Chapter 1

Tick, tick, tick was all I could hear. I was sitting in a meeting being forced to listen to the head of the BSAA L.A. department ramble on about the same old thing he always talks about. Even though I was supposed to be listening, instead I kept paying attention to the clock waiting for this meeting to be over.

It's very sad that I'm complaining about being at this meeting since I knew this was in the job description. Hell the reason I took this job was for a change of scene. After working with Chris in Africa I got an offer to come work at the North American Branch of the BSAA. I thought it would be nice to live somewhere else other than Africa. And since I went to school in America I already knew I wouldn't be totally in a new place.

It's been a year now and even though I miss Africa America is starting to feel like home. I work with Chris, so it's not like this job is difficult its just these damn meetings that bore me to tears.

"Alright everybody that is it for today the next meeting will be next month. Hopefully you guys took notes and that is it," said the head of our department. Finally this meeting was over.

As I walked out the meeting room to head back to my office I ran into Piers Nivans. He had been working at BSAA for a few 6 months now and worked with Chris. They were both part of SOU and while Chris is captain of the Alpha team Piers was his second in command. I was offered to be part of the Alpha team, but decided I rather be an SOA cause it's easier to work in a partnership than in a big group.

I remember the first day I met Piers. Chris introduced us while he was giving Piers a tour of the building. My first impression of him was that he was cute. He had nice facial features and short, spiky brown hair, but what really attracted me was his gorgeous hazel eyes. They were just so memorizing to me. Every now and then I would try to get glances of him.

"Hey Sheva, how was the meeting?" asked Piers. He was holding a bunch of papers in the his hands.

"Hey Piers, the meeting was same old same old. What's with all the papers and why do you look so tired?" I asked. His eyes shifted as he looked at the papers in his hands back to looking at me.

"Oh this, these are files of new recruits for the BSAA. They just finished training and Chris and I have to figure out which recruits we want for Alpha. I've just been busy going through the ones that I think qualify. I guess I have been losing sleep over this," he said.

"You work too hard Piers, but that's one of the things I admire about you. You should relax and just take it easy," I said. He smirked when I finished talking. Damn he's cute, even if he is tired.

"Well thanks for the advice. Maybe I should take it easy."

"You know if you ever need help or just someone to talk to you can always knock on my door," I offered him. I could see the small smirk that he made once I made my offer.

"I'll take you up that."

"Cool," I said. Part of me wanted him to take me up on my offer.

"See you later Sheva."

"Bye Piers, take care, and relax."

He smirked and walked the other direction towards his office.

It was time for my break and was ready to eat my lunch and smoke a cigarette. When I went to my office to grab my purse I realized my box of cigarettes was empty. As I cursed myself I realized that Chris probably had some on him. I walked up to his office door and knocked on it three times. Once I heard him yell come in I walked into his office. He looked just as tired as Piers.

"Hey Chris."

"Hey Sheva, what's up?" he asked. He even sounded tired.

"Nothing much I was just wondering if you had a cigarette you could give me?" I asked him.

He opened his desk drawer and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and gave one to me.

"Mind if I join you on your lunch break?" Chris asked

"Of course you can, is there something wrong? You look tired just like Piers and that's not usually like you. What's wrong?" I asked him.

"I've just had a bad night fighting with Trish," he said. Trish was a lady Chris had been dating for three months. I couldn't imagine what problems they could be having since they have been dating for a short period of time.

"What happened?" I asked him.

"I'll tell you when go outside," Chris told me.

We went to the cafeteria first then outside to eat our lunch and smoke. We sat in front of the building and fed the birds with the little bits of bread from our sandwiches. I liked having lunch with Chris. We would always talk and give each other advice.

"Trish got pissed about my long hours this week. I kept telling her I'm in the middle of recruitment, but she kept yelling about how she never gets to see me. Damn, we've only been dating for three months and she is clingy as all hell," he said.

From what I heard from the past three months Trish is a big time clinger who is always up his ass. Chris is always talking about how crazy she is, but won't let her go. He claims it's cause she's hot and a great fuck.

"Well all I can say is good luck. I'm heading back to the office. You are coming?" I asked him.

"I'll go back in a few minutes. Hey do you think I should end it with Trish?" He asked me. This was the first time he has ever asked me that about Trish.

"I can't tell you what you should do Chris, but if she causes stress what is the point of sticking with her?" I asked him.

"I guess you're right, see you later Sheva," he said, as he proceeded to feed the birds.

"Bye Chris, If there is anything else you need to talk about you know where to find me," I told him.

Chris always had female problems, and I would always be listening ear for him. I didn't mind helping him in the love department of his life, even though he never listened to the advice I told him. But I guess he likes having someone listening to him.

As I would try to assist him with his problems; he would try to help me with mine. Mostly how to deal with people on the job or my love life, or I should say lack of. Every since I moved to L.A. I haven't been one date.

I've only had one boyfriend in my life and his name was Tom. Tom was a guy I met in college. The reason I went out with him was because he was hot. He had beautiful blue eyes and raven black hair. He was a football player at the school and at the time I wanted to fit in. Most of the people at my school were in relationships and I didn't want to be that girl that had never been in a relationship before. We didn't last long though. The relationship only lasted a month cause I didn't put out. I'm just not that kind of girl.

Back in Africa I would go on a few dates, but they would never make it to the second. I just never felt a connection to anybody. I would lie to Chris and tell I go on dates all the time, but I never really gave it a thought to date someone. I just figured I would just be alone for the rest of my life.

It was sad to say, but I'm 24 years old and I have never been in a serious relationship. I don't even count Tom as a serious relationship.

I headed back to my office to finish some paperwork. Once I sat down in my chair ready to fill out the papers I heard a knock on my door. When I said come in Piers came in my office.

"Hey Piers, what's up?"

"Hey remember what you said about if I ever needed to talk to someone I can come to you?"

"Yes, you want to talk right now?" I asked him.

"How about after work? We can go to Doug's Bar if you like? He asked.

"Cool I get off at 6, what about you?"

"Same time, I'll wait for you at your door. See you later."

"See you soon Piers."

I took a heavy sigh after he departed. This should be interesting I was just thinking about my lack of love life, and now I'm going to have drinks with Piers. Not saying it was a date, but it just seemed ironic. All I could do was just look forward for tonight.

Author's note: Sorry I have not updated with a new chapter. I plan to come out with chapter 3 soon, I've just been busy. As I was going through this story I found a lot of errors, so I went back to fix them. I also plan to fix chapter 2 as well. I plan to do that before I go ahead with chapter 3. But I will finish up with this story.