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Annabeth
" Per-" I correct myself," Mr Jackson.. what are you doing here?"
" Miss Ch- Chase," He looks at me in surprise. All I can see is his beautiful eyes and the expression of confusion on his face.
My stomach does a flip and my heart flutters.
" Yeah," I shrug, trying to ignore my pounding heart.
" I think I am at the wrong address," He pulls out a paper from his pant's back pocket.
" W-what do-does it say?" I ask him stuttering like an idiot.
" Its apartment 202- Wing D," He takes a step back, looking at my apartment number.
And suddenly, I am conscious of my appearance. Man, I look so messy. My hair, my shirt and my skirt. Gosh. And look at him, gorgeous as ever.
" Ummm... Sorry?" I say stupidly. All I wanna do is hide in a closet right now and never get out.
" It says apartment 202."
" 202?" I echo.
" Yup."
" This is 202, that's right."
" Wing D?" Percy asks.
" Wing D is over there," I point right towards the empty hallway.
" There?" He follows my gaze.
' STUPID!' My brain yells loudly.
" Gosh!" I exclaim," I mean the building next to th-this one. This is Wing C."
" Oh! My bad. I didn't check the Wing before entering," He mutters to himself.
" That's a common mistake people tend to make. The society associates need to put a board or something," I manage.
" I am really sorry, Miss Chase. I disturbed you. I can see you were resting. Forgive me." He says sincerely.
" Oka-" I stop, " Mr Jackson, that's okay. It was no problem."
" I really wanted to thank you for today. Thank you so much, you took care of my little one. I am really grateful for that."
" Please don't mention it," I smile.
" She is my everything," He smiles back.
'I KNOW.'
" Thanks Miss Chase," He pulls out some thing from his pocket. Its a card. He hands it to me.
" Crap! I am late," He says as he receives a call.
" Yes Sam. I am almost there," He says in the phone.
" Bye Miss Chase," He turns around to leave, " DO GIVE ME A CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR COMPUTER." He shouts looking over his shoulder as he darts off. I am left with a big smiley face for the remaining day.
The chain of activities that happened today, are posing a hindrance to me falling asleep. I am lying on the bed, my eyes open, my thoughts racing. I shut my eyes for a minute and open them again. I can't stop replaying our conversation in my head. On top of it, I acted so dense. I pointed to the hallway telling him Wing D is over there. God knows, how dense you have to be to do that. Gosh ! I wanna face palm me. He must be thinking, I am sooooooooooooo stupid.
The moment I tell my brain to shut up, it has to remind me of how I embarrassed myself today. This is a non stop and never ending cycle.
Was I blushing? No please no. Gods! What if I was? All hope I didn't blush like an idiot in front of him.
But isn't it supposed to happen? Like people blush a lot, get over excited, their hearts pounding a lot louder than usual, stomach flips like crazy when they are around someone they like. Its normal. I don't know why I am acting like a teenager.
It will stop the moment I get over him.
And my appearance. I looked so bad, my hair were sticking out of the pony tail.
' Maybe, he didn't even realise,' The rational part inside my head realises. ' He gave you his card that has his personal number.' It even has its office address on it.
Percy Jackson
Software Tester
1023564798(~THIS IS A FAKE MADE UP NUMBER.~)
Maybe I wasn't too bad. I mean He gave me his number. Who gives their number to some one they think is stupid.
Crushing on some one makes you do stupid things. I remember staring at the card for a long while before I realised I am supposed to copy it on my phone and save it. I saved it as Percy first, but, deciding for the better, changed it to Mr Jackson.
I don't know why I am thinking so much about this guy, he was irrelevant till yesterday except for the one time when I thought how would it feel to kiss him, hug him and touch him. I swear it was just once.
Fine, twice.
AAAAAAAAAAh ! Fine !
A few lots times.
But still he never managed to ruin my night sleep. I love my sleeping time and yes, I am going to do that right now.
YOU CAN"T RUIN MY SLEEP. I WON'T ALLOW THAT.
If it wasn't for him, I would have fallen asleep. All these thoughts are irrelevant, forget it, breathe, relax and sleep.
Breathe, relax and sleep.
Breathe, relax and sleep.
Breathe, relax and sleep.
Breathe, relax and sleep.
Breathe, relax and sleep...
PERCY
I dash towards Wing D, after I ran into Miss Chase. That was stupid. I should have checked the Wing before entering. I disturbed her while she was sleeping. All I hope is she didn't mind.
" Percy !" I hear Jason, my co-league, and best friend from work. I whip around to see him jogging towards me.
Jason is the core developer of the company. He has to do all the coding and stuff. He fixes errors and bugs, while my job is just to find if there is a bug. I don't have to fix it. Jason will do that
" Hey dude," I lift a hand
" Man, I was waiting for you at the gate," He waves.
" Sorry I walked into the wrong Wing and had to hurry back," I tell him.
" Come on," He rolls his eyes. " Lets finish up."
I follow him up two floors, simultaneously, ringing at home to make sure Perrie is alright. I hate having to go when she's home alone. Half of my heart is at home. I can't concentrate much. She picks up at the third ring, telling me, its all good and I worry too much. But, she is still too small to understand how hard it is not to be concerned. I may be a little less worried when she is older, but right now, Nope.
It takes me 45 minutes to go through Mr Jin's new software. It has 5 bugs. Jason has noted them down while I was explaining to Mr Jin, why the program was crashing. It's Jason's job to fix the errors now. That could take a time.
" I think I'll need to take it to the office, sir," Jason says after looking at his list. " It could take a while."
" Ah ! I see," Mr Jin says thoughtfully.
" So ... can I?" Jason narrows his eyes.
" Thank you for your time, Mr Grace and Mr Jackson, " Mr Jin says with an approving nod." I'll send it over, first thing, tomorrow morning."
" Okay Sir," Jason says as Mr Jin ushers us out.
We leave his apartment and Jason and I get in my car. I tell him how I ran into Miss Chase as we are on the road. Its getting rather late. 8'o clock. Perrie's alone, plus, its dinner time.
" Miss Chase? Sounds familiar," Jason screws up his face with scepticism.
" She is Perrie's school teacher."
" Oh, " He nods in recognition. " What's her name?"
" I just told you Miss Ch-," I stop mid sentence, realising he means her first name and I don't have any idea about it. " Shit! I don't know."
" Gods Percy," Jason laughs like I have made the biggest joke of the century. " You don't know your daughter's school teacher's name."
" Gosh! How was I supposed to know since Perrie always calls her Miss Chase," I say trying to cover up, even though, it shows how ignorant I have been.
" Kids don't address their teachers by first name," He says as a matter of fact.
" I know that, " I say defiantly.
" Why don't you ask Perrie? She'll know," He smirks.
" NO," I say. " I'll ask Miss Chase, myself the next time I see her," I promise myself.
" Where are we off to for now?"
" Home," I say steering faster. " You can tag along, of course. Perrie loves you. "
" I know. I was just gonna say that," Jason says nonchalantly.
" Cool."
Jason often comes along with me. We have dinner, and after Perrie goes to sleep, we have a few drinks, not on regular basis though. Mostly, we just talk, about almost everything.
My anxious brain is relieved the moment we reached home. It was all peaceful. I unlock the door, to find Perrie in the kitchen drinking water.
" Hey Daddy. Uncle Jay," She runs forward to give Jason a hug.
" How is my beautiful girl doing?" Jason bends on his knees and hugs her, while I start preparation for dinner.
" Very good," Perrie laughs.
I make some salad, rice and pasta. I can't cook much. These are some of a few things I can make, however, and I have tasted them, it was okay.
Jason is playing with Perrie.
" Jason."
" Perrie."
" Come on dinner's ready," I yell from the kitchen, even though they are just a few feet away in the living room.
" COMING," I hear them say in unison and then laugh, cause they both said the same thing.
Dinner is always fun with Jason around. He tells Perrie jokes and keeps her mood up lifted. She loves his company and so do I.
Some times I do think if we would be that happy if Becky was around. We could have been a family. Perrie would have had both her Mum and Dad with her. We could be a complete family. I know she wants her mom too, but she never says. Maybe because of me.
At times I wish if she would say it. Complain and tell me to go bring her from where ever she is.
But she doesn't.
She's too mature for her age.
" Maybe you should hire a baby sitter, dude," Jason says after, we put Perrie to bed and are now doing the dishes.
" No," I gasp in horror." I am not."
" Why?"
" Why? Why because I am not having my kid with a stranger slash some one I barely know."
" Dude relax, I was just suggesting it. Doesn't mean you have to."
" Gods, Jason she's five. I can't. No way."
" Okay okay relax," He says putting a bowl in the dishwasher. " You okay ,though?" He adds hesitantly.
" Yeah, why not?"
" Perrie, told me you were upset last night," Jason shrugs.
" I was just thinking," I shrug.
" About?"
" About life and everything," I say.
" About BECKY," Jason guesses.
" I guess," I nod.
" Percy, listen to me. She left you and your 2 year old daughter. She doesn't want you. She left you when you guys needed her the most. You don't even know where she is," Jason grips my shoulders.
" I know where she is. I just wish she would come back, if not for me, for her," I say thinking about Perrie.
" She is not going to," Jason shakes his head. " Where is she?"
" London."
" Dude, she doesn't wanna come back. She doesn't care, why don't you get it?"
" I loved her. She was the only one I truly loved."
" She doesn't love you and neither Perrie. If she did, wouldn't she come to see her own daughter for about more than once a year. She only sees you both once every new year. I don't know why does she even do that," He says with disdain.
" Maybe because she does love her."
" No I know, she doesn't," Jason snorts with laughter.
How can he say that? What does he even know? I am sorry but he has no right to say that.
" What? What do you even know?" I explode releasing my shoulders from his grip. " You know why she left? Do you? It was because of me. I made her leave. It was my fault that she left. I am the reason Perrie doesn't have a complete family."
" NO NO Percy. You didn't do anything. She just wanted to get rid of you both. She was just looking for a reason to leave. She never wanted to stay."
" No," I say taken aback. " She didn't."
" Mark my words, she is not coming back and she never truly loved you."
I am speechless.
" You need to let go now. Its been 3 years. How long are you gonna keep waiting for that light in the darkness, when have lost the matchsticks to light your candle."
" I am not waitin-"
" Why haven't you moved on then?" He asks bluntly.
I shrug.
" Its time to move on now, mate. Try to forget her."
" Its hard."
I do love her still...
ANNABETH
Last night, sucked, after a lot of self pep talk, I managed to calm down myself and went to bed. I hope it doesn't happen again, I really do. This is becoming the craziest crush I have ever had.
School is hectic as always, running around every where, after kids, to complete daily tasks but, I love it. Perrie told me her Daddy loved the drawing. She had a gleeful expression on her face. ' He said he is going to frame it.' is what she told me and he was smiling a lot after that.
I kinda do like his smile. Its heart stopping, gives me a little flutter. Hearing about that just made my day.
Gosh! I'll be going crazy.
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