Chapter 3 -3

Woah.. Elliot had an amused expression on his face when he heard Alexia, he stood up from his sit, turned around and moved closer to where Alexia was standing, he was trying to intimidate the woman who didn't even bate an eyelid under his very cold gaze

"I'm the CEO here Miss Brooke, I think you may have forgotten for a second" Elliot said

"I never forgot even for a second, who I was talking to. I just didn't realize how childish and unreasonable he could be trying to change the gender of his staff to meet his fetish desires. If you wanted a male intern why didn't you just pick one ..oh let me guess you don't want to get caught and ruin your glorious reputation. Well news flash -no one really cares about your sexual preference"

That's it!...

Alexia was done talking and it was Elliot's turn to turn speechless. 'What kind of an assistant did Clinton get me' he thought. And who said anything about sexual preference,... hope she isn't thinking I'm was gay ..Elliot was beginning to loss his composure, this was the height of annoyance he could take.

"leave" he finally let out and Alexia walked out

Just after Alexia left, Clinton walked in

"Hey man..why the long face" Clinton asked as soon as he entered

"I don't want to ever see her again" Elliot said plainly taking his sit

"And why is that?" Clinton asked with keen interest

"She's so arrogant for an assistant" Elliot said evasively

"Yeah right" Clinton gave a sarcastic remark rolling his eyes at Elliot. He was finding it hard to believe anyone can ever be arrogant to this cold ice berg

Elliot, noticing the unbelieve written on the face of Clinton he sighed

"I'm fucking serious Clint" he scowled knitting his brows

"Okay.. okay.. I never said you weren't" Clinton said spreading his hands wide

"But thinking about it, I feel it better that way, at least she's not throwing herself at you like the other ladies right. You've also seen her file and you know she's the most qualified person. Are you sure you want to just throw away a rare talent like that just because you think she's arrogant?? And if I remember correctly, you're usually the arrogant one not the other way round" Clinton talked non stop making sure he lays all the card on the table for Elliot to understand

Elliot paused a little seriously considering everything Clinton said

"Alright she'll stay till I get another female assistant" Elliot said

"Wait...female??" Clinton was quick to immediately capture the key word in the sentence Elliot made

"Well.. I told her how I hated ladies and how she should act as a male whenever she's around me ..and now she thinks am gay" Elliot said

Whattttt...

Clinton couldn't hold back his laughter and laughed so hard that he almost was on the verge of shedding a few tear drops

"Leave my office Clint" Elliot said. He was infuriated and particularlly irked cause he couldn't figure out why Clinton was laughing so seriously

"I'm sorry..I'm sorry" Clinton said trying to control himself from erupting into another round of laughter

"You know, for a very smart man like you with extremely high IQ your EQ is pretty low...why would you tell her something as rediculous as that" Clinton said

"Well...I thought she should know.. you know so she doesn't cross boundaries" Elliot said

"We both know judging from all you said this lady is supposedly not interested in you in that way so no need to get overly worked up" Clinton said trying so hard to not tease his friend

"I'm not getting worked up .. I'm just ...you know what just forget it" Elliot said

Alexia left Cobb's company and called her best friend Kelly,

"Hey babe " Kelly said from the other end of the phone.

"how did it go?" She asked,

"Well..... I would appreciate it if this friend of mine take me out for lunch then we can talk afterwards" Alexia said sarcastically

"Alright alright..let's meet at the usual spot . Lunch's on me" Kelly said and hanged up.

Smiling Alexia hailed a taxi which drove her to the FINNIES restaurant .

Alexia and Kelly have been friends since College. After college, they got separated as Alexia had to travel out of the city but they got together again after she got back. The finnies restaurant is a place the two friends usually like to have lunch. It a very low profile restaurant even though their meals are relatively less expensive unlike other restaurants around. The ladies preferred this restaurant as it gives the feeling of eating home cooked meal as they usually use mainly freshly harvested ingredients to cook

"Over here"...

Kelly was waiting in front of the restaurant for Alexia and immediately she saw her come down from the cab she shouted towards her while waving her hands.

"Hey babe" Reaching Kelly, Alexia said and hugged her . They both went inside and choosed a spot close to the window to sit .

Almost immediately a middle age woman walked up to them smiling -she was Mrs Williams. The finnies restaurant is actually run by this woman and her husband. She was happy to see them and said while smiling

"Hello ladies"

"Hello Mrs Williams " Alexia and Kelly said together also smiling at the woman,

"It been so long you girls visited. Hope you're good" Mrs Williams asked

"Yes ma we are" Alexia responded

"It just work related stuff" Kelly chipped in

"Alright. What should I offer you? "Mrs Williams asked.

"The usual " Kelly said,

"Okay then" Mrs Williams said and left.

"So ...am all ears tell me did your application get approved" Clara immediately asked as soon as Mrs Williams left.

"Ha! so in a hurry" Alexia said and rolled her eyes at Kelly

"Come on you know how it is...just spill it out.. I want all the details ...and what happened to your car, why aren't you driving?" Kelly asked.

Just then their food came and they started eating

"Okay first of all yes I'm now interning at Cobb's global , and I didn't feel like driving so...." Alexia responded

"Lazy ass.." Kelly said

"Did you meet the CEO?" Sheasked with her eyes lit up

"I'm actually his assistant now so yes I did" Alexia said paying no attention to her friend's ridiculous expressions