Theodore Tom dropped the file he was working on as to watch Fred approach him with a solemn face, the one he always wore after a visit to Elena. No good news then! He shook his head wondering how a girl of her age could be so stubborn and fierce.
Maybe that was what intrigued him about her, he was just too curious to know her drive, that seems like a long time into the future.
He was sure she would come to terms with him, but not before a lot of hard work from him.
"Boss."Fred greeted.
" You can just keep the document with me, I'll go pay her a visit myself." He picked up the file from a minute ago so as to get back to what he had been doing.
Fred didn't know whether to be happy or sad as he heard him, was the boss finding him incompetent? He almost cried out, his expression got even worst as his face paled.
He wanted to assure the man that he would win her over with continuous persistence, but how could he tell him not to do as he had already decided?
He placed the document in the table, he left the room after receiving a silent dismissal from his boss.
After work Tom was about to head back home when he received a call from his mother, he hesitated before reluctantly picking up his phone to answer the call.
"Mom?" He wasn't someone who said only few words but he was only pissed off at that time, especially when he already knew what she wanted from him.
"My dear Tommy, where are you?" Came his mother's chummy voice from the phone.
"I'm still at the company, i have a meeting tomorrow so I'm sorting out stuffs". He massaged his temple waiting for her to say the next words, words he was already used to. " Do you remember Linda?" She paused to catch her breath before she continued without waiting for any response from him.
"That little girl that always came to our house to play with you because her parents were seldom around? She's back and age looks so beautiful, she asked if you would come over so that you could catch up for old time's sake, you know she has a thing for you and...."
"Mom please " he interrupted her. " I won't be meeting any Lucy or Belinda today."
"Hey .....you... How dare you? You don't seem to be capable of getting yourself a wife or even a girlfriend, now when I step up, you want to refuse meeting her? How could you?" She seemed to have choked on her own tears. His frowned in dismay.
"Mom.... okay, fine, I'll come over tomorrow after work meeting, I am very busy today, just tell Lucy that I'm sorry i couldn't make it today, but I'll make it up to her tomorrow." His voice softened, he seemed to have resigned to fate, she was the only one who could make him feel so helpless.
"Okay..... okay, that's very good, by the way it's Linda." She corrected before hanging up.
One date couldn't cause any harm, or maybe...
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Elena arrived home to find Cassy waiting for her inside her room, she wondered why she had forgotten to lock the door, maybe she it was because she had been in a hurry.
"Here you are..." She stood up from the couch. "Sometimes, I wonder where you always go off to, you possibly couldn't have a secret lover, or could you? Cassy asked in mockery. Elena frowned.
"What are you doing in my room?" She asked coldly.
Cassy frowned.But a smirk soon found its way to her face. "Just wanted to help dad pass a message to you, I wonder if you are interested?" Elena's frowned deepened.
"Whatever you want or have to say, say it and get out of here, you narrow minded being." She hissed at her. Cassy stared bitterly at her.
" How dare you." She stamped her feet angrily on the floor.
"You must think very highly of yourself." Elena added before going into the bathroom.
She would just have to go watch the days event in her secret room, she would probably find out what her father wanted from her.
She regretted not connecting it directly to her phone, but she just wanted everything on her to be clean and innocent, so that no one would ever find out about the things she did in the dark.
She went into the room after she heard footsteps going outside.
True to her calculation, her father had only asked Cassy to tell her to get ready because they would be going over to Mr Lucien's house for dinner that evening to finalise the marriage arrangements. Why didn't he just put a call through to her and save her the hassle?
She realised she lived with very silly people who claimed to be very wise when infact that word didn't exist in their dictionary.
She quickly left the room to go get prepared for that evening's event, if one could call it that.