Broken By A CEO

Chapter 5

Rose POV

The continuous beeping of my alarm woke me up. I had to get up though. I had to meet Danielle at the cafe at nine. If it was later, I would have felt so much better about it but no it had to be an early one. Though I'm glad to meet Danielle again before I leave tomorrow. She really wanted me to meet her son but I can't since I leave at six in the morning, if it was in the afternoon, I might have.

I have to face my destiny sooner or later. It better be sooner. I know I'm going to get fired. Screw it, I'll beat him and hand in my resignation letter. I needed a better job anyway.

So many options to choose. It might take me years just to decide on one. I mean I do have a business qualification, food qualification and a first aid certificate. That can get you really far in society these days.

Just kidding. You can barely get anywhere with those qualifications. Oh well.

It's about time I got ready for coffee with Danielle. I decided to pull out a nice off the shoulder top with black skinny jeans along with knee high black boots. It was harder to change due to the sling and broken shoulder.

I decided to moisturise my face and put lip balm on.

I don't actually wear makeup because I noticed that my friends would cake it on and it looked worse than what they looked like originally. My parents would also comment on it as well. They were very judgemental. So I refuse to wear makeup.

I grabbed my purse and handbag. I had to meet at a cafe that was in the town centre. It was about a ten minute walk since the town was so small.

It was a small town but it was a beautiful and friendly one.

When I reached there, I noticed Danielle speaking to another woman. She had light brown, long hair with blonde highlights. She was so pale and looked very sick. I decided to go up to them.

"Ahh here she is. Angela this is Rose and Rose this is Angela. Angela is a patient that I'm supporting through cancer since she helped me through my husbands death. Rose is a friend that I met recently. She doesn't live here but is really friendly." She said and we both smiled.

"Hi nice to meet you." She said raising her hand to me and I shook it lightly since she was ill.

"Nice to meet you too. I hope you get better." I replied and smiled at her kindly. She was so nice about it that she looked at me in hope.

"Yeah I hope so too. Doctor said since it's an early stage, I should be able to under go chemotherapy for a few weeks and be fine. If not then they will put me on stronger chemo then as a last resort, surgery." I nodded and then I felt a tear trickle down my face. I was crying.

When Danielle returned and noticed that both of us had teary eyes, she immediately questioned what was going on. She looked at us concerned whether we had an argument or just feeling sympathetic for each other. When I told her it was the second option, she smiled and hugged us both before handing out our orders.

I ordered a mocha with a full English breakfast except the hash browns and black pudding since I wasn't key fans of it. I don't mind tomatoes though, they are okay.

"Oh I wish you could see my son tomorrow Rose, I think you'd be a great couple." I blushed slightly and they laughed when they noticed how red I had become.

"I know but I have work tomorrow but if I could stay longer I would, it's been so nice here. The views are spectacular and gorgeous. I'd love to come here and paint even though I'm rubbish at art. It's such a beautiful place and the people here are so nice. I'll contact you guys often and visit maybe once a month at least." I said comfortingly and reassuringly. Danielle and Angela were such nice people and you don't find many these days that are like that.

"Rose? What happened to your shoulder?" They asked and I sighed.

"Elevator went down too quickly and stopped suddenly making me fall on it. I'm only in this cast for three days so it's fine." They merely nodded.

True people are really difficult to find when your surrounded by a cruel and fake world. Society likes us to pay for everything and everyone is selfish for the life of perfection. That's why I hate millionaires and billionaires. They don't support anything. They don't care. They take property from those who are less fortunate and earn income from it.

They don't care about others. They are merely attractions to which almost every female or gay man go to and beg for a chance of wealth. It's honestly sickening.

We ate our meal speaking about our plans for the future.

Angela just says that if she survives then she is going to live her life one day at a time spending as much time with her family and hopefully finding love along with having kids.

I said that I'm going to find a new job and hopefully find something that I enjoy but I didn't mention mr Brooke as he's not even worth mentioning. I also avoided the conversation of me hating billionaires because I bet they will find me strange. It's not normal for a woman to not drool over a billionaire.

Danielle was the one who had a lot to say about her life for the future. She had a list of five things she wanted to do. Yet she said that it was still expanding.

1) she wanted her son to start dating and marry.

2) she wanted to see her grandchildren.

3) make a charity in aid of bullied children and cancer.

4) go on a long vacation with family.

5) do a 80's movie marathon.

Her list was so reasonable and I knew that most of it was family related since she doesn't spend much time with her family anymore. Her late husband died due to cancer and she hasn't been able to provide her son with everything that she could but she does appreciate how independent he's become.

She's spoken rather fondly of him. He doesn't date anyone ever since he broken up with his first girlfriend. Every year on their anniversary he would go to their special place and plant a zinnia on there. They were her favourite apparently. On that day he wouldn't go to work and insisted that his PA doesn't book anything for that day. He would hide himself from dating even with the constant begging from women. He was a closed book that's for sure.

I wonder if the heartbreak was a point in his life that affected him so much that he's broken. He just needed someone to fix him and give him some tender loving care.

Hope he finds someone that will make him and his mother happy. Neither of them deserved the pain when losing a significant other. It's hard to let go once they've gone. It's like a kid with a balloon, one they go you know they will never come back. You cry over it but that doesn't help but with relationship, the pain lasts long.

After having our meal we decided to do some shopping, after all they insisted on getting me souvenirs from here and I couldn't retaliate. They wanted to buy me at least one thing from each shop and mostly I couldn't find anything but they would always find something that looked like it would suit me. They bought it and went to the next shop.

Honestly I gave them a lesson that they shouldn't spend so much on me since I wanted to repay them back but they were all like it's what friends do. It made me roll my eyes and they just smirked.

Ugh how I hate people buying me things. I should appreciate it and honestly I do but I just don't like when people waste their hard earned money on me.

We spent hours shopping all across town and ended up buying at least twenty things. We carried three bags each filled with stuff. We walked from one end of town to the other and our legs were dead. Angela had the worse of us since she was wearing slight heels. I felt so bad for her, she worse those heels and they must have killed.

By the end of the day we had had nothing bad happen except that now it was time to say goodbye. You know I've never had a reason to cry before but the fact that I might never see them again made me want to cry so much that I had tears trickling down my face and soaking my skin. I didn't want to go. I wanted to stay and live here where peace is easy to find. Maybe if I get fired I can live here and get a nice job here.

My tears soon turned into a continuous sobbing and they hugged me multiple times but I was writhing in sadness. It was unstoppable.

"Shhh it's fine. We will see each other again, I swear. You can't get away that easily. Hey! Why I don't get your number than we can get in contact more often." I nodded and gave her my phone number. She then gave me hers and hugged once again. Then we separated ways.

I felt like Anastasia in fifty shades darker when she's walking around the streets upset to the helium song that was written by sia.

* I'm crying but I keep falling down

I cry out but nothing comes now

I'm giving my all and I know peace will come

I never wanted to need someone*

Yeah that's me alright. I've had things happen and I want happiness but never happens. Soon enough peace will come and i hope it does because at the moment I feel so down and upset that I have to leave such nice people behind. I never wanted to need them but now that I've met them I didn't want to leave. It made me uncomfortable. I feel like having nice people around me was like a drug.

* yeah, I wanted to play tough

Thought I could do this on my own.

But even superwoman sometimes needed superman's soul.

Help me out of this hell.

Your love lifts me up like helium.

Your love lifts me up when I'm down, down, down.*

I wanted to be strong in front of everyone despite the feelings I had. I've always used my sarcastic ways to hide how I truly feel. I feel ruined and wrecked. I've lost all sanity if I loosen my control on emotions. I'm trying to be independent and it's hard to keep myself and others in check when I can't even manage myself. The love I have for them, the admiration, the determination lifts me up and keeps me happy. It makes me forget the bad things and gets me out of this hell of emotions that is swirling through my mind like a hurricane.

I go to the hotel room by stairs of course and thought through the night about things like Derrick, Angela and Danielle. How much I'm going to miss them when I go. I had to leave at seven to get home for eight to get ready for work by nine. I didn't want to go but I had to give in my resignation.

Soon enough my fate will be sealed and I hope in a good way as well. I don't want to live in a world of hate and anger but instead in a world of caring and kind people that are selfless. Of course that's merely impossible as there's always one that will pick the forbidden fruit or enter a banished property.

Life is not easy.