Some weeks had passed and the weird stuff subsided a bit but that didn’t stop Dimitri from constantly telling her or like she see it, commanding her to stop hanging out with Daniella or that Earl guy.
But when she ask for a reason as to why she should stop he would just come up with new reasons why she shouldn’t hang out with Earl but not Daniella so she ignored him and hung out with whoever she wanted to hang out with.
She complained about his behavior to Sofia countless times and wished he should stop with all these controlling and at least ask in an appropriate and well-mannered way but instead it is always the same way.
“Maybe he is jealous that Earl doesn’t have to do anything to get your attention” Sofia shrugged then ate the last of her ice cream. “I need a refill”
Audriana looked at her with a frown then at her empty medium-size bowl of ice cream and grabbed it from her hold.
“I let you have enough for the day so no more till next week”
“Bully, bully, bully”
“Whatever, you will realize later on that I am looking out for you and my nephew”
“I know you are looking out for us but a little more will not hurt”
“How little?”
“A size bigger than this one you gave me”
“Not happening babe” she shook her head and went to put the bowl in the kitchen sink.
“Are you hungry?” she asked her as she poured herself a glass of pineapple juice.
“Hmm… a bit, I would like that rice Max made for me yesterday,” she told her and she nods.
She drank the whole of the juice then placed the cup in the sink and went to the fridge to get the leftover rice.
“Wow, it’s enough for the three of us,” she told Sofia.
“I am glad he made a lot last night”
“You both are just lucky to have each other”
“I know right, now be quick and bring me my food”
“Be a polite child. What did I tell you about manners?” Audriana narrowed her eyes at her and warmed the food in the warmer.
“Why would you think he is jealous?” she asked after a moment of silence.
“Guys tend to get jealous when their women don’t give them attention and when that attention is directed to another of their species so do you get it?”
She didn’t answer but just continued with warming the food and serving in two plates when it was warm enough.
“Come grab the yogurt,” Audriana told Sofia when she had served the food and started washing the pot and plates in the sink.
“I am pregnant”
“That pregnancy isn’t stopping you from anything girl, so stand up and grab the yogurts,” she told her and earned a groan from her.
“I honestly can’t wait for you to be pregnant” she muttered when she was close to her.
“I heard”
“You were supposed to hear that” she whispered in her ear.
“Whatever pregnant woman, grab them and move to the living room”
“Bossy”
“You love me like that”
“Whatever” she took the yogurt bowls and went to the living room to wait for Audriana.
After a while, Audriana came with a tray that contains two plates of rice and chicken salad.
“I love you Audri”
“I love you to Sof”
She placed it down and they both sat on the floor and ate the food.
“It must be fun working remotely”
“Yup, but my students prefer me to come to class physically. I do record their schoolwork and upload it to the school portal and it is helping them but once in a while I head over to the school to see them and teach them what isn’t clear to them”
“I do that too since I am on leave for a while but the online teaching thing has helped a lot,” Sofia said then licked her fingers and burped.
“Excuse me”
“You are excused”
“Although, I can’t go outside to explore like I used to but I do research and have an assistant who helps me with the traveling and exploring and whatever she finds out she reports to me and I can be able to take my student to another place virtually, nice right?”
“You have an assistant? Since when?”
“That was all you got from all I said? And you seem less interested about my exploring and all but I did tell dad,” she asked her.
“That is cool Sof and you told my dad? I am sure he was glad you were able to share some things with him.”
“Yup, unlike his daughter”
“Shut it”
“At least I know I am the favorite daughter” she shrugged.
“Nope, dad said we both are the favorite even though I know I am the favorite” Audriana argued.
“Oh please, don’t be fooled. Do you want us to argue about who is the favorite and who isn’t?”
“We can always call dad to confirm”
“And have him freeze like it was the network that made him unable to hear us? Nope” Sofia laughed and Audriana tagged along.
“It is good to see you laugh and not worry too much about anything”
“Thank you Sof, and I love to see you happy and in love”
“Thank you Audri” they hugged each other then continued eating after they parted.
“How are things with the company? Any changes yet?” Sofia asked after a while.
“Well yes, there is but when I and some of our engineers that I selected to help figure out what went wrong did our findings and research about the cause and what could have made it go wrong, we realized something.”
“What did you find out?”
“We saw that the model was tampered with during training and that was one of the factors that we strongly believe caused the model to you know, kind of backfired”
“I really don’t understand but what are you guessing foul play among your employees?”
“Yes, but I don’t want to jump to a conclusion. I want to have solid proof and know who would have tampered with it while it was undergoing training and also I saw that it wasn’t tested properly before releasing it to the company we were training it for”
“Oh my, how many of you were responsible for this particular project? I suppose not all your engineers were involved in this project, right?”
“Yes, not all of them and we had just ten including I and dad”
“Hmm, I don’t want to suspect too much because the main thing is to figure how to solve the issue and since you are getting proper funding for it, you guys should make it your primary objective, finding who did this will be secondary and you will get them soon”
“I hope so and thank you Sof”
“Nah, don’t mention” she leaned to her and whispered “I know you need me but okay”
Audriana lightly pushed her and laughed then they continued eating their food, forgetting about why she was upset at first.
She would still think about it soon but at least she can feel light till she can figure why he is being a meany to her.