3. Rude

Mikayla came sat next to me and drink a glass of champagne she kind of looked upset. " Why did it have to fall on him? I have been aiming for the bouquet. I want to get married too. " She spouted.

I laughing along as a reply. " That’s not going to happen. I've registered our names at a nursing homes. We will be growing old together babe believe me.” And tossed my glass with her.

" How dare you! I’ll get married I swear! I'm Mikayla Sánchez as Sánchez’s we devote ourselves to familiam and love and… and friends." Mikayla said and started to cry.

How could I ignored her I love her to the bottom of my heart regardless she strong appearances’, she still my Gus in Cinderella story for me. I tried to calm her down after she cried on my shoulder. We stayed there until she was ready for another dance.

I excused myself to go to the ladies while Mikayla went back to the hall for a dance. Despite crying for ten minutes she still manages not to ruin her make-up, but for me, my hair gets damp by her tears. While walking in an empty space heading to the toilet, I suddenly heard a man's voice.

" Leave the file in my office, I'll look into it when I get back" The voice came behind one of the wooden beam in the barn.

I just overheard the conversation and walked towards the toilet. I keep on walking, all of a sudden the man came out from behind the wall and almost bumped into me. I dodged from getting hit on to the other way. He just walked away toward the hall, not even apologise.

' What the heck! Where does he put his eyes on? What if I bumped into him and left a trace of my lipstick on his clothes? Then the story begins with apologises, getting to know each other, falling in love and getting married. Yikes! Cliché novel life'. I monologues.

Fortunately, it didn’t happen because of my good reflex. Thanks to me I dodged him and straight to the toilet fixed my makeup and my damp hairs with toilet paper.

When I walked in into the hall I saw Mikayla chatting with Helen in the table space. They look drunk especially Helen she got her revenge because she couldn't drink more yesterday.

" I will miss you both while I’m on my honeymoon leave. " Helen said placing hand to her chest.

" I will miss you too "Mikayla replied " Jacob, take care of Helen, I’ll look for you the first if she gets hurt. She was like our little sister we’ll do anything to make she happy. "she looked at Jacob who seemed confused.

This situation had been happening since Helen told us that she fell in love with Jacob while at a university. Mikayla asked her introduce Jacob to us. The four of us met in the restaurant. Mikayla warned Jacob not to break Helen’s heart alongside as she will always keep an eye on him.

" Just ignore her Jacob, can you carry Helen to yours room." I ordered Jacob "let me take care of Mikayla"

" Thank your Violet see you tomorrow" he’s thanked me

" Mikayla get up let's go into the room. A lot of men are looking at you now. You want them to see you throw up here of course not right. Get up now before I leave you!" I whispered

I took Mikayla to the room and we gradually left the ceremony.

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A months later

I was having lunch with a colleague of mine near the company.

My colleague Linda ask suddenly. " Did you guys know that the IT department project get rejected. "

" No. Shouldn't the project have been ready last week? What's the problem? " Windy, our manager answered then came out with another question.

" The chief executive disapprove it though they had prepared three presentations for this month " Linda told us.

" Hmmm... maybe he wants something fresh, not like before. To be honest, they came up with the same idea twice but it was never rejected " I express my opinion while taking the last bite of my taco.

" Yeah. I noticed that too, maybe that's the reason. " Windy shrugged as supported my opinion.

" I hope they can solve this problem before the new project starts." I added

We continued our conversation on the way to the company. We will be having a meeting with the senior manager at 3:30 pm in the meeting room today for a presentation on the assignments in our department.

Since the company is a hierarchical system characterized by an order or a low to high position. The higher the position, the higher the office.

The top office is the chief executive’s office and the lowest office is the security guard or cleaner. But unfortunately the friendly ones are guards not employers.

We were given an explanation on our task and the additions that needed to be made. The meeting lasted for 1 hour as everyone has their own jobs that need to be done.

" Violet, I need to go to the ladies. I've been holding it for an hour," Windy told me as soon as we went out of the meeting room. She went to the toilet on that floor without waiting for an answer from me.

I waited for her behind the wall between the office divider and the toilet. Windy came out in 10 minutes later in a cheerful mood.

" You should have known this meeting must be a long one since the senior manager handle it " I told Windy.

" Yeah. Please remind me next time. " she said while tapping my shoulder.

" Luckily I went to the toilet before the meeting " I put my right hand on my chest. We headed to the elevator while talking.

" Sir be careful! " Suddenly a man spoke in a high tone to a guy who’s almost ran into me. He was talking on the phone thus he didn’t realise that we were there. He halted then continued walking towards the elevator without saying anything. He just left us in bewildered.

' Wow, that was so rude! Don't you have manners? be polite!' I said out loudly inside myself. My mom once told me we don’t need money to be manners.

" I'm sorry for what happen. " A man who was with him apologized to us on his behalf.

" No, it's okay we didn’t realise it to." Windy said. The man excuses himself immediately as he seemed to be in a hurry.