I entered and closed the door behind me and took in the appearance of the office which as expected of Felix and a typical office was finely tidy with some intricate paintings on the wall.
"How did you know that I was there?" I asked after scanning around.
He shrugged and pointed to his laptop's screen. I moved closer and saw the footage of the security cameras were rolling in from the floors and corners of the restaurant on the screen.
I sighed and moved away to stand in front of the desk and looked at him waiting to hear whatever he had to say.
"Sit down" he commanded sternly with a formal tone gesturing to the chair I was standing beside in front of his desk with such an annoying glare.
I sat down without uttering a word and slumped down in my seat.
Actually, I was so confused as to why he was not being his usual whiny stupid self but suddenly the fierce arrogant rich man I had perceived about him some time ago.
So I just sat there without talking fearing that I might say something that might get on his nerves.
"I get it you're assisting my head chef" he stated still formally.
"Yes sir" I responded with an equal formal tone.
What the fuck was going on here. Why is he suddenly going formal on me? He is so weirding me out. I wanted to ask him but still, I was sure what was going on in his head. Well, it might be that he wants to keep it strictly professional at work anyway.
"Mr. Skimps, your behavior today was very unprofessional and it made me question your professionality," he said and stood up turning his face to me as he walked to the window.
It took me a second to realize that he was talking about my behavior in the morning.
Yep even I was quite surprised about what I did and he had no right to call me out. I was so stupid. Add a mental facepalm to that.
"I apologize for my behavior sir, I accept full responsibility for my actions. I shouldn't have zoned out or talked back or anything at all when I knew it was a very formal meeting with our CEO, I'm sorry once again" I apologized.
He made a 'tch' sound and came back to sit down shaking his head in the process.
"No I'm not talking about this morning" he slightly frowned like I was supposed to understand what he said when I was absolutely clueless.
"Excuse me?"
I wasn't getting what he was trying to say because all I remember doing bad was in the morning so if he wasn't talking about it then what else.
"Yes, it's not about this morning but rather during lunch break," he said dangerously calmly.
"I still don't get you sir" I voiced out.
He gestured to the laptop's screen again, and I moved closer to watch whatever footage I was going to watch. But he suddenly tensed when I craned my neck to look over his shoulder. I looked at him and realized that we were too close and my nose and lips were scratching his neck.
"Sorry" I muttered and moved back a little.
I looked on the screen and found footage of when I was smiling and talking with Eugene.
"Oh, that" I sighed. "But it was my lunch break and Prem and Gideon said it was okay when I asked" I quickly added.
"But I'm not Prem or Gideon and I don't accept this" he hissed.
"But last time I checked it wasn't against the rules and my superiors did not comment as such" I replied and raised my eyebrows.
He gave a deathly glare which made me regret my outburst.
"Sorry" I muttered and scrunched my face.
"But apparently your CEO isn't okay with that" he growled.
"And what makes my CEO not okay when everyone is okay with that?" I said with a little anger and threw my hands around.
Argh, I'm really treading on dangerous grounds. If I get fired, Blame my mouth and stupid emotions.
"Because you can't do that" he yelled and stood up.
Now all my patience had flown out of every inch of my skin and the amount of anger radiating from my body was enough to cook food for a whole country.
"And why can't I?" I snarled.
"Because I said you can't" he growled, like growled like a fucking animal.
"And why the fuck can't I? Huh? you aren't my parent or something. You are just my friend and my friend doesn't have the right to tell me what to do even if he is an egoistic CEO" I growled back.
"You know what, I'm done here. Good day boss" with that I turned and was about to leave the office.
A sudden painful grip on my left wrist made me turn around with a yelp. I gave Felix a deathly glare and looked at where his hands had a grip on my wrist.
"Please don't leave yet and just listen to me," he said now calmly with a clenched jaw.
"Oh, where did your ego suddenly fly out to?" I rolled my eyes and yanked my wrist from his hands and turned once again.
Blame my mouth here again.
But before I could blink I was pulled back and turned around with such a great force and landed on Felix's hard chest with oomph and a stupid high pitched squeak from me.
"What the fu-" I started but was interrupted by lips crashing onto mine with an amazing force that I thought my lips were gonna disappear.
I stood frozen with my eyes wide open as his lips moved on mine and after I still didn't respond for a while, he grunted and maybe rolled his eyes parting his lips from mine and gently placing a kiss on my forehead. He placed his forehead on mine and exhaled.
"W-w-what was that?" I stuttered and inhaled sharply.
"A kiss?" He chuckled.
"No I mean I know it's a kiss and all that but why did you kiss like kiss me now and why did you even do it at my workplace?" I ranted a little, well maybe not a little.
"Isn't it obvious?"
"No, it isn't " I shook my head.
"It means I like you and I was so jealous" he scoffed.
I wiggled out of his arms that had been enclosing me the whole time. I raised my eyebrows and crossed my arms.
"But that doesn't allow you to get angry and jealous and ruin my mood" I pointed out poking his chest.
"Yes it does" he shrugged.
"No it doesn't, for whatever's sake I didn't even know you liked me this much, and now this?" I asked in disbelief pointing to and fro between us.
"I am sorry" he came closer and held my hands.
"Not accepted" I removed my hands.
"Just how can I make it up to you?" He asked with a sullen tone.
"I don't know" I shrugged as if I didn't care.
He sighed very loud and long, looking at me with tired eyes.
Was he playing the frustrated card when I was the one who was supposed to feel that? I wanted to scream out loud into his face but I held back and went for a scoff.
"Follow me" he groaned.
"No, I'm not" I replied and did not move to follow him.
"You know what, I'm just dragging you out" he scoffed and held my right hand.
And he literally dragged me out of his office into the hallways.
"Hey, you can't do this to me!" I protested and resisted, trying to set myself free.
He ignored my protest and continued dragging me through the hallway till we made it to the ground floor.
All eyes darted to us making my body suddenly grow heavy. Seriously who wouldn't look at a grown man dragging a boy like me behind him like a dog drags his largest most priceless bone behind him.
Felix knowingly continued to drag me until we were in the middle of the room this time all voices silent and all noises drowned out. He cleared his throat loudly gaining the full attention of the few wayward heads.
I squeezed his hand that was attached to mine, the hand that dragged me very harshly, and breathed anger through my nose. But Felix just winked at me and smirked.
"Now if I have all your attention, I would love to make something known and crystal clear" his voice boomed out through the eery silence.
"What are you trying to do?" I hissed through a whisper into his ear still squeezing his hand.
He gave me a knowing smirk and it was then that I realized that he was going to do just that and the death squeeze I was giving to his hand was nothing but a sting compared to the rush of joy and jealousy that must have been pumping adrenaline into his body.
He turned to me " You said you didn't know I liked you that much right?".
I nodded my answer with an awkward shrug.
"Perfect, so now I'm gonna show how much I like you or even love you," he said and turned to the eagerly waiting crowd of nosy people "I have someone special here who I want the whole world to know and just respect him" he turned back to me with a smile.
Oh no, he is just going to do that. I inhaled sharply and cursed under my breath as I released his hand from mine in defeat.
He got down onto his right knee taking my right hand and kissing my knuckles lovingly.
"What are you doing?, they are all looking at us" I hissed again and tried taking my hand out of his.
But to due to my apparent lack of strength I couldn't but rather, Felix held strong turning my knuckles white as we silently battled to remove or hold a hand. I gave an awkward smile and sighed in defeat.
"Would you do me the honor of being my boyfriend?" He asked so tenderly and so emotionally.
I groaned and facepalmed mentally, Yep, he really did that. Leave it to a childish Felix to make me feel embarrassed.