Chapter 2

Chuck and Sarah head to a coffee shop about five minutes walk from the office. Despite there being a Starbucks across the office, they had decided to go to one further away to avoid more crowds during the lunch time rush. Chuck made his way back to the table with two coffees in his hand.

"So uh, how long have you worked in sales?" Chuck asked, breaking the ice.

"Couple of years," Sarah replied. "But I mostly worked in DC, I just moved here about a month ago."

Chuck nodded his head. "So uh, you from DC?"

Sarah shook her head. "I moved around a lot as a kid, I just went to DC to look for a job after college," she said, getting off the subject of her. "How about you?"

"I grew up here," he said.

"I see," she smiled. "Have you always majored in IT?"

"Well I've always been pretty good with computers so I majored in Electrical Engineering in college."

"Where'd you go?"

"Stanford."

"Really? You are one smart guy."

"I didn't finish," he cofesses.

"Really, why not?"

"Um I was expelled in my senior year for stealing test answers. It really sucked because I was only twelve credits away from getting my bachelors degree," he sighed at the memory of that day. "After that I went to live with my sister and her boyfriend and got a job at the Buymore for two years and after that well, I ended up the Junior Head of IT at Banes and Co."

"I take it you didn't really steal the answers," she said. Sarah hardly knew him but she could tell that he was a nice guy and wouldn't steal test answers. That sounded more like the kind of thing that...no, never mind, she wasn't going to think about him. Not now anyway.

"You must be a mind reader," he smiled at her. She chuckled. "But yeah, you're right. It was actually my roomate who stole the test answers, put them under my bed and then he ratted me out to my professor. To this day I have no idea why...Okay, that's enough depressing memories about Stanford," he joked. "Where did you go?"

"Harvard," she replied, taking a sip of coffee.

"Harvard? Wow, and I thought I was smart for getting into Stanford."

"You are smart, you wouldn't have gotten your job if you didn't," Sarah assured him.

"Oh yeah, what was Carina talking about 'the latest Junior Head'? What does that mean?"

"Well from what I'm told, Goodwin worked with some real pros when he started out, trained by the best I suppose. So his standards are set unusualy high. Aparently that's why he's really picky with his Junior Head's and if he doesn't think that they're up to par, he fires them after three weeks or a month. I guess the last one didn't last very long," she drank some more coffee and noticed him looking very nervous. "That was the last guy, I'm sure you'll be fine, Chuck," she assures him.

"Thanks, Sarah. I'm just thinking that Goodwin seemed really nice and friendly when I met him this morning, when he's actually well...a hard ass." Sarah laughed at this, but quickly assured him.

"Chuck, if you know what you're doing then you've got nothing to worry about. I promise," he smiled at her. "So," she said. "Tell me some more about yourself.'

"Hm...Well I live with my sister Ellie and her boyfriend, Captain Awesome, they're both doctors."

"Capatin Awesome?" Sarah asked, quite amused.

"Well everything he does is awesome. You know? Jumping out of planes, saving lives, flossing. My uh, parents kind of ran off at different times when Ellie and I were kids so she kind of raised me. How bout you, any family?"

Sarah wasn't quite sure how to reply to this. Should she tell him the truth or come up with a lie? She'd never told anyone the truth before, then again she didn't really feel like lying to Chuck. Plus she wasn't especially proud of her childhood, conning people. She decided just to be vague about it.

"No siblings," she said. "And my parents are kind of hard to keep tabs on so I don't really see them." Not completely a lie, she thought.

"I see," he said, downing his coffee. "So, um, what prompted your move from DC?" he asked. "If you don't feel like telling me, you don't have to," he quickly added thinking again about what Carina said about her ex. "I was just curious, but if you don't wanna tell me it's totally fine," he said rambling again.

"Chuck, it's okay to ask," she said. "And it's nice that you're bing considerate about it." He seemed like such a genuine guy, and she found it quite adorable when he started rambling. "I moved from DC for this job. It was offered to me, it was a bump in salary so I took it." Again, it wasn't the whole story but it wasn't exactly a lie.

Half of Chuck wanted to ask 'That it?' but Ellie had taught him to be respectuful and if she didn't want to tell him, she didn't have to. Afterall, he and Sarah had just met less then an hour ago, so she definitely was not obligated to tell him everything about herself. He just nodded his head.

Sarah noticed that he wasn't asking if she had any other reason for moving, she reckoned he was trying not to pry and she appreciated that. It was kind of a test which he had passed, so she decided to tell him.

"I also broke up with my boyfriend for cheating on me, which you probably heard a bit about from Carina, while you were diagnosing the problem of my laptop. I figured, I move to LA it's a fresh start," Sarah told him.

"I see," Chuck replied. "And for whatever it's worth, I think your ex was really stupid to cheat on you."

Sarah smiled at him. "Thanks."

"So um, I have a question. What's the deal with Carina?" he asked.

She chuckled again, he was a pretty funny guy. "We were roomates in college and she liked to go partying...a lot. Old habits don't die I guess. I stuck around for about a month after college but then I moved to DC. She was pretty crazy in college, always went to frat boy parties, I remember. Came back to the dorm at like 3am, she passed her exams but she was always cramming," Sarah told him, remembering he college days."

"She can't have been that bad," Chuck said, half not believing himself. "And don't tell me you never went to any frat boy parties."

"A couple of times maybe, not nearly as much as her though. And she was alright as a roomate I guess but it just got really annoying sometimes."

"I take it she never planted test answers under your bed to get you expelled," Chuck tried to joke. Stanford was long over, why not try laugh about it? Sarah shook her head. "Then she wasn't as bad as my college roomate," he paused. "What was it she said earlier about visiting her in marketing if I got fired? What was that about?"

"She flirts with every guy in the office," Sarah explained. "Every single guy at least. Maybe to keep her persuasion skills in shape or something, I don't know. Except for Daniels in finance, she won't go near him."

"Why not Daniels in finance?"

"He's usually acting like a douche. And when he's not he's got no personality. It's like talking to..."

"A two-by-four plank of wood?" Chuck suggested.

She laughed. Geez I'm laughing a lot, she thought. "Exactly. It's like talking to a two-by-four," she looked down at her phone for the time. "We should probably head back to the office," she said. "Break's almost over."

Chuck glanced at his watch. "Yeah, you're probably right," he narrowed his eyes. "Or do you just want me to get your laptop fixed faster?" he said, jokingly. "Seriously though, I'm really glad we could do this, Sarah."

"Me too," she said.

"Maybe we can do it again, sometime?" he asked, hopefully. He's love to spend more time with her.

"Yeah, I'd like that," she replied as they left to head back to work.


AN: So, what did you think of the second chapter? I know it was mostly talking but apparently friendly conversation amounts to a whole lot of words. School's back so I don't know when I'll next update. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, please leave a review, reviews make me so happy.

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