Connected

Are we Connected

It was the beginning of the day and I was in my office putting things in order. I work at a interior design and remodeling firm. Things had been very hectic lately with many work assignments and deadlines, so my office had suffered the worst of it for days on end.

Today I decided to tidy it up again, since we were en between finished work and waiting for new projects. I took out my phone, presses play on my favorite playlist and set of to organize and clean.

As I was listening to one of my favorite song, in came one of the new interns. He had been assigned to work in our department for 4 months now so we were friendly with each other. Christopher walked in, sat down on my floor to help me pickup things there and listening to me hum the song without saying anything.

[Verse 2]
Locked in sight, we're in trouble
A lock and a key making rumbles
I know you want me, don't crumble
Leave it to time, no need to hustle
Meant for each other, no one can stop us
You know that we'll be lasting forever
Feel the fire, it's burning up the danger (Yeah)
You know it shouldn't be but

It turned and smiled at him and he finally spoke. "Looks to me like you enjoy this song a lot" He was right I did so I simply nodded my head. "I wonder why?"

[Pre-Chorus]
We're pulling at each other like magnets
The rules are telling us to ignore them
Your moves, they're asking me for attention
Oh, I'm losing it, hey

"It reminds me of something and I like the artist. I love his music." I answered not planning on giving more detail than needed and he gave me one of his cute dimple smiles. We had gotten friendly fast because he was hard working, gentlemanly and very nice but I was trying to make it clear to him that we still had our distance to maintain. Not because he'd made any pass at me romantically but because after being spotted talking to each other so often half the office was shipping us together and the other half was berating me for hanging out with such a younger guy. Christopher was 3 years younger than me. So I was trying to keep the gossip at bay.

"Jay, how about we go to lunch together, it's about time. Then I can come back and help you out some more." Just then that I was going to answer two more colleagues walked by, saw us and turn to whisper at each other. I sighed and answered "I am not hungry right now besides I have a lot to finish. You go ahead the other interns will probably be there too"

He looked at me dejected and got up to leave.  Saying no more. I felt terrible but I did not want to be the talk of the firm even if I did believe he was kind of a catch.

Christopher POV

It's funny that I have been trying to get Jay to warm up to me, so I could ask her out and now that she had. I can't because or these hallway rumors. I can imagine how she feels about people talking about us behind our backs and I understand that she may want me to back down but I just can't. I really like her.

But well now I have something new in my favor, it's funny how personally I have not been able to connect with her but my voice did.

1 hour ago

I was going to walk past Jay's office. I had no intention of saying anything because I could feel her pulling away lately. As I got closer music caught my attention. Not just any song but my song coming from Jay's phone. I had to know about it.

I walk in wordless, notice she was cleaning and sat down to help. I heard her hum my song with a smile on her face and it made my heart swell.  When I asked if she liked the song. She told me that it reminded her of someone and that she liked the artist.

She liked me without knowing it. I am CB97 the singer, writer, composer and producer of that song. She could not know that because all anyone knows about that side of my life is my voice.

Long story short. I am an underground rapper-producer part of a group called 3racha with 2 other friends. We stared out young and wanted to continue music as our career but my father did not completely approve of this. So I am in my last year of my double major in Finance and Music Production.

So by day I intern here in the finance department for the design crew and at night I work at 3racha studios and the underground music scene.

Well as I walked down the hall towards our inner cafeteria I overheard two asistants that were walking in front of me saying: Can you believe that Jay leads him on? Yeah what a waste. He could find someone younger and much prettier than her.

I scuffed loud enough so they could hear me and walked past them without so much of a glance. Things like this were what made it imposible por me to get closer to her. These comments are mean. Why would they say things like that about someone else without base at all. I was like the had caught us doing something that we shouldn't in public.

I tried not to get more tense because then I can't hide my feelings on my face but one thing I was sure about. I would wait. My internship is almost over. Then I would invite her out. I finally arrived at cafetería, asked for my food and went to the terrace to eat. Away from everyone.

Short first chapter, if you liked it I will post more. SEE YOU IN THE COMMENT SECTION.