Chapter 10: Arguments

I heard someone knocking on the door. I also heard familiar voice spoken so I just let her enter my room.

"Ma'am Thaea! Your dinner is ready." said by one of our maid named Daisy. She opened the door.

"Yes Ate Dai I coming." smiling as I told her.

When I arrived at the dinning area, I saw up my Mom and Dad were already eating.

"Oh my dear! I thought you couldn't go down from your bedroom because it's been so long since Daisy have told you." said Mom as she focused on slicing the pork on her plate.

"How are you and Greige? Did he notice anything strange about you?" My dad asked which made me stunned.

"Have no problem, Dad. He doesn't notice anything. Everything will be ok." As I looked straight to my father's eyes so that he can't see me lied.

It's hard to stop and avoid the things I'm used to because those are usually a part of my personality yet true colors still come out.

"That's good my precious daughter. You did a great job neverthless you have to observe still about his actions." Dad reminded me with a shrug while I just nodded as my response.

"By the way, we're going to see your sister tomorrow to check out her condition." Mom said while she tried to to keep up the good expression on her face even if it wasn't.

After they ate their meal, Mom and Dad latterly said goodbye and left me undone with my dinner.

After a while, I currently finished eating and went quickly to the room. Brushed my teeth and washed my face before deciding to turn on the small cassette that had landed at the table near in the window.

It was right when it opened and unexpectedly a song played by Greige earlier in the office was heard on the radio. Remembering the moment we had spent earlier.

Wait. My heart beats faster. I hit my head with the pillows to punish myself for being weird of these days.

As soon as I woke up, easily got up from my bed then stretched my body afterwards I went up in the bathroom to take a shower.

Next, I ate breakfast as well and brushed my teeth that are usually do. Dress a simple outfit that somehow still looked presentable upon working in office.

"Good morning, Ma'am Thena." She started greeted me warmly

"Good morning too." I replied her back.

"Looks like your day is so beautiful today uhhh." Terylene commented as she stared at me. "Bloomy." A weak but with a simultaneous grin on the lips.

"Let's get to work. We still have a lot to do." I diverted the topic but she ignored that made me breathe heavily.

"My boyfriend and I talked again." As I begin to reason out.

"Is it Greige?" I knew that's she would mention it.

"Nope. My real boyfriend." I answered her directly. She sighed in reaction from what I have said.

"Actually, I haven't seen your real boyfriend yet. When have a time, may you introduce him to me?" She requested.

"Sure when he's not busy." I replied to her then we proceeded with the pile on the table.

Hours have passed, I looked at the wall clock of our mini office and noticed that it was already 11:00AM so I immediately got up from my seat.

"Don't tell me….." I didn't let her continue what she was going to say because I already knew that.

"You take care of it first." I reminded her just before exiting and heading to the kitchen.

Yaya Helena is gone now because she leave from work to be with her family. So I am the one who just arranged and prepared the things the food by myself. Fifteen minutes later, I hurried out of the house and immediately got into the car.

I have seen also his secretary exposed herself to me when the door opened in a sudden. She smiled at me before leaving the Greige's office.

"Hi." I opened up to him. I heard no answer that he still remained turned away.

"I brought your favorite dish tinolang manok and dessert as well." As I entered into his office.

"I'll just eat outside." It was something had pierced me when I heard his cold voice again.

"Why?" I confusedly asked.

"You just wasted time coming here any further." He confronted me.

"Greige!." I whispered his name. "Is there any problem?" I asked trembled while stared at him. His expression is so cold now and I don’t know why.

He chuckled sarcastically, "You don't know?"

"What's that?" I tried to stop the drip from my eyes and calmed down.

"I don't know why you always ignoring me. You don't often respond to my calls and text messages." He waved me the cellphone and showed the call history and texts.

So I also took mine in the bag and looked for it. I was surprised by my unread messages from him and missed calls in call history.

"It's not like that". I tried to explain but he responds immediately.

"Do you really love me Thena? Since first I came back here from America, you are now different than before. Your treatment is not really nice that I usually known."

I could see the sadness in his eyes. "How many times have you ignored the texts? Still I forgiving you. Last night, you didn't respond there I realized that you're just forced to be with me even ……. "He facepalmed before continuing what he was going to say.

"Even …….."

"Even ………"

"Even if ……."

"Even if you love someone else ….." After he said that, I bowed down because I could not face him like this.

"Now tell me." I would face to face with him again. "That you love someone else.

I was just shaken and I couldn't look at him directly. "Now look at me Thena." His voice was pleading.

"Is there anyone else?" He repeated the question. "Tell me the truth if there's anyone who already owns your heart!" He made his words even louder the reason for more nervous that I could feel.

I don’t know how to say. I pulled deep and closed my eyes then faced him again.

"I don't love anybody." Stressed the last word so I could convince him that there's no one else. I could not tell him the truth and it will only get worse. Even more, our company has not still recovered yet.

He gave me a sarcastic smile so I approached him again by attempting to hold his hand but he violently let me go.

"Mi cielo." I started to clung to our endearment just in case he became softened.

"Go away. Just take it home and I'll eat outside." He said with a cold

expression that was even more worse than I had encountered on him from the several days and months that had passed.

"But….." I begged him and suddenly he left me alone in the office. I was able to shed my tears that I tried to avoild earlier. I just put the food away again and just left it on his office.

The other employees there noticed how I looked. I ignored them and went straight to the elevator until I got out to my car.

I don’t know why I was so affected to what happened between us. Why do I seem to be hurt when he do this to me? I just wiped away the tears then drove the car back home.

Our maids came to me and wondered why I look like this. They are very concern about me but I will not tell them what really happens.

"Please get the food in my car." As I proceeded into the mini office.

"Sir Greige and Ma'am are probably arguing again." I heard one of the maids said. I ignore it and walked towards our office.

"Ohhh Ma'am Thaea. I'm sorry, it's Thena." Tery was also surprised to see me.

"What happened to you?" She asked me with wonders on her face. "Wait, you should drink some water first." As she handed me one glass of water and I immediately drank it.

I got up from my seat and thanked her.

"You may take care of it first. I want to rest for a while." I told to her and never been listened from what she will say.

I knew she would just ask me what happened. I can't tell everything that happened between Greige and I.

Changed my dress and lay down on the bed then I closed my eyes again until I fell asleep.

When I woke up, I just saw that the USB had landed on the table and unexpectedly there was some food lying on it. No choice but I have to eat it because my stomach really upset.

I thought about picking up my cellphone and suddenly a message popped up.

About a few seconds, Zen suddenly decided to have a videochat with me. I didn’t know how I was going to deal with him like this. Zen would be even more worried and uneasy until he saw me. *Should I answer him or not?*

I took a deep breath first before I answered. Unfortunately, he looked so frowned when he saw me and seen my eyes were dim.

"What happened to you Thaea? It seems like you ended up from crying." He asked with great concern on his face.

"Who did that to you? Kindly tell me, Thaea!" He exclaimed afterwards. His aura is more serious now that can't be figured out how annoyed he feels.

"Greige and I have been argued." I still told him the truth. "He thought I was fooling him because I didn't reply to his texts. That time, I have conversations with you and I couldn't tell him the truth. You know that ……."

"He have no evidence proving that you're fooling him, aren't you? He is just jumping to conclusions right away."

"He doesn't seem professional in what he did to you." Obviously Zen was very affected to my situation today.

A few moments later, I heard that there was someone knocking from the door and it was Yaya Helena. I already recognized the voices of our maids here so I usually know who is calling me. I said excuse first to Zen before I temporarily turned off the cellphone and let Yaya Helena to enter my room.