She opened the office door and walked in, the heel of her shoes making tap sounds as she walked the plank. Her blonde hair was tied into a neat nice round bun and some of it hanging nicely on her shoulders.
"Sir!" she said.
"Yes Gwen," Kristine replied. "There is someone looking for you outside," said Gwen and Kris said, "Tell him or her to come in!"
"OK!" Gwen responded.
She went put of the office and a lady walked into the office, she was slim, black shiny hair and she had green ruby eyes, "hi Kristine!" she said.
Kris slowly looked up and sat up straight on the chair.
"Zoë! What are you doing here?" and Zoë took out a baby sized shoe from her bag, "just guess," she said.
"Do not play mind games with me, will you... just spit it out, what is it?" said Kris and Zoë said," I am carrying your child sweetheart!"
Kristine almost went completely mad,
"What? How could you be so careless Zoë? Why didn't you protect yourself from getting pregnant? You know very well that I have a wife, you know that I am
married to Rogue and you know how much I am against the idea of having kids!" he shouted.
"What the heck you trying to say?! You never told me you were married and you never told me how you feel about having kids! So do not dare Mr.! do not dare accuse me of being careless because I am not!" Zoë screamed angrily at Kris and he calmly said, "Its okay, we can get it fixed,"
"Get it fixed! Oh really! And how are we going to do that, Mr. Western?" Zoë asked, a bit calmer now, though at first her temper was high. Kristine opened his drawer and took out some money; he slammed it on the table.
"Here, take this money. I am giving you one week to go get an abortion." He said.
Zoë looked at him in disbelief and stood up, she then walked out of his office.
Walking through the bright corridors, Zoë was thinking of what Kris had just said to her. She couldn't believe that he had actually 'demanded' her to get an abortion. After all the things he had said, all the times they spent together, the promises he had made to her, she couldn't believe that all their great times were turning into a disaster. The nice relationship they built together was crumbling down like a house of clay, collapsing all at once, without even one brick standing firm. To make matters worse, all this was happening because she was carrying Kristine's baby.
After conferring with her thoughts, Zoë decided to forget all that happened and start the day afresh. She walked out the main entrance of the JAGUAR Company and headed for her car. On the way she sang her favorite song; 'TITANIUM' by Sia.
"I'm bullet proof...got nothing to lose, fire away, fire away..." she stopped singing and began humming. Twit! Twit! She unlocked her car; she opened the door and got inside. She opened the windows and drove away at a high speed. Her once nicely combed hair was now sashaying harshly against the car seat header, she kept on closing her eyes time and
again but ensuring that the car was on the right track.
When next Zoë opened her eyes, the robot light was turned red and she quickly stopped the car. The wheels screeched noisily against the tarred road. She took out her shades from the coverall and put them on. Then she turned to the mirror to see how she looked, 'ah! Perfect!" she said.
'Beep!' a car horn made noise behind.
"Move loser!" a voice said coming from the car behind hers. The driver got into another lane and stopped opposite Zoë's car.
"do not get love sick on the road," the man said, Zoë raised her middle finger and lip synced the words 'fuck you!' and the man drove away silently.
Zoë also sped off, "I'm feeling fantastic, oh yeah... I'm so fabulous, oh yeah..." she loudly sang.
She stopped at the Pickles filling station, "can I have your biggest tub of ice-cream please!"
'yes Mam!" he said.
He disappeared into the shop for some minutes and came back holding a sack, "here is your ice-cream. Its $53 Mam!" he said.
Zoë took out $100 and gave it to him,
"Keep the change," she said.
The attendee smiled and Zoë drove away. She stopped at the Ronny Park. She got out of the car with her ice-cream,
"Ice-cream and a nice quiet walk always make me feel a whole lot better." She said to herself.
Zoë began her walk, she passed a wooden bench. She walked slowly and quietly, she was also eating the ice-cream slowly. She played with the spoon in her mouth, spinning it around her tongue, and then she giggled. Zoë took a spoonful of ice-cream then bit the tip of her spoon; she liked doing that a lot. Especially in times like these, when she is confused or when she is extremely exited. Zoë turned her head to the right, she saw violets, and they were so blue and pretty.
Violets are her beloved flowers, 'aw! Violets! They are my favorite." She said with a huge grin on her face, and continued with her walk.
"I'm all out of love; I'm so lost without you... I know you were right, believing for so long...I'm all out of love; I'm so lost without you... If you walk away then boy I would just die..." Zoë sang, and then a tear ran through her sight and went across her cheek.
She wiped it off immediately, "pretty and sexy girls do not shed tears for stupid and unappreciative guys like Kristine. No daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalez cries over some stupid arrogant guy. It is worthless; he is such an imbecile to even think of killing his own baby. I will survive without him, like I did before I met him." She said.
So Zoë decided she is going to keep the baby, kick Kris out of her life and live happily ever after. She then laughed at the thought of it.
"Hahaha! Really! Happily ever after, in my dreams...' she said to herself.
Zoë sighed and said, "I cannot live happily ever after without Kris. But who am I kidding anyway; he will not want me and get back to me unless I agree to do the abortion. At the same time I do not want to abort because there are high chances I will die or have some complications in the future if I try to have a baby again. Ugh!" she sulked.
But can love force you to do some things you do not want to do? Who knows? Love is strange...
She looked down into her ice-cream container, it was almost empty, "I cannot believe this, I am actually about to finish this big ice-cream, wow!"
Although Zoë sounds like someone who eats a lot, she hardly takes anything more than two bananas, one orange, half full glass of juice and a glass of water on a daily basis. Sometimes she takes in some chocolate slab but rarely. All this time she has been eating less because she wanted to look sexy and appealing to Kris. Suddenly she felt she was skinny and needed to put on more weight. She wanted to start eating more.
After a few moments of thought she said, "What the fuck? I cannot believe I had been starving myself for him. What a waste of time!"
crash! The ice-cream container fell as Zoë bumped onto someone.
"Oh! I am so sorry, I didn't mean to." Zoë said to the guy she bumped on.
"It is quiet alright! My name is Liam, may I know yours?" he said and Zoë responded, 'I'm Zoë Gonzalez, what is your surname?"
"Cannon. Wait did you say Gonzalez is your last name?" Liam asked.
Zoë nodded, "uh-huh!"
"Him OK!" said Liam...
"What is the matter?" asked Zoë.
"Nothing! I just thought I heard the name somewhere, but it's not important!" Liam said and Zoë said, "OK!"
'Run run run run run, lala, u-gaga...'
"Just a minute, hello!" Liam answered his phone. "Liam, have you talked to Kristine today?" someone asked Liam from the other end of the line.
"No! I have not!" Liam answered and the person said, "OK!" and cut off the call.
"Who was that? If I may ask." Zoë asked Liam.
"My sister Rogue. Why do you ask?" he replied.
"Nothing! Just curious. I thought you were talking to your girlfriend." Zoë said.
"Girlfriend! No! I am too busy with my job to think about having a girlfriend. Besides ladies nowadays only want money from men." Liam responded and Zoë said, "Yeah you are right but not all ladies. And you men only want sex from us ladies. You do not offer us the love and attention we need. As a matter of fact, no amount of money in this world can buy my love."
Then Liam said, "Wow you have such a strong stand. You must have gone through a lot to say that!"
"Yeah I have gone through a lot. And of course it is a must that I have a strong stand." Responded Zoë.