Ta Fête (Stromae Fanfiction)

13: Dodo

Andrea's P.O.V.
More time passed and I still felt just as devastated as when I found out Paul was married. I still never slept well unless I took sleep medication which seemed to be the only thing I took these days.

Florian and I quickly worked through our incident together since after all, he's the only person who's been helping me through this at home.

At work people tend to care more about Paul which I completely understand because they've known him longer, but a few of them have called him out for being a dick for doing that, which I also understand.

He hasn't been himself ever since we broke up, he's a lot more aggressive, smokes a lot more, and is almost always drunk.

Most days I want to go up to him and just hug him and calm him down because it hurts me to see him like that, but I know I can't anymore.

After all, him and Coralie have been talking a lot more recently, they've stopped yelling at each other. Maybe he decided to stay with her... I don't know, nor do I think I'm ready to know if that's the case.

"Hey." I heard Dimi say as he walked into the lounge where I was making tea

Paul walked in behind him, coming up to the counter beside me and reaching up in the top shelf for a water bottle.

"Coralie and I finalized our divorce yesterday." He said, opening the water bottle

I nodded a bit, focusing on pouring honey in my tea.

I was relieved at what he said because now I know he wasn't talking to Coralie for wanting to get her back, he was finalizing his divorce.

It didn't change how I felt about the whole thing, though.

I almost unconsciously went back to my desk in the center hall, but ever since Paul fired Rey two weeks ago, I was moved up to head of the photography department so now I get Rey's office which is just down the hall from Paul's.

"Hey, boss." I heard Florian say as he walked in my office

"I'm not your boss." I chuckled and then he led two people into my room

"You're not, but you're their bosses. They're the new interns here." He said and then I got up and shook their hands

On the left was a tall guy with kinda curly chestnut brown hair and dark brown eyes. He was wearing a short sleeved button up shirt so I could see that his whole right arm was covered in tattoos. He was pretty attractive, I must admit.

"Andrea Serrano, right?" He asked, and I nodded

"Cas Furnier." He said and I smiled at him

"Nice to meet you." I said and then I turned to the woman standing beside him

She had blonde straight hair and light blue eyes. Her hair was obviously dyed since her roots were starting to grow in, but she still had some time before it would look horrendous. She had on a really pretty wedding ring that made me wish I cared more about jewelry, but I was more of a makeup person.

"Gabrielle Rigaud." She said and then I smiled at her, too

"Nice to meet you, too." I said and then I saw Cas was still looking at me

Gabrielle left my office with Florian because he asked for her help for something, leaving me alone with Cas.

"I'm really excited to be working for you." He said and then I chuckled, leaning on my desk behind me

"For me? Not Paul?" I chuckled again and then he smiled

"I was honestly more excited to work under you than I was to work under him." He said and then I raised one of my eyebrows, crossing my arms over my chest

"How's that?" I asked

"You're pretty popular in my friend group." He said and then I giggled a bit

"More popular than Paul?" I asked and then he nodded

"Well, usually single guys our age talk about hot chicks, not what's hot in the music scene." He said and then I could feel myself blushing a bit

"That's sweet." I said with a small smile and I saw him smiling back at me

"Do you have any work for me to do?" He asked and then I looked around the room seeing if I had a stack of papers or something he could sort

"No, not at the moment." I said and then he sighed

"Damn, well then I guess there's no other option than to go get something to eat... Do you want to go grab a bite to eat or something?" He asked with a small smile and then I crossed my arms over my chest again

"You've been working for me for five minutes and you already asked me out... You're brave." I said with a small smile

"Can't waste time." He said and then I grabbed my cell phone off my desk and started walking towards him

"I am a bit hungry." I said and then he opened the door for me to go out to eat.