I Was Fated to Love You

Contents

Chapter 1 Your office girl next door

Chapter 2 Darren Bells

Chapter 3 The Mishap

Chapter 4 Payback

Chapter 5 The Accidental Pregnancy Kit

Chapter 6 Meeting Matthew

Chapter 7 Letting him Know

Chapter 8 The Decision

Chapter 9 Together for Now

Chapter 10 The Agreement

Chapter 11 The Search

Chapter 12 Fatherhood

Chapter 13 Meteor Shower

Chapter 14 Birthday

Chapter 15 Her return

Chapter 16 Hurt

Chapter 17 Trouble

Chapter 18 The Final Chance

Chapter 1

Your Office Girl
Next Door

Abigail Rowling didn’t have to work hard to be
ordinary. She was ordinary in every way. Her black-rimmed specs often pressed
on the ridges of her nose, as she squinted at the glaring computer screen on a
daily basis. She tied her hair in a neat bun, and was usually clad in a typical
working attire- a standard blouse with a black skirt reaching her kneecaps. She
wasn’t ugly, but she wasn’t what you would consider as stunningly beautiful as
well. She was plain.

 
As usual, time seemed to come to a stop
as Abigail huffed and puffed her way through the crowds at her workplace
building, to get to the lift before its doors closed. It was a humorous sight,
for Abigail was always in a hurry. She was always in a hurry to satisfy the
needs of others, being at their beck and call, whenever necessary. She was your
coffeegirl, alright.

 
She was carrying those piping hot
Starbucks coffees with her two hands, and the aromatic scent of coffee tingled
the noses of those who had landed in the same lift as her. The lift was so
crowded that she was literally pressed against the sweaty bodies of the two men
beside her.

 
Then, something inexplicable happened.
There was a horrible smell that penetrated the aromatic scent of coffee.

 
Someone had farted.

 
And no, it wasn’t Abigail.

 
The man looked embarrassed as he
hurriedly exited the lift door once it had reached his floor. It was the
Marketing Director of Smiths Enterprise, and he often suffered from
constipation, diarrhoea and what not. No one had laughed because it was the
usual.

 
At the 7
^th
floor, Abigail
exited the lift and she made a wild dash towards her department- the department
of Public Relations. Ironic because Abigail wasn’t the most gregarious when it
came to forging beneficial relations with people. She was only gregarious when it
came to offering help to others. She had often wondered why she was that way,
but it was a mystery of all mysteries.

 
“Abby, where’s my black coffee?”

“Abby, where’s
my Espresso?”

“Abby,
can you help me check my files? I need to go for a wedding soon.”

“Abby, can
you help me complete this please? I am meeting Roger”

Abby had a small office desk beside the pantry which
was virtually out of sight unless one bothered to take a round around the
office. She was only in sight when her service was rendered and to the others,
she was contented with life and the way she was. She was just like a post-it
note which one found handy when we require a reminder, but disposable once the
job has been done.

 
To be honest, Abby never wanted to be so
plain, so simple and so ordinary. She was just like any girl. As cliché was it
seems, she had always longed for a prince charming to whisk her from her cruel
fate of being seemingly ignored and escort her to a place so heavenly where he
would shower her with love and affection. Wasn’t that every girl’s aspiration?
Her father had told her once, that if she had believed in something, then it
would happen. Abby’s father passed away in a car accident when she was just a
young girl of age 11. She had lived with her mother and her sisters ever since.
At home, she was equally dismissed, since her mother had never wanted her to be
born anyway, believing that Abby had added on to the family’s financial
troubles, with the bad debts that her mother had incurred from her gambling
habits. In fact, Abby was born after a failed abortion attempt. It was not that
her mother didn’t love her after Abbey had been born. It was just that her
mother did not pay as much attention to her as her other sisters who had more
dynamic personalities than her.

Abby was the youngest child of the family, and unlike
her sisters who were married, she was the only bachelorette among them. Abby’s
sister, Linda, had always pleaded with her to get married, so she could get out
of the room which she occupied in their small house at the countryside, and so
she could move back to their old home with her husband to save costs. Poor
Abby.
 
She wanted to marry herself
off too.

There was a particular incident which still stayed
etched to her memories. When Abby was a student in high school, she had a huge
crush on her senior, Michael. Michael was the star of the cohort, where he had
mesmerizing brown eyes and a smile which stole her heart. Well, one day, Abby
finally plucked up the courage to write a letter of confession to Michael and
left it under his desk at school. Abby had not expected a change in attitude in
Michael when he invited her to his birthday bash. Abby- the girl who was not in
the popular clique was finally invited to a birthday bash organized by the most
popular boy in school, and none other than her crush itself. She excitedly went
for the bash which was held at his beautiful white house, and to her surprise,
there was no one other than Michael himself. He had told her that the rest have
not arrived yet, and he would want to see her dance. She stupidly complied and
although she felt embarrassed, she took off her black robe, which revealed Abby
in her bright yellow bikini. He had instructed her to wear this, saying she
would look fantastic in this. Then, Abby danced to the throbbing music, with
the water from the nearby fountain spraying on her slightly. She thought that
it would have made senior Michael happy and that finally someone would have
appreciated her. Little did poor Abby expect that guffaws of laughter would
erupt from behind her, as the entire party emerged from behind the bushes and
roared with excitement. She is so stupid, they pointed and said. Yeah she is so
stupid, he said. It was a traumatic experience for Abby and that demoralized
her already-low confidence further. She was convinced that no one would ever
really love her for who she was and she was resigned to being Miss Invisible.
Nonetheless, she still yearned for a sparkle of hope where someone would love
her.

Hence, Abby had never been in a relationship before.
She was what you would call evergreen. She had just been filing sheets and
sheets of paperwork when she felt a tap on her shoulder.

“ If you need me to do any work, just place a post-it
on my table”

“ It is me”

Abby stopped her work and looked right up. It was her
superior, Samuel. Samuel was the Director of the Public Relations team and was
a tall and rugged-looking man. Her heart throbbed and she felt her legs go
jelly as he spoke to her. She had always had a fascinating crush on him ever
since the first day she came to work. He had never touched her before, and
although it was just a tap, that was enough to make Abby feel electrified and
for all her sensations to become instantly magnified. It resembled the crush
she had on her senior, Michael, years back and she struggled to come back to
her senses.

“I was just wondering if you will be free for supper
later on”

Abby gaped and she went in a state of being
shell-shocked. Her face turned into a hot red flush, as she struggled to
comprehend this newfound attention he had on her.

“ err..yes.. I should be free”

“Alright,
see you later on”
         

So Abby and Michael went for supper later on, when
everyone had knocked off. He had been especially nice to her. Paid for her plate
of chilled desserts and invited her to watch a late-night movie, which he paid
for as well. Abby felt her world turning when he had offered his jacket to her
during the movie. For once, Abby had felt that someone had cared for her. Then,
he sent her home in his black BMW. Abby couldn’t help but feel a gush of
excitement. Had she found the one afterall?