Yours, Never Again

Victor’s pov

I am in love with Eloise, I want to confess my feelings since the feelings felt like it was mutual between us. I mean, we went all intimate twice and we slept in the same room last night in each other’s arms, we hung out a bit in college too.

“I want to ask Eloise out,” I told my best friend, David. We were on the other side of the villa where our dads were buried.

“Bruv, I get that you like but is it mutual?” He questioned me out of concern.

“I think so,”

“You think so? That’s bull man,”

“I wasn’t interested in your opinion. Since you said you knew how to treat women right I only need you to plan romantic stuff, you know so I could ask her out.” I tried to make that as polite as possible that came out wrong and he gave me this mean look. “I am sorry.”

“You are an idiot. Keep your sorry,” He said to me. “If she rejects you, it’s s on you. women don’t like to be rushed,”

“I don’t have time., She will return home with you all and I am stuck on this Island alone. She’s a very beautiful girl every though she doesn’t know this. If I don’t claim her now other men would.”

David sighed. “I don’t have a good feeling about this but I will help you with the proposal,”

“It is not a proposal. Well, you can call it a proposal,” I shrugged my shoulders. “Keep it casual D, she hates pink,”

“I know,”

“How?” I asked him curiously.

“I have known her since high school, she is my friend. I can tell you all about her,”

“Wait, what? Did she go to the same school with us?”

“Nah, We met during an interschool competition. She’s a great swimmer,”

“I see, let’s get started with the preparation,” I didn’t want to show that I was jealous.

“You want me to do something big? She won’t like that,”

“That fact that you know her better than me is annoying. Do whatever you think is best. I am heading out,” I walked out of the villa.

“Hey, you want me to do this alone,” David called after me but I ignored him. I went inside the main building, to get my card. I went to a jewelry store to get a bracelet for Eloise, I asked them to engrave her name on it. I saw some waist beads that were displayed, I got some for Victoria and I went back to the house.

David had set everything up on the rooftop. “What do you think?” He asked me, feeling proud of himself.

“I would say yes to me,” I smiled.

“I gat your back for life man,” We did our bro handshake.

I went to my room to put on fresh clothes. David said he would help set things up with Eloise. I waited on the rooftop, examining the WILL YOU BE MY GIRLFRIEND? balloons he hung on the wall. Everyone else except Victoria and Eloise came upstairs to join us.

They soon joined us on the rooftop, Eloise wore a Diana gown that perfectly suited her, and everyone was cheering for us. I pulled her to my side and I stood in front of her. “Eloise, will you be my girlfriend?” I could not tell the look on her face.

“Yes,” She said and everyone clapped. I wore the bracelet I got, on her. The theme of the proposal had an after-party and we all got into the party. Eloise seemed lost around us, she had excused herself to the toilet, it was taking too much them so I went to look for her. I went to her room but it was empty, as I wanted to leave I heard her talk. She was on a call so I decided to wait for her in her room.

She spoke. “I didn’t want to seem like the bad guy,” She went silent for a moment and she continued. “How do expect me to reject a man in front of his friends, that’s rude. I don’t understand why he asked me out when we are not that deep,” We are not that deep?

She went silent again and she continued. “Look, Tory, I don’t need a man for now. I don’t need anyone to distract me from achieving all want. I wish he could hear all these now so I won’t have to say it again. I will just call you back, they would be wondering why I left for too long. I will call you later,”

She came out of the toilet and she saw me sitting on the couch. It took her surprise that she almost fell. “When did you get here?” She asked with a forced smile on her face.”I didn’t want to seem like the bad guy,” I quoted what she said before. “You don’t need to force that smile on your face, I understand what you mean,” I said to her and I went straight to my room and I locked the door.

FOURS YEARS LATER

I just sorted things out with my position as the CEO, handling over, and my mom’s retirement. The retirement party was coming up this weekend. My secretary has read my schedule to me in the morning. I had to review proposals from advertising magazines. I had two magazines in mind, Hills and Silverberg magazines. The two best magazines in the country.

Of course, I remembered who used to work in Hills magazine, Eloise. She owns Silverberg magazine. It is hard to not keep up with her, David and Victoria will facetime me and start talking about her. Weird guys. I am proud of who she became but I still feel hurt. I heard she is getting married to her COO.

It was time for the companies to present their proposals, they came in with nice prospects but they were old. It was Leslie that came in for Silverberg, she presented the proposal alongside a rookie at their company.

“I need your CEO to present herself, Leslie. I like your proposal though,” I turned my chair to the window side.

“Excuse us,” I heard her say to the rookie. “Anderson didn’t tell you? The prosecutors took her in this morning,” She started crying.

“What?” I yelled then I coughed to maintain my composure. “What about her boyfriend or is he her fiancé?”

“That jerk put her in this mess, no one knows about this. She doesn’t have a lawyer. Our company’s legal team didn’t show up today. She really needs you,” She wiped her eyes. “Please,”

“Did she ask for me?” I asked her.

“When the prosecution came she only said we must win this project and not to call her dad, she didn’t ask for anyone.”

“The idiot is still trying to be independent when she is in trouble. Go back to work Leslie. Was it the Eastern prosecution that took her?” I picked up my telephone to call someone.

“No, it’s the central.” I dropped the call on hearing that.

“This is so messy, I will go myself.” I stood up to take my suit jacket and I went to the Prosecutor’s office. I also called Chan, the head of my legal team.

I am a better man than I used to be. My episode with Eloise taught me at first I resented her but I saw how we didn’t date benefited the two of us. I dated a few girls in the past three years but I have never really been in love again.

I sped to the prosecutor’s office and I called Chan again.

“Hey man, where are you at?”

“I am at Megan’s daycare. It’s my turn to take care of her.” Chan had a thing with Faith and they broke it off after they had their daughter, now they are co-parenting.

“This is urgent. It’s about Eloise.” I ran my hand through my hair.Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

“I am on my way already,” I heard him fix up something in his car. “What is she being charged for?”

“Fraud,”

“That’s wild, I will see you in a jiffy. Megan wants to fill me in with her Dog talks,”

“Okay.”