Zuko had worked for his uncle for about 5 years total. Before he went off to college, he would work as a mail boy in the summers and he would go back and live with his sister and dad in California. Zuko was a graduate of the Harvard Business School, at the top of his class. He had about a ton of job offers but when to work for his uncle instead; it was his uncle that fronted the cash for him to go to the expensive school in the first place. It was Zuko's way of thanking Iroh.
The meeting was just about to start people were walking around and making small talk, about yesterday's game or the stock market. Occasionally the topic of a TV show came and went. But when Iroh walked in everyone found their seats, and basically shut up.
"Okay we will be starting this week's meeting, we have a new higher and she will be here in a couple hours so please make her feel welcome. She is a graduate of Yale, and will be heading up our Marketing/Research Department."
Zuko swung his chair around to face the front he had been reading an expense report but put it down when he heard that he would be working with someone new.
'Why didn't he tell me?' Zuko wondered to himself.
Iroh went on to talk about some new product or some smaller company that they had just bought, and Zuko was trying to remember when his uncle had told him, because Iroh always told Zuko inside information about the company. The meeting adjourned until next week, and Zuko returned to his office and organized a couple things, send out some emails, and made some plans for the rest of the work week, and the next week after that.
He took a moment to look out the window in his corner office, taking in all the city had to offer. Taxi cabs tiny and yellow zoomed around down town and people walked the streets. It looked calm and quiet but it was far from it. When he turned around, he saw the young lady get off the elevator, and meet Iroh. They shook hands and talked as they walked down the hall. Zuko opened his office door and stood in the door way.
She was wearing a light blue-ish lavender skirt suite with matching stiletto heels, a long coat that matched the length of her skirt and she wore it with a nice crisp white blouse. Her hair was long and dark brown. She had it in a very simple of styles, just a small ponytail pull behind her with half in the ponytail, the rest behind her shoulders. He saw her walk down to her office which was ironically two offices down from his.
"This is your office please feel free to decorate it as you wish." He said. It was what his uncle always said to his new higher, "It makes them feel more welcome." He would always say, later on to Zuko.
After Iroh had shown the new employee to her office, he went over to Zuko.
"Go introduce yourself…you have a lot of work to be starting. I will email you the time line."
"Oh…okay." Doing as his uncle say he went over to the new girl.
"Hi…I'm Zuko." He said
She had barley sat down for a second, she looked up at him.
"Oh Hi, I'm Katara." She said. She shook his hand.
"From what I hear we will be working together a lot…Iroh is going to send me a time line for our first project together."
"Okay awesome…I really need to get organized can we talk over lunch?" she asked her eyebrows rose inquisitively.
"…umm…sure…do you want to stay in or go out."
"Well…," She thought, "let's go out I haven't been in town in a while. You pick the place, I don't care."
"Okay well see you at 1:30?" He suggested
She looked at her watch, "That will be about perfect."
She smiled at him as he left then she took her shoes off and started to move in to her new office. Katara began by setting up her computer and getting familiar with the new system. She organized her desk exactly the way she wanted and found some of the research binders she knew that she was going to need, for a while. She was within the moment, when a knock came to her door. She looked up and smiled.
"It is now 1:30…would you like me to wait I do have more work to get done."
"Umm…" she looked at what she was doing, "Nope…I think I'm good stopping place."
"Great. Let's go." He said with a smile.
"So where are we going?" she asked
"…ah well…a little diner…the best food around." He said with a smile as they both walked to the elevator.
