Chapter 12- Is it a nightmare or a dream?
*Kat’s POV
After the small celebration inside the meeting room, we all got out and were greeted by a huge congrats. All people from our department came bursting into the party poppers. A thrilled chief came and hugged, causing all of us to gasp. “What!! I do hug people.” Says chief knowing the reason behind our shocked expression. She never hugged anyone, never given handshakes to her subordinates her handshakes were reserved for our client and her superior.
Looking at me, she said, “You pulled it off quite well. I knew you could do it, but it was a little surprising to hear him say we got the deal. Congrats as a present take rest of the day off.” She said and barks at everyone except me to get back to their work. With one more pat on my shoulder, she left.
I was still shocked with everything, but mostly Ryder accepting our deal. By the looks on his face I knew he was having inner battle whether to accept, I guess it might be because of the rest of the men’s compliments which made him agree. I am sad, happy, shocked, anxious. Sad, because I thought when I see him again, I would get a tight hug from him and his explanation to why he acted as if he didn’t know me the day before the funeral and the reason why he didn’t attend the funeral but all I got was disgust and some emotion I can’t decipher. He always has been good with expressing his emotions, only if he wants the other person to know will they get what his face expression means. Happy, because I got the deal meaning I still have my job and also because I saw him again even if it was not how I imagined it to be. Shocked, well, it hasn’t been gone from my face since the turn of events starting from his acceptance. Anxious, because getting this deal means I will get to work with him, since I have to know what type of design and stuffs related to it and it will only be possible if I am in his company this has been how we have been working.
Some companies email us the exact idea so that we don’t have to work with them, but that also means if they wish to change later it can’t be done since it will be too late since we are not there in their company for them to let us know before we do something on our design. For some other companies they insist on us to work with them so that if any changes occur, we can make that changes since we work with how their idea develops and not on our idea, though there are some touches from ours as well. This is done so that our design can be flexible for them to change. And working with any company means headache for an entire year or months depending on the design.
And in this case, I will have to work with Waynst since that was already said when they asked for the presentation.
With all these thoughts on my mind, I went home.
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When I opened the door, I saw Mandy on the couch with curiosity written on her face. I closed the door and went and slump down in the chair.
“Okay, that is not happy face meaning something bad happened. What is it?” asked Mandy.
“Well, there’s two things: one is happy and one is sad.” I said, and she hummed to continue.
“The fortunate part is that I got the deal.” And before she could jump up and down happily, I said, “the sad part is that the person who came was Ryder.”
“What? But... How? Why?” she asked, not being able to continue with her sentences.
“Apparently, Ryder is the CEO of Waynst Ltd.” I said, adding to more of her doubts.
“But isn’t his company named Scott.” I nodded, and there was a silence for 3 second before she asked, “Wait isn’t his mother’s last name Wayne?”
“And his father’s last name is Scott, and that makes it Waynst. God, how I can I forget something like that?” I asked. And she patted my shoulder to comfort me .
“It might be because you were shocked after seeing him. Wait, if he is the CEO, how can he accept the deal I mean he has been avoiding us, removing all the clues that lead to where he lives or his number?” she asked
“That was the same question in my mind when he accepted the deal. The possibility is that the men who were present in the meeting room were happy with my presentation.” She nodded. And suddenly her brows furrowed.
“Why is his appearance sad news isn’t that what you wanted to get the laptop?”
“It is sad because he was looking at me as if I was a stranger. And something in me tells me that working with him will not be great. Also, I can’t just ask him for his help when he doesn’t even want to be in the same room as I.” I said and felt a hand on my cheek wiping the fallen tear. I didn’t even know I was crying.
“Sush Kat, it’s going to be alright.” She says pulling me for a hug.
The rest of the day goes with us on the couch watching a movie with chips and Choco chip ice-cream in our hands to distract ourselves from today’s events. When the movie was over, we said our goodnights and went to our rooms.
Laying on my bed after all the bedtime activities such as changing to pyjamas, brushing, I was looking at the glow in the dark galaxy stickers on my ceiling. I have been always scared of dark and these stickers help me little, though not a lot. It was only with him; I slept well. Let’s just say I am not lucky enough to think of those memories without a tear falling. I closed my eyes, remembering my moments with him.
*Flashback
“Ry, are you ready?”
“Yes, I am kitty kat waiting for you.”
“Okay, on the count of 3 I will be with you.” I said, getting ready to run. “One, Two, THREEE.” After switching off the lights I ran to bed, hit my leg on the bedpost as it was too dark to see anything and got under the covers holding my pinkie toe, cursing the bed.
“stupid bed, ow my poor baby.” I said, holding my pinkie toe and rubbing it. I glared at Ryder, seeing him laugh his ass off. Well, I may cut his ass out if he continues laughing.
“Aww my poor kitty got hurt.” He tried to touch my toe but couldn’t as he couldn’t control his laughter and was holding his stomach. Well, there is only one way to stop him laughing.
“Randy….” And I knew he would stop, and he did.
“Hey, I have told you many times not to call me that idiotic, stupid nickname you have put for me.” he said playfully glaring at me. I knew he liked it secretly, but his ego wouldn’t let him say so.
“And I have said many times that when you stop annoying me, I will stop calling you Randy.”
“Okay, Okay sorry. Give me your toe let me put this ointment.” He said stretching hard from his bed to get the ointment from his side table. Lazy ass.
“Here all pain is gone.” He cooed putting the ointment away and got up from his bed and went to bathroom to wash the ointment off. While I put my now almost okay foot down and waited for him to come back with my eyes close.
“boo!!” He said scaring the hell out of me.
“RANDYYY, ”
“Hey. Stop that.”
“And you stop your irritating attitude you almost gave me a heart attack.” I said cuddling into him as he got settled down to sleep.
“I don’t get it how you are sooo afraid of the dark.” He said wrapping an arm over my waist.
“I don’t know why but I know I am so scared and that is the major reason why I have those stickers on my ceiling and some on my wall. Its only when I come to your hostel room that gets me scared.”
“Mm I should think of buying those stickers in my room because nowadays you are spending most of your time here.” I hummed, agreeing to what he said. I was staying in his room a lot more than my house and thank god his hostel allows people to come and also is a mixed hostel otherwise this wouldn’t have happened.
I snuggled more into him as my sleep was taking over him and he tightened his embrace.
“Goodnight kitty kat.”
“Goodnight, Randy.” I said and felt his smile on the crook of my neck as I let my sleep take over me.
*Flashback over
I felt a tear rolling down my cheeks as I let my sleep take over me, knowing very well that I will wake up after sometime.
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*Third person POV
“Dad, Kat met Ryder today.” Amanda said to her dad Nicholas through call.
“They did!!!”
“Yes dad, I am sure we will get our hands over the computer soon,”
“Yes, baby, we will be able to. If not for those bastards, it would have been us who were the most powerful and we wouldn’t have had to wait for Ryder to come into the scene to get to the laptop. Now all we can do is wait and let Ryder and Katherine patch up. So that Katherine will ask Ryder to help and he can take the laptop which will make things easier for us. All you gotta do is make sure that nothing comes in between our plan and make those two to be together.”
“Yes, Dad, I will do that you don’t have to worry about it. We have to delete whatever is in that laptop so that our true identity won’t be revealed. Okay bye dad I am going before Kat wakes up. She is not a deep sleeper like she used to be, so I gotta be careful.”
“Yes, baby. Take care.”
“I will, dad. You take care and bye.” With that they cut their call and Amanda goes back to her thoughts of how to execute the plan with no one, mainly Katherine, doubting her.