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Chapter 2: Him

"Good morning Mr. Raphael" Andy said. "Morning Andy" Is all I replied as I walked faster hinting him to leave me alone.

But unfortunately, he didn't catch on.

"So what time would you like me to schedule a meeting for you and Alice?" He said as he was jogging to catch up with me.

"Andy, I've told you already, I have a very busy day and do not have time to meet with anyone trying to buy this place off me, and speaking of which didn't I tell you to tell the real estate agents that Im not willing to sell this place no matter what the price is!"

"Yes sir I will get right on that but, Alice is the new intern you hired."

"Intern? Ah yes, tell her that Ill meet with her at 1:30 sharp."

"Yes sir." he said as he followed me down the hallway. "Well what are you waiting for? A thank you? Go contact her"

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I reached into my back pocket to grab by phone, my only distraction from this boring meeting and realized that it was 2:18. "I guess she'll have to wait a bit" I said in a mummer

"Mr. Raphael?" Andy said in a nervous voice as entered the room

"Andy, not now Im very busy, tell me later."

"Bu-"

"Andy"

"Miss Alice is waiting for you in the conference room"

"Oh, well tell her I'll be a second and send her a muffin basket later"

Finally, an escape from this boring meeting.

The door slam shut and I almost felt bad for the man as he let out a wimper, unfortunately this is business and there is no time for useless sympathy.

As I walk down the halls and all my employees pretend to be working as I know that most of them are on their lunch break. "Useless workers" I mutter.

Once I entered the conference room, she immediatly got up and reached her hand out for a handshake but I smirk at the dory themed bandage on her ring-finger.

I slowly reached out my hand to greet her and that was when I realized, her hair was so bright, its stupid color was so bight that it hurt my eyes, it strangely matched her and that bugged me, she looked up at me with her warm chocolate brown eyes,"Alice. Alice Grey."

"Hello Alice, Im Mr. Rafael, nice to meet you, Please come and have a seat, I have your portfolio that you sent in a few months ago, it says here that you worked at Walmart and then there seems to be a gap, care to explain?"

"Well its kind of complicated but um, I got fired for sleeping on the job." she said biting her lip, I nodded, thinking she should be embarrassed, but when I looked back up I realized her eyes were laughing and she was struggling not to snort.

I rolled my eyes and checked my watch,"I see."

There was an awkward silence for a couple of minutes until I finally said "Well if you do get this internship, I will not tolerate this kind of behavior, understand?"

"Of course " She said almost in a sarcastic voice. "So its you who waltzes around the place and makes me wait for an hour?"

I heard her murmur in the most bitter tone.

I pretended to not hear that as I would rather cut my throat than see another portfolio.

"Okay Alice, you've got the job."

"Really? You won't regret this." she scratched the back of her neck and grinned.

"I better not" I say sourly. And just like that she rushed out of the room.

Written by: Aurelia_Davis