Silence settled around the room as everyone was gazing at each other but no one dared to break the silence. Laila broke the silence as she coughed a little having all gaze on her, she awkwardly laughed feeling a bit tensed under their gaze.
“Hehe, I ‘m going to get something,”She nervously announced before standing up.
They were looking at Laila’s direction and watched as she left before gazing at each other again.
“Okay, why is everyone’s eyes interrogating each other?”Amelia finally questions, making Elliot chuckle a little.
Claudia was nervously staring at hoping he wouldn’t be any trouble for her. Elliot noticed Claudia staring at him from his side eyes and turned to look at her which made her flinch.
“Can I help you?”He asked her, wondering why she was staring at him weirdly.
“Ah…no…not…at all”Claudia nervously shivers as she comes out stammering.
“What’s wrong, why are you nervous?”Elliot suspiciously asked her, making her gulp.
Everyone turned to look at Claudia and wondered what she was trying to hide from them that made her unable to speak properly.
Claudia pov
Gosh Claudia I said not to bring attention to you , why did you have to stammer in front of this fool. Now everyone is staring at me suspiciously, oh God help me out of this cause it feels like this guy is on my neck.
“Uhm hey”Elliot snaps his finger being Claudia back to reality.
“What’s wrong Claudia, why are you sweating so much?”Mike asked, pointing out her state.
“Are you by any chance nervous around me?”Elliot asked her, staring at her immensely watching her every move.
“What…why…will I be nervous…around you”Claudia scoffs trying her best not to stutter but fails.
“Then…why…are…you…talking…like…this?”Elliot stutters, mimicking her.
It resulted in everyone laughing as sounds of laughter filled the room, Claudia glares at Elliot she was about to say something when Laila walks in with doughnuts and coffee.
“I brought everyone doughnuts and coffee”Laila announced earning a cheer from everyone except Claudia who couldn’t stop staring at Elliot.
“Laila,”Nina whispers, tugging on her skirt a little.
“What do you want?”Laila said in between her teeth as she was handling the stuff she bought.
“Look over at Claudia”Nina orders her, earning a glare from her.
“Why should I look at that bitch? I have things to do okay”Laila tells her.
“Just look”Nina chirped out, turning her head towards Claudia’s direction.
“Why are you…”Laila cut herself short when she noticed how Claudia was staring at Elliot who was drinking coffee.
“Do you see what I’m seeing?”Nina asked.
“Yes, that bitch is trying to steal my Elliot!”Laila scrowls biting a bit out of her doughnuts angrily.
“Your Elliot?”Nina repeats, staring at her confused.
“You won’t understand,”Laila tells her, pushing her away before walking towards Elliot.
“I would”Nina mutters but Laila already went to meet Elliot.
Laila stopped in front of Elliot’s desk and dropped a doughnut on his desk , Claudia looked up to see Laila glaring at her and rolled her eyes.
“Here Elliot eats this”Laila tells him referring to the doughnut on his table.
“Thank you”Elliot thanked her bowing a little.
“Okay I will leave you to finish your work”Laila chirped out before leaving his desk. She stopped at Claudia’s desk and dropped a doughnut for her.
“I hope you choke on the doughnut”Laila admits flashing her a smile before leaving her astonished.
“How dare that bitch!”Claudia scoffs before throwing the doughnut in the waste bin. Next to her.
Laila gave everyone doughnuts and coffee except the boss , she dropped some on Amelia’s desk and asked her to go give him since she was his secretary.
“Camon Amelia, you are the boss secretary you supposed be the one doing all this”Laila points out trying to convince her to go.
“If she doesn’t want to I can always go give him”Claudia offers from behind walking towards them.
“No need Amelia will”Laila uttered making Claudia halt at her track glaring at her.
“Fine”Amelia agrees before going to Liam’s office.
“Whatever”Claudia scoffs before leaving.
Liam was lost In thoughts when Amelia opened the door but he didn’t noticed. She drops the coffee and doughnuts on his table tapping on the table a little making him look up at her.
“When did you get here?” Liam asked, a bit stunned by her visit.
“Well a minute ago, when you were busy lost in your thoughts”Amelia pointed out, making him sigh.
“Thanks”He firmly thanked her.
She turns around to leave but halts at tracks, Liam wonders what she wanted to say as she turns to look at him looking at him weirdly.
“Yea?” Liam questions her stares.
“Who is Elliot?”Amelia suddenly asked.
“What?” Liam choked out.
“I said who is Elliot?”She repeats, staring at him suspiciously.
“He is just a friend of mine that needs a job,”Liam explains, trying not to look nervous.
“Oh , how come he knows me then?”Amelia asked, still doubting his words.
Liam stood up and pulled her towards him , he held her shoulder, squatted to her height a little and smiled.
“He is my best friend and you are my girlfriend”Liam started as she wondered what he was trying to say.
“What do you expect, of course he is going to know my partner”Liam flick her forehead making her Yelp in pain while rubbing her head.
“You didn’t have to flick my head so hard”Amelia whines glaring at him.
“You know I love you baby”Liam smirks and tries to hug her but she pushes him away before storming out of his office.
“Gosh, so annoying,”Amelia blurted out loud.
“Who is annoying?”Nina asked from behind, making her flinch.
“Damn it, you scared me”Amelia held her chest staring at Nina like she had seen a ghost.
“Hehe didn’t mean too, but by the way who is annoying?”Nina innocently asked, making Amelia grin.
“Story for another time okay, I’m hungry let’s go eat something”She held her shoulder as they both walked towards giggling.
Claudia was walking along the hallway in the company when she felt like someone was watching her. She immediately turned back but saw no one and breathed a sigh of relief.
Elliot pov
So I was following Claudia to see what she was up to when she stopped at her tracks, oh no I guess she knew someone was following her but before she could look back I immediately hid behind a door and peek through the door still I felt someone touched me that made me scream out in fear.
“What are you doing?”Laila asked Elliot as he breathed out trying to recover from the fright she had just given him.
“Nothing, just wanted to stroll”He tells her.
“Oh you could have called me then, there is no one that knows this company route more than I do”Laila boastfully uttered.
“Oh really fascinating,”Elliot smiles at her.
“Hehe, so where do you want to see first?”Laila asked.
“Let’s just stroll around together while you tell me about the members”Elliot suggested placing his hand on her shoulder. Laila seeing Elliot hand on her shoulder as they stroll together.
“Which member do you wanna know first?”Laila asked, Elliot pretended to be in thought for some second.
“Tell me about Claudia”He finally said, making her scoff.
“That witch”Laila rolled her eyes as they walked together along the hallway.
Claudia came out from behind and stared at them leaving while talking and gulping.
Flashback
Claudia pov
I was walking along the hallway when I felt someone was following and I was right, I saw Elliot hiding behind a door and was about to go confront him when Laila interfered as always making my suspicion of him following me true. I noticed how nervous he was when Laila asked him what he was doing, and when she ask him about the member he wanted to know as soon as he mentioned my name I knew I was in trouble.
“I have to do something about this guy,”Claudia mutters before walking away.
***
Laila was in the office feeling bored when Amelia and Nina came in giggling making her turn to look at them as they stopped at her desk.
“Where have you guys been huh?”She glares at them.
“We went out to eat”Nina tells her with a smile earning a gasp from Laila.
“You guys went out to eat without me?”Laila scoffs.
“We couldn’t find you and thought maybe you were busy”Nina tries to explain but Laila gestured her hands at her signalling she doesn’t wanna hear it.
“We brought you some food,”Amelia announced, shaking the bag in front of her face with a smile.
Laila slowly turns to look at the bag and grabs it from her. She stares at the both of them as they plead with her for forgiveness.
“Fine I forgive you guys”Laila rolled her eyes.
“Yay!”Amelia and Nina squeak in unison.
“You guys brought food for Laila , what about me?”Mike whines from behind.
“That is because I’m important and you are not”Laila scoffs before opening the plate of Korean noodles.
“Oh really, you don’t deserve to eat these noodles”Mike declares before yanking the plate off Laila’s desk.
“What the hell, give it back to me!”Laila barks at Mike who was holding onto the plate.
“Never, only important is to eat Korean noodles”He tells her while sticking out his tongue at her.
Laila scoffs in disbelief, turning to look over at Amelia and Nina.
“Are you guys seeing the way this jerk just took my food?”Laila asked them, still stunned.
“Yeah, Mike gave her back her food,”Amelia tells him.
“Don’t talk to me Amelia I’m still mad at you for not bringing anything for me”Mike stated.
“I’m sorry, next I will”Amelia apologised assuring him.
“Don’t apologise to this goat”Laila scoffs.
“Watch how this goat eats this,”Mike said, flaunting the plate at her face before running off with it.
“Mike!”Laila screams out his name before chasing after him.
Amelia stares at the both of them running around the whole office while laughing along with Nina. Mike bump into Elliot and mistakenly toss the food up in the air in slow motion everyone gaze went to the air as the food flies on the air in slow motion. Their mouth widened in slow motion when they saw it was going to where Liam was.
“Boss!”Laila screams in slow motion as Liam slowly turns to look at her before looking up as the plate of noodles dropped on his head.
“Omg!”Nina squeaks.
Liam’s eyes twitched a little as rage filled his body feeling the noodles rolling down from his head to his clothes. Everyone immediately rushed to meet Liam except for Amelia and Elliot who stood there trying their best to hold their laughter.
“Omg boss are you okay?”
“It wasn’t intentionally”
“Mike is to be blamed”
“No Laila is”Laila and Mike flooded Liam with questions and explanations while trying to remove the noodles from his head.
“Enough!” Liam yells making everyone flinch as Elliot and Amelia burst out into laughter making Liam look at them.
“Do you guys think it is funny?”Liam gave them a dead glare making Amelia laugh to seize.
“No it isn’t funny, it is hilarious”Elliot stated in between laughs as Amelia tugged on his shirt for him to be quiet.
Liam saw the both of them whispering to each other and frowns, Claudia who entered the office saw the situation Liam was in and immediately rushed to meet him.
“Oh my gosh, what happened, are you okay boss?”Claudia worriedly asked, making Amelia roll her eyes.
Claudia brought out her handkerchief and reached forward to clean Liam face but he held her hand stopping her, she looked up and a bit nervous as he threw her hand away before walking off.
“Omg this is all you fault Mike”Laila pointed out hitting him.
“How is it my fault, Elliot bumped into me”Mike defended himself blocking her hits.
“How dare you blame Elliot huh!” Laila gasps as she hits him harder.
Elliot turned to look at Amelia and smile.
“You know he is really mad at you”Elliot whispers, making her look up to meet his gaze on her.
“Huh?”Amelia asked, confused.
“Your boyfriend is mad at you”Elliot tells her with a grin before leaving.
“Oh no”Amelia gulps.
Liam was in the restroom washing off the stain in his cloth , when what transpired earlier in the office replayed In his mind making him frown. He thought about when Amelia and Elliot were laughing and hit the sink angrily.
Liam POV
How could she laugh at me? I know I looked ridiculous with those noodles on my head but still she is supposed to be my girlfriend. I don’t even think she cares about me again , sometimes she acts like I don’t matter to her…Aish I’m overthinking it just all in my head.
***
Night time came , Everyone began to round up their work as Amelia was about to go look for Liam when Laila held her hand.
“Yes?”Amelia asked.
“We are going for dinner at Ching’s place”Laila announced, earning a chant from them.
“Who and who?”Amelia questions, curious to know if Liam was tagging along.
“Me, you, Nina, Elliot, Mike and Xavier , Miss Cynthia couldn’t make it. She already went home. Something came up, I guess”Laila explains.
“I don’t think I can make it too”Amelia started earning a groan from Laila.
“Cancel all your plans because we are all going to celebrate our new member Elliot”Laila blurted out gesturing at Elliot who Xavier and Mike were holding still.
“I’m guessing you guys forced him to attend”Amelia said seeing as Elliot tries to break free from their grip.
“It’s not what it looks like”Laila grins before turning towards their direction.
“Hold him well boys”Laila orders before holding onto Amelia’s right arm ushering Nina to hold her other arm and she does.
“What are you guys doing?”Amelia nervously asked.
“Making sure we all have fun tonight”Laila stated as they all exit the building while chanting Ching’s with Amelia and Elliot calling for help.
Liam came outside to see all of them leaving and felt a bit sad but shook it off before going back to his office. He slammed the door angrily before ruffling his hair.
“I can’t believe they’re all just left without me” Liam scoffs out loud before hearing a knock on his door.
A smile creeped up his lips and it thought it was Amelia , but when he opened the door he saw Claudia standing in front of him and frowning.
Miss Cynthia pov
When I arrived at the hospital I got a call saying my husband was hit by a car and admitted to here. I immediately rushed to meet a nurse and she directed me to the room where he was. I immediately opened it and saw the doctor covering my husband’s body.
“I’m so sorry Miss but we lost him”The doctor announced with his gaze down as Miss Cynthia fell to the ground.