Mr. President

Chapter 9

We get back to the apartment building and I tell Penny she can stay the night with me because I don't trust her driving home and I'm too exhausted to take her home. She agrees to stay, telling me she has to work tomorrow morning anyways so she'd just come right back.

I make her a bed on the couch and give her some pajamas before I put a night gown on and wash my makeup off. I go to lay in bed but hear the phone start to ring so I pick it up.

"Hello?" I ask. Who would be calling this late?

"Scarlett." I hear John breathing on the other end. "I was worried sick about you. I've been calling your apartment all night, where have you been?"

"I was just out." I tell him and hear him sigh. "What do you need? Was something wrong with the files?" I ask him.

"No, nothing was wrong. They were good. I just got off the plane a few hours ago and couldn't sleep. I wanted to hear your voice again."

"But why, John? We don't really even know each other. I'm just your employee." I tell him, still not understanding why he's doing this.

"Ever since the first time I saw you I can't keep you off my mind. I can't explain it and I don't know why but you've got ahold on me." He says in a desperate but lazy voice.

"You have a wife, John. A woman to come home to every night, someone who loves you and that you love. I'm not the one you want." I say, feeling myself slowly sobering up.

"It's complicated." Is all that he says to me. I sigh and roll my eyes.

"You don't know me, John."

"What do you think I'm doing, Scarlett? I WANT to know you. I'm fascinated by you. I want to know everything about you. What you love, what you hate, the movies you like, the music you listen to. I want to know that stuff." He says and I can hear his tired, heavy breathing on the other line.

"It's almost 6 am and I have to be at work in two hours. I need sleep." I say and close my eyes, trying to ignore his interest in me.

"Take tomorrow off." He says like its nothing.

"What?" I ask him.

"I'm giving you tomorrow off. Just promise to stay on the phone with me again. " He says in a serious tone.

"Okay, thank you." I tell him.

"Thank you, Scarlett." He says and I can feel myself slowly drifting to sleep but open my eyes again when he speaks.

"Scarlett?" He asks, seeing if I'm still awake.

"Yes?" I ask him slowly.

"Come back to work in two days and I need a business meeting with you. Just come straight to me. We'll be working together." He says.

"Okay, boss." I say in a sexy voice, although I'm not sure why. I think I'm just overly tired.

I hear him coughing on the other before he speaks up again. "If you say that again I might have to make our appointment today instead."

I let my mind wander to what he's talking about and gasp. It's almost 7 now and he has to get up to do his presidential things. He slept until 5 but woke up to call me. So at least he has more sleep than me.

"I've got to go now. See you in two days." He says and hangs up the phone.

I close my eyes and drift off.

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When I wake up its 4:45 pm and Penny already left a few hours earlier. I make myself some coffee and read some magazines in the living room. I decide to shower and have a "me" day.

I call and set up a 7 o'clock appointment to get my hair trimmed and a barely lighter shade of blonde because my hair is already so bright.

Before I go in for my hair, I stop at the drug store and pick up some new makeup to start wearing. I would also go clothes shopping but John already covered that.

My hair appointment goes by quickly and I stop at a diner on the way home. I  order a milkshake and talk to some of the locals before heading back to the apartment again.

I need to get back into my normal sleep schedule so when it's 9 pm I lay down for bed again but can't sleep. Eventually I fall asleep at around midnight.

The next morning I wake up and go to make coffee but find a dozen roses sitting on the counter. The tag on it jut says "yours truly, J" I smile to myself and stop to smell them.

The rest of the day flies by and before I know it, it's time for bed again. Tomorrow is the day that John wants a private meeting and I'm honestly super nervous. I never know how he's going to act and he always seems to surprise me in some way.