The Bad Word

Matthews P.O.V

I looked around and saw some people staring at us. 

I smiled at them and then turned back to Ali and whispered in a yelling tone "Ali keep your voice down! People are looking."

Did she care? No! She just kept on yelling. Women! Always so dramatic.

"You had a driver all along and you were fighting with me this morning for a cab, when you didn't even need one. Why didn't you just order your driver to drive you to work?" she said angrily.

I shrugged my shoulders and casually said "I didn't feel like it."

"You didn't feel like it?" said Ali grinding her teeth. 

"Yes." I replied casually. 

"How old are you?" she quickly asked

Huh? What does this have to do with the whole cab thing?

"Huh?" I asked showing that I was clearly confused. 

"I said how old are you?" said Ali saying each word slowly. 

"26" I simply replied.

"Are you diagnosed with a sickness?" asked Ali.

I looked at her like she was stupid. Why is she suddenly asking these questions?

Clearly getting annoyed with all these irrelevant questions, I sighed and asked "Ali what—" 

Before I could finish my question, Ali quickly interrupted me and said in a firm tone "Answer the question Mr.Day." 

"No I am not sick Miss. Dream. According to my doctor I am extremely healthy." I said making an emphasis on the word extremely. 

"Mr. Day, there has to be something wrong with you. You're not sick and your an adult. So I find the idea of you arguing with me this morning over a cab ridiculous! Clearly I needed it more than you do. If you were sick, then I can understand because it would tell me that you're not thinking well, if you were a bit younger, then I would understand too. I would see you as a boy who doesn't know better."

I scoffed, pointed to myself and said with a smirk "Me a Boy? I can assure you Miss. Dream, I am definitely all Man."

She blushed and her cheek turned crimson red. 

"Look Miss. Dream. I understand your point of view and I apologize. So from now on, I will not bother you about cabs again. I will make sure to take my driver from now on. Okay?" I said genuinely.

She smiled at me and then nodded her head.

Just then, my driver pulled onto the curb and opened the car door for me and Ali to get in. 

I turned to Ali and said "Miss.Dream this is my driver Will."

"Nice to meet you Will." Said Ali with a smile

"Nice to meet you as well." said Will.

Once Ali and I got seated I couldn't help but think back to this morning. 

*****Flashback*****

"Mr.Day are you sure you don't want me to take you to work?" asked Will over the phone.

"Yes I'm sure." I said nonchalantly   

"Why all of the sudden sir? I always drive you to work. Is everything okay?" said a worried Will.

"Everything is fine Will. I just feel like it. Now GOODBYE!" I said slightly annoyed and hung up.

****End of Flashback****

I chuckled and shook my head at the memory. I turned my head to look at Ali who was sitting on the other side near the car door and couldn't help but smile. She is definitely  the best P.A I have ever had. I've known this girl for almost 2 whole days and I can already tell that she's definitely going to make my work life interesting.  

"We're here sir." said Will as we pulled up to the front of the Lexon Corp building.

Will came out of the car and ran to my door to hold the car door open for me and Ali to get out. Ali got out of the cab and turned to Will and said "Thanks Will."

"No problem Miss. Dream." said Will

I dismissed Will and walked with Ali into the building. 

As we walked into an elevator and waited for it to reach our floor, Ali turned to me and said "Mr.Day, Im sorry for our argument earlier."

I turned to her and said "It's alright. I was wrong too. Let's just forget this whole day and start over."

She smiled and said "Yeah, I would like that."

We exited the elevator and I showed to her desk and walked straight into my office.

 My office is on the top floor and there are only 3 rooms. 

One room is my office, another is a meeting room and the last is a room that looks like a kitchen. I don't like going to the staff lounge on the floor right below mines, because it' dirty, so I had one of the third room on my floor remodeled into my very own kitchen. 

At the staff lounge the employees secretly eat each others food from the fridge and hides them as well. They think I don't know about it, but I do! I am the owner of this building. I have cameras in almost every room. Obviously I don't put them in the bathrooms because then that would just be plain creepy.

I sat on my chair right behind my desk and opened my laptop to get started on my work. Right as I was about to start typing I herd a knock on my door.

"Come in" I replied calmly. 

I already know it's Ali, since she and I are the only people on this floor. 

Ali walked in and sat on the chair in front of me. 

"Mr. Day is there anything you want me to do? Since Im your P.A from now on, can you tell me what your last P.A did so that I can do the same?" 

"Miss. Dream the answer to your last question is why my P.As get fired." I replied showing that I was clearly amused. 

I know that she knows I'm a womanizer so I know, she must have herd some things about my recent P.A. 

Her eyes widened because she quickly shook her head realizing what I meant and quickly replied "I know that you both were sexually active with each other, but I didn't mean I wanted to be like that with you. What I want to know is, what's the P.A for the Lexon Corp CEO supposed to do?"

I laughed and said "Simple. Just sit by your desk and wait for phone calls. If their important, you transfer the call to me. If its a lady looking for me, then you tell them  'Mr. Day is not here.' There will be ladies calling and confessing their hearts to me, so please understand me when I say I don't care."

She gasped and shook her head then said " Mr.Day what if you ever fell in lov—"

I stopped her before she even got to say the 'bad word'

"Ali Dream! There will be no swearing in my office!" I said in a loud and firm tone.

She looked at me confused and said "Mr. Day I didn't swear."

"Yes you did."

"No I didn't."

"Yes you did."

"Mr. Day what 'bad word' did I say?" she asked putting air quotes on 'bad word.'

I looked around and leaned forward motioning for her to do the same, causing her to lean forward as well, but not before rolling her eyes. I know there's no one around and that this whole whispering thing is ridiculous, but still. I can do whatever the hell I want! If I want to whisper then I can damn well whisper whenever I want to.

I leaned closer to her ear and quietly whispered the word "love" like it was top secret information.

She pulled back and gave me a confused expression.

"Mr. Day how is 'Love' a bad word?" she asked tilting her head a little 

"Miss. Dream I said No Swearing!" I shouted at her. 

She sighed and said "Okay fine. How is 'like like' a bad word?"

"What is 'like like'?" I said putting air quotes. 

"Thats what some people would say. It's another way of describing your bad word without saying the bad word. " she replied moving her hand, as if it was an obvious answer. 

"It is?" I asked surprised. 

Thats new. I didn't know that. 

"Yes." said Ali

"Well...then 'like like' is a bad word too!" I said in a loud and firm tone. 

She sighed and shook her head then walked out of my office without another word. If she knew why I think of that word as the bad word and still said it, I would have fired her right away. But since she didn't know...I'll let her get away with this. Only because she didn't know she was swearing. 

As soon as she shut the door on her way out I leaned my head back on my chair and shook my head then said to myself  "Poor Girl...She has so much to learn."