Anyone But You
I ran through the halls late for the millionth time in my life. You think once I had gotten a fabulous job, booking talent on one of the most watched televised talk shows, I would show up on time, but that didn't seem to change my bad habit of waking up late.
"Hey Serena!"
"Hi!" I called back to one of my coworkers. I always made it a goal to say hi to everyone, because people just work better together when they all get along well. Everyone says I'm to "bubbly"…hey at least I get a long with everyone.
I had to admit that I worked with a bunch of great people. Even the talk show host herself, Rei, was tolerable at some moments. At this very moment we were live with one of our recent guest that I had booked last week and I was rushing to see how things were going. Of course I would hear it from my womanizing coworker who always made me happy I was single because of scumbags like him.
"How are things looking Darien?" I asked quietly as I snuck into the studio beside him.
"Oh you know, Rei's really digging deep into the conversation making the guest really nervous."
"Sounds like I picked another good one."
"Only because I'm such a great producer." Darien said playfully. Yes Darien Shields was a smooth one. He could talk anyone into anything, except for me. I hated him the moment I laid eyes on him and to my benefit the feeling was mutual. Not to say we didn't get along. We were great in the work force, but that's where the relationship ended. It's bad enough I have to hear from all the female employees about how fabulous they think he is in bed. I certainly don't need to include him in any aspect of my life.
As soon as the show ended I followed Darien through the studio listening to him recap on all the details they had gone over in this mornings staff meeting that I had missed.
"Hey Andrea," he stopped as we walked by another employee. " You left these in my bathroom this morning." He handed her a pair of earrings and started walking again.
"God Darien! You don't even care do you?" I yelled at him as I stopped at the coffee machine. Of course all he really did was shrug his shoulders.
"Should I?"
All of a sudden the most gorgeous man I had ever seen in my life walked up to us.
"Hey Andrew," Darien said nonchalant while I just stood there like an idiot pretty much with my mouth hanging open to the point of drooling almost.
"Hey Darien," he answered back, but then looked at me. "I believe you're the only one I haven't met. I'm Andrew Scott, new executive producer."
"Oh!!! Hi I'm Serena Price," I said extending my hand, which he took to shake. Darien must have noticed my enthusiasm, because being the jerk that he is he had to make some rude remark.
"Anyway I have work I have to finish, I'll see you around. Oh yeah and by the way Serena you want me to turn up the A/C for you? Your face looks a little flush." And with that he walked off while I resisted the great urge to flip him off.
"Anyway I've heard a lot about you. Your piece on Janelle Smith was wonderful!" I continued to be sure to keep him interested.
"Thank you. I heard you have her booked here next week with Rei?"
"Yes I just got that straightened out with her agent who was a little annoying, but I'm really looking forward to it."
"Me too. I got a lot of things planned."
"Well I think you came to the right place Andrew."
Then he smiled that amazing smile at me. "Me too"
After work I found myself with my best friend Mina blabbing away about Andrew. He was such a nice guy and I was so interested that I couldn't stop talking about him.
"Okay so what does he look like?" Mina asked while paying for a soda at the local café.
"He's got beautiful blue eyes with blonde hair. He's the surfer type in a way. The kind of guy I would have fawned all over during high school."
"You mean like you are now?" she said wiggling her eyebrows.
"Oh shut up Mina. Anyway he has a girlfriend," I said slumping back in to the booth letting out a loud sigh.
"Don't even try and go after him Serena. It's not even worth it."
"Your right Mina I'm going to leave this one alone." If only I would listen to my friend's advice.
The next day at work I was in the coffee room looking at the message board with a flyer that Darien had put up for a roommate. The reason I was starring at it was because Andrea had wrote "asshole" in big red letters across it.
"What are you looking at?" Darien said coming into the room. I moved out of his way so he could read what I was starring at.
"Oh that's real mature Andrea! Very grown up," he yelled down the hall.
"Don't worry Darien I already knew you were an asshole," I reassured him smiling to myself.
"Your opinion doesn't matter though," he smirked crumbling his flyer and tossing it in the garbage.
"Hey why don't you move in with me?"
I nearly choked on my coffee as I starred at him wide-eyed. "I don't think so Darien."
"Why not? Your always complaining how your place is to noisy and you can't get along with your neighbors. It'll be a purely financial arrangement."
"I don't think I could stand it," I said taking a nice long sip of coffee to sooth my nerves.
"Oh come one Serena it's not like I'm interested in you to say the least."
"God what a relief!"
"So that's a no?"
"No it's more like a 'thanks! But I'd rather chew off my own arm' thing" I smiled sweetly as I walked out of the room.
Back in my office I was typing away at my computer once again when Andrew knocked on my door.
"Hey!" he said bringing me out of my thoughts. "You feel like lunch?"
"Of course!" I said excitedly and quickly grabbed my purse and headed out the door.
Sitting in a nearby Chinese restaurant I was laughing and having a great time with Andrew. We talked about lots of things and I soon found myself finding a lot in common about us.
"So tell me," I started. "How long have you been with your girlfriend?"
"You mean Anne?"
"Yeah."
"I think a little over three years." I had to take a breath real quick.
"Oh wow!" I said a little too loud.
"What?" he said while shoving a long piece of chow mien into his mouth.
"Oh no, it's not anything bad it's just longer than I had thought."
"Yeah well don't you think there's just a time in your life where you meet the right person," he said looking right into my eyes. "That you just know you've found?"
Everything
was silent for a moment as he kept starring at me. "Yeah I think so,"
I finally spat out averting my eyes. I laughed a little and just kept eating.
Boy this could get confusing. I hope I know what I'm getting myself into.
**Based off the movie "Someone Like You"
with Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman. Also I do not own
any of the Sailor Moon characters. Any questions or comments please feel free
to email me at instyleb@hotmail.com
