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“Of course, what is it?”
“Jasmine, when she does get the hang of everything…Will you be letting me go? I only ask because I want to be prepared for when it happens.”
“You are always so organized, that is one of the reasons I hired you. I don’t know to be honest, I’m sorry it’s not the straight answer you want. Ideally, I would like to keep both of you on, but you know how this business is. You have to be here to deal with the courts.”
“I understand, I still want to say thank you for keeping me on. I appreciate it so much Christian, I’m going to miss you.” He smiles and comes in for a hug and that’s when Jasmine walks in with the biggest smile on her face.
“Good morning, Jasmine” Christian and I say in unison.
“Morning to both of you to.” Christian makes his way to his office and then it’s just the both of us at left at our desks.
I spend the whole morning showing Jasmine how to work Christian’s schedule and stress the importance on this part. He is too busy to organize his own schedule. She nods and answers with a one word reply like she has all morning. She is really making today awkward as hell.
“I’m sorry.”
It didn’t register at first what she said because she said it so quiet.
“What?”
“I just wanted to say sorry for Saturday night.” She gives me a little apologetic smile.
“Its fine, truly! Like I’ve said before, we are divorced. We are free to do as we please and date who we want. Don’t beat yourself up about it.”
“I know, it’s just...I was just a bit jealous.” I scrunch my eyebrows together in confusion. What is there to be jealous about? She is clearly a ten and could be a model and im-not. Andrew and I are over so there is nothing for her to be worried about.
“What do you mean?”
“He was looking at you all night. He didn’t try to hide it either and when you were telling the waitress lady about you following your dreams…he looked sad.”
“I’m sorry he wasn’t there on your date. We just have history, that’s all. I’m not interested in him, so you have nothing to worry about Jasmine.”Would he really be sad from me talking about that? He didn’t seem to care before!
“He was fine when you left, I just wanted us to clear the air since we are working together and everything.”
“I completely understand.” I give her a smile and we finish the day out covering basically the rest she needs to learn.
I get home and plop on the couch, just as I’m about to turn on the tv I get a text from Isabelle.
“Hey, I finally will have a free night Thursday so don’t plan anything. Us girls are going out and celebrating you!”
“Sounds like a plan”
“I love you Al <3”
“I love you to Izzy, now stop texting me at work and save life’s <3”
I know she is probably smiling behind the phone, even though she isn’t a doctor, but she still saves people. She doesn’t realize how much she has saved me and for that I will forever be grateful. I pull out my laptop and pop-up Microsoft word. I should get this paper started sooner rather than later. I type in the main heading and go to town writing about my favorite book and how I analyze the meanings in the book. The next part is where I’m stuck, I don’t know why I gravitate towards this book so much. I’ve read that book so many times I think I’ve lost count. It makes me smile thinking about how it has gotten me through my down days.
Anytime I felt like my dreams of writing were pipe dreams, I would read that book. I know a lot of people don’t understand the meanings in the book and I think that’s why it’s so brilliant. A book has so many meanings because people perceive things in different ways, It’s fascinating!
Chapter Twelve
This week flew by, and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t excited. Tonight is my last night here and I’ve got all my things packed into the U-Haul to leave tomorrow afternoon. I finished my paper yesterday and submitted it to my mystery teacher. I was struggling with the last part of the paper for the past few days, but just wrote the truth and hope he or she understands my logic.
When I get to work at eight there are balloons and a card at my desk. I can’t contain my smile while I read the card and see that it’s from Christian wishing me luck in Baltimore. I walk back to his office, and he is on the phone with the court I’m guessing. I go to turn around to come back later to thank him, but he waves me inside. I take a seat in one of his leather chairs facing his desk. Behind him on the wall are all his diplomas, and I can’t help but think about when I got into Law School.
???
I click on the email and read the first few lines telling me that I’d been accepted into the Syracuse JD program. I should be excited jumping up and down but all I feel is nauseated. This wasn’t my plan for my life and I’m almost halfway to thirty. I always thought that id have my life figured out by thirty and this is not where I thought I would be. I close the email and mark it in the archive folder. Andrew isn’t home and my mother has been waiting for me to call her as soon as I know if I got in, but I don’t want to tell anyone.
