Through the window

Skylars office

Something is so off today. It doesn’t look like much light is on in his office, and he’s been incredibly silent. I give a quiet knock on his door and wait for a response before I interrupt. Nothing at first, then I hear a small sigh “It’s open Tara, go ahead”. I walk in and notice he only has a small table lamp on, his blinds are tightly shut, and he’s slouched on his office couch. “Mr. Blake, I’ve finished my morning tasks, so I’m available to help with whatever you needed now. Is everything alright?” This is so odd. He doesn’t say much normally, but this Batcave vibe is very new. “Are you liking the dresses I’ve had sent? I was hoping to have you accompany me to some important meetings soon to take notes, and they are kinda high class snobs.” I giggle at him knowing he’s specially talking about his brother Jacob. “I was definitely not expecting them, but I thought they were lovely. I decided to wear one today actually. “ he finally looks up at me and actually notices me. I notice his eyes start to trail around my body but it stops as quickly as it started. “I’m glad they fit well. If you need any adjustments I’ll give you the number to my tailor” after a small pause he continues “I need help picking out designs for our newest addition, and after I’ll need you to fax them over to the builders” I nod at him, that’s right, Skylar designs buildings and plans for businesses around the city. You’d think I’d remember that, but almost no one seems to message me about our actual work, and just setting up meetings to privately speak to Sky. “Absolutely sir, would you like me to get us some lunch before we start?” He stares off for a moment then walks over to his desk and pulls up a second chair for me beside his. “Uhm no actually, let’s just have something delivered and we can just begin, we only have to pick 4 designs, but we have over 100 to look at.” He pats the seat beside him as he orders us some lunch, and we begin our search through the 3D tour designs. After what feels like hours of tours, when we honestly had only gotten through about 20 of them, and it only took about an hour, we get to the perfect modern design for the little cafe we were picking a theme for. “Oh, Skylar, that one is beautiful, I really like the black marble counter tops through that kitchen” “yeah, this one caught me off guard, the color scheme is fairly dark compared to the others, but with all the natural lighting, it’s perfect. Make a note that for the cafe that we pick number 309882 for the design please.” I scribble all of that down in my notebook and we finish picking out the rest of the designs and making my notes. He looks at the time and somehow this odd day went fairly fast and it’s now 5pm. “Well Tara. Thank you for helping me with this today. I know it was a little different but I was getting a bit backed up. Go ahead and send everything over to the team and you can go ahead and go home for the day” I thank him for lunch and for letting me input my opinion on his work and as I go to stand up he gently grabs my wrist. “Hey Tara, wear the red one tomorrow. My brothers stopping by and I think if we match it will leave a good impression”. I felt butterflies shoot through my stomach but at the same time, I wish he wouldn’t try to impress his brother so much. I agree and tell him I’ll see him bright and early, then I grab everything from my office and send over the notes. I start thinking about how the rest of my day will go. And heading to my car I got excited hoping my little friend would be peeking tonight, I wanted to blow off some steam after this long day.