Chapter 11

The Christmas party was the best. Noah is going to pursue his dream, MC met someone great and Shawn said that he was happy to meet me. The New Year went perfect and today is the first day at work for a new year. I feel like I can do anything. At this point even if Melisa barks at me I will pass it as a lullaby. In my head I was like ‘I am off to a great start’ but the universe was like ‘Hold that thought’. When I walked in every one was in a deep conversation. I went to my office then Oliver ran in to get his phone. “What’s going on?” I asked out of curiosity. 
He was panting and he answered to me “Mr. Davis got an assistant. And she is gorgeous. Ya you should see her. She looks like a goddess.” he walks out and I followed him. When we got to the break room everyone was surrounding her. I can only see her from the back. 
“That is the future Mrs. Michel.” Oliver planed on marrying whoever she is. Then she turns around to the direction we were standing. I got confused “Oliver, your future bride looks awfully familiar. But I can’t quite put my finger on it.” Then flash back. I remembered. I whispered ‘Oh my God’ I walked back wards slowly then when I got an opening I ran for it. I did not care who saw or who was in front of me. I ran like there was a serial killer chasing me. I finally got to my office; I sat down and tried to make sense of what I just saw. 
Oliver ran after me. “What the hell happened to you?” 
I looked at him in a terrifying look “Oliver is future Mrs. Michal named Lucy Chaw?” 
“Ya; Wait how did you know that?” I start to freak out again. All of a sudden I started to scream “Why God why? How can this happen to me every time? I have been nothing but good, I do not deserve this.” 
“Where do you know her?” 
“She is no goddess Oliver; she is Satans’ wife, the witch from Narnia, the schools bitch, lady joker to bat man, lady Thanos to the avengers, Cersei Lanstare of Game of thrones.” 
He got confuse but then he remembered that I told him about group of girls who bullied me from middle school straight up to high school “Oh that Lucy Chaw that totally destroyed your childhood.” 
“Yes” I whispered in a very weak voice. “Wow the world is such a small place. And talk about how the guy you like happened to hire an assistant for the first time and that person being your all time enemy. You are so unlucky.” he laughed very hard. 
Looked at him “You’re not helping. Oh God, the prophecy. It came true.” 
“What prophecy?”Oliver asked. 
“When the bullying got worse I thought I should stand up for myself so I told her and her friends that they might be popular now but when reality comes after high school, only the nerd population would be on the top and the popular on the bottom. So Lucy Chaw and her friends made a prophecy that after high school they are going to find me and destroy my life from the root. I can already feel it crumbling.” 
Oliver tried to calm me down “Listen to me Princi, guess what this is the real life and you have won. Think about it. She is an assistant and I heard she got the job because of her father. But you are a high manager of one of the largest company in this city. You have won and she has lost fair and square.” 
“No there is no fair in her game. ‘You either win or you die’.” 
“Is that Lord of the ring?” Oliver asked. 
“No, Game of thrones.” I answered. 
“Oh. Any way you said that the last time you saw each other was senior year of high school right. She probably wouldn’t remember you.” 
“Ya I mean she has tortured many people so she might not remember me,” 
Just as we were talking she was passing by our office and she looked at me through the glass. She stopped and then she started walking towards our office and she walks in. “Do I know you?” she asked me. Oliver and I looked each other then I stood up. My body was acting independent from my brain. I stood next to Oliver and played dumb. “I don’t think you know me. Because if you know me I would know you too but I don’t.” 
“No I am really sure I know you. That’s right. Now I remember.” 
When she said that, I completely started to get bloody vision. I pinched Oliver on his back. Lucy continued “I know you from ‘Brownies Girls’.” 
“Excuse me?” In my head I am begging so that she could confuse me with someone else. 
“Brownies girls: the restaurant few blocks away.” 
“Yes; exactly. I used to work there until I got a job here so…” I completely lied through my teeth. 
“How is Brownie?” She asked me an unexpected question. I have never been to this place so in my head I went ‘Jesus, take the wheel!’ and I started to make things up. 
“He has been well. But I haven’t been there in a while so I am not sure.” 
She got confused “Brownie is a girl…” 
My heart is racing. “Yes I meant she not he.” 
“Ok…. well, see you guys.” she walked out. And as soon as she left, Oliver screamed. I forgot that I was pinching his back continuously so he pushed me away. I apologized and we started to work. But my head wasn’t in the right place. I still couldn’t believe she is working in the same place I’m in and that she doesn’t even remember me. I mean she made me want to kill myself all those years and she doesn’t remember me. To be honest I am offended as I am relived. While I was working Shawn came in a hurry to give me the mug and left. I turned it over and it said ‘Worlds best business manager!’ and from under it said ‘From ignorant jerk!’ 
I can tell that he has ran out of things to write on the front of the mug but still it was nice he didn’t skip a single day except for the weekends. I drank the tea and tried to move on with work. Lunch hour I ate at my usual spot with my lunch box and apple. I wasn’t as fast as I was before. I was super down when Shawn came to join me. He sat down next to me but saw that I was down. “Hey what’s wrong?” he immediately asked. I gave no answer. Instead I turned to him and after staring at him for a while “Why did you have to hire an assistant?” I asked. 
“You told me to get an assistant remember.” 
“Why does it have to be her? Form all the people in this city why does it have to be her?” 
My question had confused him “Are you talking about Ms. Chaw?” 
I nod. “What about her?” he asked. I shut my lunch box and gave him a brief but a little bit wide explanation. “The thing is I have spent most of my years before collage bullied by many people. But out of those people there were three. And among those three there was the one. Some called her ‘Queen of the school’ I call her many names of course that have something to do with the villain. Any way she was Lucy Chaw.” 
He seemed lost through some of it but at last he understood that she was my bully. 
“Wait, are you telling me that the women I hired as my assistant is the exact person who bullied you?” 
“Yes” He couldn’t believe what I was telling him. But after a while of silence he said “Do you want me to fire her?” 
“What? No. Don’t do that because of me. I mean as much as I am afraid of her, she doesn’t really remember who I am so I will be fine.” 
“Really” 
“Ya, thank God her brain is the size of a pea. She actually thinks she knows me from a restaurant called “Brownies Girls” so fingers crossed she will think like a pigeon for the rest of her life.” 
He felt bad but my words seemed to tickle him a little. “I am sorry!” he said “How bad could she be for you to be this scared?” 
“Let’s just say she is the master mind of every plot made to destroy the world. She is like Darth Vader but even he came back to his senses when he came close to death. She is like if Ramsey Bolton and Geoffrey Baratheon from Game of thrones had a baby and that baby got raised by Voldomor from Harry Potter. She is like….” 
“I think I understand what you mean.” he cuts me off. He placed his hand on my shoulder and said “Hand in there ok!” 
“What you want to say is ‘May the force be with you’ right?” I smiled to lighten up the mood but he looked confused. “Star Wars” I tried to explain. But his reaction didn’t show any change. 
“Star Wars” I repeated myself. “I don’t know it.” he said. 
“How do you not know star wars? Wait did you not understand the joke I made earlier about Lucy Chaw being Darth Vader?” 
“No not really. I just don’t consider star related movies as real movies.” 
“Well I don’t consider people who haven’t seen Star Wars as actual human beings so…” 
“What” he complained. 
“I am sorry but there are some movies I think that people need to see to be actual human beings in the movie areas. Or else don’t see any other movies.” I clicked my tongue. 
“Ok, what other movies do you think people should see?” he asked. 
“I am glad you asked.” I turned toward him “Game of thrones, Star Wars and any lord of the ring related movies.” 
“Just those three” he asked. 
“Oh no, these are just that beginning of the very long list. Get through them and I will tell you the rest.” 
When I took a bite from my apple he asked a question that had been in his head for a while. “Why do you always have an apple?” 
“Do I need to have a reason?” 
“Yes. I mean if you don’t have a reason you wouldn’t have one every day.” 
“Well if you behave maybe one day I will tell you.” he smiled.