Her Insecurity Cure

14. Serah

Reaching work around six a.m had become a habit for me, what can I say I there's nothing to do at home and I love my work place

Coming early meant touring around the building and me being extremely weird without an audience, in other words being myself

"Good morning Mr J!" I shouted as I drove in the underground parking lot

"Good morning indeed Serah" he waved with a smile on his face

I grinned as I drove and parked my car near the exit, wasting no time I took my bag from the passenger seat and got out of the car before locking it

My mood is still all happy happy

Happyyyyy

Your ugly Betty right here is going to be showcasing her work at The D&G Runway Shooooow

I squealed and did a little happy match and jumped, for a person who despised friendships I sure didn't regret being friends with Darren

All he's ever done is make me smile and helped me out

I smiled as I started walking slowly to the elevator

To think he'd talk his brother into giving me this opportunity, I felt very grateful. Darren was the most friendly and kind friend I've ever had, though he has one annoying flaw

His liking to women

Ugh

I rolled my eyes, he responds to every move a woman makes and it's very annoying. I mean guy have a class, not all fish in the sea are meant to be eaten

I liked Darren but after noticing his Casanova ways, my heart, mind and everything in me drew back

I'm glad crushing on him disappeared, it made things easy. Now he was added to my brothers list

I stopped in my tracks as I saw new black sleek car at the far corner of the parking lot, somebody was here earlier than me

In three years nobody has ever come to work this early, if I exclude Darren of course and that wasn't his car style

"Who could it be?" I tilted my head as I furrowed my eyebrows

I looked behind me before looking at the car again, shrugging I continued my walk quicker this time to the last floor of this building

Humming freedom by Pharrell Williams I walked out of the elevator and walked in my destination doing low key dances

Lah-lalalalalala

Lalalah-lalalalala

Fredoooom

I put my hand on my office door and whisper-yelled "freeedoooom"

I opened the "freeedoooom"

I looked up and "free-AAHHH!!!"

Garrel stood near my table with papers in his hands, from the looks of it they were the designs I planned to put to life today

"Good morning" I said out of breath as I eyed him up and down quickly

He wore a khaki Armini suit with white lines and black brown shoes, he leaned on the table with his legs crossed his black socks picking out of his ankle

He wore a white shirt inside with a brown tie and to say the suit didn't fit him well would be a total lie

Guy was looking gorgeous I'm not gonna lie

Shht

Get it together SerahHappyCollins!

I stood straight as I leaned on my door and pressed my lips together as I tightened my hold on my bag which was strapped on my shoulder

I mean admiring God's creation isn't wrong right

"Serah!"

"Huh" I looked at him clearly surprised that he had been speaking all along

Garrel looked at me weirdly amused for I have no idea reason and shook his head

"Is drooling over your boss your specialty?" He asked

Wha?

"W-w-w-w-what" I chuckled nervous and closed my mouth abruptly "I wasn't" I tilted my head up a bit "drooling pshh" I said as I wrote circles with my left foot behind my right one

Garrel raised his eyebrows with a little smile on his face

"Whatever makes you sleep at night Serah" he said "where are your materials? I expected you had gotten them by now" he suddenly turned to business mode

"I uuuh" I kept on low key playing with my leg "well the the storage department said they're out of what I needed so they'll contact me"

Lie

That's not what actually happened, by now I'm guessing the truth was obvious wasn't it? With my looks they didn't take me serious

Flashback

"That was a funny one, run along we have serious work to do and designers to attend to" the man said

"But sir I'm really part of the D&G Runway Program , I have a week please I need these materials so I can start-"

They laughed

They laughed in my face like I had said the most funniest joke in the world, the man's friend eyed me up and down before he said

"Mr Thompson would never choose you even if you were the last designer on earth"

"The title designer doesn't suit her at all, tainting it" his friend added

I walked away before they said more, at this rate I was used to it. Bad words had been thrown at my face all my life

It wasn't new to me anymore

End of flashback

Garrel chuckled

I looked up wondering if he saw through my lie

"We never run out of materials here Serah" he said

"Well" I shrugged one shoulder "tha.." I sighed

Garrel put the papers down and walked towards me in his might and glory his eyes never leaving my small figure until he stood right in front of me

This mere act caused my little heart to pick up it's pace as my stomach did all kinds of summersaults

I tried my best to breath calmly but how could I, when he was staring down at me with his grey eyes

His beautiful captivating eyes

Why was he standing this close to me

Ever since I found out Garrel was the owner of D&G, my whole perspective of him changed

He was my boss and he made that quite clear yesterday but it seemed he was in an okay mood today

Too okay for my liking

"Look at me" he whispered before I obeyed at his command

Butterflies erupted my tummy as I looked into his beautiful- I mean eyes

GetAGrip!

His eyes lazily blinked before they rolled down and looked up again, he looked away suddenly and cleared his throat

"Follow me" he said before he put his hand on the doorknob causing me to step aside and walked out

I stood there looking at the door as I tried to register what just happened

My hand found its way to my chest and felt my racing heart, many people have stood close to me, hell Darren is always clingy outside the office and I never ever reacted that way

Why is that

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