You amaze me….

Human emotions are interesting to read. Sometimes it is only happy sometimes sad. Sometimes it is so harsh that it does not understand. Sometimes it understands the mistake it created but it is too coward to come forward. Overthinking you may call it. It has but one solution, to talk. A person just needs a tiny push to make the misunderstanding disappear the question is who will take the first step when both are too afraid to hurt the other feelings. A familiar scene filled the office, Megan with sticky notes all around her moving from the keyboard to the files. Helea is all digging inside the huge mountain of folders in her office she put on her glasses to look at the screen and matching the papers. Tom looked like he would get in the computer penetrating through the screen. Alya was rotating the same black pen with her hands and looking at a map. But a different thought kept knocking her brain. ‘Even if they did a background check is it normal for a thing like this to spread out in the office members they would keep it a secret. Someone else leaked it to the office staff. Even Tom is not that stupid to reveal such a thing like this.’ She looked up to the ceiling ‘ There still might be someone we are missing in the equation.’ “ I need to ask someone.” “ Who do you need to ask what?” she got out of her thoughts to see that Tom was holding two cups of coffee in front of him. He had dark circles under his eyes looking exhausted and disheveled. Alya quickly took one of the cup and lead him to seat down, “ Hey you looked better.” She motioned at his desk. “ How did you get so much piled up so quickly?” Tom rubbed his eyes and looked another way as if he was guilty about something, “ I deserved it. I let it pile up too much.” They both laughed at the thought. Alya , “ Thank you for this, It smells great. Tom nodded, “ Actually this is more of an apology. I think I caused a useless rumor to float around the office and trouble you.” Alya looked at Tom for a while something did not add up, “ How did you hear about James? Did Aiden tell you about it ?” Tom, “ No Aiden in fact got it from me. Speaking of him, Are you alright? I heard what he told you” Alya got scared she put the cup down and quickly stood up there was no one close to both of them, “ Did you hear the whole thing?” Tom nodded, “ Yes sorry I know it is not my place to know but I could not help it. What was it all about?” Alya sighed, “ It is a long-complicated story, I hope you did not spread it out, do not talk about it.” Tom shook his head, “ Of course I would not but it sounded something serious.” Alya nodded and smiled, “I will explain everything when it is time. It is nothing that serious.” Alya took a couple more sips she thought about something for a while and an idea came to her head. “ Tom you said you heard someone talk about my big brother. Do you remember who it was?” Tom, “ Now that I think about it, I was shocked with the thoughts I did not remember the people.” Tom’s words confirmed it. There is something going on which is much worse than the situation before and it was high time she interfered in it to check who is behind all this. ‘There goes my decision of not being involved again.’ She dragged her chair closer to Tom and lowered her voice a bit, “ I want to make a deal with you if you are up for it.” Tom looked interested, “ What kind are you talking about?” Alya, “ How about I help you finish your desk pile for the week and give you a free time.” Tom looked like he found something precious, but he changed his face to serious mode, “ What is the catch?” Alya, “ Find the first person who spread the information.” Tom, “ Are you suspecting something? It was just a gossip rumor.” Alya, “ Maybe but I want to get to the bottom of it. Whoever leaked it made a mess of things for multiple people together. Too many misunderstandings.” Alya starred at the cup again she is franticly thinking ‘What ….if it was not harmless rumor.’ Tom, “ Did you find something that is making you think like this?” He looked concerned. Alya, “ I am just curious about it the person who did this either made a casual blunder or might have a worse ulterior motive hidden behind them. I fear if it the second one the next step that person will take might be worse.” Tom looked around a bit and added, “I heard there was actually a spy from The Twirls. Do you think that is true?” Alya, “ Could be that having an unrest office space might create a perfect whole to steal data. But I am finding it hard to suspect anyone. I think we should find the person and get to the bottom of it before any other steps. I need you for that.” Tom winked and shook her hands before he left the desk. Alya looked at Tom going. IT was a good idea to trust Tom to find the person. She played with the thought of including Helea or Megan in it. She closed her eyes and shook her head, ‘ It will be a bad idea to make more people join they suffer too much.’ She thought of Helea and Aiden. This time I will get to the bottom of this. 7:00pm The sun already set behind her. The office had lights turned on a few people were left in the floor, two of them were Tom buried in the screen and Alya going through the papers and making notes. Alya looked at her phone on the desk and then at the papers. She wanted to finish up a bit more, but it was getting late and she started to feel hungry. Tom looked like he is going to drop in any moment now. Alya, “ Hey, let’s take a break now how about we continue tomorrow? We still have some time. In our hands. ” Tom looked relieved. He stood up and stretched himself. Alya hold her right shoulder when she stood up it felt a bit sore. They walked towards the lift together for a while both of them felt exhausted and did not talk much. Tom, “ Want to grab a bite to eat?” Alya felt her stomach growled in the mention of food. “ I am so hungry I will almost eat a table.” They both agreed to grab some food in Blues café before heading home. The lift door opened inside there was Helea, Aiden and Brian. Alya quickly greeted them. Tom on the other hand groaned about something and walked in. The atmosphere in the lift seemed tensed, she squeezed herself in a corner even though it was not required. She noticed Helea who in turn quickly smiled at her and nodded. Aiden had a different expression in his face it looked like he had bitten on a lemon. Alya looked another way as long as it is not anger it was fine with her. Tom looked like a guilty puppy and kept avoiding Brian. Brian somehow looked pissed and had half eye closed. Alya took out her phone pretending to look at something but in reality she was thinking how to apologize to him. But her stomach had other ideas it growled louder this time breaking the silence this made everyone look at her. She quickly grabbed her stomach and apologized. This made everyone laugh. The lift door opened she quickly escaped from it and stood in front of the entrance. “Ugh that was so embarrassing.” She shook her head and stood up straight to see Tom walking out the second gate. The office had two entry gate one is close to the cars another is close to the road. She mistakenly took the close to the car gate when she ran. ‘This can not get any worse now can it?’ she thought looking at the emptiness in front of her, but the door opened again, and Brian walked out. ‘ I spoke too soon.’ she groaned rubbing her face. She quickly fixed herself and greeted him. Brian stopped for a bit he looked like he want to say something. Alya quickly blurted out, “ I am sorry, I was a bit rude yesterday. I hope you accept my apology Sir.” She slowly looked at Brian instead of a pissed look he had a smile on his. Brian, “ I think you deserve an apology more than me.” Alya looked uncomfortable with the answer, “ Ah yeah I.. it was not that , well everyone was tensed so it is not anyone’s fault I guess.” Her mind had another thought ‘But I think there is someone else do you think the same too?’ Brian smiled at her, “ You amaze me Miss Sarah Greenfield.” Alya looked at him trying to understand what he meant by that. His car came in this moment the chauffer opened the back door for him. He continued “I hope Tom learns his lesson this time.” And walked towards the car leaving a confused Alya behind she had no idea what he meant by those words.