(Piper's POV)
I sigh hanging up the phone looking out my window. Another day of smelling paper and over-sexed workers. I hear a knock on my closed door, it can't be Jeb he opens the door while knocking like an ironic idiot and Clara doesn't knock soooo…
"Come in." I instruct to see light blonde hair peeking through. Elsa! My spirits immediately lift at the sight of the pretty darling.
"Hey Angel." She greets brightly, smiling with her white teeth.
"Hey babe." And a babe she is. She allows my eyes to caress her beautiful goddess form in a lovely turquoise lace dress and matching pumps that have cute bows on the front.….wait a second.
I look at her furrowing my brows. "Elsa…" I begin carefully. "How do you know where I work?"
"Oh you said you were an accountant." She states moving closer. "Yes but I never said where I worked." I mumbled putting my arms around her waist.
"I looked you up. Not many French- Jamaican accountants named Piper Leclerc." She giggled. Okay. I stay silent for a moment not knowing what to say so I gloss over it.
It was then I notice the round basket she's carrying that had a heavenly smell emanating from it. "I brought you muffins." She smiles offering me the bag. Holy fuck what is this girl?
"Wow I…muffins?" I take the basket looking in it to see six large muffins that look absolutely beautiful. My mouth salivates at the scent of strawberries hitting my senses.
"I made them. I noticed you liked the strawberries during our breakfast date so I guessed they were your favorite flavor." Does anything get by her?
"Second favorite but thank you so much." I hug her which she eagerly returns. I feel her nuzzle her face into the crook of my neck taking deep breaths. I press my nose into her hair. She smells like sandalwood and vanilla. Pulling away I go back to my desk setting the muffins down.
"So what are you doing here?" I ask carefully not wanting to sound rude.
"I just wanted to see you. I'm not disturbing anything am I?" She asks worriedly.
"Oh no of course not. I was just wondering." I wave it off.
"Can I watch you work?" I nod smiling. This has never happened before. Other girls and guys have never been interested in my work at all yet Elsa seemed thoroughly invested in every aspect of my life.
I see her picking up a chair so I get up and grab it from her. She gushes. "Thank you."
"Sure." I quip placing it next to my chair. Frowning Elsa pushes her chair impossibly closer to mine. Satisfied with the distance she sits leaning over to me.
"So what does being a tax accountant entail?" I take a breath and go into explaining what I do on a daily bases. I yawn. Way to go Piper you are so boring you literally bored yourself but when I look over or Elsa her eyes are shining with pure admiration.
"Wow you're a hero!" She excitedly says. I raise an eyebrow was she not listening I keep track of taxes of the company and some individuals not put out fires.
"I am?" I ask wanting to hear how she came up with that conclusion.
"Mmhm." She nods childishly bouncing her bang. Adorable. "You basically keep record of the finances of a lot of people helping them keep their families a float along with the company..." Hmm she's not wrong.
My little ego twitches just a bit. I really shouldn't run with this…I can't..I won't..not gonna do this.
"Oh my god you won an award!?" Elsa reached over picking up the award marveling at it. Not gonna do it.
"I got that this month for being the best accountant in the whole company. I actually have others but I don't put them on display." God I sound like Jeb.
"Really may I see them?" She asks. I get up putting a little swagger into my movements. I offer her my hand which she takes sweetly.
While walking over to my glass cabinet I wrap my arm around her lower back smiling when she leans into my hold. I show her the awards on the shelves.
My insecurities pull in. "But I actually just got these because everyone else around here doesn't take their jobs seriously. Nothing special." She looks at me with a serious look.
"You know what I love about you?..well…I love everything about you but one of this a things is that you don't realize how spectacular you are."…Well then.
I squeeze her a little bit which I think she likes.
"You're just as amazing." I mumble turning to her she looks me in the eyes. I can tell she's studying them sighing as if they're entrapping her. I...I think this is one of those kissy moment thingies. Wanting to do this right I grip her chin gently and lean in. She follows but a lot quicker and of course I hear the door squeak open with a knock.
"Hey Pip I- WHOA WHAT THEE FUCK!" Jeb shrieks laughing behind his hand. I hear Elsa growl probably at the interruption. Oh dear. I groan inwardly. Jeb always steals the pretty girls whenever we hangout. Welp it was nice while it lasted. I sigh letting my shoulders drop not even putting up a fight. He always wins. I mean of course Elsa is worth fighting for but I don't want to embarrass myself like I always do.
I slug over to my desk chair watching his gaze crawl all over Elsa's form like spiders. He slinks over to her putting his hand out. "Well hello there my name is Jeb but you can call me Jeb." Damnit I nearly forgot how smooth he is.
Elsa looks him over with hooded uninterested eyes? That can't be right. All other girls gawk at him. He eventually puts his hand down realizing she isn't going to take it.
"Is there a last name to Jeb?" Her tone is icy catching him off guard but he quickly recovers smiling. "Oikler."
She nods humming an affirmation. "Well Mr. Oikler I'm Elsa Kongelig." My hopes soar high. I stand making my way to Elsa's side. My arm once again is around her waist. She gently strokes the hand that is resting on her hip with her thumb. Score one insecure, frizzy haired, loser.
"Um Pepper I don't think you introduced me to your friend." Elsa's eye twitches I'm not sure at what though.
"I'm not her friend." Elsa replies quickly.
"She's my girlfriend." The statement makes a small smug smirk form on her lips.
"Oh wow. How did you end up scoring a dame like this?" He chuckles but stops when Elsa raises an eyebrow at him. Oh man I love this, Jeb getting shot down by the girl of my dreams.
"Hey listen I'm taking Clara out to an open roof joint for lunch why don't you two come along?" He offers. Elsa looks to me as I do the same to her. She doesn't like to eat out.
"Umm I don't know darling are you okay with that?" I ask her. "I brought lunch for the two of us. French breaded sandwiches with raspberries, goat cheese, Turkey vegetables with potatoes fries and beverages." Both my own and Jeb's eyebrows shoot up at the menu she's prepared.
"Umm okay then sure yeah Jeb we'll come." I would have rejected in the past within a second but with Elsa I felt confident and even better with the fact she only had eyes for me.
"We can take my car." She said taking my hand. When we walk out the office Jeb shields his mouth in our direction subtly pointing at Elsa to someone the action did not go unnoticed by either of us.
We meet Clara downstairs. Once getting an eyeful of Elsa she doesn't look too pleased. Classic jealously. Elsa pays her no mind strutting by my side. She knows she's gorgeous and has me wrapped around her finger. Entering her car she leans over and kisses my cheek while at the same time buckling me in probably knowing I'll forget to.
"Sooo..I guess this means we're official." I ask in a shakey voice. She puts on blue sunglasses. "Most definitely." she answers leaving no room for debate not that I would anyways. I hope this place isn't too high end. I fix my loose white button up and light grey skinny jeans grateful that our firm doesn't enforce uniforms.
She grabs my hand out of my lap and holds it tight. Feeling an itch in my cheek I try to pull it away but she isn't having it at all. She keeps hold of me the whole time we follow Jeb's car.
(Elsa's POV)
Never had I been so peeved at a human being then I was in the presence of this pretentious office fuckboy me and my sweet angel were following. I look over at her every now and then. I'm so proud of her. She's won awards, helps countless of families and her own company, could she be any more perfect and yet she doesn't realize how wonderful she is. Even in her office when I met Mr. Oikler she seemed saddened at me meeting him. I have to make her realize I have eyes for her and only her. His girlfriend is no better eyeing me as if I'm possible competition for her rug of a man who couldn't even dream of coming less than an inch closer to how fantastic my Piper is.
I bring her soft hand to my lips gracing it with a soft kiss.
"So.." She begins. I feel her pull at her hand but keep hold. She's not getting this back. "What do you think of Jeb?" Ugh why can't we talk about a more pleasant topic like Piper herself?
"I think he's an asshole who thinks he's more attractive than he is." She giggles trying to once again tug away but I remain vigilant.
"Well he is very attractive..." Now it's my turn to feel jealousy. He called her Pepper in the office. "I actually have a confession...he's my ex." I swerve the car then try to quickly recover, Piper sneakily steals her hand back, I breathe in trying to regain and tighten my senses. How could that…that man child possibly have a chance at dating my Angel? I chance a glance at her but she's looking out the window. My poor baby dating someone like that. I begin shaking with anger. How dare he? I hate him. I hate him with all that I am.
"He's not perfect but I truly did care about him but I…wasn't what he wanted." I want him dead.
"So now we're just friends I mean I understand. I'm not what a lot of people want." My heart breaks at her tone as her head sinks down.
"You're what I want…what I need." I assure her but it doesn't seem to work when I hear her mumble.
"But for how long?" My lip trembles in both anger and sadness an image of her and Jeb kissing fills my mind as if it was poison. She's mine and will always be mine. I'm the only one who understands what she is.
Pulling into the restaurant I designed this place. I get out quickly opening the door for her making her chuckle getting out.
"How sweet." She kisses my cheek making me hum, I make sure to grab our lunch. Snatching her hand we walk into the building. It's made of glass as intended. I was going for modern and classy. I hold back the piece of information for lunch.
Making it to the roof restaurant we see that Jeb and Clara already have a table. We go over and I reach in the cooler bag pocket handing Piper a jar. She eyes the green liquid curiously before she can open her pretty mouth Clara leans forward.
"Oh my, what is that green stuff?" She asks. I refrain from rolling my eyes and answer. "Sun dried green tea."
"Do you want to wait for them to order babe?" I purr rubbing Piper's arm. She blushes and nods. "Yeah sure that would be the polite thing to do." I smile at her mannerisms.
"So how did you two meet?" Jeb begins.
"I designed this building." I say bluntly. Piper sputters coughing.
Might as well get it out now then be distracted by it throughout our conversation. "Oh wow so you design buildings and stuff?"
"The proper term is architect." I say shortly.
Jeb nods his stupid head. "Impressive I like a girl with smarts."
I glance at Clara. "I bet you do." Piper gives me a look that says "Put the gun away". So I do. She wants me to be pleasant, fine I'll be pleasant.
"So back to the first convo. How did you two meet?" Jeb ask. Both my angel and I look at each other to clarify who is going to be the storyteller and settle on Piper.
Clara inhaled sharply, I can practically smell the envy pouring off of her.
Piper goes into the animated tale of how she and I meet. I listen in as well loving the story of how she came into my life. She's so cute when she tells it as well, her sweet little hand movements.
The waiter came for Jeb and Clara.
"I'll have the crab pound cake." Clara started but was stopped by Jeb. "Are you sure about that? You haven't been to gym this month." He whispers but we can hear.
Clara gasps. "I can't believe you would say that in front of people." She hisses. He puts his hands up as if to offer peace.
"Sorry. I'm sorry. It's just you always tell me to look out for you and when I don't I get yelled at." She calms down sighing.
"I know I love you." She kisses him. I try my best to not gag. "Crab pound cake annnnd a nice chunk of cow medium rare with a side of mashed corn."
"Hey you haven't been to the gym yet either Jeb." Piper jabbed making Clara and I giggle. She's hilarious.
When their food arrives I give Piper her food and take out mine as well. Clara takes a bite of cake and chews. "So Elsa are you a health nut or something?"
"No I just don't trust strangers with my food…..or Piper's." I state taking a bite.
"Fuck Elsa this is amazing! You made this?" I grin looking at Piper bite into her sandwich. "This taste delicious."
"Can I have a bite?" Jeb asks. My eyes widen in horror as Piper hands him a piece easily. That was hers…..not his.
"Oh yeah this is good. Elsa are you a chef for hire?" Jeb asks chuckling. I try to be civil and give a halfhearted smile.
"Hey she's my girlfriend and if she's cooking for anyone it's me." Piper says. I can tell she's joking but is a hundred percent right. I would love to cook for my angel.
"I'd cook every meal for you if you'd let me." I muse to her affectionately. She smiles.
"What about me cause Clara can't really cook." She pushes his shoulder. "No." I reply quickly.
"Clare can cook Jeb pop off." Wait when did she cook for Piper? Slowing my breathing I tap Piper drawing her attention from Jeb.
"Yeah Elsa?"
"When did Clara cook for you?" I ask trying my best to not sound too concerned and more so curious.
"Oh when she was sick and needed lunch. Technically I didn't cook it for her but I gave it to her when I noticed she didn't have anything to eat." Clara explained, I remain unimpressed. That was the least you could have did.
"Ah man check out the time hey we better head back." Jeb looks at his watch then takes out his card going to the register.
Piper stands and pulls out my chair then picks up the small cooler. "I'll probably just clock out early." She says taking my hand as we all head out the door.
Jeb huffs out rolling his eyes. "Yeah and of course the boss will let ya since you're his favorite."
"Just do your job Jeb and you may make it to my level." Piper jokes.
When we get back into my car she looks to me fastening her seatbelt. Good girl.
"So I was thinking maybe when you drop me off at the office I take my ride back to my place and you just follow, and we I don't know, hang out there or something."
"Or I could just drive us to my house and we come back for your moped later?" She thinks about it then shrugs.
"Alright." The answer puts a grin on my face as I head to my home. She glances out the window in curiosity seeming impressed. "Wow you live in a pretty nice area." She comments.
"Thank you."
We pull into my driveway and see Olaf staring at us in the window tail wagging. She smirks pointing to him. "I'm guessing that's Olaf huh?" I nod chuckling. This time she opens my door for me earning another kiss to the cheek.
"He can be a bit jumpy with new people so be warned." I joke opening up the door. I try to slip in past the large white mass but he zooms out pouncing on Piper.
"Oh my god Elsa is this her!? She smells so nice! Oh she has a cat! She's a lot prettier than what you described!" Olaf rambles licking Piper who is squealing and laughing, she pets him vigorously mushing his face cooing.
"Elsa he is so cute!" She squeaks letting him lick her chin.
"Alright Olaf inside." I command, he gets off giving, my angel a breather.
"Wow." She gushes looking around my home that hopefully will be her own. My insides warm at the thought.
"Well I guess I shouldn't expect anything less from an architect." She muses as I lead her into the living room. "Would you like anything to drink?" I ask sweetly. She takes a seat gently. "Umm do you have any more of that delicious tea from lunch?"
"Of course angel. Olaf" he sits up straight up at the call of his name. "Keep her company."
"Yes captain." He says resolutely as I go into the kitchen.
"Well fuck me, congrats I didn't think you could do it." Asle says seated up on the counter. She jumps off walking over to me as I pour more tea in a tall beaker.
"So how shall we go about this?" She ask leaning against the counter-top. I scrunch my brows in confusion. "What do you mean?" I ask glancing at her, she smirks pushing a bottle of pills towards me.
"Is this a play by the rules or will your angel be spending the night?" I look to the pills then pick up the bottle. I am presented with a crossroad.
Asle smiles knowingly as I choose a path on the butterfly's wing.