Revenge On You

"I get it, dad! I get it!" I chuckled. I'm currently talking to my dad on the phone.

"Okay then, Dakota. I'll see you next month." He said and I ended the call.

As a 24 years old woman, my parents constantly worried about me. They always wanted to make sure that I'm happy and that I'm doing okay. I was bullied at school and I was stressing out a lot. At first, I never told my parents about it. I don't want to stress them out because they already have a lot on their shoulders.

After highschool, I told my parents that I want to study abroad and my parents let me. They were going to send me out anyway. I studied in London and I loved it. My family decided to move to London too because they somehow knew that I need them.

I started to change when I start my diet. I started to go to the gym and eat healthy. I lose a lot of weight and became so much happier.

As the youngest member of the family, I have two older siblings. One sister and one brother to be exact. Jane is an architect and Simon is a doctor. My parents are in trading industry. I studied business in college and decided to take over my parents business.

I moved back to LA a year after I graduated from college. My parents are still in London and they will move back soon.

"Dakota.." I turned to Celine and she looked at me confused.

"What?" I asked.

"Why are you daydreaming at Friday morning?" She asked and I'm actually just tired these days. There's so many deadlines, good for her that she's a chef. She doesn't have any.. deadlines.

"Just tired, that's all."

"You need to take care of yourself, you become skinnier." She sighed.

"I just need a day of rest, that's it."

"You know, I think I should cook for you everyday and send it to your house." She took her phone out from her bag.

"No, please don't."

"Dakota, if you're sick, your parents will make you go back to London." She said in my mom's tone and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm a grown woman." I put my highheels on and put some files inside because I have to go to the office.

"You're obviously still a daddy's girl." She said as she grabbed her cup of coffee.

"I'm not." I grabbed my mirror to check myself.

"Yes, you are."

"No."

"You need to go now?" She asked and I nodded.

"The meeting is in 45 minutes." I looked at my watch.

"Okay, just go. I'll close th door for you later." She said as I walked out the door. I grabbed my car keys and walked into the lift. I left my apartment and quickly go to SouthWest Company for a meeting.

We're planning to make a big collaboration and we predicted that a lot of companies will join us. There's around 50 companies which is pretty good.

I got off my car and walked into the building. I have 15 minutes left. I don't like being late so I ran to the meeting room on the 3rd floor with the stairs. I needed to prepare some things too.

When I opened the door, I crashed into someone. I apologized quickly but I was stopped by that person. I turned my head to see Nico Callahan.

"Sorry." I said without thinking. He looked at me dumb struck. I raised my eyebrows looking at him.

"It's okay, it's my fault anyway." He smirked.

"Okay." I said as I pulled my hand away. I don't want to see him, he's my biggest enemy and the only person that I wanted to kill.

"Wait!" He said as he grabbed my upper arm. I pushed him away and walked towards the meeting room. My heart was beating so fast because I just met my bully. He's the last person that I wish to see in this beautiful earth.

"Hello everyone, thank you for gather here today to discuss our collab project." The leader, Joey, said and I can't hear anything after that. I felt my back burning like someone was watching me. I turned my head to look around the room and I found Nico already have his eyes on me.

The meeting went well and I swear I only heard 20% of the discussion. After the meeting, I avoided people as much as possible. I don't want to bump into Nico again.

I walked out from the room but someone caught my arm. I turned to see Nico, I let out a sigh.

"Hey, I just.."

"I'm in a hurry." I said and pulled my arm away. Instead of letting me go, he pulled me closer.

"What's your name?" What? He what?

"I'm in a hurry!" I said and I took the opportunity to elbow him and ran to the lift.

"I swear I don't want to see you again, Nico Callahan. You ruined my life once and I won't let you ruin it again." I said to myself.

"Yes! I'm on my way now!" I told my assistant to quickly get me a car because we need to sign an agreement between 50 companies that decided to join the colaboration. I already discussed it with my dad and he agreed.

I walked to the lobby of my office and my phone rang.

"Hello."

"Dakota." I was going to hang up but..

"Don't! Don't hang up please.." Mark begged. Mark is my ex-boyfriend. I broke up with him because I caught him texting with another girl. He cheated on me.

"What?"

"Let's meet up, I'm in LA." He said and I wanted to laugh so bad.

"No." I ended the call and got inside my car. Today, my driver drove me there because I'm not in the mood to drive myself. I'm so tired these days and I just got hime from Singapore yesterday.

I went straight to Fort company again to sign the contract so the project can start sooner. I walked inside and waited for the kift to come.

"Look who's here, miss feisty." I froze for a second but decided to ignore him.

"I'm pretty sure you're not deaf or mute." He said but I kept ignoring him. There's no use to i tersct with him. The lift door opened and I got inside. I pressed the 3rd floor and Nico stood in front of me looking at me curiously.

"You're something." He narrowed his eyes and I looked up to him.

"Get off." I pushed him out from the lift.

"What did I do to you? I just want to know your name, is it that hard?" He protested and suddenly an idea popped out from my mind.

I walked to Mr. West's office and he kept wanting to come in too.

"Dakota, how are you?" He asked while Nico just entered the room. Now that he knew my name, I wish he can have an instant flashback.

"I'm fine, thank you. How about you?" I asked.

"Great! Tell your dad to come here, I miss drinking with him." He joked and I smiled.

"I'll let him know!"

"Hello Nico." He turned to him.

"How are you, Frank?"

"I'm good. So you two are going to sign right?" He asked and I nodded.

"Yes." Nico answered.

"Here read it first, if you have questions, feel free to ask. I need to make a quick phone call." Frank said and I nodded.

"Dakota." Nico called me.

"What?"

"Let me introduce myself.." I turned to him and raised my eyebrows.

"Nico Callahan." He put his hand out and I looked at him.

"You know that my name is Dakota right?" I asked and I slapped his hand instead of taking it.

"So childish."

"What do you want?"

"I want-"

"Do you have any questions?" Frank entered the room and I turned to the contract. I read it fast and I trusted Frank, he's been my dad's partners for years.

"Yeah." I said. I signed it and I could feel my head hurts all of the sudden. I gave Frank the paper and stood up.

"Can't wait to work together." I said as I put my hand out.

"Thank you, Dakota. I can't wait too." He said and I walked out from the office. I walked slowly towards the lift and I felt so dizzy. I pressed the lift button and took a step back but almost fall if someone didn't catch me.

"Are you okay?" Nico asked and I turned to him. I pushed his hand away.

"I was being nice.." He said coldly.

"I don't need you to be nice." I said and the lift door opened. I walked inside and I'm guessing that my blood sugar is low.

"Careful." He caught me again.

"Where is your house?" He asked and I shook my head. I took out my phone and walked out from the lift.

"Look, I'm trying to be-"

"Don't! I don't need your help, I don't need you to be nice. Please just stay away!" I yelled at him but not too loud. I walked again and suddenly I felt so weak.

Nico caught me again but this time our face was just an inch away.

"Don't be a bitch this time, I want to help you." He put his arm around my waist to help me stand. I felt my head so heavy. Nico brought me to his car and helped me to sit on the passenger seat. I closed my eyes.

"Where is your house?" He asked and I opened my eyes.

"Can you just drop me at the hospital?" I asked and he nodded. He got into the car and drove towards the hospital. The whole car ride was silent. When we arrived at the hospital, he parked his car right in front of the emergency room.

"I can go in by myself, thank you." I said as I grabbed my bag.

"I'm going in with you."

"No! Don't!" I hissed.

"I was being nice while you get bitchy on me." He hissed back and I rolled my eyes. I got off the car and walked towards the emergency room. Nico wrapped his arm around my waist and he made me wrapped my arm around his.

"You know, you're the most annoying thing that I've ever met." He said.

"I know, I know. I'm that bitchy girl. I know I owe you one so you need to tell me what do you want?" I asked and he stopped.

"I was being nice, I don't need you to owe me."

"Leave me here, I can walk alone." I said.

"Yeah, you can but I won't leave you when you're condition is like crap!" He said and that made me remember our highschool days.

We walked into the emergency room and a nurse came to us.

"What happened?" She asked.

"She's tipsy, I think she has a headache." Nico said before I can answer it. The nurse led us to one of the hospital bed.

"The doctor will be here, please wait.." The nurse said and I nodded. I turned to Nico and he looked around the room. I felt bad for being bitchy to him.

"Thank you." I said in a small voice.

"Yeah." He answered.

"Hello, I'm Rey. Can you tell me what happened?" The doctor came and I told him what happened. He checked on me and took a sample of my blood.

"You can go, you don't need to wait for me." I said.

"I want to know the results first."

"I'm sure you're busy, you don't need to know the results too."

"What did I do to you? Why do you keep pushing me away?" He hissed.

"I hate you so much that I want to kill you with my own hands." I hissed almost whispering.

"You blood sugar is low, you need to drink something sweet to help you boost it. Have you been eating healthy lately?" The doctor asked.

"Okay." I said completely ignoring his question.

"Are you her husband? Or-"

"I am." I glared at him when he answered that. Nico turned to the doctor.

"Please make sure your wife eat food that have enough nutrition, we can see that she has been lacking of sleep. Please watch her intakes." The doctor said and I sighed.

"Thank you." Nico said.

"Thank you." I smiled and the doctor gave me an IV that will finish for an hour. I brought the IV to go to the cashier so I can get out of here after it finish.

"Where are you going?" Nico asked.

"I'm going to-"

"I already paid it, you need to rest not walking around." Nico said as he led me back to my hospital bed. He made me rest and waited for the IV to finish. I closed my eyes and fell asleep. I woke up because there's a sound of alarm.

The doctor checked on me again and let me go home. The nurse took the IV off and Nico helped me stand up. We walked out from the the emergency room.

"Nico, I'll-"

"What?" He raised his eyebrows.

"I don't want to have a debt with you, can you tell me your"

"Why do you keep saying that? I don't think it as a debt." He looked at me coldly and I sighed nodding.

"Thank you for everything, I'm really thankful that you help me. You can go now." I said.

"Dakota."

"What?"

"Give me your phone number." I looked at him surprised as he gave me his phone.

"Why? What if I don't want to give you.."

"What?!" He looked at me disbelief.

"Nico!" We both turned to see someone calling him. I took the opportunity to grab a cab. I told the taxi driver to drive me to Celine's hotel.

I leaned my body back. The truth is that I felt bad towards Nico but I wanted to make a revenge on him. I want him to experience what he did to me. I called Celine.

"Celine!"

"What? What happened?"

"I met Nico again." I said and I can hear she gasped.

"Are you for real?"

"Yeah, met him again."

"Tell me everything!" She said.

"On my way to the hotel." I said as I looked out the window.

"Okay!"

When I arrived at the hotel, I paid the cab and went straight to the restaurant. I waited for Celine to come out, her shift will end in a few minutes. I ordered some food and I kept stressing out.

"Hey!" Celine came to me and she sat down.

"What took you so long?"

"Fought with Tim again." Tim is Celine's head chef. They both will kill each other passionately and they never go a day without fighting.

"Tell me about it!"

"I was going for the meeting project, the one that I told you last week." I said and she nodded.

"I bumped into him and he kept looking at me."

"He doesn't know you?"

"No." Celine looked at me disbelief.

"That's weird."

"I hate him." I hissed.

"So how about today?" She asked.

"I met him again when I signed the contract. I was sick and got a little bit headache. He took me to the hospital and then I came here." I said and she face palmed herself.

"Did you get bitchy?"

"Yes."

"That's so you, Dakota.."

"I'm hungry, can you check my food?" She nodded and walked to the kitchen again.

"Ah.. we meet again. What an interesting situation.." I froze when I heard Nico's voice.

"What are you doing here?"

"Nico! Why are-" Zac, Nico's bestfriend, said.

"Oh.. hey, beautiful." Zac smiled and Nico smacked his head.

"Dakota, here y-"

"Celine? What are you doing here?" Zac asked Celiene and Celine ignored him. She put my food right in front of me.

"No way!" Zac gasped.

"You're Dakota? Dakota Backford?" Zac asked and I turned to him smiling sarcasticly.

"Hello Nico and Zac. Yes, I'm Dakota Backford." I smirked and Nico's face was priceless.