The Difference Between Wishes And Dreams: Chapter 1

Written By: Angel Marie

'The youngest person working for the, all, too, famous Mr. Winner, in his very own company, the Winner Corps. * Sigh* All that work I did in school paid off after all.' I think to myself as I sit at my large mahogany desk realizing that I had nothing to do, not even hearing all the clattering of drawers and the sound of paper being shuffled around outside of my office. There is an urgent knock at my door and before I can reply a man walks in, he has a very muscular build and at well over six feet he uses it to his advantage, brown hair that is too long for a guy, at least in my opinion, he always has it in a braid too, he has beautiful cobalt blue eyes that flatter a women even if he just looks at them. They have never flattered me though, that would be wrong. "Hey Duo, what are you doing here?" "Ahh, nothing, I just heard that you have the second highest position in this company and you are still only sixteen, I am so proud of you Angel, so are mom and dad." He looks at his sister with love and admiration, she was a lot shorter than he, standing at about five foot six she didn't even come up to his chin, she had beautiful long black hair, that she always wore up when she was at work, and a pair of legs that a man could look at a million times but still have to take another glance at, she had the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen, they were not a regular shade like blue or green, they were prettier, a lovely shade of dark purple, she didn't even wear contacts to make them that color, they just were. "You could have done just as well if you didn't stick around that house," I tell him laughing as I play with my electric chair's remote, thing, and hit the button that gives a massage. "You know damn well that I wouldn't have lived through High School with the principle, Mr. Plaguing, watching my every move," he says knowing he had proved his point. He walks by the desk to take a look at my computer. "Hey does this thing have any games?" I shake my head, " some things never change," I mumble to myself rubbing his head, "yes my dear, deprived brother." "Hey! Watch the hair girlie," he says pulling away, "may I play one?" He asks and I nod moving out of my chair. "You mean I get the good chair? Where you going?" He asks as I head to the door. "Me?" "Yes you, you are not supposed to leave me in here unsupervised, remember what happened last time?" I giggle as I remember the atrocious mess he made in my last office, "yeah you made quite a mess didn't you?" He nods proudly, " well this equipment is much more expensive so if you break you buy. I'm not paying for cleaning up your mess this time," I say opening the door with a flick of my wrist. "Oh, and before I forget, absolutely no porn sites this time, they are tracking what sites we visit, plus, I don't feel like deleting all of them again." He blushes, I hear the mouse click and guess that he just closed a window with a very naughty site on it. "I will be back in five." I say walking out of the room heading towards the soda machines. 'God I am so glad he decided to come visit me at work today,' I think sighing. I put the dollar into the machine and push on the button that has a picture of a can of Vanilla Coke and walk back to my office, opening the door I find my brother yelling at the computer. "Hey.that should have.yes!" At this moment I am questioning my brothers sanity and deciding that I should have probably stayed by the soda machine after I got my drink. So I start walking to the door again. "Angel where y-" he cuts off to yell a steady stream of curses at the computer screen. "Oh, your boss called, he said that he wants to see you in his office as soon as possible." He says and I hear the clicking of the mouse as he stands up. "What were you doing on the computer Maxwell?" I ask my brother. "Playing battleship on the internet," he grins and, because he looks so cute standing there grinning I go on the tips of my toes and give him a kiss on the cheek. "Hey! You got your lipstick all over my face.Angel!!! That is RED!! Why did you do that? Now people are going to get the wrong ideas." "And the pretty girls won't flirt with you as you walk out." He grins again, "All girls flirt with me, even if they think I am having an affair, or they think I am married." "Well, I have to go and evidentially so do you, so bye, I love you." "Love you too," he says already shifting his attention to the leggy blonde walking by my office. He then bends down and gives me a quick kiss on the cheek as he runs out of my office yelling his good byes. I shake my head then shut and lock the door to my office. After I finish I walk to Mr. Winner's office, 'this may turn in to the second best day of my life.' 'What if he got me in trouble?' I thought to myself while walking down to Mr. Winner's office, 'then I'll just kill him.' I answer my self. I already knew that it wasn't Mr. Winner, himself, that had called my office, it was his replacement, Mr. Winner was almost never at the office, he didn't need to be, he was already a multi-billionaire. He grew up in money, so she didn't understand why the heck he even wasted any money on this stupid company when he could just sell it and get millions more dollars. 'Maybe he isn't like all the other rich guys in this world, maybe he had, well, a heart.' Many people in this company have seen him, many described him as very kind and very cute, and others had told her that he was just a regular cute rich guy. I walk up to the office and am about to knock on the door when I hear an angry female voice coming from the room on the other side of the door. "What do you mean he is not going to be here until next week?" "Calm down Dorothy, he will be back soon but you will not be able to see him because his schedule is extremely full." 'Dorothy. its probably just one of his angry lovers that can't wait until he comes back so she can--" my thoughts cut off when I hear something highly breakable crash, there is a click and the door opens open, out walks a blonde haired woman with shockingly blue eyes. "Hello." I tell her as she glares at me. She glares at me some more then asks, "where you listening to that conversation?" "I came here because I was called down here and I heard something break then you came out, so, no I was not listening to your conversation but I think you should apologize for whatever you broke." "Do you know who you are talking to?" She asks and when I don't answer she tells me, "I am Dorothy Catalonia, Princess Relena's advisor, and also the third most powerful woman in the world, who, may I ask, are you little girl?" My back stiffens and I decide I do not like this woman at all. "My name is Angel Marie Maxwell, and I have the second highest position in the company, and at the moment I am incredibly thankful that I am not you." I say, starting to smirk at her face, which has started to glare at me again, "now I have business to attend, if you don't mind me." I say and walk right past her in to the office to help clean up the mess that she made. She stands in the doorway then says, "You will regret talking to me like that, I now know who you are." She slams the door shut causing the man crouching across from me to jump. "That was very brave and stupid of you Angel." "I know that, but right now I don't really care, plus, she won't find anything on Angel Marie Maxwell, she doesn't exist, the name is Angel Katrina Marie." "I see, you are a very intelligent young woman, and that is why I was told to call you down here, oh by the way, my name is Mr. Jeremy Sanders, and I am Mr. Winners advisor." We shake hands, like business people and he keeps talking. "Did you know that you are the only person under 35 that has made it to the position that you are in right now, well, except Mr. Winner. And your résumé says that you finished High School when you were 14, very impressive." "Thank you." "You are very welcome, Mr. Winner, himself, would like to schedule a meeting with you this Thursday, in other words about three days, will that work with you?" "Yes it will." "Now, today some porn sites were visited on your computer, they were made for males, not females. Could you give me an explanation?" "Yes, my brother is here and every time he comes, he goes on my computer, and every time he visits site like that, I will make sure he does not ever do it again." "Okay that is all I wanted to talk to you about, I will e-mail you more information on the meeting on Wednesday, do you have anything to ask?" "No, sir. Well, I will see you around. Goodbye." "Goodbye," we shake hands and I leave. "DUO!" I yell and head for the blonde's office, 'that boy is so dead.' I walk in to the blondes office, I don't even knock, "Duo, darling." I say absolutely pissed at him. There are reasons that I am pissed too, two good ones: number one, he went on MORE porn when I told him specifically not to, and two, he is sitting there smugly making out with one of the people that work with me, along with distracting her from the work, I know, she has to do. He turns his head and seeing the fury on my face he stands up, picking up the girl with him, since she was sitting on his lap, and he sets her down. "Is that your lover," the blonde asks. "His lover? HIS LOVER?" I yell, ready to murder both of them. "I-guess not then." she says; now sorry she even asked the stupid question in the first place. "Now Angel calm down, sweetie, I am sure that whatever has pissed you off can be resolved in yo-" he says before I cut him off by yelling. "No! We will resolve it right here and right now! You told me you were not going to go on any porn sites! I told you they tracked them, I told you dangit!" I say avoiding as many swear words as possible, "now because of you I got in big trouble." The blonde snickers and I turn on her, " and YOU! If you don't quit making out with guys in your office while you are supposed to be working I will get you fired, so help me God!" She starts to cry. "Now, Angel, sis, you didn't need to take your anger out on her, if you want to take your anger out on someone take it out on me, now come over here and we'll tal-" "No we won't talk I am leaving!" I say and run out of her office and run to the elevator, where he couldn't get to me, to stop me from running away. I think about the conversation I just had and think, 'why does he always do this to me? What did I ever do to him?' When the elevator lands on the first floor I run out but just as I about to get to the doors someone grabs my arm, and immediately thinking it was Duo I turn around ready to hit him, but the man I saw was definitely not Duo. He had short blonde hair and the sexiest blue eyes I have ever seen on a man, he was very muscular and tall, from the first glimpse I took a guess that he was about six feet six inches tall, if not more. He was wearing a very expensive looking suit; maybe he is here to visit Mr. Winner. "Are you okay miss?" he asks in the friendliest of voices. When I just stare at him he asks again. "Hmmm? Oh, yeah I am fine." I say snapping out of the trance I was in. "May I ask why you were running?" "I just got done fighting with-" my brother comes down on the elevator and comes straight to me and the man with the friendly blue eyes, "speak of the devil." I say, annoyed at this stranger for keeping me here. "Thank you, sir, for getting her for m-" my brother cuts himself off as he gets a good look at the blonde mans face. "Quatre?" "Yes.how did you know?" he looks at my brother, "Duo!" "How you been? Jeeze, what has it been, four years?" "Yeah, that's about it." All while they are having their little conversation I sit there, with the blonde's hand still wrapped around my arm, so I sit down just to see if they are paying attention. They are. They both look down at me, in unison, and I glare back up at both them. Both men laugh as the put their hands down to help me up I just cross my arms like a little kid having a temper tantrum. Duo solves this problem by going behind me and picking me up, I start running as soon as he lets me go so he runs after me and after he gets to me he scoops me up like I weigh nothing at all. "Let me down!" I scream, which gets a lot of peoples attention. "Perhaps we should let her go, she can't go too far." Quatre offers, so Duo lets me go. "Oh, by the way young lady, it is pouring rain out there!" He yells but by time he finishes I am out the door and running home.

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I stand in front of my bathroom mirror with a hair dryer trying to get my hair dry from the rain that fell on me during the fifteen minute dash I took to get home. 'I will find out who that Quatre guy was and give him a piece of my mind, then I will kill my brother.' The rest of the days until Thursday, my meeting with Mr. Winner, went really fast, I had nothing to do at the office so Duo came over every day. He made me apologize to Kelly, the blonde he liked, and I pretended that I had forgiven him. On Wednesday I received an e-mail that told me the meeting was scheduled for eight in the morning. When I went home that night I called my brother because I was afraid that I was going to get in trouble for something, he was on the Internet so I went on my computer and signed on to the Internet and I.M.-ed my brother. I told him my problem and he told me every thing was going to be fine, and to trust him. After he was done telling me that he said that I should sign off and go to bed, I, naturally, do what he suggests, just because I love him so much. As I lay in my bed I think about the harsh words that were said on Monday, and I fall asleep to the sounds of the almost silent music coming from my radio.