?THE OFFICE
DURING SUMMER☀
(Feelings; From Me To You…)
By; Sommy Pearl F.
Chapter 33&34
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Phil inhaled de-eply before walking back into the meeting room.
“I’m sorry for taking a long time. Now, let’s… continue from where we stopped but we nee-d to rush it up a bit” Phil cleared his throat.
“So, What be done for you to invest in our company to raise-nour ratio?” Phil asked.
A man raised his hand up high.
“Yes, plea-se?” Phil gestured.
“We are gonna support the travel team with the basis they nee-d later in future and we would also be endorsing you with a model to help lift your project when you finally travel abroad” The man said.
Phil smiled, and clapped.
The others joined.
“If you are agree, say yay?” Phil asked.
“Yayyyyy!” Their voices were high.
“If you disagree, say nay?” Phil said.
There wasn’t a sound.
People only stared at each other.
Phil nodded, with a bright smile.
“Then, I guess we have come to the end of the meeting. Good day, everyone…” He bowed at them, and they all clapped aloud.
Soon, they started leaving, while some came around Phil, greeting him and shaking his hand.
In the midst of all these, Phil noticed Oscar wasn’t there anymore.
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He excused himself, and walked to where Oscar was earlier but he wasn’t there.
Phil looked around, and there wasn’t a trace of him.
“Where is he now?!” He gr-unted.
“Excuse me, sir” One of the meeting holders, a lady said.
Phil looked at her, reluctantly.
“How may I help you?” He asked.
“Oscar,,, so as he called himself told me to pas-s this to you” She said, and stretched her hand forward.
She was holding a note.
“Did you see him?” Phil asked, collecting it.
“Some minutes ago though. He alre-ady left” She answered.
“Without telling me? What’s wrong with my closest employees exactly? Don’t worry, you can go,,, thanks” Phil said.
The lady bowed, and then walked away.
Phil unfolded the note. It was a memo from Oscar which said;
I’m sorry for leaving without permission but I have somewhere important to be.
Phil scoffed, and rou-ghed his hair.
“I’m not surprised!”
HEART TO HEART CLINIC**
“I nee-d to leave now” Scarlett sniffed.
The doctor quickly held her arm.
“Hold on” She quietly said.
“I haven’t prescrib£d your drugs yet” She added.
Scarlett started crying again.
“Drugs? What’s the nee-d of drugs? Is it gonna help me live!!”
“At least, it will make you look healthy, and agile” The doctor said.
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Scarlett sighed.
“Let me have it then”
The doctor nodded, and did so.
When Scarlett paid for the meds and was about to take her leave, the doctor pleaded with her to always come for a checkup weakly in case her terminal illness got worse.
Scarlett simply nodded, and walked away.
The clinic was quite a big one.
There were nurses, drugs, hospital smells, patients everywhere.
“People are really suffering” She sighed and shook her head.
She squee-zed her che-st lightly.
“This heart is really fragile”
“And that’s why you had to leave me alone and so soon, huh? Jenna!” She cried out.
BURIAL GROUND ENVIRONMENT***
Oscar slowly took off his face cap, and bowed lowly.
“Jenna?” He whispered, with his teary eyes.
“How have you been?” He asked.
“5 years without you has been so quiet and i- He paused, seeing the way tears rushed out from his eyes like tap.
“I’m sorry, Jenna!” He screamed in tears.
He knelt down slowly, and gr-abb£d his che-st so ti-ght.
“Jenna,,, Forgive me” He kept on crying.
“I swear, I’m trying to be a better person. I really am now. I’ve quieten up too” He cooed.
He sniffed, and wiped his tears, with his sleeve before standing up.
“Jenna?” He called, and slowly wore his cap.
“We will see again, Anio (Goodbye)” He for-ced a sad smile, before strolling away.
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Scarlett slowly walked to Jenna’s burial ground, and looked at Jenna smiling picture by her name plate.
She sighed de-eply and sat down on the standing green gras-s.
She faced Jenna’s picture in p@rticular.
“Hey, Jenna?” She called, and kept the black polythene bag she was holding down.
“How do you feel now, that I’ll be meeting you soon, happy huh? Well, I guess so. Maybe, you won’t be lonely again” Scarlett said, taking out two bottles of soju.
“Jenna,,, You must be confused, huh?” Scarlett eyes were slowly bringing out, painful hot tears.
“I’m gonna leave after summer” Her voice shook.
She began to drink from the soju bottle.
“What am I gonna do? If I take the loniless off you, what about my mum? Who will take care of her, huh?” She cried.
“I know it my fault you are like this but my mum,,, what about her? What’s she gonna do? How is she gonna live?”
“I shouldn’t have bullied that ra-pist, If I hadn’t, then,,, I would have stayed with you in school, rather than being expelled, and at the same time, serving my jail term. Maybe if I was in school, I would have protected you, It my fault and I’m sorry but I really don’t wanna leave my mum”
“For the sake of her, plea-se,, let me just live” Scarlett cried, still drinking.
Scarlett looked at her soju bottle, and saw something on the paper leaflet.
It was ‘List Soju’
“List? Li…st? Bucket List?” Scarlett muttered to herself.
An idea suddenly popped into her head, and she wi-dened her eyes, so big and bright like a midnight owl.
“Jenna! I’m gonna make a bucket list! I’m gonna fulfill them before leaving! I think it will make me prepared”
“What do you think?” Scarlett asked, and looked at Jenna picture, which seemed to be smiling the more.
Scarlett smiled as well.
“Let’s do this!!”
“Ahh,,, firstly,,, I nee-d to take my drugs” She breathed ha-rd.
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Oscar inser-ted his key into its hole, twisted the knob and walked into the house.
He re-moved his tie, and la-id down on the cold floor.
He watched the cemented ceilings with sadness in his eyes.
“I almost forgot about Jenna’s death anniversary,,, I’m sorry” He muttered.
He sighed heavily, and took his phone out of his pocket.
He shoved it to his face, and tapped the contacts icon.
He saw just 4 names now;
Dylan.
Jenna.
Phil.
Scarlett.
Trina(with lots of heart emojis)
“Should I just delete it?” He thought.
“I don’t nee-d the contact anyways” He thought again and deleted a contact.
Dylan contact!!!
Oscar could remember what transpired between him and Dylan, when he gave him a new job, as a b©dy guard to the rich and famous CEO, Mr Phil Counters.
FLASH BACK**
“Oscar? Hold on plea-se,,,
Oscar stopped, before the door and turned to Dylan.
“I…nee-d your help” Dylan said, slowly.
“I don’t know about that… but let’s hear” Oscar replied, softly.
“Since you’re gonna work for Phil, can you help, be my spy?”
“What?”
“Like,,,, I want you to give me records of everything he does, everywhere he goes, every words he speaks, every-
“I’m sorry,,,, but i decline” Oscar cut him off, gently.
“Huh?” Dylan blinked.
“I un-derstand that it quite ha-rdbut don’t worry, I’m gonna pay-
“I’m sorry but regardless of everything,,, I still strongly decline”
Dylan swallowed softly, and scratched his jaw.
“Yeah,,, sure. Don’t worry about it and forget we ever had this conversation” He said, and for-ced a small nervous laugh.
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Oscar sighed, and bowed lowly to him, before exiting.
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Oscar slowly opened his eyes after his rememberance ended.
“There is someone’s number I nee-d off my phone too” He thought, staring at Trina’s number.
PHIL MANSION***
“Can’t believe both of my closest workers left me! Unbelievable!” He said, angrily opening his refrigerator.
He took out his plate of vanilla ice cream, and a packet of potato chips.
He sat down on the chair, close to the table and opened his plate just to see there was no pinch of vanilla ice cream.
“What’s this? Who- He paused, and gnashed his teeth, raging.
“As if Beverly wasn’t enough,,, now Trina!” He shouted.
“I’m gonna have my revenge on all of you!!!!” He screamed, and raised his both arms high.
*Ahh* He coughed suddenly and quickly opened the fridge, where he took out a bottled water.
His face was red now, since the cough was a ha-rdone.
He drank the water, and kept it on the table.
“I nearly died…Aiish!!” He gr-unted.
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Trina took her popcorn from her bowl slowly, into her mouth.
She munched on it extra slowly.
Her eyes was on her phone which she was holding with her other hand.
“Why isn’t he calling?” She asked, herself.
“Or is my phone probably in airplane mode?” She added.
“And why isn’t Phil’s line going? Aiish! I want Ossscarrr’s number” She mo-aned, and threw her head on the sofa’s rest.
NEXT DAY, SATURDAY***
9AM**
Scarlett and her mother, Marie alre-ady finished their bowl of cornflakes with milk before Scarlett stood up.
Judging from the movement sounds, Marie knew Scarlett was heading somewhere.
“Lett?” Marie called.
“Hmm…Umma?” Scarlett answered, as she quickly drank her drugs.
“Are you off to somewhere?”
“Nope,,, not really. I’m off to my room”
“Oh,,, Okay then. I’m just gonna continue knitting” Marie smiled.
“Okay,, Umma” Scarlett replied, and hu-gged her before leaving to her room.
“She’s so cute” Marie smiled.
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Scarlett entered her room, and held her mouth, with her palm.
Her eyes were seriously red, and teary.
She was so about to cry, big time.
She slowly sat down, with her back resting on the door.
She kept her face on her raised up knees and began to pour out her tears.
She also tried her best to suppress her wails.
After almost an hour, She stood up, wiped her red and swollen eyes and walked to her chair, which was next to her cu-pboard.
She sat on the chair, opened the cu-pboard, and took out a blue note pad which she kept on top of the cu-pboard.
She sniffed and took the fountain pen, which was by the side of the note pad.
She wrote something on the front cover, which was;
SCARLETT NEIL’S BUCKET LIST DURING SUMMER…
She then added a small drawing of a smiling sun by the side.
“It will favor us all,,, especially umma” She whispered, ti-ghtened her grip on the pen, and opened the new note pad in re-adiness to start writing.
TBC