100 Days [Part 1&2]

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

     ~Fleur~

     Everything was in slow motion. 

     Sweat was pouring down both sides of my face as I ran towards Will's office, in a rush to get in before I lose my job on the first day. 

     I woke up early in the morning at six just to get ready for myself. Since Frank had school and all, I had to make him breakfast and then prepare a list of things Liv needed to get from grocery shopping later in the day. It's like me in my own mother's shoes as she tried her best to prepare everything before Frank and I went to school last time. 

     "Fleur, why are you up so early?" Liv asked me, yawning as she came into the kitchen with just her fluffy pink robe on. She was also wearing my slippers. She rubbed her eyes and looked at me with a tired look. 

     I didn't have anything else to do so I just smiled at her and rushed off to get my own breakfast on the way to work. 

     How did I manage to be late for work, you ask?

     Well, some idiot accidentally tripped me and I fell into a puddle of mud which stained my office skirt so I had to rush back to the apartment and change my clothes which wasted me a whole good hour because somewhere on my way to get changed, a man knocked into me and my purse flew into a pile of boxes. So I had to waste another ten minutes to find it. 

     And then back in the apartment, Frank lost his science project so I had to help him look for it around the place. When we finally found it, I was already five minutes late for work. 

     Back to the present, I was about to reach for the door when the door opened and it slammed right into my face. I was instantly on the ground, rubbing my face and my nose. 

     "You're late, Miss Tyler." Will's voice silenced the whole office. I looked up from my hands and found the whole office staring at the both of us. Some girls had smug looks on their faces while I glared at them. Will cleared his throat and extended a hand to me. 

     I fixed my glare at him and slapped his hands away, earning myself a few gasps from the office workers. 

     "I would do anything for him to help me up! Stupid bitch!" I heard a girl whispered. I turned to the blonde girl who whispered it and gave her one of my infamous 'death glares' and all the color from her face was gone. I rolled my eyes and used my elbows to get up. I saw the corner of Will's lip twitched, obviously he was trying his best not to smile. 

     You're different from them... 

     That simple sentence in my mind gave me encouragement and soon I was fixing myself and breezing into Will's office. Once I heard his office door clicked shut, I let myself fell onto the sofa and inhaled the sweet smelling scent of furniture. 

     "Flower, you're late to work." Will's voice was suddenly beside my face I jumped and knocked his head accidentally. 

     "Oh God, I'm sorry! And I have my own reasons to be late!" I wasn't going to tell him how I fell into a mud puddle and had to dig through a pile of boxes for my purse. If I did, Will would probably just collaspe laughing and rolling on the ground. 

     "Well, don't do it again. I have lots of files on my table, you can start by helping me organizing them. We're going to Starbucks during lunch hours. Flo wouldn't follow us there." Will explained to me while pacing around the room, looking like he was trying to think of more things that I needed to do. Lucky for me, he stopped pacing and smiled. "That's about it." He announced and then went to sit on his office chair behind the desk. 

     I abandoned my purse on the sofa and walked over to the desk and started clearing the things so it wouldn't look so messy. For a boss, he sure needed a lady's help. I stacked the blue files at the left side of his desk and the others on the right. "Go through the blue ones first, then check the others according to their color. Max once told me that doing stuff according to their color is kinda fun." I said, remembering the time when I had lots of homework to do during high school. He adviced me to do it according to the color of the cover of the books, that way it would be even more fun. 

     Will widened his eyes in surprise but said nothing. 

     Instead, he just did what I adviced and started to go through the files one by one according to their color. 

     It was the first time working in an office, so I had no clue what my job was so I just stood there staring at Will flipping through files and often signing at some documents. 

     "Sorry, um, here take these documents to the printing room and photocopy it." He scooped up a few documents and gave them to me. "The printing room is the first room at the left after you turn right." He said while his hands did little gestures. 

     I nodded and went out of the room with the papers in my hand. It wouldn't hurt to sneak a peak at the papers, right? 

     To all staff members, 

     You are invited to the office dinner party at the Cross family penthouse. 
     Venue: Cross family penthouse
     Time: Late evening
     Date: Monday
     Attire: Formal

     William Cross

     "This isn't a document! It's a invitation!" I said it out loud. 

     "Oh, you're talking about the annual party, right?" A female voice spoke. A girl about my age was working the printing machine. Instead of office clothes, she wore a pair of jeans and plaid T-shirt. Her blonde hair was in a ponytail and she had a blue ribbon used to tie it.

     "Yeah, I guess I'm supposed to make copies of this. Will didn't tell me about it though." I told her. "I'm Fleur by the way."

     "My name's Mich, short for Michi but I prefer people calling me Mich. And yeah, the boss could be like that. You're his new assistant, right?" She asked as she scooped the print-outs and stacked it on the shelf. There was a name labelled for every shelf, so maybe each worker had their own shelf. Mich was probably just the person who helps them print stuff. 

     "Yeah, Will hired me yesterday."

     "I see. Well, it's nice to finally meet Will's girlfriend." I held my breath. Will's girlfriend?

     I gave her a questioning look.

      "You don't pay attention much don't you? See my name tag? It reads Mich Cross. I'm Will's cousin, and my brother is Lance Cross."