Not Again
Episode one
Waking up every morning as early as the bird rises is definitely not how I pictured my life but when you are working for a company whose major aim is to drain the life force out of you, jumping out of bed would be number one hundred in your list of things to do.
"This damn alarm." Elfie muttered as she scrambled out of bed. Standing at the full length mirror, she stared at her naked body and smiled.
Gosh!
She knew she was an epitome of beauty, well in her eyes maybe.
6.2ft tall, a slender slim but curvy body, her skin was smooth like a refined porcelain and her eyes were a dark grey beauty in it prime. She stared at herself again In the mirror and smiled sheepishly. The alarm rang yet again and she snapped out of her thoughts.
"I am going to be late again." she mumbled and strutted off to her bathroom.
It took her ten minutes to get ready and when she checked the time it was a minute after 8.
Shit! Her Boss will have her head if she was not in the office before nine and lordville's traffic would definitely take 30 minutes. She picked up her Hermes black bag, ran to the mirror to give her look a last minute check up. She smiled. Damn she looked good but looking good wouldn't help her today if she gets fired.
She took one last good look and left hurriedly hoping to avoid traffic if she could. Today was going to be one hell of a day.
****
"is she here yet?" Lauretta asked.
"No ma'am." replied her secretary
"That Young lady will be the death of me." Lauretta exclaimed raising her hands frantically.
"How much time before the client gets here?" She asked her secretary yet again.
"Mr Noah should be here any minute ma'am is almost nine." The secretary replied scrolling through her iPad as she seem to be reconfirming the information.
" Please try calling her again." Lauretta ordered. " Mr Noah specifically asked for her, I will be damned if he refuse to sign those papers because she isn't here."
"Ok ma'am." The secretary whose name was Fiona, a beautiful plumpy short red head with a sweet smile. She picked the telephone and dailed Elfie's number.
Just as the line started ringing a group of three well dressed men walked through their office door.
"They are here. Mr Noah is here." Fiona whispered to her boss who was backing the entrance.
Lauretta swirled round to face them with smile.
" Good morning Mr Noah." She greeted as they walked up to her and extended her hand for a handshake. "Welcome to J.J Art and galleries."
The stoned face, hot looking man carefully avoided her outstretched hands and took a queer cold look around. His voice was icy when he asked in a low tone.
"Where is she?"
Lauretta blinked rapidly and swore profusely in her thoughts. Damn you Elfie.
"Miss Elfie is running a little late but would be here any minute." She replied putting emphasis on the last word.
She saw his countenance change from weirdly cold to angry cold.
"I guess we will do this next time." The other man beside him with the grey hair said. " Get in touch with us when you are ready, Mr Noah is a busy man."
Just then at the entrance someone came running. That someone was no other than Elfie the dramatic queen. There she was running towards them with her heels in her hand. Fiona smiled. Lauretta could swear she snapped a nerve.
Not again Elfie...
*****
As if waking up was not bad enough, she has to battle with lordville's terrible traffic. She horned repeatedly getting glares from other car owner who was already annoyed by the the traffic now they have to deal with a crazy woman who has decided to block their eardrums.
Elfie picked up her phone to call her boss and inform her of the current situation she found herself on this very important day.
She groped irritatedly inside her bag looking for her phone but she couldn't find.
She took the bag and poured out everything but still there was no sign of her phone.
"oh please God! oh please!" She mumbled searching everywhere in her car. But still nothing.
In her hurry she had forgotten her phone.
"Way to go girl...way to go." She hissed frowning her pretty anxious face. " Lauretta is definitely firing my ass today."
She wind down and waved a car right beside her. It was a red sport SUV screaming rich. She kept waving until the car owner had to wind down her glass too.
"Hey!"
"Hey!" A boyish looking lady replied not looking that interested. But Elfie wasn't in the mood to read the room. She was desperate.
"Please can you tell me the time. I am already late for work and I forgot my phone. I just need to know how late I am." She said everything at once not taking a chance
The boy like lady or is it the girl like boy. She just couldn't decide on how to describe her.
The undescribable owner of the red sport SUV gave her a once over look. It was a lingering look and Elfie suddenly felt the heat in her thighs. She squeezed tight and forced herself to concentrate on what was important.
"please." She said pleadingly.
The red car owner took off his or her eyes of Elfie and checked her phone which was in her right hand.
"It's 8:59."
Elfie paused.
Her heart skip a beat. The voice....that voice. She wanted to hear it again. It was so soothing and strong and sexy.
Wait!
What was she doing?
She opened her lips to say something but words failed her as she stared at the red car owner.
"yo... I said it's 8:59." The red car owner said again and Elfie had to force herself to speak.
"oh... Thanks." And before she could say more the car owners drove off leaving a screeching sound and that was when Elfie noticed that the traffic has cleared off.
She turned up her car glass and zoomed off hoping that Mrs Lauretta would be less annoyed. Or she would be fired.
****
When she got to the office, she could see Mr Noah's, his secretary and his bodyguard. She had done her research on him and knew he hated waiting. She started running her heels making a rather, would I call it annoying sound.
"There she is..." She heard her boss Lauretta say as she got close.
Mr Noah slightly moved his head to the direction to see the famous Elfie who had kept him waiting and Elfie could swear his facial expression screamed anger.
"Good morning Mr Noah." She quickly greeted as she halted in front of him throwing an apology look to her Boss.
When she brought her gaze back to the prestigious client in front of her, She pondered silently why people seem to fear and cower before him. He was just too good looking to be feared.
His face was twitch with amusement laced deeply in impatience and she knew she had to do something immediately.
"Good morning sir, I apologize for my lateness. The traffic at Lordsville was long and terrible." She said pleadingly flashing her beautiful smile exposing her wonderfully created teeth. She has always said to herself that God compensated her weirdness with her teeth's.
Mr Noah clearly ignored her and just nodded at his secretary who immediately stepped up, ipad in hand and said.
"Let's get on with it, Mr Noah is a busy man."
"Oh yeah... this way please" Lauretta replied.