AMOROUS MIRAGE

The Silicon Barbie.

*Tia’s POV*

Today I had to take up the reception place because Miss Smith was on leave for some unknown reasons and therefore I am here sitting on her spot. Half of the day went by peacefully as I continued to do my assistant work as well. It’s been two weeks for me working here and I am so glad that I wasn’t fired because of that coffee incident. And thankfully, my boss was in a relatively good mood that day and so he graciously let me off the hook, but never asked to make coffee for him again since then. At 4pm this evening, Mr.Vlad has his meeting and I have yet to inform him about it personally, though I have sent him an email regarding it, but since I did not get any reply regarding that, hence I presume he hasn’t seen it yet.

As I was busy reading through the documents that I had to type into the computer, I was distracted by an overly sugary voice that belonged to a woman that stood across the reception desk.

“How may I help you, Ma’m?” I politely asked her. She was dressed in a skimpy purple dress that had an overly flashy V-neck and reached down to her mid thighs. Her hair was a platinum blonde paired with honey-colored orbs.

“Mr. Vlad is in his office, right?” Nonchalantly she asked. What’s with her attitude? Acting so high and mighty!

“May I have your name please? And do you have an appointment with him today?” Despite that, I chose to ask her about the appointment because you can’t judge a book by its cover. Who knows if she’s someone significant. I pulled out the guest’s name list that records all the visitors that have come to meet him or would be scheduled to meet him today.

“I don’t need an appointment to meet him, girl. Looks like you are new here, hence you don’t know me.” she replied rather haughtily as she glared at me. I couldn’t help but frown at this behavior of hers.

“Please forgive me, miss, but you can’t meet him unless you have an appointment or you are scheduled to visit him today. If you want to meet him, you must have an appointment scheduled with him.” Professionally, I declined her to visit my boss. I don’t want to give him any chances to be fired upon me.

“How dare you stop me!” Fumingly she stomped on her feet and instantly turned to march towards the main office. I hurriedly walked out from behind the desk and stood in front to prevent her barging inside.

“Please, Ma’m, we have to follow some rules and guidelines here. We can’t let just anyone barge inside this way. Please try to understand.” The woman did not seem to heed my advice as she continued to try and walk past me, though I did not allow her. How unethical can she be?

“Who are you to stop me? Stand aside and let me in, otherwise if Leon comes out then you will be fired. Don’t test my patience girl!” she snapped at me once she saw her efforts going in vain.

“Miss, please leave here and don’t force me to call the security up here.” I politely and calmly asked her to go but she was adamant to be ungracefully thrown out.

“You low-class b***h! The nerve of you to threaten me like this!” her eyes sparked with fury as she cursed at me. The way she behaved did not appear that she would hold any special significance to the boss. She was getting too offensive to her rudeness and thus I fished out my corporate mobile that the company gave me for professional purposes and was about to hit the call button for security when I was suddenly pushed to the ground with force.  

“I wouldn’t have to use violence if you hadn’t messed with me, b***h!” The smug look on her face was infuriating to hell and I was on the verge of standing up to give her the taste of her own medicine, but all came to halt when an annoyed voice boomed in the corridor behind me.

“May I know what is going on in here?” as I turned my head, I found my boss walking towards us in wide strides. He was dressed in an ash-grey three-piece suit with a white shirt beneath it. His blonde-brown hair was styled backwards as his piercing grey eyes annoyingly looked at the scene before him.

“What is happening here?” he asked once again when he reached us.

 “I came to visit you darling, but your receptionist here wouldn’t let me see you. She even threatened to throw me out of this office.” She immediately turned to being a pitiful victim who was previously behaving more of a bully.

“But why are you here? I did not call you today.” Looking at her, he smirked and asked. The woman snaked her arms around his arm as she clung to him shamelessly, or more like pressed her silicon boobs against him. I slowly rose to my feet, dusting off whatever dust that may have caught on my clothes.

“Of course, because I missed you so much baby!” she coed and fluttered her fake eyelashes at him, whereas he didn’t even ask me if I was alright or not. How ungentlemanly of him!

“Nevermind, follow me, now that you are here. And Miss Campbell, she is Amy Hatchel. Please add her to the guest list of this month. She can be a bit childish sometimes. I hope you will not take it as an offense.” With just that he went back to his way as the blonde silicon Barbie followed behind him but not before sending me a victorious smirk. The man did not even wait for my reply before turning back that had me slightly frowning once again. How can be someone so… heartless?

 I took a deep breath to calm down myself and exhaled before returning back to my spot. No matter what her purpose is for coming here, I am better off without knowing it. Though I already have a hunch of that but I don’t wish to voice it out.

 In blink of an eye, the lunch time arrived and I went down to the cafeteria to eat as usual. It is on the ground floor behind the front hall. The space is wide enough to accumulate a good amount of crowd there with all those well arranged rows of seats and tables. The food there is great since they are managing business related to food. Just like everyone else, I too stood in the queue to get my food from the counter.

Since I am new here and that, on my floor there isn’t anyone except for three of us, therefore I haven’t been able to communicate with any other employees here. However, I do find many curious eyes staring at me whenever I come down and it’s not hard to guess what they might be thinking about me. 45 minutes later I returned back to my work with a full tummy and energized body.

I checked the schedule and confirmed the meeting at 4. I guess the visitor must have left by now though I still did not receive any acknowledgement from my boss regarding the meeting. Perhaps I will have to inform him personally now. Putting my spectacles back on and with the files related to the meeting, I left my counter and walked through the corridor towards his office.

Before entering, I knocked on his office door twice while waiting to be let in. Few seconds passed but I did not get nay reply from inside, so I tried again and firmer than before. Again to my disappointment, I got no response.

‘Could he have left to somewhere?’ I thought internally and finally pushed the door open to look inside. Once the door opened, I found his seat empty but when I looked on my left side where the couches were, I was startled and as a result he files fell down my hands with papers scattering on the floor.

“I-I… am so sorry! I didn’t meant to interrupt.” I spoke in a flustered manner as I dropped on my knees to gather the scattered papers. Messily, I collected them and scrambled out of his office apologizing once again.

On the couch inside, they were rather inappropriately intimate with the blonde Barbie’s back turned towards me as she sat upon his lap whereas my boss’s face was buried into the crook of her neck. She was sitting on his lap with both of her legs on either side of him and her purple outfit gathered down around her waist displaying her upper body stark naked. What more surprising was that, my boss did not lift his head to scold me or anything at all and remained buried into her neck. Perhaps he was too embarrassed to even look up.

I can’t believe I saw my boss in that embarrassing position with his supposed mistress. I was trying to avoid getting onto his bad books but seem like my days working here are scantily numbered. Upon reaching my desk I took deep breaths to collect myself and rearranged the messed up files.

Shortly within the fifteen minutes after I walked out of there, the blonde woman also came out but this time she was properly dressed though her hair was a little messed up and she appeared tired. Despite her exhaustion, she did not failed to give me a stink eye and stomped towards the elevator. I shook my head to clear the previous memories and focused on working. Few moments later, the telecom went off and I answered it.

“Come into my office.” With his usual rude manner, he called me in. Without making any delay, I stood before him but did not meet his eyes.

“I believe you wanted to speak with me about something.” He asked emotionlessly as I finally dared to face him. In contrast to the Barbie, he was just as immaculately dressed as before and on top of that into a new set of suit.

“I wanted to inform you about the meeting that is in about one hour, sir. I emailed you about it this morning but received no acknowledgement regarding it hence I thought to personally inform you. I also knocked twice onto the door before entering but received no response, therefore I barged in. I am utterly apologetic for this and assure that this won’t happen again, sir.” I quickly explained my part, before he latched onto me fiercely.

“If you are done explaining than May I speak Miss Campbell?” he crossed his arms over his broad muscular chest as he spoke in a taunting manner. I did not spoke another word and simply nodded.

“Next time, even if you don’t receive any reply of any form from me, you are not allowed to step into my office. Is that clear Miss Campbell?” his sharp eyes stared at me making me feel inferior before him. His presence and the way he carry himself is itself very dominating. His piercing grey orbs make one feel like as if he’s not looking onto your exterior appearance but the soul within.

“Understood sir.”

“Good, now, let’s head to the meeting.” with this he stood up to his full height and walked towards the exit while I followed behind and on the way out to the elevator, I grabbed all the required files and continued to follow him. The meeting will start in next ten minutes with some of the foreign delegates in conference two floors below us. The boss is in a foul mood. It appears that this is gonna be one hell of a meeting today. Let’s just hope no one gets fired.