Cade was in a meeting when his phone began to go off its hook. He had kept his phone on him and not on silent for the first time in a while. Ever since he got promoted it had been his attitude to always have his phone on silent so that the room was quiet enough to have a good enough decent meeting.
So the fear on the worker’s faces when the phone began ringing and they were trying to figure out whose phone kept going off the hook was evident. They had all learnt that to work with him they had to have their phones on silent, especially during a meeting. He stopped the meeting and took out the phone.
He did not know whose call he was expecting that he did not keep his phone on silent mode but seeing that the call was from Ophelia startled him a bit. A mixture of fear, excitement and joy overwhelmed him. He stared at the screen until the call stopped and popped up as a missed call. The entire room was silent as they did not how to react to a situation they had never had to deal with before. The phone began ringing again and this time he raised his head and through the ringing said.
“It is my wife and I have to take this,” he said before leaving his chair and he was out the door faster than a lightning bolt.
“I guess this marriage is not a scam as we all thought,” a young girl said as soon as they were sure they could no longer hear him.
“Are you saying you thought it was a scam before?” another man asked.
“Why would you say something like that?” an older man asked shutting her down.
“Well, it never made sense to me, Ophelia lived out of the country for years and not once did he go visit her, they were never seen together until she came back to the country and then they were suddenly getting married. I mean maybe scam is the wrong word to use but I did not seem to buy the story of him loving her and her loving him. To me it seemed like an arranged marriage” the girl said.
“I think we are just making assumptions” the youngest in the team said causing them all to raise their heads to him. “Well we are” he said this time more confident in himself.
“I mean seeing the way he stops the meeting to respond to her call when he never did so for the chairman makes sense now, maybe it was love at first sight” the girl added. She was defending her claim as much as she could.
“We do not own them and could never tell how long they have been together or how long they have known each so I wonder why we are so comfortable with giving our opinions,” another woman said before adding. “I think we should focus on the task at hand instead of on his love life”
Cade struggled with the phone in his hands, does he need to answer it or what? He also thought of the possibility that this was about nothing but also that it could be about something they needed to tend to immediately. He allowed the phone to become a missed call already and he knew that she would be getting impatient at this time and he was right because text messages popped on his screen almost all at the same time.
WHY AREN’T YOU RESPONDING?
AM I CALLING AT A BAD TIME?
PICK UP NOW OR ELSE I MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO SHOW UP AT YOUR WORK
PICK UP!!!
He stared at the message and wondered if her showing up was a good idea, he had stopped his meeting for her but his workers would think he became distracted just because he got married. He decided that sending a text back was the best solution to it.
Busy, how can I help you?
He waited for her to reply and she did not think to text him back but call instead Her logic was if he could text then he could talk on the phone for a few minutes.
“Why did you ignore my call?”
“Ignore? I was busy in a meeting” he said wondering if she was doing this on purpose.
“Oh I see” she said making a sound with her lips by smacking them together.
“What is this about?”
“You need to accompany me shopping,” she said like she was declaring a fact before adding. “Clear your entire day because from shopping you will go to meet my dad”
“I should clear an entire day?” he asked like her statement was the most ridiculous thing he had heard all day.
“Yeah,” she said and she was serious about it.
“Might I ask what for?” he asked and she smiled to herself.
“I have to resume work on Monday and I need new clothes so you are coming with me to get new clothes” She was excited and anyone could tell from her tone.
“You bought tons of clothes yesterday and even more from our trip and you want me to come with you to buy more?” he asked like he was asking for a logical explanation.
It did not matter the kind of role she was having she had more than enough clothes to wear to any of them and did not need any more. “I bought clothes but not the kinds I can wear to the office. I need something that is office-worthy and I need to buy them”
“Go buy them” he said wondering why he was being dragged into this. “I do not need to be there for you to buy clothes”
“This can be our first outing as a married couple since we got back from our honeymoon and I think clothes shopping is a good idea because it just is”
He thought over it, he wanted to be with her at least that was one thing he learnt from the trip. her company was very enjoyable but somehow it felt weird that that was what she wanted to do for their first outing.
“So what do you say?” she asked crossing her fingers expecting a positive answer.
“Give me an hour to take care of things and I will pick you up”
“Good choice. See you soon” she said as the call ended.