Chapter 35: Calls & Deals-5

"No!" I stared at her incredulously, "You're really going to be stubborn about this?" I asked, "You do realize you'll have to use the window or balcony every time you want to leave the room", she grimaced, "and you seem to do that a lot" "Shut up, I know! I'll manage it somehow. It's none of your concern!" With that she lay down on her bed and turned away to face the wall. I couldn't believe she was really doing this. Fine! If she wanted to be stupid about this, I'd just have to watch her accept defeat tomorrow when she would be unable to get down from the window, while making sure she didn't break her neck being stubborn about this. *** The next morning by the time I woke up, she had left. I scowled at her bed. She must have taken advantage of the fact that I was asleep and used the door to leave. If this was going to work, we would have to establish a punishment for breaking the rules too. But for now, since she had used the door, I could use the bathroom too! I crossed to the other side only to gasp in shock when I saw that she had locked the bathroom door. I don't remember the last time I had screamed that loudly in my entire life. *** I managed to catch the staff bus and reach the office on time. That morning I had to ask Roma to let me borrow her bathroom to which she had laughed out loud but very graciously agreed. But I had been delayed due to all the running around and arrived at work looking like I had been thrown up by a tornado. Mr. Talon looked even worse as he took in my appearance. "What ever happened to you?" I smiled wearily at him, "Good morning Mr. Talon" I said, "it's good to be back" "Yes yes, welcome back Ms. Winters", he replied shaking his head. "Suzzanah" "Huh?" he stopped at the door to my room with a confused expression as I made my way to the desk, placing my handbag on it and falling into the rotating chair with a sigh of relief. I looked up at him with a smile, "Please come in, and call me Suzzanah from now. Ms. Winters is alright for everyone else I guess, since it can't be helped, but I would really like it if you would call me Suzzanah" "I...I couldn't", he said looking away as he approached my desk. I looked at him puzzled, "Why not?" 'Well because you're the Lu- LU-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-" Because I'm the Loo??? "The Looker! You're quite the looker! I mean, look at you, you're a complete mess!" I stared at him with a blank face, "Mr. Talon, you do realize that that isn't the context in which being a 'looker' is used right? It's supposed to be a compliment not an insult" "Is it?" he said fidgeting and looking around nervously, clearly not paying attention. I sighed, "Please Mr. Talon", I said making him look at me, "Call me Suzzanah, it'll make me very happy, because you're my first friend here" His eyes widened as he stared, his mouth opening and closing but no words coming out. I smiled at him. "Okay?" I asked softly and he gave me a defeated look. "Okay", he huffed, "but only when it's just the two of us. Not when others are here too" I smiled warmly at him and felt it grow even wider when I was rewarded by his very own cute little smile, "Deal" *** The day at work started off really well. Mr. Penson was welcomed me back I was happy to see that he was glad to have me back at work. I was looking forward to working again. I busied myself with mails, files and various other documents. Even though my injuries were alright now Mr. Penson made sure most of my work could be done sitting down, and Mr. Talon kept coming to check up on me. It was wonderfully sweet of them and my respect and adoration for them just kept growing with time. Master Cole and the CEO were out today, so the atmosphere was stress-free and quite relaxed. But that was only until the afternoon when I open my handbag to check my phone. The minute I unzipped the handbag, my eyes landed on the thick white plastic bag. I immediately remembered that I had hurriedly packed the CEO's jacket on my way out. I quickly went to Mr. Talon's room to give it to him. "Mr. Talon! I brought the CEO's jacket with me", I said to him as he looked up from his computer with wide eyes. "Oh! I had forgotten you still had them with you", he said getting up and coming over to me with extended hands, "here let me take them. I'll give them to his PA" Them? I handed him the plastic bag and asked, "Why say them? There's only one jacket" "But of course there isn't my dear, he gave you his jacket twice remember, and a different jacket at both instances", he said looking into the plastic bag. My heart sped up a beat "Uh...yeah I do remember but...those guys who saved me found the other one in the forest with my handbag..." I trailed off as Mr. Talon's eyes went wide and he looked at me with shock clearly marring his features. My heart started beating even faster "They did find his jacket too...right?" I asked with my voice coming out squeaky and high pitched towards the end. His face now portrayed pure dread as he shook his head slowly from side to side. My heart went into overdrive We both paled visibly as the realization of what that meant sunk into our skulls. The CEO's other jacket...was still somewhere in the woods! My heart exploded ***