bad person." He smiled when he finished his statement.

"Of course not. If I thought that, I wouldn't be here on this date with you." And that was true... whenever I wasn't comfortable with someone I let them know immediately and try to keep my distance from such people.

The date ended very nicely and he gave me a ride back home in his car. Upon getting home, I invited him in even though that wasn't something I normally did but he declined saying that he needed to get something at the office but I knew he was just trying to be a gentleman and I respected him more for that. Alex wasn't like the other guys I knew.

That night ended with me receiving a phone call from Jeremy... what does this idiot want now? I thought to myself as I saw his call. Alex has helped me set up the phone by putting in my sim so I could receive calls and he showed me a bit about how to go through with it.
"Yes sir. What can I do for you?" I asked disinterested in whatever he was about to offer and he as usual was too dumb to process it.
"What's wrong with you? Anyways you have to come to the office tomorrow..."
What! Those words came as a shock to me. What was he saying? Tomorrow was a Saturday and I planned to do absolutely nothing and now he's coming here to spoil my plans. "What for sir?" I asked even though I knew he would give me an insult for an answer which he did. "We want to watch a movie." He said sarcastically which was very obvious but he tried at least it wasn't one of his stupid jokes again. "We have work to do. The meeting you followed me to today, we have to finish some planning before presenting it to my dad for review. So be here latest by twelve" he ordered and hung up rather immediately. What a jerk! I thought to myself as I threw the phone to the other side of the bed... it flipped a couple of times and when I thought it wouldn't fall off, it did.
What kind of juju phone is this? I asked myself as I ran to check it. "Hope it didn't break o?" Luckily it was fine with no scratch on it. Phew I thought.
Now to plan for work tomorrow! Argh Jerry was so frustrating. I managed to scan briefly through my closest and found something I could put on tomorrow. I wasn't planning on dressing formally for work as it was the weekend so a simple top and jeans should do the trick.

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