Is It Love? Mark

Chapter One

It's Monday afternoon and I'm heading to lunch. I thought about skipping lunch but my stomach disagreed with that since I missed breakfast. Lisa and Matt are going to join me at the restaurant. My day isn't going very well, Cassidy yelled at me twice for no reason claiming I wasn't doing my job. The only reason I wasn't doing my job is because she kept interrupting me. I recorded everything though.

I really don't know what her problem is but she really needs to get the fuck over it and leave me alone. Reporting it to Gabriel does nothing, he thinks I'm over exaggerating. My written complaints have gone nowhere as well. That's not surprising Cassidy most likely deletes any and all complaints with her name on them. I wouldn't put it past her.

I enter the Italian restaurant that Matt, Lisa and I like to go to for lunch sometimes. I sit near the window and look over the menu. I speak perfect Italian to Felipe, he is a hell of a cook he also gives me free dessert from time to time. While I wait for Matt and Lisa I can't help but think about the very long road I took to get this far in life. Growing up wasn't easy for me. I lost both of my parents at a young age. Jamie and I ended up in the foster care system when our older sister Piper wasn't able to take care of us, hell she could barely take care of herself.

Jamie is my twin brother, he's five minutes older than me and he's saved my life more times than I can even count. The foster homes we were in were horrible so Jamie and I took off when we were eleven. We came here to New York to be closer to Piper. We ended up in Little Italy. We were close to blinding in we are half Italian after all. Most people didn't look twice at us as long as we didn't bother them.

I'm taken out of my train of thought when Matt and Lisa walk in.

"Sorry we are late" Matt sits across from me and Lisa sit's next to me.

"I already ordered for myself I wasn't sure when you guys were coming and I'm hungry."

Felipe set's my food in front of me and takes Lisa and Matt's order.

"I ran into Cassidy on my way out," Lisa takes a drink of her water.

"What did she say?" I ask.

"You know the usual."

"Last week I was dropping off files to different people and she followed me from office to office lecturing me on not doing my job, how my clothes were not office appropriate so on and so forth. When I had enough I turned around and told her I was going to report her for harassment to her superiors if she didn't leave me alone."

"And that worked," Matt steals one of my fries.

"For about a day or so, maybe. I really don't know what her problem is with me. All I can remember doing is starting to work at Carter Corp."

"Yeah same here" Lisa takes another drink of her water as Felipe sets her and Matts food in front of them.

"Well with any luck I won't have to rely on working at Carter Corp by the end of this year. My art work has really taken off this year. Collin says my website has blown up since I started putting my work online he set up an auction for this weekend and one of my pieces will be sold to the highest bidder."

"That's grate" Lisa hugs me.

"That's grate" Matt sounds disappointed "You're going to become rich and famous and then forget about us. You'll probably move to France or Italy you know those artsy places and never look back."

"Don't be stupid Matt" I get up and hug him "I couldn't forget you that's impossible you're unforgettable. Besides I won't be going anywhere especially not France, don't you know they eat snails over there? Give me a good cheeseburger any day of the week. I would starve to death in France."