When Love Returns

Chapter 2

I can’t seem to find my other phone what’s going on? Did I leave it in the board room or at home she wondered as she kept on searching for the phone round her office. My office now Jess yelled at her secretary over the intercom. Ma’am you called for me? Yes I can’t seem to find my other phone its being missing since morning and I’m not sure I’ve seen that phone since I stepped into the office, go to the board room and check if I left it there and also check the HR’s office I was there earlier, you better get moving before I make you lose the only meaningful and most reasonable source of your survival, she took off and came back empty handed. Ma, can I speak? If it’s not something reasonable as to the where about of my phone shut it, I’m not interested; you’re so incompetent and so slow in thinking. I think you must have left the phone either at home or in the cab that brought you in this morning she cuts in. Oh shoot, I handed him my phone to get the destination and I’m not sure I retrieved it from the driver. Please call the driver, get his number from the app and give him a call. Ma I think there’s a mix up somewhere, there shouldn’t be any mix up, it’s not rocket science ,My friend go look for the taxi number on the app you used in booking the ride, get the driver number, speak to him to make he returns my phone during my lunch time tomorrow. Get out now. Let me check my phone to get the drivers number, I don’t care do it outside, not here. Yes ma she hurried out but after checking her phone she discovered that it was not the ride she ordered that came to pick Jess up. There’s a problem ma. The ride I ordered was not the car you came in. what did you just say? I don’t know how the mixed happened but I asked the gateman and he said you came in a green car, yes I did, the car was green and it was parked right in front of my gate, facing the road. That was what you told me over the phone, no ma I said grey and it would drive in through the gate to help you with your load. So you’re saying I have automatically turned deaf right? Did you know that I could have being adopted by the said fellow without a trace with this rubbish you’re telling me now? No ma that’s not like that I didn’t mean it that way and I was never insinuating that you are deaf ma. I am just surprised how another car would be parked exactly at the same spot the cab was supposed to be in your compound. Leave my office now and you better find that car and the young man behind the wheels of the said car else I would not just fire you but also charge the both of you with theft after I have the authorities track my phone. Yes ma, as she disappeared in a jiffy. How did I not hear what she said to me over the phone? Was I not wearing my hearing aid? Oh on I wasn’t, it was packed in my bag while I was coming down. It would have being better if I was the one that had that multiple fracture or an injury to the head which would have being gone by now than this scar I am meant to live with for the rest of my life as a person with hearing deficiency, I sighed as I almost lost my balance and crashed into my chair in pain and despair, now my phone is gone due to this, who knows what next or how much I would lose to this disability before it finally leaves me alone? The stigma and trauma of that night still continues to hunt be night and day, without anyone to hold me close or to even share my pain with , what an unfair and imbalance life I have to myself I said aloud as I sat in my chair lost in thoughts and heavy emotions.

Ma I just spoke to the gate man who saw the car that dropped you off this morning and he said the young man, I meant the driver returned with your phone and he was sent to my office but the receptionist refused to grant him access to you ma. How did I build a brand around so much incompetent people? Get her for me this minutes before I lose my mind. Ma you gave strict instructions that’s no one should be allowed to come into your personal space without an appointment, so I was able to squeeze him into a 10minutes free time before lunch in two weeks time, he’s booked already. Waow, your sense of programming is over the roof. Really! How do you expect me to function properly without my phone for two whole weeks? Hold on you couldn’t collect the phone from him rather you gave him and appointment for two weeks time? Both of you out of my office this minute and make sure the next time you’re coming in here I want to hear something tangible else all of you in question are getting fired before the close of work. Calm down I said to myself as they walked out

Ma, yes what’s the update on my phone. I got the drivers number from the form he completed at the reception and I’ve spoken to him, we just need a time for him to come in and return the phone, why I asked? Would you not just use your head for once? Tell him to return the phone meet him at the reception, he gives you the phone you give him some cash and he goes away problem solved, be smart or better still act smart for once in your entire life, Simple and short. I’m afraid that would not be possible ma. Why, I lashed out? He insisted that he hands the phone over to you personally. Fill him in for my lunch break tomorrow. Yes ma she replied as she puts the phone to her ears. Hello sir you have an appointment for 1:00pm tomorrow please don’t be late, my boss doesn’t entertain lateness. Wait what? Be careful how you speak to me, I know your boss is there put the phone on speaker I want her to hear what I would be saying next. considering how much of my time you staff wasted earlier on in your office around your confused no scratch that around your overly programmed robots you call staff I would not be coming in tomorrow I am fully booked and occupied, I would tell my secretary to get in touch with you was to communicate my free time to you, so you I mean the boss would come pick up her phone personally because I would not be coming to your deserted and death sentence of a place filled with programmed people you call an office, he replied in a harsh tone fine, please sir if you do that then I would be kissing my job goodbye and that’s the only source of lively I have right now and four other person depend on me to survive, I beg of you sir please don’t send us all back into the cave, not just me being fired, the secretary, the gate man and even the door man, the list keeps going on and on . Fine for all your sakes I’d be there, the voice came from the other side of the line after a short pause, before the line went dead. For all your sakes you better pray he turns up by tomorrow with my phone in his hands, else all of you would be held responsible for my missing phone and trust me I would get you all arrested and charged for conspiracy to theft. I pray he comes around ma, don’t pray use you head, call the head of our tech. team tell him to put a track on phone, call my account managers all four them info them to put a restriction on my account on all online transaction across all platforms initiated from my mobile device until further notice, put a notice to all partners local and international to disregard any message from my social media accounts to them until further notice, call the car tracking company to de-activate all car tracking device linked to my phone including cctv footage and security cams, and finally tell HR to block all external and internal correspondence that is supposed to be channeled to my phone until further notice, Got it ma. You can leave now, in the mean time make sure you put an eye on all my social accounts from your phone, if you see or perceive something funny make sure you bring it to my notice immediately, no delays, I do not want to hear I thought, is that understood and clear? Yes ma, now get out I need some space to think. What kind of an arrogant, insolent and ill-mannered man is that poverty stricken driver of a human being? The guts he has got for trying to make me look for him. He’s such a joke if not a loser. Maybe he’s trying to form as if he’s busy and his time is worth good money. I know what to do I would embarrass him tomorrow and make him feel worthless when he shows up here. He’s going to be in, for a disappointing show down of his life by lunch time tomorrow. The game is on. Let me quickly wrap up whatever is left of today work and head home to first of all wash the stench of mediocrity from my life and then rest, waiting for the show of tomorrow. Wrap things up and clear your desk I need you to take me home in the next 20minutes, hope your car is ready and back because I do not have the strength for another cab drama.