#WHEN_LOVE_JUST_HAPPENS_2
EPISODE 44
The next day, Amaka got to her office, and was surprised to find a rose flower, and a box of chocolates, sitting nicely on her desk. She picked up the flower and smelt it, wondering who it c@m£ from.
she was still looking at the items, trying to figure out who they could be from, when Pius walked into her office.
“Good morning Amaka” he had his hands in p@n-t pockets, smiling at her.
“Good morning sir” Amaka greeted him as she went to the other side of her desk, so she could put a distance between them.
“Amaka I am very sorry for the way I behaved last time, my actions were totally out of line, plea-se forgive me, I hope you like chocolates? because I got those for you”
“It’s okay, but these are not necessary” She said referring to the box of chocolates, and rose flower.
“I’m sorry, don’t you like chocolates? I could get you something else, I was just…”
“No it’s fine Pius, you don’t have to get me anything else, plea-se just take these ones back, no nee-d to get me anything to apologize with, I hold nothing against you”
“Amaka plea-se don’t reject them, I actually got them for you”
Amaka stared at Pius for a while, trying to figure out the reason for his sudden change in behavior, what was he getting at?
“I’m sure you are trying to figure out, what I’m up to, but I want you to know that, I’m up to nothing, I just want to let you know how truly sorry I am, and if it’s okay with you, I would like to take you out for dinner”
“I’m sorry Pius, but I can’t have dinner with you, I have gotten your apology, and that’s enough”
“Amaka plea-se, I would really like to take you out to dinner, or maybe even lunch, I would really love to spend some time with you outside of work, I want to get to know you better Amaka”
“I’m sorry but that won’t be possible, the only time I get to spend with you, is the time we spend working together, aside that, we can’t spend anymore time together”
“Amaka I would like for us to…”
“Our relationsh!pis only a work related one sir, thank you” Amaka folded her arms, as if trying to dare him to speak any further on the issue. She just lost a good man, because of him, and wasn’t re-ady to jeopardize her life, or career any further because of him.
“All right, once again I’m sorry. plea-se s£nd the report for last week’s campaign to my email”
“I will do that now sir…” Amaka made sure to stress the sir, so he would know she is serious about being professional with him.
Pius slowly nodded his head at her, before turning to leave for his office.
As she sat down to s£nd Pius the reports, she asked herself why she wasn’t this firm with him, when he started flir-ting with her the first time? ‘that’s because you liked, and craved for the attention he showered on you’ her subconscious said to her. But Dele was showering her with more attention than, Pius did, why then did she decide to cheat with Pius?
de-ep down, she knew she was just trying to be rebellious, just like she has always been. A p@rt of her hasn’t still forgiven Dele for the way he treated her, even if she tried to tell herself otherwise. A p@rt of her wanted him to feel a little bit of the pain she had felt, when he had told her the next morning after slee-ping with her, that he was in a relationsh!p, and couldn’t d@t£ her. She knew she should have addressed the issue with Dele before going into a relationsh!pwith him, for he kept apologizing for his actions, and she kept telling him, she had forgiven him.
‘Amaka you have an unforgiving spirit’ she reprimanded herself. What she didn’t know about trying to make Dele feel a little bit of pain, was that; she was going to hurt herself in the process too.
Now she wants nothing more than for them to get back together, she missed him, his laugh, his voice, the way he looked at her, when he thought she wasn’t looking.
Amaka was lost de-ep in thought, when Vivian’s personal as-sistant, c@m£ into her office.
“Good morning Miss Amaka”
“Good morning” Amaka didn’t bother calling the girl by her name, because she couldn’t remember her name.
“Vivian would like to see you in her office”
“Now?”
“Yes ma’am”
Amaka wanted to correct the girl about calling her a ma’am, severally she has warned her to st©p referring to her as such, but she decided against it. She would have to leave it for another day.
“Tell her I would be there”
She quic-kly finished compiling the report, and s£nt them to Pius, before going to meet Vivian in her office.
When she got to Vivian’s office, she was standing with her back to the door, as she looked at the ocean waves, throu-gh the glas-s wall in her office.
“Good morning Vivian”
“Good morning Amaka, how are you doing?” Vivian still had her back to Amaka as she spoke.
“I’m fine ma, your as-sistant said you wanted to see me?”
“Yes I requested to see you, plea-se have a seat” she turned to face Amaka.
Amaka did as she was asked, while Vivian walked around her table, and sat down on her chair.
“How is work?”
“Work is fine”
“And your new boss? You both have been getting along well enough, I see?”
“Yes we are” Amaka’s heart was alre-ady beating ha-rd against her che-st, why would Vivian call her to her office this morning, to ask after her relationsh!pwith Pius? Could she have seen them k!ssing? If she did, then Amaka knew she was in a de-ep $h!t.
“That’s good then, and how would you describe your relationsh!pwith him?”
“I’m sorry who?” Amaka asked in confusion, she was alre-ady tensed, and couldn’t un-derstand why Vivian was asking her these questions.
“Your boss, Pius. How would you describe your relationsh!pwith him?” Vivian was looking at Amaka with all seriousness, ma-king Amaka even more tensed. Did she hear something? Or had she seen something? Amaka thought within herself.
“Amaka, can you hear me?”
“Yes… Yes I can”
“So?”
“So…?” Amaka asked Vivian back, not quite un-derstanding what she meant.
“Amaka is everything alright with you?”
Amaka was still lost in thought, thinking about how to respond to Vivian’s question.
“Amaka?” Vivian called her name with a look of concern on her face.
“Ma?” She looked confused.
“Are you okay?”
“No, no not at all, I am not feeling fine, I have not been feeling too well for a while now, and I think it just got worse now” Amaka spoke so fast, Vivian bec@m£ suspicious of her.
“I’m sorry about that, probably you can take the day off..” Vivian wasn’t done speaking when Amaka got to her feet immediately.
“Thank you ma, I will be on my way…”
“Amaka, I meant after this meeting”
“Ehnn…? Oh I thought you meant like right now, because my b©dy temperature is beginning to increase and..”
“Amaka sit down plea-se”
“Okay” Amaka sat down reluctantly, even if she wanted to make a quic-k dash for the door, and run out of Vivian’s office.
“When we are done, you can take the day off, and go take care of your health. But first I nee-d you to tell me about your relationsh!pwith your boss Pius”
“I un-derstand your question Vivian?”
“Are you having an affair with Pius?”
“What? Of course not. I’m not having an affair with Pius, sorry I meant my boss”
“Are you sure of that? Because that is not the report that I have been getting about you two lately”
“I’m very sure, my relationsh!pwith Pius is strictly professional, nothing more” Amaka spoke with a straight face, trying her best to convince Vivian that whatever she must have heard about her, and Pius was not true.
“Then why do I have a picture of you two k!ss!ngin your office?”
Vivian pushed her phone on the table over to Amaka. Amaka was scared of what she might see on the phone, so she didn’t pick it up from the table, she just kept staring at Vivian.
“Go on, pick it up and see for yourself” Vivian encouraged.
Amaka reluctantly picked up the phone, and on the screen was a picture of her and Pius k!ssing.
“Does that look anything close to professional, to you?”
“I can explain this Vivian”
“What would you like to explain to me about? The picture clearly speaks for itself. I’m sure you know what this means Amaka? You know how the company treats issues like this”
“Aren’t you going to allow me to explain myself?”
“And what do you have to say?”
“Pius has been coming to l@ycomplaints, of how you have been constantly throwing yourself at him, but I never believed him, until he c@m£ with this proof”
WATCHOUT FOR EPISODE 45