🍁BITTERSWEET

CHAPTER 76

Friday

"Bye Damien" I wave goodbye to Damien who jumps out of the car and runs to the school gate where his friends are waiting. He waves back and I drive off to work. The week has gone so fast that its already Friday.

I haven't seen Vally since morning as he has found himself a job. He  works night shifts and comes home when I have already left for work.

Sitting in my office all bored of the work I close my laptop and dial Vallys number. I really miss him and want to talk to him. All my tries takes me to his voice box. I put my phone down and run my fingers through my hair.

Now I understand how much I really need him in my life. Right now I'm so desperate even just a curse from him would calm me down. Jeven comes in my office all happily.

"Boss lady. I just wanted to check with you the reports" he says putting down the files and we go through them together.

After an hour or so we get done. "Finally.." I say yawning and stretching my hands over my head.

"Why are you staring?" I ask him.
"I want to ask you something" he says and plays with the files in his hands.

"So, Lucy's birthday is on Monday and since we never got paid yet I was wondering if you could give me just one bag of face products for her.. I promise I'll pay you back" he says looking at me waiting for an answer.

"No" I say and he frowns. I know that was not the answer he was expecting but I'm just pulling his leg. I really need someone to make my day.

"Uhm okay" he says clearing his throat and turning around.

"I'm joking. You may have" I say laughing and he turns around all happy.

"Thank you boss lady. You the best" he says coming to my side and hugging me. After that he rushes out so happy that he almost closed the door on his fingers. Young love is just so beautiful.

"Like I'd probably scream if I had to see that next to me in bed" I tell both jeven and Kristen whose walking with me out. Jeven showed us a video on tiktok and that's what we talking about.

Since its a Friday we knock off earlier then the other days. I put my things in the boot before waving goodbye to my two friends.

I check the time and the school has already came out. I quickly speed off to the school. "Good afternoon mam" I shake Damien's teachers hand.

"Brittney" Damien runs and hugs me.
"Can I have a word with you?" She asks and I nod.

"Damien go wait in the car" I tell him and he runs and enters the car. I hope the teacher doesn't have bad news for me.

"I hope it isn't bad" I say laughing a little.

"Oh no. It's not bad.. so last week we had a little drawing competition in for all the learners. There drawings were submitted to the painting company that is organising a competition and Damien was selected" she says smiling and giving me a paper.

Now I see why Damien has been acting like he won the lottery this week. It's because he was selected in a competition. "So we want your approval so that he can enter the competition and represent our school. You just have to sign these and everything else will be sorted" she finishes off.

"Thank you so much. He never told me anything or even gave me a clue" I tell her while reading the paper. My brother is going to become a professional artist at a young age.

"If he has to win the competition they will sponsor towards his painting career and when he reaches of age he will work with them" she says and my eyes go wide. That's a very great opportunity. His whole future is taken care of.