6

Marie

Today, I get up before my alarm. I wake up around 6:30 and just lay in my bed. I tired to sleep but it just wasn't happening. Like I was so insanely tired but still I couldn't sleep. So around 6:45 I gave up and get out of bed.

I pull the covers off my body and head to the shower. I put on a navy blue, full sleeved dress that fell to my knees. I wear some blue heels with it and straighten my hair. I apply a very light layer of makeup to make myself look presentable.

I make myself some eggs and quickly finish them and clean the dirty dishes. Grabbing my bag from the coffee table I head to my car. It was 7:34. I type in the address of the office on my car GPS.

After a good 25 minutes I reach the building. At exactly 8, I make my way to the parking lot to see that it was mostly empty. I park my car and head to the elevator. I pressed the button to the first floor and find a woman sitting at the reception.

The building was fancy and huge. Almost two times bigger then the office I worked at. I walk over to the receptionist who looks at me and flashes me a polite smile, "Hello. Welcome to Allan Establishment. How can I help ma'am?"

"Hi, I'm Marie Rodrigo. I'm new here. I just got hired to work as Mr. Allan's assistant"

"Mr. Allan told me to lead you to his office upstairs. Follow me Ms. Rodrigo" she says with a smile.

I nod and follow her to the elevator, "The last floor, 76th Floor is Mr. Allan's. Just walk in and you'll see a big office. Just walk inside the office and take a seat. Mr. Allan isn't here yet but he told me to tell you to sit in his office"

"Okay thank you.." I say not knowing her name.

"Tina. Your welcome" she smiles and I press the button to the top floor and watch the doors close.

Why the hell did Mr. Allan call me at 8 when he wasn't here himself? Like that's very unprofessional. Is it possible to hate someone so much? I wonder what he would have done if I came around 9, probably wouldn't even notice.

I reach the 76th floor and step out of the elevator. Wow this floor is beautiful, I mean the view is magnificent as well as the overall décor. Mr. Allan sure spent a lot of money on the headquarters of this business. I used to think my previous work place was the beautiful but looking at this one, the old one doesn't even compare. There's no one on this floor but I don't want to explore it yet, I decide to open the door of the enormous office, let me add this is probably five times larger then Carl's.

I check the time and it was 8:14 by now so I just take out my phone and decide to scroll through I*******m as I have nothing better to do. Stupid Karter Allan.

Around 9:25 the office doors opened. Mr. Allan walked in, in a black suit with a white undershirt with his hair hanging by his shoulders. He places his briefcase on the desk and takes a seat. I don't even bother getting up to greet him but he seemed unfazed by my slightly rude gesture towards him.

He smiles at me, "Hello Marie. You look lovely. How are you?"

I give him a polite smile even though I want to slap him for making me wait an hour and 15 minutes on my first day, "Fine. Thank you"

"How long have you been here?"

"I've been here since 8 am sharp" I say with a obvious fake smile.

He notices and lets out a laugh, "So you follow my orders. That's great!"

"Sir. Why did you call me at 8 when you were going to make me wait an hour?" I ask.

"Well because I wanted too!" His voice full of superiority and arrogance. Oh Boy, can I slap him?

Mr. Allan takes out something from his desk drawer, he places in front of me, "This your contact Marie. If you want to go through it you can right now"

"I'd like to read before signing" I say.

"Sure. As you please. Until then I can fill your employee card. Just answer the questions I ask. Correctly" I nod.

I open the contract and start reading, wow he really is offering me a very very generous raise. After six months I get a car? Cool. Health Insurance, Car Insurance all after six months. As well as a further 40% raise after six months. Wow. After 3 years I'd even get a house. He wasn't kidding about the benefits.

"Full name Marie?" Mr. Allan asks, I divert my attention from the contract to look up at him.

"Marie Rodrigo" I say.

"Age?"

"22 Sir"

"Date of birth?"

"22nd July"

"Parents names?"

"Amanda Heart and Bryan Rodrigo"

He was writing the information down on a paper, "Any Siblings?"

"Yes, two half sisters" I say.

"Names and age of siblings?"

"Grace Heart 3 and Victoria Rodrigo 2"

"Education?"

"Got my primary education at Allen High School in Texas and got my diploma at NYU stern school of business"

"NYU stern aye? I got my diploma from there as well." he says still writing the information on the paper/form.

"Who was your favorite teacher" he looks at me, I look down at the form to see him stop writing, "Oh no this isn't a question in the form, it's a personal question from one ex student to the other"

I take a second to think, "Probably Mr. Roberts, the intro to accounts professor"

Mr. Allan smiles, "Oh yes, he was a brilliant teacher. A very good college no?"

I slightly smile, "Yes, it's a nice college."

"Height?" He asks focusing on the form again.

"1.65 M"

"Weight?"

"120 pounds"

"That's very less" he says looking up at me. I just shrug.

"Blood Type?"

"B positive"

"What ethnic group do you belong to?"

"I'm a mix of Mexican, Italian and American"

"Interesting." He says writing on the paper.

"Relationship status?"

"Taken" I say.

Karter looks up at me with an unreadable expression on his face, was it anger? and then writes that down.

"Okay Ms. Rodrigo. That's all. Do you agree to the contract? Anything you'd like to add or subtract?"

"No, it's fine."

"Okay then. Please sign on the first and second page, right at the end!" he says handing me a pen.

I take the pen and sign the contract, "If you are happy here and I'm happy with your performance, your contract would be renewed after a year. Until then you are not allowed to resign." Karter says. I abruptly stop for a second. So I'll be stuck here for a year if I don't like it? Should I sign? My boyfriends a lawyer, I'll find a way to get out of the contract some way. So I sign where I was told.

"Welcome to Allan Establishment. Have fun working here" Karter says taking the contract away from me once I've signed.

He gets up from his seat and I get up from mine. "Since you were oh so generous to show me around that day I was at Carl's building today I will show you around."

"Really? You have nothing better to do?" I ask as politely as possible.

He looks at me and smirks, "I do but I'm a nice guy" I roll my eyes once he looks away.

We step out of his office, "Okay so this floor is just mine and my assistant's. Which happens to be you" He walks inside another office that is right next to his.

It's really big, the size of Carl's office to be exact. I walk inside after him, "This is your office love. Hopefully you'll like it"

Then he walks down the hallways and walks inside a room, "This is the photocopy room" he pauses and points to the room next to it, "Is the coffee and snack room"

"Down the hall are the bathrooms. And that's well all for this floor" he says.

"Now I'll call someone. Her name is Abby and she'll give you a tour of the entire building to make you familiar with everything and everyone." He says.

"Didn't you just say that you were going to give me a tour for showing you my generosity the other day?" Before I can stop myself the words slip from my mouth.

He looks back at me and shots me amused smirk, "Do you enjoy my company that much love?"

I don't care if he's going to get mad but I roll my eyes, "Nope. I'm just wondering"

"Well I showed you around this floor. That's all I really meant" I simply nod not wanting to argue with this man anymore. Also not wanting to spend anymore time with him.

"Until then you can adjust yourself in your new office. After the tour I'll assign you with your first task" he gives me a slight smile and walks inside his own office.

I walk inside mine and place my bag on the desk. God, I'm not only working for this man but I'm stuck with him on this floor, alone. What? Who does that? A floor just for himself along with a private cafeteria and photocopy room? Can I be the first one to say, someone sure is spoiled. Hopefully, this job will be better then I think it would. Fingers crossed.