euphoric (n.s. AU)

t h r e e

I walked through the halls of the building with Niall behind me.

"Okay, so since you're a high school student, you're going to be working in my office." I said, turning down another hallway.

"Shouldn't I get my own office, or like a cubical, you know so I don't have to bother you all of the time?" He muttered as we made our way to the front office to introduce him to Stacey, our secretary.

"If you want one, I mean I wouldn't mind having someone around, it gets kind of lonely in the office." I said just as we got to the front.

"Hey Stacey, this is my new intern Niall, Niall this is Stacey our secretary." I introduced them.

"Hi, nice to meet you" He smiled at her.

"You too." She smiled back.

"Okay, let's go back to the office and get you set up." I spoke up, breaking the awkward silence.

"Bye Stacey, have a lovely day." I muttered before walking away, making sure Niall was behind me. We walked in silence back to my office, but once we reached the door I spoke up.

"So do you want your own office or..." I trailed off, avoiding eye contact.

"I can just stay in your office, if that's okay." He said looking around.

"Alright, I will have Allison come up here and get you settled in then." I say, picking up the phone and ringing Allison in.

After a short amount of time, she arrives with a few things for Niall and two bottles of water.

"Here you go. I'll let you do the rest. Have a lovely day, Mr. Styles." She says before turning on her heel and walking out. Before she reaches the door, I stop her.

"Allison." I say, easily regaining her attention.

"Take the rest of the day off." I say. Her face lights up before continuously thanking me and leaving the room. When I turn to Niall, I notice a small mark on his face, right below his right eye. He notices me looking at it and blushes furiously, before looking at his lap.

"Alright, Mr. Horan. I guess we'll start out easy. You can staple all of these papers together and stamp them with that." I say, gesturing to the red stamper on the other side of the room. He quickly stands up to go the stamp from the other side of the room. Once he grabs it, he returns to his desk and starts his work.

I switch my gaze from him to my computer to answer some of the emails Allison sent me when a question popped in my head.

"Mr. Horan?" I asked looking up from my screen, towards his direction.

"Yeah?" He questioned.

"What happened to your eye?" I asked looking towards his eye.

"I- Uh I fell?" he stuttered. It seemed more of a question than an answer.

"Oh okay... Be more careful. You have to look presentable." I said before getting back to answering the emails.

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I got back to my empty house after Niall got done stamping.

Where the hell is she?

I pull put my phone to call her.

Ring
Ring
Ring

"Hey this is Marissa, Sorry I didn't get to your call! I'm either working, or I don't want to ans-"

Why isn't she picking up?
I go into the kitchen to grab something to eat.

I grab an apple from the fruit basket before going into the living room to watch some TV. I surf through the channels before choosing the movie
Hangover II.

I was halfway through the movie when Marissa stumbles through the door giggling as I immediately stand up.

"What the fuck? Where have you been?" I bark.

"I was out we some friends, jeez. Can't I have fun? " She says which makes me even more raged.

"No, your supposed to be here when I'm here." I yell.

"Are you fucking kidding me Harry? Really, I'm not your fucking pet, stop acting like I am. I can go out when I want, I can has a few drinks if I want. Stop treating me like I'm your fucking pet!" she screams the last part.

I am lost at words, she just talked back to me. I don't know what to say so I just walk bad to my room, enraged.

I slam my door and plop down on our bed rubbing my face with my hands. I sit there thinking over everything when I hear a knock and Marissa emerges from the dim lit hallway.

"Im sorry, I shouldn't have freaked out on you like that. I was just angry and tipsy." She softly giggles

"I'm sorry too, you should be able to go places but I was just mad and irritated."

"Why, what happened?" She asks.

"Just, work was stressful." I sighed.

"I think I know how to go rid of some of that stress." She smirks before stradiling my lap.

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2 lazy 2 update omg but a lot have stuff has happened lately but can I just say how happy I am that all states are legalized for gay marriage!!! Why have fifty shades of grey when you can have fifty states of gay!? Omg I'm lame but bye y'all hope ya enjoyed and have a great day (((: