Way Back to Your Heart

Prologue - The Proposal

Hi Everyone!!!! I'm back and let me present you the sequel of Homeless Heart.

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"Don't give me that pathetic excuse, this project will start next week! End of conversation... Thank you Mr. Smith" a young lady in her mid twenties wearing an elegant white tailored suit slammed the phone's handset back to its cradle, cursing beneath her breath. She took off her glasses and massage her nose bridge- stress is getting on her nerves right now... three hours baby, just need to wait for another three damn hours before I can leave this office, she told herself.

Looking for a way to relax her eyes, as well as her mind she turned her chair around and gaze at the over sized glass window behind her. Being on the top floor of an 80 storey high-rise building she had a magnificent view of the city below her, she used to admire the view...used to, that was when she first had this office. But after a year of running the company, somehow she is starting to hate the place. Everyday is battle, she is literally dragging herself to go to work each day.

She let out a sigh... a deep one.

"If your cousin is alive, I don't know if he will like what I am seeing right now" her financial adviser, a slim brunette who likes to where Chinese inspired dresses came in into her office.

"Hey! I did knock okay, in case you'll ask". She smiled as she lay her * Louis Vuitton hand bag on the provided couch for visitors and proceed to the lady behind the desk.

"If he was alive right now he might be the one sitting in this chair and you shall be a married woman" a hint of sarcasm in her tone as she delivered her words making the brunette winced.

"Jeeez stop stressing about me being single, you know how I loved to be married to him one day... its just that fate did not allowed me to". The brunette leaned on the table before her.

She turned her chair around to let her visitor occupy her time. "Past is past there are just some things that we cannot bring back... no matter how much we wanted to" she then put her eye glasses once more as her lavender eyes became cloudy at the sudden mention of her late cousin but she immediately dismissed it in just a split second, instead she turned to her laptop and type something that seems to be a password before paying her visitor another glance.

"So, what brings you here? If I am not mistaken our next meeting..." she scanned her crowded desktop calendar and looked for a certain note." ...will be on Saturday at 10am, right Tenten?" she said as she checks something from her laptop again.

"Yes you are right Hinata, you always were" she replied rolling her eyes. Tenten knew this mighty lady for a decade now, but the Hinata in front of her is totally different from the shy and timid Hinata she once knew.

"With the way you said that I don't think I wanted to believe you" Hinata pressed a button in her intercom.

"Linda, please bring two cups of..."she paused and looked at Tenten "coffee or tea?"

"Tea, earl grey and a teaspoon of sugar"the latter answered with a wink, Hinata grimaced with Tenten's unusual option.

"... one cup of espresso and a cup of earl grey - with a teaspoon of sugar please" she continued.

"So, what brings you here?... may I ask again" Hinata asked.

"Here check this out" she offered her a folder.

Hinata reached for it and opened the folded blue cardboard.

"What is this?"she scanned the documents inside.

"It is a rising foreign company based in Seattle and it is planning to extend their business here in Japan, I got the information when I attended a party back in Boston... you should meet that young tycoon..very dashing.. very dashing indeed."Tenten ended her sentence like a teenager who had just saw her prince charming.

"I mean business Tenten... I don't swoop around just to meet some dashing being.. you know that". She starts to feel a bit irritated.

"Man-hater!" Tenten sighed a little too soft but enough to reach Hinata's ear.

"So" Hinata narrowed her eyes."What's the catch?".

"Hinata... this company is a huge deal... your company having a project with those guys can really get you a huge fortune".

"Now you're talking..." Hinata let Tenten give more information about the foreign company as she scanned the documents more seriously.

She runs a construction and land development company, they build houses, buildings, hotels, resorts... name it they'll built it, their clients mostly the rich and the elites. They commonly close deals with foreign companies to boost the company's name being the best in all of Japan.

A knock from the door was heard.

"Come in" Hinata answered still checking the papers. Linda a skinny young blonde, just a year older than her boss entered the office with a tray in her hands, in it were two cups of hot liquid. "Just put it at the coffee table Linda."

"Yes ma'am" she complied but right after she transferred the cups in the coffee table Hinata called her once more.

"Linda, give further study about this company, I'll give you two days to prepare a proposal.." Linda flinched for a second enough to caught her Boss' attention. Hinata just smiled ... one late night gimmick to cancel for you.. and closed the folder and hand it to her secretary.

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Since I can't find any pictures of Hinata in an office suit I tried to draw my own version using Autodesk Sketchbook installed in my phone.. hehe I haven't clean the drawing much since its hard to make a detailed drawing using your finger alone =) . Hopefully I can post more of my drawings on the future chapters...