chapter 12

Sophie phone started to ring, she brought it out of her pocket to see who was calling her.

"Well it's my mom." Sophie said to Emma.

"Aren't you going to answer it?" Emma asked.

"I don't really want to, I already know why she is calling."

"Why is she calling you?" Emma asked.

"Well she is trying to find a reasonable suitor for me and she has been on my neck because of it."

"Wait, your mom is doing that I you didn't tell me about it." Emma said.

"I know, I didn't tell you because it's not that serious, you know how my mom is, she does this kind of thing sometimes and thankfully it doesn't go far."

"Alright then, well good luck with your suitors." Emma smiled, her mood went back to normal.

"I know you'll be happy about that." Sophie said. "Well I will be going now, I will have to go meet my mom." She stood up from the couch.

Emma stood up, "Alright, thanks for coming and also thanks for the phone."

"There's no need to thank me girl." Emma said.

They both walked to the front the door, Emma opened the door and Sophie walked out of the apartment. But before she left, she said, "Remember, always give me the juicy updates on what happens with you and Julian."

"I will try my best." Emma said.

Sophie walked away and Emma closed the door. Now she was alone again and the thoughts continued. She walked to her room, sat down on the chair closed to the table in her room and opened her new phone.

It was evening now and it was dark outside. Emma has finished setting up her new phone and now she was in the kitchen preparing dinner for herself.

Her phone was next to her as she was cutting some vegetables and then after a while, her phone started to ring. It was rare for her phone to ring especially by this time.

She looked at her phone without picking it up to see who was calling and when she did that, she could not recognize the number, it was an unknown number.

The thought of ignoring the call crossed her mind but then she released that her phone was gone for while so it might be important. She answered the call and put in on speaker which she normally does.

"Hello, who is this?" Emma said.

"Is this Emma?" The voice at the other end of the phone said.

When she heard the voice it sounded familiar but she could not remember whose voice it was, it was a man's voice.

"Yes, and you are?" Emma asked

"It's Julian."

Emma was surprised and at the same time not surprised, she wondered why Julian would call her by this time.

"Julian, sorry how did you get my number?"

"I have my ways, and plus you work in my company." Julian replied.

"Your company?" Emma said in her mind. She knew that he will own the company soon but he has already started calling it his company and it made her feel somehow. "Okay, why are you calling?" She asked.

"When will you go to see my parents?" Julian asked.

Emma was curious to why he asked the question and she wanted to ask him the reason for the question but she did not want the call to last too long, "Tomorrow I think." She answered.

"I think we need to see before you go meet my parents." Julian said.

Emma was a rational person so she understood his request, it was only reasonable. "Alright then, when will that be?" Emma asked.

"We can meet now, you can come to my place. I will get someone to pick you up." Julian replied.

There were a lot of problems for Emma in what Julian just said.

First was the fact that he asked her to come out of her home now, which she does not do and second was the fact that he wants her to come to his place, where they would be alone with no one else around.

"So…" Julian said because Emma did not reply.

"Sorry." Emma said. "I don't think I can leave now, it's really late and you want me to come to your place, I don't think I will be comfortable with that." Emma continued.

"I don't really understand why but alright then. Why don't I come to you then, where you live?" Julian said.

Emma also had a problem with him coming to her apartment so she wanted to avoid that, "I also would not be comfortable with that sorry."

"You do know that we really need to talk before you meet my parent's right?"

This was something Emma was not used to, planning to go out with someone and now she did not know what do to but she knew that she had to talk to Julian.

"Okay, why don't we go out, to a restaurant or something? How is that for you?" Julian asked.

This idea was a better one for Emma but it was not the best. She has not been to a restaurant with a guy or gone out with any guy but now she knew she had to compromise if she wants to take control over her life.

"That is okay." Emma replied.

"Someone will come pick you up shortly, you will be brought directly to the restaurant so you don't have to worry about anything."

Julian ended the call after he said that. Emma felt a little bit overwhelmed but she had to see it through strongly just like Sophie said.

"I guess there is no use cooking dinner now, I will be having dinner in a restaurant, that is just great." She said to herself.

She put the vegetable she was cutting in the fridge and washed her hands in the sink. She walked to her room after cleaning her hands, and now she was in front her wardrobe thinking of what to wear.

It did not take long for her to decide, after all her clothes are similar. She wore a black gown with a jacket.

When she finished dressing, she got a text from an unknown number saying, "I have arrived in front of your apartment building."

"That was fast." Emma said to herself.

She got a small bag and put her phone in it and then walked to her front door.

As she got to the front door she realized something, the person that will take her to Julian is in front of her apartment and she started to wonder how Julian knew where her apartment building was.