*The rich girlfriend*
*_Chapter 4_*
“Ben, I’m talking to you. What’s this?” She asked, shaking in anger.
“That’s my daughter and her mother”, he said stuttering.
“You have a wife?!!”she asked, getting on her feet.
“No, she’s not my wife. She’s my ex girlfriend”.
“A baby mama?”
“Yeah”
“I can’t believe this!!”, she said in anger.
“Let me explain Sasha”, he said to her.
“No no! Just get away from me and I don’t want to ever see you again”, she said, walking away and he pu-ll-ed her back.
“Get your hands off me”, she said, pushing him with her two hands.
“Sasha. I’m sorry”, he exclaimed and she walked away.
*****
Jennifer was at her desk , slee-ping when Lilian walked in.
“Jennifer!!!” She exclaimed.
“Yes?” She said, jumping out of her chair.
“Oh my God. I thought it was Sasha”.
“You should thank your God that it’s not her. She’s in a very bad mood and she’ll be here any minute. You better prepare yourself”.
“Oh no. What happened this time?”
“What do you think? She ended things with Ben”.
“Again?”
“This time he was the one at fault. He has a baby and a baby mama and he didn’t tell her about it”.
“Oh shoot!! That’s going to hurt”.
“Yeah. So you know she’s going to be on extreme level today”.
“Oh no!! I actually wanted to talk to her about a promotion and now this?!”
“You nee-d a promotion? Speak to Ralph. He’s the human resource manager”.
“I just wanted to get the upper hand by going to her”.
“Then today is your unlucky day”.
As they were both conversing, they heard her scolding one of the workers.
“Is this the way to dress to work? Do you think we’re running a fashion house here?! You’re fired!” she exclaimed.
“Oh my God. This is bad”, Jennifer said in fear.
“All the best Jen”.
“No no Lilian, you have to call Rachel. She’s best at handling her”.
“Rachel has her own company to run and not to babysit Sasha”.
“Just call her. You know she’d want to do it”.
“Fine. But for now, handle it”.
“Jenny! I want the realtors in charge of the buildings at Swazy estate now!!!” Sasha said, walking into her office.
“They’re all out Sasha”, she said, walking into Sasha’s office.
“The three of them? Why?!”
“They’ve got clients waiting for them, I think it’s good news”.
“Good news? The three of them are attending to one client?”
“No, I mean there is more than one client”.
“Great. So get me any other realtor. I nee-d one to go to the building at ball street now!”
“Sasha, I think they’re all busy!”
“Jenny! If you don’t want to end up like the red haired girl. You better get me one”.
“Okay”, she said and she ran off.
******
Samantha and her friend were on their way to Sasha’s room when Sally interrupted them.
“Don’t tell me you’re going to that witch’s room”, Sally said to her.
“We are. Is there a problem?”
“You go and see. She’s really in a very good mood”, Sally said, wiggling her brows.
“Sally be serious. What is it?”
“Oh nothing”, she said and walked away.
Samantha shook her Mr and still went ahead with her male friend.
“You wait here and let me talk to her first”, she said to him and he nodded and took a seat at her hallway.
“Sash”, Samantha said, walking into her room.
Sasha was on her be-d, with her face buried in her pillow.
“Go away”, she said in tears and a sad voice.
“Did something happen?” Samantha asked.
“I want to be alone Sammy”.
“Hmm, do you nee-d me to call someone?”
“Just go. I’ll be fine”.
“Are you…..”
“I said go!!!” Sasha exclaimed.
“Okay”, Samantha said and she left.
“Is she okay?” Her friend asked.
“Now it’s not a good time. Let’s go”, she said and they left.
******
Ann and her female friends were in the kitchen, trying out new recipes when Rachel walked in.
“Mum”, she said in surprise when she saw her mum.
“Rachel?!” Her mum said, hvgging her.
“It’s really been a long time since I saw you. I think Ann sees you more than I do”, her mum said to her.
“I know mum. But I’ve just been busy with work”, she said.
“I un-derstand. You should try to come home one of these weekends. Your dad and I have missed you so much”.
“I will mum. Ann can I speak to you pri-vately” she asked.
“Sure. Excuse me”, Ann said to her friends and she walked out with Rachel.
“Is there a problem?” Ann asked.
“I really think that Sasha nee-ds help. Like a psychologist or something”.
“What happened this time?”
“She fired about her personal as-sistant and two other people today and they’re all suing her”, she said.
“Oh God. And what’s she doing about the suit?”
“She’s not taking it serious and I’ve been trying to get her to take it serious and she’s just been lashing out on me”.
“Hmmm. I’ll take care of the suit”.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea. You know how she doesn’t want you or her dad getting involved with anything concerning her company”.
“Hmm. So what do we do?” Ann asked in a sad tone.
“First, I think you should talk her into seeing a psychologist first and I’ll speak to her lawyer and see if he could…”
“The lawyer that she fired last month?
“Oops, I forgot about that. Hmm. I’ll try again and talk her into getting him back or a new lawyer”.
“Thank you so much Rachel. I don’t know what she’d have done without you”.
“She’s like a sister to me and I’ll always be there for her”.
“God bless you so much. I’ll speak to several psychologist and see who’s best for her. I think the challenge is getting her to see one but I’ll still handle it”.
“Alright”.
Rachel left and when she arrived in Sasha’s room, she wasn’t there.
“Sasha?! “ she exclaimed as she searched her room. She went to the balcony and she sp©tted Sasha in the driveway.
“Sasha! No. Don’t go to this place”, she yelled but Sasha ignored her and drove off.
The Rich Girlfriend*
*_Chapter 5_*
Ben and his family were having their dinner when the doorbell went off.
“Are you expecting someone?” his baby mama asked.
“No. Are you?” He asked and she shook her head.
“Okay. I’ll go see who it is”, she said and she walked towards the door and when she opened it, Sasha shoved her aside and walked in.
“Hey. Who are you? You can’t just barge in like you own the place”.
Ben was surprised when he saw her.
“Sasha”, he said, stuttering.
“Nancy, plea-se take her Amy inside the room”, he said to his baby mama.
“Who is she Ben?” She asked.
“Just go”, he said to her and Nancy glared at him.
“C’mon baby, let’s go and eat inside your room”, she said to Amy and they both left.
Immediately they left, Sasha sl@pped Ben really ha-rd .
“Okay, I deserve that”, he said to her.
“No, you deserve to be run down by a vehicle”, she said, hitting him in the che-st.
“You don’t mean that”.
“Shut up!!!” She yelled.
“Do you know what you’ve done to me. I was fine on my own and wasn’t re-ady to d@t£ anyone and you kept hitting on me and got me to d@t£ you whiles you knew that you had a baby and a wife or girlfriend or whatever she is”, she said, in tears, glaring at him.
“I’m sorry Sasha. When I met you I was stunned by your beauty and couldn’t stay away from you and the more I got to know you the more attra-cted I was to you and before I knew it, I was de-ep in it and was too scared to tell you about my child and her mother. Nancy is just a friend and the mother of my child and nothing else. I know I should have told you about her but I’m really sorry. I was just terrified that you wouldn’t want anything to do with me”.
“So why does she live with you?” Sasha asked as she calmed down.
“She doesn’t. She only comes here during the weekends with my daughter and sometimes during the weekdays”, he said to her and she didn’t say anything.
“I’m really sorry Sasha for hurting you. It wasn’t my intention. And I’ll be glad if you could find a way to forgive me”.
“I just c@m£ here to get my frustration out. It’ll take sometime to forgive you but for now, I nee-d some space from you. So st©p b!owing up my phone. Just leave me alone”, she said, walking away and he pu-ll-ed her back.
“plea-se Sasha. Just give me another chance and I’ll make it up to you”.
“You have a child Ben and it’s not even the child that’s the problem. It’s your baby mama. She’s occu-pying a high percent in your life. I can’t deal with that and then the fact that you lied?! No way. Just let me be”.
“Fine. I respect your decision”, he said to her and then she left.
When she stepped out, she was surprised to see Rachel, Lilian, Alicia and Ralph.
“What are you all doing here?!” She asked, chuckling.
“Oh thank God she’s in a good mood”, Ralph said, heaving a sigh of relief.
“Do you think they’re back together?” Alicia asked.
“I doubt”, Rachel said.
“Someone seems to be in a better mood”, Rachel said to her as she approached them.
“Yeah. I just had to speak to him and hear whatever he had to say and now I’m not hurt. This was just a little storm and I’m fine now”, she said and they were all surprised.
“This is surprising. But we’re happy for you”, Lilian said.
“So what do you all say to us getting a drink at the diner”, Alicia suggested.
“Yeah, I’m in!!” Sasha exclaimed.
“Okay, I’ll be joining Sasha in her car and then you all can use my car”. She said, handing over her keys to Ralph.
“Drive safely. That’s my baby”, she said and he rolled his eyes.
Rachel got into Sasha’s car and she drove off.
Rachel kept staring at Sasha to be sure that she was fine.
“Will you st©p staring at me”, Sasha said to her, chuckling.
“I’m just surprised at how you’ve handled this. What happened in there?”
“I sl@pped him and lashed out on him and then he just told me what I nee-ded to hear. He was scared of telling me about the baby and he’s sorry and blah blah”.
“Mmm, so will you get back with him?!”
“No way. I don’t want any baby mama trouble and can’t be in a relationsh!pwith someone who has another woman in his life”.
“I un-derstand. So you’re really bent of moving on?”
“Yeah. There are plenty fishes in the sea”.
“I really think you should hold off for a while and work on yourself first”.
“You’re the same person who encouraged me to keep d@t!ngsince Phil!pdied and I was re-ady to hold off after Manny but you all encouraged me to give it a try with Ben. Now you want me to hold off?”
“Yeah. You know that you have a lot of baggage and you nee-d to fix it before you get on with someone else”.
“So what are you saying?”
“That you see a psychologist”.
“What? Never. I don’t want to talk to anyone who doesn’t know anything about me”.
“You nee-d it Sasha. You nee-d help and if no one is going to tell you, I will”.
“St©p acting like my mother Rachel. I’m fine and I don’t nee-d a psychologist or thera-pist or whatever”.
“Hmmm. I still..”
“Just drop it. I’m in a good mood. Don’t ruin it for me”.
“Fine. So what are you going to do about the law suits against you”.
“Oh, Jennifer loves me. I’ll just pay her a visit, apologize to her. Give her a raise and then she’ll come back and drop it”.
“You’re just being manipulative”.
“No, I’m fixing the problem”.
“What about the other two people you fired for no reason”.
“I’m sure I had a reason”.
“You don’t even remember why you fired them. Do you?”
“No. I was just so angry and I lashed out. But I’ll try to get them back”.
“No, just get a lawyer and settle them and that’s it. For Jennifer you can get them back but for the other two, I doubt that they will want to come back”.
“How do you know that?”
“You’ve not re-ad the suit? They’re suing you for wrongful termination, abuse of power, high level of haras-sment and a whole lot “.
“What’s with these people? They just want my money”.
“You’re in the wrong and they deserve the money”.
“No one deserves any money they didn’t work for unless it’s charity”.
“Just get a lawyer Sasha”.
“Fine, I’ll ask my dad to get me one”.
“Now you want your dad’s help?”
“He knows the best lawyers in town”.
“Okay”.
******
Everyone at the company was busy working when Sasha interrupted them with a bell in her hand.
“What again?” One of the workers said to another co worker.
“Is that Jennifer? Wasn’t she fired?” Another said to a co worker.
“Can I have everyone’s attention?!” She said and they all st©pped what they were doing. All those in their offices c@m£ to the working area to hear what she had to say.
“What’s going on?” Ralph asked Alicia.
“I have no idea”.
“Lilian, what’s going on?” He asked her.
“I’m just as lost as you are”.
“I’ll like to use this time to say a hvge thank you to everyone here and I really appreciate how ha-rd you all work. I’ll also like to use this time to apologize to everyone I’ve wronged in one way or the other. And I’ll also want to apologize to my wonderful personal as-sistant here and I’ll like you all to welcome her back with a round of applause”, she said and they all cl@pped.
“Well, this is new coming from her”, Alicia said.
“She’s just being smart and trying to prevent any other law suit and to enable everyone to defend her against the other two she fired”, Ralph said.
“That’s true. She’s so smart.” Lilian said, nodding her head.
“And I’ll also like to use this time to let you all know that we’ll have a dinner p@rty this weekend to celebr@te how far we’ve come. Jennifer will let you in on the details later”, she said and everyone cl@pped and rejoiced.
“And last but not the least. I’m promoting Jennifer to be my executive personal as-sistant”, she said and they all cl@pped.
“What’s the difference?” One of the workers asked another co worker.
“I think she won’t be doing too much of personal things and will be more of an advisor and can also take meetings in her place and some other things, I guess”, the co worker said.
“So there’s a vacancy now for a personal as-sistant, you can let the whole world know, and HR, I want one before the week ends. That’s all. You all can go back to work”, she said and then she took Jennifer to her new office.
“Is this my office?” She asked as she looked around the hvge office.
“Yeah. Do you like it?”
“I love it. Thank you so much Sasha. You’ll never regret it. I’ll be the best ever and will help you to accomplish more”.
“I know you will. Enjoy your new office”, Sasha said and she left.
Lilian approached her smiling.
“What is it?”
“There’s a fresh prince waiting for you in the conference room”.
“A fresh prince? “
“I mean a very fine young man”, she said, blu-shing.
“And who’s he?”
“He said he’s a lawyer and he’s here to see you”.
“Oh okay”.
“And hey, if you don’t want him. I do”, Lilian said, grinning.
“Oh Lord, you’re so thirsty”, she said, chuckling and she left.
When she got to the conference room, she was surprised to see Ross, the son of her dad’s girlfriend.
“Hi”, he said, smiling.
TBC