28 A real, live man

"Did you finally meet your hot boss?" Kendra asked hysterically on the screen of her phone as soon as she answered her call.

Except for her family, her friends were one of the few people she missed when she decided to move away from home. For now, she was content with calls, texts, and video messages to keep in touch with them when they had time.

At the moment, her friend was referring to her current boss, who invited her to a party. Her friend had a crush on him since she showed her a picture of him.

"I thought you called to ask how I am," Gav said, pouting her lips as if she was disappointed.

She expected they would chat about the latest developments in their lives and gossip about their friends. Not talk about her boss again.

She just moved in a couple of days for her new job. She had frequented this place before. Although, she had never stayed for more than a week in this city. And she was never alone. She was always with a family or a friend.

"Of course, I will ask you that eventually." Kendra quickly said, seeing that her friend was being dramatic. "How is the new place that Jaxson rented for you?"

She knew that Jaxson was not thrilled about her friend accepting her new job. But since Gav was stubborn and would not back down, Jaxson agreed to a compromise.

He was the one who chose the place where she would be staying while working in the big city. He paid for the first-year rentals, saying Gav could not afford it with her meager salary.

"It is beautiful. What do you expect? And expensive." She would have chosen a smaller apartment that she could afford, but she did not want to argue with her big brother.

She finally agreed to get him off her back. She was just glad that their parents did not react the same way when she announced that she had accepted a job hundreds of miles away from them.

But her brother had become a big-shot corporate lawyer now and had many clients living in this city. But he still refused to move here at the moment, content to work in their small town.

"What about your new job?" Kendra asked, genuinely curious now about her work. "Do you have new assignments? Big stories you have to work on with all those top reporters."

She could see her friend rising to the top in the media field. She knew she was intelligent. She could have been a lawyer like Jaxson or any profession, but she was always inclined to find stories and talk about them.

"It is just my first day on the job. It is more like introducing myself to everyone." The only difference was the way she had made her grand entrance. It certainly brought headlines.

Instead of getting assignments, she had to go through the different departments to file her official reports. To highlight her day, she even had an audience with the top head of the company.

"So, you did get to meet him. How good-looking is he? Do the pictures on the internet do him justice, or was he much better looking in person?" Kendra asked excitedly, learning that she had met the man of her dreams.

She was not aspiring that the man would sweep her away to save her from her life. She had a few boyfriends, but it never worked out. She chose not to commit to another relationship with her current busy schedule.

Instead, she just enjoyed dreaming about men who were probably out of her reach. It was just like Jaxson, who would not even stop treating her like a sister. Then, this man who she had only seen in his pictures.

"Yes, but did you not hear that I almost lost my job on my first day." She asked since her friend only noticed the last part of her story.

She wondered what her reaction would be once she told her that her crush had just asked her to go to a party with him. She could already her freaking out.

"You did not. Nobody would dare fire you because you are too good." Kendra said confidently, thinking that it was not the relevant issue. "What happened when you met him?"

She was not going to stop pursuing the story. It was the most exciting thing that ever happened to her. She meant her friend. She could not wait for her to answer all her questions.

"Fine." She finally gave up, knowing that her friend would not stop until she got her answers. "He is much better than what you saw in the pictures."

She had to admit that her boss was one heck of a man, in a good and positive way. Luckily, he was not her type. He was not attractive to him, Or that would be a distraction she did not need in her new job.

"I knew it." She shouted on the screen, giggling and chuckling like a schoolgirl. "Oh, I truly wish I am with you right now."

She remembered when they would sit on the couch or the bed just talking about her crushes because Gav would not be bothered to have one. But they would discuss her aspirations instead.

"He did ask me to go with him to this party." She finally confided with her, knowing that she needed to share it with her. She never kept secrets from her. She always told her everything that happened to her.

Her friend kept saying that she lived vicariously in her life since she barely had time to be anywhere else but the hospital. She was now a resident in their hometown hospital.

Kendra had worked doubly hard to prove herself, despite her family owning the entire facility. She did not want others to think that she had special treatment.

"I knew it. You were holding out the best part." She expressed in shock. "Did he automatically fall for your charms? Now, I am jealous." She was now the one pouting on the other end.

But she was not mad at her friend if that man decided he liked her. Gav was beautiful and intelligent. Any man would fall for her. She could have any man she wanted if she would only pick one.

But her friend was very aloof when it came to going out on a date. Many boys tried to date her during high school and college, but she rejected them.

"Wait. It is not a date." Gav quickly corrected her friend. "He just invited me to the party so he could introduce me to my other colleagues. Maybe it was a newbie initiation thing."

She could not think of any other explanation for his unusual invitation. But she doubted that her appearance and behavior were her tickets to his heart. That was just insane. A man like that would not fall for her, even on her best day.

"Right." Her voice echoed in the room, laced with too much sarcasm. "Call me if he finally kisses you before the clock strikes twelve."

There was only one time she remembered she talked about a man. It turned out he was just a dream. One of her fictional characters she conjured in her mind. She called him her savior.

But it was time that her friend finally had a real relationship, even if it meant losing her dream man. Her friend needed a real, live man.