Dream Page 2

Audra Genelia Beaulieu

The car is speeding.
She can't control it.
The road's slippery because it snowed.
It's getting hazy.
She can't see anything.

She knows it's her end perhaps. She hits the brake hard but the road's slippery.

 It's not working! It's the end maybe!
She prays to The Creator.

It's speeding!

She sees a tall shadow standing in front of the car suddenly!

She turns the steering hard and...



                                                  She suddenly jolts up from her deep slumber with a thud. 


Her head is spinning. It takes a little time for her to grasp the reality. That was just a dream. She's glad it was!


Her mom is calling her. She picks up the call.

"AUDRA GENELIA BEAULIEU! WAKE UP HONEY! IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT WORK!" chirped her mom.

With a groggy voice, she said, "Hello...Waking momma...How are you all?"


After the conversation. she washes her face and splashes water. She looks at herself.

"Beautiful" She murmured and smiled brightly with confidence.

She takes a shower. Dries it with a blow dryer. Last night, she pre-ironed her red coat, her red top, and matching red long skirt. She dresses modestly. 

She has dark chocolate brown eyes, textured half-plump pinkish lips, light olive brown skin, straight eyebrows, a little chub in her belly and cheeks, a little almost unnoticeable double chin, and a little big 2 front teeth.

She puts on her no-make-up make-up look and her favorite natural-looking nude lipstick. Her frizzy, wavy, mid-back length, dark brown hair is perfectly styled into a bun. 

She wears her red, a non-high-end brand bag which is sustainable but not overpriced due to brand value.
She wears a matching chain wristwatch, a bracelet, and a ring on her right hand's ring finger. She sprayed her newly brought perfume.

She always wears her round blood drop necklace she doesn't know how she got it but must be precious.


Audra goes to her office confidently. She finds her new cabin and office very interesting. She's an introvert acting like an extrovert though.

She got introduced to everyone. She got her first paperwork. 
She's so excited about this although she knows that she'll tire out soon.

She keeps on going through those with the utmost attention.

Suddenly, a man's voice calls her, " You must be Ms. Beaulieu?"

She looks up a little surprised. She stood up from her seat.
A man with broad shoulders, green eyes, and dark blonde hair is standing leaning beside the table. He seems straight out of a fiction. His beauty flustered her a bit. Her heart flutters a little which made her internally curse her heart.

"yea-yeah! Ce-Certainly. And you are?" She asks confused and also, composes herself quickly.
"Oh! I'm Ben. Ben Atlas Cook, the Product Manager." He replies.
Audra gets a little embarrassed for not recognizing him. She cursed herself internally again.

She quickly says, "Good morning Sir, nice to meet you. Looking forward to working as your assistant"
She smiles warmly.

Ben smiles too looking at her. He glances at her from head to toe once and smiles again.

Audra smiles and nods.

Ben says, "So tell me about you"
He takes a seat in his chair. His seat was close to her seat.
She gulps once due to the proximity. She keeps her smile intact.

She replies, " I'm Audra Genelia Beaulieu. I am your assistant from now on. I'll be assisting you in product development, product design, and scrutinizing the quality of the product. I'll also---"

Ben suddenly scoots closer. Their face is some inches apart which makes her heart flutter again.
He smirks interjecting her, "No... tell me about YOU. The real one. What about hobbies?"
As if the little gap after the 'no' was necessary. 

She gulps and tries to keep her calm.
He smirked more seeing the effect he was having on her. 

She replies but stutters, "Yeah...So.."
She coughs once and adjusts her voice, "Yeah, So, I love writing. I write romance novels. Th-that's my hobby. And yours?"

"Let me show you. Can you bring that big globe down from that shelf?" He said.
"Sure" She nods and gets up from her seat.

She tries to reach the shelf but notices that the globe is too high for her reach. 
She tries again. Her hand brushes off the globe but it falls. 
She instinctively ducks but the globe doesn't land on her head.

Surprised, she looks up.
She sees Ben holding the globe with both hands that are high above her head. But she's pinned by him against the wall by this.

Both of their eyes widen. Their face is only centimeters away from each other. 

They look deep into each other's eyes. The globe falls from his hand on the ground.

Suddenly they realize that this moment and suddenly jolt away from each other being super awkward.
They both cough, Look away, adjust their dresses, and tidy their hair.

 Their cheeks turn red.

Ben starts, "Um-Ms. Beaulieu...(Cough)..yeah...so..(Collects the globe from the ground suddenly and sits on his chair) My hobby is studying a country a day, their culture and all"

He tries to be as normal as possible while still being flustered.
Audra sits calmly again in her chair coughing once last. Her face is red too.

"Oh, So your hobby is that. Quite-Quite unique it is"
She sounded almost distant and unfazed.

Ben quickly changes the topic talking about work. Audra quickly gets back into work within seconds as well.

Both of them talk about work till the lunch break.

"Let's take a break now" Declares Ben. Audra nods.

Ben asked her, "You bother to have lunch with me at a restaurant?"

Audra hesitates a bit.
Ben asks her again, "Do you?"
Audra says, " Um-Sure!"
She didn't want to upset him the first day of work although she didn't want to go. She knows that it's one of her weaknesses to not be able to say 'no' to anyone.

Ben and Audra walk outside the office. In the parking lot, there is Ben's car. A black Audi. Ben gets in the car and tells her to get in.