My CEO 24

24 Am I Crazy? (Winona)

I'm speechless. I stare at Jayden and sit down in the chair opposite him. What does this really all mean? Apart from the wish thing, which is stupid anyway, I do need to be able to get along with him from a business perspective.

There will be times we need to be out together. Maybe it is better to rip the sticking plaster off quickly and get it over with

As if he reads my mind. "A business date. That's all. Honestly, we can't always be in the office. It's just one date"

I can't help remembering the first time he asked me out.

It's junior year of high school. I watch the two fools passing notes in a math exam and one drops, floating over to land closer to my desk than to theirs. It's not that they were not brainy enough, they were just too lazy to bother focusing. Of course they had money to fall back on.

And the math teacher, commonly known amongst the students as Old Man Bulldog, is someone who doesn't tolerate this kind of behavior, no matter how much money your family has. I see he's turned around and spotted the paper on the floor.

Automatically and god knows why, I pick up the note as he advances.

"Winona? What is that?"

"Sorry, Mr. Brown. Honest mistake. I had flash cards before class, and one must have stayed in my pocket."

me cautiously.

the last person who needs to cheat. Probably more on one flash

be so

that is how I attracted the attention of the richest student

outside of class before. He'd say hi and I'd just mumble and keep walking. I've seen the movies, I know someone like him showing someone like me attention is going to

became almost

me!" He begs for the 100th time.

"... Okay."

I'll ask you tomorrow. No... wait.

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24 Am I Crazy?

in front of all his friends. I guess he really

is sitting across from me with no clue about the history we'd built together. Yet I have the same dilemma, him

I'm trying my hardest to move on and let you

well get it

really understood how our backgrounds made it so difficult. We

had empathy for why I felt the way I did about us. guess that would have come with time, once he'd spent time in my world more.

short.

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