Hi~! sorry for the long wait ^^ just busy with things especially that exams is coming near.. here is the next chapter... after 1 hour of turning fb comments to a sensible story styled here is it ^^
Chapter 1
Monday, 9:30 AM.
Tezuka shifted comfortably in his seat, carefully scanning through the papers that he will need by his 10 o'clock meeting with one of his authors and the company's sales department. Sighing upon seeing the matters that are needed to be brought up in the meeting, he casually called his assistant.
"Saori, make ten copies of last month's survey results regarding Yamada-sensei's last work. I need it for my meeting later."
He counted five seconds inside his mind hoping that his still-in-cloud-nine assistant would shuffle her feet to his desk right away, but alas, he didn't even hear a single step coming towards him.
" Saori!" Tezuka raised his voice to get his assistant's attention through the open door.
Upon hearing Tezuka's loud voice Saori immediately wakes up from day dreaming upon hearing her name being called which made her panic and goes to his office starting off with a bow
"sumimasen! did you need anything?" She asked apologetically as she looked at his boss.
Tezuka sighed inaudibly. "Do I need to repeat that again? I said, make ten copies of this." As he hands Saori the paper, then looks at her intently, his voice almost like a whisper. "It is the first day that we're back from... From that trip (honeymoon). Don't let your guard down and do your work as usual."
Taking the papers she looks at him while listening to what he said which made her blush slightly and nods before speaking. "h-hai..." she bowed once again before she left shifted towards the photocopy machine to make the 10 copies that he needed, mumbles. "I need to get my head together." She inhaled and exhaled before going back to his office to hand him the papers. "Do you need anything else?"
Tezuka took the papers from her before speaking. "Coffee, please. This day is going to be long..." he closed his eyes for a while as he exercised his neck, leaning on his executive chair.
Saori blinked as she looked at him. "hai.." she immediately goes to make his coffee and comes back, placing his coffee with a post-it note around the cup on his desk. "Try not to overwork yourself" she smiled before asking once again. "anything else?"
Tezuka shakes his head in response. "Just be sure to finish the draft for the proposal on next month's meet-and-greet event for Takagi-sensei's new book by the time I finish this morning's meeting." He stated as goes back on reading papers for the meeting.
"hai!" she smiled at him before going out of his office. "Time to finish this" as she started to work on the draft while getting side-tracked once in a while from looking at the wedding ring she wore in her middle finger to avoid being discovered.
Tezuka was about to drink his coffee when he saw a note posted in the cup. " ..." staring at it for a moment then removes it.
Taking glances at the wall clock in the opposite side of his office, he hurriedly finished his coffee. At ten before ten, he's already at his feet. Gathering all the paper that he needs for the meeting, he arranged it neatly inside the folder. Sweeping his table with a look to make sure that he doesn't forget anything, he saw the note that Saori had posted earlier.
"Try not to overwork yourself," it says.
He removed the note with an unreadable expression across his face and sticks it to the folder that he's bringing to the meeting. Passing by Saori's table just outside his office, he stopped and said, "Aa, I'll try."
With just that, he took his leave.
While occupied with work she spoke without in almost a soft whisper. "gambatte.." and continues to work on the draft he needed.
~ END ~
Hope you liked it ^^ ja ne~
if any of you are wondering..
Tezuka Kunimitsu - 30 years old, Editor of a Famous Publishing Company
Tezuka Saori - 23 years old, Freshly new college graduate who is aspiring to be a famous author, working as Tezuka's assistant.
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