It Was Impossible Not To Fall In Love

Chapter Four

Today is Thursday the day we leave for New York. I packed my things yesterday as I was told we are coming back Saturday afternoon. I am already at work and took Ari to school. It's exactly three days since we get to know each other and I must say she is opening up. Yesterday as I was playing music in my car she asked me to play her a song and she started singing along to it. I am happy when kids are happy.

I check my marks on the student portal and I must say I am damn proud of myself. I scored two distinctions on the modules I was mostly frustrated with. I have to wait for my other modules and assignments too.

Mr P walks in and says "I wonder what's so amusing on your screen that you smile this hard"

"It's my marks I did good" I explain before he thinks I am watching p**n or something. He smiles and says "Good job". I thank him.

"What made you settle for being assistant when you've got a degree" he asks. It's nice being him cause all the interview processes were done by HR he would know I have a BA Law had he been there.

"You know when they say when life gives you lemons you have to produce something right?" I ask and he nods "I did BA Law, most companies want LLB for me to be an attorney hence the reason I am still doing my LLB" I say

"Okay that's actually understandable" he says, fixing his sleeves. I swear my boss is an IT. Like the simple things that he does make him more suave. He walks to his table and starts packing his things. I check the time and it's 4:30 pm. Oh it's almost knock off time.

I arrange my table and put the MacBook in the drawer. s**t!! Today is the 8th. My periods are in two days. I get very sick on the first two days, I throw up and can't function properly. Sometimes it becomes worse that I can't even walk. I am worried now what if the pains start while we are in NYC or in the flight. Damn!!

We are living at 7 pm to the Airport and I have exactly an hour to shower. I took a long ass nap when I got back from work and I am glad that I didn't have to fetch Ari from school since she's going to drive with her friend's mom on Tuesday and Thursdays because of sports and I will drive them both Monday, Wednesday and Friday. They stay around their neighbourhood.

Once I am done bathing and moisturising I put on underwear, Black Nike swoosh woven high waisted joggers, white plain t-shirt and black and white Nike Cortez sneakers. I am comfortable and I like it. I take my bag and go to the lounge. I am waiting for my colleague, the guy who's also going with us to come fetch me. After 15 minutes he calls and informs me he is outside. I take my hand bag and drag my small luggage bag out. I greet and we drive.

We get to the airport and wait for the other two. Mhmm my boss looks dashing. He is wearing grey sweatpants, black Puma sneakers and black long v-neck T-shirt that holds every muscle perfectly. You can tell he does not attend gym but his body is just masculine. I am just admiring nothing more. It's more like we communicated with the tracksuits cause all four of us are in them with sneakers. Maybe it's comfortable for them also.

I am so tired. The light pains I am feeling are adding fuel to the little fire that is burning. They are faint and also have nausea for no apparent reason. My period days are my worst nightmare that I don't wish them to anyone. We just came back from court. Ed was representing a client on divorce proceedings and tomorrow at nine Mr P is handling the criminal case. Basically me and Nonny are here to make sure that their things are in order. Rolling my eyes but I understand.

It was great watching my boss being a bulldozer in the court room. He chowed the other lawyer like nobody's business but the case had to be postponed because the accused played victim. He used the mentally ill card when he was questioned so now the case will have to wait until he comes form medical examination.

It's 12 noon and I am supposed to go have lunch with the team. Our flight is postponed to tomorrow and to say I am sad is an understatement. I really want to be in my space right now considering the pains that started when we came back from court. I have been throwing up and I ended up resorting to sit butt flat next to the toilet. I still say I hate my period days and sadly enough I can't use any contraceptive pills to stop them because it will turn out worse than it is. I sit in here and rest my head on the toilet seat. I drank four painkillers already with no aid.

"Talitha.....Talitha wake up"

Someone with a deep voice keeps shaking me. I open my eyes lightly and look up to find my boss with the most worried look I've seen him with. Did I sleep on the floor? He helps me to stand up and as soon as I am on my feet a wave of a sharp pain hits my lower back I flinch. "What's wrong?" Mr P asks.

I have no answers for him instead I try to walk to the bed but fail to. The next I feel is my feet up. Did he just scoop me up? He puts me gently on the bed. I shift a little and get in the covers, funny enough my periods are not heavy they are just okay. My boss is standing here waiting for answers. Probably he came to check up on me since we have the lunch thing.

"I am okay, you don't have to worry about me" I tell him as I can see he is still waiting for his answer on what's wrong

"Don't tell me you are okay Tali in the state that you are in, couldn't you at least pick up your phone and let me know you are not feeling okay huh! What if something happened to you or you died and we didn't know huh" he says firmly and a little worked up.

"Like I said Mr Patton I am okay and thank you for checking up on me now may I please sleep" I say pushing myself down to lie down on the bed.

"Have you eaten something" he asks with concern. I respond with 'no'. "What would you like to eat?" he asks. He is still standing up. I tell him what I would like to eat and he walks out to wherever or prolly to get me the things I have named. It's all junk if you ask me. I listen to my pain and finally doze off.

I am woken up by Ed. He has plastic full of food. He puts it on top of the bed.

"How are you feeling" he asks as he sits on the small couch

"I feel better now" I answer in as much as the pains are there but they are much better than when they started. I hope they don't last till the last day like two months back. They normally take two days.

Ed left me after we had a light conversation. He was asking me about Nonny of which I didn't know anything about her also so I ended up giving him advice as I could tell his questions were because he was attracted to her. I just finished eating my plain yogurt with lemon juice and honey. Best Combo I tell you.

There's a knock on the door and I tell the person to come in. Mr Patton walks in. The last person I want to see. I am still embarrassed by the fact that he picked me up when I couldn't walk.

"Are you good now?" He asks as he sit down and I answer with "Yes"

"What is wrong Tali?" Another question follows as there was a little bit of silence.

"Nothing, I just had pains and I had nausea the entire day" I explain. I really can't tell my boss about what I go through every month when it's my period days

"Are we expecting a mini you or a junior someone" he asks with a smirk that makes me chuckle a little and give him a look.

"What I need to know or I'll eventually know?" He says with his eyebrow raised a little. Wow this man in front of me is not my boss

"Really Mr Patton. I am not pregnant if that's what you thought" I say looking at him.

He laughs and says "Let's stop with the Mr Patton thing just call me Travis"

I don't know how I feel about calling him by his name. I mean he is my boss and we should or rather I should maintain the respect.

"I think I am already used to Mr Patton" I say with honesty.

"I know and you'll get used to calling me Travis" he says with a smirk.

"Okay then Travis" I say with a smile and he smiles back.

"I hope you really feel okay and don't die on us". He adds with a straight face.

I laugh and assure him that I am good. When he left I went to take my second bath cause I feel better and can walk. I eat my snacks watching Tv. I end up dozing off. My phone wakes me from my drooling moment.

"Hey are you good" my sister asks. Well she knows about my period pains so she calls whenever she remembers my date.

"I am okay now. How are you and my babies" I ask yawning

"We are good, they just miss you. It's 4 weeks like they say" she says. These kids, am sure they are whining all day about me not visiting them. I sometimes run away from talking with them over the phone cause they sound sad and I can't stand that.

"I will fetch them next week if my schedule is clear but don't tell them I said that cause my boss can just decide there's somewhere we need to be" I emphasise to her.

"Okay then. When are you going home?"

"I don't know hey with this job I feel like it's going to be hard" I say to Anita

I honestly don't see myself going home anytime soon because of the schedule I was drafting for the coming months. We continue talking with Anita and I tell her about me passing out in the bathroom and Mr Patton finding me there. Didn't she just wish it was her being in his arms. As if that was not enough she asked "Are they warm and comfortable" like how the hell was I supposed to feel that. The only thing that caught my attention was his cologne cause wow it was intoxicating.

The flight back home was long for me. My pains are not resting anytime. When I got to my place I slept for a good four hours. I was woken up by hunger. I cooked something simple which was mince and pasta. I ate then bathed and drank painkillers and went back to sleep.