Chapter 13

After work I went over at MCs. We talked about how things are going good between her and Chris, Shawn’s best friend. 
Then I told her about how Shawn asked me to go an investor hunt. And like always she starts to convince me that he likes and that I like him too. I don’t know about him but I need no convincing on my part. I was already sure that I like him. But I didn’t admit my feeling to anyone yet. 
“You will not loss anything from going out with him. Try this.” MC made her case. 
“I can’t” like always I am fighting the truth I continued “I can’t” I repeated myself. 
“Why not” she asked so I explained “Don’t you know the saying about work place romance?” 
She guessed “Just Do It!” 
“No I think that is Nike.” I answer. 
“Never give up!” she guessed again. 
“That is John Cena!” 
“Kill um’ with kindness!” she guessed again. 
“Why don’t I just tell you? It is ‘don’t dip your pen in the company Inc!’ and I don’t want to be that girl that dates her boss and gets everything just because she is dating the boss.” 
“Just listen to me. You don’t have to make the first move but if he does don’t push him away like you did to everyone.” 
I stayed silent. She looked at me for a while and she said “Wait please tell me you have changed your stupid love life theory.” 
“It’s not stupid.” I said “I just don’t want to have that ordinary common ‘Romantic comedy’ life.” 
“Ya and what is that ‘Romantic comedy’ life?” She asked even though I have explained this to her our entire lives. But I still gave her an answer. 
“That ‘Romantic comedy’ life is when a girl meets a boy and then they fell in love and then somehow they break up but then she realizes that he was the one and that she had made a big mistake and then she makes some sort of romantic gesture to win him over and they live happily ever after. ” 
She looked at me like that was the first time she had ever heard that “I can’t believe you right now. Do you know how luck you are?” she asked me. 
“What do you mean, how am I luck?” I asked her back. 
And she answered “Do you know the number of people out there who aren’t even luck enough to have an ordinary romance? There are people who would do anything to get the common love that you were saying wasn’t worth it. You have no idea. Even me, before I met Chris at your Christmas party, I was so desperate to find my common romance. But I was lucky to meet him and that is why I will never take my ordinary common ‘Romantic comedy’ life for granted. And neither should you. Trust me there will come a day that you would look back on our conversation and realize that I was right. And I hope when you realize it, it wouldn’t be too late.” 
She continued “You have a blind spot in your heart and I have never seen any man find that spot. But I sure do hope that Shawn could be that person for you.” 
MCs’ words bothered me. Is she right? Am I luck to have this chance with Shawn? I really don’t know. But since I was a kid, I have always wanted to have a love life different from others. Something unexpected, to be honest I don’t know what unexpected romantic life is. Maybe it is like ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ There romance life was pretty unexpected. 
Here I am staring down at my journal writing about Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I feel ridiculous. Is it fine to want something different than others? I am still not sure. But I am hoping that the hunting party will pave a wonderful way for me and Shawn.  
Came Friday MC prepared a beautiful black dress. It was slightly lower than my knees and it had no sleeves. She gave me black hills to match the dress and a pretty little hand bag. I wore my hair down and a pretty little necklace that had a little crown on it that my brother had bought for me on my tenth birthday. 
Shawn came over at my place to pick me up. He rang the door bell and my dad let him in. My mom told him ‘She will be done in a minute.’ She asked him if he would like something to drink but he refused. 
When I was done MC ran down stairs to tell them I was ready. It feels like prom night. 
I can hear her talk “She is ready.” 
I slowly walked out to the stairs. Like I said, it felt like prom night. I walked down the stairs slowly and Shawn waited at the bottom of the stairs looking up at me. It felt like we were in slow motion. I can see a smile on his face as I walked down. We went outside to his car and he walked fast to open the door for me. When I was going to go in he leaned close to my ear and whispered “You look beautiful!” I can feel my face blushing so I kept my head down and got in with no words. He shut the door and when I looked out the window I saw MC making an ‘Ok’ sign with both her hands. 
The party was at a big mansion. I assumed it was the investors’ house that we came to see and so it was. There were many other people from many other companies that were looking for this man.  We locked arms and walked in with confidence like Oliver told me to. Everyone was drinking and like I said I don’t drink. But the weird thing is that the only drink that was being served was beer. 
I asked Shawn why they were serving only beer and he told me that the man we are hunting drinks only beer. 
Shawn came with two glasses and gave me one of them. I wasn’t happy about drinking but I remembered what Oliver had told me so I accepted. I slowly touched the glasses tip with my lips and I pulled it back without taking a sip. Shawn must have seen me while I was having a battle with my glass; he said “It’s ok, just take a sip and if you don’t like it you can put it down.” So I pulled the glass and took a very little sip. I was shocked, I looked up to him. 
He said “Oliver told me you don’t drink so I replace your drink with apple juice.” Out of disbelieve I just looked at him. He saw that confusion on my face “What” he said “I thought you liked apples” 
I nodded with a smile and thanked him. “So which guy are we here to hunt?” I asked in an excited voice. He looked around for a while and when he saw him “That one over there” he showed me by pointing at him. 
“So who is he?” 
Confused by my question “What do you mean? He is Ron King. You don’t know Ron King?” 
“Ron King… That is a very big name.” I made a joke. 
“How can you not know him? I mean you were giving me such a grief because I didn’t see Star Wars but you didn’t even know who Ron King is.” 
“Sorry” I still had sarcasm in my tone. 
“Any way his family are the ‘God of investment’ they always invest in a company ones every ten years.” 
“Every ten years” I was really impressed. 
“Ya they are that rich. Ten years ago we lost the opportunity for some reasons, mostly because I wasn’t working at DC yet. This is why we need him this year. But here is the problem. Some of our top competitors are here tonight. So it might feel like war.” 
While Shawn was explaining things to me I saw another past. It was my former boss Bishopp Cussto. ‘Oh my God’ I whispered. “What” Shawn asked, and just like I did when I saw Lucy Chaw, I slowly walked backwards and hide at a corner.