Chapter 8

Sarah’s POV

*Now*

The alarm went off waking me up. I was still in the same clothes of yesterday. Today is a new day I hope that nothing terrible happens today and my plan goes well. I took a shower, got ready for work and I went downstairs to have breakfast before heading to the company. When I went downstairs I saw Jan sitting with my grandpa on the table eating breakfast. Why was grandpa so stubborn?

“Oh look who’s here my favorite granddaughter. Good morning sweetie” grandpa said smiling. “Good morning grandpa” I replied then looked at Jan and said “Good morning Jan” he looked up from his breakfast with a straight face and said “Good morning” Oh boy here we go and I was hopping that today goes well seems like nothing is going to go well at all.

“I invited Jan to breakfast today to talk to you both about something” grandpa said.

“What is it grandpa?” I asked.

“Well, I decided to throw a party tomorrow night to celebrate you returning back and I wanted both of you to be responsible for organizing this party” why is he always pairing us together? “This party is really important as some of our partners are going to attend it and we want to give them a good impression” grandpa continued. “Sure grandpa” I said smiling.

“And one more thing. I want you both to act like a couple. I kind of told them that both of you are back together” he said and this was it for me. “What??!!” I yelled. “Why did you do that?” I continued yelling. The most hilarious part is that Jan is very calm about it and didn’t even react so I asked him “Did you know about this?” he looked at me again with straight face and said “Yes. Chairman Yorkan mentioned this to me earlier” I was surprised. When did my grandpa trust Jan? and why the hell Jan is very calm about it? “And you’re okay about it?” I asked.

“And why wouldn’t I be okay about it? It’s just pretending” he said without looking at me.

“Sarah, why are you making a big deal of everything since you came?” grandpa asked. “Maybe because you’re acting strangely? Maybe because you’re trying to play cupid here when…” and at this moment Jan looked me in the eyes. He was waiting for me to continue. “You know what? Fine. I will pretend to be his girlfriend or whatever. Actually, I’ve done the same thing 3 years ago” and then I saw the hurt in his eyes very clear. He was hurt and that’s my goal. I don’t want to get closer to him. I want him to hate me not the other way around. He then dropped the fork on the plate and stood up “Excuse me. I have to go to the company.” Then he looked at me “Don’t be late. We have a lot of things to do” he said and then left the dinning room.

“Why did you say that Sarah?” I heard grandpa asking. I was beyond mad at this point. “Because I don’t want him to love me again!!” I yelled. “Can you tell me grandpa what will happen after 2 months if we got back together?” I asked. “Will you let me stay here or are you going to force me to leave him again?” I continued asking. He didn’t reply then I said “I can’t make him fall in love with me again grandpa. Do you think that this is easy for me? Seeing him being hurt? This is not easy grandpa but I have to do this in order for him to move on with his life” and then I finally said “Grandpa, are you doing this to amend the relationship between me and Jan? Or you’re doing this for me to come back here after graduation and amend the relationship between me and you? If it is the later then don’t bother because 3 years ago, you broke something between us that’s cannot be amended” I stood up and left. I don’t know whether I was harsh on my grandpa or not but this cupid thing has to stop in order for me to proceed with my plan. I don’t know if what I said to him was true or not. I told him before that I have forgiven him but there’s a great difference between forgiving someone and forgetting what this someone did. Maybe I have forgiven grandpa long ago but I won’t ever forget what he did to me. I won’t ever forget the pain he caused me. And as long as I see Jan in front of me this will remind me every single time of what he did.