Chapter 10 Ten
Tessa's POV
I came down from the cab then I briskly walked to Anna's apartment. The minute I walked in, the
smell of something burning greeted me. I went into the kitchen to find Anna running around like
a chef, trying to save whatever dish she was making. I wonder why she didn’t order in take out
"Are we expecting someone? Why are you cooking?" I asked, knowing Anna despised cooking
with a passion.
"I am cooking up a special delicacy to celebrate your new job,
" Anna responded, shaking her big
ass booty off. Some days I wish my ass were as big as Anna's own.
"Anna, I haven't even told you if I got the job or not,
" I replied slightly amused at her antics.
"T essa, it's a two-way thing. If you get the job, we celebrate and eat. If it's the other way around,
we munch on it while you tell me what a big asshole your interviewer was. Because, you
prepared so hard for the job" Anna muttered in quite a matter of fact tone, from her tone I knew
she was ready to curse out anyone for my sake.
"Sneaky bitch… Anyways, yeah—I got the job,
" I told her, unable to help but raise a small smile.
"Yahhhh!" Anna was screaming, as if she had won the lottery. At this point, I knew we definitely
couldn’t eat whatever she was making. It would be going into the dustbin.
"Anna, you'd better look in the oven, the food's burning,
" I told her before trying to get water to
calm the smoke.
"Anna, just give up. Cooking isn't your thing,
" I joked.Anna's eyes turned serious in an instant.
"Hey, wait, why do I feel like you're not happy?" she
asked, a bit worried.
"I thought you wanted this job so bad, T essa.
"
I sighed.
"Kitchen hazard. When you are through incinerating the whole kitchen, come meet me
in the room. I got some gist for you,
" I said, leaving her in the kitchen. I needed some time alone
to put my thoughts in order, anyway.
A Few Minutes Later
I went straight to the bathroom to wash my stress away. I yanked off my clothing and stepped
under the steaming but soothing water, scrubbing hard because it felt that, over me, all the
misunderstandings and frustration could be scrubbed away too. Finally, I stepped out and began to wrap myself up in my fluffy pajamas.
Anna bounced into the room with the ice cream and a tub of popcorn, just as I had predicted. I
knew that we would not be in a position to stomach whatever Anna had made. She flopped down beside me on the bed with her eyes glinting from curiosity.
"So spill it all. I want everything. I need all the details. So, what happened when you got there?
Plus come to think about it, just how did you do it today? Like get employed on the interview day? I thought you ought to be emailed or called days later to resume work. Not get the job on the very first day? Or are they short of staff?" She showered me with questions, nothing giving me a little breathing space.
"Alright, you won't believe who did the interview"
, I replied, trying to sound casual but utterly failing at it.
"Is it Hunter, your high school crush? I heard he's doing well"
, Anna guessed, and in her voice, I could hear the playfulness.
I scoffed.
"No."
"Anyway, so I met Mr. Stranger. Anna, it turns out he's a CEO", I confessed.
"You mean that same motherfucker who gave you all those different rounds of dk? The guy
like, ruined your pussy. Girllllll, you couldn't walk properly, you was straight limpin' when you walked, " Anna ran her mouth, eyes bulging with disbelief.
"Damn, girl, you are such a chatterbox. I know all the gossip you are telling me. I was that virgin
who made a very bad decision when giving my virginity to some stranger only for him to turn out to be the CEO of this company where I went to get a job,
" I said frustrated, unbelieving.
Anna didn't flinch at my insult. She just sat straight and asked me to go on with a hand gesture.
"What happened when you saw him?" she asked, giving me all her attention,
"Did you act dumb like you couldn't even recognize him or what? Or did you bat eyelids at him?" I thought about the idiom, curiosity killed the cat, If Anna was a cat she wouldn't last 24 hours.
Curiosity would have killed her.
"Woooo, stop there. Anna, I was shocked. That was the only emotion that I could feel at that time once I laid my eyes at him in his office,
" I admitted, with the memory still pretty fresh and raw.
"You want to tell me you did nothing with him? Absolutely nothing? Not even a dirty glance? He didn't recognize you? Did he ask you about his things you took, or rather stole, because, baby girl, you definitely didn't ask; you took it,
" Anna went on, her eyes all wide and animated with excitement.
"Anna, cut it. Stop your wild imagination. Nothing like that happened. And more so he had already shredded my dress so let that count for payment. Or do you want me to leave there naked?" I asked her, getting frustrated at her antics.
"Well, I wouldn't want you to have left there naked, but at least you could have woken him up so that he may ravish you once more.
" She said,and I could see a certain glint in her eyes and her eyes twinkled mischievously.
"Anna nothing happened and stop all this nonsense,
"I tried my best to sound stern but Anna wasn't having it.
"If nothing happened, then why are you blushing, T essa. Hmmmm— T essa,
" Anna asked me, trying to look stern herself.
"Okay… A little something happened. But we didn't have sex. That bastard left me on the edge just to have a laugh at me,
" I confessed, i felt angry and embarassed at the same time.
Anna then started laughing like a crazy hyena,
"I knew that once you'd tasted the forbidden fruit all this would be so hard to withdraw back, hmmm…
Sweet T essa and Mr. Stranger turned boss. Ohhh. we may give a title to your love story," she jeered at me.
I threw the pillow closest to me at her, "Shut up, Anna. It's not funny."
She dodged the pillowat the last minute, still laughing at me.
T essa, what are you going to do?
"Oh, it's hilarious. But seriously,
"I don't know. I need this job, but working with Damien… It's going to be tough,
"He seemed to want sex but I don't want to be termed the boss's slut. What different would I be from my ex thatwas sleeping with his secretary" I confessed as the weight of it all really seemed to bear down on me.
Anna breathed in deeply, and her laughter suddenly died down.
"You're strong, T essa. You can do this. Just keep your distance from him and keep doing your job. Don't let him get to you."
Nodding, I knew no matter what I could always count on Anna. "I need the job so I will try. I only hope I don't come to regret it."