Love Thy Neighbour by Annecia Ellies (sci fi books to read txt) 📖

entire apartment was in darkness. She came off the bed crawling over Flynn as he slept at the end and went into the living room where she flipped a light switch. The room flooded with yellow light. She went to the small kitchen area towards the fridge searching for something to eat. Her mind went back to the apartment building; she made a mental note to enquire about it tomorrow. Making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she sat down to eat. Flynn walks in sleepy eyed; he kissed her cheek and heads towards the fridge.

“Want a sandwich honey?” she asked.

“Sure, what you got?” he replied.

“Peanut butter and jelly, but you can have something else if you want, I have some Royal Castle in the fridge”.

“No, that’s fine, I’ll have the sandwich”.

They ate chatting about what’s happening at both work places, afterwards, Flynn left to return home. Morgan tidied up her kitchen and returned to bed.

The next morning on her way to work, Morgan went into the compound of the new apartment buildings, Hibiscus Towers was in bold red letters on a banner on the wall of the new construction. They seemed to be almost completed, she noticed. She spoke to the first man she saw.

“Good morning, can you tell me where I can get information about the apartments?”

“Sure Miss, if you go back there,” he said pointing to the left side of the building, “and ask for Caesar, you can ask him all you want to know”.

Caesar was very helpful, giving her a telephone contact and a name to ask for. He said they weren’t all accounted for as yet, so she should be able to get one. She called as soon as she got into the office, and as luck would have it, she was told about one on the third floor, facing east. The rent will be higher than what she’s currently paying by four hundred dollars, but that was ok, she has made up her mind, she wants to move. During her lunch break, she drove down to Barataria to get more information on the apartment.

At Ludwig Enterprises she was met by a fairly attractive young woman who gave her a number and pointed her to a seat. The name tag on the desk said Keisha Thumbs. Ludwig was owned by Fenton Ludwig Real Estate, a Real Estate company which was also into construction. That explains why it’s going up so fast, she said to herself. After twenty minutes she was ushered into the office, hoping to meet the man himself, to her disappointment she was introduced to a Mrs. Spinner. The building will be rented according to the need of the tenants as it housed two and three bedroom apartments. There are four penthouses at the top. It goes six floors up, the ground floor is for businesses. She wants a two bedroom apartment so that will put her on the third floor. She was given a plan of the third floor and a floor plan of the apartment itself, together with a brochure about Ludwig’s plans to develop more housing settlements in her area, and also in the Chaguanas borough.

A down payment of three thousand dollars was made, she collected all her relevant documents and left. The apartments will be ready within three months. When she exited the building she couldn’t help the feeling of contentment that overcame her, she was moving ahead and that’s a start. Now if only Dreamers and Me Events Management company can keep up. It doesn’t matter anyway, she thought, as she has plans to go into business with her Saurelle, and plans for that was well under way. It will be a matter of time before she leaves Adlei, but not yet. She wants to leave him in good standing.

She returned to the office and was reading the brochure when Adlei suddenly appeared in her line of vision.

“Morgan, we need to go over some things for the Boyd’s wedding darling, see me as soon as you can ok munchies.”

“Sure thing Adlei”, she replied without glancing up.

“Ahem!”

She looked up. Adlei was holding some fabric swatches in the darkest green and palest pink.

“Wow Ads, er you’re looking for…”

“You didn’t say which shade they’ll be using so I’m experimenting.”

“Oh, they didn’t make up their mind that’s why, but she was hoping for something with purple or orange as they her favorite colors”.

“Well we can help them, can’t we? I’ll see what I can pull together.”

With that he turned and left. Morgan couldn’t help but think something’s going on with him. He seemed distant lately. She put the brochure away and went into his office.

The hours passed without any interruptions and she found herself back home before five thirty. She looked around the apartment, although it was small, she had accumulated lots of things in the couple years since she’s been there. She will need to get some help when time comes to move out. She went to the dining table and sat in front her computer. The message icon was blinking. Omari added a new picture. Jemma wants to be your friend. Saurelle added some new photos she would like you to check out. She checked them out and went right into her messages. She had three from Filipe. He was leaving the US to return to France for a while and was thinking about visiting a Caribbean Island, is she willing to show him around if he came there.

She told him between her work and planning to move in the next few months, she doubt she have much time to do that. He said he will still come because he has never been to Trinidad and Tobago. She wondered if he was coming here because of her, she hope she did not lead him on. The ringing of her cell phone broke her train of thoughts, looking at the screen she realized it was Auri.

“So honey, how are you enjoying Full Circle?” she asked.

“It’s ok,” Morgan replied.

“Good, met anyone interesting as yet?”

“Well they are all sort of interesting you know, especially this Filipe guy, he’s absolutely gorgeous.”

“Ha!” exclaimed Saurelle, “Morgs thinks someone other than the mighty Flynn is gorgeous”.

“Well Flynn is a handsome dude you know,” she said in defense. The conversation went on; Saurelle had found someone interesting and was planning to meet up with him. Morgan told her it was a bad idea, she should wait a bit. They chatted well into the night taking advantage of Digicel’s free after three minutes special. When Morgan went to sleep she was pretty much exhausted.

Two weeks later on a Saturday afternoon the girls are in the mall, seated at a table in the food court having burgers and fries. Saurelle was filling Morgan in on her interest in Kwassi. He lived in Marabella, Trinidad and wants them to meet up because he’s interested in her.

“Auri, I’m not comfortable with you meeting strange men from websites you know, that could be dangerous”.

“Morgs, we have been chatting for months, it’s only fair for us to meet.  It will be in a public place, I promise, I’m no fool girl” replied Saurelle, taking her voice a pitch higher at the end. Morgan laughed. She knew Saurelle played it safe, a bit too safe considering she hasn’t been with anyone in over a year. She continued to sip her Coco Cola.

“Hey, I have an idea, why don’t you two meet here?” she grinned at Saurelle then continued, “I can be somewhere close by and check him out for you.”

“Hmm, ok,” Saurelle replied. “That way you can see for yourself he’s not a bad guy.”

After they finished their meal they headed to Movie Town to catch a chick flick.

 

 

 

Chapter Five

At Dr. Kendra Stephen’s office in Manhattan, Filipe sat on a crimson sofa listening to the soothing hum of her voice as she spoke. It was a procedure they went through time and time again, ever since he was thirteen years old. The psychiatrist was his mother’s idea after he began having persistent dreams about finding someone called Jayme, who he remembered from when he was captured. He had reached a point where the dreams became a nightly horror as Jayme would appear to him screaming for him to save her from her captors. Once, he ran through the house in the dead of the night screaming for Jayme and looking for her in the house. They never did find out what happened to Jayme because they did not have enough information to go on. The therapy however, helped him greatly. The nightmares had stopped altogether but after Genny left him his anxiety levels rose again causing him to take a step back into his past haunting. He returned to Dr. Stephens and after a couple sessions was again able to put things into perspective and move on. Still, whenever he is emotionally upset or stressed out the haunting dreams will return.

“Talk to me Filipe”, Doctor Stephen said.

Filipe looked at her with a bit of excitement in his eyes.

“I’m doing much better, as a matter of fact I want to do some travelling soon.”

“Oh? Where to?”

“The Caribbean.”

“Good for you, I believe the travelling will do you well.” She replied while writing in a folder. She then asked, “How long will you be staying there Filipe, is it possible to have at least two more sessions with you before you go? You have done so well these past few months, I saw a lot of progress and I know you will be fine. I hope that you know enough to be able to see that the dreams are just that, dreams. The search for this person never yielded anything, the haunting feeling comes from the unresolved question about the location of Jayme, and you can successfully divert it. You’ve learnt to release your fears and I can see you already moving on.”

“Oh, I won’t be gone for too long, I leave on Monday and will be gone for maybe two weeks.” Filipe said, “I need to get away for a little while.”

“Good. Then I will see you at the end of this month when you return from your trip.”

Filipe left the building and walked towards his car. Driving off he thought about Trinidad and was hoping he can get a flight to Piarco International Airport for next Monday morning. That gave him one week to organize for his absence from the office. He wasn’t needed in the office either way as the company practically runs itself, thanks to the skill and experience of the workers employed. He decided he will get something nice for his new friend Morgan then go home so he can finish doing a few things that popped up. Images of Morgan filled his mind as he drove, she is a beautiful girl, he thought. For some reason his heart rate increased whenever he thought of her. Passing in front of a jewelry shop he knew exactly what he was going to get her, a charm bracelet he saw when he went in to have his gold chain cleaned last week. The perfect gift, not too personal but quite lovely.

 

 

Morgan and Saurelle sat chatting online on the Full Circle website. They were discussing Auri’s meeting with Kwassi which was scheduled for the following afternoon at Long Circular Mall. The plan was that Morgan will get there around three in the afternoon and reserve a seat at a table where she can see them clearly so if help is needed Auri can give her a particular signal. If the meeting goes well she promised to leave them alone. They were looking forward some girly fun and sat chatting and giggling like two fifteen year olds.

The next day Morgan and Zoe went to Maracas beach to begin making arrangements to have the perfect spot reserved for the wedding. Everything was going smoothly so far, as a matter of fact, Morgan was getting a bit antsy at how smoothly it was going. Things were just falling into