Carla groaned as her alarm went off and she rolled over and hit the snooze button. She hugged the pillow and yawned. 'God I don't wanna get up' she thought to herself as she sat up slowly and stretched. She rubbed her eyes as she wandered into the bathroom. 'I need more sleep' Carla thought to herself as she looked in the mirror and saw the dark circles under her eyes. She sighed one more time before starting the shower and hopping in.

An hour and a half later Carla was behind the wheel of her car and stuck in traffic. She slapped the steering wheel and cursed as she looked at her watch. 'Great I'm gonna be late. Just what I need' Carla thought to herself as she rubbed her forehead. Vince was going to have her head if she was late for this product meeting. After all it did concern 2 of the top stars in the company. Carla let out a sigh of relief as the traffic started moving and she made it to work with ten minutes to spare.

"Well there you are and just on time" Vince said as she walked into the conference room. "I'm sorry the traffic was horrible" Carla said as she sat down. Vince cleared his throat and started to go over some of the merchandise sale figures. Carla leaned back in her seat and looked around the room. 'God couldn't he have at least put on a clean shirt'
she thought as she watched him play with the string on his hoodie sweater. She watched him for a few more moments and then turned her attention back to Vince.

Phil smiled to himself as he watched her look at him and then look away. He smiled a little more as he thought back to the Christmas party Vince had held at his place. She had a little too much to drink and he had offered to help her back to her apartment and she had kissed him outside her door and how embarassed she had been when she realized what had happened. Phil knew she thought she was a little better than him because she worked in the office and he was just a wrestler and all he wanted was an opportunity to prove her wrong and show her he could meet her on her level. He watched her for a few more moments before turning his attention back to Vince.

Carla ran her fingers through her hair as she sat behind her desk. She couldn't believe what Vince wanted her to do. He wanted her to travel and spend the week with Phil Brooks to try and come up with new merchandise ideas for him. Her mind wandered back to the night she had drank a little too much at Vince's Christmas party. She groaned to herself as she thought about how she had a made a fool out of herself and thrown herself at Phil when he had helped her back to her apartment. "Oh come on it's not going to be that horrible is it?".

Carla's head jerked up at the sound of his voice and saw him leaning in the doorway of her office. "Sorry I did't realize anyone was here" she sighed as she ruffled through some papers on her desk. Phil stepped a little bit more inside her office and ran his fingers through his hair "I didn't mean to startle you". Carla looked up at him "it's ok. Did you want something". Phil ran his fingers through his hair again. "No it's ok. I'll see you at the arena tomorrow" he said with a half smile and then walked out of her office. Carla leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes as she let out a sigh.
It was going to be a long week.