When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“I have something that might work!” The sobbing woman muttered excitedly before she paused and whispered, “I am not going to take this silently any longer. Why do I have to put up with her? I’m going to make her burn her finger, and yet there’s nothing that she can do about it.”

“What do you plan to do about it?”

I could only hear hushed whispers, but not what they were saying clearly. However, I felt oddly amused by their demeanor. No wonder people were looking at me all weird whenever I came into the office recently. It looked like this was the reason.

After hearing nothing for some time, I thought the two women had left. My stomach was still wringing in pain, and there was no rush to leave the bathroom. However, I could hear heels clacking coming from the outside all of a sudden.

Then, someone chimed, “Hi, Ms. Collins!”

Stella? I was stumped.

Suddenly, the air grew still in the bathroom. A text came in on my phone. It was from Hailey. She asked when I would be able to meet her as she was planning to go back to K City.

I replied to her and kept my phone. Then, I heard a scream from my neighboring bathroom stall. “Ahh! Who is that?”

Sounds of water splashing could be heard, and I was stumped for a brief moment. I headed out of my stall, and bumped into two women holding two big buckets.

trying to teach Stella

A voice berated from inside the stall. I turned around to the bathroom stall, and noticed that someone had locked it from the outside. The person inside had no means of getting out

pretended that I didn’t know if I hadn’t seen the culprits, and just treated it as a prank.

business as well. I gestured for them to shush while they were still eyeing me in trepidation. Then, I signaled using my hands that we

women were dumbfounded at my response. Then, all of three of us

of the bathroom, the two women high-fived each other triumphantly and broke into a cackle. Then, they snapped back into their

smiled back at them and asked, “Who

women were obviously embarrassed and cast

grin. “I won’t rat you girls out. But don’t do

women grinned from ear to

turned on my heel to head back to Ashton’s office. However, the two women stopped me in my tracks and asked, “Mrs. Fuller, aren’t you going to ask why

“It’s none of

exchanged glances at my

I noticed that the cleaning lady was heading to the bathroom.

I could head inside his office, I heard hasty footsteps behind me. Turning around, I noticed that it was Stella. Her clothes were soaking wet, and she looked

put on a surprised face. “Ms. Collins, what happened