Colleague Next Door

FIRST DAY AT WORK

MYRA'S POV

We reached the firm after 10 minutes. Xavier and I parted ways as he went to his office and I went to the receptionist. "Hello I am Myra Lopez. I am here for the internship." I said smiling at her.

She offered me smile "Hello I am Avery Martin. Follow me I will take you to Mr. Witmore's office." I followed her to the office after that she went. I was a little nervous to go inside so I take some deep breathes and calm myself down and knock softly on the door. I went inside after hearing a quite come in from the other side. I opened the door and went inside and saw Mr. Witmore sitting on his table working. He was a tall and lean man with hard and chiselled features. He looked at me and gave me small smile "Please have a seat."

Hesitantly I went to the visitor's chair opposite his own. "Good morning sir I am Myra Lopez. I am here for the internship." I said to him. "Yes Miss Lopez I was expecting you. You will work under the head architect Miss June as an assistant. Your salary will be 300 euro per month. Ask Miss Martin to show you around." He finished offering me a small smile. I smiled gratefully at him "Thank You sir" and left the office and went to Miss Martin.

"Miss Martin can you please show me around and take me to Miss June?" I asked her smiling. "Yeah sure please come with me" she said.

She showed me around and then take me to Miss June's office. "Hello I am Myra Lopez. I am here for the internship." I introduced myself smiling. She just nodded and gave me work right away and showed me to my desk. Maybe she don't like talking. I just forget it and started working. After working for four hours continuously I was just packing my work to go and get lunch when I felt someone's hand on my shoulder. I turned around to find Xavier smiling at me "Let's go and have lunch." He said. "Yeah" I said following him outside.

We both got in his car and started going somewhere. "What would you like to eat?" he asked looking at me. "I don't know. Whatever you want." I said smiling. "Ok I will take you to a place where I go to have lunch mostly." He said smiling.

We reached the place after some time it was nice restaurant. We went inside and took a table at the corner. Soon a waiter came to take our orders.

"Xavier can you order for me please? Dishes here are very different from dishes in my country so I don't know what I should order." I asked him a little embarrassed. He just smiled at me and nodded.

After he placed our orders. He started asking me about how work was going. I told him how everything went and how Miss June didn't say anything to me. He told me that she has always been like this and takes work very seriously.

"Hey let's play 20 questions." I said excitedly to him. "Sure" he said. "You go first" I said to him.

"Ok. So what is your favorite colour?" he said smiling. "Teal blue. Yours?" I asked.

"Black. Your turn."

"What is your age?" I giggled a little while asking. He looked at me amused and then laughed a little and said "25. You?"

"21" I said. "Why did you wanted to be an architect?" he asked.

"My father is a civil engineer so I have seen him work since I was a kid and my interest developed while watching him and I decided to be an architect. You?" I asked smiling.

"Wow you have always known that you wanted to be an architect. My story is not that good I just liked to draw and I always wanted to do something related to it and once I was in high school an architect came to our school for a lecture and I got very inspired by him and decided that I want to be like him." He grinned a little.

"Your story is good too." I giggled at him.

Then the waiter arrived with our orders and then we eat our food while talking and laughing.

He is really a great friend I like spending time with him. I smiled as I saw him struggling a little to separate peas from his dish as he don't like them like me I hate them too.