A Step Closer to Love

Everyone gasped as they heard what Aurora said out loud. She realised what she had done, the words she intended to say to herself had found their way out of her mouth. She let out a flustered grunt as she took a step back, her body hitting the wall behind her.

“What?” Kimberly was forced to let out. Her mind finally began to understand what was going on and why she was dragged there. Aurora had told her about the relationship between Kieran and a coworker but had assured her that Kieran always only thought about her and was in the relationship to forget her.

She could not believe she was pulled into such a mess. Her mind ran wild as she thought of how shameless she had been in the past few minutes. “Kieran,” she said gently taking a step towards him.

“Was this your plan? To humiliate yourself in front of all these people?” Kieran asked with a smirk as he gestured to the room full of staff.

“I swear I did not know all that,” Kimberly said.

As much as she still felt a spark for him, she had always felt it she just did not know how to handle the situation after such a long time so she just learnt to live with it, she did not think she would be playing the role of a relationship wrecker.

She walked to Aurora and pushed her gently by the shoulder. “What and why did you do that?” she asked as soon as her hand touched her body.

“Do what?”

Kimberly could not believe the bold look on her face, she had humiliated herself so much that if it were her she would want the ground to split in two and swallow her whole so she did not have to face the situation. She looked confident as if what she had done was not wrong.

“Why did you invite me here to wreck a relationship so you could have it?” Kimberly asked.

She was already embarrassed so she did not mind the language she used, she was going to get to the end of the matter and resolve it as much as she could before she disappeared from their lives once again.

“Because Kieran had been the worst, ten years I waited, he never came to me, he knew my feelings and toyed with me as much as he wanted, he never for once looked at him even though I stayed with him all this while”

Aurora’s voice cracked as she spoke but she fought back the tears threatening to fall on her face. She had to stand strong to the end. She felt as though he was slipping away from her hands but she did not care since she had already come this far.

“Did he ever promise you?” Kimberly asked. At this point the only thing she felt for her friend was concern. She seemed so troubled she wondered if her mental state was normal.

“Does he have to promise me? I have been with him my entire life so he should be with me for the rest of it” she screamed as she charged forward.

“Everything was going so great until this tramp came along” Aurora screamed standing in front of Arabella. She wanted to lay her hands on her but decided against it in case anything went wrong. She was not interested in spending her day and night at the police station.

“Going great?” Kieran scoffed as he held Arabella’s hand tightly to his side. “There has never been anything between us,” he said bitterly.

“The only reason we are here standing eye to eye is because of Ryder” Kieran added pointing to the direction Ryder was standing. “We would have lost contact a long time ago”

Aurora took a step back. “Sounds like you hate me”

“I have never hated you but you seem to be giving me a reason to do so”

“You just had to date her didn’t you?” Aurora asked pointing to Arabella.

Arabella did not like the situation, she wished there was a way to escape from the place but between the firm grip on her wrist and the stares from her co-workers, she knew it was practically impossible. They all gasped as they put two and two together to finally figure it out.

Arabella and Kieran were in a relationship and Aurora found out, enraged by the fact that she was not the chosen one for Kieran’s love she made his ex-girlfriend and her best friend show up unannounced at his workplace to cause a scene. Surprisingly her plan fails woefully when her best friend finds out she has been fooled and doesn’t have any of that attached to her name.

Ryder took a step forward, he had to be responsible at least for the situation. “These are working hours and we should not be doing this now, do this in your own free time, everyone gets to work immediately” he said clapping his hands in the air.

Aurora turned on her feet and stormed her office slamming the door shut both on her way in and out. She stood by the door as she narrowed her eyes at everyone in annoyance. “I am taking the day off” she screamed as she stormed out of the office.

“Kieran,” Kimberly said turning to face him. “I know this sounds unbelievable but I did not mean for any of this to happen, I hope you understand” she added before basically running out of the place. She had to go find Aurora and give her a piece of her mind.

“Get to work” Ryder said again since everyone refused to respond and instead stood there with a mouth wide open.

Arabella was the first to make a move and as if they were all waiting for her they moved almost immediately as well. Chole pulled Arabella closer to her and whispered in her ears.Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

“We have to discuss this after work” She strained her voice so no one else could hear them.

“Sure”