The next day I woke up by the sound of my alarm clock exactly at 6 AM. I was finding it really hard to get out of the covers because it was raining and I was so comfortable and warm under the sheets. Finding my strength I finally got out of bed and walked into my personal bathroom to brush my teeth and take a hot shower, last night's events replaying inside my head, it was surely a weird and awesome night, I found out that when Troy actually let his guard down and relaxed he was excellent company. He was so smart; he knew a little about pretty much everything. I walked over to my closet to find something to wear in this cold weather; I found a very nice sweater I bought last weekend, with a black skirt and some black heels. I still couldn't get my mind off Troy's comments on Trent last night, I thought about it for a while as I applied some makeup, grabbed my stuff and walked to the kitchen, it was still early so I could grab some breakfast.
"Good morning" I greeted as I sat on a stool and looked down at the wonderful pancakes Ryan was making, he smiled and handed me a couple.
"Good morning gorgeous" He said as he poured some orange juice into a glass and put it in front of me. "Are you ready for work?" He asked and I nodded with my mouth full of sweet pancakes. He was wearing a bathrobe and his hair was wet and all over the place, there was no sign of Sharpay so I guessed she was still sleeping. Sharpay had an amazing job at Ralph Lauren and she was very good at it but she was just a little too lazy sometimes thing that made her lose a couple of jobs in the past.
"Make sure you wake up your sister" I said as I finished my breakfast and gathered my things ready to go.
"I will" He said as he looked at the clock on the wall "I called a cab it should be downstairs" Ryan smiled at me and I quickly kissed his cheek, he was just amazing. "What do you think about inviting Taylor and Jason to hang out with us this weekend, I had fun yesterday"
"Sure I'll tell them" I said and walked out of our apartment to the elevator. I pushed the down button and waited for a while. I wondered what mood Troy would be in today, he was very professional and conservative during work hours, but last night he seemed to be such a different person, so open and much more like his brother Trent. I didn't know how I felt about that. The cab was downstairs just as Ryan said and since it stopped raining I rushed to it, we were soon on our way.
Bolton Media was the highest building on the block; I looked at it for a while from the window as we got closer to it, and it was slowly raining so I grabbed my umbrella from my purse, paid the taxi driver and thanked him. Going out of the warm cab into the cold New York was very hard for me. I let my hair down that morning for extra protection. Walking into the building I greeted the main receptionist who seemed to be such a sweet girl and walked inside the elevator, I didn't run into the twins so I was going up with the rest of the workers. They were all talking about how they spent their nights; I somehow found it so pleasantly normal.
Once on my floor I walked over to my desk and greeted Taylor and Jason who were already there, we spent a couple of minutes talking about the night before and how much we enjoyed everything.
"Ryan told me to ask you guys if you wanted to do something this weekend" I casually said and they both seemed to be interested about that fact.
"I would love that, we can hit the clubs or something" Jason said.
"Yeah, there's a new club opening this Friday we can go" Taylor added and I nodded even though I wasn't the club type of girl. I would go if that's what everybody wanted to do. They both sat down and I went to set the coffee machine for the twins, I had only worked for two days but I was very sure Troy would want his cup of coffee as soon as he stepped inside that office.
The twins walked inside the office a few minutes later not looking very happy, would there be a morning where I saw them smile at me? Both of them? I had no answer for that question. I went to make their coffee and set the tray for them. Walking inside the office with my notepad I put the tray on their desk as usual and stood there waiting for whatever they had to say.
"Thanks" Troy said as he grabbed his cup and took a sip. He sighed. "A very important client is going to come anytime this morning, make sure he feels comfortable as we discuss his deal" Troy finished as he took another sip. Trent was frowning as well which was weird.
"Ok" I nodded "Is that all?"
"Yes" Troy waved me off and I walked outside leaving them alone to think.
"What's up?" Jason asked looking confused and worried.
"Apparently some important client is coming today and they're stressing about his deal" I said rolling my eyes, I think it was normal for Troy to stress about everything, he seemed like the serious twin, so for Trent to be stressed as well it had to be something very important.
"It has to be Mr. Mendez, he had been giving them such a hard time to sign the contract" Taylor said as she typed on her computer.
"Ugh yes" Jason rolled his eyes and sat back down "I mean what is his problem, he keeps leaving and coming back to us"
"Why?" I sat down at my desk and searched for Mr. Mendez's files. His full name was Rodrigo Alejandro Mendez; he's Mexican and moved to the US when he was fifteen years old. Married three times, has four children and he is 49 years old.
"Because Bolton Media has a strict ten year policy for new contracts, he doesn't want to sign for that long but he hasn't found another place that offers something better…so he keeps coming back, getting upset and leaving again" It was Taylor's turn to roll her eyes. I looked at Mr. Mendez picture, he seemed like a strict father, the kind to force his children to do whatever he thinks it's the best, even when it may not be.
Just like my father.
I snapped out of my thoughts and went back to work; it wasn't the time to be distracted with my personal life. About an hour later a medium sized man walked inside the office, with a little girl that looked about 5 years old and two other large man following close behind. He didn't even bother to say good morning to any of us. He looked directly at Taylor.
"Tell Bolton I'm here" He barked. Then he looked at me "Get me some coffee woman"
"My name is Gabriella sir" I said as I stood up to make that coffee.
"Did I ask for your name woman?" He asked with his still very marked accent. "No…now move it, I'm in a hurry" I looked at Taylor and Jason completely speechless, this was the most rude and mean person in this entire universe. Taylor shrugged her shoulders and I decided to ignore him and make the coffee.
"Mujer estupida" He said, making me completely stop walking. Did he just call me stupid? "Es un personal muy incompetente" He said to the other two in Spanish. I think they were his bodyguards because they weren't moving at all. The little girl just stood there looking back and forth. "Sientate" He told her to sit down and she quickly did like she was afraid of him somehow.
I went to set a tray and took it back to the office. He just looked at me while I poured some coffee into a giant mug.
"Would you like some sugar?" I asked and he chuckled as he shook his head in denial.
"Are you retarded or what?" He asked "Of course I do" So according to him I had to know that information? Was he out of his mind? I was no longer going to accept that. I stood up.
"Listen sir…I don't care what kind of business you have here but I won't have anybody insult me in two languages when I do not deserve it." I said "I don't need to know how you like your freaking coffee or anything…and by the way my grandparents are from Dominican Republic so I can speak Spanish" I said and went to sit back at my desk. He looked at me speechless and a frown soon came to his face and that's when I realized…
I was going to get fired!
Jason was staring at me with his mouth wide open and his hands frozen above his keyboard. I was so going to get fired after barely three days of work. That had to be a record. Taylor came out of the twin's office and looked at everyone confused.
"They are ready to see you Mr. Mendez" She said and went to sit at her desk. He didn't say a word as he walked into the office. I was so fired. "What happened?" Taylor asked.
"Gabriella here just put the old man in place for insulting her in different languages" Jason explained, I felt the heat covering my cheeks.
"What?" Taylor looked back and forth between us.
"Oh my God" I simply said.
"It's going to be ok honey….you'll see" She said, but I could see in her face she didn't really believe that.
We said no more words for about another hour while the reunion was taking place…soon when they opened the door, walked out and looked at me I knew I was in big trouble. Mr. Mendez walked over to me and stared at me for a while before speaking again.
"What was your name again lady?" His accent got thicker on that last word.
"Gabriella sir" I replied.
"Hmm" He smiled "Would you like to work for me Gabriella?"
"What?" I was very surprised to hear the words that came out of his mouth, he nodded and I looked back at Taylor and the twins who didn't look very pleased about what he just asked me.
"Yeah, I'll pay you even more than these two punks" He pointed at Trenton and Troy as he said this "I need people with your spirit on my team"
"Oh well…" To say I was speechless was an understatement "I'm sorry but I just got this job and I like it"
"Too bad" He said and tapped my desk before looking at the twins "treat her well or else I'll steal her…I want the first draft on my desk by Monday"
"I'll work on it right away sir" Trent said with a smile. Finally!
"Thanks" He said and with that he left. Taylor and Jason were as surprised as I was.
"Well Gabs it looks like we need to be thanking you" Trent said as he wrapped an arm around me, pulling me up.
"What for?" I asked him.
"He finally signed our contract without protesting because he likes you" Troy said with his hands inside his pockets, looking down at Trent's hands on me.
"He likes me?!" That was so confusing.
"Yeah what did you do?" Trent asked "He never likes anyone"
"Well, he insulted me and I told him it wasn't nice" I simply said. Blushing once again.
"Bullshit" Jason said "She acted all badass telling him he couldn't insult her in Spanish because her grandparents are Latin too, and that she didn't have to know how he liked his stupid coffee…it was awesome" Troy and Trent looked at me with admiration.
"So all we had to do was tell him to fuck off and he would treat us nicely?" Trent asked.
"Looks like it" I murmured.
"You're my hero!" Trenton exclaimed as he pulled me in a bear hug and kissed my cheek loudly; I found that extremely inappropriate but didn't say anything about it. I looked over at Troy hoping he wouldn't get mad. He was just looking at me with his piercing blue eyes and smiled.
"Yeah" He said "My hero"
