The handsome stranger got confused when he saw me freeze. He asked if I still wanted to use the elevator. I snapped out of whatever I was in and answered to him “Yes.” He gently stepped aside so I can get in. And so I did.
Going up I still feel nervous. My heart was beating even faster as I go one more floor up. I was so nervous; my hands were shaking the little note book. Seeing how nervous I was, the handsome stranger asked me “Big day today?” “Ya, it’s actually my first day.” I answered to him. Just then the elevator started to make a weird sound. We got confused. And then it stopped moving. It got completely stuck. Now this is when I started to freak out. I looked at my watch and my meeting starts in twenty minutes. “Oh; my God.” I cried out. I might have not mentioned before but I am not really good with small places. And right now I feel like I am trapped and my lungs are getting smaller and smaller by every breath I take. I fail down to the floor; I can feel my blood boiling. Then I hear his voice. “Come down!” he said. He tried to ease the moment. And he did a good job. I mean granted, I don’t really remember what he said to me because I was in shock but he did make me feel better. After I caught a breath I stood up and thanked him. “No problem. I’m Shawn by the way.” the handsome man introduced himself and threw his hand towards me for a shake. “Princi, Princi Jona.” I introduced myself as well and shook his hand. “Oh, you are the one who got the job at the high management department.” he started a conversation. “Yap, that’s me. But what is the use; I’m to get fired anyway.” I complained “Why?” he asked confused. I answered after a big sigh “Like I said earlier it is my first day; and I am already late for my first meeting. So my boss is probably going to fire me.” “No…” I interrupted him and screamed “Yes. I mean I don’t even know who he is…” He interrupted me “You don’t know who the boss is?” “Yes; Why? Is he really mean or something?” I asked hopping for a positive answer. And his answer did make me feel better again. He said “Don’t worry newbie. The boss is really cool and handsome and kind and really understanding. Plus I am very sure the boss is going to be late too.” “How do you know he is going to be late?” I stopped panicking and asked a question out of curiosity. He hesitated a bit and then he answered. “Well I know him like I am him. _ I looked at him confused so he changed his answer._ I mean I have known him for a long time. So don’t worry.” I felt relive through Shawn’s words. Thirty minutes passed by since we have been stuck in the elevator and both of us got bored so we decided to play a game. We couldn’t get service so we kept it simple and played ‘Rock, paper, scissor.’ and whoever loses gets smacked on the hand. You would think that it was a fifty-fifty game but he was so terrible at it. It was like his hands were unable to fold in to rock or scissor. All he played was paper and so I kept throwing scissor. I smacked him so hard so many times his hand turned red, like blood red. We played for ten minutes and he chose to yield. So we started to talk. Rubbing his red burning hands he said “So why did you come here?” “My last job sucked and this seems to be a great place to state over. So…” I answered to him. “What was wrong with your last job?” he asked another question. And so I answered. “It was my boss. I was his assistant and all I ever did was going across town to get him his favorite cappuccino coffee.” “Isn’t that your job though?” he asked again. “Yes, that was part of my job but I never used my computer. I was supposed to take care of his schedule but he wouldn’t allow me. It was as if he was a spy on a very important mission and he kept disappearing. And every time he misses a big meeting everybody blames me saying that I didn’t fix his schedule and made him late on purpose. And every time I think I am going to do real work he calls me in his office and asks for his stupid cup of cappuccino. So why in hell would I keep working there?” I screamed. “Come down!” he said. “I am sure you are going to love it here.” he smiled big with his sea blue eyes. I don’t really know what was happening at that moment but both of us stared at each other for like a whole minute and we both looked away. To break the tension that came out of nowhere, he suggested having a rematch. We did and he kept losing. But then finally he figured out that all he was playing was paper and I scissor so he changed in to rock. He celebrated because he won. While he was getting ready to get his revenge the elevator door opened. I immediately jumped up to avoid a smack and ran out with my little note book. He followed me and screamed from a distance “This is not over!” and my response was a sarcastic “Yes it is!” We smiled at each other as if we knew one another for a very long time even though we just met. I waved at him and went looking for my office and I found it with no trouble. It was a big office with two desks. I went in and sat on the empty one. Just when I was about to get comfortable I remembered that I was supposed to be in a meeting. I started to panic again. Yes, I panic a lot. Just then a happy looking guy walked in. “You must be Princi.” he said in a cheerful way after seeing me. I just stared at him confused. “I am Oliver Michel and you are my new partner.” he said. “Oh; hi. _I shook his hand._ Wait is the meeting already over?” I asked him. “No. It didn’t ever start.” “Why?” I asked again. “The boss hasn’t arrived yet….” while he was talking a woman ran in to the office and said “Oliver the boss is here. Meeting starts in ten minutes.” and she ran out. “Wow, you are really lucky. Mr. Davis isn’t usually late. Since it’s your first day all you have to do is absorb.” “Ok, is that it?” I asked. “Yes, for today.” On our way to the bosses office Oliver started a conversation. “So how come you’re late on your first day?” “I wasn’t late. I arrived early but I got stuck in the elevator.” I tried to explain. “Oh, yap. The one bad thing about this place is the elevator. It stops when it feels like it. Sometimes it goes up and down by its self.” his voice sounded sarcastic but his eyes were serious. “That is really dangerous.” I complained. “Again yap. Wait so you were stuck in there all by yourself?” “No. There was a guy with me in there. And it wasn’t that bad. We played a game; he kept losing and so got smacked several times.” I answered to him. “Wow, I will say it again; you are lucky. Once I got stuck in there for two hours all on my own. It was like the world had casted me away. But I got two weeks off to collect my head because of it and it was the best two weeks I have ever had.” both of us laughed at his story and we arrived at the office. I walked in and the boss’s seat was empty. I sat down next to Oliver. The handsome sea blue eyed Shawn walked in to the room. We looked at each other and smiled without anyone knowing. I waited to watch where he would sit but he just kept walking and he sat in the boss’s seat. I got confused. I leaned towards Oliver and asked “Why is Shawn sitting on the boss’s seat?” Oliver looked at me and answered “Because it’s his seat.” I was still confused. “What?” I asked. Oliver whispered his answer “He is sitting there because he is the boss.”
Oliver whispered his answer “He is sitting there because he is the boss.” “What?” I whispered back in disbelieve. “Why, do you know him?” Oliver asked. “He was the guy I was stuck in the elevator with.” Oliver got shocked and stared at Shawn’s hands. His hands were still blood red. The man sitting next to Shawn asked “What happened to your hand sir?” Shawn looked straight at me, smiled a bit and answered to the man next to him “It’s nothing.” Oliver looked at me and said “What have you done?” Before we could say anything else to each other Shawn started the meeting. Everybody was paying attention except me. I was still in shock with what had happened. I still can’t believe that I smacked my boss so hard the elevator made an echo. I felt so ashamed. The meeting ended and I snuck out of there as fast as I could. Once we reached our office Oliver cracked up. His laugh made me even angrier. “What’s so funny?” I asked madly. “How are you not laughing? You know I thought this thing o
Shawn said “Think fast!” and he threw an apple at me. So I caught it. “Nice catch!” he said and pulled a chair in front of me. “You dropped your apple earlier, so this one is a replacement.” he said while staring at me. Like I said earlier, I can feel my intestines eating each other so I took a big bite. While I was chewing Shawn decided to start a conversation. “Why have you been avoiding me?” “Who Me: Why would I avoid you?” I decided to play dumb. “Come on, you can’t think I am that stupid to not know when someone is avoiding me.” I put the apple down and decided to finally face this head on. “Remember the day we met in the elevator and the elevator got stuck so we decided to play a game and I kept hitting you” I tried to explain. “So?” he asked. And so I continued. “Well if you had just told me that you were my boss…” he interrupted me “You would kiss my ass!” “What?” I asked. “If you know I was the boss, you would kiss my ass.” he seemed mad. I don’t know why but I lost al
I got off work early to visit MC. I took a taxi to her place. Her life is going as bad as mine. Her father keeps coming home and picking a fight with her mother and on top of that she still hasn’t made up with her brother. Like I usually do I started complaining about my ignorant boss. MCs’ mom walked in around seven when I was about to walk out. I remembered that tomorrow is Ice cream night so I reminded them. “Mrs. C, don’t forget tomorrow is Ice cream night.” Both MC and I smiled at her mom but at a tired her mom said “Oh, I don’t think I can make it this month. Sorry girls.” She went up stairs. That was weird. She has never missed an Ice cream night so we went up stairs to see if she was fine. She had closed her bed room door. We got closed and we heard her on the phone. What she was saying wasn’t really clear but the one word we heard coming out of her was “My love.” Both of us looked at each other with our jaws dropped. We quickly ran to MCs’ room and shut that door. We sat for
The holyday season is upon us. Thanks giving, Christmas and new year; the three best holydays. I am over at MCs’ house talking about this and that. When her mom came and joined us, we changed the subject because we were talking about how she was secretly dating. After a while I decided to go home so when I stood up MCs’ mom called me. “Dear, could we have Thanks giving at your place?” Our tradition is that we have thanks giving at one house one year and the other house the next year. We did thanks giving at my place last year so this year we were supposed to do it at their house but MCs’ mom want to do it at our place again. “But we did it at our place last year. It’s your turn.” Her mom didn’t seem to like my answer. “I know but let’s do it this once at your place. I just don’t feel like cooking.” “Sure.” I wanted to rest too but she really didn’t seem like she wanted to cook. “Thank you. And since I wouldn’t be cooking I don’t think I can make it to your house either.” When MCs’
The day went by and we finished yesterdays report so Oliver asked me to take it to Shawn's office. But I refused and asked him to take it. Five minutes later he got back. I got confused because when I used to take the report to Shawn it would at least take me thirty minutes to explain the report to him. "How come you're back so soon?" I asked him. "Well, I gave him the report and came back." I was still confused "Didn't you explained it to him?" "Why would I do that? Our job is to make the reports and give it to him; it is his job to read them." "Then why have I been explaining it to him for thirty minutes?" Oliver smiled "Well I don't know much but he looked pretty disappointed when he saw that it was me who gave him the reports. It was as if he was waiting for you." "Yeah, well he can wait as long as he wants. I intend to focus on my job from now." The next few days I made sure to ignore him completely. So he decided to come to my office. I opened my laptop and acted like I w
As soon as I was done with work, I went to MCs’. She let me in and sat in the living room. “MC, there is going to be a Christmas party tomorrow night at work and I get to bring a plus one. Do you want to come?” “Sure. It would be nice to get out of this house. I just can’t stand it anymore, mom with her secret boy friend and Noah with New York.” “Why doesn’t he just go? I mean your mom has a boy friend now. She might not need both of you.” MC didn’t give me any answer. So I assumed “You didn’t tell him that your mom is dating, did you?” “No, he doesn’t need to know. Plus we are not sure either if she is really dating” “Oh come on MC. Noah is throwing his life away so that your mom wouldn’t be lonely. She is not lonely anymore.” Noah walked in while we were debating this matter. He said hi to me and made his way to his room. “Noah” I called out to him. He came down. “There is going to be a Christmas party tomorrow night at my work. Do you want to come?” “No. Its fine I’m just go
The Christmas party was the best. Noah is going to pursue his dream, MC met someone great and Shawn said that he was happy to meet me. The New Year went perfect and today is the first day at work for a new year. I feel like I can do anything. At this point even if Melisa barks at me I will pass it as a lullaby. In my head I was like ‘I am off to a great start’ but the universe was like ‘Hold that thought’. When I walked in every one was in a deep conversation. I went to my office then Oliver ran in to get his phone. “What’s going on?” I asked out of curiosity. He was panting and he answered to me “Mr. Davis got an assistant. And she is gorgeous. Ya you should see her. She looks like a goddess.” he walks out and I followed him. When we got to the break room everyone was surrounding her. I can only see her from the back. “That is the future Mrs. Michel.” Oliver planed on marrying whoever she is. Then she turns around to the direction we were standing. I got confused “Oliver, your futur
Few hours after lunch, I saw Shawn leaving the building in a hurry. I wondered if something was wrong but didn’t have any chance to ask because he left so fast. The next day I sat in my office waiting for my tea. But I was really waiting for the writings on the mug. But Shawn was late. I had my eyes on the door all day. Whenever someone would pass by I would look for him. All of a sudden Lucy Chaw passed by. But then she came back in to say hi. I don’t know why but like I said before when I see her my body acts independent from my brain. I stood up and walked away from my desk. “Hi” she said. I greeted her. Oliver stood up as well and said hi to her in a very awkwardly formal way. She didn’t even look at him she was focused at me. “Hey I went to Brownies Girls and Brownie doesn’t seem to remember you.” I lost words but then Oliver swooped in “That is probably because she hasn’t been there in a while.” I just nod while pinching Oliver on his back. “Maybe she will if she hears your