A Night With My Boss

Emily went downstairs and Petra followed her quite slowly moving one step at a time, panting and groping the hand rail as she descended.

“Come on, you slowpoke!! You’re pregnant, not handicapped remember?” Emily laughed at her as she pathetically climbed down the stairs.

“Haha, very funny,” Petra replied in a sarcastic manner.

“Remind me not to ever get pregnant, it’s already too much work watching over you so it’s going to be even harder being the pregnant one” Emily teased Petra as she grabbed the keys from the counter and made her way to the car.

“Where do you think you’re going with those keys?” Emily asked her as she walked past.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“To the mall duhhh”.

“Let me drive the car as usual”.

“I can drive myself Emily… I’m not handicapped remember?” Petra used the line on her again.

“Well played Mrs Montero, I see you have some fire in your spirit” Emily said, giving up at last, Petra can be adamant sometimes.

“Thank you, now buckle up and enjoy the ride”.

The drive to the mall took longer than expected partially because Petra was driving like an old granny and the traffic wasn’t helping matters at all. Emily had almost fallen asleep by the time the car came to a jittery stop.

“Uhhhh…. What happened? Oh we are finally here?” Emily rubbed her eyes as if she had been sleeping for a long time.

“I see you are feeling very jovial and in a mood to make jokes”.

“Ahhhhh come on loosen up a bit” Emily playfully punched her arm and Petra winced.

“Ow! That hurt” Petra rubbed her shoulder.

“You are no fun at all, this pregnancy is killing your vibes” Emily got out of the car before Petra could hit her with her bag.

“Slimy bastard!!”.

While inside the mall Petra was plagued with the terror of decision making, she could not choose between pork or lamb, blue or green, soft or hard, even hot or cold. Emily got tired of walking around with her so she took a stroll amongst the other aisle and as she was about to turn round a corner she bumped into Liam, her guardian angel.

“Woah easy with the chest dude” She said boyishly making him laugh exposing his fine set of whites.

‘Okay I’m wet’ Emily bit her lip hard as their bodies contracted in a tight hug.

“Emily!! I didn’t expect to see you here. Where’s Petra?” Emily was lost staring at his face, quite unable to reply to him just yet.

“Well…. Uhmmm she’s buying some kitchen utensils from the other aisle, she refused to let me do the shopping by myself”.

“Oh I see”.

“What are you doing here Liam?” Emily asked, eyeing his basket.

“I came here to get a pack of beer and some vegetables for the soup I’m making later tonight”.

“Oh I never knew you had culinary skills, I would like to taste your disaster” Emily laughed at the thought of seeing Liam in an apron.

“Well I might surprise you one of these days”.

“How about tonight? Come by our place and cook it for everyone, Petra, Alex and me the chief judge” Emily pitched her shot nicely and she knew it was going to make a hit.

“Uhhmmmmm….. I don’t know… Maybe I would drop by” Liam awkwardly scratched the back of his neck, he wasn’t used to cooking for a mass of people mostly the Montero household and Emily.

“Come on it will be fun and besides Alex won’t like to hear that his best friend refused to have dinner at his place”.

“Okay now you got me in a tight spot, okay wait how about this? We go and eat at a restaurant you like and we’ll have dinner another time ” Emily thought about this, just her and Liam alone eating at a restaurant she likes! What could be any better.

“Yeah sure that would be fun” Emily said smiling, her cheeks were redder than before.

“So I’ll pick you up by five o’clock?” Liam said checking his watch, it was almost as if he was expecting someone.

“Five is a little bit too early for a date don’t you think?” Emily said not getting why a date that should be from 7 o’clock till 10 starts from 5?.

“It’s not a date Em, we’re just eating at a restaurant together…. As friends’ ‘ The words hit Emily like a cannonball to her chest, her demeanour changed and all of a sudden carrying the conversation on wasn’t in her spirit anymore.

“Oh my gosh Liam is that you?” Petra said, wheeling her shopping cart towards their direction. Liam returned her smile with an even wider one.

“Hello Petra, how are you doing today? Vibrant as always I see” Liam greeted her back.

“Can’t let pregnancy stop me from spreading love as usual”.

“You have a lot of shopping to do I see, why didn’t you give her a hand Em?” Liam asked Emily playfully but she wasn’t in the mood to play now.

“I was just leaving,” She said coldly, walking away from them. Liam and Petra looked at each other confused.

“Ain’t that a sour puss?” Petra said laughing.

“She was smiling just a minute ago, I don’t know what happened to her just now”.

“Well I’m just about to go pay for these and head back home, It was nice to see you again Liam” Petra said, rolling her cart towards the cashier’s counter.

“Please tell Emily I’m coming to pick her up by 5 o’clock sharp, thanks” Liam waved a very dumbfounded Petra off.