That Monday was surprisingly dull. Before coming today, she was expecting to be loaded with work, you know, Monday stuff, but it was quiet.
There was work but it doesn't make her busy. She wanted to be busy so her mind would stop thinking about the woman who's been messing with her head for a couple of days now.
Just because she wanted to do something, she even asked all of her colleagues if they needed something, scanning or even buy them something outside.
Nobody. Nobody wanted anything, what's wrong with these people?
It was 11:00 in the morning when she heard the heels clicking in the floor, she knew exactly from who it was and she didn't even bother looking up.
Jamie stopped in front of her door and cleared her throat, getting everybody's attention, including hers.
To her surprise when she looked up, she was already looking at her.
She was so beautiful.
She was wearing yellow skinny slacks ankle length and she partnered it with white sleeveless silk top, candy in my eyes.
She looked like she was in the mood, oh how she brightened this morning.
She took her gaze back to the staff and spoke.
"We have a very important guest, rather a new colleague arriving later.." She stopped and looked at her watch.
"Actually in 20 minutes, he'll be arriving here. If you would notice, the meeting room 1 was converted to an office during the weekend and that will be the new office of our Business Operation Manager, so please lets give him a warm welcome later, he's very dear to me."
Was she smiling? She is smiling. This person must be super important to her.
Thinking about that, she felt a little pinch in her chest.
Whoa! What was that?
Her hand automatically reached for her chest like it was a physical pinch that she could somehow touch.
With her confused eyes, she met Jamie's that was already looking at her. She had a confused look staring at her and her hand in her chest.
Was it worry across her face? No, her mind must be playing with her.
She didn't wait for Jamie to enter her office as she excused herself to go to the bathroom. As she walked away, Claire could feel her eyes were following her and she ignored it and quickened her steps.
That woman was really messing in her head.
In the bathroom, she tried to compose herself and pull it together.
Why was she acting like that? Why did she feel that pain in her chest when she thought of somebody being important to Jamie? It wasn't like her, not at all.
It took her long enough before she came back to the office. Everybody was standing and she could hear Jamie introducing the new Business Operation Manager, she could hear enthusiasm in her voice while doing so, again, that pinch in her chest was there.
Claire shook her head and tried not to think much about it.
As she squeezed herself between her colleagues, she could hear the girls giggling.
"... So please, a round of applause to our new B.O.M., Mr. Brian Brown Thompson!"
Exactly as Claire squeezed her head from the crowd, she saw Brian standing beside Jamie with her arm around Brian's waist.
Brian B. Thompson.
B.
Brown.
Fuck!
She suddenly wished the floor would swallow her when Brian's gaze turned in her direction.
She expected him to be surprised or shocked when he saw her from the crowd, but he just gave her the sweetest smile, should she return it?
She was still in shock so she didn't know how to react to that. Her eyes were just wide and Claire thought her mouth was wide open in shock.
Her eyes turned to Jamie when she noticed that Brian was just looking at her. Their eyes met and she could read confusion in her face.
Not long when Brian walked towards her. She felt like everybody's eyes were on them, again confused as to what was happening.
"Hi gorgeous!" He greeted me casually.
Claire didn't notice that he was already in front of her, looking at her with the same loving eyes.
"B-Brian!" She whispered but she was sure he heard it.
And as if he was not surprised at all, he gave her a warm hug in front of everybody, in front of Jamie. Not knowing what to do, she just stood there while he hugged her.
Everybody was silent, just looking at them including Jamie.
She could see confusion written all over her face but there was something else, there was something in her eyes for a split second and it was gone.
Her heels clicked the floor as she walked towards them.
"You know each other?" Her tone a little bit high from normal.
Brian broke the hug but his arm didn't leave Claire's shoulder and turned to Jamie who was already in front of them.
"Oh, yeah. Jayme, This is Claire. The Claire!" He emphasized the mention of her name like there was something behind it.
Jamie who was hit by realization, looked at both of them with her eyes widened.
"Ohhh. Claire, Your Claire!" She said, again emphasizing the mention of her name.
Claire looked around and saw the surprised faces of everybody. Some of the girls looked disappointed and some were envious.
She quickly recovered and freed herself from Brian and pretended to fix her dress.
"I'm sorry, what? I'm not His Claire, I am Claire." She imitated how they both emphasizes mentioning her name. She made sure that it was heard by the others as she didn't want them to think something else.
Claire glared at Brian who was just smiling at her, looking amused.
"We went to the same school, we're friends!" She tried to clear it with everybody though she knew she sounded defensive, specially to Jamie who was now giving her a meaningful look.
Brian let out a teasing laugh while Jamie smirked.
She walked away and went to her table still with eyes following her.
Damn you, Brian. I
She cursed under her breath.
She felt the whole afternoon was about her. She thought the whole building knew already as when she went upstairs to get lunch, she could see people whispering as soon as she walked past them.
Jane of course couldn't stop herself and made her way to her table.
"Girl, you're so lucky! Mr. Thompson is soooo handsome and oh my god, did you see his eyes?" She looked up to her and saw her eyes gleaming like she was in a dream, a beautiful dream.
She elbowed her when she ignored her and went back to her documents.
"Don't worry, I'm not gonna ask for details." She was just smiling and walked away day dreaming.
Claire was thankful that Brian did not bother her the whole afternoon, she wasn't sure how would she handle it if ever he would come to her table with everybody looking at them.
She was looking at the time on her computer, counting down the minutes, as soon as it reached 05:00 O'clock, she stood up very fast ready to leave.
"Um, Claire..." She heard a manly voice callimg out her name.
She shut her eyes closed when she heard it was Brian calling her.
Noooo! Her mind shouted.
He was in front of his office with his hand still on the door knob preventing it from closing.
Jamie's door opened as well, her confused eyes looking at her and Brian alternately.
"Claire? Can you come see me, please." It was Brian.
That something again in Jamie's eyes when she heard Brian asked for her, but then again it was gone for a split second.
"Claire?" Brian repeated.
It took her back to her senses and she walked towards him.
As soon as Brian closed the door, she repeatedly hit him in his arm which caused him to laugh uncontrollably.
"Did you know I am working here? Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you give me a heads up?" I told him in between.
He caught both her hands and stopped her, he was still laughing.
"If you were answering my calls, and I don't know, returned even just one of my messages, you would know." He tried to explain, still her hands imprisoned by his.
She took her hands away and sat on the chair that was in front of his desk.
Claire processed what he said. He was right, She didn't even check his messages. If she did, she wouldn't be surprised and what happened earlier might not even have happened.
But then she remembered something.
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