75: Sad mornings and painful cheeks.

KIKI.

I spent the entire morning sad. I have never been put in this kind of situation before. How could this have gotten out of hand? Where did I go wrong? It already seemed like everything was not going well and now this happens.

“Kiki, are you in here?” A voice called out as I went silent. Due to the fact that the door somehow distorted the voice of the person, I couldn’t recognize who the voice belonged to and I didn’t want to come out in case I ran into Judy and my other colleagues. I was very embarrassed.

There was a knock on all the doors and soon a knock came on mine.

“Go away.” I said to the person as the voice replied, “It’s me, Betty, your friend. I heard what happened.” She said as I shook my head.

“No, you are not my friend. You knew about this and you didn’t tell me. You didn’t give me a headup and you allowed me to be disgraced in front of everyone. Why are you here now? I don’t want to set eyes on you, okay? Please, just leave. I’m fine,I’ll be fine. Thus is nothing compared to what I’ve gone through in my life.” I started rambling on and on like I wasn’t just talking to her but also trying to reassure myself.

Just when I thought I had gotten someone other than Rose in this new environment, I was let down once again. It was very hard for me.

But what did I expect? That a friend I met recently was going to be good to me? Was I this daft and lonely? I was not even sure if I would be able to listen to any explanation she may think of making up at the moment.

“It’s really not my fault. I had no choice. Honestly speaking, when I found out, I confronted Judy when she was alone and she was saying that this was just the start of what she will do to you and she might do worse to me if I don’t keep my mouth shut. She’s my superior at work afterall so I had no choice.. She told me if I ever talked to you again, I could kiss my work good bye and I know how she has some connections in here. I didn’t want to provoke her and I also didn’t want to be the person that brings up bad news to you. I honestly had no idea that she would disgrace you in public or how she even got the pictures.” She said as I wiped my face and replied,

“I’m sorry for coming at you. It’s truly not your fault. You were not the one who told me to keep going at Mr. Giovanni. I was the one who decided to do it. It was really immature of me and I don’t want to put blames on you.” I said as I opened the door and walked out of the bathroom.

“You look like a mess. Your mascara is destroyed so is your makeup. “ She replied with a little smile on her face as I laughed and replied,

“This is the weirdest nice thing I have heard today so I will take it.” I said as she smiled and handed me a napkin.

“I am once again so sorry. Maybe we can hang out later today to make up. Would you like that?” She said as I nodded my head.

“Yes that would be nice. If nothing worse happens and I am free. Then it would be nice to know you.” I wiped off the stains marks from my face and she helped me in washing my face and applying a new set of light makeup.

“You can’t be there and show them that you cried. They will just make fun of you more. Keep quiet, pull your head up and don’t entertain them, if there is one thing that I know from these people, it is that if you treat them as invincible, they will stop picking on you.” She said as I rolled my eyes at the thoughts of Judy running away just because I refused to entertain her.

“It may work on others but not Judy. That girl will stop at nothing to make sure that I am disgraced properly. She always hated my guts. I’m sure that a mute me won’t help.” I replied as she shrugged it off.

“I have to go now, I actually have a file to submit at the research department. Will you be alright on your own?” She asked worriedly as I nodded my head.

“Yes I will be fine. Go and do your thing. What is the worst that can happen? After all, it’s just Judy.” I waved her off and made my way back to the office where I ran out of, this was going to be a bit hard but there was no use crying over spilled milk. I just had to man up and face them. They won’t tease me for ever.

But to my dismay, as soon as I sat down, the door bursted open again and my jaw dropped at the sight of the woman that walked in. This was even a deadlier person than Judy.

FIFI.

The look on her face was deadly and looked like if it was possible, she would stop at nothing to have me ruined. She stormed towards me with powerful strides.

“Hy, Fiorella.” I greeted, hoping that she hasn’t seen the pictures and was actually just here to see Gigi so that I could usher her in but then before I could speak even further, a resounding slap landed on my face.

“How dare you? Who do you think you are? If you are so dirty and disgraceful like this, then I do not know what to think of your entire family.” She snapped with so much venom while I held my painful cheek with confusion.

Could this day get any worse?

“How dare you touch my man and seduce him with your dreaful and dirty body? Who and what gave you the right to do that? Were you brought up to snatch other people’s men? You are such a shameless gold digger and I will make sure that your days in this company are numbered. You will not go scot free for what you did.” She said as I kept looking at her, suddenly tongue-tied.

“What are you trying to do keeping quiet and suddenly acting like a mute? Oh, you suddenly can’t talk because you want to maintain a victim stance? Or do you think that my Gigi will walk in here and save you again? Well, think again because he’s so not going o do anything to save you! You’ve beaten more that you can chew this time and this is the end of your time in this place!” She said again.

The day had my whole sassy and confident self thrown out of the window and I couldn’t help but think about it all.

Was I silent because I knew I was wrong?