But she pretended she wasn't looking my way. She went back inside after someone called her , and I shrugged it away.
I didn't feel like getting back at that moment, so I decided to take a walk around. And through the hallway, I started walking around, with my eyes fixed at where I was going, and my head fixed at Kale and what was really wrong with Halen.
I passed through an empty office with three seniors in it, discussing and laughing. I rolled well with them.
It got my attention without me allowing it. I knew them well though, although we weren't friends, we rolled well. Plus, they were from my county, and I knew their family well enough, especially Peter.
"Hey Arianne!" He called out, as I was near the window, and he must have seen me walk across the door.
"Yo what's up?" I said, going into the office. His face was bright, and he looked happy.
"I heard someone yesterday?" He asked, with a mischievous smile.
"I … I don't know?" I really didn't know, since I didn't see anybody cry in the interns office.
"Come on, I'm talking about Halen" he said with a chuckle.
And It made me get Interested again in the matter. I wondered how he got to know. I smiled within me, knowing that I was finally going to get the whole gist, since he was my guy.
"Oh, Halen, Yeah there was some umm kind of sadness with them yesterday" I replied, as I went in, and sat down with him, because I was going to hear it all.
"Them?"
"Yeah, her and her friends" I replied with a chuckle.
"Oh right."
"Mmhmm. So what's up? What happened to her?"
"She didn't tell you guys?"
I was surprised to hear that. Did it mean that she was supposed to tell us? Even so, I wasn't her friend, and definitely not on the lists of people she would talk to about it, which made me think if it wasn't so serious after all, and didn't worth being a secret.
"Nah bro. I ain't even her friend haha"
"I fucked her up bro" he said with a heave of laughter from his friends, and the look on his face proved he was happy with whatever he did, and he was fulfilled.
"Sorry, what do you mean?" I thought he had sexually molested her.
"I broke up with her man, you should see how she was begging me. Told her I was done bro. Now I need someone new and fresh, might target someone else from the Interns Office as well. I hope they are all good to toy with in bed. You know what I mean" he said, with a wink, feeling himself.
"Wait, you, you are Halen's boyfriend? Like for real?!" I stammered.
"Of course" he replied abruptly.
Damn! So Halen had a boyfriend?! Omg, this was a big blow to me, so she had a boyfriend… I thought about what he said, and got irritated and angry
. I smiled a bit, just to show that I was among them, and had no problem with it. Because, to them, that's what guys do, is their thing.
I stepped out from the seat, with so many thoughts in my mind, irritation and annoyance were running through my body.
I felt sorry for whoever was going to be the next victim, because definitely, he would get someone else, after all he was tall and handsome, and that's what girls liked, tall, and handsome guys, and that's what deceives them.
I went back to the office, and met the amazing artist who drew a line across Halen''s lips. I didn't return it, but had to loosen my face, at least. I disliked making anyone feel bad.
"Where have you been?" She asked, coming to sit with me, right in my seat. I wasn't surprised anymore, since I have known the truth, she was looking for someone to talk to, someone that would fill the void until she was better. I hated being a toy though, I disliked it when people get so nice just to use me.
"Nothing much, just walked around." I replied without thinking, weighing the words, which flowed out from my mouth as If I wasn't really talking, as if I wasn't in the moment, but somewhere else.
She tore a piece of paper from my book, and I looked at her with widened eyes. Was she going to wreak havoc on my stuff again?
She smiled and rubbed my back. And started writing.
"Have you ever dated before?" I read the letter and looked at her. She was blushy and acted exceptionally sweet and cute. I was amused. And since I knew that she was single, I thought I should play along with her, because of the pain she might be going through.
“what a dumb question 101” ? I wrote back. She read it and nodded her head. And passed hers to me.
“At least, it's a question”. It was true after all. They had broken up, but she didn't accept that she had dated before, which was obvious.
I was trying to be kind and nice, and sweet, so I asked her a question, a question which later I thought If i didn't ask her that, nothing would have happened. But on the other side of my brain, whether I asked or not, whatever she had in mind at first coming to me, she would see to it's finalization.
“Then I will take you out ”. I wasn't reasoning when I was writing that. I didn't think much of it either. When I passed on the paper to her, she read with a gladdened smile, which touched my heart.
“That's lovely. I'm looking forward to that.”

After that, it was time to go home. I left first, with her visuals in my head, her smile sitting right in my heart, her scent filling the air that I breathed in, and her voice resounding in my ear like a lullaby.
****
Time, they say, does run fast. It's been two days since Halen talked to me nicely for the first time ever. Things didn't feel and weren't the same.
Halen became close to me, as in, sitting with me all the time. And it was like Kale didn't have a place in my heart anymore. I was pushing him away, without knowing it.
Halen occupied his place. Kale lost his cool, he wasn't as bright and all smiling as he was with me. And I wasn't talking to him as before either, I had someone else who spent all the time with me, I didn't know what to do. And I couldn't just abandon Halen.
Halen was with me as usual, it was all fun and lovely whenever we were together. And I started seeing a different girl, from the one I have known before.
She acted so sweet and lovely, that any guy or girl would want her in his arms all the time, to cuddle with her, and to have a hot romance with her in bed.
She liked writing on paper, she took it as love letters, which obviously was the case.
She tore a piece from my book, I didn't know why she wouldn't use hers, but I could see in her expression that it excited her, and she thought it was cool. My book became a torn piece with many writings on it.
"Close your eyes" she said, twisting her hands like a baby.
"Why?" I asked, puzzled.
She frowned her face, and pinched out her upper lip, while her smooth face ruffled closely and her eyebrows met her eyes. I didn't need to ask her why again, I just had to comply, which I did.
"Open your eyes" she whispered into my ear with her warm sensual breath as she ruffled the piece of paper into my palm.
“Will you be my girlfriend, Arianne? Please?”