Chapter 3-
The next day Sydney walked into the CIA building in her usual all-black outfit. Today she will be getting a new partner and Syd wasn't sure she was ready for that because in her entire CIA career she had worked with only one person that is Marcus Dixon. She was wondering what kind of person her new partner would be, would he be a jackass or a nice person? Sydney pondered as she walked into the debrief room and was shocked by who other person was. Noah Hicks.
What the hell is he doing here? Sydney stared at Dixon.
"Whoa. Do you guys know each other? That would be even better. Syd, Noah Hicks would be your new partner from now on." Dixon looked from Sydney to Noah.
"Hello Sydney," Noah extended his right hand.
"Hi," Syd didn't even bother to shake hands with her ex-boyfriend, "Dixon can I speak to you for a second?" She walked towards Dixon.
"Sure," Dixon replied.
Sydney saw that Dixon was still standing where he was, so she said, "in private please".
"WHY DID YOU ASSIGN ME TO WORK WITH HIM?" Sydney yelled at Dixon.
"Wow…calm down Syd. Noah seems to be a nice person. What is it that you have against him?" Dixon seemed to be amused by how Syd had reacted
"He is selfish, immature and annoying! WHAT he did to Tashi was definitely very very cruel, selfish and heartless." Syd was getting angrier as she remembered what Noah had done Tashi.
Flashback
It was three month into their relationship. They were just taking a stroll in the public park very close to Syd's apartment. They stopped by the ice cream stand and got two ice cream sundaes. While they ate their ice cream, a little white creature started to follow them. They didn't realize it was there until Syd turned around to get a napkin from her handbag. In the corner of her eyes, she spotted this tiny puppy who looked very fragile and probably very hungry. Syd stopped and bent her knees down to the take a look at the puppy. She thought the puppy was so adorable, and she instantly felt sorry about the state it was in.
"Oh come on Syd. It is just a dog. Don't give her anything if you do she will follow to your house." Noah said it nonchalantly.
"But look at it she look so hungry!" Syd said as she let the puppy licked her ice cream. She felt like that she needed to keep this dog. She just felt as if the puppy was destined to be hers.
"Hell no! Now you gotta give it to the pound I m not having that around in your apartment. He is a stray dog probably contained a lot of diseases. Come on now we are going to the pound." Noah replied with a frown.
"No we can't give it to the pound they will kill her. Look at her she is so adorable and too fragile to go to the pound." Syd picked the puppy up and said, "You are such a good girl. Now we are gonna get you clean and get you some dog food okay?"
Syd with the dog and Noah walked back to her apartment without saying anything to each other. She knew that he wasn't happy about the dog, but she didn't care. It was HER dog and he can't do anything about it. Syd decided to call the puppy Tashi, which she thought it suit the puppy because it was such a cute name.
Syd left Tashi with Noah while she went to the nearest grocery shop to get some dog things, like food, dog dishes and chew toys.
When she got back to her apartment, she called out for Noah and Tashi. She was expecting Tashi running toward her and Noah to say "hi' to her, but she received none of that. Instead, she found a note on the refrigerator left by Noah saying that he took Tashi for a walk. Syd instantly realized that he took her to the pound. She was so upset that the fact that Noah took HER dog to the pound. He had no right to do that, Syd thought. She dashed for the door and for her car. And she drove so fast to the pound that she could have gotten a ticket for speeding.
"Put that dog down or you getting your ass kicked," Syd said angrily to Noah who was about to hand Tashi to the person working at the pound.
"Syd! WE CANT keep this dog! It will ruin our relationship!" Noah felt that it was right to take the dog to the pound. He feared that Syd would love the dog more than him. He needed to get rid of the dog so he could get rid of whatever insecurity he had.
"WTF! JUST shutup and put the dog down. I meant it when I said your getting your ass kicked if you don't do what I say. Also, if you don't we are sooo over. I didn't know you were that heartless to that little innocent poor dog. I guess that I know now. NOAH I SAID PUT THE DOG DOWN NOW!" Syd was so furious that he did such thing.
"Okay okay I will just calm down." Noah felt that he had no choice and he put Tashi down.
Tashi ran towards to Syd and Syd was hugged her feeling so much better that Tashi was in her arms. She walked out of the pound and she went directly for her car without even saying bye to Noah.
"Syd wait. I am sorry! I shouldn't have done that. It's just that I don't like dogs. Can you forgive me?" Noah wanted so bad to make it up to Syd now that he saw how angry she was when he took Tashi away from her.
"Whatever Noah. We will see about us." Syd replied coldly.
End of flashback
From that moment on, Sydney and Noah had been going on and off for a while until they broke it off for real last night. Sydney felt so relief after that, and now she have to work with that jackasss! She couldn't handle it. She told Dixon about Tashi and how Noah treated her. Dixon realized how much Sydney disliked Noah and decided to let Syd fly solo for a while until he finds a better an agent that could live up to Sydney's standards and expectations.
Sydney had been doing a lot of solo missions for about two months since she refused to work with Noah and the CIA doesn't have any spare agents to match her up with until she received a call for Dixon. Dixon had apparently found a good agent for her to work with. She was told that she would meet her new partner in debrief on October 1st, which was tomorrow. Syd was excited to have a new partner and she prayed that he wouldn't be a jerk like Noah was.
Sydney decided to go see Tashi who practically lives in Nadia, her other best friend's house because Syd goes on missions a lot and she don't have time to take care of her while she was away.
Syd arrived at Nadia's house and rang the bell. She smiled at herself when she heard Tashi barking at the door. Nadia's boyfriend, Eric Weiss opened the door.
"Hey Weiss, I came here to see Tashi and I was wondering if I could take her for a walk?" Syd looked at Tashi lovingly.
"Sure of course she is your dog!" Weiss smiled and handed Syd the dog leash.
"Thanks! Say hi to Nadia for me! I will be back in 2-3 hours. Byes!" Syd said to Weiss as she put the leash on Tashi's tingly collar.
Syd took Tashi to the park and got ice cream for both of them. While Tashi was enjoying her ice cream, Sydney was sitting on a nearby bench and reading Alice in Wonderland for the 47th time (yes she did keep a record of how many times she read the book) because she loved that book so much. Suddenly, Tashi started to bark random, and Syd knew it was probably a big dog coming or something since Tashi is scared of big dogs. Syd looked up and for sure there was a light brown medium-sized bulldog walking towards them.
She walked over to Tashi and picked her out to calm Tashi down.
"It is okay baby, it is just another dog you will be fine with mommy here okay sweetie?" Syd held Tashi close to her chest. Syd took another look at the other dog and she saw the owner was a guy with stunning green eye.
The guy seemed to realize that he was being watched, so he turned around and saw Syd hugging this little white puppy. He thought Syd looked so cute holding her dog. He smiled at her, then he went back to walking his dog.
Syd's heart fluttered when that guy with gorgeous eyes smiled at her. Tashi was staring at her owner curiously. Syd decided to spend the night with Tashi and take her back to Nadia's after tomorrow's debrief because she knew she would be going on a mission after tomorrow. While she thought about that, Syd couldn't stop thinking about that guy in the back of her mind.
Syd thought, he was hot and OMG those green eyes are so beautiful…I hope my new partner looks as hot that guy was….