Mr CEO (1)

The rain finally was reducing and the weather was now freezing cold. Mr Fred decided to send his employees home for the day, but still had the intentions of following Lydia home.

And also, Jace followed.

"can't we use the car?" he asked with an angry face

"No Jace, I usually stroll from my home down to work.... Everyday" Lydia told him while checking her phone for any messages

"everyday!!!" he was quite shocked to be hearing that for the first time

"not because your's is closer to the bakery, that's why you see every distance long?" Mr Fred finally spoke up

"well..." Jace looked around for excuses, before his eyes landed on one, "Oh look, it's Lydia's house"

Lydia was shocked to know that finally they've gotten to her house, so she lifted up her eyes and almost slapped Jace after what she saw.....

"that's not my house!"

"yeah Jace, that's for the old, old people's care home;" Mr Fred was as annoyed as ever

"but I thought you lived with the old, the grannies and Grandpas" Jace awkwardly smiled at what he was saying

"minus fourty percent from your salary for that joke which means literally nothing" Mr Fred declared

Before Jace could plead, Mr Fred increased his speed and moved forward, leaving Jace behind with Lydia.

"You told fully well he won't do it right?" Lydia said lifting Jace hopes up

"Sometimes I really do think he will do it, honestly" he looked around but couldn't find Mr Fred anywhere. "you've seen Mr Fred?"

"sure, there he is" Lydia pointed at an ice cream truck where Mr Fred stood with happiness on his face as the ice cream man scooped up the delicious looking dessert.

"does he like ice cream so much like this?" Jace asked with a curious face

"well, let's not use the word 'like' instead let's put it like this, he loves ice cream more than his employees..." she declared making Jace gasp in surprise

"that's us!"

"Yes! he love ice cream more than us!" she again said as they approached Mr Fred.

"Sir...." Jace called but Mr Fred raised his finger, signaling him to keep quiet.

"Don't you see the ice cream man is concentrating and you're disturbing him!" what Mr Fred said made Jace quickly move backwards to meet Lydia, in preventing any further words

"Lydia, I never knew ice cream men concentrated while scooping?" Jace was so confused, he wished he had Google at the moment, Lydia however just smiled and slightly laughed but she still kept the word in her head..... Do Ice cream men concentrate while scooping?.

Nevertheless, they finally got to Lydia's apartment with ice cream cones alongside. Mr Fred actually bought for both of them, to at least keep something sweet in their mouth. That's also why everytime Mr Fred would want to go out, everyone always love following him, Why?, because he must surely buy one or two delicious snacks and sweets.

"Whoa!!!, Lydia your living room is super spacious, clean and organized!" Jace spined around with a smile seeing the house

"what about yours?" Mr Fred asked making Jace whistle away. "well since he doesn't want to answer, I'll help him..... Jace house is a mess, Everything is jumbled up!"

"Mr Fred, you don't have to be so blunt, I'm sure Jace house will be superb....." Lydia didn't finish speaking before Mr Fred let out a fake sneeze and cough

"Sir!" she looked at him like a mother scolding her child

"what?" the man moved towards the kitchen also whistling away.

Jace was actually the person who was having the awkward moment, so he quickly moved to the kitchen also, living Lydia standing alone.

"Lydia!" Mr Fred called from the kitchen, "you actually forgot these are fresh roses?"

"Holy moly!" she rushed towards the kitchen.

After keeping the roses in the vase, Lydia gave Mr Fred the invitation card to open but he declined...

"I won't open it, you were the receiver so go ahead and open it up"

"but sir, I'm nervous" Lydia said sitting down

"everyone here's too, now open the card and read the invitation, we don't know now whether we've missed the party" Mr Fred continued urging her to open it, until Jace snatched it from her hands and opened it himself.

"I'm tired of waiting!" he handed it over to her

Lydia looked at him with a pout, but proceeded in reading the invitation.

"You are wholesomely invited to the annual gathering of NAFEV, Venue: xxxxx estate, Time: 9pm, and it's tonight.... That's all it says" she handed over the card to Mr Fred who stroked his chin gently after reading it all over again

"we need to go to that gathering!" Jace stated

"of course we'll go there!" Mr Fred said sharply, "that's where this person who sends this is going to"

"It's just like in my dream but in another way round" Lydia took another deep breath to relax her nerves.

"but we're not prepared!" Jace said looking at Mr Fred for answers

"well, I'm!" a familiar voice spoke up, looking back it was Janice and she carried an entire hanged clothes.

"how..." Mr Fred was speechless

"how did I know?, well.... when you guys thought I was sleeping during the heavy rain, I wasn't. Instead I was listening to every chit chats and from the conversation, I knew a party would be going on so I took Mr Fred's credit card and bought all these clothes" Janice smiled as Mr Fred eyes twitched when he heard 'credit card'

"you did what!" he was also shocked how she took it, but since it was an emergency and also it has to do with Lydia, He forgived Janice but still had it in mind.

"so, it's tonight right?" Janice asked and everyone shook their head.

"Wait everyone, let's give ourselves a team name" Jace suggested but everyone just wanted to do this and get over with it.

"But still, we are a team... So go team FLJs" Mr Fred shouted like a megaphone making everyone flinch backwards

"I thought everyone just didn't like a team name not quite long!" Jace exclaimed after seeing everyone going with the team name. "anyways, Go team FLJS!"