Filed to story: A Girl Nobody Wanted Book by SansaR
“Why? your heart got ached, when we scold her? Why? Are you in love with her?” Shane’s words made me froze.
What the hell is he asking? Luke’s face turned to red like a ripe tomato.
“Don’t be ridiculous Shane. To ask you to stop disrespecting a woman, do I have to love her?”
“You didn’t care what we do to her all this time. I want to know why are you acting like her Knight in shining armor all of the sudden?” Shane was furious, and Luke was no different.
God! where this argument leads to now? What should I do now?
But Luke was much more intelligent and patient than Shane. Without uttering a word, Luke looked away. Maybe he was afraid that he will spill out our little secret. He is loving me!!! So how he can answer Shane’s question covering all his feelings? “Answer me, Luke!!!!” Shane screamed and grabbed Luke from his T-shirt as Luke didn’t reply.
Luke! My sweet Luke!!!
“Shane!! please… what are you doing?” I begged him, without knowing what to do.
“What is going on here?” with that deep voice, Shane lose his grip and pulled himself away from Luke.
The person who entered the room was Jake.
Thank God!!! The right person at the right time!!!
“What’s going on Shane?” Jake asked walking towards us. He sounded calm and collected, but his face showed otherwise.
“Nothing,” Shane said looking away.
“Luke?” Jake then asked.
“Everything is okay, Jake” Luke replied.
“Then what the hell you two are still doing here. Sarah if you have finished making coffee, let’s go. We have a lot of work to finish, we don’t have time to fooling around.”
I offered a cup of coffee to Shane, and Luke took the jug filled with coffee.
“Let’s go,” Jake said, looking at Shane with disgust.
We three came out of the room when I look behind Shane was staring at us and with the look of his face, I knew both Luke and Jake have made a real enemy just because of me.
Three of us walked to the main hall in absolute silence. I looked at Jake and Luke time to time, both of them looked so connected in their own thoughts, and it was not hard to tell both of them were in so much anger.
After we come to the hall, I served coffee to everyone, and we started work again. Even though other three people have no idea what has happened inside that room, they seemed to realize that both Jake and Luke are not in a mood to tolerate any talk other than project-related. We talked with each other just to discuss things related to the project only.
As a result of our hard work and commitment, we could cover all the aspects related to the project and we even could finalize the content for all the powerpoint slides related to tomorrow’s presentation.
We decided that it is better if Jake, Luke and I deliver the presentation tomorrow. Since we only get 10 minutes, there won’t be enough time for all six of us to do the presentation anyway.
Therefore, the other three took the responsibility of modifying the slides and make them eye-catching. After dividing the presentation into 3 parts and assign each part to Jake, Luke and me, we decided to go to sleep.
Almost all the other teams were still working on their project, and they were just firefighting as they have very limited time left.
“Seems like they have to stay up all the night,” Dean said looking around.
“If we didn’t focus, we would also be in the same boat,” Jake said.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Luke offered to take me to room as yesterday, there was no anger or any negative emotions left on his handsome face. He was back to his joyful self.
But when it comes to Jake, he seemed fine from outside, but his eyes were telling another story. They were still bloody red and clear anger is visible on them.
Jake, didn’t even tell he come with us to my room, instead, he just followed us.
“Goodnight to both of you. Thank you for taking me here. ” I said looking at both of them after we reach my room.
“Goodnight Sarah,” Luke said with a gentle smile.
Jake just looked at me and then looked away.
I sighed!
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After taking a wash I came to my bed. Penny was still not there. They might be working still.
I took my phone to send him a message.
“Sleep well, Sweet dreams…”
“I don’t have to dream today. I was looking at you all day, so it is a dream itself.” got his reply right away.
He is right, all these feel exactly like a dream. Who thought a girl nobody wanted will become so valuable for someone like him?
“You are right. Not just today. You texting with me is a dream for me. And I never want to wake up from this delightful dream.”
“You have to wake up, princess. We have to make this dream a reality. After that, I will never let anyone to even look at you in a wrong way”
Oh! Poor Luke!!! He is still worried about me!
But I didn’t know how to reply to him. He may be able to protect me from everyone, but I am not sure how he is going to protect me from my own family. Not even he can go against them. “I think I should sleep now, how about you?” I asked.
“Well, I have some work to do. Sleep tight princess!!” he replied.
Work? What work is he talking about? We have finished all the work for today, haven’t us? Maybe he is getting ready for his part of the presentation, but we have sufficient time for that.
Wait! I got it. He doesn’t know that I know who he really is. Therefore, he may try to pretend, like some other guy who still stuck with the project work. Clever enough ha!!!
Tomorrow we have to go back, don’t we? Even thinking about that made me sad. I have to go again, to that hell hole which I call home!
How much I enjoyed, these two days with all these guys. Even with Bob and Glenn!! I never thought I would enjoy working with them.
Jake… I didn’t feel nervous working with him, instead, I started loving it. He is like an ocean full of knowledge, his contribution to our project was tremendous. He is arrogant and cold. He was even looking at my photo for a reason only the God and he knows. Then he pretended like he didn’t do anything. All of these are true. But I don’t know why I felt he is a lot more kind and caring from inside. What he has done, in that small room, was definitely a proof for that. He didn’t want to see me, or Luke get into trouble. He just saved both of us, didn’t he?