Scandalous

Chapter 1

My alarm was ringing rather loud and annoyingly this morning. I haven’t touched it since it started five minutes ago but I can’t find it in myself to get out of my bed. I know I need to because I start my new job today but the strong feeling in my gut that something was going to happen was everything I needed to stay in bed.

                Another minute passes and I finally decide to face the day and hit the dismiss button then crawl out of bed slowly and make my way into the shower. When I get out, my sister walks in and sits down on the bed and holds out a cup of coffee for me to take. She raises her eyebrows and smiles. I know she means well, but I just want to slap the smile off her face really bad at this moment.

                “You’re never up this early.” I say to her and grab the coffee from her hand and sit down on the bed next to her. My towel tugs so I fix it then take a sip of the coffee and the warmth calms me down a bit.

                “Yeah, well your alarm was going off for like ten minutes straight and it kept me up. So I got you coffee because you need it. Seriously, you start your new job today and just like all the rest you are more than likely creating some kind of pit in your stomach that you fill with all kinds of reasons that something is going to go wrong so that you can convince yourself it’s not the job you need and then you’re looking somewhere else.” I narrow my eyes at her and she just shrugs it off.

                Though I wouldn’t admit it out loud, Evelyn was right. I had been through so many jobs in the last two years because I just didn’t feel it was for me. At my expense, none of those other jobs were. I had been a secretary at each one of them, just like I would be at this one, but nothing was accomplished on my end. I didn’t feel like I was using my skills to their full potential. I take another sip of coffee and sit on my thoughts for a minute. Again without admitting it, I truly do feel that something is going to happen at this job but for all anybody knows it could be a good thing and I’m just psyching myself out so that if something does happen I freak out again and quit before I get anything accomplished.

                “So, what’s it going to be? Are you going to conquer the world today, or are you going to let that pit fester up with reasons so that this one doesn’t work out either? I believe in you, Addison. But you have to believe in yourself and believe that maybe this time something good is going to come of it.” Evelyn stares at me, her expression blank but her eyes say everything that I don’t need to see on her face.

                I sigh. “Okay, fine. I believe that this time something good is going to come of it and that it isn’t as bad as I’m making it out to be.”

                Evelyn nods. “Good the first step is saying it, now you just have to truly believe it. Get ready, you don’t want to be late on your first day.” She stands up and walks out of the room shutting the door behind her and I just sigh again and take another sip of coffee.

                When I pull into the parking lot of the building, I make a mental note that I should probably start leaving a lot sooner so that I get a decent parking spot. Normally I wouldn’t mind it, but Seattle isn’t always the sunniest of places. The weather is beautiful, but sometimes that can change. I decide to settle on a spot in the middle of the parking lot and make my way towards the big glass doors of the building. I stop when I notice a Mercedes sitting under an awning with its own designated sign. I just scoff and continue to walk in.

                My interview was short and brief and we didn’t bother to leave the lobby at all. The human recourses rep actually emailed the entire time which caught me off guard but I quickly discovered that he was emailing the man I was supposed to be working under and after about ten minutes of questions he sent an email simply saying “hire her now” and that was that. They handed me the paperwork to sign and bring in today and that was that.