Flawless

CHAPTER 1

Beep Beep~~

The annoying sound of my alarm went on. I got up and sat on my bed for a few minutes. Then I went into my bathroom and saw my face in the mirror supporting my body with my hands on the basin I brought my face closer to the mirror. After I was done whatever the hell I was doing i started removing my clothes and got into the shower.

After that I came out and dressed myself for the day. I came down the stairs into the hall. As I expected no one was up till now nothing new nothing special . I got into the kitchen and started bringing out the ingredients for pancakes.

Soon I was done. Since it was still some time for my loving and caring family (note the sarcasm) to wake up, I decided to bring out the small cake i bought yesterday at my way back home and lit a candle above it.

I wished for my family to be healthy and safe and blew the candle

"happy birthday to me" a tear rolled down my face but I wiped it. All alone.  I'm not weak. I'm strong. I'm independent. I said to myself and started eating the cake by myself.

I finished the whole cake in less than 10 minutes. See! I don't need help in finishing a cake. I can do it myself.

I could hear my sister yelling my name from downstairs. Guess they are awake now. I quickly ran down the stairs out of my room. Wiping my face in the process not leaving any evidence of my small birthday party.

She was looking at me as if I'm the most irritating thing on the face of earth. And still she was looking pretty. She got my father's pointed nose and gorgeous brown hair. With-

"ASTER! What the hell are you looking at!?give me my food" She interrupted me. I just put my head down and made my way to the kitchen. I made the pancakes and placed the plates in front of them. My father focusing into the newspaper and sipping his tea now and then , my mother into a conversation with my sister while I was standing there totally invisible to them.

It's always been like this adoring and giving everything to the first child i. e my sister and if anything remains I'll inherit it. But it's still fine atleast I have it which some people don't. And I'm thankful for it.

One by one they all left for work ....well not my sister. She just went again to visit the beauty parlour. Apparently she is too pretty that's why she doesn't need to work people's words not mine. I did the dishes and took all my necessities from my room and left for work too.

Let's see how my this year goes~~

I entered the office building greeting the guard ,the receptionist she's also my bestie of 7 years. She wished me happy birthday. Atleast someone remembers i thought. I further went in and settled on my desk.

"Aster~Aster~ I hope you are ready with the presentation." Ren my boss aka head of the Creative department said with her signature one-sided smirk. I don't know why always I'm so scared of her maybe it's her sudden mood swings or her piercing grey eyes. But one thing is sure I respect her. Even though she is moody and bossy ,she is talented.

I got nervous even though I know that the presentation is perfect. It's just. I get too anxious around people. I guess it's because of my low self-confidence and self-conscious. "I-It's-its ready ma'am, I'll print it out a-a-and I'll send it to you" I said with my head low and low extremely nervous voice. She just nodded her head in answer and disappeared.

~Later~

After getting her approval she, my other two colleagues and I went towards the meeting room. Today's meeting was with our company's oldest and very very important client. I've seen the lady before too. But never met her. Everyone in the company even Ren gets nervous around her. And when Ren gets nervous its a very big deal.

It might be because of her age everybody respects her and also how she's been running her company for 38 years on her own. Yes, there are people in her company working their ass off but it's her leadership that's keeping the company running in the competition and Winning .

She's truly a legend.

"Aster! Aster! Wake up! Stop day dreaming! Do you know how important this is?!I'll fire you if anything happens wrong. She's the most important person! Understand?!" Ren starts ranting. While I cower in fear and nodded my head swiftly. "No! You don't look ready! Don't mess up! You know what?  I'll do the presentation instead.  OK. OK!" I just said a low 'yes'

And everybody in the room stood up as the Queen entered. Yes queen. That's what she is. With two subordinates by her both side. If I said I was nervous before then now I'm 10 times more than that. Seeing the lady up so close is truly a different experience. I've seen her before when she came for the meeting at our company and a lot of times on TV and social media and pretty much everything with a screen and light in it.

Her minions on the other hand are very hot and young.

They both were looking like they have come out of a magazine . And seeing such hot men not one but two. TWO! And they are not helping in my already nervous situation. They both sat down. And I was having difficulty in breathing.

Hot! Hot! Hot!Hot! Stop it Aster! This is not the time to be swoon over hot men. Don't forget they are with the queen. I said to myself and came out of my zone and I realised that the guy with golden hair staring at me with a side eye. (👀) I tried to compose myself .Key word : tried. But failed because of my growing anxiety . It's because he further smirk looking at my way. Like I wasn't getting a panic attack just by the fact of being in the same room as them.

I stopped looking at his way and focused on the presentation.