Addicted Chapter 2, an eastenders fanfic

Resignation

That afternoon at work was tiring to say the least. Alan had been stressing about some meeting he had today. Something about hitting targets to enter the bonus scheme.

I should have been the one stressing though, I mean I was the one who had to do all the research and get everything ready for him. All he had to do was turn up on time.

I'd even had little cards printed with what he had to say, so he didn't have anything to do really, he didn't need to keep stressing because there was nothing to stress about.

The only thing he did this afternoon was stress me out. Every time I did something it was wrong so I'd do it a different way and then that was wrong, turns out my way was right. I had to share an office with him so that didn't help either.

Anyway, apparently the meeting went great, Alan but all his targets and got praised for his efforts. Well actually it was my efforts but they didn't know that, when your just someone's run around you don't get noticed or praised.

When Alan got back in the office he praised me but not in a way I would've preferred. "Thankyou for today Lauren, I couldn't of done it without you" he said as I gathered my things up. Too right he couldn't, he wouldn't even know the way to the meeting room without me, never mind anything else.

I picked my jacket up from the back of my chair and when I turned around Alan had closed the gap between us. "Wha-" I gasped, but I was cut off by his lips pressing into mine.

His lips were dry and slimy, I felt disgusted and thought I was gonna throw up right there. I felt sick every time his unshaven face and slimy lips moved against me.

I put both my hands on his shoulders and pushed him away as hard as I could. "What the hell are you playing at?!" I asked him.

"Oh don't deny it Lauren! I know you want this" he told me smirking and taking a step closer. "No you are a disgusting man Alan! Ill have my notice in by the end if the day!" I snapped.

I know that shocked him because his face fell but I ran out of the office before he had the choice to say anything more.

"Lauren!" Alice shouted as I shot past her. I ran straight into the toilets and into the cubicle, throwing up everything I had.

I knew Alice would be coming after me soon but I had at least five minutes as her and joey looked like they were in an important kind of I ran past her there was her, joey and three other people looking serious so I'm guessing it will be hard for her to get away.

After throwing up I got up of the floor and luckily I didn't get any sick down my dress. I walked over to the mirrors to sort myself out, only to gasp when I saw the stated was in.

My skin was pale, I'm quite pale anyway but thus was a sick, shocking kind of pale. I hat mascara stains under my eyes and I had lipstick smeared where Alan must if smudged it.

I sorted myself out, making myself look decent enough to walk to my car. By the time I'd got to my car I'd thought about what I could write in my resignation, I looked at my phone once I was sat down and I had four missed calls from alice.

I got a pen and some paper out and started to write my resignation. I wrote two copies, one for Alan and one I'd have to take up to joey as he deals with all that.

I wrote down that my resignation was due to personal matters with immediate affect as that was the only professional term I could think of on the spot due to what just happened.

I applied some of my make up, trying to make myself look normal again before heading back into the office with the two letters of resignation.

First I knocked on Alan's office door and I felt so nervous while I waited for him to answer, I don't know why, it's not like I had done anything wrong.

He opened the door and judging by the look on his face, he wasn't expecting to see me. "My notice" I told him avoiding eye contact and stretching my arm out.

"Come on Lauren, can't we just forget about this.. Please?" Alan whined. "No we can't" I told him firmly before storming off.

I got in the lift and headed up to the top floor where joey, Alice and a couple of other important people's offices were.

I decided to try and work my way around Alice first, hoping I could give my resignation to her instead of joey; I really didn't wanna deal with another idiot today.

I knocked on Alice ps door several time, I mentally screamed when she didn't answer, this was definitely not my day.

"Ugh! Come on alice!" I said, banging on her door. "You can attack her door all you like but she won't answer" someone said from behind me.

I turned around expecting some idiot thinking they could tell me what to do. My breath hitched as I saw joey.

I blushed under his very intense gaze as his eyes swooped all over my body in what felt like very slow motion.

He obviously saw me blushing because he started to smirk at me as he shoved his hands into his pocket, which only made his body look greater.

I gathered myself together, ignoring his gaze. I knew he was like this with all the women around here and he thought they were all in love with him, they probably were but not me.

"Do you know when she's gonna be back?" I asked him politely. "I'm not sure, she had something she needed to deal with, anything I can help with?" He asked me, still smirking.

"No" I said narrowing my eyes at him. "Not really, I need to hand my notice in and I need to speak to her about something else too" I told him.

He definitely came across all cocky and mr high almighty. "It's me you need to see then, if your handing your notice in, that's my department" he told me.

Ugh, great! I had to have an actual conversation with him, technically this was a conversation but yeah.

"Right, well here you go then" I said, passing him the letter. He just looked at the letter without taking it from me. "Actually I'd prefer it if we could discuss this further in my office" he said already leading the way.

I couldn't see inside of any of the offices up here because the windows were all blacked out. I followed him into his office and almost gasped as I saw it.

This was definitely different to the office I was used to. It was all shiny black and had coffee machines, a sofa, a tv, a glass table and a window view that overlooked the whole city.

"Take a seat please..." He indicated with his hand. "Oh it's Lauren" I said as I sat down on a mega comfy chair.

"So how come you want to leave the company Lauren?" Joey asked me. "We'll it's not the company exactly, it's the job but other than that it's mainly due to personal reasons as I've explained in the letter" I told him.

"Oh" he replied. "This isn't really the kind of work I want to be doing anyway" I told him. "Can I take your letter then?" He asked me, stretching out his hand.

I passed him over my letter quite nervously and he began to read it. "Which department are you in?" He asked me.

"Erm I'm just a PA for Alan in buying, well I say PA, I mean more like his run around" I said smiling, then dropped the smile as I remembered to keep it professional.

"Alan deck?" Joey asked looking up from the letter. "Yep.. That's him, do you know him?" I asked joey.

Joey chuckled to himself. "Yeah, bit of an odd one ain't he?" Joey smirked. I started to laugh, pleased it wasn't just me who thought so.

"Eyy! You should do that more often" joey told me. I stopped laughing and looked at him confused. "What?" I asked. "Smile, you should smile more often, it suits you" he told me. I just smiled at him in return, a soft chuckle escaping my lips, I wasn't exactly sure how to reply.

"So it's not your kind of job then?" Joey asked. "Well mostly I just make coffee for him and I'm not being funny but I could work in a back street cafe and do the exact same thing" I said.

Joey laughed at me as Alice came through the door. "Lauren, why are you leaving?" She asked, standing in front of me.

"I just think it's time I left Al" I told her as I stood up. "But you love it here" she whined in defence. "Yeah bu-" I began. "Wait! How did you know I was leaving?" I asked her, confused.

"Well when you ran past us earlier I saw that Alan looked panicked so I went and asked him what happened" she told me.

"Wait that was you?" Joey asked, furrowing his eyebrows together. I looked at joey then back at Alice who didn't look too pleased at the moment.

"Has he done something to you?" She asked me sharpishly. I sat back down and shifted uncomfortably in my seat. "No" I replied.

"Lauren branning! Don't you dare lie to me!" She said in a warning tone. "Ah. Your Lauren?" Joey asked. I looked at him confused. "Alice has told me about you" he said. "Your coming out with us tonight right?" He asked.

Wait? So joeys coming out with us tonight? Yep Alice may have forgot to mention that minor but extremely major detail.

I nodded at joey and then turned to Alice. "Listen Alice, about that" I began. "No! No don't you dare Lauren!" Alice whined. "I don't feel up to it Al" I told her. "It's him isn't it" Alice said.

"No" I said standing up. "Wait!" Joey said. He moved to stand in front of me. "If it's something bad, if he's done anything to you I can get rid of him, you'll never have to see him again" joey told me.

Never having to see Alan again? That sounded tempting but I couldn't be the reason somebody lost their job.

"No, look its nothing bad" I shrugged. "Oh so there is a something then? Tell me" Alice said. Joey took a step closer to me making me feel flustered and very uncomfortable.

"Have you been crying?" He asked. I took a deep breath, feeling myself getting worked up very fast. I didn't want to get into this with them.

"Whatever she's told you, she's lying" Alan said breathlessly as he ran through joeys open office door.

My eyes widened in horror, how could he even say that after what he had done? I almost felt like dobbing him in now just for being an extra dick.

I couldn't make eye contact with him, I'd probably throw up again if I did. "Actually she said nothing happened and that your not the reason she's leaving" joey informed him.

"Oh that's alright then" Alan said nervously. "No actually, that's not alright. You can tell me what happened right now or you can say goodbye to your job" joey warned him.

"Mr smith, it's fine" I told him. "No, no it's not fine Lauren" joey said. "Okay I kissed her" Alan announced.

"You kissed her?" Joey asked "and?" He asked. "I kissed her after I knew she didn't want to" Alan said looking at the floor.

"Oh so Lauren didn't want that?" Joey asked. "No she didn't" Alan said. "Umm" joey said. I took a deep breath in, not daring to make eye contact with any of them.

"How old are you Alan?" Joey asked. "54" he replied straight away. "Lauren?" Joey asked. "Er.. Erm 19" I replied.

Joey raised his eyebrows at Alan. "You just lost your job anyway" he told him. I can't believe joey just fired Alan on the spot like that.

I don't know if I should be feeling as pleased as I was right now or whether I should be feeling guilty being the reason he now no longer has a job

Alan left the office and Alice pulled me into a hug straight away. "Oh my god" she sighed. "I'm fine Al, seriously" I chuckled.

"Please come out with us tonight.. Please" Alice begged. "We'd love it if you could come.. Save us having to mix with any snobs" joey smirked.

I sighed heavily and made my way to the door with out answering them. I turned around to face them both, seeing the desperate look on their faces must of got to me.

"I'll see you both at 8 sharpish then" I told them, them smiling at me in return.