Office Affairs
Chapter Eleven
July 5, 2011
The next day, I reported to the office for some extra work. Only a few people were going to be there. Myself, Edward, Mike, some woman named Tanya, Jessica, another woman named Lauren, and Angela. We were supposed to be meeting to discuss some important business relating to the company; and the trip to China. It was weird coming in and collecting myself after learning something so personal about Alice and my boss/her brother Edward's affairs. I don't know how I could remain professionally distant when I had so many questions.
"So Edward," says Tanya, "I had fun the other week, but you never called."
I hear her say after the meeting is over. Everyone has exited the office, but those two remained. She'd been looking at him like a piece of beef jerky the entire meeting.
"I've been busy, Tanya," he brushes off her advances.
"I know, but I thought what we had was special," there's a pout in her voice.
"I think you thought that it was more than it was," his voice is cold, distant.
"Oh," is all she says.
"I don't want to continue this, as I've met someone," he explains, he doesn't sound remorseful.
"Who?" she asks, gasping, "don't tell me it's that Isabella Swan girl."
Had Edward been mentioning me to other people? I wondered. It made my heart race a little that he did, for some reason, my professionalism waning.
"It's not," Edward brushes her off.
"I don't believe you, I saw the way you were looking at her during the meeting," Tanya challenges him, "I hear the way you speak about her."
"I don't know what you mean," Edward's voice is still so shallow, I can't tell anything, and I can't see anything.
Standing behind the door, I move slightly closer.
"Fine, you want this to be over, it's over," Tanya says after a moment of deathly silence.
She walks straight out and right past me, not even noticing my presence. Of course girls like her don't notice girls like me. Tanya wore a perfectly ironed midnight blue blouse, and bright red skirt that went about mid-thigh. Her strawberry blonde hair mussed and crumpled into perfect waves, her ruby red lipstick staining her lips. She looked like she belonged on the cover of Maxim, not strolling the halls of this hallway. Of course whomever Edward hooked up with would be a bombshell.
I wondered if he'd hooked up with anyone else in the office.
Another feeling coursed through my veins now. Jealousy.
No. Stop. I remind myself, and think of Jasper's words, his pain, Alice's pain.
I couldn't get involved with the likes of Edward Cullen.
Exiting the office quickly, this is my one thought, stay away from him.