Ellie
Drew drops me off at home and I take my luggage and get in the house. I go to the couch and break down. Unending streams of tears just continue to wet the couch. I am hurt, how could two people I love and trust do this to me? How dumb was I not to see this coming? My head is aching and I have puffy eyes at this point from all the crying I had done when I hear a soothing voice."Hey sweet pie, I did not hear you get in." My dad says as he wheels his wheelchair towards where I was. I get up wipe my tears and try to hide from my dad that I had spent the last hour feeling betrayed."Oh hi Dad, I did not want to disturb you. How have you been? Have you eaten and taken your meds?" I say trying to seem calm but my dad knows me too well."What is it, baby? Why are you crying? And please do not lie to me and tell me that you are okay?" he asks while taking my hand and directing me to sit on his lap."Ryan cheated on me." I manage to mumble my words but they are a bit clear for him to hear me and I break down crying on his shoulder. He moves his hand and wraps it around me consoling me. I spend the next minutes just crying on my dad's shoulder like a baby and he takes it quite well and is silent throughout allowing me to just face my emotions."The worst part is that he cheated on me with Grace. Can you believe that dad? Grace is like a sister to me. How could she bite me in the back like this?" I say amidst my wailing."Honey there are things that just happen to enable you to know the true form of the circle that surrounds you. Some people are just evil people masking themselves into our lives. At least you now know the kind of friend she is." He says while stroking my hair."What did I ever do to them? I was a good, loyal girlfriend. I was the best friend ever always on her side in her time of need. I did not deserve this." I say while breaking down some more." Yes, sweet pie you definitely did not deserve this at all. You are a nice sweet person but that does not mean everyone else is. People will stab you in the back repeatedly. You know what they say what does not kill you makes you stronger and a little wiser too.""Dad I thought we would get married and get cute babies together. He was the love of my life" I say while getting up and wiping my tears away."You can always get cute babies with another cute guy. Do you know how many cute boys that are not jerks are in this world? I am sure you will come across one, you are so young sweet pie. I met your mother when I was in my thirties and you are barely there." He says while wheeling to get me a glass of water."Dad it is not the same. I do not want to start over with someone new. Do you know how tiring talking stages are nowadays? Plus I can get another cute boyfriend who is not a jerk but it will be hard for me to get another best friend like Grace." I say while a tear escapes my eyes."You have other friends like Reina and Brielle. Plus you will meet other people in your little life. For now, just feel the emotions and cry as much as you have to and get over the betrayal. You know you can also consider forgiveness. There are people who turn out okay after second chances." He says while handing me a glass of water." I do not think I can be able to forgive them, Dad. I feel so broken right now. Even if I do I do not think things are ever going back to the way they were. They have done a number on me. I might as well give up on love and accept my fate as an old cat lady." I joke as I take in a big sip of water. I needed that water."You are not becoming an old cat lady. I need grandkids to carry on my name. I would actually appreciate it if you gave me five daughters and no sons. Boys can be a handful. And you name them all with names starting with A like the winners they are." He says bluntly while giving me a reassuring smile."Really Dad, how am I supposed to be responsible for what gender my kids will be," I say chuckling. My dad never fails to make me smile even at the darkest moments. I love him to death." I do not know just make it happen. I love you sweet pie and remember you are bigger than this." He says while taking my hand." I love you too dad."" Okay enough tears for today and come over to the dining table. Food awaits you, princess." He says while wheeling towards the dining table while I follow closely.My dad is one of the best cooks I know well he is not as good as my mum used to be but he is better than I am and that makes him pretty good. He had prepared lunch consisting of lasagna and sauce and a glass of milk. I have loved milk ever since I was a little girl. We have our lunch and I clean the dishes after."Are you going to work today?" Dad asks as he passes me his plate." Um no, I have not had another business contract after the last one at Lockwood. I have a business meeting tomorrow with the Wright brothers company. It is a shared contract hence I will not be making much from it but it is something you know.""I am proud of you baby, any small thing you do I am so proud. I actually wish I was not a burden to you and you would not have to be working this much.""You are not a burden to me Dad, and you should never think that ever again. I love you and I want to make you live as comfortably as you can and besides it is only fair as you took care of me when I was little it is only fair I return the favor." I say while turning to look at him to emphasize what I am saying to him."I love you. I will be in the garden watering the flowers." He says while wheeling away towards the garden.I finish cleaning the dishes and go to my room. I start journaling when I decide to finally end things with Ryan. I cannot live like this. I pick up my phone and dial Ryan's number." I need to talk to you. Can you meet me at the park in 15?" I say as nonchalantly as I can."Sure baby. I will be there.""Oh, and come with Grace I am sure you know her whereabouts," I say and immediately hang up the phone. I have to face the bull by its horns and deal with the situation as it is. I put on a T-shirt and some shorts and put my hair up in a bun. I take my phone and go downstairs." Hey, Dad I am going to the park to meet up with Ryan and Grace.""What did you just say?" Dad asks with a shocked expression."I have decided to just end it with both of them once and for all and what better mature way to do it than in the park with a cotton candy in hand." I sarcastically say while hugging my dad and placing a kiss on his cheek."Take care and do not be out too late. I love you sweet pie.""Bye Dad, I love you," I shout as I run outside and get in my car. I drive off in silence not even caring to turn on the radio as I am deep in thought. I say some affirmations in my head to give me the strength to face what was ahead of me. In less than ten minutes I arrive and get off my car. I start heading to the cotton candy stand to get some before walking around and trying to spot my ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend. For some reason, I feel like the cotton candy will ease the conversation. I buy and start walking around when I spot them at a corner together, laughing. The audacity these two have! They are probably laughing at me and planning their whole life together. This riles some bile in me but I promised myself not to show them any emotions so I compose myself and walk towards them."Hi El, I missed you," Grace says as she gets up to give me a hug when she notices me approaching them."Cut the crap, Grace," I say as I move from her way and dodge her hug. I mean business this time.I sit down at the edge of the seat after shooting glares at Ryan. His face just reminds me of what just transpired that morning when Grace's message popped on his phone."I do not want to waste your time here. Grace if you do not know by now I already know of your shenanigans with my 'boyfriend'. To my take, you are the one who approached him and you know what I really do not care who approached who in this case but you both hurt my feelings. This was so immature of you. I carried both of you with respect and a lot of love but I guess that ends today. I wanted to talk to you to clear things up on where things are with us. I do not care if both of you date or something but all I am wishing you is that one day you get to experience the pain that I am feeling in this life or the next. I am done. Does any one of you have something you may wish to add?" I finish off and take in a big chunk of my cotton candy. I was right it sure does help."El I never meant to hurt you. I wanted to tell you when I first started to have feelings for Ryan but at the moment I was not sure of what I felt and then things escalated really fast. I never meant to hurt you and I love you so much I do not want us to break up like this." Grace says while letting crocodile tears down her cheeks."Well, I cannot have a snake for a best friend so this is the end of us, Grace. It was fun while it lasted." I say as I take another big chunk of my cotton candy."Please El just hear us out. We do not want to lose you. Everyone makes mistakes at times. We are sorry." Ryan says while coming closer to where I was."You would have thought about that before sticking your dick in her.""It was just once babe.""Do not call me babe for the last time now!" I say angrily while taking one last chunk from my cotton candy."You are mad right now El and we understand that. How about you relax and calm down and then we can have this conversation with no emotions clouding our decisions." Grace says while standing up from the seat."How about you both get out of my life and I never hear from you again," I say as I stand up and start walking towards my car. I am so done with them.Adrian“We are losing a lot of our assets. Our partners are slowly canceling their partnership with us. I just talked to Lockwood Company and they just canceled on us and said our company is on the line right now after the incident and they were looking out for themselves and can no longer partner with us. I do not blame them at this point we would have done the same.” Jane finished off and took a big sip of water.Jane was our lead manager in logistics and the worry shehad in her eyes for Sage Enterprises was so evident as it was for everyone inthat boardroom as she said we were on the edge.“How is the news traveling this fast? I thought the mediawas trying to cover down the story,” I said while turning my seat.“We have tried to keep it down Sir but it was not thateasy considering the police are putting the story out there to catch theculprits. We have tried everything we could, especially with the help of the ITteam.” Meridith, head of media team says.“We should
EllieThree years ago“Ellie Renee White! I will not call you one more time. We are super late already, what is it you are doing up there anyway?” “I am coming mum, just one sec.” I say while applying mascara. I can be a bit slow especially in getting ready and mum hates this. Not once has she left me in the house even though we were going the same direction.“Hmmmm something smells nice in here.” I say while coming down the stairs holding my bag.“I made pancakes. Unlike you, some people in this house can be fast enough to get ready and also make breakfast.”“Come on mum, I am not that slow.” I say while taking a sit on the dining table.“Morning dad, at least you are not complaining this fine morning.”“You know your mother, she has to get things her way if not she can get grumpy, morning sweet pie.” Dad says while taking a bite of his pancake.“So now you are both ganging up against me. Eat up so we can leave we are already thirty minutes behind schedule.” “Why do we ev
Adrian“I hope this is worth it Leo,” I say while walking into the hotel.“You have got to trust me, man, have I ever failed you? I have worked with her a lot and trust me you will love her.” Leo reassures me as we head to the table he had reserved for us.The hotel has an aesthetic charm to it, more or less like Leo’s style. The grey matte and brown walls embody a blend of elegance and charm. Half of the wall is covered in midnight blue wallpaper that kind of reminds me of the deep ocean that encloses a lot of dangerous sea animals. The seats are u-shaped and leather-textured and were rather a bit uncomfortable due to their straight-like nature. It is quite elegant I must say.“I hope your girl is time-conscious, you know how I feel about punctuality,” I say after ten minutes of waiting.“Relax man, she will be here. Order something while I ring her and ask her where she is.” Ryan says while taking out his phone and dialing her. I decide to order a latte for a start to calm my ne
EllieWhat the actual fuck! THE SAGE ENTERPRISES. I sit there looking as if I had just seen a ghost. The world suddenly is quiet and I am oblivious of everything happening around me. I can’t hear what Leo and Adrian are trying to say to me and it is like my mind just went blank. What did I get myself into? Ellie no…you cannot take this job. Is it so obvious that something is bugging me? That last question leads me to excuse myself and head to the bathroom to collect myself.“Fuck!” I scream once I enter the bathroom not even thinking of the two girls in there. They look at me as if I had lost it and I honestly don’t blame them, at this point I think I HAVE lost it. I go to the sink and wash my face maybe I am just in a really bad dream but after that wash, I realize how real this is. I just stole from the company some days ago then I meet the owner to help him with his company?! The chances of him getting to know I was behind all this just rose at a high speed. What am I going to do?
EllieI have to make this work. I have never been in such a big office before, I must say it is quite elegant. At the corner of the room is a grey recliner and next to it a water dispenser. The curtains of the room match the color of the sofa and have a floral pattern to them. The opposite corner of the room is a door leading to a bathroom, I have my bathroom, how nice. As you enter there is a big desk and a chair behind it. On top of the desk is a laptop and some files, I love it. I get behind my desk and settle my stuff in the drawer ready to get to work. I want to sketch up my work plan and make documents of it to share with the business board. I get to work and about 20 minutes in, I hear a knock at the door.“Come in.”“Good morning Miss White, my name is Bruce, I work with IT here,” a tall quite built man enters my office closes the door, and comes to my desk offering his hand.“Hello Bruce, I am Ellie White but you can just call me Ellie. Nice to meet you,” I say standing u
Adrian“Come in”“Excuse Mr. Sage, I was hoping to talk with you briefly,” Ellie says while standing at the door holding some files in her hand and looking as innocent as ever in her work glasses.“Have a seat.”“Thank you. So I have some great news on our progress so far. We have been able to get back five clients in the past two weeks I have been here. They are all upcoming businesses but they have helped us raise our odds and we have a 0.5% profit so far. Not much but it is a start,” she says looking as ecstatic as ever.“That is quite a start. I will admit at first I was not so sure that you would be able to handle this job but you may have proved me wrong.”“Thank you, Sir. I wanted to organize a meeting with the board members and inform everyone about the news and maybe even employ some more tactics. I was thinking that we could reduce our costs a bit further and attract more clients. It may make our profit insignificant and we would seem as if we were working in vain but
Ellie“Babe seriously how are you able to work in the same environment as him? You know this is risky as fuck,” Reina says while taking a bite of her ice cream. I still wonder how anyone can take a bite of ice cream without having that sharp sensitivity pain in the teeth. Reina has just been built differently.“You know a girl has to do what a girl has to do. I am the sole provider at home plus I know how to play my cards well. So far so good. Plus did I tell you that I lost my pendant on the day of the heist? At first, I thought it was still at the company and that was another reason I took the job, I do not want it to fall into the wrong hands but now I am starting to think I dropped somewhere else. I have looked everywhere in the company without luck. Plus if the police had it wouldn’t I be in jail right now, right?”“Yes, that is some incriminating evidence. Just take care of yourself though and play low in the company, it is just for 6 months right?”“Yes, plus I am out of th
AdrianI will admit it was so sexy to see her stand up for herself like that. I did not know that side of her, she seemed so timid at first but damn! I cannot keep my eyes off her the entire time in the boardroom. I was angry at her for coming in late but she just melted that away. Mr. Kavowski is known for such behavior and any typical city girl would have fallen for his charms for some dollars, the guy is stinking rich. I think I now hate Ellie a little less, too early to call it like so let me stick to that. After Meghan, I tread carefully when it comes to feelings. I had to go to therapy after her betrayal and I am sure as hell not going through that ever again. I do not want to be left picking up the pieces again. Why am I thinking about this? I am not going to fall for Ellie I do not even like the girl.*One Year Earlier*“Babe hurry up, you are making all the excitement fade away, isn’t she darling?” I say to my 9-year-old. We are finishing up our cereal and getting ready to