Just his Secretary

My First Kiss

"Ashley are you okay?", Berch said standing at the edge of the pool, Max standing next to him.

"Yeah I'm fine", I managed to say with a smile. When in reality, I was not fine, everything was ruined. My shoes, this expensive dress, my hair, even the little make up I had on, I must've look like a raccoon, who had just finished rummaging through a trash can, wearing a blue dress. The worst part was that the cold water kept sending chills up my spine. I soon made my way out of the water, and the wind touched my wet skin, making it even colder than before. I looked down to see the blue dress, hugging my body like a glove that it was wet, making me feel even more uncomfortable than before.

"Your soaking, your gonna get sick, why don't I drop you home, its getting late anyways", Berch said with a worried look on his face holding my hands. I looked over to see Max glaring, he was always glaring at me like I had done something wrong.

Berch's proposal to go home was definitely appealing. I didn't want to walk around the party looking like this, in fact, I didn't want anyone to see me like this, But before I could even nod my head, Max spoke up.

"Ah, nonsense, I wouldn't want you guys to leave the party so soon", he said with a smirk, " Ill ask one of my servants to prepare a change of dress for you. In the meantime, would either of you care to explain, what you're here as? Cousins? Friends? Girlfriend, Boyfriend? Strictly out of my curiosity of course." Max said with a smile. The way he could string together such words of curiosity, when truly, he was the one who made me come on this date was mind boggling. How he could play with peoples emotions.

Berch was quick to reply, "Friends of course." I gave a glance at Berch, why was he trying to hide it? He was clearly just about to kiss me.

"Hmmm, wel-", before Max could finish his sentence, a girls voice interupted him.

"Oh Maaaaxxyyy!"The suspiciously beautiful girl from earlier said, "If you keep dissapearing like that how can we properly celebrate your 24th Birthday!!!" She put her hands on his shoulders, "Don't you want to have fun?"

The girl seemed to be around my age, 22ish. She was gorgeous, she had blonde wavy hair, a little passed her shoulders, medium length you could say.Her eyes were of aqua, blue like the sea.Not to mention all the right curves in all the right places. She had to be a model I was sure of it.

Finally, Max with an exasperated voice spoke, "I never wanted this party in the first place, I have better things to do." He took her hands of his shoulders. 

She acted as though she hadn't heard what he said and continued on as her eyes moved to Berch, "Jack! Long time no see!"

Before Berch could answer Max spoke up again, "Well looks like you two have a lot to catch up on", he glanced at me, "In the meantime how about I take your friend slash my secretary to get all changed up, I'm sure you wont mind."  He then grabbed my hand in an instant, without waiting for a reply, and began to walk wherever he was taking me.

I looked back to see Berch's face, his expression had changed into something I had never seen on him, anger. It was weird, there really wasn't any reason to be. When slowly but surely I started to feel some pressure in my hand, when I realized, it was the hand that Max was holding. He kept squeezing it tighter and tighter until it got painful. 

"Where are we going!?" I asked in pain.

He didn't answer.

"Your hurting me!" 

Suddenly he stopped, and his expression softened. He let go of my hand, and said, "Follow me."

"No! first tell me where we are going!", I said,"I'm tired of blindly obeying orders!"