~At the Old Town Bar~“Let's toast to many more happy days!” Robbie raised his cup of tequila, and they all cheered. Seated around him were Stephanie, Sebastian, Danielle, Thomas Robbie’s friend, and Jennifer. Their cups made clicking sounds as they hit each other. They all proceeded to take a sip and giggled after. “So… we should do something. It’s too boring, cheering and drinking alone. Let’s play games, or what do you think?” Thomas suggested, and they all exchanged looks. “Doesn’t sound like a bad idea. It is 10 pm, we still have two hours till the new year. Let’s have fun!” Robbie added in excitement, and they all nodded. “So you brought up the suggestion. What should we do then? What games should we play?” Jennifer asked, looking at Thomas. He placed his two fingers, his thumb and index finger, under his chin as he thought of a fun game they could play. “Ermmmm… I was thinking the truth or dare game?” Danielle interfered, and they all looked at her. “Hmm… it sounds good. What
Robbie drove down to Danielle’s house, and when he got to her house, he parked in front of her compound. He looked at her smiling, and when he opened his mouth to speak, she said, “You shouldn’t have kissed her.” She turned her head to look at him, and he nodded and sighed. “I know I shouldn’t have, and I’m sorry about that. She dared me to do it. I would have never thought of doing that on my own. I never liked her,” He responded, and Danielle smiled faintly. “Are you sure about that? The way you two were after each other’s throats throughout the day says something else. I think she has feelings for you, Robbie. You two seem cute together,” She stated, and he shook his head chuckling. “No, I don’t think that is it. Jennifer doesn’t have feelings for me. You are just mistaken. She kissed me because she wanted to piss me off. That’s all.” Robbie tried defending himself from what Danielle said. He never for once imagined he and Jennifer liking each other. They never liked each other. “T
“Bzzzzttt!! Bzzzzzttt!” Stephanie’s phone vibrated against the hard surface of her drawer. The vibrating sound filled Stephanie’s ears, and she clutched her eyes. “Errrm…” She groaned and turned on her side. With her eyes still closed, she threw her hands on the other side of the bed, tapping it slowly. She furrowed her brows when she realized that the other side of the bed was free as fresh air. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at where she had placed her hand. Her phone kept vibrating, and as she raised her head to look at the bed again, her head began to bang very badly. ‘Where is he?’ She yanked the duvet off her body and threw her legs out of the bed. She stood up, and the coldness of the floor sent shivers down her spine. She picked up her phone that kept vibrating and checked the caller. It was her father, Philip, calling. She heaved a sigh, and the awful breath from last night’s tequila filled the air around her. “Arrggghhhh!” She groaned in disgust and picked up the cal
Robbie proceeded to call Sebastian after he hung up the call with Stephanie. He sat on the couch and waited patiently for Roberto to answer the phone. It began to ring for seconds, but there was no response. He heaved a sigh and looked at the screen of his phone. “Sebastian, are you serious? You really won’t answer the damn phone?” He mumbled, angrily. Deep down, he didn’t want to believe Sebastian dumped Stephanie after sleeping with her. ‘There must be an explanation to this.’ He checked the previous message he sent and when he saw that Sebastian had responded, his eyes widened. “When did he respond?” He muttered to himself and checked the time Sebastian’s message came in. It read 5 am. “5 am? Bruh! Who would be awake at 5 am?” Sebastian’s message said, “So, did you figure out if Jennifer likes you or not?” Robbie scoffed after reading his message. ‘Seriously? Just this? He didn’t say anything about Stephanie.’ “Hey, you, where the f**k are you?! Stephanie just called me, she said
~3rd Jan 2003~Stephanie got to work even though she wasn’t in the mood to work. She didn’t have a choice but to go. Since Sebastian left her and said absolutely nothing to her, she had not been herself since then. Danielle and Robbie took time to console her, and they even invited her out, but she refused to go. She cried herself to sleep every night. Everything around her reminded her of Sebastian. Her couch and duvet refused to stop smelling him. It was nothing but torture. She sat behind her desk and switched on her laptop. She waited for it to load, while she buried her sick face in her hands. Thomas sat behind his desk and kept his gaze on her. Since she arrived he had noticed something strange about her. He wasn’t sure what it was, but he knew for sure she wasn’t happy. He heaved a sigh and got up from his chair. He walked out of the office and headed to the elevator. Danielle stormed out of the elevator before Thomas could get in. Her shoulders brushed his arm, and she stopp
Stephanie stood up from her chair fearfully. The look on Danielle’s face when she passed the instruction registered fear in her. “What’s wrong? Is he angry with me?” She asked in terror as she approved Danielle. “I’m not so sure, but his voice sounded pretty loud and harsh,” Danielle responded, and Stephanie felt her skin tingle. “I’ll go to him now.” She walked out of the office and approached Dr. Peter’s office. Her legs seemed too heavy for her to carry, so she dragged them on the tiled floor, making unpleasant noises. She got to Dr. Peter’s office and knocked on the door. “It’s Stephanie, sir.” She stepped back a little, waiting for him to respond. “Come in,” She heard his threatening voice pierce the wooden door in front of her. She reached for the doorknob and opened the door. She slowly walked into the office, and a smile flickered across her face like a hologram. Dr. Peter was sitting behind his desk, his eyes glued to the screen of his computer. Stephanie could see the frow
~After a week~ Stephanie got to the office with the same puffy eyes she had yesterday. She wasn’t sure she wouldn’t be able to get rid of it anytime soon, so she didn’t bother doing anything about it. All she needed was a good night's sleep and how to forget Sebastian totally. Danielle and Thomas had arrived at the office, and when they didn’t see her, they called her but Stephanie didn’t answer the phone because she was close to the company already. Dr. Peter stormed into their office in anger, he stared at Danielle and Thomas before speaking. “She still hasn't arrived?!” He spat in anger. An important client of the company was waiting in his office, and he had asked to see the marketing head which was Stephanie. “He has been sitting for twenty minutes now, waiting for her! Didn’t she check the time?” Dr. Peter was angry and equally frustrated. He was beginning to grow tired of Stephanie's incompetence that she had developed in the new year. Danielle stood up in great worried and
“Mary! What is taking you so long? Don’t tell me you are going through her stuff again!” Sarah shouted from the kitchen. She asked Mary to take care of Stephanie’s room against her return, and Mary was taking years to do that. She got no response from Mary, and Sarah heaved a sigh. She stormed out of the kitchen and headed to Stephanie’s room. She barged into the room and was about to shout when she saw Mary sitting on Stephanie’s already laid bed. She had a paper in her hand, and she looked lost staring at it. “What is that?” Sarah asked as she approached her. Mary heaved and showed her the paper in her hand. It happened to be a picture that Stephanie and Owen took when they were still together. Sarah collected the picture and stared at it for minutes. She saw how happy Stephanie looked in the picture and it broke her to know that happiness didn’t last long. “I saw it in a box she kept under her closet. I don’t know why she has that, Mum, but I don’t think she needs it anymore. We