Misaki took a deep breath before squaring her shoulders as she lifted her head to straight forward at the door in front.
She just had to knock on that door and enter when told, that Shouldn't be too hard to do Right? Especially since her older brother had told her the man on the other side was really nice, even if he was going to be her boss.
This wasn't the case for her however, no matter how much she tried to calm her nerves and racing heart she just couldn't seem to. Her anxiety always did this to her somehow, making any confidence she had completely go away.
Her inner panic was brought to a halt when a click sound came from the door in front of her and it suddenly creaked open to reveal a man with disheveled silverish/brown with a blank expression on his face.
"Oh you must be my new secretary, Misaki was it? Takahiro's younger sister?" The man asked in a deep yet soft tone that sounded rather indifferent as he looked down at the girl in front of him.
"Y-yes, that's correct!" Misaki replied, bowing her out of nervous embarrassment.
"Welcome in then, I was wondering where you were at, he'd said you'd be here almost an hour before now." He said while scratching the back of head as he opened the office door for her to enter.
"Y-yeah I was, but then I had to go back home because I forgot something and then traffic was really bad on my way here so it took longer than expected. I'm sorry about that" Misaki knew what she was saying must've sounded like a really lame excuse, but a lame excuse was better than no excuse, right?
"The reasons don't matter to me, just be more punctual next time. Now take a seat so we can start discussing work." The man held his hand out in a gesture that signaled for Misaki that he wanted her to take a seat at the loveseat that was on the right side of the room positioned behind or in front of a coffee table depending on how one looked at it.
Misaki entered the office, giving the other a small "thank you" as she walked past him to take a seat. Just as she got the loveseat however she stopped when her eyes caught sight of something rather large already seated on the sofa, a rather large teddy bear to be exact that had a bow in its hair.
"That's Suzuki-san, she's my vice-president." Explained the voice behind her, she blinked once than twice as she tried to process the words of the man behind her together with the sight in front of her.
"I see, sh-she's quite a lovely teddy bear." Misaki gave a soft nervous chuckle as she forced herself to take a seat next to the bear, but not close enough to actually touch it or disrupt it from its seat in case it would cause her to get yelled at. "And I'm sorry, I forgot-what was your name again?" She asked turning to face the other who was sitting in a plush red arm chair in the opposite side of the coffee table from her.
She held a tiny amount of hope in her heart that perhaps she had just gotten the addresses or the room she was supposed to enter mixed up with another and someone was just tying to play a funny joke on a naive girl like her. That hope was quickly dashed however when the man opened his mouth and explained to her who he was.
"My name is Usami Akihiko, CEO of this company, but since you're working for me, you can just call me Usagi-san."
"Us-Usagi-san?." Misaki was feeling like her head was starting to spin from everything that she hearing and having to process as it was causing her to have a serious disconnect.
This person in front her this, Usagi, really couldn't have been the same person her brother recommended she come work for, could it?
"Yes?" Asked picking up the coffee mug that was on the table and taking a sip from it.
"I, um. I'm just not sure what to make of everything. I mean..." Misaki trailed off as she looked down at her, fisting her skirt, she was really starting to feel very lost about everything.
"Speaking of your skirt," Usagi started causing the other to look
up at him as he placed the coffee mug back on the table, "Your skirt is too long. By three inches to be exact." He finished, leaning over the coffee table as he kept his eyes fixed on Misaki's skirt.
"Wait, what?!" she exclaimed as she looked down at her skirt. "I know my skirt is too long, but I haven't had a chance to get one that's the right length. But that aside, I haven't even been talking about my skirt, Usagi-san!"
"You were fisting it in your hands though, that's close enough to talking about it because you drew my attention To." The silverish haired man gave a slight shrug.
"I wasn't doing that to draw attention to it though! I was doing it because I was getting nervous!" Misaki snapped "I came here looking to get a job to help me pay for college, and I took this one because my older brother told me it would be a good place to work at, especially since I haven't had a job before. So here I am now ready to work and just everything isn't exactly how I expected it to be. This office, you, the teddy bear- nothing at all is what I expected it to be and I'm already worried I'm not going to be able to do a good job here." Misaki was focusing on Usagi the entire time she spoke, only half aware of what .she had been saying, but the man seemed taken aback.
"What do you mean, 'not what you expected it be'?" Usagi asked, his tone slightly lower than before, "Doesn't your older brother talk about me?"
"Not really, I know you're his friend and he has known you for quite some time, but he rarely talks about you. And that's why I thought I must've been in the wrong office, because you don't seem like the kind of person my brother would associate with." The other froze when she said this, Misaki was too busy looking back down at her lap as she was speaking that she didn't notice the change in his entire demeanor, otherwise she would've probably stopped herself before she said what she did next "I mean, my older brother is really smart, mature, sophisticated, and hard working, and I know I don't know you that well yet-but by your behavior so far and the way your office looks. It feels like you come across as immature and childish, which makes you seem not like someone my brother would associate with, not only that, because you're which that probably means that you're a playboy as well, something my brother would never be nor is even something that he approves of."
The loud thumped that sounded on the other side of the table caused Misaki to jump slightly as her head whipped to look over at Usagi who was the creator of the sound. A soft chuckle escaped his mouth, but it was obvious to tell by the look on his face that he was anything but thrilled with he had just heard.
"You really think you know eeverything, don't you?"