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The Secretary's Secret

Chapter 2: Used Napkins

Syaoran Li sat in the local coffee shop, sipping a cup of cappuccino and a blueberry muffin. He looked outside at the wondering people. Isn't there a single decent female who could handle and meet his expectations as a good secretary? He's so sure. So far, for the last few years, he didn't have much luck with girls in general. In fact, he just broke up with his girlfriend last month. He still remembers how it went . . .

Flashback

Syaoran waited by the harbour, the wind ruffling his chocolate brown hair. He's waiting for his girlfriend, Bethany.

"Syaoran!" A voice shouted. Syaoran turned around to see a 21 years old girl with shoulder length reddish-orange hair ran up to him.

"Hi," Syaoran replied. He had been dating Bethany for four months now.

"Listen, I know you're really busy and all, but can you at least spend one day with me without that darn cell phone of yours ringing?" Bethany asked, annoyed.

"Well, I--" Syaoran was interrupted as his phone rang. He mumbled a sorry as a crossed looked appeared on his girlfriend's face.

"Hello, whoever you are, this better be important!"

"It's important all right! Sherry's not here for the meeting with client Wong yet! She has all the important files! She's 20 minutes late!" Eriol's urgent voice said on the other line.

"Well do what you can! And fire her! I'll be there in a minute." Syaoran said.

"You're going again? You're blowing me off again for another one of your clients, aren't you?" Bethany asked, annoyed.

"I'm sorry, but my secretary has decided to play hooky in the last minute. I have to go and fill in." Syaoran said.

"I'll take that as a yes." Bethany said.

"Listen, I'll take you out next week, okay? I'm sorry I have to keep going away during our dates, but you have to work too, Bethany. You better go back to the mall before they notice they're missing a sale clerk." Syaoran said. Somehow, this angered his girlfriend more.

"How dare you! We've been going out for four months already, and you still don't know my name? My name's Kimie, NOT Bethany! And I'm a professional MODEL, not some sale clerk!" The redhead said. And in a huff, she walked away, throwing a "We're OVER!" over her shoulder.

Syaoran stood there, stunned. He picked up his cell and dialled Eriol's number. It rang three times before it was answered.

"Eriol here,"

"Eriol, who's Bethany?"

"She's the secretary you hired and fired two months ago. She's working at the Gap as a sale clerk now. Why?"

"Oh . . . so that's why . . ."

"Syaoran, are you going to be here any time soon? Wong is getting restless . . ."

"Oh right! I'll be right there! And fire Sherry while you're at it."

"You said that already and I heard you the first time."

End of flashback

At the age of 22, his parents' probably expect him to be married and has at least two kids. Now not only does he have to find a new secretary, he has to find a new girlfriend too. How thrilling . . . not.

And speaking of secretaries, where's Eriol? He said he'd do the secretary searching this time to save him the trouble. They're suppose to meet in the coffee shop and Eriol is suppose to bring in the resumes.

"Hey, I'm here!" A voice said. It was Eriol and he plopped down in the seat across from the table from Syaoran, empty handed.

"Where's the resumes?"

"We're in luck, Syaoran! We already have a new secretary all ready for us! You know Touya Kinomoto, the boss's son, right?" Eriol asked.

"Yes, he hated me since I started working in the office two years ago, and I don't think Touya Kinomoto would make a nice secretary." Syaoran said sarcastically.

Eriol rolled his eyes. "I'm not suggesting we use Touya Kinomoto as a secretary! I mean Touya has a secretary chosen for us already."

"Since when did he start to care who the secretaries are?" Syaoran asked.

"I don't know, but I got a call from him today saying to look no further. He said he already picked the new secretary and we're going to use her and that's final." Eriol said, repeating Touya's words.

"Fine, but if she's lousy, I can still fire her." Syaoran grumbled. Somehow, he doesn't trust Touya Kinomoto to pick out a decent secretary for him.

"That's what Touya said too. He said you have every right to fire her if she's lousy." Eriol grinned.

"And since when does Touya Kinomoto start agreeing with me on the whole 'firing secretaries' thing?" Syaoran asked.

"I have no idea, but hey, as long as we don't get fired, who cares?" Eriol shrugged.

"Where will we meet this new secretary?"

"Touya said he'd bring her in personally tomorrow at 9:00 sharp." Eriol said.

"It better be 9:00 sharp."

*****

Syaoran started walking down the streets. He just left the office to finish off some details in the paper he's working on. Just then, his stomach growled a sign that he's hungry. He looked up and he saw a bakery right across the street. Perfect!

Syaoran waited until the lights turned green and strolled across the street. He entered the bakery; the sweet fragrance of freshly baked cakes and buns made his hunger aroused even more. He peered through the glass and saw slices of chocolate cakes.

"Excuse me, I'd like four slices of chocolate cake, please." He said to the lady behind the counter. The lady nodded and using tongs, she put four slices of cake into a box.

Meanwhile

Sakura walked through the streets of Tomoeda, hoping to have a glance at her daddy's building before work starts tomorrow. She had been warned that she would be working for one of the pickiest worker in the entire corporation. His name is Syaoran Li, and her dad seems quite fond with him. Sakura always heard her dad say that Syaoran began working when he's 20 and is quite the hard worker and had helped the company a lot.

On the other hand, she had heard awful things about him from Touya. Like how he flirts with the female workers and how he's always such a perfectionist. But secretly, Sakura thinks that the main reason Touya detest Li so much is because Rina, Touya's wife, used to work as a secretary for Syaoran, and Syaoran fired her. Touya seems to dislike the idea that Li thinks Rina is a bad secretary.

Sakura felt a slight chill. She shivered and realized that she's only wearing a t-shirt and jeans and it's getting quite cloudy. She looked ahead and saw a bakery, one that has a hot chocolate machine. Perfect! She strolled across the street and entered.

Sakura took in the sweet scent of freshly baked goods and made a beeline for the hot cocoa machine. She filled up a cup and threw in four marshmallows. She headed towards the counter to pay and there she noticed a guy buying something. It looks like slices of cake.

He's cute, Sakura smiled to herself. He has chestnut coloured hair and amber eyes. Taking her eyes away from the stranger, Sakura took out her wallet and paid the clerk. She picked up her change off the counter and stuffed her wallet back in her jean pocket. She turned around and took a sip of her hot drink. She closed her eyes and let out a sigh when . . .

CRASH!

*****

"Arg! What are you doing" Syaoran screamed as he felt something hot spilled on him. "That's hot!!!!"

The girl with honey brown hair opened her green eyes wide. "Oh, my gosh! I'm so sorry! I wasn't looking! Are you okay? Here I'll clean it up for you!"

"No, it's okay, I'll just take it home and throw it in the washing--what are you doing?!?!" Syaoran yelled as the girl began to whip his shirt with some napkins she grabbed from the counter top.

"I'm trying to help you clean up." The girl replied hastily, still wiping.

"Put that back down! Those are used napkins! Don't you watch what you're doing?" Syaoran swat the girl's hand away from himself.

"They're used?! Ew, gross!" The girl immediately dropped the napkin on the floor. She looked up to meet Syaoran's glare

"Um . . . sorry?"

"Don't ever let me see you again!" He exclaimed and walked out of the bakery in a huff. "And this stuff better come off!"

*****

Next day

"And then he just got all mad and left!" Sakura said. She's currently talking on the phone with Tomoyo Daijouji her best friend. Tomoyo laughed on the other line.

"Sakura, Sakura, Sakura, when will you ever learn? You have to be careful with cranky strangers."

"Well he doesn't have to be so angry about it. I didn't know those were used napkins." Sakura pouted.

Tomoyo laughed again. "Well, I got to go now. I have to go and look after the toyshop while mom is out for a few hours. I'll talk to you later." And Tomoyo hung up.

"Sakura, are you ready to go?" Touya called from downstairs.

"Yeah, I'll be there in a second." Sakura called back. She looked at herself one last time in the mirror. Perfect! She went downstairs to meet her brother.

"Okay, let's go!"

"Hurry up, Li will fire you before you even get hired if you're late." Touya grumbled as Sakura put on her shoes. Soon the two of them got inside the car.

"You sure you know what you're doing?" Touya asked.

"Yes, I'm positive."

A few minutes later, they arrived at the huge building. Touya opened the door and they slipped inside the lobby. People were everywhere! They were buzzing here and there like busy bees.

The two of them went inside the glass elevator and it took them to the 15th floor.

"This looks so cool!" Sakura squealed.

"Don't act so childish." Touya scolded. Sakura calmed down. Touya opened the door to a room labelled 1512.

*****

"They should have been here by now." Syaoran grumbled, looking at his watch.

"Cool it, Touya has never been late before." Eriol said. Suddenly the door opened, revealing Touya and a female.

"Good morning, I'm here today to introduce you boys to your new secretary. I hope you all will treat her with respect and I have her resume right here. You can go over that later. Sakura, meet your new boss." Touya said.

A girl with honey brown hair and emerald green eyes stood out shyly from behind Touya. Then her eyes opened wide as she saw the same chestnut haired man with the amber eyes, in his early 20's.

Syaoran's eyes opened wide in shock as he saw who peaked out from Touya.

"You!"

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