Life long story🖤// hardin Scott

Season 2, Chapter 2

I woke up with the. Christian. Vance. Sat in MY office. I groaned and sat up not realising he was there, I opened my eyes properly to see him staring right at me "mr Vance!" I shouted, wiping drool off of my face😂"um... um... shit, I'm so sorry. I must have dozed off, what time is it?" I asked "9:25" he bluntly replied "9:25?" I jumped out of my chair and looked out the window, hoping he was bullshitting "am I fired?" I let out, realising he was being dead serious "sit down" he told me, making me sit down as quick as I could "you mean to tell me you read three books and did coverage of all of them last night, and you think 'carnival of light' by Niko Tanaka is a great read?" He asked genuinely, placing my folder of feedback from last night on the desk. "Yeah it is, it's.. she has a really original voice, it's a lot like an early Margaret Atwood, 'the edible woman', surfacing-" Vance picked up his ringing phone and placed it to his ear "I'm coming down now" he announced, getting up out of his chair "grab your things, come with me" he said, leaving the office. "Shit" I mumbled, getting up and grabbing all my stuff, soon hurrying after him.

We walked outside and waiting there was a van "mr Vance, I was just- I was wondering if we had time to go back to-" I began "get in" he interrupted, "I have to get my phone charger and I- oh we're closing the door!" I said as the sliding door  slammed shut. Trevor was sat in the van, laptop on his lap "little work tip" he whispered, I leaned in to hear him "it helps if you don't wear the same clothes everyday. That, and showering" he joked, I sniffed myself, embarrassed "uh, where are we going?" I asked "there's a digital publishing conference and I need to secure some funding for my expansion" Vance explained. The drive was short but boring, until we pulled up to a hotel.

We walked inside and got greeted by a short man, wearing a grey suit and a burgundy tie, he had brown circle shaped glasses and a bold head. "Welcome back to the Montgomery, mr Vance" he announced, passing a clip board to Christian "I have your rooms ready for you. We had a printer delivered to mr. Trevor Mathews room, unfortunately ms. James room wasn't ready so we had her upgraded to a suite with complements of the management." He told "has mr. Jiang checked in yet?" Mr. Vance asked "I do believe he's at the bar" the posh man spoke "of course he is" vance brushed the guys shoulder and walked towards the bar. Trevor began to talk "so I get a printer and you get a suite, your enjoying this aren't you? " he whined "definitely" I winked making Trevor laugh and walk over to the staircase, then making his way up it. "hun, do you mind taking haley shopping? She needs something for tonight" Vance asked Kimberly as he walked over to us "I trust you" he added, Kimberly rushed up to me "let's go have some fun" she shrieked, linking arms with me "sounds good with me" I giggled.

After shopping we went up to my room and I had a shower. "Are you sure I can get in?" I asked as I sat down in a grey comfy chair, wet hair and a pink robe on, ready to start getting glammed up. "Because I've only got into nightclubs with fake ids before but we don't exactly have one of those right now..." I began "you'll be with us, it won't be a problem" she interrupted, she spun me around in the chair to face her "look, before we go outside, I just wanted to tell you something." She said "go on" I smiled "Vance and I are... more than co-workers" she let out, I nodded "oh" I laughed "it was strictly a work thing for years, especially after his wife died but then I started helping out with with his son, smith and well, love can take you by surprise" she exclaimed "yeah, I guess it can" I smiled, immediately thinking about Hardin. Kimberly chuckled and pulled out her phone and showed me her Lock Screen, on it was a little boy "is that him?smith?" I asked "yeah" "Awh he's cute" "he's the sweetest kid" she smiled and got up "I can't wait for them to see you in this dress tonight" she said as she rummaged in the shopping bags "oh shoot" "we forgot to buy you underwear" she told me "but my clothes are at the laundry" I replied "if I leave now, I can run back to the mall-" "oh no no no, I've gone without before I can do it again" I laughed "are you sure?" She asked "yeah, it's fine" I smiled "okay, I guess were going commando then" she joked, we both chuckled and I spun around to the mirror and started to get my makeup out "I can't believe I've been at Vance for only a day" I exclaimed "well Hardin said we'd be lucky to have you" she joined, my face dropped "you spoke to Hardin?" "No, Vance did" she smiled "he didn't tell you?" She asked, seeing the look on my face, I shook my head "must have slipped his mind" she said and I smiled softly.