So here's the next chapter!
Nina sat up immediately noticing a tall, dark haired change outside her window.
"Who's that?" Nina asked as he walked into the building.
"Who's who?" Amber questioned as her and Mick looked out the window.
"There was a guy!" Nina yelled.
"Oh, it might have been Fabian." Mick said, "You know, Amber, you're cousin and my best mate. We invited him for breakfast."
There goes the knock at the door.
"But it's always only us three for breakfast." Nina fretted, "Why change it?"
"Nina, just answer the door will you?" Mick said.
Nina walked over to the door, where the most handsome man she'd ever seen in her life stood before her. She could hear sparks in her head when he looked her in the eyes. His dark brown hair fell in his green eyes ever-so-slightly making him seem mysterious. He towered at least 4 inches over her and his arms were muscular from what she could see. She could only imagine the six-pack under that black shirt. But, what was really sparkling was his smile. She saw perfectly white teeth in his amazing lips, and his smile made her smile too.
"Hi." Nina smiled.
"Hey," he said, stepping forward and holding out his hand, "I'm Fabian Rutter."
"Nina Martin." Nina shook his hand, feeling nothing but sparks and fireworks erupting inside her. Was this a dream?
She shook her head. This wasn't how Monday works! She was officially 3 minutes behind schedule! She has to arrive at work at precisely 9:43 am so she could be in her office at 9:45 am to make her first 10:00 am meeting!
"Are you alright?" Fabian asked.
"Yeah! I'm fine!" Nina said, "But, I have to get to work."
"Oh come on, stay." Fabian told her, "I'd really like to get to know you."
"But, you don't understand I have a routine I have to do. It's the same every day." Nina explained, "And I'm behind."
"So why not change?" Fabian asked.
"My routine is perfectly fine, thankyouverymuch!" Nina said, "And I don't need yet another person telling me otherwise."
"I'm sorry, but doesn't doing the same thing every day get a bit… boring?" Fabian asked.
Nina didn't think for a second before slapping him and walking out.
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Nina stomped into her office, her routine completely destroyed. It was 9:50 already. Nina quickly got situated in her office –God, she hated rushing- and by the time she was done it was 9:56 and she was once again on schedule. She breathed a sigh of relief as she walked into her meeting perfectly on time.
Nina wasn't insane. She just liked everything always be the same. She watched her parents –before they died- and they were completely careless. They were winging things and got fired from a lot of jobs because of their lateness. So, Nina tried to be as organized as possible and she wasn't about to let some jerk –well, seriously hot jerk- get in the way of that.
After her 10:00 meeting Nina returned to her office, only to find a bouquet of yellow roses with red tips. Nina picked up the note and read; I'm sorry about today. And I hope you'll forgive me. Can we start over? –Fabian PS: Red tipped yellow roses mean friendship and falling in love.
Nina smiled at the note and set down, inhaling the sweet smell of the roses.
"Who are those from?" Patricia Williamson smiled leaning against the doorway of Nina's office with her boyfriend Eddie Sweet right behind her.
"Someone." Nina replied with a dazed smile.
"A pretty rich someone," Eddie snickered, reading the card, "Start over? Why didn't I hear about this guy yet?"
"Because I only met him this morning!" Nina shouted, snatching the card from Eddie's hand, "And I kind of slapped him…"
"Whoa, whoa, wait, whoa, whoa!" Patricia said, "You haven't slapped someone since the SATs!"
"What?" Eddie asked.
"Well, I was testing her for the SATs and I gave her the word paragon to define. When she got it wrong, I laughed at her, and she slapped me." Patricia said, laughing at the memory, "But what I'd like to know is; if you were the one, who slapped him, why is he the one sending you flowers?"
"He's just really, very sweet." Nina smiled, "Now, I have to get his number from Mick to thank him."
Patricia and Eddie sat down in the chairs opposite Nina's desk, listening as she got his number from Mick and calling him.
"Hello?"
"Fabian?" Nina said, "It's Nina."
"Looks like you got the roses." Fabian laughed.
"Yeah, I did. They're gorgeous." Nina gushed, "Thank you."
"It's nothing, really." Fabian assured her.
"I'm really sorry I slapped you." Nina sighed, "I was way out of line."
"I would have slapped me too, after what I said." Fabian admitted, "I really am sorry about that."
"It's okay; I'm just a bit insecure about my routine and stuff. It's stupid-"
"If it made you feel upset it's not stupid. And I'm a giant git." Fabian told her.
"It really isn't your fault." Nina promised, "But I'd like to start over."
"Good." Fabian said and Nina could almost hear the smile on his voice, "You want to meet me for lunch, 12? At that new café downtown?"
"Well, my lunch break starts at 12:30, I can meet you for 12:45 if that's okay with you." Nina smiled.
"Prefect, I'll see you then." Fabian said.
"See you."
"Bye."
Nina hung up the phone, squealed, and took another sniff of the roses, "This is the life." Nina sighed as she fell back onto her chair.
"Whoa, you really think you can make it there in 15 minutes?" Eddie asked, knowing perfectly well how precise her schedule is.
"I can rush." Nina smiled.
Yes, this is a rather big multi-chapter. And those of you who have read the contest, the WOW factor is in one of the later chapters. Probably between the 7th and 9th.
