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"Your son takes the greatest pleasure in teasing me."
Yelan placed her cup of coffee back onto the table. "Oh?"
"He finds me amusing and consistently does things just to aggravate me." Sakura huffed.
"How is he progressing?" Yelan asked. "I hear he's been doing most of his documents and is now attending over three quarters of the meetings."
Sakura mumbled under her breath.
"Pardon?"
She cleared her throat. "He's been more diligent with his documents, I'll admit. I left the door unlocked twice this past week but he only purposely escaped once. I guess that's improvement. At the same time…" Sakura paused and scowled. "He had the audacity to ask me to tie him up the other day!" she exclaimed.
Yelan was taken aback at her outburst and Sakura realized that the café went silent with her last statement. Her face suddenly took on a red hue.
Yelan's lips were quirking upwards into a smile. "Please do elaborate."
"He hasn't attended one meeting where he wasn't tied up. The first couple of times I had to call security to help hold him down to the chair. He was more cooperative afterwards. Then, the other day, he led me down to the conference room, plopped down on a chair, and asked me if I was going to tie him to it."
"What did you do?"
"He told me that if I didn't tie him, he wasn't going to attend, so I did."
Yelan tried to hide her mirth. "Oh? Is there anything else I should know?"
"I've somewhat dealt with his reluctance to do paperwork, and I've kind of devised a solution for him to attend meetings. I'm planning on working on his tardiness next."
"What's your plan?"
She groaned and slumped into the chair. "I don't know. I've never had to deal with this when I worked for Eriol. You don't happen to have any solutions, do you Mrs. Li?"
The elegant woman pulled out pen and a piece of paper. After writing down something, she handed the paper to Sakura. "That's his personal number, his house number, and his address. Should you ever feel the need to wake him up in the morning…" Yelan trailed off and smiled.
"I'm not sure that he'll take too well with me calling his house in the morning to wake him up."
"You never know. That just might be what he needs."
"I'll consider it. Thank you for the advice Mrs. Li," she smiled.
Yelan smiled back. "You're very welcome. I'd like to take the time to thank you for this Sakura. I'll admit that I had my reservations about you at first, as you didn't have many years of experience and I wasn't sure that you could handle my rowdy son. Eriol insisted that you were amazing though, so I took a gamble and it seems that I've hit the jackpot. Honestly, I was giving up hope on him when I asked for your help."
"Your son… He isn't really that bad of a guy and I'm only saying this because I'm in a good mood today. He's completely irresponsible at times and he can annoy me to no end, but I think he has a good, if somewhat childish heart." Her phone suddenly rang.
"Go on and answer it," stated Yelan.
Sakura excused herself and went outside to answer it. After a few minutes, she came back in a huff. "I take back what I said. If he has a good heart, it's buried deep, deep, deep down inside of him. I'm sorry but I have to go and take care of a few things. Please excuse me." With that, like a whirlwind, Sakura was gone and running to her car.
Yelan blinked. Well, that was interesting.
Three days later, Syaoran looked up from his paperwork and found himself looking at his short, brunette secretary. "Yes?" he asked.
"I have a present for you."
Syaoran leaned back into his seat, a grin forming on his face. "Oh? What is it?"
She placed a brown box in front of him.
"Should I be worried about what you got me?"
"Just do me a favor and open it up. It's not going to hurt you."
Syaoran complied as his curiosity was peaked. He lifted the lid on the cardboard box and pulled out the baby blue contraption. It seemed to be an alarm clock with white, large wheels on either side of it. "An alarm clock?"
"Yes. You always come into work late so I figured that your alarm clock isn't waking you up properly. You probably push the snooze button so many times that by the time you're finally awake, you're late."
He didn't feel like telling her that his alarm clock worked perfectly fine and that he purposely set it an hour after his shift started.
She took it out of his hands and began pushing the little white buttons on the top. "I'm going to give you a demonstration." She placed the item back onto his desk.
"Now what?" he asked.
"We wait."
After one minute, the alarm went off.
"Push the snooze button," Sakura commanded.
He did.
Silence filled the room.
"Now what?" he asked.
"We wait," she said again.
The alarm went off after another minute and it quickly rolled towards Syaoran. He jerked in surprise at the sudden movement and watched with wide eyes as it rolled off the table and onto the ground.
Sakura attempted to stifle her laughter after seeing his reaction. She didn't succeed and ended up laughing loudly. "The look on your face when it started moving," she gasped, "was priceless!"
Unaware of the situation, the alarm clock kept rolling on the floor, further away from them as it rang. It changed directions when it hit the wall. When Sakura finally caught her breath, she picked up the alarm clock, turned off the alarm, and spoke. "The machine only allows you to hit the snooze button once. The second time it rings, it'll run away so you'll have to get up to shut it off. It's an ingenious idea. Anyways, you have no excuse to arrive to work late now and that alarm clock was expensive so you better use it."
"Yes ma'am."
She walked out of his office and shut the door.
Fifteen seconds later, the heir of the Li Company was laughing freely.
He pulled his keys out of the car but before he opened the door to step out, he remembered the little, brown cardboard box. Smirking, he grabbed it and headed into his house and up to his room. The white prim alarm clock by his bedside was chucked. Gently, he took the alarm clock that his secretary bought for him out of the box and onto the small table next to his bed.
And the next morning, when the little blue alarm clock began to ring, he was reminded of his little, energetic secretary.
He grinned.
Author's Note: As always, remember to review! Please let me know what you think about their progression and tell me what you did or didn't like about the story. Critiques about the story and about general writing skills will be greatly appreciated too! :) If you notice any grammatical errors, please let me know so I can fix them.
By the way, yes the alarm clock exists. If you go to amazon and type in "clocky," it should be one of the first ones that show.
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