Chapter48

I smiled to myself. With pleasure. -Sure- ** Heather's POV: I was at a restaurant with Kevin for lunch. He just kept on talking about himself, boring the hell out of me. And so while he spoke, I sent an SMS to Ace asking him to send me a pic too. I was bored and felt like talking to him a little. I was actually kidding and didn't really expect him to send me a picture because I'd actually lost the bet. When he replied sure, I knew he was going to send one. A minute after, my phone biped a knew SMS. Ace. My heart skipped for nothing. I opened it. It read: -I don't have a lot of my pictures in my phone. But, I found one on which I'm not that bad. Though I'm not smiling on it. Should I still send it?- -Yes!- I didn't waste time to reply. I waited another minute and my phone biped again. "Are you listening to me?" Kevin asked, causing me to look up. "Yes, honey. I am." I lied. "Okay. I as was saying..." he went on with blabbering. I loaded the pic and waited. Soon it appeared.  "Gosh." I whispered suddenly out of breath. Ace was so handsome! He looked like a model on that picture. I felt my heartbeat increase for no reason. He was cute, yet sexy at the same time. I felt my cheeks burn red just by looking at his picture. "Why are you blushing? What are you looking at on your phone??" Kevin's odd voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I looked at him. "Me?" "Yes you, sweetheart." "Oh, n– nothing. I'm just feeling a little feverish." "Oh. Should we go to a pharmacy?" "No, no. I'll be fine. Go on." "Okay. I now..." he kept on talking and I returned my gaze to my phone. I texted Ace. -Go for modeling. Piece of advice :-D- A minute later he replied. -Modeling? I'm not sexy enough :-(- I smiled to myself. -Yes, you're sexy.- He replied soon. -I know. I wanted to you to say it B-). And you did. You just made my day, boss. ;-)- I giggled lowly and put my phone away. I had a feeling Ace and I were gonna be very good friends. *** Heather's POV: That night, I was sleeping at Shirley's place. We watched a movie together yet we discussed throughout. "How was work. Or if I may ask, did you speak with your new friend today?" Shirley teased. "Shirley, stop. He's not the first employee I'm friends with. You're crazy." I giggled. "I know but he is so hot!" "That's true." I remembered the pic. I turned to her, "Today while I was at lunch with Kevin, I texted Ace." "Uh, huh?" "I asked him to send a pic of himself." Shirley's eyes widened. "You what?? You are becoming bold!" she exclaimed and we both laughed. "It pops up at times. I was kidding though. but he did send a pic." "Oouu, where is it? Lemme see it!" she said excitedly. I laughed and took out my phone to show her the picture. When I did, Shirley seized the phone from my hand to have a closer look at the picture. Her mouth dropped open. "Oh my fucking gosh!" she exclaimed. I laughed. "Is he a part-time model too?" she asked me. "No. He's fit right?" "Yes! Oh gosh, he's handsome." "Hahaha, don't exaggerate, Shirley." She looked at me. "Am I lying?" "Well," I blushed a little, "...no." "Voila! You have said it yourself. I'm sure he likes you." "N– no way." "You sure?" "Yes. And by the way he knows I have a boyfriend that I appreciate really much." Shirley rolled her eyes. "Let's do something. Call him." she smiled. "What?? Why?" "I don't know? I just wanna hear his voice. I'm sure he's sleeping by now. It's past midnight. If he picks, maybe, I said maybe, he likes you. Cuz I see no one who'd interrupt a cozy sleep for a midnight call. Just try." I doubted. "And plus," she added, wriggling her brows, "...a boy's sleep voice is the sexiest thing you can hear." I giggled and she too. "That's so true." I said with a blush as I nervously looked at my fingers. "Now call. And let's see if Ace has a sexy, sleep voice." We both laughed. "But what will I say?" "Ask him some dumb shit about work." "Uh, okay." I gathered some courage and dialed his number. Then I put the call on loud speaker. We could hear his phone ringing. Shirley and I looked at each other patiently. Honestly, I hoped he wouldn't pick. "Mmm, hello?" his sleepy voice came through, making me panic and causing Shirley to smile. "Uh, yeah. Hello, Ace. D– did I wake you up?" I asked "Yeah..." his voice though! Shirley was smiling like a happy clown. "Sorry, for disturbing you I–" "No, you never disturb me, Heather..." The way he said my name. I felt my face redden and I looked at Shirley who pretended to have fainted from the sound of his voice. I tried my best not to laugh. "Oh, okay. Th– that's nice." "Is there any prob– lem?..." he asked in a slow manner. Goosebumps. "Yeah, uh you know the information I asked you to type?" "Uh huh..." "How many pages did it all make?" "I–" I heard him yawn a little, "Twenty. I think..." "Okay, thank you." "Is that really why you called me?  So late?" "Uh, yeah..." I replied amused. "For the number of pages?" "Yeah..." "Or was it–" he yawned and I could tell he was really tired, "...or was it because you just wanted to hear my voice?" My mouth dropped open and Shirley's too. I looked at her in amusement. When I didn't answer, he spoke again. "Confirmed. Goodnight, beautiful." he yawned a little again, "And tell Shirley goodnight too." he hung up.