30. It hurts...

As she crushed the tablets, she tried so hard to keep herself calm, but the tears stung her eyes so bad. She couldn't hold it in, her eyes were already flooded. She turned away from him, and faced the door Instead. She didn't want him to get even more angry if he saw her crying. She let some stray drops fall down her cheeks wiping it away as soon as it falls.

After cleaning up the dust she made by crushing the medicine, she stands up.

"Did I tell you to stand up. He suddenly said. Stay down there. I think that position suits you just right. Filthy things are always on the floor right? How could his words pierce her this hard and sharp every time. How had he become so good at coming up with things that would really hurt her. She went back on her knees just as he had ordered but the tears she'd been holding back came running down, and she wipes it away.

He watched her going on her knees, and he was supposed to like it, love it even. He was supposed to feel this extreme excitement deep in his bones but it was not there. He wasn't feeling nothing. Instead, as he saw that tear escape her eye, he felt an irregular tugging at his chest.

He was suddenly angry that he she was crying. He didn't even do anything to her yet, and she was already crying. He just made her kneel. She was definitely faking it, the Isla he knew wasn't someone to cry because of something so trivial. She really hadn't changed, her acting was still top notch.

But yet, be it acting or real, he didn't want her crying in his presence. It just really angered him.

"Get out of my sight, and don't let me see you again till the day ends" he orders. She heard him loud and clear. She even felt the coldness from his voice. She stood up staggering, for her knees were hurting.

He watched her walk out, almost stumbling and he hated the fact that she was trying all her best to act as the weak person in front of him, when he knew very well how powerfully minded she was.

But one thing Damon didn't realize was that she just spent more than ten minutes in his office, and he was breathing fine all through.

She ran straight to the ladies room, entered an empty cubicle and there she let it all out. It hurts, it really hurts when he does that to her, she looked at the crushed tablets in her hand and her tears worsened.

She didn't know why she was hurting so much because of his words. But everything he said was heart piercing for her. She wondered if this was also how he hurt back then when she betrayed him. And it made her cry even more, thinking how much he had suffered because of her.

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"Ahhh., finally it's Saturday, I can sit at home all day long and watch movies with my best girl friend in the world. Jerry said crashing his head on her lap.

" oh I can't watch movies with you today though. He takes his head off her lap and sits up straight so he could understand what she was saying.

"What do you mean you can't, it's Saturday. Don't tell me they also make you work on Saturdays too. If that was the case, then he would personally hand in her resignation letter.

"If it was work, will I still be here by this time of the day,?

" then what is it, why won't you watch a movie with me... He grumbled like a little child.

"I have a date" she says plainly and maybe he didn't hear it the first time or he didn't want to believe what he heard.

"Say what?

" I have got a date. I'm going on a date by one o'clock.

"WHAT!!!

" my gosh. You scared me. Why are you shouting. Isla says confused.

"What date, with who, where, when, why, how did this even happen. He asked frantically.

" slow down, someone will here you and think you're my older brother. Okay see, I need a ride, and this guy helps me but I promised him that I'll go on a date with him as payment.

" Have you gone mad. He yelled as he stood up. What are you even saying, how can you agree to go out with a guy you don't even know just for help. Does it make sense as you said it out loud huh? He screams.

No he wasn't acting like her older brother, he was acting like her mother.

"I was stranded in the middle of the road, it was even God's grace that he was even there to help me. I had no other choice. Why are you even getting worked up, it's not like he could be a psychopathic killer or something?

" How would you know, you're so stupid. Will he write 'I'm a serial killer' on his forehead huh. How can you be so careless. You know there's no way I'm letting you go anywhere right?

" And you know you're being unreasonable right, and you know there's no way I'm listening to you? She counters.

" I'll tie you up if I have to. You won't go anywhere. He fumed. Or I'll go with you to see this guy who has no name and might as well be a psychopath.

Sighs.." you know you can be really weird sometimes. I wonder how I ended up being friends with you. She says finally standing up to drag with him. Why would I let you you go with me on a date. It's not even something serious, it's just to make his ex jealous and get back with him. Nothing more. And he does have a name. Ivan. And he's not a psychopath. She says at the top of her voice.

They could be the sweetest of friends, but when they argued or disagreed over something, then they could pull down the whole building.

"What kind of a name is that huh? He scoffs

" What's wrong with the name its a normal name. Stop acting like my mother.

"if I was your mother then I would have grounded you, locking you up in your room forever. He retorts.

" You big oaf., I feel like just choking you with my bare hands. I'm going on this date and that's final. She stamps her feet on the floor to indicate it was actually final and walks into her room.

" Let me see you try. I'm warning you Young lady. Don't you dare go out with an unknown man. There are millions of weird people out there.

" and you're number one" she yells from her room.

"You... He didn't even know what to say to her any more. She could be so stubborn sometimes. And usually her stubbornness was adorable, but today he wasn't finding anything funny at all.

Who could this person be, what did he look like. Why was she going on a date now for the first time in all the years he'd known her. Where was he planning on taking her??

What was he going to do now. His love was at stake. He had to do something. But what??

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