HIS MEMORY

Chapter 4

"That would be $10, miss." I hear a familiar voice and looked up to see Meira grinning and walking up towards me as her cute long blonde hair waved around everywhere. I too smiled back at my dear old friend giving her a small wave too. 

"I am not paying for this," I said smirking at her and instantly grabbed a huge bite from my amazing mint cookies and every bite I took sent me to heaven. God, I just love them to death and I love Atlas for making these heavenly delights, God bless him and his extraordinary cookie-making skills.

Meira just rolled her eyes at me and made her way towards me. I knew what she was going to do next. Meira immediately grabbed onto my beautiful head and planted a small kiss on the head ruffling my hair, entirely destroying all of the hard work I had put today on my hair. 

"Why, why do you love doing this to me, Meira?." I ask her as I shove her hands away from my hair and reset my hair slowly moving them away from my face.

"Just so I can see your grumpy ass face and also, good morning." She said to me smirking and jerks a chair and sat down right next to me.

"Why are you here so early in the morning?, did Freya finally take over the house and kick you out?, you do know that could happen one day right ?." She said having that creepy old smirk on her ugly ass face and she wishes that happened to me, evil.

And she didn't stop there, noooooo. Meira went as far as taking one of my amazing cookies from right in front of me and this was not acceptable, not in this world no Meira. 

"Why would you even imagine something like that? and moreover, that is never going to happen. Freya might be an ass hole, dumb and extremely useless at times, but she isn't that evil. Only I can come up with stuff like that and make sure that happens in real life." I said to her relaxing back on my chair but seeing Meira eat my cookies was really bothering me, so I immediately slid front from my chair and closer to her.

"Let that cookie go your demon," I said to her and hit her hand making her instantly let go of the cookie while I immediately grab onto my cookie.

"Hey hey god, you have got to be kidding me, Lydia," Meira said backing away from me and slowly rubbed her hand because I did hit her really really hard. 

"Then don't steal my food, this is all mine," I said referring to everything that was on the table. I also went as far as pulling the plates and my coffee mug away from her, still not losing eye contact. But, Meira she didn't back out either and frankly, I saw it coming only because I knew her way too well.

And right then instantly Meira punched me right on my boobs making me lose my breathe right there and then.

"s**t," I cry out because I was in a f*****g lot of pain.

"You know you had it coming, missy."

"Y..ep, I did," I said gasping for air and also was giving her the side-eye.

"When are you ever going to learn to share?."

"Not in this world, maybe in another life," I said relaxing back on my chair and typing on my laptop. From the corner of my eyes, I could see Meira still very much glaring at me. I tried not to look or even get distracted from her but that was so close to impossible. She wouldn't stop staring at me and I couldn't concentrate on anything anymore, so I immediately push my laptop away from me and looked directly at her.

"What? what do you want?." 

"What are you really doing here?. This is too early for you and if you don't answer Lydia s**t will go down." Meira said to me and this time it didn't look like she was in the mood to joke any more. She really looked quite serious right now and I, on the other hand, knew I had to say it to her.

"I will be finally joining the Robinsons, next week." I murmured like it was nothin and I went back to writing my book although I was expecting her to say something to me surprisingly nothing came from her, not even one tiny sound. So I shortly knew she was in shock because there could be nothing else that could have shut Meira down, well, except for shock.

"What the f*** did you just say ?." Aloud squeak of a sound came from some other corner of the cafe instantly making me look at the person screaming right now. The moment I raised my head to do so my eyes land on none other than our amazing and exceptionally talented head chef of Verena House, Atlas. He was really a good looking guy and I guess people or just ladies and high school girls normally come here just so they could get a good look at the amazing piece of work we have her. I could immediately see his big green eyes get even larger. I guess I was too loud about my personal information.

"Hmmm?." I mumbled not really knowing what to say next. He too didn't say anything to me but just placed the freshly baked cake on a random table and speed-walked towards us taking off his apron and groves.

Without wasting a single second Atlas sat down right next to me but on my left-hand side. I was about to continue writing but suddenly Atlas shut down my laptop and pushing me back on my chair.

"What did you just say?." He raised a question at me looking deep into my brown eyes and I'm not gonna lie, I was so scared of him right now I didn't even blink because of it.  

"You have got to be kidding me."  Meira came back to reality and that was the very first thing she had to say to me. 

"No I am not kidding, it's a true fact," I said being loud and clear about my decision.

"Why ?." Atlas asked me giving me a weird facial expression. I was about to answer his question and was going to be really brief about it so that none of them would have any more questions for me to answer. 

But before I could have said anything Meira butted into the conversation again. 

"But I thought you said you didn't want to be a part of it?." Meira said looking at me confused.

"Or is he forcing you to do this ? is this what it is?." Meira continued

"He can't force you to do something you don't want to Lydia," Atlas said this time and I tried to say something to them but one of them wanted to let me talk. 

"Do you want me to gather up some people and protest against him because you know I am very good at protesting, just saying," Meira said and my head immediately flips to my right side as I glare at her.

"I can protest for you to Lydia," Atlas said this time and now I turn to look at him with my eyes wide open in shock with their dumb as comments.

"No, nooooo. You are my star chef you can not leave the building at any cost." Meira said pointing her finger at him.

"I want to go out and smell the fresh air and smell some flowers Meira and for some time I would do not smell flour because that is all I am surrounded with the entire day." He said looking at Meira and surprisingly they both had the same scary and "don't mess with me" expression and now it looked and sounded like they both were going through some trouble with personal issues and I really didn't want to be a part of all of this. It looks like a dangerous territory.

"That is not going to happen." 

"I NEED A LIFE." He screams at her and this was not something new for me or even for the cafe. these two fought all the damn time. Since the time they met each other and that was a long time ago. They have a kind of, what do you say?. Love-hate relationship. It's weird really but right about now both of them completely forgot about my topic and continued on with theirs.

"I NEED TO MEET SOMEONE AND GO OUT ONES IN A WHILE."

"YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GO OUT GET "SOMEONE" AND YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO HAVE A GIRLFRIENDS, DO YOU HERE ME?." She said screaming at the top of her lungs and this immediately grabbed everyone's attention including mine. 

"What?." I asked her but she just sat there looking shocked at what she had just said out loud. Immediately Meira came back to reality and continued her conversation with him again.

"I was saying that you are a great baker and you are always in demand, AND  we pay you extra." She said smirking at him. They both still kept on saying what they had to say and clearly, this has nothing to do with me so I simply decide to do what I was doing before these morons decided to disturb and my peaceful day. And also it was not like any of them was paying any attention to them so, what goes. 

I then slowly open up my laptop one more time mentally celebrating my victory BUT before it could even completely open my laptop two hands immediately shut it back down with the immense amount of force, scaring me the hell. I look at them to see both of them looking directly at me and they looked terrifying. like I had taken their money and left the country for good. 

"I didn't do anything." A small whisper left my now scared body as I made direct eye contact with them. 

After that crazy conversation they both were have I told both of them the entire thing and the reason why I was doing what I was doing and the reason for this decision and changing my mind and blah blah blah. Eventually, they understood everything and didn't question me anymore after, which I was really thankful for truly.

And after all of that both of them left me alone to continue writing and they went to go get to their morning routine. Finally.

lately, let me be which was the reason I was here and not at home. 

My finger moved so swiftly it was almost like I wasn't putting in any effort what so ever. My mind was filled with so much and all I wanted to do was completely pore it all out on my pages and I wanted to do nothing else. There is no stopping me today, I really felt so excited about today and all the work I was going to finish up within no time and that though was motivating me to write and keep on writing and writing.

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"Sir, the lawyers are already there and are waiting for you. Do you want them to wait for you or should they just talk to Mr. Bale." Reece asked Kade the moment he got the message from Kade's secretary. 

"Tell them to wait, I don't want them to talk to anyone else except for me," Kade said again looking at his phone to see if anyone had called him and when he saw nothing Kade shut his phone down and immediately relaxed a little bit. He really didn't want anyone to call him or even try to contact him in any way because he really wanted to focus on his work today and on nothing else.  

"I don't want anyone else involved in this Reece, make sure of that." He said to him looked out the window.

"Yes, sir," Reece replied back to him and continued to drive to the office. 

"I think we are going to be a little late today sir."

"Why?." Kade asked him now this time looking at Reece and at the road ahead of them.

"There is a protest going on, It wouldn't be moving for some time," Reece said slowly down the car as the cars in front of them did the very same thing. Surprisingly for the very first time, this didn't bother Kade. Normally that would affect him because he never liked being late anywhere but today something felt really different in him and he really didn't bother with the fact that he was going to be late today. He didn't mind being a human one in a while. 

"That's not a problem Reece," Kade said and again relaxed a little in his comfortable car but Reece, on the other hand, was taken aback with what Kade had to say to him. This was something he has never heard him say before, so of course, his reaction would be a little different than before.

Kade knew this was going to freak him out and that was what he wanted any which ways. Sometimes he felt like he should take a break but that wasn't something built-in him but maybe this could be called a break and just like that a small smirk spread through his face as he looked out the window to see the same street, the same people, the same building. It was all the same, nothing has really changed in his life and he didn't know if that was a good thing or not. He didn't know if that was what he wanted but also he didn't want a lot of things to change too. 

Kade then slowly closed his eyes and stopped thinking about things that were not that important and decided to let it all go. He let out a harsh breath and relaxed.

Reece slowly stopped the car because of the traffic right in front of them and the car stopped in front of a cafe. Both Reece and Kade could see the traffic was quite intense and of course it was going to take the time to reach where they had to reach. No one could move in New York and that was something apparently everyone knew. 

Kade immediately closed his eyes as right about now he didn't really have a lot to look at and he just wanted to rest his eyes a little, if he was going to do this resting thing he was going to do it right. 

"Did you have your breakfast, Mr. Sullivan," Reece asked him looking at Kade from the mirror but Kade, on the other hand, didn't open his eyes but answered him.

"No, I will eat in the office." He said it to Reece but he knew Kade was eventually going to skip his food and that was something Kade did a lot of times and he didn't want that for him.

"Would you like me to get you something ?, there is a cafe right next to us and I don't think the traffic would be moving anytime soon. I can get something for you ." Reece said still very much looking at Kade whose eyes were still very much closed but this time Kade suddenly opened his eyes to look at the cafe Reece was talking about and the moment his eyes landed on it Kade looked around to see the Cafe entirely.  

It was a smart and bright looking cafe, not so big and not entirely too small either. It was nice and comfortable to look at with a white attire around it. The windows were covered with a lot of flowers which clearly had to be maintained well all the time. Kade for a second thought he should bring his mother here sometime, she would really love this place. He thought to himself and immediately a small smile spread though his face and that was not something he did all the time.

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"Are you sure you don't want anything, sir ?." Reece inquired him one more time hoping to get a new answer from him but Kade immediately shook his head

"No, I am good Reece." He said and again turned to look at the small cafe as his eyes roamed around as he was just looking at how packed the place was at this time. He could also how every seat was taken and mostly by college students or couples. Kade was about to look away from the cafe as nothing attracted him anymore but immediately something caught his eyes as he was right about to look away.

Kade's eyes lands on something or someone. The person wasn't seen completely but just one side of her face was very much visible to him. She was sitting in the corner seat all by herself and what really caught his eyes was the fact that she looked sad, She looked really really emotional to him and that immediately captured his attention within a second. Kade was entirely taken aback from this. She really looked upset to him like something extremely bad had happened to her. While he still couldn't see the girl fully, all he could really see was her black hair moving because of the wind blowing from the window that was apparently right next to her. He could even see her dress and the jacket that was placed right behind her on her chair.

For a split second, it almost looked like she was about to cry. Kade wasn't really even sure she is crying or not. This whole situation was a little difficult for him to understand really. His face scrunched up a little as he tried to understand the whole scene here.

It almost felt like Kade was hypnotized by whatever was happening right in front of him and the fact that he truly wanted to know what was taking place and why it was occurring was truly what he wanted to know right now. Kade slowly involuntarily bends forward just a little bit to see her complete form. And that's when his eyes landed a Yellow laptop which couldn't ever be missed out. It was so yellow it almost hurt him to see it. By this time Kade could also see the girl furiously typing on her laptop, without losing her concentration not even for one second, which he thought was very impressive of her. Her hands moved so the fact he was really surprised to see this. More like he was fascinated to see this.

Kade again without even realizing it moves a little front from his seat just to get a better view and that's when he notices that she looked like she was about to cry, and the first thing that came into his mind was, she had a bad and a horrible crying face. Which did not suit her one bit?. Kade immediately looked away from her slowly shaking his face, thinking about the kind of people that stay in New York. He turned to the other side and noticed a group of girls looking right at him as they all tried to fix their hair or even their dresses which only annoyed him the most. He slowly bends his head back closing both his eyes as he was really very tired of this. It was the same everywhere he went. Kade then slowly brushing is a hair off of his face with his eyes still very much closed.

But again for some unknown reason, Kade's head again swiveled to his felt without him even trying. And without wasting a single second he pushed himself forward to look at the crazy lady again but the moment he looked her she was laughing. She was actually laughing. Now, this really surprised him because just a few seconds ago she was upset and on the verge of crying. And out of nowhere, she was laughing. This only confused Kade more and more.

"What?." He said to himself as his eyes were completely stuck to her and her sudden mood changes. His face too held the expression of confusion and utter unsureness of this entire situation in front of him.

But the way she was laughing did not very continues, it was more like she would type something and immediately laugh at what she had typed. She really smiles with her heart and he could see how happy and thrilled she looked. It was very much visible just by her face.

"What is she doing?." Kade said it out loud alarming Reece.

"What did you say, sir?." He asked him, while all Kade would do is look out the car at her. He looked at him when he got no answer and saw Kade was keeping a close eye on something and he too followed his sight just to see he was looking inside a cafe but Reece wasn't really sure what he was looking at with everything in him.

Kade, on the other hand, had his eyes pasted on the girl. She was still very much furiously type onto her laptop but suddenly the laughter changed to a smile, a genuine smile. Kade couldn't help but think she was truly crazy and he literally rolled my eyes sitting back down comfortably on his seat but not entirely. Even though he hated to admit it, Kade did want to know what she was going to do next.

But seriously he wanted to see what she could do next.

This time she was doing something entirely very different, she wasn't really smiling or laughing or even crying. This time he found her pouting her lips. That was all she was doing right about now. She was still very much furiously typing on her laptop but this time her eyes looked more concentrated and were stuck to the screen the entire time. Kade almost waited for her to blink her eyes, at least ones but she looked like she was in a different place.

But suddenly she stopped typing giving rest to her fingers as she cracks her knuckles too. She then slowly pushed her now messy hair out of the face and placed it behind her shoulder. But while she did all this her lips stayed the same way. Kade was only noticing that small detail.

"Ugly," Kade said out loud again catching Reece's attention all over again. Kade was really being very honest at this point. He thought she really looked like a small pig with that horrible expression on her face.

Out of nowhere a small smile crept onto her face and the smile slowly got bigger and bigger and bigger as her lips almost touched her ears and something immediately felt different right about now. This was different than before. As Kade had noticed before her smile looked so much different than the one before. His heart almost beating a little faster and his expression too immediately changed as a small smile slowly started to creep onto his face too. And Kade didn't even notice he was doing that.

She has a beautiful smile, but had a horrible crying face and an even more horrible pouting face. All that truly made her look really ugly. But her smile was a little tolerable.

"Are you okay mister Sullivan?." Reece immediately asks as his gazes land on Kade just too see him smiling. it almost gave him a heart attack or more like scared him.

Kade immediately looked at Reece and came back to reality within a second. He wasn't even sure what he was doing. Kade simply just looked at Reece a little confused and right then on point, the traffic started to move to distract both of them and without wasting a single second Reece stepped on it and started the car driving away from the cafe. Kade didn't turn to look at the cafe or even the girl, as right at this point he wasn't even sure what was happening in there this entire time.

He thought the girl was lovely but definitely strange.

So he slowly backed away in his seat and immediately let his breath out which he didn't even know he was holding in, which was really shocking.

"Get me to the office fast Reece, I have a lot to do." He said to him and Reece immediately shook his head. Kade, on the other hand again closed both his eyes clearly wanted to forget about everything he saw today.

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"Lydia why aren't you picking your dad's calls, he is calling me now," Meira said to Lydia's point at the phone in her hand making sure she clearly see her father's name on Meira's phone. Her eyes immediately popped open in pure fear. What the hell, she thought to herself. Right about then Lydia pulled her phone out of her jacket pocket and immediately opens it up, just to see there actually were 20 miss calls from her father.

"Oh s**t, s**t, s**t, I didn't even hear it." She said looking at a phone and at her friend. But Meira didn't really have much of a go and so she immediately pick the call as Lydia just sat there looking at her friend scares s**t.

"Hello Mr. Robbinson, good morning," Meira said looking at Lydia who at this point was doing a massive amount of hand gestures immediately capturing Meira's attention.

"Lydia? where is she?. Sheeeeee." Meira said looking at Lydia as she immediately started pointing at the door and outside.

"Emmm, she, she went out," Meira said as she understood what her friend was saying to her BUT suddenly the other question again put Meira in a difficult position again.

"When will she be back???????." Meira asked as now her eyes had popped open while she looked at her friend for some answers apparently. At this particular question, Lydia's eyes immediately went down to the ground as she was thinking for the best answer. But even in this weird and terrifying situation Lydia's hand somehow slowly reached up to the last piece of a cookie on the table. And this was actually her in every situation. Stress eating at it's finest.

Lydia then immediately brings the cookie towards her mouth and takes a huge, huge bite out of it and right then out of nowhere Meira hit her on the head as hard as possible again gaining her attention. But her, on the other hand, she was so in pain, Lydia looks up at Meira and she looked really angry and hurt at the same time. Slowly she rubs her head to reduce the pain she was in.

"Say something you b****," Meira says in a weird-ass voice and immediately Lydia comes back to reality.

"Oh yeah." She said and brought out 9 of her fingers and Meira understood what she was trying to say.

"She will back here at around 9/10ish but I think she will be home a little late," Meira said looking only at Lydia making sure she was okay with this answer and Lydia immediately nodded her head and gave her a thumbs up. Meira too was very proud of how she handled everything right now without panicking and freaking out, which was how all of it normally went for her and for that and that particular reason only Her face held a big ass smile. Lydia, on the other hand too was so happy with the way she took care of the matter and slowly patted Meira's shoulder dramatically like a proud dad.

Meira was still on the phone and that only meant her dad was still very much talking to her. And right about now Meira's face went from happy to confused to scared and done. This only confused Lydia more and more.

"What?." Lydia asked her and patiently waited for her to answer while Meira just stood there slowly looking at her friend's direction.

"Whattttttt?." Lydia whispered again.

"Of course Mr. Robbinson, I will let her know that." She said to him as her voice instantly changed and got lighter and immediately said her goodbye and cut the call, while Lydia just looked at her with her eyes wide open tell what exactly they both talked about.

"What did he say ?." She asked and Meira slowly took in a deep breath looking a little weird after the whole conversation.

"He said I am a bad liar and a few other things and he wanted me to tell you Sofia told him everything, " Meira said taking a seat right next to her, while Lydia just looked at her friend with disbelief.

"I can not, I..." Lydia said and immediately her eyes landed on her now very soon to be a dead friend.

"You had one job. You literally had one thing to do." Lydia said looking at her with anger in her eyes.

"Am I really that bad at lying?." Meira asked herself and she really was in deep thoughts right now.

"I am going to kill Sofia for this, she can not keep anything to herself, I wanted to tell him myself," Lydia said feeling very disappointed in this entire situation. This wasn't her plan and now her original plan is all messed up.

"This was so humiliating." Meira continued with the sad and horrible situation she just created for herself. as she slowly covered up her face with both her hands and placed her head on the table with a loud thud.

"You and Sofia are so useless." Lydia sill very much carried on with her bickering.

"How am I supposed to look him in the eye now and the worst part is I am attending a party with you next week. He is going to be there and there is going to be so much judgment, god nooooo." Meira's voice was all cracked up and messing because her face was covered by her hand as she hid there with shame. Lots of shame.

"This is all because of the drama she watches all the damn time. Now I know why she always says "she can relate to the negative character". Of course, you can relate to the negative character you vamp."

"Take me god, just take me please." Now this immediately got Lydia's attention

"What are you on about?." She asked her best friend slowly messing up her hair trying to get her to get up. And that is exactly what Meira did. She immediately sat up straight as her hair was in a big mess all over her face.

"I am dying on the inside," Meira said pointing at her chest with so much regret on the face.

"Oh shut it," Lydia said this time and immediately pulled her laptop closer towards herself and continued writing like nothing really had happened, while Meira, on the other hand just sat there totally not being able to let all of this humiliation go any time soon.

"Meira get out of here you are disturbing my vibe." Lydia literally thought she would get up and leave but nothing like that happened and Meira again suddenly dropped her head on the table, again with a loud ass thud literally scaring Lydia.

"I need peaceeeee."

"Make it stop god, make this feeling stop."