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“I’ve always known you had feelings for Lea. Right from when we were teenagers. You always masked it by annoying her and throwing tantrums when she was not around.”
“For the record, I threw tantrums because you become annoying whenever she isn’t around you. Not because I missed her or anything.”
“Whatever rocks your boat. You can believe it. You have my blessings, bro. I trust you with her. You know better than to hurt her.” Kelvin says not in a way to threaten me, I hope.
I let out a breath. I didn’t even realize I had been holding in.
“Thank you, Kelvin. I’ll take good care of her.”
“I trust you will. I gotta go now. My babe has been buzzing my phone, and you don’t make me half as happy as she does.”
“You’re crazy, man. Talk to you later.”
Now that this conversation was out of the way, I got to the office just in time for lunch break. I had gotten lunch for her on my way back, and I need to give it to her before she heads out.
I walk past Lea’s office and notice her head buried in work. The floor looks empty, as everyone must have gone out for lunch.
I had never used the side door connecting my office and what used to be Samantha’s office that was now hers.
Now, it was going to come in handy for both of us.
I open the side door, and her eyes go up to see me. The surprise on her face is one that I wish I could capture.
“Samantha swore you did not know that this door was functional.”
She was not wrong to think that way, as I had never used it for the years we worked together.
“I never needed it until now.”
She stands up from her chair and faces me with the prettiest smile I have ever seen.
“Here…I got you lunch in exchange for a sandwich.”
“Aww. That’s so sweet. Thank you, Damien. Sadly, I have already given the sandwich to Samantha.”
“What? You chose her over me?” I fake tears and a broken heart, then I slump into the chair.
The joyous noise of her laughter fills the entire office, and it is a pleasant sound to my ears.
“I was just kidding. Your sandwich is here, safe with me.”
My heart is safe with her, too, I’m so sure.
She turns to the other side of her table to grab her bag and bring out the sandwich. An exchange happens as she hands the sandwich to me, and I hand over the lunch pack to her.
“This is so thoughtful. Thank you so much.”
She drops the bag on her table and turns to face me. I gave her the details of my meeting with the client and my findings from the survey.
She passed across other details that she had for me as we ate our lunch and went over them.
The first sound of the elevator leads to the second, and we know people are slowly getting back to their offices from their lunch break.
“Is 7:00 p.m. a good time for us to go bowling?”
“Sounds perfect to me. By then, I should be home and well rested for a great night.”
“Alright then. We have a plan. See you at seven.”
