Forever Rora

Chapter 5

When we stepped out of the elevator, Mr Ivan went to his office, leaving Mr Smith and I alone. We walked ahead to his office in silence. When we got to the door, he opened it for me and guided me inside putting his hand at the small of my back. I shivered at the feeling of his hand. I think he felt it too because he suddenly dropped his hand.

“Take a seat” he said after settling down himself. Even though I’ve been in this room before I still looked at it in awe. I had to stop looking around because Mr smith started talking.

“So basically we are going to be working together in this office most of the time. And when I don’t need your assistance, you can retire to your office.”

Wait a minute!

Did he say we are going to be working together???

As in here in his office together??

I thought I was going to have my own office and whatever work I had to do will be done there!!

“My table is big enough to contain the both of us. And if the workload is to much, you can move to the couch or to your office.”

“The reason why you’re going to be with me when working is that I’d like to see your mistakes so that I can correct them immediately.” He continued. “I’m going to s……” he paused suddenly, looking at me.

“You haven’t said a thing since we got here, aren’t you listening??” He asked coldly

“Oh I’m sorry sir!! I was just waiting for you to finish talking. I’m listening to you!” I replied, a bit scared. Thank God I didn’t stutter.

“Get up!” he said standing up suddenly.

Great!!! I’m already in trouble on my first day. I stood up quietly.

Mr smith started walking to the other side of the room towards a door that I didn’t notice before. He opened the door, behind the door was an office.

“This is your office, you can stay there when you’re less busy.” He said closing the door.

From what I’ve seen, the office isn’t as big as his but it’s still pretty much okay for me. On the left side of the door to my office was the couch and coffee table. I guess this is where he receives his guests. We walked back to his desk area, but we didn’t stop there. He walked ahead to the door there.

“Right after this door is the restroom and a small bedroom for me. Sometimes I’m not able to finish working before midnight, so I sleep here instead.” He paused looking at me.

“You’re not to use this bathroom, you have yours in your office.”

“I understand sir” I replied nodding.

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After settling down, we started working immediately. I was given a laptop to work with, and a tablet for taking notes. I guess no one uses notebooks anymore.

It was lunch time already and I was feeling hungry.I told Mr smith that I’m going to get lunch and he released me. I decided to go to the cafe I had seen when I was coming to work this morning. It’s about two blocks away, I walked and I got there in about ten minutes. I ordered cheese burger and some fries and a bottle of coke to go. When I got back to the office, I sat down on the couch to eat my food. I don’t really like making friends so I didn’t bother going to company’s canteen. I settled down and started eating my food, I felt eyes staring at me so I looked up. I realized that it was Mr smith that was staring at me. He is probably thinking that I am eating like a glutton. I felt so embarrassed, I continued eating but I ate slower this time around. When I was done, I threw the waste in the trash outside. I went back to sit and I continued my work.

It was five pm already, which means I’m finally free. I started packing my stuff into my bag, I put on my shoe which I had removed long before because it was no longer comfortable.

“Goodbye sir!” I told Mr smith.

“Yeah sure” he replied not looking at me. Ever since we started working this morning he hasn’t gotten up from that chair. Not even to take bathroom breaks, while i took about seven bathroom breaks. I walked out of the company, after being checked by the security and I took a cab home. The cab stopped in front of my house, and I paid him. I walked to the door of my house and I entered, I heard some voices in the kitchen so I went straight there. On my kitchen island was dee and my mom.

“ hey guys” I greeted them.

“Hi sweetie” my mom replied. “How was your first day?”

“It was nice. The workload isn’t too much”

“Heyyy, I haven’t seen you since forever” Dee said excitedly.

“Dee you just saw me about two days ago” I said laughing. “Mom dee and I are going to go up to my room”

“ okay love”

When we got to my room, I had a quick shower, and then Dee and I talked, I told her about all that has happened to me in the past few days. And we decided to go see Claire later.