Living With These Five

My Resignation

Handing in my resignation letter was the easy part, all I had to do was hand it to Melissa who I was training to do my work anyway. She knew something was up because who on earth needs two personal assistants. But I have a feeling she thought I was pregnant with Max's child and was leaving to be a stay at home mom and live as a happy family with Max. Hell no! I will be giving her some tips before I leave in a month.

The phone rang, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Hazel, can you come to my office now please?"

"Yep" This was going to get interesting. Mel had taken my letter straight to him, as if she had been told to if I ever did hand something in.

"Hazel, what is this?" Max said holding up my letter.

"A letter" I said still stood by the door.

"Take a seat"

I did as I was told. He was annoyed, he had this thing where his little finger trembled when he was upset or angry.

"Why are you leaving?"

"Because I really think it is time that we go our spate ways. I've been thinking about it for ages and Florida cemented it"

"There's nothing I can do to change your mind?"

"No. You knew this was coming. Why else would you get a new PA?"

"Because I wanted to take some of the work load of you and make it so that we could spend more time together"

"Max, we have been over for nearly a year now! I know we are both still young. Come on, neither of us are twenty yet and we are in the weirdest position ever. We both have a lot of our lives left to live so try to let me go."

"But I can't"

"Give it six months then we will see about being friends, if we ever bump into each other"

"Please stay"

"I have to move on. This job is killing me"

"How so? I can make it so that it isn't"

"I need a change Max. We both do"

"Okay" He said looking out of the window. I really didn't think he would be taking this so hard.

"I leave at the end of the month" I said getting up.

"No!" He said spinning round, tears building up in his eyes. "Can you leave now, I’ll pay you until the end of the month as if you are still working here but make it easy on me."

"Okay" was all I could manage.

"Tell Melissa to cancel my appointments for the morning."

With that I left. Left the one place which brought me here. The one person who I followed half way around the world. It all felt surreal, you know. Walking away from the one person who had brought you so much luck and happiness into your life. I felt my heart break. It was for the best. Max was the only thing keeping me there.

With that said I might as well start on the tasks I was going to do after work and have a relaxing evening. That means food shopping, pick up clothes from the dry cleaning and going to the pet shop to pick up a list of things for Lucy. A manageable amount to do and not have to worry now about getting everywhere before they close as well. 

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When I arrived home I found that yet again the house was empty. I should be used to it by now but I always feel upset when I walk in and it is silent. But today I had partially brought everything on the menu of the Chinese and was hoping to have a film night with the lads. I guess I’m just going to have to eat it all to myself. They probably have a meeting to be at or something which I should get a list of - now that it is kind of my job. 

After I had finished sorting all the stuff out, I heard someone come in downstairs. Now the only person who uses that door is me and Scott. I know today is Scott’s day off so it wouldn't be him. 

My heart started to pound.

Did I lock that door when I left this morning? 

I hadn't come in through that door when I came home because I had all the food and shopping to bring in to this floor. 

What if someone was in here? Oh gosh! This is why I hate to be in the house on my own. 

I raced over to the computer this the CCTV recordings on, to see if I could see who it was. 

It might be one of the boys. Like Harry tried to do when his car broke down. 

There was nothing on the live recordings but I could see a shadow in one of the rooms. I am hidden up here, in one of the office rooms but I still didn't feel save. 

The shadow grew larger and shorter, meaning that the body it belonged to was coming closer to where it was projected to. I might be able to work out who it is. 

They came out of the door but still had their face hidden to me, I could tell though that it was one of the lads though. Well maybe not one of them, but whoever it is they have a key. I sat and watched the screen changing from camera to camera trying to work out who it was. 

"Hazel, are you home?" Liam shouted. 

"Bloody hell Liam! You scared me!" I said walking into the kitchen. 

"How so?" 

"I didn't know anyone was going to use that door and freaked out" 

"Oh sorry. I didn't know you would be in. Having a feast?" he said acknowledged all the food on the island. 

"Yeah, as an I left work kind of party" 

"You left today? I thought you had a month?" 

"No, Max asked for me to leave now and he's going to pay me for the rest of the month." 

"Oh!" He said thinking, "That means you can come on the whole Europe tour" 

"Yeah, when do you leave?" 

"Next Wednesday" 

"Brill" 

"Shall we eat something? The others aren't coming home tonight" 

"Yeah, there's some films I was going to watch" 

"Let's do that then" 

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Hi guys, 

Im back. And hoepfully it is going to be for longer than a chapter. 

Hope you enjoyed this.

Let me know in the comments! Encouragement is extermly welcomed becasue I am considering stoping this book and deleting it. 

Zoe x