Wicked Games {Ziam}

Hey whats up its been a while

     Zayn wakes up early the next morning. He lies in bed, seriously contemplating going back to sleep but then forces himself to get up. He stumbles tiredly through his morning routine as quietly as he can so he doesn't wake Louis.
After fixing his hair and making coffee, Zayn finally leaves and walks the 4 miles to Payne Enterprise.
Zayn walks in to the giant building, unsure what to do. He finds his way to the front desk and one of the ladies sitting there glances up at him.
"Uh-hi-I was just-" Zayn starts before being interrupted.
     "Just a minute," the woman says then starts typing on her computer again. Zayn sighs and sticks his hands in the pockets of his fancy suit and waits.
     After awkwardly standing around and waiting for 15 minutes, the woman finally pulls her attention away from her screen to acknowledge Zayn's presence again.
    "Can I help you??" The woman demands frustratedly as she looks over the top of her glasses at Zayn like she had a million better things to do then help him.
   "Uh yeah. So I guess I like, work here now and I have no clue what to do," he admits. The woman gives him a sick glare then closes her eyes.
    "When you applied and actually received your job, they should've told you what department you would be in. But you probably weren't even listening. Were you?" She asks in an extremely irritable tone.
     "I was listening..." Zayn replies back, trying to sound just as annoyed as she was. He didn't know why she was so upset. He hadn't even done anything to her. "He said I'd be doing something for some promotional thing... With... Creativity or some shit...?" Zayn trails off boredly.
"And I assume you don't know where that is do you?" She replies back sassily.
Zayn has to bite his tongue to keep all of the rude and profane remarks from coming out. He takes a deep breath and nods.
"Yes. I don't know where that is because I've never fucking been here before!!," he tells her.
"Twelfth floor. You should be able to find it from there," she mutters as she turns back to typing.
"Thank you so so much. Have an amazing day, love," he tells her as sarcastically as he can before walking to the closest elevator to get away from her.
He waits for what seems like forever until an elevator door finally opens and he walks on and presses the '12' button and waits for the doors to close.
"Bloody fucking hell..." He mutters as 7 other people file into the elevator, just before the doors were about to close. They all seem to be in a group together, talking and laughing on important business matters as they all cram into the tight space. Zayn holds his breath and shrinks back into the corner, trying as hard as he can to have some personal space.
"Good morning, mate," one of the men says to him with a cheerful smile as he accidentally bumps into Zayn's side. Zayn tries to smile and grumbles out a 'good morning' back. So far, this wasn't a good morning. He hadn't even been here a half hour yet and he already wanted to kill himself.
He groans unhappily when one of them presses the 14 button. Looks like he'd have plenty of company for this ride.
The doors finally slide close and the elevator starts to ascend. The whole time, Zayn mutters prayers under his breath, hoping it can hold this much weight and it wouldn't fall and they all die. That was the last thing he needed. But then again.... It might put him out of his misery for good....
Finally after an eternity, the elevator stops at floor 12. "This is my floor. Excuse me," Zayn says desperately as he quickly pushes through the crowd to get out of the elevator.
The group laughs about something as the doors close again and the elevator continues its journey upward. Zayn sighs a long breath of relief and is glad to have some breathing room.
     He walks Down a long hallway until he finds a room
He opens the door and walks in And the first thing he sees is s group of 5-6 people, all standing around one person: Liam Payne. Zayn swallows hard and forces himself to walk into the room.
     "Ah, and here he is now!" Liam says with a smile as he holds his hand out toward Zayn. Zayn smiles and waves shyly as he walks up to the circle of people he would be working with.
    "Everyone, This is Zayn;" Liam introduces as he rests his hand firmly on Zayn's shoulder, sending a shiver down Zayn's spine.
    "He'll be working with you all for a few days, if not longer if he chooses to stay," Liam adds as he gives Zayn's shoulder a strong squeeze making Zayn's heart skip a beat nervously.
    "I expect you all to fill him in on what you're doing and show him the ropes and help him get used to all this, right?" Liam tells them in a boss-like tone.
    "Of course! We'd love to, sir," a young, blonde-haired woman says with a nod and a smile. Zayn looked over at her. She seemed nice and she was actually smiling. Unlike everyone else in the room.
    "All right then. It seems you all can handle this so I'll leave you now," Liam tells them as he turns. Before leaving, he leans over with his hand still on Zayn's shoulder and whispers "good luck today,  Zee."
    His hand briefly slides down to Zayn's elbow then he walks away without another word. Zayn watches him leave, confused and curious as to what the gesture meant.
     "Hi. My name's Gigi," the blonde-haired lady from earlier greets with a smile.
Zayn immediately snaps from his thoughts and looks over at her. Not only did she seem nice, she was very, very pretty.
"Oh. Hi. I-I'm Zayn," he greets as she holds her hand out for him to shake.
"Nice to meet you Zayn. If you want, I can show you around and explain everything for you," she offers politely.
"Yeah. Yeah. That'd be great," Zayn nods as he follows her over to a desk that he guessed was hers.
"So here, we're in charge of the creative side of Payne Enterprise. We do all sorts of things like promotion, adds and commercial designing, sales designs, pretty much all the marketing and the look to get customers interested," she explains and Zayn nods. "And more recently we've been so busy so there's so much we need to get done. So I was thinking you could help me and..." She continues but Zayn doesn't hear much of what she was saying. He was too lost in the thin curves of her body and her beautiful sparkling eyes to listen.
"Think you can handle that?" Zayn suddenly hears her ask. His eyes widen slightly
As he tries to remember what she was telling him to do.
"Of course I can," he says determinedly with a confident smile.
"Perfect," she says with a smile and Zayn smiles back even though he had no clue what she wanted him to do. She smiles at him awkwardly, clearly wanting him to get to work and wondering why he was just standing around.
"So... One more time- what do I do?" He asks awkwardly as he scratches at the back of his neck.
"You forgot already?" She asks with a laugh.
"No! I just- I just want to make sure I'm doing it right so I don't mess up," Zayn explains to her, trying to hide his embarrassment.
"Alright," she accepts with a smile. "Sit down," she gestured toward her chair and he sits and then looks up at her as she stands over him. "All I need you to do is go through these emails and sort them, putting them into the customer's files so we can know what we need to do for them. It's pretty easy, so don't worry," she recaps, giving him the shortened version of her earlier speech.
"Oh Okay. I think I got it now," Zayn tells her as he glances up at her again.
"Thanks so much. And if you need any help or anything, just call for me, okay?" She tells him with a smile. Zayn nods and turns to the computer screen. He glances over his shoulder back at her and smiles when he notices she was staring at him. She smiles back and laughs as he turns back to the computer screen, trying to hide his grin.
He still didn't really know what he was supposed to do, but he suddenly felt like this day might not be so bad after all.

Hello again! I know I haven't updated this for a while,  but it's kinda like my side hoe that I just go to when bored or randomly inspired..... I do have some good ideas for this story but I never actually want to write them... It's a real struggle.... But anyway, I'm gonna try to update it more often then once every 3 months 😂💜 thanks for reading