“Nora !!!!”
I was upstairs when Kate arrived shouting my name as she ran up the stairs.
“I’m not deaf Kate, I can hear you perfectly, you don’t have to fall down the roof.” I said giggling, “What has gotten you so excited ?” I asked crossing my legs on the bed.
After the talk with Mr Jerkins I had come home straight, everything still seem like a movie to me.
It feels like my head is going to explode just thinking about it, I try to fluent myself as a bold woman, but when it comes to this I’m not bold at all.
“Guess what ?” Kate said, bouncing onto the bed beside me.
“I don’t know Kate, did you finally get the coffee maker you wanted ?” I teased.
“Noo ! Yiiish that’s not it, guess again..” she said barely able to contain her excitement.
“Just tell me already,” I said rolling my eyes, already feeling at a loss of words.
“Well…” She said, waving her left hands in front of me, bouncing out her skin.”Look.”
I examined her hand,”What am I supposed to be looking at ?” I asked, totally confused.
“How are you so dumb Nora ? look at my fingers.” She said feeling irritated at my ignorance.
I watched closely and noticed there was a sparkling ring in her finger.
“Did you get a new ring ? It’s beautiful..” I commented, holding her hands to get a closer look at the ring.
“Jesus Christ Nora !!, I got engaged… How did we end up being friends when you’re so oblivious ?..”
My hands flew to my mouth in shock, “OMG Kate, congratulations !. I’m so sorry, I just didn’t think that far. Your ring is beautiful, I’m so happy for you.” I said pulling her into a hug.
“Thanks Nora..”
“You’ve waited for this for so long, I’m glad the wait paid off.. so tell me, how did you convince him ?”
Her eyes sparkled as she began,”Well… Like you said, I spoke to him and asked him what his intentions were and that it’ll be nice to define our relationship.. He didn’t say much, rather he reacted in a way i didn’t expect, he walked off and didn’t call me for two days.. I tried calling him, however he refused to receive any of my calls. At that point I thought that was his way of ending the relationship. Just last night, I received a call and was told a table was reserved at a restaurant in town for me. I was surprised cause I literally wasn’t expecting anything of that sort, and to crown it all I was a total mess, been crying so hard that my eyes were literally hurting. I reluctantly went to the restaurant and just at the entrance there was a big banner that said will you marry me Kate.”
“Awwwwn. That’s the sweetest thing have heard this week. I’m so happy for you Kate.”
“I’m even more happier for myself.” She said jokingly. “Damn Nora, you were so sassy at the interview today, like seriously, Lady B ??”
I burst out laughing knowing fully well she was going to taunt me on my choice of name.
“Don’t you like it ?” I asked jokingly amidst laughter.
“Is the most ridiculous name have heard, couldn’t you go for something else ?”
“Actually it was the first thing that pop in my head,” I said shrugging.
“Well that’s by the way, how are you coping in the company,” Kate asked genuinely concerned.
“Well not so good, everyone is coming at me, they keep expecting a lot from me.”
“But you’ve been doing perfectly, I could literally see that from the interview today, the way you handled the questions, it was like you were made for that purpose, to rule.”
“That’s not even the issue on ground right now..” I said running my hands through my hair in frustration.
“What then is ? Don’t tell me you’re worried about what people are saying about you and your children, ?” She said giving me the look that says are you kidding me.”Besides they don’t know what you look like, I only knew it was you because, well of course I’d know it’s you anywhere, so that shouldn’t be bothering you. They need to change their cameras though, it looked like a photage taken in the eighties.”
I rolled my eyes at the last part of her statement, “It was actually intentionally done, I didn’t want everyone seeing or knowing who I was, if not that it was actually important I wouldn’t have showed up. And no I’m not worried about what people are saying, after all it’s their mouth, they should say whatever they want.”
“What then is getting you all worked up ?”
“I was requested by the shareholders to go to Boston.”
“Why Boston, what are you supposed to archive there ?”
“I’m actually going there to convince the CEO of a company there to partner with us.”
“Well that isn’t so bad..” she said shrugging.
“Well it won’t if not for the fact that the CEO of that same company is Mia and Mason’s father.”
“OMG !! Now I see why you’re so worried.. will you be going or you’d just pass it off to someone else. ?”
“That’s the thing, I’m not being left with any other options, otherwise I won’t as much as bother myself and just send someone else.”
Kate signed, obviously at lost of words.
“But no, I have to face him myself. And I can’t help but wonder what if he choose not to partner with us because of our relationship in the past ? What do I tell the shareholders ? They’ll end up calling me incompetent.”
“I totally understand the point you’re driving, and it’s going to be really difficult if you don’t figure out something now ”
“I know right..”
“How about this..” Kate said bringing her hand to her chin. “You can go with a different identity, since no one knows what you’re like, go there looking like a different person.
“How do you implore I do that ?” I asked, trying to make sense of what she was saying.