Not An Option

The kiss

KENDRA’S POV

I just finished preparing Caprese Avocado Toast for her breakfast. I packed her food in her flask.

“I’m getting late”, She said hurrying down the stairs. “It’s ready“, I said coming out the kitchen holding her flask.

She was looking marvelous in her blue suit and black heels.

Something in me jumped at the sight.

She came close hugging me,”I enjoyed staying with you last week”. I enjoyed it too.

I held her face and looked into her eyes, she had lovely eyes to be honest.

I pinched her nose watching her shiver. I placed my lips softly on her lips and kissed her, sucking on her lower lip. It was the first time I embraced such passion in a long time. She kissed me too but only a few seconds before she pulled back looking like she had made a mistake.

“I’m sorry... I didn’t know what came over me”, I pleaded hoping she’d forget about it.

“It’s... I’m late to work”, she grabbed her flask from my hand and slightly pushed at me and walked out.

I sat down on the stairs, crying.

I had made a big mistake.

RONA’S POV

I couldn’t think straight. My body was shivering badly, I was wearing a long sleeved suit but I was feeling cold. “Did the kiss mean anything?”, I thought to myself driving, even I couldn’t focus on the sterling.

I spent almost two minutes in my car before I came down and entered the hospital.

“Good morning Dr. Quinn. Your patient, Mrs. Jojo, wants to see you”, Nurse Sharon greeted.

“How is she feeling now?”, I asked.

“She’s very good, She just took her last injection about 25 minutes ago ”, she replied.

I sighed heavily and went to my lab to drop my flask and then I went to see Jojo.

“How are you today?”, She asked on seeing me.

“I’m very well and you?”, I gave a deep smile. “I’m fine thank you”, she replied.

“Your daughter is fine, you don’t have to worry”, I assured her.

“Oh My God! I’m very excited, you have no idea”, she squealed.

“Are the chest pains gone or do you still need the pain reliever?”, I asked.

“No, I’m fine now”, she insisted.

“You’ll be discharged from the hospital later today but you’ll come back once in every two weeks for check up. Please do not hesitate to call me if there’s anything wrong, okay?”, I asked holding her hands.

“Thank you doctor”, she said and nodded with a little smile.

I left the room to my lab. I started thinking about what happened this morning. I was thinking. I was thinking again.

I began panicking. I couldn’t eat. “Miss?... Hi, sorry for barging in like that but... are you..”, it was Dr. Evans again. Jezz. Why wouldn’t he let me panic in peace?. “I’m fine”, I cut in. ”You think I don’t know what’s going on with you huh?”, he obviously suspected something was up with me.

“Come on”, he added.

“Can I trust you?”, I asked coming close to him.”I need an advice”.

“Anything for you”, he said as he moved the hair strands covering my face aside.

“Kendra and I, had this... this moment before I left for work this morning”, I said bringing my head down.

“Hmm”, he hummed. “She kissed me”, I said looking up this time.

“What did you feel?”, He asked holding my hands tightly.

“I felt alive... I don’t know why, but it was real”, I started to blush.

“You do realize you have a boyfriend right?”, He wasn’t lying though.

“I know... I just didn’t know how to react”, I said.

“You love her”, He said looking serious. “We’ve known each other since we were 12. It just feels weird”, I respond with my body shaking.

“Follow your heart honey not your mind”, he hugged me and left.

”It can’t be love, it shouldn’t be”, I said to myself as I sat down and opened my flask.

She made my favorite breakfast. I stared at the food feeling nervous. Could it be that Kendra has feelings for me? I sighed and started eating.

KENDRA‘S POV

I still sat there crying and regretting my actions.

It was obvious that she would not talk to me again. Why now that we just enjoyed last week together. “I need to make it up to her”, I muttered, wiping my tears.

It was a mistake I couldn’t undo and I knew that. I stood up and went back to the kitchen to wash the dishes.

When I was done with that, I took the vacuum cleaner and started off with the sitting room to the dining then I went to the ante-room.

When I was done with cleaning the house, I was extremely tired. I had always wanted to employ a maid to clean and cook but Rona loved doing the cooking. She also refused the idea of bringing a maid into the house.

If we had a maid, the stress would surely be less. “Ugh!”, I sighed and went to my room.

I was already exhausted to take a shower, so I laid on the bed for a few minutes before drifting off to sleep.

I didn’t know what woke me up but when I was up, it was half past two already. I sluggishly got undressed and wrapped my body with my purple towel. Yes, purple was my favorite color.

I was still bathing when I heard the doorbell. “ Rona came home early”, I said to myself as I quickly rinsed my body and wrapped my hair with another towel.

I dried my body as fast as I could.

Rushing down the stairs.