OBLIVIOUS REDEMPTION

CHAPTER 34: The New Beginning

~Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings~

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Aaliyah:

I love the smell of coffees, bloomed roses, and new beginnings.

Today is the day I decided to enjoy life, I decided not to wish away my days, waiting for better ones ahead.

Life is all about lows and highs like a sound wave, You will be bored hearing a tune with a single note. Modulations makes the tune beautiful, ups and downs make our life crazy and at the same time beautiful

Besides we are all humans, We're all stumbling in the dark and that makes for some very interesting collisions.

I find myself smiling. My cheek muscles feel different, they're like a room that hasn't seen light in years that suddenly had all the blinds pulled open and the sun is beaming in at full volume. And I can't help myself, my smile keeps stretching, wider and wider.

I looked out the window for inspiration, but I found none. Then I realized that I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best, The subject I want to know better, And the subject I will keep working on.

After making breakfast, I got ready and headed to work. I was proud of myself because I did a very good job ignoring all the insult Ammar kept throwing my way. Because now, it doesn't really matter anymore.  All that matters to me is "ME"

On reaching the office, I was told that my assistant has already scheduled a meeting for me with one of our clients. We had to rush out of the office building because we were running late, I never even had the chance to make some inquirers about the client and so on. Though the name of the company sounded so familiar, but I was too busy to ask any questions.

I made sure everything I needed for the presentation is in place during our ride to the destination

When we arrived, I figured out that it is Ammar's office. My heart skipped a beat when I realized that they were the clients.

When I entered the conference hall, Ammar saw me before I saw him. He was standing tall and handsome, Looking undeniably beautiful in an electric grungy way. Though he looked like a lion in a strange land.

And there is, that moment, a shock of recognition. I'm sure Ammar doesn't even know yet what he is recognizing. There is only the shock, The sense, That feeling of something happening that was meant to happen. Two people fitting in a space and time.

He looked at me and my treacherous stomach flipped girlishly, My chest quake and my lungs shrink but yet I felt refreshed all in the same breath

His tux told me nothing, but his face told me things which I was ironically glad to know. Though he was amazingly absent minded through out the meeting, Like the most absent creature in the world.

Ammar stared at me for only God knows how long, maybe through out the time I was there. I didn't look back at him, but I knew he was still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I felt it. The hairs on my neck bristled when he blinked.

Thankfully the meeting went well for me, but I can't say the same for Ammar. I walked away after the meeting with his eyes shooting daggers at me, I couldn't care less.

I got home around 7pm after a busy but productive day, Gosh I miss this feeling.

Upon opening the door to the house, I am reminded that ammar lives in the same house with me by his marked presence.

There he is, seated on the couch. When our eyes met, I quickly looked away because his eyes were too intense to stare into for long.

I look down to the ground, Trying to avoid any eye contact. Lowering myself onto the couch, I sense a pair of eyes at the back of my head. His presence behind me is awfully distracting.