Chapter 13

(Recap: Ashley takes leave for 2 weeks so that she can spent time with James and her family).

James p.o.v

Hello I am James Charles I have a meeting at 9am with your manager. Hello sir we are ready for you in the conference room please follow us. Welcome James please have a seat , this is our designer Emily she will be presenting the design for the new campaign. Please begin I say. Hello everyone lets watch the slide show that I made first then I will explain a few things afterwards if anyone has any questions or suggestions let me know.

This presentation is wonderful Emily however I have a few suggestions. Yes sir please tell me what changes you would like to have. Since our target market are would be mothers I think we should have a few mothers try out our new product and tell us their opinion which we can add to this presentation before we advertise this produce, In this way our other mothers would be more open minded and would want to try the product.

Thank you to all members for attended this meeting. I think in the next month we should be able to start advertising our product so in the time maybe we can get the interviews done. Once that is done the manager can email me the new presentation or we can have a virtual meeting since I would not be available for the next few months to fly here since I will be assisting my brothers business in the meantime. That concludes our meeting thank you Mr Charles for your time says the manager.

As I walk out I check the time is 12:40 I have a few minutes to quickly change before I meet Ashley. I use my jeans with a white shirt as I call Ashley. Hello ash which hotel are you staying at so I can come fetch you? James we are staying in the same hotel(laughing) I will meet you at the reception see you soon.

Ashley p.o.v

I woke up early this morning I wanted to buy a wedding gift for Nia as well as get a few gifs for my friends and parents since I haven’t seen anyone for two years. After I get the gifts I look at the time its 12:55 I should be getting back to the hotel James would call soon. Hello James , hello Ashley which hotel are you staying at so I can come fetch you. James we are staying in the same hotel (I saw him while he was checking in, I was still off-loading my bags ) I will meet you at the reception. After he cut the call I quickly went to my room to leave all the gifts I bought and check if I looked okay.

Once I reached the reception I saw him looking so handsome that I just felt like running up to him and hugging him just to make all the girls around him jealous but I kept calm as I approached him. Hi James I say to him as we share a friendly hug. Hi Ash wow you look amazing.(blushing) thank you. So James what plans do you have for us?

Can we have lunch first Ash how about the Café across the road? Sure. Hello I am Daisy your waiter would you like something to drink while you look at the menu to see what you want to eat? Yes please can I have a blueberry milkshake please and sir what can I get for you? Can I have a coke please. I will be right back with your drinks.

James while we are waiting why don’t we catch up? Please can you tell me about the wedding? I had to fill-in for a friend of mine last minute so I could not make it in time for the wedding. Nia looked amazing I have a photo of her and Roy if you want to see. Yes please. Wow Nia looked amazing like she was glowing with happiness and Roy he looks like he can’t wait to get out of his Suit? Yes Ash he does not like using his tux he prefers jeans.

Here is your blueberry milkshake madam and your Coke sir. Ready to order? Yes can I have a burger and chips, no onions please.. and I’ll have the same as her please. Sure it should take 20 minutes. I will bring your lunch when it is ready. Thank you. James what are we going to do with these bottled up feelings that we have for each other? I have an idea would you like to get to know each other on a level higher than friends? It will be hard long distance but if our feelings are true I am sure we can make it work. Yes James I would love to. I made plans for tonight do you want to rest for a while and meet later since it will be a long night? Yes James that would be nice I am a little tired had a busy morning.

I turn on my phone as I put it on charge, You have 100 missed calls and one new message. I quickly open the message and see it is from my mom. Son when you are free please call me it is very important.

Hello mom are you okay ? What is wrong? I have been having this bad feeling the whole day plus I had this horrible feeling that my plane was about to crash. James There has been an accident. On the drive home we were following Mary and David when a drunk driver hit them head on they died on impact since we were behind them we were the first on the scene and called the ambulance. Oh no mom how is Nia? Wait Roy and Nia should still be flying to Miami. Actually James about that when we got home our neighbour Mrs Noah told us to quickly turn on the TV which we did. The flight to Miami crashed and authorities are still looking for survivors. Mom let me make a few phone calls maybe I will be able to find Roy and our friends, thank you son we are so worried about them.

I quickly turn on the news channel. News just in the flight from the Bahamas flying to Miami crashed into the Bermuda triangle our reporter Simon is on the scene we will now cross live. Ladies and gentlemen behind are a few of the survivors that were found by a passing ship. I quickly call Ashley. Hello Ashley can you please meet me at my hotel it’s an emergency sure James I’ll be there soon. Ashley there has been an accident I need your help