Her first day at work

Stepping out of a taxi, looking all smart, official and nervous as hell, she approaches the gate, "Good morning miss Susan" Mr Martin greets opening the pedestrian entrance as usual with a welcoming smile on his face.

"Good morning to you too, Mr Martin," Susan replies, sounding anxious while her legs speed up forward as it's her first day at work and she's uncertain of what to expect until she gets to the office.

Closing on a distance to the reception entrance, the door automatically opens with a welcoming cool breeze and illuminants that lit up the room causing goosebumps.. she exhales blinking her eyes and behold Is miss Ava, staring right at her face.

"Mm-hmm". She clears her throat. "Good morning, miss Ava," Susan acknowledges Ava's presence, nodding her head downward in modesty.

"Morning Susan, you look good and smart," Ava commends 

"Err.. Than... Thanks ma'am," Susan stammers. "You too look stunning and smart yourself."

Seeing how unease Susan reacted to the compliments, she teases Susan to ease her off the tension, as it was so obvious. "Hope you also had a great night's rest and your last night as a job seeker. It's good to see that you're early enough, because Mr Xander gives no room for inefficiency and incompetence."

Pointing to a long cover notebook, on a paved surface behind the door "You should fill in the required details on the workers' register as a daily routine before you begin to your office henceforth. "That reminds me, speaking of office, follow me so I usher you in to your office as instructed by Mr Xander," Ava continues as she advances to the lift sedately 

Ooh my gosh, my office, Susan thought, as she pens down her name. She pauses for a minute, overwhelmed at this new stage of her life, it still feels like a dream.. just few days back, walking back and forth the city unemployed and now an office to myself she wonders raising one chin higher than the other..

"Susan! Susan! I'm still here waiting," Ava calls out, sounding delayed and desperate to depart.

"So sorry for the delay." She hastens her fingers. " On my way right away."

 "Good morning ma'am! Good morning ma'am! Good morning ma'am!" Departmental Staffs greets in chorus 

"Good morning everyone, A quick one over here..you will all be working under miss Susan over here as your new Unit head ....so do well to submit to her from henceforth....you can all get back to work," Ava instructs leading Susan to a separate and private office.

"This is your office from now on. Put a call on if in any difficulty and don't fail to socialize more with your staffs.

She pauses and steps back for a minute. "Talking about socializing... I will prefer you call me by my first name, AVA, and end the formality and official thing."

Noticing the fleeting look of question in Susan's eyes, Ava points out to a pile of files at the edge of the desk "The CEO is not in yet... However there are a few piled up unfinished documents you have and need to attend to seeing that the last head of department was so reluctant about everything so this is the last file he was working on before his dismissal from work." 

"See you later in the day" Ava shuts the door on her way out

"Same here Ava" as her eyes never stopped wondering at every beauty embedded in her office, the decorative lights, the expensive fittings, the wallpapers inclusive. What a beauty, she thought.

Sitting down at her luxurious office, she remembers she has a carried-over job to attend to as her first job so she immediately starts going through the documents consciously and carefully reading from page to page.. word for word when she realises something is wrong. Her curiosity grew as her eyes widens in shock on seeing some forged and inappropriate contracts that are yet to be signed, so she concentrated, paying more attention to every statement written on the documents.

After an hour, thirty minutes of reading through the documents, she crosses her arms over her chest in shock "wow this is no good deal for the company, this definitely looks like a planned fraud" she mutters bitterly stretching her hands towards to the office phone to put a call across to Miss Ava on the recent discovery, then she pauses for a minute and thought, pressing one finger against her chin. The only person meant to know about this for now should be Mr Xander himself, she concludes in her heart.

 Knock! knock! Knock! 

Susan slides in the documents under some set of books swiftly as soon as she heard the knock. "Come in, the door is open"

"Hey, don't be a workaholic besides its already noon, let's go grab launch.. bills on him if that's not too straightforward," Ava proposes convincing Susan

"No need for the hoodwinking. I feel so famished already....so shall we?"

"Yes, we shall." Ava responds with joy in her voice as they both advanced to the company's cafeteria. "It's really been long since I felt this much alive here in the office."

"A plate of chips with a cup of ice cream for me please, how about you?" Ava asks waving at Susan for response.

Staring at the food menu, she settles for a plate of spaghetti and a bottle of water. " That reminds me, I haven't seen the Boss today. Is he okay?," Susan asks 

"Sure he is doing well just that sometimes he works from home, remember he is the Boss, Or.... is someone feeling something different for her, Boss?.

"Are you crazy—" "No, I'm not crazy.. I'm just stating the obvious besides what's there not to like about him.,"                                                                                                 

"Why would you even think of such... I'm just a simple girl that minds her business and stays away from trouble."

"Mm-hmmm, Ava clears her throat. "I see, well if having a thing to do with the Boss is looking for trouble, then I think I'm ready for trouble."

Susan widens her eyes in amazement and chuckles for a while. "Wow, you're so naughty and hilarious I must confess... I mean, I give up on you. Please Let's talk about something better other than sleeping with the Boss.

"He is cute, tall with his masculine chest."Ava tosses a braid over her shoulder coquettishly. " I can tell that he works out on a regular and of all, he is dem...."

Susan interrupts her fantasies " Enough Ava.. enough of all this fantasies and let's discuss something better or we can as well go back to work if there is nothing else to gist other than the Boss."

"It's Okay if you say so even if I can smell jealously in the air," Ava continues teasing Susan as they both can't help but laugh out loud

Still laughing, Ava asks reluctantly, " you must have glanced through the documents already I guess?"

"Still going through it" —she plays dumb about the question— "though not done yet." Turning on her phone as usual, she stares at the time in shock of how time flies "it's already getting past work hours. I think we should head back to the office to round up for the day

"Yeah, you're right," Ava answers, standing up as they both hasten their footsteps back to the office.

"See you later. " Susan walks into her office still wondering and thinking of her next move in order to get a concrete, irrefutable information other than just the paperwork before revealing the bomb to Mr Xander 

She opens her laptop and researches further on the company. To her greatest surprise, the same case of fraud with that same company in question was no new news on the internet and not even a trace of existence there by making the partnership and investment deal a big loss on the victim company who invests.

"What height of deceit." She crosses her arms over her chest. "This could lead to bankruptcy if not properly looked into."