Chapter one
"I'll get it back to you later, okay?"
A day will not be a day for her without phone calls. She's undeniably in a hurry to notice that she is about to bump into someone.
"What the fu-" she saw her clean white suit now stained with coffee. "What are you? Blind?"
"I'm sorry." Alluring husky voice.
"Whatever. Get out on my way." Naomi yelled at the messed up looking red-head girl before her who obviously has the coffee. "You should clean the loo by now." She rolled her eyes then disappeared.
"It's not my fault. You're not looking. Rude." Her eyes followed the direction of the blonde. "I'm not a janitress. Bloody mean."
Before she completely loses her grip, she went out of the building and searched for another random coffee shop. She wasted the first one. She soon found herself at Starbucks; finds a vacant seat and planned to spend there to kill time before time kills her.
"One vanilla cream frappe. Here you go." Emily smiled.
"Thanks."
She's reading a book when her phone rings. "Yeah, K?"
"Where in the world are you, bitch?" Katie is yelling, her twin.
She takes the phone away from her ear; she could be deaf any moment by now. "Don't yell. I can hear you, okay?"
"I'm waiting for you to call me if ever you notice it's already 3 o'clock in the afternoon."
"So?"
"So I need to borrow your car." Katie is really pissed off. "Where is it?"
"At mum's. I didn't bring it with me since I'm having coffee at the nearby coffee shop." She sips from her frappe. "Why do you need mine? You have your own car."
"Just fucking shut up and bring your car here at home now. I need it." She then hangs up.
"Bitch!" she rises and went out of the coffee shop to get her car at her mum's office; always the obedient one.
X
"What took you so long?"
"Katie you're asking a favor from me. I think you should be grateful and thankful as well." She drops the key on the couch where Katie is waiting.
"Oh yeah? Thanks." She rolled her eyes. "I'm going out."
"Don't smash my car."
"What do you think of me, stupid?" Katie seizes her clutch. "Your fucking car is not that good."
"Yeah. Volvo is not that good." Playing sarcastic. She beams. "Lexus is good. That's your car right?"
"Fuck up! I don't care if you have the expensive one here, bitch." She then walks out of the house.
"Okay, whatever." She left there chuckling. Katie never failed to amuse her sometimes. And now, she left there with nothing to do.
"I was fine in Birmingham." She then remembers the reason why she needed to be at Bristol. "Move on." That's the thing she wanted to do for almost 2 years but she just can't.
"You alright love?" her father appears out of nowhere but it didn't surprised her. "It seems you're not."
"I'm fine dad." Her father sat beside her.
"You remember her again?" her heart clenched hearing it.
She gazes at her father and it's apparently obvious she do think of her. "Sort of. I never failed to think of her every day and there's no way I could forget her."
"I know she wanted you to be happy. Just be happy for her." Rob hugs her daughter. "Let her go."
"I'll try dad. I'll try to forget Mandy." She's trying for almost 2 years but there's no change. She's still in love with her. "If only she didn't leave me. Everything is fine right now."
"I know she never wanted to leave you. It's just that, she needed to." Her daughter is starting to space out again.
"Yeah."
"You're young, 23. You can find someone."
"Yeah dad. And I'm gay. I was just thankful when you and mum accepted me, accepted me and Mandy, being together." She kisses her father on his forehead and went upstairs to open her MacBook.
"I guess, it's you and me. Let's kill time together." She's weird sometimes.
X
"I'm late okay? So will you just fuck off, just leave me alone for a moment because I have a meeting to attend to." Naomi is really getting agitated. "Jesus fucking Christ!" she hangs up.
She hurriedly went to the President's office. She noticed a girl sitting beside the glassy window. Messy.
"I'm sorry. Traffic it is, Mrs. Fitch." She puts her reports before the older woman.
"The meeting will start 15 minutes by now and we will have it here. The conference room is under renovation so the board will be here anytime soon." Jenna glances at her daughter who slowly rose up who made Naomi take a look too. "By the way, this is my daughter Emily." Naomi froze.
"Emily, this is Naomi Campbell, General Manager of the Company." Jenna shifted her gazes from both girls.
Emily just looks at her, bluntly. Naomi couldn't believe herself the first time she saw the red-head girl whom she thought was a janitress because of its messy looks and turned out to be the President's daughter. But now, she feels like looking into a stunning woman before her, looking straight to the red-head's kind chocolate brown eyes.
"Nice meeting you, Emily." She doesn't want to admit that she feels embarrassed but she has the every right to. First, she knows that it was her fault the day her suit was turned out to be a hell crap, second, she didn't apologize and third, she thought that the girl before her was a janitress, she can't blame herself because the red-head girl dresses so simple, she doesn't look like a daughter of an excellent President. Judgmental.
Emily nodded but didn't utter something. She doesn't give a damn care. "I need to go mum."
"And where are you going?" her mother asks her. "You should join the meeting. You're going to work here."
She's calm, not really surprised when her mother told her that she's going to be a part of the company. "I am so not gonna work here mum and I really need to go, someone is waiting for me." She's about to go out when she heard her mum saying something.
"Who's gonna take over the Company when I retired? Katie is into fashion business and your brother is too young." She looks at her mum with nothing but plain looking only then she moves out leaving her mum and Naomi confused.
"She's impossible sometimes." Jenna sighs. "I need a favor Naomi."
"Of course, what is it Mrs. Fitch?" she's arranging her reports that will be presented on the Board.
"Convince Emily to be a part of the company."
Naomi accidentally drops the reports unto the floor. Pretty surprised by Jenna. "I don't know her that well Mrs. Fitch and it feels like, she's difficult. Very."
"No. Emily is kind, very understanding in fact. It's just that she ceased to be like that anymore." Jenna is quite sad seeing her daughter stop living her life; the very reason she wanted to make Emily continue her life at Bristol rather than staying at Birmingham. "We just can't do anything to cheer her up."
She hates it but she'll try. And it was the President's order. It is her job to abide to it even though she knows it is not her obligation. She wants to help Jenna as long as she can because if it weren't for the President, she is nothing. Jenna is her mentor; she learned to be excellent in everything when it comes to managing departments because of the President's faith in her. So it's fair enough to help the person who made her the person she is today. It's not simple to break the ice and boundaries surrounding the red-head but there's nothing to lose if she tries. Good point, Campbell.
"And one more thing, once my daughter agreed to take practices here in the Company, please take her with you in all your meetings and maybe the biggest favor I'll ask is..." Jenna halted. She's thinking that maybe she's asking too much from Naomi, but she'll take her chances if that's the only way to teach her daughter some lesson.
"Yes, Mrs. Fitch?" Naomi ask.
Jenna looks at her subordinate. She's in doubt. "I want her, Emily, to live with you, Naomi. Literally. For that, she will know everything that she ought to know from the Business." Jenna is observing Naomi's reaction. She's desperate to let her daughter be handled by her best molded creation which is Naomi. "Naomi, please."
Naomi is feeling flighty. She's not actually sure if she heard it right. She's literally spacing out and she's not sure if she can stand living with the red-head. She's thinking. Deep.
"I'll let you think. I hope you'll consider my favor. And making you the Vice President of this successful Company will be my honor, Naomi." Jenna is like offering something. Bribing Naomi.
On the other hand, Naomi is pretty much astonish. She never thought of possessing such position in the most respected and prestigious Company in Bristol. Now, she's thinking so hard. She won't deny the fact that Jenna is offering her a very big-dream-come-true opportunity.
They were interrupted when the door opens and the Board is ready to hear the proposal from Naomi.
"Meet our expectations, Campbell." One of the boards said.
"Naomi is excellent, she'll impress you." Jenna is full of confidence because she knows that Naomi won't propose anything that isn't relevant. "Start the meeting."
X
"Ems, does boredom really kills?"
"It actually sucks, Cass." They're having lunch in one of the finest restaurant in Bristol there is. It's been a while since they spent time together. "I've got nothing to do and not to mention Katie took my car. Well, partly I love walking so I guess it won't be a biggie one."
"Wow. Where's her Lexus?"
"I don't know and I don't care." She shrugs her shoulders.
"Harsh. Meanie."
"I'm not Cass." She taps the blonde. "It's just that… I don't care. Whatever the hell it is." She smirks. "How is it going by the way?"
Cassie looks at her confusedly. "Oh yeah, I remember. Take off next week. Dad says so."
"Mum asked me earlier, you know, before I met you for lunch. She wants me to join the company." She shook her head, still in disbelief. "And I saw this blonde girl who bumped into me and did fail to apologize last time. She's the General Manager."
"So? What will you do next?"
"I'm so not gonna work there. I'm into pressure if that's the case, I mean, mum and dad would expect a lot from me since I'm not just any ordinary employee." Emily still doesn't know what to do. It seems so fast for her.
"Go with me then." Cassie is talking like a wanker.
"I can't. Sorry." She continues eating her lunch.
"Bitch." She chuckles at the red-head. "Get a life, Emily. "
"Yeah. As if I care."
"Oh wow, you do. You just don't want to fucking admit it."
"Whatever." Emily gave her a 'stop that' look.
"Okay, I'll shut up. Zip and sealed, tight." Cass then really shut her mouth.
"You're funny, you know. Pretty much amusing." She giggles. "I can't help it, no offense."
"Do I look like a fucking clown here Ems?"
"Okay, I'm quiet." But the way Emily face looks like; any minute she'll burst out laughing so hard. She's holding a very tight grip control. "You're not pissed off right? It's so not you if you do."
"I'm not." She smiles so crazy. Sarcastic. "Just finish your meal. I need to be at dad's office after this."
"Okay."
X
"It will be a great help if you do join the company." She turns and looks at the person before her after hearing that familiar voice; spending time at her mum's office since she doesn't know what to do. "Your mother really believes in you and I guess so do I."
"Will you stop mocking at me? I don't buy it." The red-head is slowly getting so rude. It isn't her nature; she doesn't know what's wrong with her. Naomi froze in embarrassment. "Don't praise me or whatsoever. I don't need one."
For a moment, Naomi loses her tongue, her words and opinions. This red-head lady is so difficult, she thought. "I don't mean some disrespect but I'm being polite here so please, just talk to me nicely."
"What if I don't?"
Difficult indeed; very hard to please. "I just don't know what's wrong with you but your mother asked me to convince you, so I'm just trying my best to talk to you 'nicely'." Naomi emphasized the last word she said.
Emily gazed at her and took back after. "I'm sorry." She felt weird. Emily is a very patient one; doesn't get mad so easy. She seems so lost, not in places but inside herself. Something's lacking in her. "I just couldn't answer that right now, if that's okay." She's calm now.
Naomi sat in the opposite side of the settee. She took glances from Emily who's not moving a muscle before she speaks. "I'm sorry." Emily looks at her plainly. "I mean, for yelling at you last time. It's my fault and worse, I didn't apologize."
"You know how to apologize?" sarcastic as ever.
"I do. So stop being so mean."
"Me? Mean?" there she goes again. "I'm just asking."
Naomi stands up. She can't stand another mock from the President's daughter. She's ruining her day. "I should go."
"Yeah, you really should." Naomi just rolled her eyes in disbelief. She just couldn't believe her, very rude and not to mention, mean as well. She went out of the office trying to calm herself.
"Very rude, very mean, very difficult. I hate her. Unfair!" she feels like exploding; whilst Emily on the other side was smiling like an idiot. She really did pissed Naomi off.
"Amusing blonde." she chuckles. "Very interesting indeed."
