Long Story Short (it was mistake)

Chapter Three

Ms. Villarico? Are you fine? Can you stand up?" He asks.

"I-I'm fine" I stutter. I try to lift myself to stand up, but I think my ankles are badly hurt. Sh*t!

"I don't think you are fine" He looks at my ankle that is now starting to turn into violet."You sprain your left ankle" he says while examining my left feet.

"No, its fine heheheh I can walk" I fake a laugh. And for the second time I try my best to stand up and I think it works, I'm now standing but I can feel the pain in my ankle. Mr. Davis stand up too and he looks at me with a doubt.

When I take my first step, I regretted my decision in trying to stand because I feel a lot of pain in my ankle and I immediately out of balance and for the second time I slip again.

I am expecting to hit the floor but a two huge arms behind me stops me from falling. Mr. Davis catches me from slipping on the floor again. He is at my back and hes using his right arm to catch me and his left arm is grabbing my left shoulder to support me from falling.

His face are only inches away from me and I swear that he can hear my heartbeat that is now making me deaf.

I immediately remove my eyes on him and clear my throat. "Thank you"

"I think you should go to the clinic. You can't walk" He says. I can smell his strawberry mint breath.

"No, I can't do that. I have to do my duty or else my boss will--"

"I'll talk to them" He says. His hands is still supporting me. "I'll tell to Mr. Smith that there is an emergency that happened, don't worry I'll make them understand. I promise" He smiles, and I almost fall again but thank God he's supporting me.

He says.

"O-okay but let me just call Conan and lily" I say. I take my phone in my pouch, and I called Conan and Lily and I told them that there's an emergency that happened. Thankfully, they are willing to hide this from sir Abaja.

He clicks the elevator and again awkwardness is killing me. I never thought that elevator rides can be this long, and when the elevator hits the ground floor he looks at my swelling feet.

"May I?" He asks. What does he mean by that?

"W-what do you mean?" My voice crack a little, he seems like deaf because he ignores my question.

My heart almost drops when he carry me in a bridal style. "You can't walk" He says without any expression. I was about to protest but the elevator opens and he starts to walk, thank God that I'm wearing a slack pants.

Everyone is staring at us. I even heard some murmurs. Oh God I'm in a big mess.

I entangle my hands around his neck. I can smell his chocolate flavor perfume, ugh! His chest and bicep muscles are touching my body which gives me chill. I can't help but stare at his face. Does he remember me? I do not think so, because if he remembers me, he will probably ask or greet me. But maybe he also remembers me but he's just trying to act like he didn't, right?

I look at the ID that is hanging from his neck, his ID lace looks like its going to break. Oh so, his middle name is Thorne. He is 26 years old. Well, I remembered four years ago, I'm 20 and he is 22 years old. He's just two years older than me.

When we reach the clinic, I open the door and Doctor Alcaraz looks at me with a question mark in his face.

"Ms. Villarico, what happened to you? Why are you lifted by a good-looking man?" I just laugh at Mr. Alcaraz. "Put her here" He added and pount to the bed beside him.

Mr. Davis put me on the hospital bed carefully. I feel relief when I don't feel his body on mine because I feel like my heart is going to explode anytime. I'm not comfortable being with him. I don't like the feeling.

"I'll go now" He says when he already put me on the bed. He bows to Mr. Alcaraz and leaves.

I want to ask him how did he know where the clinic is, because its just weird and I also want to thank him but he seems to be in a hurry. Well, he is.

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Mr. Alcaraz helped me to go to my condo unit. I can't walk properly because my left foot is covered with elastic bandage. He said that I have to rest for two days.

What a good first day of work!

Doctor Alcaraz said that he would give my two-days leave at work to sir Abaja and he also said that he will try his best to defend me to him, so there's nothing to worry, since sir Abaja and Doctor Alcaraz are best friend.

Doctor Alcaraz is almost a father to me, I've known him since I was in my high school. I dated his son before, yes! Doctor Alcaraz is Mateo's father. My relationship with Mateo ends a long, long time ago, but my relationship with his never ends. Doctor Alcaraz is a nice father to Mateo and also to me. He even back me up when I was applying here, actually he forced me to apply here. At first, I really didn't want to try because I didn't seem to have any hope of being able hired in this condominium but Doctor Alcaraz is the only person that believes in me. I'm very grateful that I met and dated Mateo because if we didn't date. I'll never get a chance to meet Doctor Mathew Alcaraz and maybe I'm not where I am right now.

*beep beep

My phone rings, I get up and pick up my phone. "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU MS. VILLARICO?!!" I immediately remove my phon on my ears. s**t, why does he have to shout? I thought he was in a meeting.

"Uhm good morning sir! I'm very sorry sir. I didn't really expect to be injur---"

"I don't need your apologize. Just make sure that you'll get back to your job after two days. Remember that it is your job to entertain them. AND PLEASE! Don't make any excuses" He hung up.

F*ck you! I'm an inspector here, not an entertainer, and when did I ever make excuses?

I throw myself on my bed and sigh. What a bad day, I look at the clock, 10:20 AM. What am I going to do here?

I carefully get up, maybe I'll just watch movie all day. I have to enjoy this leave.

*beep beep

My phone vibrates again, I take my phone to see that Doctor Alcaraz is calling.

"Okay sir! I promise that I will just stay at home and rest" I laugh. I just heard him chuckle.

"Okay! That's good little girl" He laughs. "How are you feeling?" he asks.

"uhm... I was good a minute ago but not until sir Abaja scold me over the phone." I say trying to sounds sad.

"Did he scold you? I already told that bastard not to scold you, don't worry I'll talk to him" awe, that's why I really like Doc Alcaraz, I always got his back. He's the father that I never have.

"Thank youuu" I gigle."By the way, is that the reason why you called?" I ask.

"No dear, I want to ask if you already seen the ID in your pocket" in my pocket? I dug in my pocket and I found an ID. It was Mr. Davis's ID, how did it get here?

"Why is it in my pocket?" I ask. I look at his ID closely, there is a phone number, should I call him??? nah I'll just give it to him tomorrow. Oh, how can I do that? I'm on my leave. I forgot.

"I put it there. He dropped that outside the clinic. Can you give that back to him?" he asks. Why does it have to happen? I don't really want to see him.

"I have to go now, please make sure that you'll give it to him, okay?" I really want to say no because I don't want to see Harry's face again. I don't want to talk to him. I'm not comfortable.

"yeah sure, take care. Bye!" I said and he said bye too, then he ends the call. I sigh as I see Harry's ID in my hand.I try calling Abigail, hoping that she's not busy so, she can give this ID to Mr. Davis, but she's not answering.

I try calling Abigail, hoping that she's not busy so, she can give this ID to Mr. Davis, but she's not answering. I also try calling Conan and Lily but they are not answering either. Ugh, what am I gonna do? Should I just call him? I'm sure that he needs this ID.

I throw myself on my bed again. I just stare at the ceiling for almost an hour.

I get up and find my phone, and I start to call him, yes! I'm calling Harry. And it took me half an hour to do this.

I dial his number and it is just ringing. "The number you have dial--" I end the call. Maybe they are busy. I try to call again but still no answer.

"okay, one last try" I tell myself. I call once again but still no answer.

Wait. I think I hear something. It sounds like a phone.

I remove my phone from my ears and try to figure out where the sounds coming. I don't think its from me because I only have one phone which I'm holding right now. The sounds seem near on me.

"The number you have dialed is no--" I end the call, and from the moment that I end the call, the sounds of the phone that is ringing also ends.

Weird.

Wait a minute. Maybe he left his phone with me too. Nah, that's impossible.

Okay, I'll just call him again, so I can find out if it is his phone that I'm hearing. I call him again, and my eyes went wide when I heard that the phone starts to ring again.

I get up from my bed, and I open the door, maybe they are still here in the 40th floor.

When I open the door, I found nothing. The ringing of the phone continues as I continue calling his number. What is happening?

I close the door and get back inside, I look everywhere to find out where the sounds are coming. I try to follow the sounds, I think it is on my terrace.

I close the door and get back inside, I look everywhere to find out where the sounds are coming. There are unit here that has two or three bedrooms, but since I'm alone I rent a unit with one bedroom. The terrace is only meters away from my bed, I always keep my terrace open because I really like the view.

I walk towards my terrace, and the sound of the phone became clearer and louder as I approach the terrace. The sound stops, and I look at my phone, he ended the call?

"Are you finding something?" My heart almost drops when I hear someone speak. I look at my right to see Mr. Davis holding his phone. He is in the next terrace. The terraces are just next to each other here, so you can talk to your neighbor in your terrace.

"W-what are you doing there?" I stutter. Oh no! Please tell me I'm wrong.

"I'll live here, I choose this unit for our temporary stay" He smiles.

My jaw drops as I heard him. Of all the units here in 40th floor, why does he have to choose the one that next to me??

"S-seriously?" I stutter.

"Yeah, do I look like I'm kidding?" My knees almost breakdown I clung to the handle so I could balance myself. I'm totally in a big mess! Harry is my neighbor.