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

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

the shock. I could have pretended that I didn’t know if I hadn’t seen the culprits, and

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

of three of us tiptoed

got out of the bathroom, the two women high-fived each other triumphantly and broke into a cackle. Then, they snapped back into their senses and realized that I was actually there too. The

at them and asked, “Who is inside that bathroom

The two women were obviously embarrassed and cast apprehensive looks

them a grin. “I won’t rat you girls out. But don’t do this again, it’s

women grinned from ear to ear and

time since I left, and I 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 we’re doing this to Ms.

brief moment and replied, “It’s none of my business.

them exchanged glances at my reply and nodded

noticed that the cleaning lady was heading to the

it was Stella. Her clothes were soaking wet, and she looked disheveled with her damp

and put on a surprised face.