Chapter 2

Chapter 2.

NEW GIRLFRIEND IS AN INTERN.

JANE'S POV.

I rolled over on the soft layer of the covers of my bed and stretched my hand to my bedside table to pick up my phone to check the time I woke up like I always do every morning, but strangely, I couldn't feel my bedside table.

I almost fell out of bed.

That was not all, this morning, my bed felt wider than I knew it to be. It didn't feel right, and the headache that was hitting me like adrenaline was concerning.

I held my head and swallowed in my groan when my eyes opened and I beheld the unfamiliarity of the room I was in.

I forgot about my headache and jolted, "What happened? What am I doing here?" Were the questions I asked myself.

Last night... last night, I... "I what?"

I grabbed my head, "Oh god! I can't remember a shit!" I exclaimed, and my face turned up like I wanted to cry.

I didn't.

I slowly pulled the covers down from my body, and my shame came into view before my eyes. My nudity glared back at me, and then, I could tell what I did last night.

But with whom?

Gosh!

The blaring of my phone's ringtone distracted all my reasoning, and I hastily began to search for it. I saw it in my bag, which was neatly kept on the sofa beside the bed.

I picked up the call from Sarah, "Is the dick too enjoyable that you forgot it's a work day today?" That was the first question she asked me.

If only she knew.

"Wait for me at home, I'm coming," I replied to her instead of satisfying her sarcastic question.

"If you come here late, then, you won't meet me."

"I'll be there," I assured her and hung up.

I got out of bed with the covers on my body, and I ran to the bathroom in the room. I didn't think I spent up to a minute in the bathroom when I ran back to the room with a towel around my chest and I slipped my bitchy dress back on.

I picked up my bag and ran out of the room.

I got home and met Sarah, already dressed for work. She was waiting for me.

"What happened?" She asked me and followed me to my room.

"I woke up late," I replied to her.

I quickly stripped and picked out a pair of office shoes and pants, and I wore the outfit.

"That is not what I'm asking you, Jane. I mean, what happened last night?"

"Don't ask me about what you already know, Sarah. I'm tired."

She was silent, so I glanced at her to see her smirking with her hands folded together on her chest.

I groaned and concentrated on dressing up.

When I was done, we left the room together. She carried her bag from the sitting room, and we left the house.

We were late, so we had to use a cab to get to the company. Throughout the short journey to the company, Sarah kept on talking nonstop about her night, and she expected me to do the same, which I had no time to do.

I couldn't even remember who I spent the night with.

We alighted from the cab in front of the company, and Sarah paid the cab driver.

"Oh, there is something in our department group since last night that I know you haven't opened to check out," Sarah said to me as we entered the company to go to the ninth floor on the elevator.

"What's that?"

"Our HR manager retired and today, another person will be introduced to us as the new HR manager." She told me.

I didn't comment on what she told me, it was none of my business.

"Everyone had been talking about the new manager. They said he is a young guy, and very handsome. They also said he never smiles and he looks calm."

I nodded to that.

She nudged my arm, "Aren't you curious?"

"Why should I be? I know that I will only have to ignore the new manager like I did throughout the tenure of the old one, and see, I survived."

The elevator's door opened and we stepped into our work space for our department. Human Resources.

We had not taken up to five steps forward when we came face to face with Ben. He was not alone, he had a girl walking closely beside him, and I recognised her as the girl he was with yesterday.

I hesitated to take her in.

She did not look that beautiful, compared to me, though she took my boyfriend from me anyway.

Something on her caught my attention, the office tag around her neck.

'Is she an employee here too?' I wondered, but that was nothing to wonder long about. The writings on the tag were the same as those around Ben's neck. The only difference was that her tag was white, and Ben's own was brown.

That could only mean one thing —she was an intern in the company— but how could I have overlooked her all this time?

I decided to act mature like the bitch I want to become, I decided to ignore them.

I raised my shoulders in pride and took steps closer to them and walked by like I did not see them, but son of destruction would surely be destroyed no matter the number of warnings., and Ben was one.

He grabbed my arm and pulled me back. "Why are you pretending not to see us? I wanted to introduce you to my new girlfriend."

I smiled a toothless smile at him, "Oh, this is the toothpick you chose over me? Okay, I've seen her, can I go now?"

His face turned red.

I knew he wanted me to be angry and speak harshly at him, then he would be satisfied.

But no, I wouldn't be angry now. Tonight, I could be angry again and cry myself to sleep, but here? No.

"I know you're pained, you are only trying to hide your pain under that fake smile." He told me what I knew.

I dropped my smile and nodded at him, "Now, you know about that, can you let me go?"

Instead of letting go of my arm, he held tighter, pressing his nails into my skin.

"Ben, dammit!" I exclaimed and tried to jerk my hand off his grip, but he wouldn't let me go.

My pain was mixed with anger, and I raised my hand and connected my palm with his cheek.

I slapped him.

The slap resounded so much that my hand hurt, and I never knew it drew unnecessary attention to us.

"Take your damn self and girlfriend out of my face," I told him firmly, showing him I didn't care anymore about his life.

A voice suddenly spoke from behind me, and I sucked in a breath, "What is happening here? Why are you disrupting the company's peace, Miss Shane?"