Hey guys! So I was hoping to have this chapter ready before Monday's episode aired, but when you're in college work has to come before fun (at least for me anyway). Also, I may have used any extra free time to watch the World Series... Go Red Sox! I'll for sure be writing a chapter for Monday's episode but I highly doubt I'll have it ready before Thursday's episode. So expect two chapters this weekend!
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There were a few things in life that Alex Knightley was sure of. One of them being, no one was allowed to touch his phone.
He may come off as crazy and controlling with that fact, but Alex Knightley is a business man. A business man in the 21st century to be exact. This day and age there's just an increasing reliability on technology; his success relies on the information he has right at his fingertips. His phone has the names and numbers of his staff, clients, and important business men and women. It has his schedule, his to-do list, and even his alarm clock for the work week.
No one touches Alex Knightley's phone.
Unless it's Emma, of course.
With her quick and assertive, "Give me your phone." He immediately sways from his natural, stern reaction of "no", to a complete pile of mush and cautiously asks her why instead.
And even though Emma replies with a sweet, "no reason", this is Emma and Emma always has a reason for everything.
So Alex hands it over to her (because really, what choice does he have?) with at least the comfort of knowing that it's locked with a very clever password.
Sometimes Alex isn't as clever as he thinks. And sometimes (most of the time) he underestimates dear Emma.
He shouldn't be surprised that he's shocked about this. She is his friend and friends know each other's birthdates. But the fact that she knew, first try, without hesitation, that that was his code unnerves him a little bit. Was he really that predictable?
Even though she figured out his password, this is still a company phone with delicate information and Emma is literally the nosiest person he has ever met. But, she has that look of sheer determination on her face and Alex knows that he's fighting a lost cause. While following "Emma logic" is still a skill he has not mastered over the years, he decides to follow along with whatever she has planned and gives his phone up to her anyway.
He tries not to laugh as Emma takes complete control over the situation and as she quickly brushes off his sarcastic "Oh, you're not going to have Harriet patch you through?"
Emma trying to reach one of the busiest men in the country should be interesting at least and he plans on taking a front row seat. This will soon become the highlight of his week and there's no way he's going to miss it. When Emma sternly demands him to leave, he really can't help the 10 year old boy response of "Make me" that comes bursting out of him.
Emma, with confidence and determined strides, demands to talk to Frank Churchill. She's a powerhouse when she sets her mind to something and it's one of the main reasons why their company has been so successful. However, she gets more and more frustrated by the second when she's denied what she wants and Alex can't help but picture her as an angry kitten.
It takes all of Alex's willpower to hold in his laughter; this has got to be one of the most amusing things he has seen in a long time (except maybe last weekend when Emma tried drunk karaoke), but Emma, being Emma, keeps on trying anyway. Yet, it doesn't really work out for her so she has to resort to Plan B: bribe Frank Churchill's assistant.
It doesn't take long, really, for Alex (with his newly stretched out pants) to receive a phone call from Frank Churchill's office and he, half stunned and half impressed, carefully and delicately hands his phone over to Harriet to bring to Emma (she did manage to somehow spill an entire latte on him after all). He can't believe he trusts this girl to hold his phone, not to mention carry it down a hallway, when he has a conniption if someone even picks it up for him. But this is for Emma and even though he loves to mercilessly tease and mock her, he would do anything for her. Although, once that phone of his is back in the safety of his own hands he'll have to change the code to something a little more complicated this time.