I hear my alarm go off and I turn on to my back and see my phone vibrating and I snooze the alarm and go back to sleep.
"Get up Matthew Red! Or I'll break this door down!" I jump awake and look at my door and hear Jeremy pounding on my door.
I go to the door and while being half asleep I ask "what is it?"
"What is it? What is it?! Its 8:30AM! You had to get to work by 8, remember?" Jeremy screams and I realize and remember that Catherine said she would be at work by 8
"Oh shit!" I run to my closet and take out my shirt and jeans and strip out of my PJs. I put on my underwear and wear the shirt and jeans.
I go out and see Jeremy standing holding a glass of milk and looking at me.
I take the glass and chug the milk down and he pats my head and I laugh and say
"Thanks dad" he looks at me and smirks and says
"I take better care of you than your father so ya, I am your new dad" I smile and says goodbye and he waves.
I take my bag and run out to my garage and get in the car. I throw my bag in the back and rush to the office.
When I get to the office. I see that Catherine's office door is closed and Jenna wasn't at her desk so I go in and see Cat working.
I say "Hey Cat!" in my best happy tone to mask the fact that I was late.
She looks tired as well and she has bags under her eyes so she either didn't sleep or cried a lot last night.
She replies saying "Hey Matt" in a tone which sounded pretty sad to me
I look at her hand and ask "whoa, you alright? You look like shit and also how's your hand doing?"
She sighs and says "I'm fine Matthew and also you shouldn't be using such profanity in my fucking office. My hand is fine, thank you for asking"
I get taken aback by the anger in her voice and think maybe she hates me for what I had said.
I nod and head back out to my desk and take out my laptop and notepad and put them on my desk and throw my bag to my side.
I start working a bit on the emails that I had received from Jenna about being an assistant for Catherine.
I see Jenna coming up to me and smile and says "good morning!" I reply "'morning" she smiles and goes inside Catherine's office. I fear she might get screamed on too.
She comes back out after 2-3 minutes and sit at her desk and says "hey Catherine told me that she screamed at you. She wants to say sorry" I look at Jenna "she had a rough night yesterday"
"What do you mean?" I ask
She tells me how she started thinking about her ex. She got upset and cut her hand so she is out of energy for today.
I nod and say that its fine but I was just a bit shocked since I had never seen her like that.
She tells me to get ready to see her in a worse way when she gets stressed or hungry.
We continue chatting. sShe tells me about how she and her boyfriend had a fight yesterday about her coming home late. Also not eating dinner with him.
I don't remember her boyfriend's name so I don't ask for any more details.
She continues to tell me about her and Catherine and how they met "Catherine was the serious one and I was the nice one"
I laugh and say "I'm the nice one and Jeremy is the serious one"
She asks me more about Jeremy and I tell her how he is a douche sometimes. Also protective and caring of the people he loves such as me and his younger sister and brother.
We keep chatting but then Catherine's door opens. She comes out and we turn back to our laptop. She stares at us and says "Jenna I would like the file that has all the designs of the Company's website from last year"
Jenna gets up and goes to the back where the cabinets are and starts looking through them.
She look at me and says "and Matt I would like you to get coffee for you, Jenna and I" she hands me her card
I say "yes ma'am, anything else?" she turns to Jenna and asks if she would like breakfast and she says she would like a vegetable sandwich and I nod.
Catherine says she doesn't want anything but Jenna says that she would have a chicken bagel. She sighs and says that I should get myself something to eat too.
I go down to a cute café that had cute designs on it and small tables outside.
I ask the waiter for 1 vegetable sandwich and 2 chicken bagels and also 3 coffees to go, he takes my order. I pay and he tells me to wait.
I sit outside at one of the tables and wait for the food and drinks and I see many people walk by.
I get a perfect idea to get Catherine in a better mood. I think that I should play the game that I used to play with my mother when I was younger.
The game was to pick out someone from the streets or anywhere and try to guess their life story and stuff like that. It was great and pretty easy and fun.
I wait for a few for minutes. But then the waiter comes and hands me a plastic bag with 3 boxes and a cup holder with 3 cups of coffees. I take it and thank him and walk back to the office.
When I get to the office. I go to Jenna and she takes one of the cups of coffee and takes out a box from the bag that has her sandwich. She asks me "what did you get for yourself?"
I tell her "I got a chicken bagel as well" she nods and continues her work. I go to my desk and put a cup of coffee and a box of the chicken bagel on my desk and go to Catherine's office.
I go in and put the bag on her desk and she looks up from her file and says "what did you get for yourself?" I tell her in a silent tone because I'm scared she might scream at me again
"I got a chicken bagel as well" and I walk out of the office and sit at my desk and continue with my work.
I keep working until around 1PM so that Jenna and I could go out for lunch. We could play the game that might make her feel better.
I turn to Jenna and tell her my idea and she smile and encourages me, I take a deep breath and hope she goes with me.
I go in and say "hey Cat?" and she looks up from my laptop and says in a soft tone
"Ya sorry about today Matt. I'm tired and I don't feel that good"
I feel happy and say "ya Jenna told me and I'm sorry too. I actually wanted to ask if you wanted to go out with me"
Then I think about what I just said and start blushing and see Catherine staring at me and I say "I mean for lunch! I'll buy it...since I was rude this morning" I stare worried that she might say no.
She smiles and says "ya sure we can go out for lunch"
I feel butterflies in my stomach and I smile and I tell her about the café I went to.
But I don't tell her about the café since I want it to be a surprise and I think
'She is so different from everyone and that's what makes her perfect'
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