Written by IamAmber
I took a few steps forward and I cannot help not to turn around. Josh was still in the same place where I left him, and he is looking at me. I turned around, waved and smiled at him then I went ahead. “What a jerk to just stand there and do nothing.” For a few minutes I wished that he will go after me, but I shoved the idea off. “Very disappointing” I murmured to myself.
It’s lunchtime and I haven’t gotten any decent food since morning. My stomach is growling and I hope that the candidate hasn’t taken his lunch yet so we can have lunch while having a discussion. I arrived at the place and Paul is sitting at the exact location where I was this morning. I could not help but smile.
“Hi Paul nice meeting you, have you taken your lunch yet?” I said while shaking his hand. “Just finished a while ago, thanks.” He said. “That’s great! If you don’t mind, I’ll just grab a sandwich. Would you like to have a coffee then?” “Yes, please.” I ordered a Grilled Chicken Ceasar sandwich and a Lemonzest Fru-tea for me and a cappuccino for Paul. At 2:30PM I will be meeting a client in Shangri-La and I am hoping that we will not go to another coffee shop. We started having our discussion and like the usual, I recorded it for easier reference. It last for only an hour which I was very thankful because Paul is not as sensible as Jessie. He is good but he has some gaps.
I headed straight to Shangri-La afterwards and my client waited for me in front of Starbucks Coffee. “Oh dear, let’s not have coffee please!” I said to myself wishfully. Good thing she needs to pick up a cake that she ordered in Cravings. This is just a casual meet up because our team has previously worked with her on a project for Thailand. We chit chatted for about forty minutes because she is also rushing for a meeting. I went back to the hotel because I need to catch up with Ria on the task that I gave her earlier.
3PM. I entered my hotel room and turned on my laptop. I checked the email that Ria sent to me and made a quick review on the research. She gave me a call and we discussed a few comments on her work. After that, I asked her to pass the phone to Andrew so I can give updates regarding Paul. It was almost 4PM when we finished catching up. I checked my email and I have 55 unread emails. “Kill me now!” I shouted wearily. I opened my calendar: 4:30PM discussion with Marcus, 5:30PM to call Linda for follow up, 6PM to call Penny for feedback, 6:30PM Con-call with team, 7:30 to call Pierre for follow up. “Can I just die now?” I shouted irritably.
I went down in Bo’s Coffee to have a discussion with Marcus which lasted for nearly an hour. I returned to my hotel room right after the interview so I can go through with all my pending stuff. I felt so dead tired and my throat is a bit dry already. Right after I entered the room, I Locked the door, took off my blazer and my skirt. I loosened my blouse buttons and went directly to the bathroom to wash my face. I went to the bed immediately to have a quick rest. I turned on my laptop and browsed through my files for discussion. I dialled Linda’s number, had a talk with her, dialled Penny’s number, talked to her also.
Around 6:15PM, I sat down on my bed and started reading and replying emails. 6:35PM when the team con-call started with Andrew chairing the meeting. Like the usual team meeting, we went through the project updates per se. I have the option not too join the meeting but I do not want to miss the updates and go through it again when I return to office. That will be a waste of everybody’s time. 6:45 and it’s midway our meeting. My eyes are about to close when my doorbell rang. I ignored it after two buzzes thinking that it’s not actually my door that is ringing. Then on the third buzz, I cut through the discussion “Hold up guys give me a second, but go on, I can hear you guys over here.”
I checked through the peephole to see who’s outside my door and to my surprise it’s Josh! I immediately opened the door and before I could even say a word he said “I just thought that maybe you wanted to have some dinner with me?” while handing out a package to me. “I am busy! I actually have a con-call ongoing” I whispered to him. “I know, I can hear it.” Then he looked down and scanned me down there. Also, would you mind putting on your bottoms first?” he followed.
– To be Continued ~
Sorry guys that the story stretched this long. I tried cutting it short but it’s kinda hard. Please bear with me for a while. I will post the last part shortly.
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