Lover's Quarrel

"Lunch everyone!", Carlo shouted.

"Hey Boss, are you going treat us for lunch? To celebrate you and Lynn.", Chyx asked.

Then the rest of the team started cheering. "Lunch, lunch, lunch!".

"Sssh, quite it down guys, other teams are working! Alright, my treat, but let's just eat in the pantry, I need to save for our future, so I need to start being thrifty", Carlo wink.

"Whooh!!! Future, he's already planning for the future!", the team exclaimed.

Lynn logged-out walked passed by everyone.

Her arms was grabbed by Carlo.

"Where are you going? We'll have team lunch!", he said in a low voice.

Lynn did not bother to look at him.

She just said, "My cousin is waiting for me downstairs. I won't be able to join you guys."

Then let go of his hold in her arms, then head out.

"Ouch, rejected big time!!!", the team started teasing Carlo.

Carlo's mood change suddenly. He called his assistant manager, then gave her his card for the team lunch then head out as well.

"Lover's quarrel!", the team manager shook her head and smiled. Actually, she likes Lynn a lot. She's behave and serious about her job. She knows that Linda had always been bias to her because of her background. She did not say anything, she was trying to be safe. Sometimes, there are things you need to do to survive in this industry. That's what she likes about Lynn, she doesn't make any effort to please anyone.

Carlo caught up with Lynn, he took her arms, and attempted to pull her inside the elevator. But surprisingly, Lynn did not move an inch. She did not know where she got the strength from.

Lynn looked at Carlo in the eyes and said, "Stop bullying me! If you will not stop I will report you to the HR."

Carlo laughed, "I'm bullying you? When did I bully you?"

"You called me an easy girl, and now you are declaring that I'm your girl. You think I'm that easy?", she said furiously.

Carlo hesitated for a bit. "Lynn, sorry about that, I was upset that day. I didn't mean it."

"Yeah sure, aren't you trying to prove that I'm an easy girl by announcing that I'm your girl? Dream on mister."

Lynn walked away and Carlo followed her.

"About that, I was goofing around. You see the team seems to be a little tense infront of me. I'm just trying to create a relax environment.", Carlo explained.

Lynn stopped and faced Carlo. "You're trying to create a relaxing environment to my expense.", she said seriously.

"Common Lynn, it was just a joke.", Carlo said while scratching his hair.

"Okay now I'm not just an easy girl. I'm also a joke.", she said angrily.

"No, no, that's not what I mean.", Carlo said while panicking a bit.

Lynn continued walking and entered the elevator.

Carlo on the other hand was left behind. He was perplexed and distrssed. Now, what will he do?

He decided to call Jeff.

"Dude tell me, what to do when a girl is angry at you?", Carlo asked.

"Hello to you too. That's a hard question. Well, depends on the reason of her anger.", Jeff explained.

"Well, I called her an easy girl, then I told everyone that she is my girl.", Carlo said impatiently.

Jeff laughter can be heard loudly on the phone. Carlo needed to remove his phone from his ears because it was loud.

"Who did you bother to lecture? Why would you bother to say those words to a woman. What happen to you?", Jeff said, while half laughing.

"It was a mistake, now can you answer me.", Carlo asked impatiently.

"It depends, there are two kinds of woman, one is easy, one is old-fashion. The later is now rare. If you call her easy, when she is not, of course she'll get upset. Unless you can tell her sincerely why in this world you made that assumption about her."

"About the announcement of her being your girl, well there's another two kind of woman. There are those who loves attention and those who hates it. Which one is she?", Jeff asked, he is seriously feeling weird, how come there are many kinds of woman he is coming up with?

"Well, she's the type who doesn't want attention.", Carlo said realizing what he did.

"Crap, I think I mess up!", he said.

"You think? But why bother? You don't usually care about what woman thinks about you?", Jeff asked curiously.

Carlo paused, Jeff was right. He is usually a majestic human being, so he thought. People would usually make an effort to please him especially women. Why was he bothered about Lynn's opinion about him.

But if he don't do anything about it, Lynn might end up not liking him at all.

"None of your business. What should I do then to be forgiven?", he asked desperately.

Jeff thought for a while and said, "There are two kinds of woman again, those who like you, and those who doesn't. If that woman doesn't like you, it would be hard to get her forgiveness. So I suggest to transform her to someone who likes you. But until then, I suggest you leave her alone.", Jeff suggested.

"Leave her alone? No way! You're no help. Bye!", Carlo ended the call still feeling frustrated.

He doesn't want to leave her alone. Maybe the other suggestion would work. Make her like him. That's it, he made the decision to make her like him.

He made a call again.

"How to make a girl like you?", he asked Jeff.

Jeff laugh hard, " You are so used to woman liking you, huh. You've never made an effort for any woman before. Well, dude you've asked the right person, I have a master degree in woman 101.", Jeff announced.

"Hey look dude, I'm in a middle of my lunch, I'll just text you okay.", Jeff said and hang up.

After a few minutes, Carlo received a text from Jeff.

"More of a master degree in texting.", he said smiling.

After lunch, everyone got busy answering calls. When Carlo called out Lynn for coaching.

Lynn stood up and went to Carlo's station.

"Yes?", Lyn asked politely, he is still her boss after all.

Carlo signalled her to sit in the vacant chair besides him.

Lynn sat down. She waited for Carlo to start talking but he was just focus in his laptop. After few minutes, she decided to asked him.

"Boss, what do you need from me?", she asked.

Carlo glanced at her and said, "Nothing, I just want you to rest, I know your tired. Here, drink this."

He hand him a cup of coffee and cookies.

"No thanks, I just had my lunch, I'm still full.", Lynn said.

Carlo then take out a piece of chocolate cake, then said, "Eat this instead, for desert.", he said while his eyes are still on his laptop.

Lynn looked at the cake, it looks tempting but why would she eat chocolate cake in the middle of work, while her co-worker are busy working.

Carlo looked at Lynn. He was hoping Lynn likes chocolate, it was what she spilled on him. But she doesn't seems please. Oh well, it's a good thing he bought several flavors. He took out strawberry flavoured cake, then carrot flavoured cake. He gave them to Lynn.

Lynn looked at him, she was wondering what to do with those cakes.

"Boss, food aren't allowed inside the office.", Lynn said, she was wondering if he did not know about the policy about bringing in food.

Carlo cleared his throat. Why did no one told him about it. Now, his station is full of cakes. He looks like a fool, he thought.

" I like cakes!", Carlo said.

Lynn couldn't helped but laugh a little. "Okay, good for you. Don't eat too much, you might get diabetes.", Lynn said sarcastically.

Carlo nodded. " Help me eat them, so that I won't get diabetes." Carlo whispered to her.

"But I have a family history of diabetes, I don't want to have it either.", Lynn said.

"You're right, we can't both have diabetes.", I'll throw it away then.", Carlo stated.

"Up to you boss, can I log in now?", Lynn asked.

Carlo nodded.

Lynn headed to her station.

Carlo sighed, he specifically asked Ella, as to what was Lynn's favorite food. She said cake. According to Jeff's text, he should buy her delicious food. He did, he even bought her favorites. Maybe he should move on to the next list.

Ella on the other hand was trying hard to control her laughter.

"You're not usually afraid to get diabetes when you eat cake with me.", she whispered at Lynn.

Lynn just smiled.

What a weird guy, was he trying to apologize? Why would he bring cakes inside? If he really wanted to show his sincere apology, he can show it by not bothering her and not paying attention to her.

Contrary to Lynn's thought, none of Carlo's list of making ammends included leaving her alone. In fact , he plans to never leaving her alone from now on.