The Grayson Girl

Her heels clacked noisily against the marble floors as she rushed into the Grayson building, she jumped into the elevators just before the door closed shut attracting stares from the people in the packed elevator. She had broken her punctuality streak and she had a good enough reason why.

One, she stayed up all night attending to a sick Levi and slept through her morning alarm. Secondly, she had convinced herself it was alright seeing as there was hardly work for her to do at the office. Mr. Grayson was out on some sabbatical leave or whatever fancy name they called it.

Lucious showed up occasionally at the office and that was it. In the first week, she didn’t mind but as the days rolled by it got awfully boring to sit alone in the large office. She clutched tightly to her bag, retreating until her back was against the wall. The elevators stopped and a few people got out, she exhaled thankful for the space.

She had begun to spend time with the other employees at the lower floors because of how boring it got. When she was sleep starved, tired beyond exhaustion and at her wit’s end, she had convinced herself it was okay to go late to work, no one cared and so she had slept in. Her biggest mistake, the morning had come bearing the harsh reality that she had to show up at work on time.

She let out an audible sigh of relief as everyone got out of the elevator, she needed the few minutes to gather her thoughts. When she got out of the elevators, she tip-toed to the office, careful not to alert anyone. She swiped her key card and when the door opened, she sighed in relief. There was no one here, not her boss, not the dramatic Lucious…

“You are late…”

Scarlett almost jumped out of her skin, she turned around sharply to see Lucious sitting on her chair with his legs crossed.

“Lucious…”

“You are late…”

“I…”

“This is the part where you give me a long story of why you are late, isn’t it?” he asked, with a wave of his hand.

“I tried to…”

“I really do not care.” He stood to his feet. “The boss was here…”

Her jaw dropped.

“The boss was here and you were nowhere to be found, blondie…”

“Lucious, I promise it won’t happen again.” She pleaded.

“It better not.”

Scarlett let out a deep breath she didn’t know she was holding back when she was finally alone. Way to go Scarlett, she thought to herself, not only did you piss off dramatic Lucious, you stood up your mysterious boss. “What a wonderful first impression!” she exclaimed with a sigh.

Later that afternoon, she went to the company’s cafeteria, as she was a carrying a tray to her table, someone bumped into her, she turned to see a beautiful dark girl with the warmest smile, her natural curls framed her heart face and her eyes were a beautiful honey brown. “I am sorry…” she apologized, then her eyes widened, “You are the girl working at the Grayson floor?”

“Yea…” the words had not completely left her mouth when she interrupted. “I am Anika, you should come and join us at our table.”

“I am Scarlett…” She said, before Anika pulled her towards a table.

“Hey girls, I found the Grayson girl…” Anika announced in a cheery voice.

Scarlett was standing awkwardly with the tray still in her hand. There were three girls at the table, two brunettes and red head, they looked like they were in the mid-twenties, they were dressed elegantly.

“I take it, you have met Mr Grayson…” the red head asked.

One of the brunettes leaned forward, “So you get to seat only a few yards away from him, what is that like? Do you guy’s converse?”

“Oh…oh…” Anika tapped her arm, “What is he like at work? He was here this morning, did you know why?”

Scarlett stared in confusion as they bombarded her with questions.

“Would you guys let her seat down at least?” the other brunette girl who had not spoken interjected.

Scarlett flashed her a warm smile and mouthed thank you, she sat down on the vacant chair, her back to the entrance of the hall.

Anika opened her mouth to speak but then the brunette girl intervened, “Introductions first.” She turned her attention to Scarlett. “My name is Whitney Foster…”, she pointed at Anika, “This is Anika Richardson.”

“I am Tess Fernandez.” The other brunette girl introduced herself.

“Lynn Blake.” The red head introduced.

“My name is Scarlett, Scarlett Knowles.”

“We are all in legal” Whitney added, “Junior legal…”

“So, what is the boss like?” Anika blurted out.

Whitney chuckled.

They all turned to look at her with expectant eyes.

She looked at each one of them, unable to break their hearts. “He is really kind…”

“I told you he was” Lynn reiterated. “I mean, he is a Pisces, they are the kindest at heart…”

“And he is just so dreamy.” Anika said with a sigh.

Scarlett made herself as small as possible as the girls conversed between themselves.

She took mental notes as she tried to paint a picture of who her boss was, one thing was for certain, he was literally drop dead gorgeous in Tess’s words seeing as she almost died when he walked past her this morning. Lynn’s description of him was more dramatic, she said he looked like Zeus made flesh, she could not help but wonder if she had ever seen Zeus.

The girls continued to talk about him until lunch time was over, if it was a few years ago, she would have been more than interested to join in on the conversation, try to look him up, maybe even stalk him a little. However, her experiences had made her grow up fast, she didn’t care for silly crushes or handsome bosses, she told herself but she was in for a big surprise.