AS soon as she came out of the bathroom, the ringing of her phone filtered into her ears and she twisted her lips. Who could be calling at that time of the night?
She dried up her hands on the pink towel tied around her chest and walked up to the dressing mirror where the ringing phone laid, vibrating, and she picked it up.
Looking into it, she found out it was Jeremy, and a small smile played on her lips. She answered.
“Hello?”.
“Hey beautiful, good evening”, his rich baritone greeted.
The smiles on her face deepened as she smiled broadly.
“Good evening Mr Jeremy. It seems you do not have a wall clock there in your room”, she said.
“Huh?”, he mouthed.
“Look the time you are calling a lady”, she stressed.
“Oh please, it’s not just any lady, it’s my lady”.
She closed her eyes and shook her head.
“Uh uh, nope, I disagree”, she said.
He laughed shortly.
“Really?”.
“Yeah, I do”.
“So, what’s up with you? How was your day?”, he asked, digressing.
“Well, day was fine, I was just coming out of the shower to meet your call”, she said.
“Oh! You must have had a long day then, having shower now”.
She rolled her eyes.
“Yeah I did”.
“Okay, really sorry for the stress. Um Jasira?”, he called.
“Yeah”.
“Can we get to see? I want us to see, hangout you know, stuffs like that”, he said, rushing his words kind of.
She gasped lowly and sank into the seat beside her.
“Can we what?”, she asked, not sure of what she had just heard.
“See. I want us to hangout Jasira, have a time together you know, we have been on the talking stage for months now, let’s see if we can take it to the next level”, he said, not mincing his words.
Jeez! She went speechless immediately, searching for her words. She didn’t know what to say.
“Are you there?”, He was forced to ask, her silence could really be felt.
Her eyelids flickered.
“Ugh… yes, yes I’m here”, she replied absent mindedly.
“Oh! Then say something my lady”, he said.
She sighed deeply, this wasn’t expected at all, it was so difficult to give an answer.
“I… I don’t know what to say Jeremy”, she said.
“Say yes, agree for us to hangout, I wish to see your beautiful face again”, he said.
Well, it was just to hangout, nothing serious yet and besides, it was a harmless hangout.
“Okay, fine, agreed”, she said.
“Brava! I would text you the day, time and location, can’t wait to see ya”, he said excitedly and Jasira swallowed hard, this cold CEO? Excited about hanging out with her? Hmph.
“It’s okay. Hey, I do not like public places, a private cool environment”, she said and he nodded.
“Accepted My Lady, that is exactly what I prefer”, he said.
“Alright, can you get off my phone now, I’m dripping wet, I need to dry up”, she said.
“With all pleasure My Lady, do have a wonderful night”, and with that, he hung up.
Lazily, she dropped her phone on the table, lost in thoughts. Was she really gonna be there? She still wasn’t sure yet.
At this juncture her phone beeped, lighting up and she picked it up immediately and looked into it.
Her eyes widened instantly. It was the day, time and location which he had promised to send, and the day was tomorrow.
“Jeez!”, she mouthed, her eyes so widened in shock.
***
Sitted on the fluffy sofa in the VIP lounge of the restaurant was Jeremy, cooling off with a bottle of Azul Tequila, as he browsed on his phone.
The time slated for the hanging out was four PM, he had arrived like twenty minutes ago, and began waiting for her.
Work wasn’t closed yet, he had left work to spend time with his lady, work could wait.
He glanced at his wristwatch, four thirty PM, it told him. He picked up his phone and wanted placing a call across to her but later decided not to.
Who knows, maybe she was busy and caught up with something urgent, there was still time, she was gonna be here.
He shrugged.
Twenty minutes passed, thirty minutes, forty, fifty and then an hour. Still, there was no sign of Jasira.
What could have gone wrong? He picked up his phone and decided to call again, but again, he decided against that, he wasn’t gonna call her.
He was just gonna wait one more hour, and still if there wasn’t a sign of her, he was gonna leave.
He did and when it struck exactly five PM, Jeremy grabbed his car keys and phones lieing on the table and got up, then he walked away.
He got home minutes later, got down the car and slammed the door, walking away.
Immediately, Nathan came out from nowhere and walked up to him.
“Welcome Sir”, he greeted, but Jeremy didn’t reply, instead he kept on walking briskly into the mansion, Nathan strode beside, trying to catch up with his large strides.
“Um Sir, Mr Petersons called while you were away, he asked -“.
“Fuck off!”, He yelled interrupting and Nathan scurried away immediately.
Jeremy was literally fuming as he entered the mansion. Amy, his chef was walking out of the kitchen, some trays in her hands.
She saw him and bowed, greeting.
“Welcome Sir”, she said.
He didn’t even give her as much as a glance, he just took the stairs, straight to his room.