Young Adult

Chapter fourty three - Labor isn't easy

"Olivia told me today that I ruined a brand when I worked under her, so you know anything about that?" I asked Ezra as we ate dinner.

"Was it three years ago? You were working under Olivia and her team were going for an undermining image for this company to basically mock their rival company. You objected firmly saying that it would ruin their reputation, but Olivia didn't care and went on with it anyway. You warned the rival company but they went to the press with the information and the brand that was working for us was blacklisted from the business. I had to deal with a lot of legal action because of that." He explained.

I dropped my cutlery "you didn't want to mention that to me? Of course Olivia hates me, I undermined her decision and didn't respect her as my supervisor. Why didn't you tell me this before?" I urged him to tell me.

Ezra shrugged, "if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't have worked for Olivia even though you were ecstatic for the project. Although you shouldn't have undermined Olivia, you saved us from a lot more backlash and did what was morally right. I think that you did the right thing, and you need to do this project to grow as an artist, you can't worked under my wing forever."

I nodded "I guess that you're right, but I feel really awkward now, I can't oppose or add to any of her opinions now." I mumbled, "yes you can, although Olivia was angry at it first she understood your reasoning as my company's image would've taken a hit too. As long as you're direct with her she won't mind you opinion." I wished that Ezra would be right.

"If you want to change projects you can always do that." He suggested but I shook my head, "if I do that then I'll keep running away from my problems, I need to face them." Ezra smiled at me from across the table, "I don't see why you want to grow up so much, you're mentally more adult than some people my age." I smiled back at him, "thank you for the compliment Mr Reed."

"Addison you can watch people design logo drafts for the next week as I have nothing for you to go right now." Olivia directed me the next day, I nodded my head, I wished that I could help more but it's always good to see how professionals do their jobs.

However the next few days transformed me into everyone's slave, I ran back and fourth from king designs to the business we were imaging. I had already gotten used to this from helping out with Ezra, I had a sense that the group hated me - I don't blame them for what happened - but I barely sat down everyday.

From gathering fabric rolls to arranging pens, I basically did everything in between without stopping. I needed to show Olivia that I couldn't be phased no matter what was thrown at me.

The two weeks of hardcore drafting was tough for me and everyone in Olivia's team but we finally had the meeting to discuss final drafts of logo designs.

"Addison." Olivia called for me after the meeting finished, I walked over to her as everyone left the room. "I've got to say that you've impressed me over the past few weeks. When we worked together before I thought that you were impulsive and careless, so when I was told that you were on my team again I told everyone to go hard on you so that you would drop out. But you worked the hardest in my team, and I'm sorry that I did that to you."

I vigorously shook my head "you don't have to apologise, I loved working for you. You were one of my role models back in high school as you valued hard work over everything and became one of the youngest people to write an article for vogue." Olivia broke her cold composure and smiled at me.

"Are you really the same Addison that worked for me before? You've definitely become better at your job, you've finally realised that hard work is half the job, the other half is trusting your superiors." I stared at awe at Olivia, it felt so weird to have someone like her give me a compliment.

"I really don't deserve this praise, I only did my job." I laughed nervously at this going to my head, "you deserved it, I looked over some of your drafts that you did yourself in your lunch break and you're really talented. I'm not one to hold grudges, especially with talented employees, so I'd love to work with each-other in the future."

She held out her hand for me to shake, I instantly shook her hand, walking on cloud nine.

I ran back to Ezra's office after the meeting and  walked into his after I checked that he wasn't in a meeting.

"Was the meeting good?" He asked me as I collapsed onto one of his sofas, I nodded smiling with glee, "I was complimented by Olivia and she said that she's love to work with me again in the future." Ezra walked over to me and kissed my forehead.

"Of course, I saw how hard you worked these two weeks at home, how could Olivia not." He ruffled up my hair. "Now that you're project with Olivia is done, is there any area you want to work in next? Lyn is working with a child book writer for the artwork if you want to help out with that? One team is working with a men's fashion magazine aswell."

He handed me a couple proposals he had stored away for me, I skimmed through a couple of them before deciding. "I think that I'd like to work with Lyn again, I love her artistic style and it seems interesting." Ezra wrapped his arms around my from behind my chair.

"I like it too, you can get used to being around young kids." He smirked, I rolled my eyes "is that all you think about all day? How's therapy going?" He pouted and sat down opposite me. "Okay, I don't like being that vulnerable though." I smiled at him.

"Keep it up and we can go on a date tonight since it's a Friday." Ezra grinned, "instead of that can we do something else tonight?" I raised an eyebrow at his mischievous smile.
"I guess that would be fine since it's your date tonight." I turned away and blushed as I answered him.