Untitled, forever
Second chapter
I woke up by the loud beep of my alarm clock. Today was one of those days I didn't want to wake up. I hugged Zero who always ended up in my bed somehow; I'm starting to think that he can fly. With those small legs it is impossible, plus his extra fat, to jump up in my bed. And I don't put him in my bed before I go to sleep so somehow he's getting up. I took a look in my room; it was as boring as usual. I wanted to do something new with it, maybe buy a new lamp to have in the roof. The one I had now was a big ball, and I wanted something more than that. And maybe some paintings and it would be better that now. It would be a later concern, so I looked down at my little pug that was very happy in my arms.
"Should we stay in bed all day Zero?" I asked him and he yawned at me, "I agree, but unfortunately I have to work so I can afford this place and buy food to both of us."
I had to go up, but it felt like it was going to happen something bad today. Even if my life was near the bottom and I didn't thought it could get worse, I had this weird feeling about something. But I had to put the thought on the side, I had a work to go to and I started in half an hour. I applied some make-up, just some mascara and rouge and finished by putted my hair up in a bun, which would do today. I put on a pair of ordinary jeans and a white shirt together with a tight black blazer that is a bit shorter than ordinary blazers. It ends right over my belly. Then I took a pair of red Converse and I was ready to leave for work.
One minute before I had to be at work I entered the building, I didn't want to be late, and especially not when I was dependent of this job. I hurried to my spot before Sarah would have a chance to be there before me, the last thing I wanted to see was her standing there with a lot of work and her foot tampering on the floor.
"Rough night?" Zacky asked me when I entered my spot.
"Yeah, I woke up with a little pug in my lap, and I don't even know how he ended up there." I said with a small laugh at the end.
"I didn't even know that you had a pug." He said, "How old is he? What color is he? I looove pugs."
"I don't speak about him that much, but he is my little sweetheart and I got him 3 years ago from my parents. And his name is Zero and he is a black pug."
"Oh, I have never seen a black pug in real life, are they cuter than the other color?"
"I think so, but Zero is a bit fatter than normal pugs, and that makes him adorable."
Zacky laughed at me, and I showed him a picture of Zero. He agreed about Zero being adorable, and I promised him that they would meet someday. A couple of seconds later we heard a throat clearing.
"Personal business is not something you should talk about at work." I heard Sarah say, "You have a lot to do Miss Mitchell and I'm counting that you can finish all of this before lunch."
Sarah dropped a big pile of paperwork that would take me ages to finish. And I would definitely not be done with them before lunch.
"Are you kidding me?" I asked Sarah in chock.
"Does it look like I am kidding?" She said seriously. Her old face scared me and wanted me to go and puke somewhere. And here attitude didn't make it better. The name Sarah sounds better on a young person, but this Sarah was anything besides young. She had short gray hair that always was up in a bun, her face looked like an old paper bag that had lay in water to long. She had small grey eyes, potato nose and a small mouth, I didn't even know if that mouth could flash a smile or not. The worst part was that you could see that she is mean just by looking at her; you didn't even need to know her. An unfortunately I did know her.
"No, I'm sorry; I will start with them directly." I said to her.
"And Mr. Baker, I don't think that Mr. Haner would like you to just stand here and 'chit-chat' when you got work to do." She said bitchy to Zacky.
"No ma'am, I'm sorry, it won't happen again." He said and went to his spot so he could start with his work.
"No, I hope it won't" Sarah said under her breath.
It took me two hours just to sort all the paperwork, and then I realized that I had to do some copies of the bills the company had this month. I started up my computer and did some copies and pressed print on my computer. I started to walk to the copier when I suddenly bumped in to someone or something.
"Oh I am so sorry." I said to the thing I bumped in to. I hit my head a bit and held my hand to it; I could feel a swelling that began to shape.
"It's not your fault; I should have watched where I was going." The person that I bumped in to said. The smell of the person was intoxicating and I started to get dizzy.
"Whoa." I said before I lost my balance and started to fall, but a pair of strong arms caught me.
"I got you, don't worry." He said and I got a chance to look at him. Our eyes met and his eyes were chocolate brown, melting me, it felt like I could stare in to them forever. I felt a smile on my lips started to form and nothing else mattered, until I got snapped out of my staring with another throat cleaning, and I recognized the horrible 'voice' directly. It felt like the old bitch was following me.
"What do you think you are doing?" She asked me.
"This is my fault; I accidently bumped in to... what's your name?" The man asked me.
"It's Kahlan, but you can call me Kay." I said to him, still dizzy and stuck in a dream world that his eyes had taken me to. I weren't in my best condition right now. With his arms around me, I could feel all his muscles. It felt like nothing of it was real. The accident plus his scent made me weak at the knees.
"I bumped in to Kay here and she hit her head, and I think that I should take her to the lunchroom so I can check on her injuries." He told Sarah.
"Miss Mitchell should go back to work; she has a lot of work to do."
"You are wrong, Miss Mitchell here has hit her head really bad and need some ice and I will look after her and see so she didn't get a concussion." He said and started to sound a bit annoyed, "I don't want to tell my father about an accident who ended up worse than it should be, because of you."
"W-well your r-right." She said stammers, "You should r-really cool her head."
Sarah walked away and the mysterious man that I didn't know the name of took me to the kitchen so he could put some ice on my sore and throbbing head.
"I didn't catch your name." I said to the man and looked at him properly. He had black hair that was spiked in all random directions. It looked messy, but in a good way. His brown eyes, little nose and small mouth was perfect, he looked like a movie star. His body was muscular and you could see that he worked out, but it wasn't excessive. And I did feel that when he caught me, with these strong arms. He looked really handsome, and wore a white shirt that was folded up in the arms and it wasn't completely buttoned, a pair of black skinny jeans and black converse. Where the shirt didn't cover his arms you could see a couple of tattoos, I liked men with tattoos.
"Oh, I am Brian." He said and flashed me a smile when he noticed that I were checking him out.
"Brian as Brian Haner JR?" I asked curious.
"Yes, that is me."
"Wow, Erica was right." I said to myself.
"About what?" He asked.
"Uhm, nothing, I was just talking to myself." I said and I felt how my face went red.
"If you have said A, you've got to say B." Brian said and smirked at me.
"Maybe another time, Brian, now I have to cool down my head and then go back to work. I can't afford to get fired." I told him.
"You won't get fired, I am the boss' son, remember?"
I smiled at him and he took out an ice pack from the freezer. He placed it gently on my throbbing head and I snatched because of the pain.
"Ouch!" I said and Brian smiled at me.
"Don't be such a pussy." He said and put the ice pack back on my head.
"Don't be such a jerk."
"I'm not a jerk; I'm here, helping you with your head." He said to me.
"That is true." I said and took the ice pack from his hand.
"I have to get back to work now, see you later?"
"Yeah, sure, thanks for the help, I appreciate it a lot." I said and smiled at him and he flashed me a smile before he walked away.
So that was the famous Brian Haner JR. Erica was right, he was stunning. His smell was intoxicating a mixture of cologne, cigarette smoke and something sweet I couldn't figure out and that could without doubts get any girl on the fall. The way he talked to me, and treated me. I could feel butterflies in the stomach, flying around and making me nervous without any reason. He was just nice to me and helped me. And he saved me from the evil dragon Sarah, he was the knight in shining armor who slayed the dragon.
"Already taking lunch?" I heard Erica say when she walked past the lunchroom.
"Not really, I bumped in to Brian and hit my head really hard." I told her and she laughed.
"Ah, I started to wonder why you've got an ice bag on your head." She said and I waved it at her before placed it at my head again, "So what did you think about him?"
"Do I have to answer that?" I asked her and my face started to turn red.
"What are you two talking about? And why does Kahlan got an ice bag on her head and why is her face red as a tomato?" Zacky asked Erica.
"You know that I am here, right?" I asked him with a little laugh at the end.
"Well yeah, it doesn't really look like you are in the condition to talk." He sad and smiled at me.
"No she is not; she has been mesmerized by the one and only Junior here." Erica said and i slapped her playfully. But it was true. Something made me feel safe around him, like he could save me from my past. No one had made me feel like that before. And maybe I was taken by the moment, or I should just go for it. I didn't really know anything, I didn't even know if he had a girlfriend.
"Oh, you mean Brian Haner JR?" He asked her, and it looked like he was hurt. Did Zacky have feelings for me or had I hit my head really hard? I couldn't decide which the right answer was right now.
"Yes."
"Oh, that isn't anything new, all girls like him." He said and looked a bit sad.
"Yeah, but he got a girlfriend." Erica said, and why wouldn't he? He was a catch, just like she said.
"Nope, he and Michelle broke up a couple of weeks ago. It turned up that she was cheating on him." Zacky said to both of us.
"ah, that's why I haven't seen her around the last week." Erica said.
"Brian SR fired her right away, the only reason she worked here were because she dated his son."
"I understand why he fired her!!" I said irritated.
"Why do you understand that? It is wrong!" Zacky said to me.
"No it is not, cheating is wrong! And Michelle never did anything here; she wasn't here a lot either."
"No, and when she was here she only sat with her phone or was looking for Brian." Erica said to Zacky.
"Then I don't understand why she worked here." Zacky said.
"Me neither."
"What about dropping this subject and eat, it's late enough for lunch." I said.
"Yeah, why not." Erica said, "I just have to look for my boyfriend, I don't want him to eat alone."
After that she walked out of the room, leaving me alone with Zacky.
"So, do you like Brian?" Zacky asked me, and I didn't want to talk to him about this things. He was a good friend of mine, but I did not want to talk boys to him.
"I don't even know Brian; I have talked to him once." I said to him and shrugged.
"Ah okay." He said and looked down at his feet, "Would you like to go out on a date with me?"
"What?" I asked him, not sure if he just had asked me out on a date or not.
"Would you like to go out on a date with me?" He asked again.
"Yeah sure, I would love to do that." I said to him and flashed a smile.
"Really?" He asked in chock.
"Really, it would be really fun to go out on a date with you Zacky."
He looked really happy when I said yes to him. We sat and talked about some stuff until Erica and Arin came and joined us. Nothing felt weird around Zacky, even if he just had asked me out on a date. I can admit that he is really handsome and sweet, so why don't just try and see how it goes.
"I love your blazer." Zacky whispered in my ear and I could see him smirking.
"Thank you." I said and blushed. I didn't like that he was so straight forward, I had said okay to a date, but it didn't mean that he should be so close. I still had a hard time trusting him and every other guy on this planet and I didn't want to end up with a broken heart.
"Well I have to go now, I have a lot to do now, since i bumped in to Brian earlier and hit my head." I said and waved goodbye to the others. But Erica followed me to my desk. I didn't bother and sad down as I stared down to all the papers, something was missing.
"Why did you run off?" Erica asked me and I looked up at her.
"I have a lot of work to do; I didn't get much done this morning." I said and shrugged.
"That is not the reason you left." She said.
"Yes it is. I have so many things to do."
"Kahlan, tell me the truth, I can see that you are lying." She said determined.
"Okay, okay." I said, "Zacky asked me out on a date."
She gasped. "What did you say?"
"I said yes."
"Do you even like him?" She asked confused.
"I don't know, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings." I said shameful.
"Just try it out, if you don't like him more than a friend, say iyt. Because I don't want you do break his heart. And you will hurt his feelings even more if you are with him just because you don't want to hurt him, you should just date someone that you love." She told me.
"Yeah, I will."
"Do you promise?"
"Yes I promise."
"Pinky promise?" She said and held out her pinky finger.
"Pinky promise." I said and pinky fingered her.
I didn't want to hurt Zacky's feelings, but I didn't really feel anything besides friendship for him, not yet at least. I would go on this date and see how it would go, I wanted to see if I maybe felt something else for him besides friendship, outside work. If I didn't feel anything, I would tell him that, so I didn't hurt him. That was the only right thing to do.
"Should we stay in bed all day Zero?" I asked him and he yawned at me, "I agree, but unfortunately I have to work so I can afford this place and buy food to both of us."
I had to go up, but it felt like it was going to happen something bad today. Even if my life was near the bottom and I didn't thought it could get worse, I had this weird feeling about something. But I had to put the thought on the side, I had a work to go to and I started in half an hour. I applied some make-up, just some mascara and rouge and finished by putted my hair up in a bun, which would do today. I put on a pair of ordinary jeans and a white shirt together with a tight black blazer that is a bit shorter than ordinary blazers. It ends right over my belly. Then I took a pair of red Converse and I was ready to leave for work.
One minute before I had to be at work I entered the building, I didn't want to be late, and especially not when I was dependent of this job. I hurried to my spot before Sarah would have a chance to be there before me, the last thing I wanted to see was her standing there with a lot of work and her foot tampering on the floor.
"Rough night?" Zacky asked me when I entered my spot.
"Yeah, I woke up with a little pug in my lap, and I don't even know how he ended up there." I said with a small laugh at the end.
"I didn't even know that you had a pug." He said, "How old is he? What color is he? I looove pugs."
"I don't speak about him that much, but he is my little sweetheart and I got him 3 years ago from my parents. And his name is Zero and he is a black pug."
"Oh, I have never seen a black pug in real life, are they cuter than the other color?"
"I think so, but Zero is a bit fatter than normal pugs, and that makes him adorable."
Zacky laughed at me, and I showed him a picture of Zero. He agreed about Zero being adorable, and I promised him that they would meet someday. A couple of seconds later we heard a throat clearing.
"Personal business is not something you should talk about at work." I heard Sarah say, "You have a lot to do Miss Mitchell and I'm counting that you can finish all of this before lunch."
Sarah dropped a big pile of paperwork that would take me ages to finish. And I would definitely not be done with them before lunch.
"Are you kidding me?" I asked Sarah in chock.
"Does it look like I am kidding?" She said seriously. Her old face scared me and wanted me to go and puke somewhere. And here attitude didn't make it better. The name Sarah sounds better on a young person, but this Sarah was anything besides young. She had short gray hair that always was up in a bun, her face looked like an old paper bag that had lay in water to long. She had small grey eyes, potato nose and a small mouth, I didn't even know if that mouth could flash a smile or not. The worst part was that you could see that she is mean just by looking at her; you didn't even need to know her. An unfortunately I did know her.
"No, I'm sorry; I will start with them directly." I said to her.
"And Mr. Baker, I don't think that Mr. Haner would like you to just stand here and 'chit-chat' when you got work to do." She said bitchy to Zacky.
"No ma'am, I'm sorry, it won't happen again." He said and went to his spot so he could start with his work.
"No, I hope it won't" Sarah said under her breath.
It took me two hours just to sort all the paperwork, and then I realized that I had to do some copies of the bills the company had this month. I started up my computer and did some copies and pressed print on my computer. I started to walk to the copier when I suddenly bumped in to someone or something.
"Oh I am so sorry." I said to the thing I bumped in to. I hit my head a bit and held my hand to it; I could feel a swelling that began to shape.
"It's not your fault; I should have watched where I was going." The person that I bumped in to said. The smell of the person was intoxicating and I started to get dizzy.
"Whoa." I said before I lost my balance and started to fall, but a pair of strong arms caught me.
"I got you, don't worry." He said and I got a chance to look at him. Our eyes met and his eyes were chocolate brown, melting me, it felt like I could stare in to them forever. I felt a smile on my lips started to form and nothing else mattered, until I got snapped out of my staring with another throat cleaning, and I recognized the horrible 'voice' directly. It felt like the old bitch was following me.
"What do you think you are doing?" She asked me.
"This is my fault; I accidently bumped in to... what's your name?" The man asked me.
"It's Kahlan, but you can call me Kay." I said to him, still dizzy and stuck in a dream world that his eyes had taken me to. I weren't in my best condition right now. With his arms around me, I could feel all his muscles. It felt like nothing of it was real. The accident plus his scent made me weak at the knees.
"I bumped in to Kay here and she hit her head, and I think that I should take her to the lunchroom so I can check on her injuries." He told Sarah.
"Miss Mitchell should go back to work; she has a lot of work to do."
"You are wrong, Miss Mitchell here has hit her head really bad and need some ice and I will look after her and see so she didn't get a concussion." He said and started to sound a bit annoyed, "I don't want to tell my father about an accident who ended up worse than it should be, because of you."
"W-well your r-right." She said stammers, "You should r-really cool her head."
Sarah walked away and the mysterious man that I didn't know the name of took me to the kitchen so he could put some ice on my sore and throbbing head.
"I didn't catch your name." I said to the man and looked at him properly. He had black hair that was spiked in all random directions. It looked messy, but in a good way. His brown eyes, little nose and small mouth was perfect, he looked like a movie star. His body was muscular and you could see that he worked out, but it wasn't excessive. And I did feel that when he caught me, with these strong arms. He looked really handsome, and wore a white shirt that was folded up in the arms and it wasn't completely buttoned, a pair of black skinny jeans and black converse. Where the shirt didn't cover his arms you could see a couple of tattoos, I liked men with tattoos.
"Oh, I am Brian." He said and flashed me a smile when he noticed that I were checking him out.
"Brian as Brian Haner JR?" I asked curious.
"Yes, that is me."
"Wow, Erica was right." I said to myself.
"About what?" He asked.
"Uhm, nothing, I was just talking to myself." I said and I felt how my face went red.
"If you have said A, you've got to say B." Brian said and smirked at me.
"Maybe another time, Brian, now I have to cool down my head and then go back to work. I can't afford to get fired." I told him.
"You won't get fired, I am the boss' son, remember?"
I smiled at him and he took out an ice pack from the freezer. He placed it gently on my throbbing head and I snatched because of the pain.
"Ouch!" I said and Brian smiled at me.
"Don't be such a pussy." He said and put the ice pack back on my head.
"Don't be such a jerk."
"I'm not a jerk; I'm here, helping you with your head." He said to me.
"That is true." I said and took the ice pack from his hand.
"I have to get back to work now, see you later?"
"Yeah, sure, thanks for the help, I appreciate it a lot." I said and smiled at him and he flashed me a smile before he walked away.
So that was the famous Brian Haner JR. Erica was right, he was stunning. His smell was intoxicating a mixture of cologne, cigarette smoke and something sweet I couldn't figure out and that could without doubts get any girl on the fall. The way he talked to me, and treated me. I could feel butterflies in the stomach, flying around and making me nervous without any reason. He was just nice to me and helped me. And he saved me from the evil dragon Sarah, he was the knight in shining armor who slayed the dragon.
"Already taking lunch?" I heard Erica say when she walked past the lunchroom.
"Not really, I bumped in to Brian and hit my head really hard." I told her and she laughed.
"Ah, I started to wonder why you've got an ice bag on your head." She said and I waved it at her before placed it at my head again, "So what did you think about him?"
"Do I have to answer that?" I asked her and my face started to turn red.
"What are you two talking about? And why does Kahlan got an ice bag on her head and why is her face red as a tomato?" Zacky asked Erica.
"You know that I am here, right?" I asked him with a little laugh at the end.
"Well yeah, it doesn't really look like you are in the condition to talk." He sad and smiled at me.
"No she is not; she has been mesmerized by the one and only Junior here." Erica said and i slapped her playfully. But it was true. Something made me feel safe around him, like he could save me from my past. No one had made me feel like that before. And maybe I was taken by the moment, or I should just go for it. I didn't really know anything, I didn't even know if he had a girlfriend.
"Oh, you mean Brian Haner JR?" He asked her, and it looked like he was hurt. Did Zacky have feelings for me or had I hit my head really hard? I couldn't decide which the right answer was right now.
"Yes."
"Oh, that isn't anything new, all girls like him." He said and looked a bit sad.
"Yeah, but he got a girlfriend." Erica said, and why wouldn't he? He was a catch, just like she said.
"Nope, he and Michelle broke up a couple of weeks ago. It turned up that she was cheating on him." Zacky said to both of us.
"ah, that's why I haven't seen her around the last week." Erica said.
"Brian SR fired her right away, the only reason she worked here were because she dated his son."
"I understand why he fired her!!" I said irritated.
"Why do you understand that? It is wrong!" Zacky said to me.
"No it is not, cheating is wrong! And Michelle never did anything here; she wasn't here a lot either."
"No, and when she was here she only sat with her phone or was looking for Brian." Erica said to Zacky.
"Then I don't understand why she worked here." Zacky said.
"Me neither."
"What about dropping this subject and eat, it's late enough for lunch." I said.
"Yeah, why not." Erica said, "I just have to look for my boyfriend, I don't want him to eat alone."
After that she walked out of the room, leaving me alone with Zacky.
"So, do you like Brian?" Zacky asked me, and I didn't want to talk to him about this things. He was a good friend of mine, but I did not want to talk boys to him.
"I don't even know Brian; I have talked to him once." I said to him and shrugged.
"Ah okay." He said and looked down at his feet, "Would you like to go out on a date with me?"
"What?" I asked him, not sure if he just had asked me out on a date or not.
"Would you like to go out on a date with me?" He asked again.
"Yeah sure, I would love to do that." I said to him and flashed a smile.
"Really?" He asked in chock.
"Really, it would be really fun to go out on a date with you Zacky."
He looked really happy when I said yes to him. We sat and talked about some stuff until Erica and Arin came and joined us. Nothing felt weird around Zacky, even if he just had asked me out on a date. I can admit that he is really handsome and sweet, so why don't just try and see how it goes.
"I love your blazer." Zacky whispered in my ear and I could see him smirking.
"Thank you." I said and blushed. I didn't like that he was so straight forward, I had said okay to a date, but it didn't mean that he should be so close. I still had a hard time trusting him and every other guy on this planet and I didn't want to end up with a broken heart.
"Well I have to go now, I have a lot to do now, since i bumped in to Brian earlier and hit my head." I said and waved goodbye to the others. But Erica followed me to my desk. I didn't bother and sad down as I stared down to all the papers, something was missing.
"Why did you run off?" Erica asked me and I looked up at her.
"I have a lot of work to do; I didn't get much done this morning." I said and shrugged.
"That is not the reason you left." She said.
"Yes it is. I have so many things to do."
"Kahlan, tell me the truth, I can see that you are lying." She said determined.
"Okay, okay." I said, "Zacky asked me out on a date."
She gasped. "What did you say?"
"I said yes."
"Do you even like him?" She asked confused.
"I don't know, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings." I said shameful.
"Just try it out, if you don't like him more than a friend, say iyt. Because I don't want you do break his heart. And you will hurt his feelings even more if you are with him just because you don't want to hurt him, you should just date someone that you love." She told me.
"Yeah, I will."
"Do you promise?"
"Yes I promise."
"Pinky promise?" She said and held out her pinky finger.
"Pinky promise." I said and pinky fingered her.
I didn't want to hurt Zacky's feelings, but I didn't really feel anything besides friendship for him, not yet at least. I would go on this date and see how it would go, I wanted to see if I maybe felt something else for him besides friendship, outside work. If I didn't feel anything, I would tell him that, so I didn't hurt him. That was the only right thing to do.
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