Hey guys, it's been a long time (years actually) and I am really sorry I have not written in a long time but I am finally back and as a peace offering, I have written a new story, hope you enjoy it...

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BEING IN MY TWENTIES

"Happy birthday to you...Happy birthday to you...Happy birthday to you Brooke...Happy birthday to you!".

"Now you need to make a wish", said Brooke mother, putting a small chocolate cake in front of her. It was a home made cake lightened up by two little candles indicating her age: twenty. The young woman slowly closed her eyes, took a deep breath taking some time to make her wish, and in one swift she blew the candles. Her mother quickly applauded and gave her a quick kiss on the forehead.

"I'm gonna get your present", said her mother quickly, heading to the other room.

And there it was, twenty. Brooke never thought it would happen so fast. Only few years ago, she thought being twenty was so old, and yet here she was. A five feet one curvy brunette who looked more like she was eighteen than twenty. But she did not necessarily considered it was a bad thing, because she had friends who looked even younger than she did, and at least when she will be older, she would not have to worry about looking younger. Anyway, she was twenty now and determined to start her life as a real adult.

Chapter I – Twenty two and...nothing

Two years and a month later...

The sun was showing its first stripes, waking slowly the sleeping brunette. She felt grumpy and nauseous. The fact that she spent the night drinking to celebrate her graduation which gave her a massive hangover, was probably one of the reason, but it was not the only reason. Two years had passed and nothing had changed. Sure, she graduated from college and manage to have a law degree from Columbia but something was missing. Love was missing. For the past two years, she had wished for a boyfriend, and yet nothing. It was not the fact that she was single now, that bothered her, but the fact that she has always been single. She has never been in a relationship before, and even worse, she has never had sex. She considered that being a virgin at her age was a big deal. Of course, for certain women it wasn't, since they choose to preserve themselves for their husband, but she didn't. She didn't want to wait to be married to share the pleasure of the flesh. She wanted to have sex now, and what made it even more difficult was that most of her friends had already done it. Not everybody, but most of them and that was seriously bothering her.

However, she had more important things to think about right now, like work. In order to finance her law school fees, she managed to find a work as a paralegal in a prestigious law firm in Lower Manhattan and today was her first day of work. Brooke managed to fix herself in order to look presentable, she took two cups of coffee and figured that she could take another one at the office. She was at the firm by 8:30, she was supposed to start at 9 but she figured she would make a better impression if she arrived early. And she did, the woman supposed to show her around, Laura Clark, arrived few minutes later to take care of her. It was a tall blond, with fancy clothes and a stylish haircut. Brooke thought that she looked more like a model of Elle Magazine than a paralegal, but she seemed nice.

"Hello, Miss Davis" she said politely with a genuine smile. "Nice to meet you"

"Nice to meet you too " answered Brooke shaking the woman hand "You can call me Brooke by the way"

"Ok Brooke! Well you can call me Laura" she responded before starting to walk "I'll show you around".

Laura appeared to be a really great guide. She showed Brooke every places in the office, starting with the coffee cart, and made sure to give the young woman few advice. She then led her to her office. It was a small room, but really cosy enlightened by three huge windows revealing an incredible view. Brooke was beyond happy, never in her wildest dream she could have imagine working in such a place. But her smile quickly disappeared when she discovered all the work she had to do. There was around twenty files lying on her desk.

"You need to do the pink ones by the end of the day, and as for the one on top, it needs to be done before lunch since Mister Scott will need it this afternoon". Brooke was dumbfounded she had to work on at least ten files by the end of the day, and she wasn't even really awake.

"Are you gonna be ok ?" asked Laura noticing the panicked look on her colleague's face.

"I think...I mean, I am, of course" She answered forcing a reassuring smile on her face. But Laura was far from being convinced.

"Well, if you need something, I'm right next door..."she said giving the brunette a warm smile, before leaving the office.

Brooke took a deep breath and stared deeply at the view, hoping that it would help her get through the morning. But what she really needed right now was a cup of coffee. Brooke usually made sure to savour every single cup of coffee she had, like it was a precious elixir, but she didn't have time for her precious ritual at the moment. She needed to get back to work, right now. She quickly swallowed her expresso and headed determined to her office, but when she got there the door was closed and the blinds were down. She slowly looked around, wondering if she was indeed at her office but noticed Laura working in the next room. There was no doubt, this was her office and yet everything was closed. She took a deep breath and softly knocked on the door, but nobody answered. She carefully opened the door and was surprise to see a tall blond man standing beside the window, his back facing the door. Brooke deeply looked at him trying to identify him, Laura had introduced her to some men during her visit but he did not looked like one of them. His suits looked way more expensive and he also seemed older, like he was in his early thirties.

"Hum...excuse me ?" said softly Brooke.

"What the fuck!" replied the man obviously caught by surprise. " What the hell are you doing here ?!" He asked, tossing his cigarette through the window.

"Hum...this is my office" shyly answered Brooke caught out of guard.

"Is it ?" The blond quickly looked around and noticed the open files on the desk. "Hum..." He then looked at her from head to toe with a serious look on his face.

"All right then, I'll leave you to whatever you're doing" he quickly said before heading to the door but stopped abruptly. He slowly closed the door and turned around to walk to the brunette direction with an intense look on his face. He stopped right in front of her, looking directly into her eyes with this intense look. Brooke's heart was beating so fast she felt like she was going to have a heart attack. She took a deep breath to calm her nerve, but it was not working, she was literally loosing it. She tried to escape his gaze turning her head to the left to stare at the floor, but he slowly took her chin and made sure she was staring right into his eyes. He had beautiful eyes, they were blue with a hint of grey, and so intense that she could loose herself in it. She was breathing heavily now, he could feel it, a small confident smile appeared on his lips. Brooketook another deep breath, inhaling his perfume it was a mix of cigarette and the new Dior Homme perfume, it was mesmerising.

"Do not say a word about this" he slowly whispered into her hear, making her shiver.

He then quickly let go of her face and left the room a satisfied smile on his face.

END OF CHAPTER 1

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