Dear diary

Chapter 4 - New corporate girly

Anna's POV

My alarm jolts me awake. It is currently 5.30 am, and I am hating my life. I wanted to wake up early to go for a run, but I am just so tired.

I get out of bed, put on my running clothes, and I am out the door at 5.45 am. After about 30 minutes of running, I return home to take a shower. Now the whole family is awake too. I walk downstairs, "Good morning" I say, as I enter the kitchen, "good morning" they all say. "Excited for your first day at work?" Maria asks, and I nod.

Now it is 7 am, and I have to leave, I grab my bag and walk out the door and grab the bike Maria borrowed me. I bike to the train station, which takes me about 15 minutes, here I get on a train, which takes about 40 minutes, and then I need to walk about 5 minutes getting me to the office around 8 am. Which is fine, as I have to clock in at 8.15 am.

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"Anna" my boss greeted me as he walked closer to my desk, "walk with me" he said. "Sure" I say and stand up, we walk around the building, him showing me around while telling me about the rules, which I have heard earlier by HR.

"I really hope you will like it here" he says and looks at me, "oh I really hope so too" I say and we both laugh, we are now standing in front of my desk.

You see my student job is in the Danish embassy, which I am so honored about. This is such an exciting job, and I honestly could not dream of more.

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I walk through the door Finnegan and Elliot greet me. It is currently 4 pm, and I am so tired I just want to go to bed, but I have promised I would make dinner today, because both Maria and Andrew are working late.

I decided I would make lasagna, which I LOVE. The boys were helping me but when it came to putting the lasagna in the oven, they ran into their rooms to play.

I stand there in the kitchen doing some of the dishes, and suddenly this wave of feeling overwhelmed just comes at me and I start crying. I grab the tabletop as I hear the front door open, while trying to stop my crying.

Shawn's POV

"Shawn could you go to my house and grab the bag for me?" Andrew asked, "sure" I said and I was off. You see I really needed to clear my head before going in to record my new song, so I decided to go for a drive, while the others took a break at the studio, probably getting coffee from the café around the corner. But I have already had too much coffee today already.

As I park my car in Andrew's driveway, it hits me "shit maybe Anna is home, oh my god she hates me" I say to myself. Honestly, Anna is the most beautiful girl I have ever laid my eyes on, I do not know why I acted like I did the first time I met her. However, I am so stupid for doing that. Geoff talks about her all the time, but when Josiah told us all Brian, my best friend, liked her it was as if my blood was boiling, as if I did not want him to have her, like I wanted her to be mine. Stop Shawn you are being crazy.

I get out of my car and walk up to the door. Do I knock or do I just walk in, oh my god why is this so hard for me to do, I have been here a million times. I turn the doorknob, and walk inside, I look around and it seems empty. Then I turn to look into the kitchen to see Anna standing grabbing the countertop, "hey, are you okay" I ask I can hear the concern in my voice. Her hands reach up to what I assume is to dry her eyes, she turns around and nods, this is when I see her bloodshot eyes.

I want to rush over to her, but I stop myself, we barely know each other. "I'm fine," she finally says, "I'm just feeling a little overwhelmed," she says and I nod. "Do you ehh" I start "do you need anything, or need me to do anything?" I ask and shakes her head. "No it's okay," she says and a timer goes off making her look into the oven.

She finds some oven mitts and takes out the lasagna. Oh, wow it really smells delicious. "Do you want dinner, or do you have somewhere else to be?" she asks in a low voice almost a whisper. I really regret having told my team that I would be back in ten minutes, which covers mostly the drive. "No sorry, I have to get back to the studio" I say this I am really going to regret. "Bye" I say as I turn around, "Hope to see you again" Anna says making me smile, "me too" I say as I walk out the front door.

As I get into the car, I hit my head on the steering wheel repeatedly, regretting everything.

Anna's POV

As Shawn shuts the door, I keep thinking how I have never seen him like this, he was actually really sweet to me, maybe it was just because I had been crying.

"Boys dinner is ready" I call upstairs and just on time Maria walks through the door. We sit down eating dinner, we knew Andrew would not make it home to dinner, so we just ate without him. "I... uhm... actually got invited to go out to a bar" I say and Maria smiles. "Well it did not take you long to make friends" she says and we both smile. "Do you need a ride?" she asks, "no I think I will try and uber, but maybe if it doesn't work I would like to be picked up," I say and she nods.

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I walk out the door, my app saying my ride has arrived. I get into the car and we drive downtown to the bar. I am so excited, as I spot the others I walk their way but I am stopped halfway there. "Hey there pretty lady" a drunken older man says. Then a younger man comes up behind him and pulls me towards him, I recognize him not, this is James from work. "Sorry she is with us" he says as he leads me towards the others, and I greet them all while James grabs me a beer.

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This has honestly been so much fun, and I don't want the night to end, but it is currently 11.30 pm and I have to get up just as early tomorrow as I did today. "Bye guys, I really have to go now" I say, we have all been trying to leave for about an hour but no one succeeded. Now I am finally on my way home, jst ready to throw myself on my bed.

As I walk through the door, Andrew is standing waiting for me. "Sorry have I done something wrong?" I ask not knowing why he is up waiting for me by the door. "Noo pfft no" he starts and I am relieved, but now just confused "I just really wanted to hear about your first day of work and now your first outing with friends" he said making me chuckle. "Of course" I say, we sit down on the couch and I tell him everything.

"Good night" I say as we part, me walking up the stairs and him going down the hallway. After getting ready for bed, I throw myself on the bed with my diary ready to write about my first day at work.

Dear Diary🩷Monday, January 6, 2024

Today was my first day at work. I was so excited about starting, and it truly lived up to all of my dreams. This is such an exciting workplace. I got so many new friends – wow this really seems like I' a little kid – and they actually invited me out to a local bar this evening.

Well before going to the bar, I had promised Maria that I would make dinner, so of course I made lasagna, my favorite meal. Both Maria and the boys loved it so much.

I had an interesting encounter with Shawn today, he actually seemed nice, and concerned about me. He walked in on me crying, I just felt a little overwhelmed by everything, but he did not even get closer than the door. Maybe he was just nice because he saw me crying, or maybe Andrew or Geoff told him to be nice to me. Anyway, it was nice not having him being ice cold towards me.

At the bar, some older man hit on me, luckily James (my new colleague) was there to save me. It was all so much fun, but I wanted to get home early, even though that normally never happens at home ;) I am normally one of the last people to go home, after going out partying. Well I was thinking now after starting a new job I would be good and get home early. Anyway I was home around midnight.

Andrew is the sweetest, he even stayed up until I got home to hear about my first day at work and my first social outing with my new friends.

From your new corporate girly
Lots of love Anna🩷