This is the Second Chapter of my NaNoWriMo Story
Okay so this is my second chapter. I can't believe that I got it finished this quickly.
Chapter Two
Anne’s first reaction to having coffee dumped on her was that could this day get any worse, now her shirt was ruined on top of already being late. Then the reality of the situation sunk in as well as the coffee which promptly started burning her skin which made her cry out in pain.
Nick immediately dropped his papers and tried to help her dry off by quickly pulling out his handkerchief and handing it to her so that she could get as much of the coffee off of her as was possible at that very moment.
When he realized that the handkerchief was not helping very much he got back into the elevator and decided to take her up to his office so that she could get herself cleaned up better than she could here. She waited until the elevator doors closed and then she got her voice back.
“What is wrong with you? Why weren’t you paying attention? You just had to walk out of the elevator not paying attention to anything except whatever you were reading and then you dump coffee on me, which was extremely hot by the way. Now I am not only late for my interview but I am also drench with coffee and have a stain on my new white shirt. So now I probably won’t get the job and where are you taking me?” Anne said taking out all of her frustration about her bad morning on the man standing beside her in the elevator.
“It will be okay, I promise.” He told her calmly. “I am very sorry that I was not paying attention to where I was going, there is no excuse for that. I will have someone from my office go and buy a shirt to replace the one that you are wearing now, and for the dry-cleaning to have that one repaired. I will talk to whoever is interviewing you and get it rescheduled for you. I am taking you to my office. Okay did I miss anything?”
“Well you did not really say what was wrong with you but other than that you answered everything else. Oh my name is Anne by the way.” She said with a smile.
As she was listening to him methodically answer each of her questions, she finally noticed what he looked like and realized that he was very handsome. He was just a few inches taller than she herself was but the way he carried himself gave him a dominating presence. He had nice hair that was very stylishly cut. The blue of his eyes was mesmerizing. When she looked into his eyes it was like he could look into her very soul to find whatever he was searching for.
“Yeah I was kind of hoping that you would have forgotten that particular question, because I do not know an answer that you would accept to that one. My name is Nick.” He told her and hoped that she would not decide to get mad at him again.
“So… Nick what is it that you do that you can just drop what you are doing and help some random person out of a bad situation. I mean you just dumped coffee on me you are not the one who made me late for my interview, so why are you being so nice after the way that I yelled at you about my bad day?” She asked curiously.
“Well, I work in the office upstairs and was on the way to a meeting with a potential client, but I will just have it rescheduled since I was not paying attention as I exited the elevator. You are not some random person if you were coming in here for an interview and here we take care of each other even if the person has yet to be hired. Plus I am a nice guy and I understand the reason behind your yelling so it is not that big of a deal.” He responded and then the elevator door opened and he walked her down the hall to his office. As soon as he walked in he told his secretary to order a shirt and whatever else Anne needed in whatever size she said from wherever it was that she asked and then left them alone for a few minutes since he sensed that she would be more comfortable talking about such things with another woman.
“Would you like one of my spare shirt to wear until the shirt that is being ordered gets hear? It would be one of mine so it would be big on you but if you want to get out of that wet shirt then you can have it.” He told her thinking that it must be uncomfortable to be wearing a wet shirt, especially in the well air conditioned building.
“You are so nice, and yes it would be great to have something dry to wear until the other shirt gets here.” She thanked him. He went to the closet in his office and pulled out one of his shirts for her to wear. As soon as he handed it to her he told her that he would be back in a few minutes if she wanted to change in his office or she could go to the bathroom down the hall. She told him that it would be nicer for her to change in his office so that no one else who had yet to see her with the coffee drenched shirt would see her like that.
He left the room and she slowly changed out of her shirt into his. Then she looked around his office and saw the name plate on his desk which proclaimed: Nick Taylor CEO / President of TCT. As she read that she felt very embarrassed about how she had vented to him and about him in the elevator because apparently if she did get this job then he would be her boss.
After a few minutes Nick knocked on his office door, “Are you finished in there?” He asked her then stood silently waiting on a response from the inside of the room.
She looked at the door as she heard the knock on the door, “Yes, I am finished. You can come back in.” She said still thinking about her revelation that he was going to be her boss if she got the job and that since she knew a little about the company she knew that he was a millionaire. It was a little disconcerting knowing that the man that she had met and had coffee spilt on her by was one of the richest men in the country. In fact, he was probably the richest man that she would ever meet in her life.
As he walked back into the office she still felt minutely self-conscious about the fact that he cold have walked off of the cover of a magazine and she was standing there in his office wearing one of his button up shirts, which she knew had to look to any outsider like she had just gotten up and put on any shirt that she could find after a night of passion. So she knew that she would not be leaving his office until her new shirt arrived.
As he walked into his office and saw her he could not believe that she could make one of his button up shirts look so good. He knew that if he was to make that comment then he could be up for a harassment case so he kept the though to himself.
“You look… nice.” He decided was the best thing that he could say without offending her.
“Thanks.” She replied shyly as she looked up at him. “You do know that I am not leaving this room wearing your shirt though. It just does not send the professional look that I tried for when I got dressed this morning.” She informed him with a slight smile.
“That is fine, you don’t have to do anything that you do not want to do. If you want you can do whatever you want in here, like um… the computer, you can get on the internet and look up anything that you want or if you want something then just ask and I will go and get it. Just so that you know … you are comfortable while you wait. I really am very sorry that I caused you to have your shirt ruined and make you late to your meeting, but like I said I called down to the advertising department and told them what happened and that you would be down as soon as you were finished up here. So you do not have to worry about the interview.”
‘Wow’ he thought to himself ‘when exactly did he start to have to justify everything that I do?’ He questioned himself. Then he realized that it had to be her because he was not like this around anyone else.
“That is okay, I can just sit here. Um… do you have a newspaper? I like to do the crosswords and I would have picked up a copy this morning but seeing as I was running late I did not have the time.” She said explaining her motives on not having her newspaper with her.
“Sure,” he replied going to his desk and picking up the newspaper and handing it to her. “Here you go.”
“Thanks.” She said as she took the paper from him and turned to the crossword of the day and started working it out. She was very good at the crosswords and within a few minutes she had already done the top portion of the crossword and was steadily working her way down. Nick stared at her as she kept just reading the clues and having the answers down pretty much instantly.
“How do you do that?” He asked curiously. At her blank stare he elaborated, “How do you figure out the answer to the clues so fast? I mean you read the clue and you pretty much already have the answer down. That is amazing!”
“Oh! My mom and I used to work on these together when I got in Junior High so I know most of the answers just by seeing the clue. Plus we used to flip to a random page of the dictionary and copy down the definitions of the words on that page and quiz each other on it to improve our vocabulary.” She told him a little embarrassed at the end be cause she had told him so much in answer to such a simple question.
“Wow, you and your mom did that for fun? That is more quality time than my parents would have been interested in spending with me.” He told her seriously.
“I’m sorry if I brought up bad memories. I did not mean to, I was just remembering my mom died two years ago and I just got caught up in my memories before I could stop myself.” She said to him wishing that she could just stop herself from saying anything else that would bring up any bad memories for him.
“I’m fine, it is nice to know that there are parents out there that actually enjoy spending quality time with their children. So how long does it usually take you to finish a crossword puzzle?” He asked changing the subject and hoping that she would take the hint and not bring it back up.
She noticed him trying to change the subject and readily followed his lead, “I don’t really know, I have not ever timed my self, I just keep working on it until I get finished. What about you?” She then questioned inquisitively wanting to know since he brought it up first.
“Umm…I don’t really get finished very often, I will usually figure out a few and then I go blank on the rest of them and I just end up with a very empty looking crossword.” He told her a little embarrassed since she has such a vast vocabulary and his is only for when he is speaking when it comes to puzzles he cannot usually figure out the clues enough to use his own vocabulary as well as she does.
“Oh, that’s cool.” She said. “ I know lots of people that have the words just can’t get them to go with the crosswords. When I just got started I was usually stuck with a dictionary looking up words continuously until the words just kind of stuck with me.”
She had been continuing to work on the crossword as they were talking and was nearly finished when his secretary knocked on the door to inform him that the shirt that he had ordered for Anne was here. He went and got the bag that the shirt was in and took it back to Anne and then she took it as he turned to leave the room she said, “Thanks, again.”
“Your welcome.” He replied as he shut the door behind him gently and once again waited for her to change.
She looked at her shirt and realized that it was not the one that she had ordered but it was a more expensive name brand shirt and the other things that she had required were also from expensive name brand stores, which was probably why it took so long for it to get here. She looked at the bottom of the bag and saw a note that Nick had apparently given to his secretary when she had changed into his shirt earlier because it was written and signed by him. It basically said that he had asked his secretary to get her the name brand of the same clothing that she required. She looked back and forth from the note to the clothes and smiled at how sweet he could be even though at that point the only thing that she had done is rant at him for how bad her day was.
After she read his note she changed and then folded his shirt that she had been wearing and gently put on his desk. She moved around a little testing how well the clothes fit. They fit perfectly and felt they were made out of the softest material that she had ever worn. She then slipped his note into her pocket and walked to the door and opened it. He was standing at the secretary’s desk talking about his appointment that he needed to have rescheduled since he obviously had been unable to attend it this morning. She made her way to the elevator quietly and he never looked up from the computer screen where he and his secretary was trying find a time to have the meeting.
He had already told the advertising department that she would be down within the hour unless he called back so she decided to go. When she got to the elevator she hit the down button since he thirtieth floor and her appointment was on the twenty-seventh floor. Then to make sure that she did not have another problem she stepped well back from the elevator and waited for everyone to exit it before she tried to enter it and then she hit the button for the advertising floor.
As she exited the elevator she went to the department’s secretary and told her about her appointment. She then sat down in the lobby and waited to be called in for her interview. When they called her name she got up and walked in feeling far more confident than she had just an hour before.
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Chapter Two
Anne’s first reaction to having coffee dumped on her was that could this day get any worse, now her shirt was ruined on top of already being late. Then the reality of the situation sunk in as well as the coffee which promptly started burning her skin which made her cry out in pain.
Nick immediately dropped his papers and tried to help her dry off by quickly pulling out his handkerchief and handing it to her so that she could get as much of the coffee off of her as was possible at that very moment.
When he realized that the handkerchief was not helping very much he got back into the elevator and decided to take her up to his office so that she could get herself cleaned up better than she could here. She waited until the elevator doors closed and then she got her voice back.
“What is wrong with you? Why weren’t you paying attention? You just had to walk out of the elevator not paying attention to anything except whatever you were reading and then you dump coffee on me, which was extremely hot by the way. Now I am not only late for my interview but I am also drench with coffee and have a stain on my new white shirt. So now I probably won’t get the job and where are you taking me?” Anne said taking out all of her frustration about her bad morning on the man standing beside her in the elevator.
“It will be okay, I promise.” He told her calmly. “I am very sorry that I was not paying attention to where I was going, there is no excuse for that. I will have someone from my office go and buy a shirt to replace the one that you are wearing now, and for the dry-cleaning to have that one repaired. I will talk to whoever is interviewing you and get it rescheduled for you. I am taking you to my office. Okay did I miss anything?”
“Well you did not really say what was wrong with you but other than that you answered everything else. Oh my name is Anne by the way.” She said with a smile.
As she was listening to him methodically answer each of her questions, she finally noticed what he looked like and realized that he was very handsome. He was just a few inches taller than she herself was but the way he carried himself gave him a dominating presence. He had nice hair that was very stylishly cut. The blue of his eyes was mesmerizing. When she looked into his eyes it was like he could look into her very soul to find whatever he was searching for.
“Yeah I was kind of hoping that you would have forgotten that particular question, because I do not know an answer that you would accept to that one. My name is Nick.” He told her and hoped that she would not decide to get mad at him again.
“So… Nick what is it that you do that you can just drop what you are doing and help some random person out of a bad situation. I mean you just dumped coffee on me you are not the one who made me late for my interview, so why are you being so nice after the way that I yelled at you about my bad day?” She asked curiously.
“Well, I work in the office upstairs and was on the way to a meeting with a potential client, but I will just have it rescheduled since I was not paying attention as I exited the elevator. You are not some random person if you were coming in here for an interview and here we take care of each other even if the person has yet to be hired. Plus I am a nice guy and I understand the reason behind your yelling so it is not that big of a deal.” He responded and then the elevator door opened and he walked her down the hall to his office. As soon as he walked in he told his secretary to order a shirt and whatever else Anne needed in whatever size she said from wherever it was that she asked and then left them alone for a few minutes since he sensed that she would be more comfortable talking about such things with another woman.
“Would you like one of my spare shirt to wear until the shirt that is being ordered gets hear? It would be one of mine so it would be big on you but if you want to get out of that wet shirt then you can have it.” He told her thinking that it must be uncomfortable to be wearing a wet shirt, especially in the well air conditioned building.
“You are so nice, and yes it would be great to have something dry to wear until the other shirt gets here.” She thanked him. He went to the closet in his office and pulled out one of his shirts for her to wear. As soon as he handed it to her he told her that he would be back in a few minutes if she wanted to change in his office or she could go to the bathroom down the hall. She told him that it would be nicer for her to change in his office so that no one else who had yet to see her with the coffee drenched shirt would see her like that.
He left the room and she slowly changed out of her shirt into his. Then she looked around his office and saw the name plate on his desk which proclaimed: Nick Taylor CEO / President of TCT. As she read that she felt very embarrassed about how she had vented to him and about him in the elevator because apparently if she did get this job then he would be her boss.
After a few minutes Nick knocked on his office door, “Are you finished in there?” He asked her then stood silently waiting on a response from the inside of the room.
She looked at the door as she heard the knock on the door, “Yes, I am finished. You can come back in.” She said still thinking about her revelation that he was going to be her boss if she got the job and that since she knew a little about the company she knew that he was a millionaire. It was a little disconcerting knowing that the man that she had met and had coffee spilt on her by was one of the richest men in the country. In fact, he was probably the richest man that she would ever meet in her life.
As he walked back into the office she still felt minutely self-conscious about the fact that he cold have walked off of the cover of a magazine and she was standing there in his office wearing one of his button up shirts, which she knew had to look to any outsider like she had just gotten up and put on any shirt that she could find after a night of passion. So she knew that she would not be leaving his office until her new shirt arrived.
As he walked into his office and saw her he could not believe that she could make one of his button up shirts look so good. He knew that if he was to make that comment then he could be up for a harassment case so he kept the though to himself.
“You look… nice.” He decided was the best thing that he could say without offending her.
“Thanks.” She replied shyly as she looked up at him. “You do know that I am not leaving this room wearing your shirt though. It just does not send the professional look that I tried for when I got dressed this morning.” She informed him with a slight smile.
“That is fine, you don’t have to do anything that you do not want to do. If you want you can do whatever you want in here, like um… the computer, you can get on the internet and look up anything that you want or if you want something then just ask and I will go and get it. Just so that you know … you are comfortable while you wait. I really am very sorry that I caused you to have your shirt ruined and make you late to your meeting, but like I said I called down to the advertising department and told them what happened and that you would be down as soon as you were finished up here. So you do not have to worry about the interview.”
‘Wow’ he thought to himself ‘when exactly did he start to have to justify everything that I do?’ He questioned himself. Then he realized that it had to be her because he was not like this around anyone else.
“That is okay, I can just sit here. Um… do you have a newspaper? I like to do the crosswords and I would have picked up a copy this morning but seeing as I was running late I did not have the time.” She said explaining her motives on not having her newspaper with her.
“Sure,” he replied going to his desk and picking up the newspaper and handing it to her. “Here you go.”
“Thanks.” She said as she took the paper from him and turned to the crossword of the day and started working it out. She was very good at the crosswords and within a few minutes she had already done the top portion of the crossword and was steadily working her way down. Nick stared at her as she kept just reading the clues and having the answers down pretty much instantly.
“How do you do that?” He asked curiously. At her blank stare he elaborated, “How do you figure out the answer to the clues so fast? I mean you read the clue and you pretty much already have the answer down. That is amazing!”
“Oh! My mom and I used to work on these together when I got in Junior High so I know most of the answers just by seeing the clue. Plus we used to flip to a random page of the dictionary and copy down the definitions of the words on that page and quiz each other on it to improve our vocabulary.” She told him a little embarrassed at the end be cause she had told him so much in answer to such a simple question.
“Wow, you and your mom did that for fun? That is more quality time than my parents would have been interested in spending with me.” He told her seriously.
“I’m sorry if I brought up bad memories. I did not mean to, I was just remembering my mom died two years ago and I just got caught up in my memories before I could stop myself.” She said to him wishing that she could just stop herself from saying anything else that would bring up any bad memories for him.
“I’m fine, it is nice to know that there are parents out there that actually enjoy spending quality time with their children. So how long does it usually take you to finish a crossword puzzle?” He asked changing the subject and hoping that she would take the hint and not bring it back up.
She noticed him trying to change the subject and readily followed his lead, “I don’t really know, I have not ever timed my self, I just keep working on it until I get finished. What about you?” She then questioned inquisitively wanting to know since he brought it up first.
“Umm…I don’t really get finished very often, I will usually figure out a few and then I go blank on the rest of them and I just end up with a very empty looking crossword.” He told her a little embarrassed since she has such a vast vocabulary and his is only for when he is speaking when it comes to puzzles he cannot usually figure out the clues enough to use his own vocabulary as well as she does.
“Oh, that’s cool.” She said. “ I know lots of people that have the words just can’t get them to go with the crosswords. When I just got started I was usually stuck with a dictionary looking up words continuously until the words just kind of stuck with me.”
She had been continuing to work on the crossword as they were talking and was nearly finished when his secretary knocked on the door to inform him that the shirt that he had ordered for Anne was here. He went and got the bag that the shirt was in and took it back to Anne and then she took it as he turned to leave the room she said, “Thanks, again.”
“Your welcome.” He replied as he shut the door behind him gently and once again waited for her to change.
She looked at her shirt and realized that it was not the one that she had ordered but it was a more expensive name brand shirt and the other things that she had required were also from expensive name brand stores, which was probably why it took so long for it to get here. She looked at the bottom of the bag and saw a note that Nick had apparently given to his secretary when she had changed into his shirt earlier because it was written and signed by him. It basically said that he had asked his secretary to get her the name brand of the same clothing that she required. She looked back and forth from the note to the clothes and smiled at how sweet he could be even though at that point the only thing that she had done is rant at him for how bad her day was.
After she read his note she changed and then folded his shirt that she had been wearing and gently put on his desk. She moved around a little testing how well the clothes fit. They fit perfectly and felt they were made out of the softest material that she had ever worn. She then slipped his note into her pocket and walked to the door and opened it. He was standing at the secretary’s desk talking about his appointment that he needed to have rescheduled since he obviously had been unable to attend it this morning. She made her way to the elevator quietly and he never looked up from the computer screen where he and his secretary was trying find a time to have the meeting.
He had already told the advertising department that she would be down within the hour unless he called back so she decided to go. When she got to the elevator she hit the down button since he thirtieth floor and her appointment was on the twenty-seventh floor. Then to make sure that she did not have another problem she stepped well back from the elevator and waited for everyone to exit it before she tried to enter it and then she hit the button for the advertising floor.
As she exited the elevator she went to the department’s secretary and told her about her appointment. She then sat down in the lobby and waited to be called in for her interview. When they called her name she got up and walked in feeling far more confident than she had just an hour before.
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