The patience of the Universe

Fake fiance-ing/11

I did not sleep, roamed my home, neither work nor the stars were giving me peace. So it was nothing, what I was feeling wasn't mutual... actually what was I even feeling. 

I knew her for mere weeks, I couldn't be falling for her, she was even not my type anyway. So annoying, always talking always moving, all that spontaneity, why was I thinking, love? No, I did not even like her at all. And she obviously did not like me and good that she kept her cool to remind me that. Someone really needed to show Serkan Bolat how to be rational, it must be the end of the world or exhaustion, I'm not myself lately, yes yes the exhauton and her bad influence, not to forget her really bad influence!

The next days went without any incidence, actually they were moving in the pace of a sloth, unnervingly slow. I was keeping my distance to Eda and this time she was keeping hers too. No kicking my door open and sitting down at my table unasked, no showing up at my home for some stuff. As Melo was working with us now, she was coming and leaving with her.

One morning I just had forgotten that I did not need to pick her up anymore and drove directly to her aunt's flower shop, recognizing what I was doing only when I was a couple of meters away, I stepped into my brake and managed not to be seen. They were just leaving and there she was, loudly chatting and laughing with Melo and her aunt. I was missing this Eda, she now was so silent and composed in the office. I sat there and watched her leave with Melo, enjoying to have the opportunity to just watch her without her noticing. 

She was like light and I a moth, that couldn't help flying into her light, I was not able to advert my eyes. It was easy to let her have power over me, she had it naturally. I wasn't even aware what she was doing to me since she had handcuffed us together but what was I gonna do when the 2 months were over, when she was going to step out of my life like she stepped into it?! Disappear into the void, leaving me behind like she had never entered it? And now I had given my OK for her to hurry the Selin Ferit break up. So we even maybe would not have two month.

Thank God, the next days went really very busy, Ender beys demands and changes were holding the office on its toes, and then he finally overthrew the whole landscape planning because he was finding them dull and uninspired! We almost were again at the beginning of our efforts. It could mean that we also had to do changes in the general planning and it was doing serious chaos to our schedule for our other projects. Ender bey was nice enough to separate the regular deadline from the landscape planning and allowed to submit the plans without the landscape part. As we were not going to give the plans with blank surroundings i asked for a place holder kind of drawing around it and as all of the architects and graphic designers were busy, Eda volunteered to do it. She had watched  the development all worried from the sidelines and was obviously happy to help and now both of us were far more caught in our work and she was having a lot of late nights at the office where I at least had the chance to see her from distance, bump into her in the coffee corner, just ask her random stuff or walk over to her desk when she was not there and smell her perfume that was still hanging in the air. Yes, I was doing these odd things like a junkie on the search for his next fix and taking every little piece of her.

She was not recognizing any of that and was looking really tired, her dark circles were deepening, that I was thinking that she was not stopping to work even after leaving the office.  So I was happy that the work week ended and we could submit the plans. As myself were very busy, I had not have the chance to see what she had done, I mean they were lorem ipsum drafts anyway, so it didn't matter anyway but I was curious about everything she was doing, how serious she was about this little task impressed me deeply. 

I walked over and asked her to take her home but she refused and thanked me and told me that she was waiting for Fifi to pick her when in that exact minute her bike stopped in front of the office and Eda hopped on it and disappeared. 

As I was  sunken in my thought and was still starring at the now empty road, I did not recognize Erdem by my side and startled by his words.

„And there they are gone, like a faint dream, my black thunderbolt Fifi... and your Eda" As I was starring in his face, he continued, „At least you got her down, put your ring on her finger, I don't even know when I get to see her again, mine, mine is a tragic love!" My eyes narrowed as he was just not shutting up when he finally noticed my disdain and stopped. Why was this guy here? 

At home I was my restless self again when my phone rang and Ender bey and his wife from the background were euphoric about the new landscape plans, they were like how on earth did you all finish this in this short amount of time?! The ascending alcove and the almost classical simple sewer system and the different levels and natural planting system and choice of plants... They just were euphoric and were asking if the signing EY was actually Eda?

So yes it was our little intern, my fake fiancé Eda, who obviously had drawn a complete plan and did an appendix of all plants in less then a week for a whole resort for these two who were usually critical about everything but the genius that Eda was had hit them from their socks. I tested the waters how the plans were only drafts but they were like, oh we know but they are pretty good already, we want our project to look exactly like this and sorry that we were not trusting your before... and also greetings and kisses to Eda!

After the call I was just sitting there for some time, everything she did was magic!

So I had to make Eda a job offer. After our little intermezzo in Bodrum and how our last talk went, I had a whole new reason to keep her, I had to ask her to work for me... I mean real work and not fake fiance-ing. So even when this 2 months were over, I had a reason to keep her in the company!