Chapter 5 First day at work

It was my first day of work, I really don't know why, but I had the urge to dress my best. Seeing as it was a big company, also I had a hot boss which I had to impress since I would be following him around.

I finally decided on a pretty black short office dress, mind you, I call every dress that doesn't show off much body parts office dress. This black dress had a long flowery hand and stopped some inches above my knees. I would've gone with a red dress instead but that would've been too obvious,

'This should do,' I thought twirling in front of the standing mirror in my room.

I rushed outside, hailed a cab and headed straight to work.

I got there around 7:30am, my resumption time was 8, which meant I was thirty minutes early. The gate keeper as usual was sitting beside the gate, this time he was scrolling through his beat-up phone.

"You're here again young lady," he said as soon as he saw me. "What else do you want to hear, even if you're here earlier today you've lost the job."

"I have no time for you this morning," I hissed as I pushed my way past him and went into the large building.

I got to the reception and greeted the snobbish looking receptionist who was there, she looked up at me, nodded and went back to what she was doing. Since I still had some time, I sat at the reception and plugged in my earphones.

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Mike

I walked into my office building excited that I would see Isabelle today, even if she was acting like she didn't know me. Well I'm good at pretending too, so I'll play the part well with her and see how it goes. With a little flirting here and there, she should be able to come out of this drama she's trying to act.

I got to the reception and saw her sitting at a corner with earphones in her ears. "Good morning sir," my receptionist, Harvey greeted. As flirty as usual, she was giving her best smile but she wasn't my concern so I nodded at her and turned back to Isabelle. She must have been so deep into the song she was listening to, because she didn't look up from her phone till I touched her shoulder.

I guess she was startled, because she jumped up and removed her earphones frantically. She almost fell, but I quickly caught her, it was like the first day we met. I looked into her eyes, trying to find some recognition, but I found none. Maybe she actually didn't remember since she was so knocked out by the alcohol she had.

"Go...Good morning," she stammered. "I didn't know you were around."

"Let's head to my office now to get you started for work." I told her sternly. Going on with the act, I went into my office with her following me closely behind.

"Such an annoying jerk," she whispered under her breath but I caught it. Though I pretended like I didn't hear anything.

I spent about one hour (1hr) explaining what she would be attending to and where she would stay, which by the way was at one corner of my office because I always wanted to see her, we also talked about going on business trips together and going for contracts together. Which meant she would always be around me, and that was what I wanted.

"So in conclusion, you want me to be your body guard or what," she asked after I had finished talking. She looked like she hated my guts, but deep inside I knew she didn't.

"Something like that, since I'm paying you, I'm allowed to tell you what to do and what not to do." I told her.

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My boss was the most annoying person on the planet, yet I was still so attracted to him. I even liked the fact that we were working in the same office, only a little though.

One minute, he would look like he wanted to say something nice, the other minute he's being grumpy towards me. I can't really say I hate him because he's paying me such a huge sum of money, more than I could've imagined.

"Get your pen and paper ready, we're going for a meeting."

"Okay sir, where to though?" Mr grumpy was back at it. He ignored my question and shoved his briefcase in my hands and walked out of the office.

Few minutes later, our company car was parked at the parking lot of a huge building which read 'Kerry Winery' at the top of it. I guess we were here for a wine tasting deal,

"Make sure you're up to pace and don't talk when not asked to," he said walking into the company's reception. I followed closely behind him, avoiding long talk. I was still holding his briefcase with a book and pen,

'This feels more like slavery than personal assistant,' I thought to myself.

The conference room was average sized unlike the one at our company, apparently only the top floor was the Winery company. Some well suited men were already sat at the table, and what seemed like their personal assistants were seated behind them at a bench. Once Mr Grumpy had sat down, as if on cue I went to sit beside the other personal assistants.

The meeting began, they talked a lot about boring things which I tried my best to jot down. Then a glass of wine was passed around to each of them seated there, for the wine tasting.

Different murmurs were heard and they wrote down their opinions on the paper they were given. I watched as Mr grumpy's face changed, but I couldn't read his direct emotions, suddenly he stood with his glass and came towards me.

"Have a taste and tell me what you think," he said as soon as he got to me with his glass stretched at me. I was more than shocked...