HIS TRUE BEAUTY

He continued “and don’t give me that look like I am being hard on you, no! I did carefully explain to you that this work is important, let’s put aside the emotions, I never wanted you to help in the first place. Look just stay away and let me handle it, then we will get back to together, now I swear to finish this task yesterday but here we are , look what am I left with!”

Tears clouded my eyes. I couldn’t even say a single word or speak out what’s in my mind. His words were so harsh. All I could do was cry, I only meant well, and it seems I am only making things worse for us.

Maybe I should listen and distance myself from him.

He took his phone from the table, pacing around the room restlessly while dialling a number.

“Yeah, can you please cancel the appointment, I know .. I know but I didn’t make it, I know I was so careless, what about Ferd, he is the manager, What?… Ferd wants to resign, not now… the company needs him now, what’s going to happen if the other employees get to find out about it, this is bad … this is so bad”he snapped out, he ran his fingers over his hair nervously.

I stood there still crying, he acted like I was invisible , he walked out of the room still talking on the phone.

I had to console myself andI picked my bag, the food flask and other stuff , and decided to leave before our co-workers got here and saw the two of us.

“Goodbye Bruno”.

I said in my head and left.

“Look where you’re going b*tch”

A motorcyclist cursed out loud at me, it startled me, I was almost hit by this motorcyclist.

Quickly in a panic, I stood out of the road, staring at the floor, wetting the dry ground with my tears.

I waved at a cab and went back home but half way I changed my mind. I don’t want to go home straight, I decided to drop at Jessi place.

My heart was so happy, I can’t face my parents with a face like this.

I got to Jessi’s place and met her outside the compound, she was all dressed up for work.

She was really surprised to see me at her place this early.

“What….. girl where are you coming from dressed like that, ain’t you gonna work today?”she asked curiously but I said nothing.

“Beauty?, what’s wrong?”

I didn’t say a word.

“Hey!”she yelled at me annoyedly but still I ignored her and walked into the room.

She followed me in, and saw me crying on the couch. She sighed and came to sit beside me. She put my head on her laps and started patting my hair softly.

“What is wrong honey?”

“It happened again Jessi , I think he doesn’t love me anymore, just like the others. Maybe this is also an excuse to get rid of me. Am I getting fat? Did I get fatter? And uglier recently? I promise I have been on a diet since we started dating, I really want to look better for him…. I…I tried my best to look nice for him…”.

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“Shhhh…”Jessi whispered and hugged me as I broke down in her arms.

“What am I supposed to do now Jessi, I am losing him”I cried bitterly then coughed out.

“Let me get you a drink, you will feel better”she said and pecked my forehead.

Few seconds after she came back with a glass of juice.

“Here take this”she said and handed me the glass, patting my back gently, I took it and almost finished it up then I choked and coughed out crying again.

“What will I do to myself Jessi, I should end my life for good”I cried more.

“Hey shhh, stop that silly talk, end your life because of a man? You aren’t even fat, there’s a difference, let me get you, what did Bruno do this time?”she asked with a serious look on her face.

I tried to control my tears so I could explain clearly to her.

“It all started back then , I went to see his father, he…”I paused.

“He .. what now?”Jessi asked impatiently.

“He asked me to do something in order to accept me into his family, then Bruno came up with this problem at the company, it was so bad , he lost himself and asked me to stay away till it’s fixed, I wanted to help but end up making it worse for him”.

“So there is a problem in our company , I knew it! And about Bruno.. was that all he said to you? Come on girl, maybe he is that type that needs a whole concentration on something, give him a little bit of time, don’t say he now hates you or maybe it has to do with you getting fat or ugly . Bruno loves you more than you think, believe me”.

She said softly and smiled at me and she pecked me but I was still expressionless.

“I want to quit Jessi”.

She looked at me shocked and also disappointed.

“Don’t be silly, Bea”.

“I have to give him the space he needed, but I guess I love him so much, I just can’t live without him, so maybe quitting all this will get him off my head”I sobbed and cried more.

**JESSI’S POV**

Please don’t make me cry, stop it Bea already, I screamed in my head.

Beauty is really hurting. I have never seen her this sad before.

I watched her silently gently pat her back, then she wanted to drink more from the glass of juice, I offered her back then.

“No Beauty stop… stop”.

But she was stubborn so I had to grab it forcefully from her. She pouted as I did that, I took the glass and went to pour away the drink in the kitchen sink.

“What’s wrong, you offered me the drink now you’ve taken it away , you are mean”she snapped and continued crying.

I stood motionless in the kitchen and thought very hard about her former statement concerning Mr Hathaway.

What exactly was the task that Mr Hathaway asked her to do? What if it was… I grabbed my chest , what have I done!

Last night I was invited by Mr Hathaway, he told me about his concern towards Bruno and Beauty, he said he suspected Bea to be a gold digger and a snitch, I of course defended my friend and assured him that Beauty is a good person and genuine, he should know better since she worked for him all these years.

He was however doubtful still but then he said he wanted to make sure she is being truthful about loving Bruno and not being a gold digger.

So he paid me to put a drug in Beauty’s drink so as to make her answer his questions truthfully.

As soon as Beauty came out from the taxi hours ago, I sent him a message, so they can do the questioning under my supervision. I don’t trust him enough to put a certain drug in Beauty’s drink and left her with him.

But now that I thought about this, I became scared for Beauty. I went back nervously and found her undressing.

“What are you doing?”I asked confused, mouth ajar

“I don’t know , I feel strange”Beauty sobbed, pulling every piece of clothing out of her body.