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*******

"Thanks for the ride sir." I walk out of Mr Kelvin's beautiful pink car and enter my house as he drives away.

I see Josie as soon as I enter my house.

"Who's the man?." Josie asks me quickly before I could say anything.

"Who?." I ask her also confused.

"The man that just drove the car that you came out from, I didn't see his face but I know he's a man."

"Oh, he's my boss...."

"You better not." She warns me even though I don't know why she's warning me when I didn't do anything.

"What should I not do?." I ask her really shocked at why she'd just tell me not to do something.

"Don't cheat on Clemy." She replies me looking really serious.

"Cheat Clemy, I don't love Clemy and I don't love my boss, he's just a friend."

"Friend your friend, you just met him today and you already call him your friend." She looks at me ashamed.

"I hope it's not what I think it is." She looks at me with an angry look.

"What do you think it is?." I ask her a little suspicious.

"Are you dating him? Or are you already those type of girls that sleep with their boss for money?."

"SHUT UP!." I shout at her really annoyed. "Are you crazy? Why'd you think I'll do something like that? What do you take me for?." I ask her almost crying because of the abuse.

"Babe." She calls me then I sit on the bed already crying.

"I am not in love with any one,get it?."

"OK I'm sorry." Josie apologizes to me sitting close to me.

"I forgive you." We both hug.

"But don't cheat on Clemy." She warns me then I sigh.

"I don't even love Clemy." I say softly.

******

"Bye,I'm going to work." I tell Josie who smiles at me.

Wow,it's been a week now that I've been working for Kelvin and he's really a nice guy,I think Josie's right about him,now I know why everyone is so into him.

I walk out of my house.

"Cab!." I stop a cab as I see a man smiling at me.

"Come in." He orders me then I go into the car.

****

"Morning Kelvin Tasha." I greet kelvin holding a cup of coffee to give to him.

"Morning Babe Tale." He greets me to then we both laugh.

"A cup of coffee." I give him the cup of coffee then he collects it smiling.

"Thanks." He takes a sip of the coffee.

"Who prepared this coffee?." He asks me then I smile.

"I did." I reply him with a hug.

"Yeah,I guessed so because you're the best cook in the world." He compliments me.

"Thanks,that's a great compliment."

"It's not a compliment." He tells me. "It's reality." We both laughou"Is it lunch time? Because I think I've done all my work for today." I try to calculate looking at the time.

"Lunch is in two minutes time." He reminds me then I smile.

"Oh yeah I remember now." I take my phone and turn it on. I check my message and laugh.

"Why'd you laugh?." He asks me then I smile.

"It's Josie, she sent a pick to me." I show him the picture and he laughs also.

Kelvin looks at his watch.

"Oh, it's lunch time." We both stand up.

I walk out of the office and he follows.

"Let's go to a restaurant, the one we went to before."

"OK."

*******

I eat gently without embarrassing myself and Kelvin.

"Babe, do you want some blunts?. He asks me.

"Just three." I tell him knowing he's going to pay the money but as soon as I get my first salary I'll tell him to stop paying my money for me.

The waitress walks out of our sight.

"I want to see Josie,when would I see her?." He asks me.

"OK, you'll meet her tomorrow, is that a goof date?." I ask him.

"Yes it is." He replies me with a smile.

The waitress comes with the blunts and drops it close to me.

"I save some for Josie, she'd love it." I assure myself taking a blunt and putting it in a nylon in my bag.

"No, don't do that, remove it now." He orders me.

"OK." I remove it from my bag then he takes it from me and throws it into the dustbin.

"Why'd you do that?." I ask him annoyed a little at why he'd just waste an innocent food that could have been in my tommy.

"Because it's dirty." He replies me. "Why'd you put it in a nylon, because you want to give it to Josie." I nod my head.

"Here you go." He takes his wallet from his jacket and removes some amount of money from it and gives it to me.

"This is $4000." I take the money from his hands.

"Sir, is it part of my salary?." I ask him not sure if it's part of my salary or if he's just giving me.

"Take it, use it to buy some blunts for Josie." I hold the money in my hands smiling like never before.

*****

"That blunt was awesome." I tell him sitting on a chair that workers sit at when he wants to talk to them.

"Can you tell me about your parents? How they died?." He asks me then I sigh.

"Well don't tell me if you don't want to." He tells me then I smile.

"I'll tell you,well I was young and my mom wanted to buy something for me,a bluejacket and she had an accident on her way. My dad died few days after." I try to think of it. "Wait I think it's the opposite, well whatever."

"Well I'll tell you how my mother died." He tells me without me asking.

"When my mother got married to Billy,my dad. He always beat her but she never cared,she thought he still loved her, then she gave birth to me then he stopped beating her.

My mom later gave birth to Ariana and she found out she had cancer when Ariana was two then when Ariana was five she died now she's dead." He takes a sip of the coffee I gave him before coming to his office.

******

"My boss said he wants to me you and I fixed a date for you two."

"What day."

"Tomorrow."

"I'm not going, you know I hate him and why'd you leave Clemy to a filthy idiot like him,what's his name?."

"Kelvin, Kelvin Tasha."

"Kelvin!." Josie shouts.