They Rich Girlfriend*
*_Chapter 25_&_26*
Sasha and Hanson walked towards the restaurant and ended up walking by Ross who seemed to be occu-pied with a client.
“Hey”, Sasha said, waving at him.
“Hey Boss”, Hanson said, smiling at him and Ross glared at him.
“With that glare, I can tell I’m in trouble”, he said to Sasha and she laughed.
“Oh don’t worry. We’re not d@t!ngso he can’t have a problem with me talking to you”.
“Oh you broke up?”
“Yeah. I just want to be on my own for now”.
“That’s cool”.
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
“No”.
“Have you ever had one?” She asked and he chuckled.
“Why will you ask me that? Of course I’ve had one. Not one, I’ve had quite a few”.
“Mmm, and where are they?” She asked as he walked her to a table.
“That’s a conversation for another day”, he said, pu-lling out a chair for her and she sat down.
“What would you like to eat?”
“What’s on the menu?” She asked and he signaled one of the waiters to bring the menu. He brou-ght the menu and Hanson handed it over to her.
“Mmm. I’ll have the Apple jui-ce and the chicken salad”.
“Just that?” Hanson asked.
“Yeah??? Why?”
“You said you were hungry and I was expecting you to get something heavy”.
“Oh. I ate too much at the food bazaar and it’s made me feel like I’m so fat”.
“You can’t get fat within a day. But I un-derstand. You’ll have your food right away”, he said, walking away and she called out his name.
“Aren’t you joining me?”
“Oh no. I’ll eat at the employees dining room”, he said to her.
“Oh okay”, then I guess I’ll see you some other time.
“Sure. Before you leave, let me know”.
“Alright”, she said to him and he walked away.
After a short while, her food was served and as she was eating, Ross walked up to her and sat across her.
“You’re looking so beautiful in that dress. Are you coming from church?”
“Yeah. I am”.
“Wow, you go to church now?”
“Don’t make it seem like I’m a devil. I used to go to church before and I just got lazy”.
“Mmm, I see. What made you go today?”
“Uhhhh, my sister literally dragged me out of my be-d”.
“Mmm, who? Sally or Samantha?”
“Samatha of course”.
“I didn’t know that she was a church person”.
“She’s not. We both went to Hanson’s church yesterday and she fell in love with the church”.
“Hanson’s church?”
“Yeah. I think you should come there sometime. It’s a really cool place. The word hits differently and the people over there are so friendly that it gets on my nerves”.
“I see. So you’re church buddies now?”
“If you put it like that”.
“This guy is sleek. He’s using church to lure you”.
“Ross don’t start. I’ve been in a good mood since yesterday. Don’t ruin it”.
“Wow. I’m ruining your mood by being a friend”.
“Be a friend and be happy that I went to church and st©p trying to formulate things”.
“Hmm, you….”
“Hey beautiful”, Roland said, sitting by her and she wondered where he c@m£ from.
“That’s a really lovely dress”, he said to her and she blu-shed.
“Thank you”, she said to him.
“What are you doing here?” Ross asked him.
“I c@m£ by to drop something off and I sp©tted you two here. So I c@m£ to say hi”.
“What did you drop off ?”
“It’s in your office. You can go and see what it is”, he said, giving Ross a look and Ross got up.
“I’ll be back Sasha. I have to see what he’s up to”, he said glaring at his brother and he left.
“So what have you been up to? I wasn’t able to say much to you at the p@rty and I’m really sorry about that”.
“Oh it’s fine”.
“Ross tells me that you two have broken up”, he said to her.
“Yeaahh”.
“Oops. Did he mess up?”
“Not really. It’s just a me thing”.
“When ladies say that, it’s either they’re not into the guy or he messed up”.
“It’s none of that. I just want to work on myself and be me for sometime before I get attached again”.
“That’s cool. My sister is also doing the same”.
“She sure has to”.
“Mmm, you still mad at her for what happened?”
“Not really and how did you know about it. Did Ross tell you?”
“No. My sister did”.
“And what did you think after she told you that”.
“It made me want to see the person who put her in her place”, he said, chuckling.
“You don’t like her?”
“Oh I love her. She’s my princess but she’s a spoil br@t and sometimes has to be put in her place. You throwing the shoe was a little bit too much but if I was in your shoes, I probably would have done worse”, he said and she laughed.
“Only if Ross had the same thoughts”.
“You can’t blame him. He loves her so much”.
“I see. So besides running some of your mum’s h0tels, what else do you do?”
“My mum’s h0tels. Ouch. That hurts”.
“I didn’t mean it that way”.
“The h0tels I run are actually mine and I’m also into medical equipments”.
“I see. That’s cool”.
“So besides being the child who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, what else do you do?”
“Ross didn’t tell you”.
“Of course he did. He br@gged about how you owned your own real estate company”.
“So why did you ask?”
“Just trying to make small talk”, he said and she sneezed.
“Bless you”, he said to her as she tried to gr-ab her tissue.
“I’m so sorry for that”, she said, trying to tuck the strand of her hair which was on her face. It wasn’t staying put and Roland stretched his hand to tuck it for her.
His t©uçh made her feel tensed and she tried to shut her subconscious mind from messing with her.
“Roland! We nee-d to talk!” Ross said, approaching him.
“Oops. I gotta go. I’ll see you later Sasha”, he said to her and he left with Roland.
Sasha heaved a sigh of relief when he left. She quic-klyasked for the bill and was re-ady to run off because she didn’t want Roland to come and meet her again.
“It’s on the house Ma’am”, the waiter said to her and she nodded.
She quic-kly got up and left.
*******
The following day, she met with her thera-pist and told her how she’s been attra-cted to Roland.
“Sasha relax. It’s just a mere attra-ction”.
“It’s not just a mere attra-ction. I’ve been dreaming of him and I honestly don’t know if I’ll be able to hold myself back for long?”
“Has he made any advances towards you?”
“Not really? But I think he’s been flir-ting with me”.
“In what way”? she asked and Sasha told her more of their little conversations.
“Mmm, he’s probably just being nice and charming or he’s bad news”.
“Bad news?”
“If he’s indeed flir-ting, then you nee-d to put some barrier between you two”.
“Why?”
“If he’s willing to flir-t with his younger brother’s girl. Then he’s willing to do a lot more”.
“Maybe he’s just being nice and I’m overreacting”.
“Hmm. I’ll still say you have to be careful around him”.
“Hmmm. I’ll try”.
“So tell me about church and the food competition”, she asked and Sasha told her everything and how excited she was.
“Aww. I’m glad you were happy. How did you meet this Hanson guy?”
“At the restaurant which is a few meters away from here”.
“Oh yeah. I know that restaurant. I’ve eaten there once or twice”.
“Oh okay”.
“So how did he get to invite you for the program and how did he get you to come?” She asked and Sasha told her how they met and how things advanced from there.
“I see. He’s sounds like a very nice person”.
“He is”.
“I’m happy that you have a new friend who’s bringing a fresh positivity in you. Sometimes we actually nee-d this”.
“Yeah but Ross doesn’t like him. He feels he’s up to something”.
“Do you feel that way?”
“No. Hanson is just a happy person and I don’t think he has time to be up to something. Ross is just being jealous I guess”.
“Has there been any sort of attra-ction between you two?”
“Who? Hanson?”
“Yeah”.
“Oh no”, Sasha said, laughing.
“We’re two different people in two different worlds”.
“Okay”.
“Right now my battle is between Ross and his brother”.
“No. Roland is out of the picture. Even if he ends up proposing to you, you can’t d@t£ him. His sister and his mother alre-ady have an issue with you and Ross is crazy about you, getting together with his brother would tear the both of them ap@rt and their mum and sister will detest you more. Do you want to be in a situation like that?”
“Hell no”.
“So you see. And I’m sure you don’t really like him. You’re just being lvstful”.
“lvstful?”
“Yeah”.
“I don’t think so”.
“When you think of him? What p@rt of you craves for him?”
“Mmmm. You’re right but how do I kill it?”
“I think you should avoid him and occu-py your mind with other things. When he tries to flir-t again, let him know that you’re not cool with it”.
“But I’m cool”, Sasha said, whining.
“It’s the lvst speaking and trust me if you get with him. All you’ll do is have S-x and you’ll be stuck up on him and then he’ll probably move on or do something to hurt you. If he’s willing to flir-t with you, then he can do more”.
“Okay okay. I’ll try to kill it”.
“That’s best. I’ll encourage to keep going to church and work on your relationsh!pwith God”.
“Alright”.
They talked for a while and then she left.
*****
Sasha and her friends were in her room, celebr@ting Rachel’s engagement.
“I’m sure you almost cried when he didn’t do it the last time”, Alicia said to her and they laughed.
“Yeah. I almost cried but I had to comport myself and apparently, the ring wasn’t re-ady, so he couldn’t propose that day”.
“Aww. Let me see it again”, Lilian said, taking her f!nger and she looked at the ring which had Rachel’s name engraved on the diamond stone.
“This is so lovely. It was worth the wait”, Lilian said.
“Yeah. Where’s Ralph though?”
“Mmm. He suggested that it’s time he started hanging out more with his male friends. Since we started d@t!ng, it’s been a bit weird for us whenever we meet up here”.
“So your relationsh!pis basically ruining our friendsh!pwith Ralph”, Sasha said to her.
“Did you miss your thera-py today?” Lilian asked her and she rolled her eyes.
“She actually went to church yesterday too”, Rachel said and they were all surprised.
“Wow. What happened?” Lilian asked.
“A friend invited me for a food competition in his church which I went to and I was second”, she said, smiling.
“So you went to church just for a food competition?” Alicia asked.
“Yeah and that was on Saturday. He and the other church members invited Samantha and I for the Sunday service and I was actually not going to go because I was so sleepy but Samantha dragged me out of be-d”.
“Wow. So you went with Samantha too?” Rachel asked.
“Yeah. She’s actually happy there”.
“So I’ve been inviting you to church for a long time now and someone else pops up and you just go. I’m hurt”, Lilian said to her.
“You should be happy that she’s going to church atleast. Who’s this friend though?” Rachel asked.
“Oh just someone I met at the restaurant close to the clinic”.
“Oh wow. You’ve been seeing someone all this while? No wonder you broke up with Ross”, Lilian said to her.
“No. That’s not why I broke up with Ross. And I’m not seeing anyone”.
“Is he h0t? Do you have a picture of him?” Alicia asked and Sasha took the picture they took at the ph0to booth which was by her be-dside.
“This is him”, Sasha said, showing it to them.
“Aww. You two look so cute with the paint on your face. You look so happy”, Rachel said to her.
“He’s so fineeee”, Alicia said, admiring the picture.
“Ross is finer”, Lilian said, rolling her eyes.
“The way you’ve been rooting for Ross, I suspect that you like him”, Rachel said to her.
“Oh plea-se. I just like him for Sasha”.
“Whatever. What’s his name though?” Rachel asked.
“Hanson”.
“Aww that’s cute name. I’m team Hanson”, Rachel said, grinning.
“I’m team me. If you don’t want him, can I have him?” Alicia said, wiggling her brows.
“Don’t you have a b©yfri£nd?” Lilian asked.
“I’m not married. Am I?”
“You hoe”, Rachel said to her.
“What does he do?” Rachel asked.
“Uhh. He’s a chef”, Sasha said and they were all quiet.
“Is that like a side hustle?”
“Nah. That’s what he does. He’s actually the head chef at Ross’ h0tel”, she said and Alicia bur-st out laughing.
“You can keep him”, she said to Sasha.
“Don’t be mean”, Lilian said to her.
“Oh now I see why you’re not into him”, Rachel said to her.
“Oh it’s not about his job. We’re just friends”.
“Church friends”, Alicia said laughing. “It’ll be so funny if Ross has his own employee taking his girl from him”, she added.
“Okay. That’s enough. Let’s talk about something else”.
“Adriana?” Rachel asked.
“No. I don’t to talk about her”.
“Fine, let’s talk about my wedding plans”.
“Yes!” Sasha said and they talked for long while till they all left.
****
Sasha was about to go to be-d when she received a text from Ross.
“You up?”
“I’m just about to sleep”.
“Okay. Then we’ll talk tomorrow”.
“Alright. Thanks for the food though”.
“What food?”
“The one I ate at your restaurant. The waiter said it was on the house”.
“Mmmm, I didn’t give any order like that”.
“Mm. Then I guess it was Roland. Goodnight”, she said and she put her phone away.
“Why would Roland do that?” He texted but she was alre-ady asleep and so there was no reply.
*_Chapter 26_*
Hanson was busy in the kitchen, cooking when the manager informed him that the CEO wanted to see him.
He finished up with what he was doing and he went to Ross’ office.
“Mr Ross”, he said to him.
“Take a seat”, Ross said to him.
“How’s everything going in the kitchen?”
“Very well”.
“Okay. Great. It’s come to my attention that someone requested that my girlfriend’s bill on Sunday to be on the house. But I didn’t request that. So I was wondering if you knew who did that”.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about?”
“Really? Because when I asked the waiter who attended to her. He said you made that request”.
“Me? The only request I made was for my friend, Sasha and I took care of it”, he said and Ross looked at him in the strange way. “Oh you were talking about Sasha”.
“Don’t pl@ysmart with me. You knew I was talking about her”.
“Mr Ross. I don’t mean to over step my bounds but I know for a fact that you two aren’t d@t!ngso the information you gave me wasn’t too clear”.
“Oh so now you know about my relationsh!plife”.
“ I don’t but I know Sasha’s”.
“I see. So what’s your deal? Are you trying to get her to like you? Because she’s way out of your league”.
“With all due respect Mr Ross. My life outside work isn’t anyone’s concern”.
“You made it my concern when you started lur-k-ing around with Sasha”.
“Mr Ross if there’s anything concerning my work here which you would like to know. I can give you information on that”, he said and Ross glared at him.
“That’ll be it for now”, he said and Hanson got on his feet. When he left, Ross requested for the manager.
“I’ll like to take a look at Hanson’s work file”, he said to her.
“Is there a problem sir?”
“I just want to be sure that he’s been on his best behavior”.
“If it’s that, then you have nothing to worry about. He’s the best we’ve had so far”.
“I see but I still want it to be sure”.
“Okay. You’ll get it right away”, she said and she left.
*****
Sasha and her sisters were in the main living room, planning their birthday p@rty.
“So in all, how many guest are we expecting here?” Sasha asked.
“For me, I’ll be expecting 50 or more”, Sally said to her.
“50?! What? Are you throwing a p@rty for the whole world?” Sasha asked.
“Why are you acting like it’s a lot. Last time I had more than that”.
“You had it at Dad’s house and it wasn’t my business. But if you’re going to have it here, you have to cut it down. I don’t want over 50 college students in this house”.
“Sasha you’re being very annoying. Mum would have been cool”.
“Do you see mum here? I’m in charge. Unless you want to have it somewhere else”.
“Sammy let’s have it somewhere else. I can’t stand Sasha and her plenty rules”.
“I want to have it here”, Sammy said to her.
“Why? It’s not like you have a lot of friends to invite. The location shouldn’t matter to you”.
“I have a lot of friends to invite. I’m expecting 20 people”.
“20? Don’t tell me you’re paying people to come for the p@rty”.
“I have new friends and old friends dummy”.
“Oh yeah. Your new church friends”, Sally said, chuckling.
“And what’s funny?”
“Nothing. I’m just wondering if they’ll like to p@rty. You know how we do it here”.
“If you’re going to do it here as Sammy requested. We’ll tone things down to enable Sammy’s friends to be comfortable. So sally cut down your guest to 30 and Sammy can bring her 20 and then we’ll have 50”.
“Sasha!!! You…”
“And there’ll be less alcohol and no drinking games and b©dy sh0ts. There’ll be no ma-king out in this house and there’ll be no…”
“That’s it. I’m having a separate p@rty”, Sally exclaimed.
“Okay. Do what suits you. Sammy will have the whole house to her”.
“Why do you always have to side with Sammy?” Sally asked.
“Why do you always have to be self centered?” Sasha asked her.
“Hmmm. So if we’re both dying and you have to save one, you’d save Sammy right?”
“There’ll never be a situation like that and Sammy wouldn’t even want me to save her if I want to. And that’s the difference between you two!”
“So you’re saying that you’d save Sammy”?
“I didn’t say that”.
“Whatever. I hope you enjoy your first birthday p@rty without me!” Sally said and she walked away.
“Don’t worry. I’ll talk to her and she’ll come around”, Sammy said to Sasha.
“But you don’t have to do all that for me and my friends. You can let Sally use the bigger poolside for her p@rty and I can hang out with my friends at the garden or anywhere in the house”, Samantha said to her.
“You sure?”
“Yeah. I’ve not really been the p@rty type. I just put up with it for Sally’s sake. So let her enjoy herself”.
“Okay but let her know that she should cut down that 50”.
“No problem. I’ll be inviting Hanson though. I hope you don’t mind”.
“Oh I don’t. I’d love to have him here”, Sasha said to her.
“Okay, I’m going to Sally”.
“Alright. I’m going to be-d”, Sasha said and she went to her be-droom.
She was on her phone, going throu-gh old pictures and then she remembered the picture she took with Hanson. She took it out and looked at it for a while. She saw how wi-de her smile was and remembered how happy she was. She looked at Hanson and realized that what Alicia said was true. He was extremely handsome.
She decided to look for him on social media. She searched for his name and after going throu-gh the various Hansons, she finally found his page.
She opened it and she went throu-gh his pictures. She sp©tted one of his pictures with his ba-re che-st at the beach with his friends and she ogled at it.
“Sasha get a grip of yourself and st©p being a per-vert”, she said to herself and when she was about to put her phone away she realized that she mistakenly liked the picture.
“Oh my God!” She exclaimed and she unliked it.
“I pray he didn’t see it”, she said to herself and she threw her phone away. She la-id on her be-d for a while and got lost in her thoughts as she remembered how her life has been. She realized that she wasn’t thinking about Phil!pthat much and was also not thinking about Roland or Ross or anyone.
“You just ogled at Hanson’s ba-re che-st”, her subconscious self said to her.
“Leave me alone”, she said and she tried to get her mind off it. After a short while, she drifted off to sleep.
******
“So you’ve not been to the h0tel in a week?” Mavis asked her.
“No”.
“Why?”
“I don’t want to see Ross or his brother”.
“Okay, that makes s-en-se. Did you go to church yesterday?”
“No. I sle-pt over at Rachel’s place so I oversle-pt”.
“Oh I see. But did Samantha go?”
“Yeah. She did”.
“Have you heard from Hanson?” Mavis asked and Sasha had a weird look on her face.
“Sasha?”
“I’ve been thinking of him a lot and they have been lvstful thoughts and I feel like the devil. I mean Hanson is a full blooded Christian and I feel like I’m defiling him by having these thoughts and it bothers me”, she said, whining.
“I thought you said there’s nothing going on”.
“There’s nothing going on but when I showed his picture to my friends, they saw him to be h0t and they felt I had something doing with him and it kind of messed with my head. I took a picture that we took at the bazaar and I found myself staring at his picture and it lead me to search for him on Instagram and I saw a picture of him with his ba-re che-st and I can’t get it off my mind. His b©dy was mind b!owing”.
“Oh Sasha. I think it’s normal to do that especially when you’re single and your heart longs for someone to come in. When was the last time you saw him?”
“Last two Sundays?”
“Why do I have a feeling that he’s the one you’ve been avoiding”.
“He is the one I’m avoiding and I might see him tomorrow and I don’t know what I’ll say. I just don’t want my stupid lvstily de-sires to ruin our friendsh!pand he’s not even in my league. I don’t know why I have these thoughts about him”.
“Have you been watching ro-mantic movies or re-ading ro-mantic novels?”
“Mmm. Both?”
“That’s the problem. First it was Roland and now it’s Hanson. Your mind is placing them in as the characters you’ve been re-ading or watching”.
“Hmmm”.
“I suggest you put a limit on it and focus on other things. I think you should have gone to church too. It would have helped. Also when you see him, act normal and I’m sure after a while, those thoughts will go. Where will you meet him at? The h0tel?”
“No. It’s my sisters’ birthday tomorrow and Samantha invited him over for the birthday p@rty”.
“Okay. So when you see him. Just be normal and occu-py your mind with other things. Everything will be fine”.
“I hope so”.
******
It was the twins birthday and as Sally requested, her dad got her the car she wanted as a birthday gift. He also got Samantha a new car. Ann s£nt in her pres£nts all the way from Greece and the twins were really happy to receive it.
The p@rty was divided as Samantha requested. Sally had her friends over at the poolside whiles Samantha had hers at the garden.
Sasha was at her balcony with her friends talking and at the same time she had her eyes on Sally and her friends who were at the poolside.
“Sasha. Hanson is here and he wants to see you”, Samantha said to her.
“Uuhhhhh, our chef boy is here”, Alicia said, grinning.
“Can we see him?” She asked.
“No”, Sasha said and she left them at the balcony.
“Where’s he?” She asked Samantha.
“Your living room”, she said and Sasha nodded.
She took a hvge breath and went to her living room. When she got there, she saw him, looking at her pictures on the wall.
“Hey”, she said to him and he turned around.
“Wow! Is it your birthday too?” He asked her.
“No. Why?”
“You’re looking so beautiful and you’ve out dressed the celebr@nt”, he said and she blu-shed.
“Well. You’re not looking bad yourself”.
“Thank you”, he said to her.
“You’ve got a nice place. The house is really hvge”.
“Yeah. It’s my mum’s house though”.
“Oh yeah. I realized it”.
“So what do I offer you? Do you want a drink or something?”
“A drink but I’ll have that later. I got something for you”, he said handing a paper bag to her.
“Mmmm, it smells good. what’s it?” She asked as she took the content out.
“It’s new chicken dressing recipe I tried and I wanted you to taste it and tell me what you think”.
“Okay”, she said and she ate it.
“Oh my God. It tastes so good”, she said as she ate it.
“I’m glad you like it”.
“Like? I love it”, she said, eating it and she heard a noise behind the door. She opened it and saw her friends there.
“What are you people doing here?” She asked, whispering.
“It was Alicia’s idea”, Rachel whispered.
“Oh my God. He’s so h0t. If he wasn’t a chef, I would have taken him”.
“Keep your voice down” Sasha said to her, whispering.
“Can we get some of the chicken. We want to taste it too”, Rachel said to her and she gave it to them.
“Now go!” She said to them and Lilian was smiling.
“What are you smiling about?” Sasha asked and Lilian pointed in the opposite direction.
They all turned towards that direction and saw Ross approaching them.