Chapter 5

Chapter 5

-“Good morning to you too. “

-“You slept in my couch. There is no good in here.” He has slept with his clothes on. How did I fall asleep so easily? Damn you Emily Wright. How could you be so stupid? Get this man out of your house.

-“I think you should make yourself out. I will give you a cup of coffee and then please leave. “
My room is very big so I have arranged it somehow to have a curtain wall between my bedroom and the small kitchen is more than enough for me since I’m not such a great cooker. The coffee is ready so I hand it to   him.

-“Here it is it may not be as good as the one you ordered at our bar. Oh, I forgot. I spilled it over you.  I smirk and roll over my eyes.”

-“I got the point. My bad this episode lasted so long and made you uncomfortable. It’s not in my style of treating people, especially the unknowns. Finally he came into his senses.”

-“Well, I believe it’s time for you to go back at your place.  Thank you for the ride last night although it wasn’t necessary to crush at mine.”

-“You are right, I need to leave. At what time does your shift starts today or are you free today? “

-“At 1 pm. But I need to be ready by 12, so I have stuff to do before start working.” I stare at him while he is listening to my words. He looks gorgeous as for crushing on a couch at a stranger’s apartment. His blue eyes stare at me and I am left speechless in my mind even though I am actually speaking. He makes me nervous. I don’t get to see this man in a month and suddenly for more than 12 hours i bump on him and here we are.

-“I see. Well it was a pleasure to meet you Miss Wright. I will make myself out.” Please don’t leave. God his look makes me tremble. I never thought I would encounter someone who is so beautiful.

 

 

-“Thank you and have a nice day.”

-“You too Miss Wright.” What is with this formality Miss Wright? I know we don’t know each other but Miss Wright is still too formal for me, I am not used to.

He leaves my place and I feel empty. What is going on with me? I have seen this man only three times and now of a sudden he makes me feel this way. This has never happened to me before. Not having much experience with men of course I will be confused. But this one is truly handsome, all suited up and he happens to be Jonathan Hart. He definitely has captured my attention and for someone like me this is too much to handle. It’s too much to handle, because no one has affected and attracted me in this way as he had done. I’ve barely had two dates in my life and they were all made up by Nikki and Luke. Two dates gone bad because I talked too much and made a list of the things a guy needs to have. I was wrong and vowed not to do that again. Decided to let it flow and something is meant to happen then so it shall be.

I grab my bag and head to work. Jim is furious and shouts all the time. The coffee bar is going pretty well then why on earth he shouts all the time. Jesus, give us a break. Nikki calls me and tells me about what I missed last night. Of course I did not tell her that Jonathan and I had a sleepover, if you can call that an adult sleepover. Anyway, she was happy that her celebration turned out as she planned it. Luke and Nikki are lucky because they don’t have to work on weekend; if they are overloaded with work then things change. Nikki works as professor assistant at the political science department and Luke works in a law firm where he is promoted from paralegal to junior attorney. They both work really hard and don’t want to make career using their families’ connections. They want to make it on their own. And I love them for being who they are and for not treating me differently from their other fancy friends.

-“Yes, I will be with you in a second.” What is he doing here? Crap this is getting really weird. So many what-s and why-s these last couple of hours. I am not sure if I can answer them all. Confused? Yes, that is me.

-“Hello Miss Wright. Are you busy? Can I get a cup of coffee?”

-“Hello back, yes I am busy. Someone else may serve you. “

-“No I want it from you.”

-“Alright then, I will be back in a few second.”

-“So, what are you doing here? “

-“Am I not allowed to have coffee and have it served by a beautiful and brave waitress? “ Is he teasing me? Beautiful and brave? I will take brave for the scene I made last night, but beautiful…I am flattered right now.

-“Emily get back to work. I am paying you to work. Stop the chit chat with the clients. “

-“Yes Jim.”

Jonathan is on his feet. Oh he is leaving instead of heading to the door he is in front of Jim.

-“Apologize to Miss Wright. This is no way of treating your employee, especially a lady.”

-“What the hell dude? I am the owner of this bar and for sure I won’t apologize to my employee. I am paying her to serve those tables.”

-“Here is your money and the miss is quitting her job”. He throws at Jim 50 pounds. Quitting? Bloody hell what are you doing? I am shocked.

-“No, no, no I’m not quitting”.

-“Yes Emily you just quitted right now and you need to come with me. You don’t have to work for this animal. He treats you like crap. We are leaving right now. “

-“Yes you better go, and don’t you ever think coming back in here stupid girl.”

-“Watch your mouth or I will shut this place down within an hour.” Jim has no words. He looks pale and everyone at the bar witnessed this unpleasant scene and we walk out. I left my bag inside. One of the guys comes and gives it back and we say our goodbye. I had a nice time in there despite Jim’s bad humor and the low salary, but I really needed that job. In this moment I am jobless thanks to this man.

-“You are no one to speak on my name. You made me look like a fool and now I have no job. Not everyone is rich like you and lives a lavish life. Some of us need to work to pay their rent, live and have a normal life. What you did is totally unacceptable. Let me remind you have no authority over me and I don’t remember giving you this right.”

-“Emily Wright get in the car and we will discuss it later as we arrive at my place.”

-“I’m not going anywhere with you.”

-“Get in the car and don’t make me say it twice. I hate repeating myself.” He looks at me with his beautiful cold blue eyes and is serious in every single word. His tone makes it pretty clear. I have no idea on what is going on. The last thing I want to do is stay outside the bar after what happened so having no other choice I enter in the car and he starts driving like crazy. Please God I don’t want to die in a stranger’s car. But I have so many questions and I need the answers.

 -“Mister Hart you owe me at least the answers, since you made me quit my job and fucked up my life in less than a day.”

 

Reviews

[Laura Lynn]

There is a mixture of seriousness and lightness in here which makes it quite (fantastic/good/gaye/enjoyable/or happy) to read from a dialectical and linguistic mindset. I am amazed by your ability to remember in such detail what people have said having that very mindset and deep praise for the type of pulp fiction narrative form which it seems that you are weaving throughout your life/ building your life around, both the love and hatred of it, to date....Overall, I hope you don't mind to read something I have written at some point down the line, but I may never write in this way, if I gather up the time and inclination ("as the pilgrims gather the sheaves.") I hope that you are not just writing for us but that it is helping you in some way. I feel that this chapter is a generous labor and I do not wonder that you feel a sense of accomplishment upon it's inception/("conception")...I don't want to pump up your ego about it. By all means, although the experiences here seem deceptively ordinary, I cannot say that the narrator is an ordinary person revealing the depth of themselves through a way of listening, speaking and looking at the world. If I knew you as much as a ordinary in person acquaintance or friend, I make prove a more harsh critic or a less of one