25)Besotted;
                  Having a strong feeling of love to someone...

How you sometimes know you miss someone; regret pushing them away. Every second that passed and is passing with the minutes, hours and days was spent missing Ashton.

At the very first I didn't want to admit, but then I did. I miss Ashton so badly, not as when I was in NYC but more, since I have been seeing him a little much since I've been here. And what doesn't help is me not concentrating at my work.

Even now, I have a meeting in half an hour and am here thinking about him. I sigh shaking my head, looking at the office a little intently, noticing few things that I never noticed, like the green cabinet by the far corner of the room.

The burning I felt when I saw Julian after half an hour, in the meeting room could be compared to the burning of matches.

Some of the memories that I didn't want to remember cane flushing their way to my eyes, doubling my vision. The blank day of mine was sure to become restless, I didn't want to meet him now, specially after I embarrassed myself that way at the party, as of Evans.

"Kylie" he begun, standing from his seated position, waiting for me to enter the room.

The fear in his eyes accompanied with a little hope was sterile too. I could pass this meeting right? Refuse the deal, and find another. Can't I?

Of course I can, it wasn't of a big deal.

"Thinking on how to get rid of me?!" He smile, a broken and lazy smile. "This is work Ky, I am here as a CEO of my Gallery and you as your company."

"I hope it stay that way," I ingress myself with straight shoulder and head high, "my pause though, I think it is intelligible"

"True that, your deep-rooted regret is still lurking around us, right?"

"Good thing you could observe," I sat, holding back a smile and observing his smirk "Gallery, how come"

"A little yelling, a little tears and of course some threatening, accomplished"

His parents, Mr. Nicholas and his wife, Mrs. Nicholas always wanted their only child to go after them, take the shipping Company and make them rise more. Julian though loved nature, photography and paints were his passion. He heared and went their road without having what he wanted, until he got really tired of it. He wanted to do what he loved, he didn't want to waste time of his life.

"People sometimes use thankyou's you know" I smirk,

"You did nothing Ky, just a shouting and advises." He returned my smirk with his own, "you weren't even there when they send me to Paris"

"I wouldn't have came with you, besides.." My smirk faded "we both have lives"

"Look who is talking," he made a silent laugh shaking his head "I thought this was a meeting room not a restaurant"

"Shall we begin" Amelia asks standing by the projector, a remote on her hand ad she faces us.

"Yes please" I nod to her.

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"It wasn't my fault" Aki argues, "you were the one who drank, I remember I didn't hold you the glass"

"haha_ very funny" I deem with a bored tone "you were the one who went to god knows where"

"Don't you dare blame me for your fault, you psycho"

"Your orders" the waiters state, putting our orders in front of us, ignoring us as we send glares towards one another. "Enjoy"

Our silence  broke right after he went and we start arguing again, until Evans and the girls joined us.

"This feels odd" Jue spoke drinking her champagne.

"What feels odd about gathering and eating" Lara looked confused, a glint of mischief in her eyes, "or is it that you never thought you would eat in a fancy restaurant"

"I never rather thought I would eat in a fancy restaurant with Kylie after highschool" she state after rolling her eyes.

If I didn't know, I would totally deem that she said that purposely. But now that I know, I could surely state that she said that a little too purposely. To show how I am a little wicked for my own sanity.

"Well get used to it" I intone, my eyes on my drink I keep rotating, a little snarl on my lips, then I look at her, "this is gonna happen a lot more,"

She scoff, "where did you lose our ingénue to"

Imprudent

"Hello, this ain't highschool, where you guys would throw smart ass remarks, you are grownups already." Evans idly say "And why is Ashton late"

"You're all just too early, am not late" Ashton's voice quipped.

The feeling of thunderstorm striking me overwhelmed me, as he fixed his gaze on me. I send a glance at him before continuing to stare at my drink.

This wasn't supposed to happen, I literally goofed my coning here. And I wouldn't have if I didn't believe Aki when she said it was only the two of us. Kicking her shin from under the desk, I hear her whining loudly, without taking a look at her.

"Ouch, ouch ouch" Aki continued, her eyes glowering towards my way.

"What is it" Ashton's worried voice ask, seating on the vacant chair beside me, our shoulders touching.

When the lamé  on my shoulder touched his suit, my hear start lashing at it's cage. And I was stuck in a limbo, where my mind tells me to get up and the fondness of my heart laden me with pleasant emotions.

Besotted, I sat without making a move, for once shutting the kind and my consciousness. The tepid burning of mu heart kept soothing me too, the inexpressible feeling lasting forever.

Aki and the others looked surprised and shocked, as if they waited for me to throw tantrums and run out of here, like a maniac. After some awkward silence, the chatters were there.

And for the first time of coming here, an idyllic feeling settles on my heart. A reprieving and incongruous emotions swirl around the vile situation am in.

I wonder if the situation is vile...

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