Beautiful Mistake

Adrienne

Its been a whole week and I haven't heard from Erick. Ive been staying with  Geveine  still, and I can tell that my best friend is getting annoyed by me staying here. I can admit I am not always the best tenant to stay with, so I started looking through the classifieds and on the computer for a job.

"Any luck with finding a job yet?"  Geveine  asks as I help her with dinner. I'm tossing the salad and adding my special ingredients in it as I go. 

"Not really, no ones gotten back to me yet." I sigh as I continue tossing the salad.  Geveine  is taking the chicken out the trying pan and taking some plates out the dishwasher as shes drying off access water. Instead of  her taking out two plates she takes out three. "What did you take three plates out for?" I ask in bewilderment. 

She smiles at me, "My boss is coming over for dinner. Be nice and please do not cuss at the table or doing anything else that might make me look like a hood rat living like a drug dealer." We laugh.

"Oh I'm an embarrassment to you now?" I joke around, and she just continues laughing as she takes places the plates down at the table and grabs three forks, knives and bowls for our dinner tonight. I place my salad at the table as  Geveine  puts her chicken and veggies down at the table as well. I think I'm more nervous for her than I am, whats there even to talk about? The doorbell rings and  Geveine  jumps up with a smile on her face and dances to the door, that dirty slut! Shes sleeping with her boss! I chuckle to myself.  Geveine  comes back with the same puppy love smile on her face with her arm wrapped around her bosses arm. She swings her arm from the hoop they've made with their arms and places a hand on her bosses chest, "This is Mike." I pull my hand out my pocket and greet him with a hand shake, "Hi I'm Adrienne." I say in adornment, shes actually picked a good looking man. 

Geveine seats her boss and I wink at her when hes not looking and her face immediately turns red. She grabs some glasses and a pitcher of water. 

We all sit down and begin digging into our meals. "So," I say after Ive swallowed a bite of my fantastic salad, "How long have you guys been boning?" I smile.  Geveine  looks my way in disapproval as all the blood rushes to her face in embarrassment. Mike starts coughing on the food hes managing to swallow. "E-Excuse me?" He says.

"I mean its written all over you guys face. What a scandal, the 'assistant sleeping with her boss'" I begin laughing, "Wait til TMZ gets ahold of this one..."

Geveine begins to plead her case, "We aren't sleeping together Adrienne." She says in a stern professional voice. Its clear that shes trying to make me buy it and feel guiltily about announcing that at the table with her boss, but come on! Its true. She is screwing her boss. "Whatever then. I'm sorry if I hit a soft spot with you two. But word of advice, you really should control yourselves its so obvious!" I say in an apologizing manner, they should know that even though they claim they aren't sleeping together their body language tells it all. "Anyways, Mike hows everything going with you and work?"

He drinks some of his water and begins, "Everything good. I have a big case Ive been working on lately, a huge drug bust that happened. But client is refusing to take the charges but had been placed out on bail. Its surprising how he managed to make all this money..what am I doing I shouldn't be talking about this particular case with anyone that's not involved. My apologies." So I guess she likes the proper ones..." I see..." I responded while eating my food.

"So how is work going with you?" Mike asks. Dammit I shouldnt have asked him that question. Its only right for him to respond with the same damn question towards me. I cleared my throat, "Im currently unemployed." I managed to throw a fake smile at him.

"Have you ever worked as an assistant before?" he asked.  Geveine  quickly turned his way wondering if he was looking forward to firing her and hiring me. She kept looking back and forth between me and him waiting for an answer. 

"Actually, no. Why do you ask?" I asked to answer her question and hopefully answer my prayers.

"My buddy at the firm I'm working at has been looking for a new assistant. You should stop by and give him your number to get a hold of you. What are you good at?" He questions. 

I couldn't help but feel like I was being interviewed, I mean even after what I said about them screwing hes going to give me a chance. "I'm really good with people, and I can work while under pressure. Being an asistant doesn't seem that hard of a task for me to venture since my best friend here has been an assistance since I can remember, hearing stories from her. I think I know what to do." I explain to him. I mean the only job I really had was working as an waitress at Barneys down the street. A room full of kids and loud music that I would kill myself to, wasn't the best job in the world. That's before I met Erick, In an laundromat. He whisked me off and I quit my job like a fool.

 "Well here his work number, give him a call and set up an appointment." He gave me all the information that I needed, told me where the firm was and the floor his office was on. I was really excited I mean, maybe I can actually start living my life the way I always dreamed... Independent with Erick. And then it hit me, I missed him.

We all sat down and finished out meal, I excused myself from the table and  went upstairs to the bathroom. Knowing that Geneive puts her cellphone on her dresser so it can charge at night I grabbed it, to make a call.

"Hello" Erick answered half asleep.

"How are you?" I said in a soft voice. I really needed to know he was okay, Ive been with this man for  four years, im obviously going to care about him.

"Im good, when are you coming home. I miss you." He sweetens. Ugh, i miss hearing his voice. Laying next to him, kissing him, loving him, I wish I was with him. "Maybe we can meet up and talk about things. At the Griddle tomorrow in the morning around ten for breakfast?" I chimed.

He paused for a minute, "I have Caleb maybe you should come here instead..." He sounded kind of sneaky, but I don't think he had nothing up his sleeve. Today was a Friday and he always gets Caleb for the weekends. "Sure," I responded, "Got to go, Love you." I said as I hung up. 

I started back down the stairs to where Mike and  Geveine  were sitting on the couch talking drinking a glass of wine. Gee looked up at me and smiled, and I winked back at her. She is so screwing her boss. "Hey Gee, can you help me with something for a minute in the kitchen?" She told Mike that she'll be right back and followed me to the kitchen.

"Whats up?" She asked still smiling. I began laughing and she covered my mouth shushing me. 

"So what made you start sleeping with you boss, doesn't sound like such a thought out plan. Its pretty messed up you can loose you job for this and so can pretty boy over there, too." I began telling her, everything she is doing might be fun for the meantime but it wont be surprising if someone already knew, that could put her job at jeopardy. 

"Its fine okay, no body knows." She said before she Left the room to sit next to Mike. I poured me a glass of wine and sat down  at the table, I didn't want to bother them with the little bit of time they probably get alone. After about another hour Ive already opened two bottles of wine and drank them to myself. I was a hot mess. Gee and Mike went upstairs and I fell asleep at the table.