Zoey's Truth

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Jessica's POV

"Mo, I need to tell you something," I say, turning my body to face Mo, "It's about Simon."
As soon as I said his name Mo's eyes widen.
"What about him hunny?"
"I," As soon as I try tell him, it feels like I've lost my voice.
"Jess?" I hear Eddie say behind me, "is it what I think it is?"
I turn slightly more to Eddie now, and nod ever so slightly. Mo looks at Eddie with a questioning look on his face, then a soft look on his face when he looks at me.
I take a few breaths, "Well, last year we were visiting my family in Britain, for my mum's birthday," I take another breath, "my cousin was there, she was 18 at the time. We were all having a good time celebrating with my family, but soon enough it became late, me and Simon were staying the night and so was my cousin. Jade, my cousin, went to bed first, not long after Simon decided to go off to bed. I wasn't bothered by this." Remembering this, I start getting upset again.
"Take your time sweetie, take all the time you need." Mo gives me a reassuring smile.
I start speaking again, "About a hour later, I head to bed as well, but when I got to the bedroom, Simon wasn't in the bed. So I went looking for him, after looking for a while, I ended up near the room my cousin was sleeping in. When I got closer, I starting hearing this faint moaning sound. I was curious so I went to her door. It was closed so I put my ear up to it, the noises got louder, when suddenly I heard Simon's name being said, by my cousin, sexually."
Mo now looks disgusted, finally understanding where this is heading. Tears start leaking from my eyes, Im unable to control it.
"As I said, take your time" Mo says, holding my hand.
"I froze, I started panicking, thinking 'what if Simon is cheating on me with my own cousin?', I didn't really want to find out. Just as I was about to leave, the door swung open. There he was. Standing at the door. My cousin in the bed, naked." I'm now crying like a baby. My nose becomes runny and my eyes start to sting. Mo doesn't say anything, instead he pulls me in for a hug, and strokes my hair.

Zoeys POV

Next day.

When I arrived at work the next day, to my surprise, Danny Michael Davis was sitting at Joan's desk and Joan was no where to be seen.
I locked eyes with Danny and he called me into Joan's office immediately. I felt a sudden feeling of nausea take over my body. What did he want?
"You...erm...pressure girl, in the office." He says.
"My name is Zoey but okay." I snapped back.
"Don't care. There's a huge project I'm starting with SPRQ Point and since you're the manager of the coders you're gonna have to play a pretty huge part in it." I could feel my body temperature rise and my eyes widen as he explained the project to me.
"Wow. Erm okay? I'll do my best to make it happen." I quickly said back to him. I wish Max still worked on this floor he would've been so good for us right now. No. Stop thinking about Max. He works on the sixth floor. I quickly glanced over to Simons office but realised he wasn't in his office.
That was weird.

I quickly shook my head and raced off to my desk to call in the team for a meeting and catch them up on the new project. This was the first team meeting without Max.
Every few hours I took a look over to Simons office and realised he still wasn't here. However at 14:30 I saw him slowly tumbling out of the elevator. Did he really come to work drunk?

I've been drinking
I've been doin' things I shouldn't do
Overthinkin'
I don't know who I am without you
I'm a liar and a cheat
I let my ego swallow me

He's singing this, half dancing but not really. But this song, what does it mean?

And that's why I might never see you again
I'm alone in my head
And lookin' for love in this stranger's bed
But I don't think I'll find it
'Cause only you could fill this empty space

Before I can give it any thought to the song, he starts heading towards me.

He looked at me with a crooked smile as I approached him and said "what is going on?"
He looked down at me and started giggling like a child.
"Simon, what are you doing right now you could get yourself fired!" I exclaimed.
"I don't care. I love you Zoey. There. I s-s-said it." As soon as he told me the rushing feeling of nausea came back to me. If I really did like Simon, why didn't it make me happy that he loved me? Even if he was drunk.