MY MANAGER

Lunch

Becky POV

I woke up to the gentle sound of songbirds outside the bedroom window as the first rays of light slowly peaked through the parted curtains. I stretched slowly, feeling the warmth of the morning sun on my cheek as I blinked away the last of my dreams. I let out a soft sigh as I pulled back the warm duvet and stretched my legs over the edge of the bed and touched the cool wooden floor with my feet. The bathroom called me in, promising a relaxing shower that would wash away the last traces of sleep and leave me feeling fresh. I wrapped my bath robe and left the bathroom and went to the kitchen to make myself a breakfast and coffee.

After preparing scrambled eggs and bacon with a cup of coffee, I sat on my sofa and switched on the TV. As today is my rest day, I thought to just watch movie or series on Netflix and relax. I was searching for what to watch while scrolling on Netflix and I stopped at Money heist. 'I have heard many good reviews about this series, but I haven't watched it yet. So why not watch it now.' I thought and started watching Money heist while having my breakfast. After eating the breakfast, I went to the kitchen and washed the utensil and then, I continued watching Money heist.

When I was about to finish my first episode, my doorbell rang. 'Who can be at the door. I am not expecting anyone' with this thought in my mind, I went to open the door. As I opened the door, Freen was standing at door.

"What are you doing here?" I asked her.

"Can I come in first?" she said she said with a flustered expression on her face.

I let her in and closed the door. I looked at her with a question look.

"We need to go for a meeting." she said.

"but today is my day off."

"Yes, but saint said the meeting is important."

"Ok, but why haven't Saint called me first."

"He did but you were not picking up his calls. So, he asked me to inform you."

I went to the room and checked the phone and there were 5 missed calls from Saint. When I returned to the living room, she was sitting on the sofa fixing her eyes on TV and was not looking at me.

"The mobile was in the room, and I was in living room, so I missed calls from Saint."

I said while standing near the sofa and she nodded still her eyes fixed on TV. Something is wrong, she is not a person to ignore someone while talking and I hate it.

"What is this meeting about?" I continued.

"I also don't know much about it. Just that...

"Look in my eyes when you are talking" I said coldly cutting her in between.

She looked at me and continued "Just that, It is about a movie with someone named James."

I got excited after hearing her but said "OK" with a monotone without showing my excitement.

"What time is the meeting?"

"It's in an hour but it is 20 min ride from here." She said with red face.

'Why is she blushing so much' I thought.

"Ok, I will go and get ready. You can make yourself comfortable meanwhile." I said and left her in the living room.

I went to my walk-in closet in my room to pick up a dress to wear. My eyes fell on the big mirror in the walk-in closet then I realized that I'm only wearing a bathrobe.

"Oh my God! I was wearing only a bathrobe in front of Freen. Oh no, I should have realized this before why she was not looking at me. I even forced her to look at me when she became red. She should have said something. I'm so embarrassed right now. How will I face her now." I said to myself.

"It's okay Becky. It's not that I was naked in front of her. I don't have to explain anything about it to anyone." I consoled myself.

Leaving this thought behind, I picked up black top and blue jeans to wear. After doing light makeup, I went out in the living room.

"Let's go" I said to Freen without making eye contact with her.

The drive to the restaurant was silent. I sat in the back seat of the car because I was so embarrassed to sit in the front by her side. I was not able to look into her eyes because of the embarrassment.

When we arrived at the restaurant, Saint was already waiting for us outside the restaurant. He took us to a private room, after settling we ordered coffee for ourselves and waited for James.

After a few minutes James arrived with his assistant, we greeted them.

"Let's have lunch first and then we can talk about the business. I am hungry." James said.

"Yes, absolutely." Saint said.

Saint ordered Pad Thai, Pad Kra Pao Moo (Stir-Fried Thai Basil & Pork), Tom Yum Goong (Hot & Sour Shrimp Soup) and red wine.

After having lunch, we talked about the movie like the things I wanted to change in the script and discussed the positives and negatives about the script. James was very supported, he took the feedback very positively and was ready to change few things in were both good for script and for met.

"Great, is there anything else you would like to point out about the script?" James asked.

"No, everything else looks good to me. Right Saint?" I said and looked towards saint for confirmation.

"Yes, everything looks good to me a well." Saint said

"Great, So now lets sign the contract." James said

His assistant immediately took out the contract papers from his bag and passed them to saint. Saint took the papers and read all the terms and conditions and then passed to me.

"Everything looks good. You could go through once and then sign the papers." Saint said

I took the papers and read through them and then signed it. Everyone clapped and congratulated each other.

"Let's raise a toast for success of this movie" Saint said

Everyone raised their glass of wine.

"To the new start" Saint said and everyone repeated after him and made the toast and then drank the wine.

After some more talk James checked the time and said "Ok, we should be going now."

Then Saint looked at the time and said, "Its already dinner time. You are not going without having dinner."

"Oh no Saint, my wife would be waiting for me. We can have dinner some other time." James said.

"Ok, that sounds good, and we can't afford to upset Mrs. James." Saint said and laughter break out in the room.

"Right" James said.

We said thank you and goodbyes to James and his assistant.