It was now March and everything around my office was chaotic, the lingerie sales were going crazy, and we were having more consumers than we previously planned. I was now studying people's comments on the media and journal critics about the pieces, we were planning on expanding the collection making it better and new so I needed to take a few ideas of what people liked and what they didn't.

You can say that we were having a lot of work but it wasn't boring work, everyone in the department looked happy to be a part of this but no one was more excited than me. I was so thrilled that this worked.

I was working on my computer extremely focused when the phone rang. "Yes, Miles?" I said after picking it up

"Your mom is on line 3" he informed

"Ok. Thank you"

"No welcome, babes" he said while I pressed the number 3

"Eleonora how are you?"

"I am good mom"

"You haven't called me in 4 days and I get worried. What happened?" She asked worry on her tone. With all of this work mess I forgot to call my mom .

"Working ma" I informed making her groan

"Is Blaze-"

"No mom he is not making me work. I am working because I need and want to work"

"You are getting just like your father" she claimed frustrated

"I don't know how to feel about that"

"You are getting soft" she claimed making enroll my eyes "you know what that means... You are starting to befriend him"

"Mom... Don't you have things to do? "

"I should... Shouldn't I? But I guess I worry too much with my daughter who doesn't say a word for 4 days"

"You are so dramatic" I rolled my eyes while listening to her mumbling

"I am latina!" she said proudly "not dramatic..."

"Great. Now that you know I am fine can I go back to working"

"Well of course... Can you do anything but that?" she teased "Oh! I talked to your Nana"

A sudden fear reached my chest "What happened?"

"She wants Easter to be at your place" my mom

"No way mom. I am not doing Easter there is one of the most complicated holidays to do!" I goraned in frustration

"It's not really your call honey" My mom said from the other side of the line making me roll my eyes "Bye bye honey love you" she said hanging out the phone on me

Incredible. She hang out on my face. She only called to tell me about Easter... Oh I hate to plan Easter is such a complicated holiday because there's nothing to expect. On Christmas there's presents and turkey and Easter is so vague...usually when my grandpa was around we had the tradition of Egg hunting, now we just... Eat and talk. Nothing more to do.

My thoughts were interrupted by a knock on my door. "Come in"

"Hey boss"Miles appeared into my view opening the door "The flowers you told me to send are here" he said placingas colorful bouquet on my desk "I presume they are special since you told me to do this 2 weeks ago"

"When is Easter? " I asked intrigued not really paying attention to what he was saying

"Easter?" he thought, he quickly looked at the small black book he carried "April 9th"

"Shit... How many days till there?" I asked

"12 days"he responded quickly making me whine to my desk and files.

"After your break down over Easter can you tell me what to do with the blonde bimbo on the reception downstairs?" He asked caughting my attention

"Blonde bimbo?" I asked intrigued

"The ex" He said making me frown even more, who the hell was he talking about

"Oh my god Eleonora! Sarah! The stupid woman?!" OHHH Sarah... That's right sometimes I forget her existence oh how insignificant she is

"What does she want?"

"I don't know but she had the same idea that you did" he commented making my eyebrow lift in curiosity

"What do you mean?"

"She is downstairs, she wants to see you and she has a big white bouquet of flowers with her"

She has a bouquet with her? Why the hell does she have a bouquet... Actually why did I told Miles to send over a bouquet...

"She also want to talk to your husband but he is not in the office" Miles informed

Wait- Blaze isn't here?!

"He is not here?" I questioned making Miles nod.

"Connor said that he always had this day off"

I frowned at this information "wait- what day is today?"

"28th of March"Miles said making me quickly get up and grab my bag, dress my coat and take the flowers, oh and the umbrella, as been raining lately.

"What is going on?" he asked a bit scared of my fast movements

"Shit shit! I forgot about it, I thought it was tomorrow."I said leaving the office while Miles followed me behind

"Hey pretty boss I-" Jessica was about to say but I stopped her

"I need to leave it's urgent, like deadass urgent! You are in charge!" I pointed at her "Miles your helping" I said smiling and quickly leaving the two in direction towards the elevator.

I recklessly walked to the elevator and noticed that I was being followed by the worried duo. "What you mean I am in charge?" I heard Jessica "You know I hate to being in charge. If I wanted to be in charge I would've applied to boss which I didn't!" she said in panic

I called the elevator and turned around at the two of them "Guys. This is a serious matter, I cannot bail on this you have to help me. There's not much to do. Send me everything that I will work on it later at night. Every call you receive I will see it tomorrow. Don't worry okay?" I asked smiling at them

"Okay" Miles smiled looking like a psycho

"Oh sure" Jessica said while I walked inside the elevator "Don't worry? I cannot be you! You're the boss I don't boss I hate to boss"

"I'm sorry Jess but this is very important" I explained watching her panicked face

"I don't care this is your job so do it! I can't do this Ella! " she claimed while the elevator doors closed "Ella! Eleonora!" she called while I waved at her with an apologetic smile

I can't bail on this. This is important.

Once on the parking lot I got out and walked to my car but I was caught up with a blonde figure drowning in white flowers.

The slight image of it made a thinner warning in the brain to quickly step out of there. I do not want to talk with her today... Or any day to be truthful, but that would be mean so let's just stick with today.

I started walking backwards while I watched her head roaming and looking for something I didn't know what but I really didn't want to find out either. Her     head such movements made her look like a crazy suricate.

I was near the elevator when her high pitched annoyed voice echoes through the parking lot "Eleonora is that you? I need to talk to you" she said waving the bouquet making me click as quickly as I could in the damn button

The doors closed and I took a breath of relief. I did not want to speak with her, thank you god for being kind to me.

The doors opened on the reception and the only think I could think of was a taxi. It will get me to the place I want and it's the quickest way out of here.

"Eleonora!" I heard near me, when I looked behind me there she was near the stairs door. She looked like she was haunting me, I gave a soft smile and started to walk to the revolving door, the entrance of the building. In this case... my way out.

"I need to talk to you dear" her voice crippling in my ears making my whole body cringe

"Eleonora" she said as I felt the friction of her cold skin touching mine

"Sarah!? Is that you?" I gave an ironic smile

"You didn't heard me? I was in the parking lot just a minute ago I need to-"

"You know what I am in a hurry how about you send a message" I suggested

"A message?"

"Yes my receptionist is a upstairs you can leave a message and I will talk to you tomorrow" or never... Is most likely

" but it's urgent"

"Not as urgent as this" I declared walking to the revolving doors 

"What are you doing?" she asked, and my automatic thought was to respond but gladly I thought it through

"Work" I walked outside the building with her and her flowers following me "Meeting some people quite important" I told her as I felt the small drops of rain falling into my hair

"Oh I see" she said

"Great to see you" I lied while calling a cab and quickly getting on it

"Bye" she tried to say but I closed the door on her

I took a deep breath and told the taxi driver where to go. The ride wasn't long but the traffic made it worse. The small drops of rain turned into constant pouring rain, thank god I brought the umbrella with me, but I am not sure if this flowers will survive.

I look outside through the window and saw the grey clouds above, New York was gloomy and raining. I felt my bed calling from miles away.

"We are here miss" the taxi driver informed. I looked over at the taximeter and gave him the amount of money.

"Keep the change" I implied while opening my umbrella and taking my bag and flowers with me

"Thanks miss! Have a good day!" he exclaimed happily. The taxi went away and I took a look around.

It wasn't my favourite places in the world and surely wasn't his either. There was big vast green field I walked around till I found some stone and slabs tombstones.

And then after searching with difficulty due to my stigmatism and the pouring rain I found him sitting on the ground near a tombstone drowned in rain, I walked closely noticing something on his hand... Whiskey, his hair was wet his face was looked way too painful for me to take a second look.

I continued my way to him between the cemetery, I could see his posture looked careless indicating he was probably drunk, his head was being supported by one hand, his elbow supported by his elbow while on the other hand was the bottle of whisky balancing from one side to the other.

Once near him I place the umbrella over both of us, the feeling of the rain falling into his stop and that made him look up and meeting me.

"What are you doing here?" he questioned looking at me up and down "This is not a pretty sight of a husband. You better go away" he said while looking again at the tombstone.

Annalise Keller
1992 -2004

Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." Luke 22:42 NIV

That was...a beautiful thomstone I guess?

"Go away Eleonora" he said looking away from me and back to the headstone

"Can't" I simply said while shrugging my shoulders

"Why can't you? Just go and leave me alone "

"I can't Blaze. I wanted to meet Annalise and here I am, I am staying" I said while placing the colorful flowers over her grave

I adjusted them over the grave and he gave a chuckle "Leave'm like that"

"What?" I asked looking at him

"Leave them like that. That way that stupid quote can't be seen"

"Oh" I said in understatement "You talking about the beautiful biblical citation?"

"Yes..."

"Your mom wasn't it?"

"Yup!" he said while touching the flowers "She tough it would be appropriate, the thing was Annalise couldn't care less... Instead of putting something about how joyful she was or funny they simply thought that a biblical quote would do"

"... If I tell you that I don't even understand what does that mean would you believe me?"

"Yeah I would" he chuckled "I don't understand it either"

"I am sure that with more context...makes sense" I said while watching the grass looking for a spot to sit in

"Yeah..." his sad expressions came back again and through the mist of the rain I couldn't see if he was crying or if it was simple drops of rain falling down from his face. I sat down next to him laughing his attention, I suddenly felt the wet grass brush into my pants making me regret this decision but now it was too late to back up so I continued sat on the grass with the umbrella covering us both.

"So... Hello Annalise. Happy Birthday! I am Eleonora Vargas Hart. Half American and half latina with proud like my mom says. I am 25 years old and I basically married your brother..." I said introducing myself his eyes were watching me carefully "not because I wanted too, is kinda of a messed up story but don't worry I managed to make the situation a win/win but making deals with your brother is quite of a challenge."

"What are you trying to say?" He asked with a softer expression

"She is your sister I will not lie to her." I said looking at him he nodded in comprehension and I carried on "We are married for convenience to put it that way, 2 and a half years to go! Your brother here is a business genius but somehow made me marry him for business" I chuckled

"Are you dissing on me to my sister?" he asked offended

"It's not dissing I am purely an d only telling my truth"

"You are still dissing"

"I can't take the fault when you're the one who can't take the truth" I shrugged my shoulders, he rolled his eyes while pacing the bottle of whisky on the floor and holding the umbrella for me

"As you can see... Your brother is quite a boomer to deal with. bet he hasn't told you the pain in the ass he has been"

"Really?" he asked

"I am doing this the more natural way I would do it. She knows about our fake marriage so I am not holding myself back" I explained

"He's like this obsessed guy with black and white and things so monotony and boring it makes me sad"

"I like things to be clean"

"Whatever... He is very obsessed with work. He has no days off, you know he even worked on our wedding day?!"

"Oh wow you're telling her that?!" he said while his hand brushed his face in disapproval

"Let me see what more can I tell you? Has no social skills, and I believe no emotions either at least when it comes to other humans beings, he's not that empathic... Hates foods with sugar and gluten, he is like a damn nutritionist...however I have seen him eating a burger, like a normal person I was so shocked"

"Aren't you being overly dramatic?"

"No I am never dramatic" I said making him chuckle

"Sure, carry on then"

"Overall if you were here I bet you would be pretty annoyed by your brother all the time of how clean, formal, boring, workaholic and apathetic he is. However..." I looked for instance at him he was looking at the grave smiling "...he is a good person" I said making him quickly look at me with a frown.

"And pretty strong through. He has been through so much and mostly alone yet he's a man to look up to. He's CEO of one of the biggest companies in America and some years from now in Europe too, that he made himself with his own hands. He is a dedicated man, knows how to cook and somehow has a talent with kids. He is very honorable although a lot of people don't see it, he also suffers a lot in silence has a hard time opening up to people but he's working on it." I said truthfully smiling at him, his eyes looked at me in soft manner. As if I was delicate to look at, I didn't know what he was thinking right now but I do not regret my words.

Although there's a part of me who still can't deal with him, with that workaholic and somewhat apatetic man there's also another part of me who as a soft side for him, it's not pity, I guess it's respect. Respect for how difficult his life has been and how of an amazing and successful person has been. He lacks of receiving love however he doesn't lack of giving it and I saw it whit Charlie, where he laughed, was protective and careful.

And that Blaze is the one I can deal with it, the hidden Blaze over that toxic and painful mask he has.

Blaze has not been able to be his true self due to his haunting past which pursues him. I hope that changes.

"C'mon we should go." I said to him while trying to stand up and grabbing the umbrella

"No I just- just a minute " he asked I nodded

"Do you want me to leave? I will go get the car so you can talk-" I tried to say but I felt his hand grasping mine delicately. My eyes widened in shock as he got up

"I never really did this... This way... Can you just stay here?" he asked with puppy eyes making me nod gently and taking a quickly look at his hand grabbing mine, my heart was not liking this interaction at all.

He closed his eyes taking a deep breath and finally took a look at the gravestone. "I am sorry Anna... I have been doing this the wrong way all these years. This is your day and you loved your birthday and unknowingly I turned it into a misery of a day and I only realized it now. I am sorry sister. This is your day and I should remember it that way. Happy Birthday" he said with his eyes full of tears mixed with the drops of rain. His visible pain brought tears to my eyes, it must have been so lonely all these years, doing this by himself.