Caroline's POV

I had just had a meeting with Jarrod. He explained that he had decided to choose someone else for the permanent position for his new PA. Even though my position was only temporary it still stung that he had decided to choose his girlfriend over me.

He asked me if I knew where his girlfriends sister had gone. I could have said the truth which is I knew nothing, I didn't know who she was after all.

But stung by my rejection I told a big lie. You see I wanted Camilla to hate me. So much so that she couldn't bare to work with me, so she would leave and I would become his permanent PA.

I told him that Sadie had turned down my advances and was moving to be close to her Cousin Hannah. I had heard Gemma mention her during one of our conversations. Of course I had no idea if that was true or not.

I went back to my desk seriously cross and then Eliott came by. He hadn't talked to me since William had punched him and he had obviously heard my conversation with Jarrod because he asked me why I had lied to him.

'I told him the truth' I said

'Um no, your still lying' Elliott told me. 'I know exactly what Sadie did after Gemma picked her up from jail because I was actually on the bus when she took it to Gemma's house. She asked me to go to her house and text me when Sadie left. I didn't see you there'

I wanted the floor to swallow me whole. I didn't know of this arrangement. I could have of course argued that Sadie could have come to see me afterwards, but he would have known I was here while he was having his day off

'I was going to give you another chance' he explained. 'But I don't think I will now' He went back to his own desk and I bit my lip trying and failing to stop the tears from running down my cheeks

After seeing Caroline's lack of maturity, I decided to not keep her for the next month, as Camilla will stay in her current job two weeks and I'll let her rest for two weeks more, so I decided to keep it vacant for one month.

I got a bit worried, I heard Camilla upset after the news about her sister. The day goes by...

For the rest of the day my mind kept drifting back to my sister. I still couldn't believe she left to be near Hannah. I wished I could have tried to make up with her but for now that was out of the question and I could feel the guilt slowly starting to eat at me.

Many times during the rest of the day I had to stop and force back tears. I didn't want to start crying in front of anyone at work my precious tears were for Jarrod only. At least I knew he wouldn't say anything about me crying and just be there for me. I'm not sure how good I'd be looked at at work.

As soon as my shift was over I ran to my car as fast as possible. I sped back to Jarrod's house although I could barely see through my blurry vision. I nearly sideswiped a couple cars. I was lucky though and made it back without any harm.

I nearly ran into Jarrod's house flinging my purse and keys on his side table by the front door. I then ran to his couch and flung myself disown with a thud.

"What's wrong?" Jarrod asked in a concerned tone.

"You were right. I should have made peace with my sister. Now she's on her way to our cousin Hannah's neck of the woods. I'm not sure when or even if I'll ever get a chance to fix things with her now. I just feel so guilty. I couldn't stop thinking about her at work after you told me." I began quickly feeling a tear finally escaping my right eye but now hanging on my lashes. "I mean I was close to tears all day trying to reason with my guilt. I could barely make it home I was so upset. The only thing that got me through was the thought of your strong arms holding me for another release." I finished praying Jarrod would quickly come on over and envelope me in a warm hug so I could fully release my emotions.

Last edited by Princess_Lucky1731 (September 8, 2021 2:10 am)

Gemma's POV

I was in England waiting for my niece to come off her coach from her trip. As I waited my thoughts turned to Sadie and a tear ran down my left cheek. I had given her some of my fortune as I had promised. Just a small slice of $2m. Given that I had won $60m in the lottery, I could certainly afford it. I just hoped that she would be careful with it as I wasn't intending it to be anything more than a one off.

Another tear fell this time down my right cheek and I wiped them away with my gloved hands. The coach had now arrived and the pupils started to pile off the coach

'Aunt Gemma!' I heard Kate happily squeal. I almost didn't recognize her as her knee socks were pulled up instead of in their traditional rolls at her ankles. She hugged me tightly not caring about the tears that streamed down her face.

'It's so good to see you' she said. 'How long are you staying' I tenderly wiped her tears away.

'As long as it takes me to do all those things I promised I'd do with you' I said. Another pair of tears streamed down Kate's face

'Perfect!' she said happily giving me another hug and soaking my jumper with her tears

Caroline's POV

I had been demoted back to my reception desk again. Jarrod had decided to go without an assistant until his fiancee was available citing my lack of maturity

In some respects though I felt lucky I had a job. My phone rang and it was Laura at the other end.

'Hi Caroline, just to let you know I've got someone else to chaperone me on the NY subway this week, I'm doing a morning run only because my girlfriend has a hockey match that evening so I wanted to spare you the long journey

I blinked because the last time we met Laura had definitely mentioned her boyfriend who loved Transformers like me. I could hear her wince over the phone when I brought this up.

'Please don't tell anyone' she begged. 'But I have one of each. It's perfectly okay, they both know and it's with their full consent and everything but I'd rather Mum and Dad didn't know. They wouldn't understand'

Perfect. I thought as I hung up. I can only hold onto a boyfriend for a week, but my bisexual goddaughter can have two successful relationships. I was frankly a little jealous. 

But then I realised it was this attitude that had caused my current problems. I went back to my desk