The moment Hades walked out looking like a whizzing teapot, everyone knew that he was furious and it didn't go well for him. Much worse than usual.
He stepped into the elevator and tapped onto his floor and it only took a few minutes until the doors opened. He stepped out and headed to his Uncle's office, knowing he was about to receive some scolding.
He knocked against the door and opened it a few seconds later, peeping into the room where he could see his uncle staring at a graph on the wall.
"I'm late." Was the first thing Hades said as he stepped into the room and closed the door. "I'm sorry."
"You're a secretary, Hades. If you continue this I might have no other choice but to-" his uncle paused as he noticed the stain on his shirt and sighed out with a small nod. "I see. You can have a ten minute break to get your shirt cleaned at the dry cleaners. Come when you're ready." He sighed out and Hades nodded.
"Want some donuts?" He asked, holding up the bag as he walked to the desk and placed the bag down. "Chocolate filled...."
"I'll take you up on that offer." His uncle chuckled out with a wink and Hades smiled back before leaving the room.
He pulled out his jacket and walked into his office, tossing the jacket to his desk after pulling out his wallet.
He walked back out and straight into the elevator, sighing out heavily.
This just wasn't his day...
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Lilith groaned out as she threw herself on the empty seat between Abigail and Mindy who had also just sat down.
"Can you believe it?" Mindy whined out as she pulled out her phone and handed it to Lilith. "Will seriously won't stop nagging me about becoming his girlfriend!" She sighed out, slapping her cheeks together. "He even said it out loud in the office today and everyone heard him. Gosh... Jeffrey must have heard that dushbag's confession!" She groaned out.
Lilith scrolled throughout, mostly skipping some parts as the dialogue was pretty long between them. She then passed it on to Abigail who decided to read quickly through it.
"He seems to really like you." Lilith chuckled as she began to eat her fries. "Try it out."
"No." Mindy shook her head in denial. "He's like Hades to you."
"Yeah, why don't you date Hades?" Abigail asked as she glanced towards Lilith. "He's really handsome and he's the most paid in this company."
"Oh right. I was thinking the same thing." Mindy snapped her fingers and glanced at Lilith as well who avoided both their eyes. "He seems to really like you. He buys you breakfast every morning, even though you end up giving it to Abigail." She chuckled uneasily as Lilith chewed her food slowly.
"Yeah... At least eat what he buys you Lilith." Abigail chuckled out. "He almost found out when he saw me about to throw away a cup from the café he bought. I quickly said I bought it on my way here instead."
"Why do you hate him so much?" Clara, sitting across from them asked, sharing at Lilith. "He's literally the man almost every woman here wants to have."
"I just don't like him." Lilith sighed out as she leaned back into her seat. "He's just really annoying..."
"Speak of the devil." Mindy whispered out as she spotted Hades just walking into the cafeteria.
Lilith reluctantly followed Mindy's gaze towards Hades who was now ordering his food.
Hades, after gazing at the menu for quite sometime, with the cashier simply staring at him, finally decided what he was going to order. He simply pointed at the menu as his cellphone buzzed within his pocket. He fished it out in an instant and it was just his roommate Morris, telling him he wouldn't be home tonight. Hades quickly texted him back assuring him there was no problem before sighing out heavily and turning to face the tables.
He leaned back against the counter whilst waiting for his order, mindlessly gazing around the room when his eyes suddenly met Lilith's. She eventually looked away, though not so quick since she was caught staring.
He stared at her for a moment longer, crossing his arms over his chest as he ignored the eyes of Mindy and the rest. Even with his constant stare, Lilith didn't glance back at him, instead, she stared on her screen as she resumed eating her meal.
"Here's your order." The man behind Hades announced. Grabbing Hades' attention. He eventually peeled his eyes off Lilith and turned to the man that brought his meal to go.
"Keep the change." Hades sighed as he slid the bill across the counter to the man before grabbing his container and leaving the room, hardly turning back to glance at Lilith since he knew he'd just eventually look desperate.
"And there he goes." Abigail chuckled out as they all watched him disappear into the elevator.
"Who was the man that came in today?" Mindy asked as she stared at Lilith whose concentration was locked on her phone. She eventually looked up, knowing the question was hers.
"Just a friend I met a few months ago." She shrugged her shoulders. "His name is Ethan Tent."
"Where does he work?" Abigail asked as she folded her arms across her chest.
"Hm... Not really sure." Lilith shrugged her shoulders again and glued her eyes back on the monitor. "I don't really know that much about him."
"Oh." Was all Clara said as she nodded and they all stopped talking and began to enjoy their meal, knowing their time was bound to end if they continued to talk to each other.
It took merely a few minutes before they all stood up and headed out of the cafeteria and into the elevator, a few minutes left before working time.
Lilith lazily gazed up at the elevator numbers as they increased from the third floor. Watching the digit shift into two digits and then changed only by the last digit until the doors opened, revealing their office.
They all got out and Lilith made a beeline to her office, closing the door and grabbing the remote by the stand next to the door, instantly flicking the glass walls into the dark grey colour, blocking her from the rest of the world.
A yawn escaped her lips as she dragged her feet towards the desk. Feeling completely exhausted beyond measure. She had struggled falling asleep even after she got home, that was only how she could hear Hades' call. Though, even after claiming they had to sleep, she couldn't fall asleep just yet.
She threw herself onto the waiting couch by the wall in front of the work desk. The couch was mostly used for visitors when they come by.
Or just mere business men and women.
Since she didn't have any other work to do as of now, she could just take a short rest, just for ten minutes.
Hades couldn't help but rub his eyes every now and then as they began to burn in the air from the lack of sleep. He glanced his desk to the watch just sitting at the corner of the room and it was just around noon, hardly close to their closing hours.He wasn't given that much work, but he couldn't sleep on the job. Not after he turned up late. Otherwise his uncle would degrade him, and he wouldn't want that. It was just embarrassing.He rose the coffee mug to his lips and took a small sip, sighing out as the strong taste of black coffee rolled on his tongue and down into his throat.Lilith would probably love a coffee...He thought to himself as he took another sip and glanced towards the door.She's probably tired too.He nodded to his own thoughts and got up from his seat, placing his mug down and walking towards the door as he made his way to the elevator. Once in, he quickly tapped the floor leading to the in-door café, a café just for the employees in case they skipped breakfast
"Okay." His uncle sighed out as he smacked his hands against the table, getting Hades to glance up at him in confusion. "At least tell me she's just playing hard to get.""It took you the entire day to figure that out?" Hades sighed as he folded his arms to his chest while sitting across from him, sitting on the waiting couches since he had finished his work a while back and decided to watch his uncle work.As though that sounded normal in the least."It didn't take me that long." He shrugged his shoulders and flashed Hades a grin to which he eventually rolled his eyes to."It's freaking, 8:45pm, Gary." He sighed out as he run his hand through his hair."Aren't you going to escort her home?" Gary asked as he raised his greying brows at him, watching his nephew frown slightly before meeting his eyes."She probably left a while back." He shrugs his shoulders and leans back into the couch. "I'll just find my jacket hanging by the door or on the floor when I go pick it up after.""That m
"So, what's the task about?" Lilith sighed as she closed the menu once they were done ordering their food. "Is it about the new recruits?""Um..." Hades cleared his throat as he leaned back to his seat and glanced around himself, watching a few couples here and there and some business meetings here and there.It wasn't too fancy but enough to keep away from noisy children and loud music since Lilith assumed it was for business.Little did she know."Well... Yes." Hades nods just so Lilith wouldn't get up the moment he says his Uncle lied. "It's about them. He was asking if you could pick ten from them, who would they be and the reasons why." Hades cleverly said as he nodded to his own words.Lilith pouts her lips for a moment, stuck in thought as she glances up at the ceiling, thinking carefully who it could be."There are in fact a few I know are the best. There's Jane Millet, Frank Woods, Christen Parker, Gwen Holland, Vincent Jacobs, Lorain Lamber, Troy Williams, Dexter Harbor and
Lilith watched as Hades left the place before reaching for her phone and dialing Ethan's number as she got up from her seat and grabbed her bag. "Where are you?" She asked once he picked up as she began to walk towards the door. "I went back to the studio. You can meet me there." Ethan said on the other end, getting her to sigh out as she pushed open the glass doors and stepped out. "Okay, I'll be there in a minute." She said before ending the call, hardly giving him some time to reply. She walked past Hades' car just as he got in. She glanced down at her phone once more, checking her emails, only to find it flooding with warnings from her director. She had missed a lot of lessons because of work. She tried to explain it to him, but he didn't want to listen and blamed her for slacking off. This time she was an hour late but can still make it. Or else she would get fired. She stopped at a stop sign and began to wave at the taxis speeding by, rushing with their last clients home
The moment Hades made it back into his house, he walked straight into the kitchen, heading for the cupboard just above the sink with all the alcohol his friend had collected since the past weeks.He grabbed a bottle and instantly pulled the cork right off before chugging it down, only to choke when it burned his throat, causing him to stop instantly. A deep sigh escaped his lips as he walked towards his couch, dragging his feet along with him.He threw himself back onto the couch and leaned into it, feeling himself sink right in. His lazy gaze trailed around the room and towards the photos of his roommate and his girlfriend on their countless vacations around the world.The largest photo of them both sat just above the small empty fireplace, staring mockingly at him. It was a photo of Morris and Nora deep diving with a dolphin right beside them, both grinning at the camera as they hugged the dolphin.Hades could only hear it from them since he never tagged along despite having Morris
Struggling to peel his eyes open, Hades could only feel the sharp sting of his head throbbing inside of him from all the alcohol he drunk the other night.He leaned from the couch he had slept on all night and glanced around himself, only to spot Morris sitting cross legged on the floor in front of him, staring intensively as he crushed the many crisps in his mouth."What time is it?" Hades asked as he reached his hand up to his head, stroking his temple."Eleven." Morris replied as a grin spread across his face, noticing Hades' horrified gaze."Why didn't you wake me up!?" He hissed as he stood up, only to flinch and fall back."You seemed tired." Morris shrugged his shoulders as he crumpled the bag of chips into a ball after finishing it. "Plus your hungover doesn't seem to be leaving anytime soon.""I have work you bastard." Hades rolled his eyes and sighed out as he leaned back into the seat. "My uncle will murder me if he finds out I'm skipping work because of a hungover.""Call
Hades sighed out in boredom as he walked towards the door, feeling the starvation roam his stomach.He reached the door and reached out for the handle, opening it fully with an irritated expression when he stepped back in shock as his eyes landed on Lilith's brown gaze.He sent Lilith? Hades thought with wide eyes as Lilith stared back with raised brows.She didn't seem to be coming from work, she was dress in a white dress printed with sunflowers here and there."Oh... Hi.." He trailed off when she furrowed her brows at him and glanced around, seeming confused. "Did my uncle send you?""Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be here." She said as she glanced back at him, getting him to frown a little. "So, are you going to let me in?""Oh." He stepped aside and smiled slightly, knowing she somewhat still wants to be around. Knowing the usual Lilith, she would have most definitely just given him whatever his uncle sent her to give. "Sure come in."She nodded and walked past him, entering the large
The 'until i eat the cupcake' had been long forgotten as she leaned into the sofa with the blanket wrapped her body as her bright brown eyes stared head on at the movie playing on the screen.It had been over an hour since she had arrived but Hades could not shake away the feeling of excitement having her close to him. She didn't retaliate when he offered they had the snacks while watching tv and it gave him a few green lights. She was sitting on the same couch as he was, except, she was sitting at the other end while he sat on the other end as well.Her long dark chocolate hair scattered around the chair with her shampoo after-scent perfuming the air around him. The scent was a soft cucumber, something natural and soft to the nose.Other than her hair is her vanilla scented perfume, it wasn't too strong or mild, it was just enough to catch his attention and want her close to him.He refocused his stare towards the movie, trying to get at least what they were saying. When he was hardl