BEDAZZLED SLOWLY BY YOU

CHAPTER 2

Food Is Good

“What's with the early sign of aging frown? Is it the time of the month yet?.” Link, one of Jaxion's business partner and unfortunately his best friend asked.

The big boss who has a very busy day can't take his mind off to a particular person who manages to drain what he thought his unlimited patience. No, he is a patient man. As a businessman, it is a requirement if one wanted success in the field.

There is something about the guy that really irking him to the point that he wanted to strangle his neck so much.

“Remember the woman I'm with last night?.” Ax asked about him supposed to be the conquest of the night.

“The actress?.”

“Yes”

“Is she any good?.” Link asked suggestively.

“Nothing happened. ”

Link stop poking the poor cactus that is sitting quietly in the middle of the center table at his office before looking at Jaxion's face unbelievably.

“Dude, that is an early sign of menopausal...you are losing your function this early? Viagra may help bro, or my maid know some Chinese medicines that she said are effective, it can even wake up dead.” Link said as if he is a concern but the naughty glint of his eyes is saying otherwise.

“Are you on drugs? What s**t are you spouting about? Where the f**k you get those ideas?.” Jaxion has the urge to throw his beloved cactus to this i***t but he is afraid that Conan will be the one that gets damage with how thick Link's skin is. “And stop poking Conan, every time you are here it's losing some thorns.”

“I'm just making fun of your uptight ass, it's too fun for me and I'm still weirded on how you named a cactus… anyway, so what's happened last night? Enlighten me, please… I need gossips that comes straight from the boss.” Link leaned back with his feet on the center table with arms spread wide on the backrest of the couch.

“Your feet or you will have to crawl home after this.” Jaxion throws a cold glare at Link's feet as he counts one to ten inside his head.

“Dude, just spill it out! You are too OCD, that's so unhealthy you will never find a wife with that flaw.” Link rolled his eyes but put down his feet just the same.

Jaxion decided to just ignored the dumbass side comments and get to the point.“ I have an employee at the I.T department that gets on my nerve.”

“Is she beautiful?.”

“He is a man! What the fuck.”

“Hey! If he is beautiful or cute, I can tap that.”

Jaxon's pen flew fast and straight to Link's head. “Your p*****t head has no limits.”

“Why are you acting like virgin Mary when you are worst than me? Alright then, since when did this happen.”

“Last night…”

“I think that's love at first sight… I do believe on that kind of stuff so I'm saying is you are in love.” Link nodded his head like an old man explaining the scriptures.

“Are you going to let me finish or you will talk nonsense the whole time?.”

“It's not nonsense Ax, I'm deducting theories here, theories about you losing your patience in short span of time… I want to meet the guy.”

“He is insufferable, its like he deliberately taunting me.”

“Maybe he likes you.”

“Will you please stop that gay comments.”

“What’s wrong with gay comments? usually gay comments are often funny, dont be such a racist.”

“You know what I give up…, I give up by the way, the culprit has been captured.” Jaxion said changing the topic when he realized it’s not going anywhere with how Link keeps on interrupting like word detector of Google word.

“That is good news, how much you lose on it?.” Link is serious when it comes to business it's just that he is too playful and somewhat stupid and the subject of that playfulness is often Jaxion.

“It's not that much… maybe around five hundred thousand, but I hate this kind of discrepancies… how’s the survey on that site you are aiming for?.”

“I think it's a good one, next time you have to come with me to check it out yourself but for now I have to go because I have a date, just rely on me the development of your newfound : once it blooms like a flower at spring.” Link laugh as he avoids the leather shoes that is flying his way before sprinting away.

Jaxion massages his temple as he gazes outside the glass wall of his office. The beautiful view of the city helps him calm down as he leaned back his seat. He has no idea why he is so worked up by one small employee when with just one word that guy will be gone from his company but maybe he is a little curious why that guy is not affected by his presence. The others cower at his presence and they cant looked at him straight to the eyes but that guy not only ignored him but also disregard the fact that he is the boss.

“Pat, call manager Chankul, tell him to come up here.” Jaxion told his secretary when he can’t take his mind away from the bastard.

In just two minutes the Manager Bomee Chankul arrived. The manager of the I.T department is a middle age man with the appearance of a chubby and friendly uncle. When Jaxion took over the family business the old man is already working for Leisure Life and he is like one of that older employee that Ax respects and Bomee is a close friend of his father.

“Jaxion, something wrong?.” The older man asked right away without further ado.

That is one of the characteristics of the man that Ax love about Bomee, he doesn't do segway, he always on point.

“Nothing uncle, I just have a question about one of the employees from your department.” Jaxion can access the files for that but as the respect, he wanted to just get it from Bomee.

“Which one?.” Bomee frown. There are at least thirty employees on his floor so he is at lost to who the big boss is referring to and why.

“There’s someone in the 16th last night its almost midnight…”

Bomee thinks for a bit before his forehead flattened as he nodded his head.

“Ah, that is Good, why? if he offended you in a way, he didn't mean it.” Like knowing the situation already Bomee guessed.

“How did you know that it's about that?.” Ax forehead creased.

Manager Chankul sit down on the chair in from of Jaxion's table with a sigh. “If you think that he did it on purpose, no he did not… it’s just his personality… my department knows that so if not about the work they don't talk to him because he won't answer back or if he does it will be one word or one that unrelated to your question.”

“Oh…” Speechless. Jaxion is not sure if he would declare the guy to have force resignation or to just forget about him.

“If that is all, then I'm going back… don't be offended son, you are not the first one or the only one, we are many and as advice just leave him be, he is the best with his job so thinking of firing him… ill oppose that.” Bomee pat Ax's shoulders with a chuckle.

What can Jaxion do? What can power and money do when the subject is not even batting an eye.

The event is like a past memory after that. Good, don't eat in the restaurants downstairs because his mother is always making him his lunchbox. Actually, that happened because there was an incident when Good almost pass out the moment he arrived home in hunger. He didn't tell the reason what happens but his mother can take a guess that Good didn't wait in a queue. The boy is hopeless.

Good took his lunch at the rooftop where there's an awesome place to eat in silence. Is he allowed to be there? Definitely no. That place is exclusive for the big boss. And if someone will ask how he climbs there, yes… the answer is he used that exclusive lift that connected to the penthouse and the deck.

He discovered it that time when he used the elevator for the first time. He saw the button for the last floor of the building.

Nobody dares to use the lift but Good and sooner or later he will be discovered. As Good is silently and happily eating his food, he doesn't realize that he got company.

Jaxion is stressed. He decided to go to the building's rooftop to have a smoke. But who knows that someone beat him to his sanctuary?

He sighted right away a mop of hair with his back facing him.

Who would dare to defy him and invade his space without his knowledge?

“What are you doing here?.” He asked the guy and like a deja vu, the same person he asked same question days ago appeared in front of him.

Good is startled but like the usual him that don't have lots of facial expressions, just looked back blankly. “Eating.” He replied the obvious in Jaxion's chagrin. Why he has a feeling that this is really a deja vu?

“I can see that, what I'm asking you is what are you doing here when this is not open for any employee.” Ax remembered what Bomee said so as much as possible he is holding on his patience tightly.

Jaxion started tapping his feet to the tiled floor when Good took his time in answering.

“There's no sign.”

“What sign.”

“No entry sign.”

Oh God, Buddha, Allah… San Jose, San Sebastian… santa claus….

“Leave!.” Jaxion gritted his teeth.

Good stayed sitting as he gazed at his barely eaten food.

“My food is good.”

“What?!.”

“Eating is good for you.”

I'm lost. Ax admitted inside his head. Talking to this guy is like talking to Siri. It's worst than Siri.

“I don't give a damn if it is good or bad I just want you to leave and you are not allowed here.”

Good packed up his lunch again. His stomach is still protesting with the small amount it consumes but with someone bugging him as he eats is not good for his appetite at all.

Jaxion felt like a heartless bastard as watched the dejected guy. “Just eat your food then you can leave.” Since when did he care?

Without saying anything Good sat back down and laid back his lunch. He eats in silence disregarding the other human being's presence.

That didn't sit well to Jaxion. “Are you forgetting something?.”

Good raised his head to looked at his boss while chewing slowly.

“Thank you for the food.”

“That's not it! you should apologize for trespassing and disrespecting me… and to remind you I am the big boss here.”

Good suddenly stood up and put his hands together then bow his head in three hundred degrees angle. “I'm sorry.’’ Then he proceeds on finishing his food.

Ax is left with his jaw on the floor offended with no other but because he was being ignored he is left in the side with just him and himself.

Can he fire him now? Seriously…

Then Good raises his head from the food and look straight to Ax's eyes and through his soul.

“Here.”

A piece of what he recognized is shrimp suddenly shoved into his mouth.

Before he can recover from shocked Good already disappeared.

“You… f**k…. “

Good 145/ Jaxion 0