Chapter 2

As I came to my house, I saw a piece of paper on the floor in front of my door. I frowned a little wondering who would possibly leave a message on the floor like that.

I picked up the paper and I could immediately recognize the handwriting.. it belonged to that scum Vincent, he actually had the nerve to leave a message for me after everything that happened today,

"Astrid, please take your calls or even respond to my messages. We really need to talk..." The letter said

I rolled my eyes and left the letter on the floor which was specifically where it belonged. I opened my door and went inside, I still felt sleepy despite sleeping at the cathedral.

I hurriedly took my bath and immediately slept off. The next day I woke up feeling refreshed and calm, which is very weird considering the fact that I caught my boyfriend cheating on me with "our best friend", but I was still grateful.

I took out my phone and I will not say I was surprised at what I saw. I had tons of messages and calls from Vincent and Cynthia.

I rolled my eyes and continued scrolling through my phone and I saw I had three missed calls from Flora; My boss.

I wondered why she called me and couldn't seem to find anything so I hurriedly prepared for work and left my house.

At work, I immediately went to Flora's office. When I came here the previous day, she was not around, she went to a conference about the new game we were releasing to the market soon.

I knocked on her door and went in. "Astrid you're finally here... take a seat" she said as she looked up from the files she was working on.

I sat down, I was a bit confused as to why she called me yesterday, "Sorry I did not make it on time to work today Ma'am" I said as I tried to clear the tension I felt was in the air.

"Who's talking about work? And how many times do I need to remind you to not call me Ma'am, it's almost like I'm way older than you are and besides we are friends"

She said somehow looking offended as she rolled her eyes. "Sorry, I keep forgetting because you're my boss" I said as I smiled sheepishly.

"Forget about that, Where were you yesterday? I called you about three times and texted you too, but you didn't even reply to any of the messages.. I was very worried you know"

She said looking genuinely worried, I felt like laughing at myself. Yesterday I felt like I was alone and I didn't even remember that I had someone like Flora that was genuinely worried about me. "Um Yesterday I was at the cathedral and I kinda turned off my phone" I tried to explain.

"Wait how did you know I was missing?" I asked as something suddenly rang in my head. "Well it's that boyfriend of yours, he called me sounding worried and all saying that he can't seem to reach you and that you were not at your house.

He said that both of you had an argument and you left very upset and since then he couldn't reach out to you" She explained to me and I couldn't help but chuckle bitterly to myself, so that jerk said it was an argument.

Really?!! I literally caught him cheating on me, I rolled my eyes.

"Wait, I know that look that boy was lying wasn't he? it wasn't just a simple argument, right?" She asked, looking excited for the whole story. I nodded. "Ok spill, I'm all ears" She said looking so focused on hearing the story.

"Yesterday was our anniversary, you know that right?" I started and she nodded looking like a small child. "Well I planned to surprise Vincent but it turned out I was the person surprised instead.

I had purposely told him that I was finishing work by evening while I was actually ending my work by noon, I planned to surprise him with my sudden early visit. I even planned to play the new game with him before we released it to the market.

I bought him a present and all, I even dressed up for that jerk. On getting to his house, you wouldn't believe what I saw... I saw him having sex with another girl in his room.. I planned to have sex with him on that day."

I didn't even realize that I was crying as I was telling the story to Flora, till I felt a drop on my hand.

"What the hell?" Flora exclaimed, she was looking very angry and shocked. "Who's the tramp?" she asked, looking like she was ready to commit murder there and then. I chuckled because of her appearance.

"That was the heartbreaking part of the whole story, the girl that Vincent was sleeping with was no one else but Cynthia... my supposed best friend Flora literally stood up from her seat after hearing the news.

She chuckled evilly and pounded her fist in her palm. "Aishh that that that b*tch better pray I don't get my hands on her... What sort of despicable person is she? How could she betray her best friend like that? I knew it, something about that girl didn't just sit right with me the first day I saw her." Flora looked like she could literally pull her hair out now.

But she was right, from the very day Vincent introduced me to Cynthia I didn't really like her.

There was something about her that didn't sit right with me but I couldn't exactly pinpoint what it was. At that time I didn't know Flora then because I was still a student, so I decided to just be friends with Cynthia because she was friends with Vincent and I didn't have any other friends.

Over the years I saw all the signs that Vincent might just be cheating on me with Cynthia, but I ignored it, I turned a blind eye to them.

From staying over at Vincent's place at odd hours, to knowing every single thing about him, wearing his clothes... I ignored every single sign... I really feel like a fool now.

Flora's voice brought me back to reality and I looked at her. "I'm really sorry for you baby girl, You don't have to keep all the pain and tears to yourself, just let it all out" She hugged me and immediately the real tears I've been trying to hold in just broke out.

"I feel so stupid Flora. I mean the evidence was all in front of me, but I didn't regard it" I said while crying.

"Shhh you are not the stupid one, that jerk is for playing with your feelings and emotions, and as for why you ignored all those little signs it's as a result of your good heart. You would never do such a thing to another person so you didn't think someone would actually do that to you" Flora explained as she tried to console me.

"You know the most annoying part of it all, is that I can't even say he cheated on me, no at this point I feel like I was just a side fun to him while Cynthia was his main girl" I said as the truth hit me and my tears doubled.

"You know what, you are not going to work today, you're going to stay here with me because you're not in the right state of mind to work" Flora said as wiped my tears with her hand.

"Why didn't you just tell me to go home?" I wondered. Her face palmed "duh, you don't have anybody to talk to at your house and I don't want you to feel sad and lonely and I don't want you to get any weird thoughts" Flora explained.

I chuckled "Thank God I still have you, I wouldn't have known what to do." I said as I hugged her. "Shhhh, just stay here and keep me company. As for that boy, oh he should pray I don't get my hands on him and that girl, how could they be so heartless."

I nodded as I listened to her, feeling grateful to God for making me meet her.

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MEANWHILE; SOMEWHERE IN THE HEAVENS...

Archimedes can't seem to get that girl that he saw in the cathedral out of his head.

Whenever he takes out his pencil to draw, automatically sees her face, and so far he has made three different drawings of her. He wonders if she was ok and if she's still sad.

That Night he made up his mind to come down to the human world to find her and also try to get her out of his mind