The next day.
"Belltown inn."
Dia muttered for the twelfth time. Her hands moving slowly on the wheel. Her eyes occasionally leaving the road, to her phone strapped to a holder over the inbuilt multimedia player up the steering to the right. Probably another message would come on.
Of a truth, she yet didn't know where she was going to or to whom she was going. She knew twas a dangerous step to take. Getting a text from an unknown number to meet them at some Belltown inn. A supposed guesthouse, according to whoever twas.
Well, at the first instance she had wanted to ignore the text but she then felt glued to finding out who twas. For such to had gotten her number, she wasn't just going to ignore.
Plus she had been home all day reluctant to go out. She hadn't talked to Max
At a hospital. "Hi! Please I'm asking for an Eric Glleen." Dia asked the nurse in attendance behind the counter. The woman looked at her briefly and disappeared into the base of the counter. Dia was tempted to climb the counter to find out what the Nurse's problem was. The woman came up again, in her hand was a little paper. She quickly tucked it into one of the front pockets. She smiled at Dia and looked away, to the book on the brick counter. Dia wondered why the nurse was acting so wierd and creepy. At last the nurse looked up and said, "Condolences. The fifth ward by the left." "Condolences." Dia said in return not sure what she had intended it to be. Whether a question or an assorted group of words. She turned and began to walk in the direction the wierd
Max's office. "Excuse me please, I'm asking for Max's office. The CEO" Zoe said to the secretary by the desk. The lady stopped what she was doing and gave Zoe a stare of scrutiny. Zoe was made to feel odd about the look but she wasn't there because of the secretary. "I know you." The secretary said, her small face folded into a sheet of frown. Zoe looked away from her to see if anyone else was watching them. She turned back to the secretary, "I'm afraid that has nothing to do with the question I asked." "Oh, sorry." The secretary opted and resumed what she was doing. Then she stopped abruptly and addressed Zoe without looking up at her, "Do you have an appointment with him? He's pretty caught up with tasks and wouldn't have time for --" She didn't complet
Outside Max's office. "I'll go alone,Albert. I'm going to meet Dia." Albert's emotionless face twitched at that. He wished he could grab Max in the collar and lift him up, hurl him against the stairs which led into the company. Maybe the fall would reset his senses. "If my dad drops by, tell him I'm around somewhere and needed privacy." Albert refused to say a word. He only watched Max tap him on the shoulder and walked over to the yellow Ferrari parked to the left side of the lot. Seemed like he wouldn't be needing the limo. "John will come with you." Albert crushed his ego and called finally. Max turned, his left hand on the side of the car. "I ain't handicapped, Albert." He stepped in and ignited the motion. He drove off the premises, the tyre
Max's office. "Don't tell me it's about that same bitch." Derrick took a swig of the coffee and dropped the cup. His eyes occasionally leaving Max who had just closed his iMac and was looking up at him, his elbows on the oak table, palms supporting his jaw. "I never said it's about me." He shot Derrick an ogle. Derrick scoffed and tried to get the idea of the discourse. "Then help me. Else I'd keep guessing." Max stared for a while, looked at his phone, then started, "Can you keep secrets? Can't be sure if your lose lips are still that fucked up." Derrick looked around for a while, his sharp eyeballs ransacking his sides. Max knew what he was looking for. An object to hurl at him. Max shot, "Here ain't some c
Rowe's apartment. "So Mr Dave Roshwella, to what do I owe this visit?" Rowe's broad face occasionally would send a signal to the eyes which would twitched in rhythm to the silhouettes of his dark thoughts. He probably was doing that to freak the man seated before him out. "I'm the CEO of a marketing company here in Seattle too." Dave, Dia's father, maintained the stern face though his face was way too smooth to feign the long counterpart. "I don't see the relevance of that to the question I asked earlier." Rowe shot in return, looking away from Dave who was dressed in a simple white shirt, tucked into a well-pressed blue trouser. You'd hardly believe that he was in the death of his 50s. "Are you this direct with words to everyone?" Dave hurled in return
Two days later. Rowe's apartment. "I'm sure I won't have to wait forever to hear the truth from my wife." Rowe complained, assuming the same position he had the day before the previous day. His eyes keen on Claire who was seated opposite him. They were expecting some visitors. "Not today, Rowe. Not when our son is bringing us a wife. That first, then the news after our bride leaves." Claire countered, knowing fully well what Rowe could do to get any information he wanted. He hated being left in the dark. One of the things he could ruin a man for. "It shouldn't take you more than --" The bell of the house chimed. There visitors seemed to had arrived. "Where are the boys?" He called. Soon several men came out of the aisle to the west of the parlour. Each
A stray apartment. "One moment." The voice came again from inside the house. That was the third time the aged but feminine voice would say the same thing. Dia stood there wondering how many minutes were there in a moment that made the woman keep her waiting outside. Such compound exposed to every passer by. She wasn't even sure whether or not she had been spotted by someone who knew her. She knocked again and echoed what she knew the woman would say, "One moment." Then the knob of the door was bothered, turned in. The door opened to a thick and plumpy woman with meaty cheeks which had several spots glazing them. The woman's face broadened into a wild smile which revealed her yellow set of teeth. Of course yellow from inadequate care. "One moment." Th
Dia's studio. "Not left foot before right. Vice versa." Dia said in akimbo, her eyes keen on the 10 years old girl missing the steps over and over again. "Sorry, miss." The cheeky girl pleaded at last. The little girl reminded her of her days when she was the girl's age. She was as troublesome as hell. She remembered putting her dad into hurdles on the eve of several Christmas ago. Just because he forgot to buy the lights for the Christmas tree. "Assist her, Lori." She said to the other lady dancing with the cheeky girl. Lori grabbed the girl's hands and began to guide them. But instead of the girl to concentrate, she looked towards the door instead and called, "Miss." "What?" Dia snapped at her in frustration. But then sh