The suitcase made a loud thump as I pulled it off the bed and onto the floor. Good thing Alfred let me sleep here, she thought as she looked to see that they were already behind schedule. Imagine if he still had to pick me up for the flight. She struggled with the large, heavy suitcase, dragging it to the stairs.
Alfred popped into the doorway, "Come on! We gotta go Kat! The cab's here!"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going!" I lugged it over to the staircase, he ran up behind me. He still had toothpaste on the corner of his mouth, I was about to point it out when he tried to take my suit case from me. "HEY! I'm carrying this! I am so sick of you always trying to do everything for me! You hired me, not the other way around!" It was true, he hired me as an assistant, but he insists on helping me do EVERYTHING.
"Well, true but given your habit to be a bit clumsy-"
"I AM NOT CLUM-AHHG!" All hope of a valid argument went flying out the window as I lost my footing and tripped, flying forward on the stairs. Luckily, my boss has great reflexes and grabbed my shirt collar before I went tumbling, but my poor suitcase took the quick way down…. Thank god nothing delicate was in there, I thought as I turned to thank Alfred for catching me, "thanks Alf-" it was lost on him as he was already down the stairs and grabbed my suitcase. Figures, there was no way he'd let me carry it after that.
"Come on!" he made a motion towards the door. I sighed and, carefully, ran down the steps.
He tossed the heavy suitcase effortlessly into the trunk, and told the driver to bring us to JFK as I slid into the back next to him. The driver wordlessly obeyed and put the car in drive. It was a pretty good ride, as far as New York on a Thursday goes, there was only a little traffic. I looked out the window as we drove on. No matter how many of these meetings I go to, I'll never see a city better than this… I thought listlessly as we passed through Times Square. Alfred interrupted my thoughts, and as usual I only minded a little.
"What's up?" he asked half-heartedly as he looked out the window, then his watch, then me.
"I was just thinking is all." I said slowly as I opened up my bag and took out my phone.
He nodded. "I was thinking too…"
"A very dangerous past time indeed." I said smiling, that made him laugh. I continued, "What were you thinking about?" I asked lightly, I couldn't help but be a little curious.
"Well, you mainly." I was a bit taken aback and he went on to say, "I will never understand how you can stand doing all the busy work I dump on you… There's a reason I don't do it myself."
"Well it's not that bad, I get it done and it's really not that much for what you pay me," I said simply as I checked our flight online, "it's delayed," I said relieved as I gave a quick smile.
"Thank god, we were never making it!" Alfred said as he let out a huge sigh. "How long do we have?"
I groaned and said, "4 hours, there's a snow storm outside Geneva that they need to be sure clears up, but by the time we get there it'll be ok."
"This is going to be brutal." He moaned as he banged his head into the window, I chuckled as he got reprimanded by the driver.
"Well look at the bright side, you get to spend it all with me," I said, plastering on a winning smile posed flirtatiously… that made him laugh, he hadn't been laughing nearly as much around me lately. But just before he turned his head to look out the window, she saw an unfamiliar look flash across his eyes.