*My Muse*❤☺
*_Chapter 8_*
*Natasha’s POV👩🏽*
So, I woke up really early this morning and took a taxi to work because of my 7am patient. Something told me to skip that and go at the usual time work starts, but then, what if he shows up?
I arrived at the hospital at 6:35 am. I relaxed a bit, had my quiet time and ate the breakfast my mum made for me. Yeah. My mum still makes me breakfast. She said, I’m her only child and when I move out of the house, she’s not going to have anything doing, so she’s making good use of her time with me.
I made sure that I was done with everything before 7. At 7, I sat up, waiting patiently for my patient to walk in.
7:30, 7: 45, 8:00, 8:30, okay, I give up. This guy isn’t serious and if I ever see any other appointment with him, I’ll cancel it. I don’t care if goes against the law, I’m going to cancel it. He can see a different psychologist.
I took out my phone and there were a lot of missed calls from June. I rolled my eyes and called back.
“Hello”, he said.
“Yeah, what is it?” I asked.
“I’m really sorry about yesterday. I tried calling you several times, but your line was off”.
“Yeah”, I said, giving him a short answer.
“I’m really sorry Tasha, I called the lab guy this morning and he agreed to meet with me this morning for the test”.
“Okay, cool”.
“I’m sorry Tasha, the parents of the kids were…………..” he tried saying, but I cut in.
“Don’t worry June. I’m fine; you don’t need to explain anything”.
“You sure?”
“Yeah, I’ll talk to you later”.
“You busy?”
“Yeah”
“Alright”, he said, and I hanged up.
To be honest, I’m not mad. I’m just tired. If he continues like this, I’m going to call off the engagement.
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It was 2pm and I decided to have my lunch. Today was a bad day for me, so I decided to treat myself to a nice meal. I took a cab and went to my favourite restaurant. Food was quite expensive there, but I didn’t care.
When I got there, I saw June’s car at the car park. What could he be doing here, I wondered.
I walked into the cafeteria and I couldn’t believe what my eyes saw. He was having lunch with his ex at my favourite restaurant.
I wasn’t going to be the girl who will overreact or assume things, so I decided to approach them and find out what was going on.
I walked to their table and cleared my throat to announce my presence.
“Tasha”, June said, surprised, and his ex, Freda, smiled at me.
“What’s going on here?” I asked, in the calmest voice ever.
“I ran into Freda this morning, and we decided to catch up. I told her about our engagement and she’s really happy for us”, he said, smiling.
“Yeah Natasha. Congratulations”, she said, smiling.
Catch up? Is he being serious? How do you meet an ex and decided to catch up. And this is no ordinary person. They dated in the university and she travelled to a different country to do her masters, they couldn’t do the long distance thing, so they broke things off. I remember how long it took him to get over her. Is he even over her? I wondered.
I’m not saying that he can’t talk to his friends, but this is an ex. He can’t just bring her into his life like that. He could have just talked to her when they met and leave, but no, he decided to bring her to my favourite place to catch up. Oh wow, this is so unbelievable. I couldn’t stand him at this moment. So I just had to leave. No, I’m not spoiling my treat because of them.
“Alright then, I’ll just get something to eat and head back to work”, I said to him.
“You can join us and have lunch”, he said, smiling and at this moment, I wanted to slap him.
“Oh no, you both really need to catch up and I don’t want to interfere. I will just sit over there and have my lunch. I’ll see you later”, I said, walking away before he could say or do something which would make him receive a slap.
I just couldn’t sit there for a long while and endure this, so I had my lunch quickly and left.
*Oscar’s POV👱🏼*
Work was really stressful today. Mabel’s dad called for a meeting today really early in the morning. It spoilt most of my plans, but I had no choice than to go.
I’ve been working for Mabel’s dad for quite some time now. I actually started working there before meeting Monica and Mabel. You should have seen the look on my face, the day I found out that he was their dad. When he also found out, he became really hard on me, saying that no son-in-law of his was going to be lazy. He really pushed me and my hard work made me get to a high place in the company.
He told me to see him after work and I got really nervous. It’s been a while since we had a heart to heart talk and every time we did, I was always nervous. It’s difficult having your girlfriend’s dad as your boss. I had to always make sure that I was perfect in front of him.
So, after work, I went to his office.
“Sit down”, he said to me and I took my seat.
“I heard something and I’m not really happy about it”, he said, staring at me.
“What is it sir?” I asked.
“Mabel gave me some certain news about you two being engaged”, he said.
“Yes sir. We are”, I said, wondering why he was not happy about it.
“I’m not too happy about it”, he said and I became scared.
“You should have told me yourself. That’s what a matured man should do”, he said, and I felt relieved.
“I’m really sorry about that sir. I just didn’t find the right moment to tell you”, I said to him.
We spoke for a long while concerning my future and my future with his daughter and after that, I left.
I missed my appointment with the psychologist in the morning and I called the hospital to reschedule to this evening. So I quickly drove to the hospital. I didn’t want to be late or miss it.
I honestly didn’t want to see a psychologist. But my pastor told me to, after I told him about my head injury and how my problems with Mabel and Monica stress me out and tend to give me head ache and a whole lot. He recommended the psychologist in this hospital, saying she was a strong Christian and a good psychologist.
When I got to the hospital, I was directed to her office.
I knocked on the door which had ‘Dr Natasha Mills’ on it and I walked in.
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