BXBX NOVEL Chapter 256 - Take You On A Date
That morning at Colors Advertising\'s office, Lisa couldn\'t start her day smoothly if she didn\'t get caffeine. So not long after she turned on the computer, Lisa immediately rushed to the pantry to make a cup of coffee. She turned on the coffee maker and then faintly heard the voices of people talking in the next room.
"You know what, the financial manager of our office now seems to have started to follow the trend," said an employee from the next room.
Intrigued, Lisa brought her ear closer to the source of the sound, and sharpened her sense of hearing.
"Huh, why, really? Tell me," said another employee.
"You see, this morning she came wearing branded clothes! It\'s crazy, like my gosh, I\'ve been working for quite a while here but I couldn\'t afford branded goods like her."
"Uh, yeah, she\'s wearing a Sang Lorang blazer, that\'s the same as her bag, it\'s a fraking Herves sis!"
"Is it real or fake?"
"Ugh it\'s probably fake since it is not possible for her to buy branded stuff like that, especially that Herves bag with her current salary. Geez, as long as you all know, that bag costs the same as a new car! "
"Isn\'t that crazy!"
"It\'s good if I buy a fake one, and I think it\'s better to save until I can buy the original. Why bother buying faux just to be called a socialite? Uh, it\'s really tacky, everything\'s just for social status!"
"At best, Lisa has just become a rich man\'s pet. It\'s impossible for her to buy all of that stuff because she\'s only been working here for not so many years! Meanwhile, we have been here for 5 years and still can\'t buy branded goods like hers!"
Hearing the unpleasant gossip made Lisa\'s emotions start exploding. Her brows were furrowed. Soon she would be smashing her coffee cup into pieces. However, she did not want to cause bigger problems in Rangga\'s office. It was enough that she fought with Karina a while ago.
Lisa took a deep breath and then exhaled. She tried to organize her foggy and frantic mind so that she was able to deal with rotten mouths that were speaking ill of her name behind her back.
Lisa gripped the coffee cup tightly. She took a deep breath and then exhaled. Her mind instantly returned to calm and relaxed. With all her courage, Lisa stepped into the next room where the employees were gossipping about Lisa.
She turned, staring at the faces of the workers who were caught in the act with an expressionless face. Lisa was silent for a moment, staring at the three gossiping women with sharp eyes. They immediately shut their mouths and were shocked once Lisa came to them.
"Ah, Sis Lisa, how come you are here?" One of the three gossip employees asked nervously.
"Oh I just made coffee, I heard that there was a tacky financial manager, right? You said she\'s wearing branded clothes for the sake of social climbing? Hmmm, how come I never heard of it. What\'s her name?" Lisa asked sarcastically. She felt she had the biggest win this time.
The three women suddenly fell silent. They didn\'t know what else to say. They\'d been caught!
"Umm… We\'re sorry, the three of us are just ..."
Not finished with the sentence, Lisa immediately cut off, "Only having a bad idea about one of your many colleagues in this office? Haha, you guys are very sad huh? Let me explain, my new clothes and bag are gifts from my new boyfriend so they are real. Second, if you are jealous and craving for the things that I am wearing now, then you should shut up your mouths, stop gossiping and work harder!"
Lisa stared at the three gossipers with Oscar-style cold and intimidating eyes. It turned out that the advantage of dating a cool guy like Oscar was to learn to be assertive and show authority to people who deserved a lesson. Like these three gossiping ladies!
Her aura also became very cold and tense. The atmosphere in the room was suddenly awkward and terrifying. The three women gossiped silently where they sat. Their eyes showed great fear and anxiety.
"Good, instead of gossiping, it\'s better to just save your energy for work," Lisa immediately left the room with slow and graceful steps. As if the woman did not feel swayed by the gossip. Lisa could keep her emotions stable when dealing with useless people like them earlier. She thanked Clara because she learned how to face her opponents calmly and casually from her.
Lisa returned to her desk and wrestled with financial reports as usual. Between her work, the phone on her desk rang several times. Without much thought, Lisa immediately picked up the phone, "Hello, Colors Advertising finance\'s Lisa Soewandi, can I help?"
From across the phone, there was a pause for a moment before a man\'s voice said, "Hello, Lisa, this is Bastian, are you going to be busy after work? Let\'s go on a date in the Kemang area?"
Lisa was surprised, didn\'t she already tell Bastian that she wasn\'t interested in being his girlfriend? Why did this man contact her at the office anyway!
"Bas, sorry I don\'t mean to be rude or anything but I can\'t be your girlfriend. After all, I\'m invited to dinner with my husband tonight," Lisa replied softly.
For a moment, the phone was silent.
"Are you married, Lisa?" Bastian asked dryly. The man sounded disappointed.
"Yes— I mean, not yet but I\'m already engaged. I\'ll get married in a short time," Lisa said.
"May I know who will marry you?"
Lisa ignored him for a moment, then Bastian interrupted, "Mr. Rangga, right?"
"Hey, of course not! I\'ll let you know as soon as possible and when it\'s fixed. I will definitely invite you to come to my wedding, so why don\'t you just calm down!"
Hearing Lisa\'s explanation just now made Bastian\'s heart a little pained and disappointed. This man loved Lisa very much since he first met her at Petersson Communication. Although he rarely met Lisa in his old office, he often heard about the woman\'s accomplishments in her former work. For some reason, Bastian fell in love with Lisa since then.
Now that they were separated for a long time, they met again in the same office. Some time ago, even Lisa and herself were arranged into a date but she didn\'t like Bastian as a lover.
Bastian took a deep breath from across then said, "Even though you don\'t want to be my girlfriend, we can still be friends, right?"
"Yes, yes. Oh my, this is really funny. You are still nice to me, so of course I want to be your friend!" Lisa replied firmly without hesitation. "By the way, I\'m sorry, I\'lI hang up the phone, I\'m still busy at work. Byeee!"
Then the call from Bastian ended.
***
The beautiful sunset had sunk on the West side. Time for the Colors Advertising employees to go home, and Lisa was no exception.
When she stepped into the gate, she saw a tall, slender man in a shiny black coat standing leaning against the gate.
"Oscar, what are you doing picking me up here!?"
"Didn\'t I promise to bring you to dinner earlier?" Oscar said dryly. He raised an eyebrow. "Let\'s go, I already bought a dress for you."
"Eh? A dress? Oscar, do you want to ask me to dinner or dance?" Lisa asked, surprised.
The man ignored her question, instead he pushed her back and took her to the car.
"You will know where I\'m taking you soon," Oscar said in the car. The corners of his lips formed a grin that looked cute.
Lisa could not refuse her future husband\'s invitation.. So she chose to remain silent and did not ask further where the man of European blood would take her to dinner.