Chapter 14: Visit The Cafe

Since she came back, she had visited the cafe twice already. Before, she would only visit the cafe at least once every two months.

"I forgot something in the car. Let me go back and get it." she jogged her way back to the car.

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One problem led to another giving them a headache and the person involved was still at the company waiting for someone's message.

John was sitting in front of the shareholders once again. It was another meeting but with the ESL company representatives who were planning to expand their land and use the lot located beside their building.

They were not the only company that was vying for that piece of land. They were the third company that was proposing to John and the shareholders on that very same day.

John would check his phone whenever a shareholder asked a question. The decision lies in him but he gave the power to the shareholders in asking relative questions. They are the people who would always count benefits even if it was the smallest portions.

"Sigh. No text again." John murmured after letting out a heavy sigh.

The shareholders thought that he didn't like their ideas so they think of other important things to ask.

"So if you were given this piece of land, when will the construction start? Do you have the layout of your building?" One of the shareholders asked.

"Yes. We have it. I can show it to you." The ESL representative showed a picture on the screen. It was a nice design which maximize the use of every space the land could offer.

"How long will the construction last?" another question was raised.

"We were planning to get this done within two years. We wanted to hire more people for manpower during construction of this project." the representative answered.

The assistant secretary noted some of the information since she was sure that their boss wasn't listening. His attention was elsewhere.

'I miss her. Should I really not contact her? Just going to ask how she's doing? Not fine?' he was weighing down the pros and cons of him contacting her first. She mentioned before that she didn't want someone who would demand time from her.

John pinched his glabella from frustration. Everyone inside the meeting room tensed. Even the representative started to stutter when he saw his expression.

They continued their meeting like John wasn't there and the secretary sped up her typing to catch as many words as she could from the representatives.

***

Eva was lying on her bed with her stomach. She was typing some words on her laptop which ignited her fan's buried flame.

"My goddess posted a picture!"

"Wait! Why is this an eye only?"

"Goddess, you could actually send us a pair of eyes not just an eye."

"There's a caption. Please everybody stopped liking it. Read the caption or you will ruin our chance!" This comment made some fans stopped from typing. They all checked the caption that was placed above the picture.

"What the! How are we supposed to do that? We cannot control anyone from liking and commenting on the picture!"

"This needs discipline! We need to think of a way!"

"Goodness! Our goddess is playing with us by sending us puzzles."

Eva was having a great time reading their comments. She had been thinking about the online fight between her fans and haters. It's true that they've been following them for a long time and she had never shown her face. Even during her launching event, she would always wear a mask to hide her face.

Everyone respected her decision for hiding her face but now that her fans were being targeted, she felt guilty about it.

"This is pretty fun." Ev mumbled to herself while cropping her pictures to four parts." she was so happy and she felt energized to finish her next song. She was planning to release it once the whole picture was revealed.

While she was reading the comments and watching the likes rapidly go up and stagnated for a moment, her phone suddenly rang which startled her.

She picked it up after a few seconds and saw the man's name whom she never thought would call her.

"What's up? Are you okay?" Eva asked with concern but her eyes were still on the computer and she was typing with one hand.

"I am bored to death," John responded making the shareholders stop from what they were doing and looked at him sulking at someone on the phone.

"Are you not doing anything?" Eva asked as she lay down with her back on the bed.

"I was doing something. But the higher-ups were having a meeting and their ideas were great. I think I'm useless." John responded disregarding the stares he was receiving. He couldn't help himself from contacting her so he dialled her number when they were on break.

'Who is this man sitting in front of us? Please return our boss!' They wanted to cry for such unsightly action of their boss. Even if he wanted to sulk, can he at least do it when no one's around?

Eva laughed on the other line while listening to him. "Come on. You are not useless. There should be something you can do. What are you doing by the way? Maybe I could help."

"I am trying to make a decision with millions of money involved." Everyone present was shocked that their boss was discussing such a matter with someone outside the company.

"That's rather difficult. When's your day off by the way?" Eva asked since she wanted to go somewhere and she thought of bringing him might give him some time to relax.

"My day off? Oh let me check because it would change from time to time depending on the number of works I need to finish." That was a blatant lie that everyone inside the room knew.

Then he turned to his assistant to check his upcoming schedules after covering the mouthpiece.