Chapter 2 The ice captain (II)

I took a breath and thanked him, I told him that I was about to leave the house and that I would have to drive that I would surely write to him later to meet and have a few beers, he accepted and then I stopped, I kept looking at the mobile after a few minutes and Dani interrupted my thoughts.        

"I shouldn't have told him right?" I turned to look at her and smiled at her.       

—No, it's okay he'll get over it, I just hate hearing him sad when he talks to me, I wish we had never gone to the next level —I sighed and looked at myself in the mirror and remembered that it wasn't a day to be sad.

So I smiled again and told Dani that I would be leaving early, I wanted to see the ocean before I started my first day.

I got to the parking lot of Blue Oceans right at 7:30 am I parked the car, I took my headphones and I got off, I would go to the docks to look at the ocean then I would have breakfast and work, on the way to the docks I remembered Andrew, again the drool started to come out of my mouth just remembering it, just as I was heading to the dock, I saw him, in black shorts, much lower than where he should be, he was shirtless again and a light sheen of sweat covered his body, and it happened all over again.

I stopped suddenly and the world stopped spinning while he simply placed his hands on the wooden planks of the pier and began to do push-ups, my God, with each upward movement the muscles of his arms tensed defining and marking each one. The layer of sweat on them gave them an extra shine that, by God, had me gasping for breath.

I involuntarily brought a hand to my mouth while biting one of my lips. That man was dying slowly, it was a sin created by the devil so that many would go to hell, and why not? After doing a couple more push-ups, he got up using a towel around his neck and turned to show me his slender and wonderful back, at that moment I began to walk in his direction again as if an invisible force drew me to him, as if a magnet drew me closer to him.

When I realized I was already descending the steps and I was barely a meter from this majestic God of the seas, I stopped to look at his neck, I went down his back and concentrated on his tattoo, there was a kind of school of fish swimming, some hammerhead sharks, some dolphins, rays, corals.

It was a whole marine scene that left my mouth open, it had too many details, too many colors, the tattoo rose from the lower area of ​​her belly to the middle of her back, it was a beautiful work of art that, together with her splendid physique, made of the set something simply worth seeing, I continued detailing her back and continued to her buttocks.

Friends this man has the glutes ok! not those simple buttocks worked in the gym, this was not more similar to the butt of the soccer players, seriously at that moment there was a huge puddle of slime on the floor and I with the face of an idiot, he turned slowly and fixed his green eyes In Myself.

Wait a minute, yesterday I remember very well that yesterday his eyes were a deep green tone at this moment his eyes had a more yellow tone as if he were wearing contact lenses I don't know if it was because the sun began to dot and illuminate the space where we were or if they really had that tone but I was still dumbfounded when his penetrating and intimidating gaze pierced me.

He looked me up and down as if he was studying what someone like me was doing there, then he took a deep breath and tilted his head a little to the side as if something on his shoulder bothered him, he blinked slowly and without further question.

"Is there something for you?" Hearing his voice, it was like a jolt of electricity ran through my entire body.

His voice was deep as it had been yesterday, but this time he had spoken much lower as if what he asked was something private, as if he expected that what he was going to answer was just what he was thinking, that I honestly had no idea. what was I thinking, bone not even I could think, I opened my mouth, and closed it again to then open it again and I only managed to articulate two words     

"Ocean... beautiful" I involuntarily bit my lower lip and he turned his eyes leaving them closed, while he breathed deeply he spoke again and when he did I felt that everything around me collapsed and the colors rose to my cheeks. 

"Could you please stop looking at me like I'm a juicy piece of chocolate cake?" I opened and closed my mouth searching for something to say, but nothing came out of it.

I only managed to look down at the ground and slowly say I'm sorry, I heard how he breathed deeply again and as sharp and cold as he had released the previous thing he told me

"Yeah, sure, whatever." I felt him move in front of me and when I looked up he was gone.

I turned around looking for him but no, he wasn't there and I had just experienced the greatest embarrassment in the history of embarrassments, I wanted Poseidon to send the Kraken to kill me, how the hell had I been standing in front of him like the idiot herself, after a few seconds I released my breath and that's when I realized that I had been breathing hard and that now that he was gone my lungs could work easily.

What the hell was happening to me with that guy, well it wasn't the first time I'd seen such a good man... I began to blow air with my hands so that the heat would go down from my face, damn, I was going to work on it place than the God of the seas and now he had just had the most awkward and embarrassing moment in the universe with him.

At that moment I thanked God that we didn't work in the same area because if I didn't I would die right away, what I didn't know was that life, the disgusting and perfect life, would balance itself out and put me right where I had to be.

#

10:00 a.m.

In the 3rd. floor I met with Mr. Richardson who was about to show me where my office would be located and introduce me to the team. When we arrived my jaw hit the floor, it was a wide area, with a charming and fascinating colored carpet, there was a desk running in the shape of a wave that ran along the wall on the left side, there were the "cubicles" with the computers, on the other On the other side of the living room, there were two huge navy blue furniture and a bunch of beanbags scattered on the floor.

Yes, as puffs of all colors read it, in front of these was a huge TV that was showing a documentary on marine life at that time, just below the TV were some wave-shaped tables attached to the wall, on these were two video game consoles, a Blu-ray and a video bean, if that's what you read.

There were two fucking video game consoles! in the area where I was going to work, I imagine my super "O" put on my face because Mr. Richardson's face was a huge smile and he told me

"Well, this is where you'll work and that bunch of bums." Saying that, I raise my tone of voice a bit and point my finger at a corner where a group of boys were lying on the ground.

If lying on the ground talking animatedly.

"Those over there will be your lovely and highly paid co-workers." As soon as they heard Mr. Richardson's voice they fell silent looking at their faces.

Then a pretty young woman got up and ran over to meet us, threw herself at Mr. Richardson and placed a big, loud kiss on his cheek and said

"Hello dad, how are you?" I didn't know you'd be in the office today," he rolled his eyes and told her.

—Hello Sophi, good morning, what are you supposed to do here? You should be down in the lab editing the preliminaries for the opening event.” The young woman made an ok face, you caught me, and told him.              

—Come on dad, I'm just saying hello, the work is almost ready, I also need the audios and as you will understand the ice captain didn't want to show signs of life, so if I'm a little late you should get down from the heights and talk to him —While these two were talking, the rest approached and greeted Mr. Richardson, whom everyone simply called Jake, very animatedly, the latter turned and told them

—Guys, this is Asier, the new member of the team, please show her around the place and introduce her to everyone, make her feel at home, although I think it won't take long for her to be part of the family —everyone looked at me and smiled at me .

I said goodbye to Mr. Richardson who said the instant he heard me pronounce that word.

"No sir just Jake." He shrugged and left.

I turned to look at the group of people who were watching me with interest, I smiled at them and said.

—A pleasure, guys —everyone burst out laughing and I looked like WTF? Not understanding what they were laughing at.

Then the girl who had approached at first Sophi put her arm around my shoulders and said.

"It's been years since we've heard anyone say Mr. Richardson to Dad, only Jacop calls him sir, we've gotten used to that, but baby, how can you think of calling that old sea dog that way?"

Imagine my face after that, the guys kept laughing and finally I started to laugh, when we all calmed down the introductions started.

I would work with Michael, the editor, Sophi the producer, Chris a graphic designer like me and Cristina, the latter did not say what she was doing, she just stood a little apart looking at me a little badly, I did not give it importance, after talking and getting to know each other a Little Chris offered to give me a guided tour of the facility.

Everyone began to tell him not to start trying to flirt with me as he always did when a new girl arrived at the company, I laughed a little and out of embarrassment I accepted the tour, Blue Oceans had six floors of which four were practically dedicated study laboratories to the ocean and all that inhabited it.

In the basement there were other facilities and the studios where some things were filmed for the documentaries, Chris told me that there were currently around 2,500 people working throughout the company and that Jake knew each and every one of them and knew their names, that was why Sophi had called him an old sea dog.

On the way back to our offices, although I wasn't sure if I should call it an office, I remembered that Sophi had mentioned a certain ice captain, so I asked Chris and he said

—Oh, we don't talk about him, we just let them know him and let everyone make their own judgment —all this around this Ice Captain had me quite intrigued, so I just nodded and continued— don't worry today you'll meet him we have a meeting, when you and Jake arrived we were being lazy as he said, because we waited for him to come to meet us, if you really ask me the guy is an ice floe, although here we all learned to love each one in his own way, but we have love... sure and you'll like it — after this strange opinion I already wanted to meet this Ice Captain.