Crazy Zara
1420 Words
Chapter 31
Sophie POV
My day at the office was almost boring since I had no one to talk to. Xander has been acting weird since he returned from the marketing department since morning, and I even know what is wrong with him.
"Are you ok?" I had asked him when he came inside the office, sweating profusely, but he told me he was fine, and I thought I should let it go because I didn't want to look like I'm forcing things out of him.
My phone suddenly starts ringing, and I check the screen to see that it's from Zara.
"Hey, what's up?" I utter as soon as I answer the call, but the voice I hear from the other end makes me freeze on the spot.
"Sophie... I'm dying... Please come home," My heart sinks into my stomach, and my hand suddenly starts trembling as I hold the phone to my ear, waves of fear spark through me.
"What happened, Zara? Are you ok? Talk to me, where are you?" I spring up to my feet as I rush her with questions, but silence reigns on the other end, which means that she's really in trouble. Without thinking twice, I storm out of my office, not even bothering to tell my boss that I have to go.
I walk briskly toward the elevator, and once I step in, it takes me down to the first floor, where I storm out and head to the exit door, and soon, I'm standing at the side of the road, waiting to take a cab home. Luck doesn't seem to be on my side today, but it dawn on me that taxis are not working today.
"s**t!" I curse under my breath as I run my fingers through my hair frustratingly. She sounded like she was in a deep mess, and I need to get to her and help her.
"What should I do?" I mumble as I check my phone, and the time is almost 6pm. I think of calling the cops, but what will I tell them when they ask what the emergency is? I don't even know what is wrong with her now.
Since there won't be any hope of getting a cab home, I resort to walking to the bus stop, who knows, maybe I will get a cab from there.
Just when I'm about to start the journey of walking to the bus stop that is not even anywhere close, a white flashy car pulls over in front of me, and the tinted glass wine down, revealing Asher. He is sitting in the car, but his dress is different from the one he was wearing earlier today. Hold on, he has a car? I thought he was just an employee here.
"Are you leaving when I told you to have ice cream with me earlier?" He squints his eyebrows, and I sigh briefly.
"Look, there is an emergency now, and I need to go home immediately," I reply to him, and he raises his eyebrows.
"Is everything alright?" He inquires, a bit concerned.
"I don't think so. I need to go to the bus stop now," I turn to leave after I reply to him.
"Hop in. I will drop you off at your destination," He offers, and I quickly pull the car door open and hop in, as if I have been expecting to hear that from him. I don't even know anything about this man, so he would likely hurt me, but in this situation, I decided to look at the bright side of it.
Silence creeps in as he drives us in the direction I gave him earlier before he started the car.
I glance at him occasionally, and for some reason, I have no idea, I feel uncomfortable around him. I feel like it's not safe to be around him, and I'm looking forward to getting off this car.
"Are you ok? You don't look like you are," He glances at me after a few seconds, but I quickly nod my head and turn my gaze away from him, staring out through the window. Many thoughts cloud my mind as I stare at the screen of my phone, wondering what could've happened to Zara to have made her make such a call.
It didn't seem like we will get to our destination, but we eventually did, and I jump out of the car as soon as he pulls over in front of my apartment. I run toward the entrance door, not even bothering to say thank you to him for dropping me off.
Pushing the entrance door open, I storm in and find Zara sitting on the chair with her head thrown back like she's about to die.
"Are you ok? What happened to you?" I hurry over to her, and she slowly turns her head to look at me, her eyes are red and puffy.
"He broke up with me," She bursts into tears, and I freeze on the spot. Wait a minute! What did she just say?
"Huh? What did you say?" I ask her because I don't believe she made me so worried about her because of this.
"Jeffrey broke up with me. I caught her cheating on me, and when I confronted her, he ended things with me. He even went as far as telling me that he has been managing me all this while. I feel like dying," She pouts her lips as more tears stream down her cheeks, and I gulp down the lump that forms in my throat. I try to resist the urge to scream at her, because why shouldn't I yell at her? She called me from the office, only to tell me she got her heart broken? I have warned her about this bastard son of a b***h she called her boyfriend, but she never listened to me, saying that she was really crazy about him, and here we are today.
"Zara..." I pause and sigh briefly, composing myself. I know I will say a really bad thing to her if I talk now, so I just try to keep quiet and watch her cry her eyes out. The guts she even has to hug me, when I feel like strangling her now. What the heck did she just do?
"I thought something bad happened to you. You told me you were going to die, and I thought something happened. Are you kidding me, Zara? You called me here for this?" I scoff at her unbelievably, and she pouts her lips.
"Are you scolding me? I just got my heart broken, isn't it unfair to scold me?" She bursts into tears again, and I sigh briefly.
"It's fine. I'm sorry," I reply to her, and she slowly nods her head.
"Did you come with my in-law? Where is he?" She suddenly wipes her tears and asks me after she glances at the door, and that is when it dawn on me that Asher may still be waiting for me outside.
"Hold on," I quickly stand up and stride out of the house, but met an empty space once I step outside. He is already gone, and hold on! How come he didn't tell me he was leaving?
"What happened?" Hearing Zara's annoying voice behind me, I turn to look at her, but I end up flinching. I'm just seeing the trail of mascara in her eyes. Her face is messed up after she cried her eyes out. Is that bastard even worth her tears?
Well, Zara and Jeffrey have been dating way back since college, and the two were really into each other. Unlike Zara who is just as poor and struggling as I am, Jeffrey was a well-to-do young man from a wealthy family. And guess what! He was every woman's dream back in school, except me, because I don't know what I would be doing with a bastard that f***s around with any woman that comes his way. I tried to talk Zara out of it, but she was determined to be with him, and they started dating. I was expecting this anyway, and I didn't know it would take this long before they will end things. It's for the best, anyway. It's not like they can end up together anyway.
"Nothing. You should wash your face. You look like a masquerade," I smirk at her before I turn and walk inside the room, and I meet my phone ringing...
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