Chapter 17
“Excuse me?!” I snapped when I finally got my emotions under control. “Who are you to tell me that?”
“I need to know who their father is.”
“And what would that do for you? Would that help your school go up the ranks of best school in the area? This is not what you should be asking me.”
“You could have just said they don’t have a father and I would accept it and let you be. All of this back and forth is not necessary.”
That was the last straw as I was shocked beyond words. In all my years on the earth, no one had ever spoken to me like that before. This woman had crossed her boundaries but she was still trying to be right even when she was wrong.
I decided that I was going to put her in her place. I would not be insulted in public like this.
I could see lots of people walking about and looking at us. My children who were beginning to get scared huddled around me like birds to their mother as my maternal instincts kicked in.
“What right have you to talk to me in that manner?!” I snapped. “Do you know anything about me?! You don’t but here you are making baseless claims to get me to do what? Do you even know who I am?”
The woman suddenly got pale due to the way I spoke to her as I was ready to handle her in a rough way. She tried to avert her gaze as I yelled in her face.
“Hey! I am talking to you. Do you know who I am?! Do you know anything about me?!”
“No,” she said, noticing that I did not care as I was ready to embarrass her back.
“Then why would you say such rubbish and make such claims? Is that how you treat the parents who come to this school? Is that how you deal with them?”
I called to a parent, “Excuse me sir.”
He turned to me as I pointed at the woman.
“Did this woman ask you where your wife was and why you didn’t show up with her?”
“No.”
“But somehow she’s asking for my husband like she is sharing the same man with me.”
Everyone around started to mutter as I turned back to her.
“You know what, I’ll just teach you a good lesson cos I am done with this stupid shit,” I said, getting out my phone to call the head of the school district who was a part of Travis’s connections.
“Hello,” the woman picked up the call.
“My name is Zendaya and I was the one who spoke to you for a few seconds last night while you were talking with Travis. I told you about my children starting school here.”
“Oh yes!” she said excitedly. “It is so wonderful to have you there. How are you enjoying the place? Has the principal met up with you yet?”
“Apparently I have been treated poorly and very rudely by the principal herself. I want her fired at once.”
“Oh my,” the woman gasped. “What did she do?”
“She crossed her boundaries by trying to pry into my personal life and matters which are not supposed to be her business but well, she wanted to know everything about me.
“Asking me about my husband and insulting me when I wanted her to stop. Is this the privacy I was promised? Because I don’t see why she would want to know who my children’s father is?”
“Ma’am, I apologize,” she said over the phone which was loud enough for the principal to hear. “I will have her fired at once. You should not worry about any of that.”
The principal fell to her knees begging as I dropped the call and put my phone into my bag.
“Please! I am so sorry,” the woman pleaded. “I have children too. I can’t lose this job.”
“Then maybe you should have thought of that before coming at me.”
“Please. I’ll do anything.”
“Kneel,” I said in a low tone. “Kneel and beg for my forgiveness and my children’s forgiveness.”
People stopped what they were doing as we were the center of attraction.
The woman fell to her knees as she begged to keep her job.
I sighed. This was not how I wanted my day to go but it has happened nonetheless.
Taking out my phone, I called back the woman who happily picked up my call.
“Yes miss Zendaya,” she chirped.
“Let her keep her job. She just apologized.”
“You’re sure that is what you want?”
“Yes,” I said as the woman grunted before switching off the call. I turned to the woman who was already crying. “Never try this to me or anyone again or you will be out of a job.”
Without waiting for anything from her, I walked into the school and navigated my way to her office with my children.
***
I arrived home very exhausted while leaving the children in the school. They wanted to be there anyway and since I needed to rest, I ran back home for that rest.
I entered the apartment to see Travis ending a meeting from his phone. I waved to him going to the jacuzzi to rest as he entered with his underwear.
“Can I join…”
“You know you want to,” I laughed as he did so.
“I was thinking of what I’d do for the company but I can’t decide,” I said.
“Don’t worry. I’ve got a few friends who can help you boost it up. Also, were you able to do what you wanted with Alex and Blair?”Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.
“I got something against Blair but not Alex. I’m at loss for what to do to make him worse than before.”
Travis smiled, “I have an idea.”
“What is it?” I was curious as to what he would say.
He leaned in to whisper his ideas into my ears as I grinned devilishly.