Chapter 1
I was woken up to the sound of the birds singing outside my window. I shut my eyes once more and shift in my bed and try to head back to sleep. A few minutes later, my alarm clock started to go off. I let out a small groan and turn it off. I sit back up in my seat and start stretch. After doing so, I sit up and start to prepare for going to work. I put on a white turtleneck and a black skirt. To top it off, I hold one of my black blazers for later.
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I sit on the chair next to the kitchen counter, “Good morning sleepyhead, ready for work?”, a very cheerful tone came across the room, my best friend, my workmate, my sister from another mother. “Yup, just let me get ready”, I say back. After eating we both get our bags and we start heading out of our cozy studio apartment.
“I wonder what type of lecture Steven will have in store for us today” Hannah scoffs as she rolls her eyes. “Who knows it could be about how his daughter can work much faster than 27 people”, I reply then scoff back. Hannah opens the car door and gets in the drivers seat, I’ve never really passed any of my driving tests since I am terribly a horrible driver. Or so I’ve been told…anyway! I sit in the passenger’s seat and we take off to go work.
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I sigh as I place my work bag on my desk across Hannah’s and I start to get to work. I tap on the keyboard and start prepping my presentation for the conference meeting we’ll have later. I open the Google slides app and choose a template. Steven, my very arrogant, rude, sexist, balding, obnoxious boss is very picky so I need to make this presentation of mine very representable. For someone who’s the oldest in the company has a LOT of sass. And by a lot I mean it in an uncountable amount. You’d think you’re arguing with a sassy 15 year old in is 58 year old body. After tapping on my keyboard for a few minutes, I feel as if a pair of eyes are staring at me from a distance. I try not to be obvious but I turn around slowly to see who has been staring at me. After fully turning around in my chair, a body, a very very nice looking body in a suit was standing infront of me. I start looking up slowly admiring each part of the persons chest I see, I reach up to the persons face and I meet a pair of dark eyes and a smug smile. “Like what you see, sweetheart?” The person asks. Noah Moreno. My second least favourite workmate. Right next to Steven actually so yeah. “It’s Naomi. Not sweetheart.” I say calmly when all I want to do right now is snap at his face. I turn back and continue on my presention. “Alright sweetheart” he says bluntly and walks away with his painfully annoying hands in his painfully annoying pockets. What a dork.
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In the conference room I sit next to Hannah and tell her about my encounter with Noah and to be really honest, she wasn’t a help. At all. “He’s so hot why didn’t you make a move?” She squeaks, and I shush her as I put a finger on her mouth telling her to shut it. She chuckles a little and sits back in her seat and we wait for the meeting to start. Steven comes in the room looking way tired than usual. Hannah flashes me a “do you think he’ll be sassy today?” look and I shrug it off, low key hoping that he wouldn’t be too sassy today. He sits on the chair at the end of the table and slams his fists on the table so suddenly that it causes me and Hannah and a few other work members to jump in their seats out of shock. “I will miss doing this” Steven says laughing as he puts his hands away from the table. A few of us tilt our heads to the side in confusion, what does he mean he’ll miss doing this. “I will be retiring next week” he says smiling greatly to the point it looks like a creepy dolls smile. Hannah shoots me with a “wait what means…” look. And I look back at Steven just in time for him to say “that means it’s promotion time! I’ve been observing you all for the past 2 weeks and I’ve decided who would be a great fit for being this company’s boss.” A lot of people turned to me and starting saying things like “you’ll get it for sure!”. I was confident I’d get it too, that is until….”Noah Moreno!” Steven says as he claps his hands excitedly while laughing. Noah doesn’t even looked surprised, It’s like as if he knew it would be him. We all start clapping for our new boss. My new boss. Noah Moreno.
