Disclaimer: A girl can dream of owning the multi-million dollar empire belonging to Disney, can't she?
A/N: A small little story that I had decided to write during my vacation. I hope you enjoy, and please review!
"Julie, it isn't that big of a deal, okay. Just page me when the shipping comes in, and remember to call Finn in marketing too once it comes in." Lilly took a deep breath and looked down at her friend/secretary sitting down at her oak desk. She sent the small red-head a knowing smile then started to saunter down the wide hallway to her office. She stopped for a second and turned back towards the willowy girl.
"Oh, and Juls? Don't look so desperate when he comes back too." She winked at her then continued, "I know for a fact that the guy likes you."
She chucked once she saw Julie smile widely, and then continued back on track to get to her office. It had been a long day and she couldn't wait to get back to her apartment later on that evening. She closed the door once she reached her stop and ran forward to the large, leather desk-chair. The short blonde plopped herself down on the chair and proceeded to kick off her black pumps.
Lilly sighed in relief once her feet were free from the clutched of the evil high-heeled shoes. She rested her head back and started to run her fingers through her long golden locks. She smiled and rested her feet on the top of the large wooden desk that belonged to her, completely aware of the papers that were scattered everywhere on top of it. She turned her head to the window gazing out at the beautiful view of the city, admiring the atmosphere of New York City and Washington Square Park.
"Finally, some peace and quiet, and some well deserved Lilly time." She closed her eyes for a few moments and taking in calming, cleansing breaths enjoying her tiny break from the constant hassles of her job. She loved her occupation as an executive writer and part-time assistant at the eco-friendly, outdoor sports magazine, but sometimes a girl's got to take a break and get some breathing time for herself.
She opened her baby-blues and scanned the immensely large office around her. The beige walls were covered with several photographed scenery pictures of her hometown of Malibu, and one, a picture of a person surfing on a wave was placed behind her desk. All the lights were off within the room and the only source of light was from the sun outside the window and the computers screensaver. She let out a soft laugh as she saw the fish swim across the screen.
After a momentary second of watch the clown fish swim around the pixilated reef she took a look down at her desk and noticed the un-godly mess of papers scattered everywhere -- Shipping forms, post-it notes with chicken scratch written on it, and candid photos of multiple outdoor actives.
Realizing that later on in the week she'd have to clean the pig sty she wrote a quick note upon the blue post-it pad and slapped it onto the corner of her computer screen. "There." She smiled lightly at the accomplishment she had done. Reality dawned on the short blonde when she realized she hadn't had something to drink in over two hours. Touching her hand to her throat and rubbing it slightly, she noticed how parched she had become in the two hour time frame.
Stretching her legs out across the desk for the second, she pulled back and placed her bare feet on the rough carpeted, gray floor. 'Guess it's time to get myself a coffee', she thought as she stood up straight from the leather chair and walked towards the door. Her hand on the cold, silver doorknob she turned to her right and grabbed the faux Burberry purse off the coat rack before opening the door and walking towards Julie's desk.
"Hey, I'm heading over to Starbucks for a coffee. Want one?"
"Umm, sure." Julie smiled at her friend before giving her the order, "Make it a tall French roast, please. Oh, and decaf. I'm trying to cut down on my caffeine intake."
Lilly laughed at her request of decaf, remember how hyper the caffeine can make her and grinned before heading towards the office elevators.
Before returning to her task at hand of organizing meeting hours, Julie turned towards Lilly walking away and realized something was missing from her blonde co-workers ensemble. Julie laughed really loudly and heartedly before calling out towards the girl getting on the elevator.
"Hey Lils!"
Lilly turned back again in the direction of Julie's girly and cheerful voice, then pressed the hold button for the elevator doors.
"What is it?"
"Don't you think you're forgetting something?"
Lilly made a mental note of things she had with her--purse, wallet, money, cell-phone, pager… after a second or two she looked at the girl calling her name, confused on what she could have possibly forgotten.
"What?" Lilly asked puzzled and sheer confusion written all over her face.
The blonde beauty could hear her friend laugh once again then stop.
"Your shoes might to helpful when walking down the street."
Lilly took a look down at her feet, and realized that she had begun to walk out of the company with absolutely no shoes on! She looked back towards Julie with a shocked expression, and then ran out of the elevator, back towards her office; the sound of Julie's laughing following her the whole way. She had been so relaxed and comfortable inside the closed room without her shoes on, that she had completely forgotten them under her desk when she got ready to leave.
Julie was having herself a laughing fit over at her desk, as passing co-workers looked at her, wondering if she was alright. Small tears leaked out of the corners of her eyes as she laughed like a hyena.
Lilly returned after a couple of minutes with her black pumps donning her feet as she turned and walked in the direction of the elevator once again, ignoring Julie's snickers as she passed by.
Wiping the tears from her hazel eyes, Julie called back out to the embarrassed blonde. "Wow, Lils…"
"Shut Up."
A/N: Just a thought that was floating around my head recently, so I felt that I should put it down on paper and share it. I apologize if Lilly's a bit OC; I'm trying to work on that.
Yep, and as for the shoe thing... it happened to me. When I went to NYC last year, I was leaving the hotel with my sister to go sightseeing when she realized that I forgot to put shoes on when we left the room. Haha, guess that answers the question why people in the lobby were giving me odd looks. :P
Anywho, Hope you liked it, and please review. I'll be waiting to hear your feed-back on this chapter. I'll try and update soon.