Chapter Six
I felt like he knew I was lying immediately, unless it was just my guilt talking, unless it was just me realizing that I was not as slick as I thought I was. Not that I actually thought I could pull this off in the first place.
I was not a good liar at all. And it was really crazy of me talking that I could think of a good liar right now. Of course I had felt to do it. I had not thought of a good lie and it was coming back to bite me in the butt.
“ I don't remember. I lost his card. I was hoping to get help with something, but it's OK, I think I've got the wrong building.” I say to him and he does not seem to buy what I'm saying but he only continues to stare at me with that look that I really cannot quite describe.
“ And while you're dressed like that?” He asks me and I just tremble. Goodness. He toots, smacking his lips before he asks me a question that I was really not expecting.
“What is your size?” He asks me before grabbing the phone on his desk and I just look at him in confusion. What do you mean?
“What do you mean what is my size?” I ask him and he just gives me a strange look like he's waiting for me to answer his question.
“What is your size? What size do you wear? Size of clothes?” He asks and I just respond
“ small”. I really have no idea what I'll say to him and while he's on that call he just just not take his eyes off of me. I need you to get to my office immediately. He says before putting the phone back down and just continues to stare at me. I have no idea why he even brought me here in the 1st place. I mean, I guess I was kind of being a nuisance in this building. I guess I was kind of standing there half naked. It was not good for anybody else to see me.
So I suppose that is why he brought me here. I was expecting him to really scold me, really kick me out of the building and banned me from it, tell me not to come back again. But that's not what he was doing. He was just staring at me. Why did you ask for my clothes size? I asked him and he just looks at me weirdly for a smile. In terms of do you not realize that you need to get clothed? He asks and I just nod my head slightly. Right, I'm so sorry. I said to him and he follows his head rose at me.
“What are you apologizing for right now? The fact that I had to grab you out of the hallway dressed like that, which is very bad for the image of this company? Or you're apologizing for the fact that you're just going to continue lying to me?”
He asks and I just feel very speechless. I don't really have no idea what to say to him, but I just shrug my shoulders. I'm just sorry for inconvenience in each other. I say to him and he narrows his eyes at me. “What is your name?” He asks and I feel very inclined to telling him a lie, but I do not do it because I can tell he is just waiting for me to lie again. I always give away a false thing, but this time around I feel like I cannot do it.
“Chloe”. I say to him and he just nods his head.
“Well. Chloe-“ starts but then there's a knock on the door which he quickly allows to distract from whatever he was going to say to me before yelling Come in. And in walks a woman. I'm even afraid to turn around too much because I feel like I will be exposed. He asked for me, Mr. Ericsson. She says and he just nods his head. Yes, I want you to bring her an outfit size small or whatever, he said, He says.
“You talk to her”, he says, and he starts going through some papers around his desk very casually while the woman walks over to me and looks at me very weirdly. Her eyes break me up and down before she narrows them and tries to pretend to smile at me. I can see right through it. I can tell that she doesn't want to be smiling at me. I don't know. She doesn't want to be following his orders as long as it has to do with me.
“It's just a small anything will do”. I say to her. I don't want to be a brother right now. I just need this to be over. I'll be very grateful if he can do this for me, but I really do not want to be in this building any much longer. I was embarrassed, highly embarrassed even, and I was very afraid for us going to come of me at the minute. I got back home the minute I realized that I had not made the money because he had said it loud and clear. Dean. He had made sure that I understand that he's not paying for shitty services.
He had yelled in my face and I definitely know that man that he was not going to be paying Gina and that only man that she knows not going to pay me in return. And that was just terrifying for me to think about. I really did not like hearing it and I really was hoping that it was not going to be happening, but I was wrong. It was not going to be how my night plays out. It's going, I don't really want anything specific, I just want some clothes so I can go home. I say to the woman after she continued to ask me several questions, questions I really had no idea how to respond to questions about what kind of things I like.