Chapter 1:
Quick Note- You are in Ludwig's (Germany's) PoV.
My world was filled with mostly grey and if it wasn't grey it was a dull, pastel. I am young upstart at the biggest electronics company in New York, called "VEZA". My family is proud of me landing the job but I don't feel any sort of accomplishment from it. I hate the job, but it has good money and good benefits. The only price you have to pay is your social life and sanity. I've somehow kept my mind intact, but my social life was already nonexistent. I never did have friends growing up and when I moved to New York from Germany at 7 whatever friends I might have had were gone. I only had Vatti, Gilbert, our dogs, and Miss Margret growing up. My
father and Gilbert say I was an easy child, I was always a smart kid and respectful, but they seemed to worry about me being lonely. Especially now since all I do is work, but that's only in their eyes. On certain days I'm able to go to my happy place, a place familiar, peaceful, that could always make me happy. It was Friday and I just can't wait to lea-
RING!
"Wha-?" I must've spaced out.
RING!
I picked up the phone from my desk.
"Mr. Beilschmidt?" It was Penny, my boss's secretary. Her voice always has been annoying, it was scratchy, high pitched, and it always sounded like she was straining to be nice. It was just like her personality.
"Ja?"
"Mr. Perry wants to know if you have finished with the report about lasts years marketing statistics."
Of course, my own secretary, Feliks, didn't send them over like I asked him to. That man is organized, reliable, and can get things done when it was to be done right then, but if it could be done at a later date then forget about it. He would always forget.
"Ja, I did, I gave them to Feliks a few days ago to send up, but I will come up and deliver them myself."
"I'll inform Mr. Perry that you will be coming up. Thank you." A sigh escaped my mouth, I had an hour left, an hour! Now it might be two if that blasted boss of mine sees me and decides to give me more work. Oh well, what must be done, must be done. Getting up from the desk chair, I leave the dull, grey room to a dull grey hallway. To the right of the doorway was Feliks at his desk looking at some fashion website on his computer. His workspace is littered with little plants, pink pencils, pink pens, pink folders, pink everything. I still don't know why he likes the color, I've just decided it was because he was Polish, though I know that's not right.
"Feliks?"
"Tak?"
"Do you have that report I gave you about last year's marketing statistics with you? I have to go deliver them to Mr. Perry."
"Like of course..." He reached over to a neon pink folder and sure enough, there's my report. "...here you go."
"Danke." I took the papers and was soon riding in the silver-grey elevator going up the 66th floor. I always thought it was ironic that my devil boss of mine worked on this floor. After reaching my destination I head towards Mr. Perry's office and sure enough, there's Penny, right outside his door at her plain, empty desk. Her dull ginger hair pulled into a tight bun, and her cat-eye glasses hanging off her nose, typing away on her computer. I clear my throat to grab her attention.
"Ah Mr. Beilschmidt, Mr. Perry is ready for you." I nodded and walked in. Praying for a miracle to happen.
Authors Note- The characters in this story may seem a little OC, but that's how I want them to act. Just see it as another side of them you haven't been able to see before and just have fun reading it. I would love to hear some creative criticism and any sort of ideas of how the story can go.