Working In the Offices (House_Owner X Reader)

Chapter 31

"So, I guess it's my turn to give you your gift." Ross bends over the side of the orange-yellow settee to reach the gift, after doing so he holds a small black box.

"Please don't tell me that's what I think it is." I joke, giving him a wary look.

"Shush, you'll ruin the surprise." Ross passes me the box whilst giving me an encouraging smile.

I click open the small black box to see a gold heart pendant attached to a long, slender golden chain as it lays on a dark red velvet cushion. "Ross... It's beautiful."

"Open it."

I pick the pendant up between my fingers and lightly press the clasp. The heart opens to reveal the same picture I used for Ross' photo frame and music begins to play. I have no idea what the music is until it gets to a certain part and I seem to have a déjà vu moment to back at iHop, the restaurant we met in, "Is that the-"

"The song that was playing in iHop when we first met, yes." He weaves his arm around my waist, giving me a comforting squeeze. I look up at Ross with adoration and I have an urge to say...

"Ross, I..."

I look at him, wanting to say those three words but then I remember we've only been dating for a week and that scares me, "... I love it."

I pull him in for a hug, letting out a shaky deep breath as I'm still emotional about the gift. After I let go of Ross I attempt to un clip the latch, but ultimately fail so Ross does it for me as I move my hair out of the way. After he's done, I lift the delicate pendant between my fore finger and my thumb, watching it glimmer in the studio lights.

"So, thank you guys for liking this video and subscribing, it's means so much to me. Thank you." Ross leans back on the settee, letting out a sigh of happiness.

"(Y/N), let's redo the intro and outro so it can go on your channel," Emily instructs us.

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The rest of the day was spent playing with the pendant in my fingers, continuously listening to the song and imagining the first time we met.

When it was time to go, I had to stay late so I just gave Ross my car keys, asking him to pick me and Max up later as we both had to stay late.

I have to take some pictures for future thumbnails and other things, so I'm instructed to make all sorts of strange faces which end up making my belly hurt from laughing so hard.

After both me and Max had finished, it was 5pm and I text Ross to pick us up, but my phone died a few seconds after Ross said 'K,'  and Max had left his phone in my car this morning and kept forgetting to ask me to get it. So we were contact-less.

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We've been waiting outside for an hour now, watching people from the office drain out as the clock on the building slowly ticked by. I'm sitting on the floor, leaning against the brick wall as I cover my cold, bare arms "I'm going to kill Ross for this."

"He is probably finishing his Anime episode." Max jokes as Adam comes out of the office with Tim and Emily.

"Adam, can you drop us home?" I beg, jumping up from the wall and slightly hopping because of my dead leg.

"Sure, where's Ross?" Adam agrees as he leads us to his black car.

"I don't know, Max doesn't have his phone and mine died just as Ross said he would pick us up." I shrug as I get into the passenger seat.

"He could still be on his w-" Adam tries to defend him, like the good friend he is.

"It's been an hour, Adam. I don't think he's coming." Max gets into the seat behind us as Adam drives out of the car park and heads to our home.