Business / Casual
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own any of the fictional characters in this story nor am I making any claims about their lives. Solely for entertainment purposes only.
Volume 1
Chapter 1: New York pt.1
Bright blue eyes. Cleanly shaven face. Finn ran his fingers across the top of his head, encompassing his hair with the hair clay product he just bought. It was from a high-end hair product brand so hopefully it did what he wanted to. His hair wasn't long so it didn't take much. He shaped it perfectly mostly with his hands before cleaning it all up with a thick coarse brush. He buttoned up the last set on his blue flannel dress shirt before he decided what tie he wanted, if one at all.
"Nah, you're looking good Balor." He thought to himself, forgoing the tie. After throwing on his backpack, he immediately grabbed his phone and wallet along with an apple heading straight for this door. He shut it quickly behind him, locking the entrance to his apartment. Finn made it outside. He didn't own a vehicle anymore. After about a year in New York, he sold it realizing that it wasn't worth the cost and traffic. After all, he was a few minutes' walk from his work. As he entered his work building, Finn browsed through his phone, hoping that the work day went smooth as it was Friday and he had plans with cocktails and finishing season 6 of Parks and Recreation. Goddam was he excited. Such a GOOD show.
He took the elevator to the 7th floor of the building, the floor where "Stars and Signs" was located. It was the marketing firm that Finn worked at.
"Morning Renee." He said, greeting their receptionist after walking through the door.
"Morning Finn." She replied.
The company was a startup that began in Boston between a young Business mogul named Sasha Banks and her ex-boyfriend Roman Reigns. Roman was never a popular guy in the company. While he was a good person, most people knew he didn't belong running a business. Even Sasha, his girlfriend at the time, realized that the company was only successful because of her fearless grit and hard work. She eventually bought him out, now owning the entire company herself. She then moved to New York City and used all her earnings and savings to buy and renovate an entire floor in the business district in downtown NYC. Sasha had hired Finn after she sold significant stocks of the company to other young business women in New York.
As Finn gave everyone else in the office a "morning" he walked into what was his work area. While not exactly an office, it was a space of his own in the corner of the east side of the office floor complete with white desk, a large computer monitor, rotating chair and all the abstract art and fixings Finn decorated the space with. He unloaded his pack and threw his finished apple into the trash can. Finally, he sat at his desk hoping it would be a super smooth day.
"Alright Balor we got trouble!" Sasha said as she walked into the space and threw an excessively bright coral binder onto his desk.
"Fuck I was hoping it was going to be an easy day." He remarked.
"Not at all. We've got a large shit storm coming. Remember that really huge chemical manufacturing factory that we met with last week about a new market campaign and brand overhaul we got last week?"
"Yea, it was going to be our biggest client of the summer"
"Well it looks like we just lost it."
"By who?" Balor replied shocked at the loss of a huge client and project when they already offered what he believed the absolute best marketing service in the damn city. And this was New York City dammit.
"HHH Corp."
"What!?" Balor replied, stunned at the news. "They don't even have an office here anymore. They moved to LA and Chicago years ago and stopped doing local NY stuff."
"Well, they're back. Apparently, they got so big that they needed to expand again and returning to New York was their best bet."
"What does this mean BOSS?"
"It means we're in for a fight. Not just with this project. With everything."
"I'm all about the fight BOSS."
"I hope so. You have no idea how ruthless and evil this damn company is. They're going to try and run us out of town, if not, put us out of business."
"We won't let them."
"No, no we won't…. Anyways, love the shirt, blue looks great on you as always, I had a date last night but the guy was a total loser so that's done with, oh and you need to hire an intern because you're not gonna have enough time to do all the petty research and paperwork anymore for client projects. We have to step it up. Ask Becks to help you find one and ASAP. See you tomorrow for bar night. Have a meeting in Queens. Love yuh. You're the best. Bye boo."
Sasha was a true bad bitch. Definition of a BOSS.
Finn looked at the bright binder and looked through the contents. It was filled with the previous arrangements and proposed project contents for the manufacturing company. It was also filled with some bits of information on "HHH Corp." as well as scribbling and notes that Sasha wrote all throughout the binder on how they might have managed to steal the client. It was an alarming look. This company was coming back to NYC and it was looking for blood.
After 4 hours work, Finn decided to grab some lunch and coffee. He visited a coffee shop a short walk from work for lunch to grab some caffeine and then head for chicken salad with no cheese and raspberry vinaigrette across the street. Healthy lad he was.
Finn ordered his latte from the shop and gulped a good amount immediately. He needed that immediate satisfaction of caffeine after a stressful day. It was a Friday for fucks sake. Need he be this stressed on a damn Friday. He sat down at the shop, having an hour for lunch and longer really if he wanted, to give him some time to relax. But he couldn't relax. This time though it wasn't because of his lack of caffeine. And it wasn't because of the stress of dealing with a powerful new company that already fired the first strike. No, it was a different kind of unnerving. It was the type of unnerving that happens when the hottest guy you've seen in ages walks into the shop and gets in line. He was at the opposite counter Finn went to sit buy, so he got a full look of his face. Slicked back ponytail with a strong chiseled jaw and mesmerizing eyes. Then there was that beautiful beard, much like his own that was trimmed a bit thinner. He was in more business professional attire, no tie but full on blazer, button up, and slacks.
After staring at him for a couple minutes, he turned his direction and eventually caught Finn. They made direct eye contact despite Finn feeling absolutely embarrassed at the situation now. He stared intently, but luckily, it was his turn to order and it ended. Phew, now hopefully he could just leave the coffee shop or if not, Finn would to avoid the awkward energy that filled the place now.
That was the plan anyway, until said hot guy grabbed his coffee, aid for it, and then made his way to Finn.
"Oh god. Oh god. Oh god." Finn panicked silently in his head.
"Hey there, my name is Seth and I think you're really cute….'
NOTES: Hey guys, I'm back to writing. I tried it, didn't hit it off well but now I am reinvigorated with ideas and inspiration! Very excited for this new story. M/M coming later, we are on the first chapter after all. Let me know if you have any ideas for this story or suggestions as I would love to hear them to combine them with my own direction that I'll be taking.
Chapter 2 Synopsis: Finn meets a handsome stranger and spends the rest of his lunch with him. Sasha holds an emergency meeting about HHH Corp.