Caesar's povI was sitting in my office sipping the coffee Maggie got me as I went through my emails one by one trying to make myself busy and distracted.Suddenly I had the door to my office swing open and an angry flushed face of Cherry peeked in, she was just showing her head."Come in." I said sipping my coffee smoothly as I went back to replying my emails."Attention!" She banged the table once she reached it. I looked up at her confused."What's with the long face?" I raised a brow when she failed to respond. "Hey, what happened?""You happened!" She snapped.Now I was completely lost as I stared at her angry dark eyes mirroring mine."Does this ring a bell in that busy mind of yours?" She was holding an aluminium foil packet of a freaking condom.My eyes bulged out as I recalled. Memories of the night before came back flooding my mind.It was after I brought marvelous home with me from my office. She offered to cook supper for everyone and I just sat there at my kitchen island
After a long moment of staring at each other she adjusted herself and brought back her fake wide smile that's always offered to customers as if it's supposed to be an appetizer or something on that line."Your coffee is getting cold sir." She lowered the tray slowly on the table and looked me straight in the eye then said, "Enjoy your coffee siiiir." The way she drawled out the name sir at the same time dragging it made me have goosebumps and it also raised my anger ten folds up.Nobody had ever talked back to me like that, in the most sarcastic way.She was about to walk out on me when I grabbed her wrist. She turned to look at me her eyes bulged out. "Not here Caesar, let's talk about this at home.""No." I growled lowly. "We're leaving this place. Now!""What?" She asked utterly shocked."Yes let's go." I tugged her wrist as I stood up."No, I'm working Caesar.""Now you're not going to.""Caesar you can't get to sabotage even my work. This is the only thing that makes me feel that
Chloe raised her hands in the air then said, " Your sweet brother came to pick me from school today. That's why I told you not to bother picking me up. So he found out I'm working at that small diner across school, he went all caveman on me and asked me to resign. So we were on that parking space where you do park your car, he saw you and Blake making out in the car. If not for me, Blake would be dead now." She explained like the soft princess she is making Cherry's eyes pop out."Yes, so are you going to explain what I saw?" I demanded."Blake's my boyfriend. For one year and some months now." She said a little too courageous for my liking. I wanted to bring those two girls together and beat them up until they learned how to talk to me. But who was I kidding? Cherry was my sister and loved her so much. Chloe was my marvelous and I admit seeing her too courageous and ballsy turned me on."And you didn't dare mention it.""You were against any sort of relationship. Who should I blame?"
Chloe's povCherry suddenly made a stop at the middle of the road. My thoughts had been jumbled for the past hour or so as she drove us, to no where specifically.It was infuriating to see her give me one of those looks that says, 'seriously chloe?'"Just drive cherry." I stated grumpily banging my head on the back of my seat as I sank lower, physically frustrated."No, I'm not driving anymore." She flipped her neatly manicured nails infront of her then turned to look at me. "Not unless you tell me where to. I can't keep driving around as if we are on some shitty road trip, Who does that?" She raised her well plucked eyebrow quizzically. "Wake up, we aren't in movies where an heartbroken girl stops a taxi and tells the driver just drive so that she'll get away from her boyfriend, no way, we're in Bronx ting ting."Indeed, who does that?I shrugged and suddenly saw her pulling the car to the roadside."I know how you must be feeling. I swear I know." She pats me on my upper shoulder li
In the afternoon of Saturday, we decided to take a small walk around the neighborhood just to keep our minds off things from the distraction of nature around that place.But unfortunately, that was not it for me. Instead, I just got time to think deeper. The main purpose of my existence? Why I can't bring myself to hate Caesar for what he did and what he has done. Why I feel at home being with the Banleys.Obviously those were just rhetorical questions and I would keep going on and on for ages and never come up with answers.But for once in my life, I was determined to find out why."Wooo!!" I exhaled physically and emotionally exhausted from the walk and hard thinking as I slumped myself lower on the outgrown grass at the Banleys' backyard."My limbs." Cherry complained as she sat down too stretching out her legs."I like this neighborhood. It's cool." I had observed it from our walk.It was around four at that time and I felt this urge to turn on my phone since I had shut it down fo
Caesar's pov.I don't know how days moved, all I knew is that I had made a big mistake. I don't know what came over me, I don't know where the sudden urge of being overprotective for my marvelous Chloe came from.I'm sure it wasn't pity, I just wanted what was the best for her. She seemed extremely innocent and nontoxic. She deserved the world. She was a rare soul, she had this infectious energy that makes you want to run next to her, she belonged to no one but herself and to anyone that was yet to understand themselves, would find the missing pieces in her presence.She had a vintage heart and a beautiful mind, that's why I wanted her to be finally the sun of her own life.But every hope and wish I had for her vanished the moment she left my house. My house wasn't mine anymore, it lacked that warmth that had started to cave in.Cherry had filled me up on what was going on. They had stayed on our old house for a week. I was totally okay with Cherry giving her company. I wasn't mad th
I almost laughed out loud at their exchange. God, how I missed her."We have two weeks and some days to graduation, almost three." Chloe said smiling sadly at her."Why are you looking at me like that?" "I have no plans after graduation. All I know is I want to be independent somehow.""We'll see about that when that time comes."I decided to call her phone just to see her reaction. So I hesitated over tapping the call button against her name but I eventually called.Her phone started vibrating in her backpack, she raised one finger at her friend to retrieve it.The colour on her face dried up as she looked at the screen. She watched it ring in utter shock her mouth hanging open.Her friend snatched the phone from her hand and scanned the screen too with her eyes, her mouth dropped open too."Pick it up." She pushed the phone back into her hands. Chloe shaked her head instantly. Her face looked as if she had seen a ghost and it hurt me to see her watching her phone ring until it died
There, leaning on one of the posts on the way to the graduation hall was Caesar in all his glory. Wearing a dark grey suit and dress shoes that matched it. His face displayed no emotion and for a moment I forgot why I was crying and who was that person who drove out on me."Marvelous."Oh christ! Please come intervene. His deep voice made want to do unholy things. That name still managed to stir a reaction from in within me.It's been almost two months since I heard it last. And I swear I wanted to hear that name for as long as I would want to remember."Caesar." I acknowledged moving a step closer.He looked straight into my eyes, his eyes widening slightly in alarm as he took in my features. "What happened!""You!" I snapped pulling my lower lip into my mouth. "You happened." "Oh yeah." He screwed his eyes shortly as if in realization and then opened them. "I know and I'm so sorry. I just wanted to see you graduate mar- Chloe. I had promised myself that I wouldn't bother you again.