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Click.
The pen pressed down on the paper and stopped as a faint whisper broke the afternoon silence.
" Infinite in mystery…"
Click.
The pen was once again pressed to the paper and the brunette closed her eyes.
" Is the gift of the goddess…"
Click.
She paused as the whisper stopped and brought her pen back up.
A few more seconds passed and no more words were whispered from the office of Genesis Rhapsodos.
Sighing contently, she started to write again before she was interrupted. Again. For the thirty second time!
" We seek it thus.."
Click.
" And take to the skies…"
Click.
" Ripples form on the water's surface…"
Click.
" The wandering souls knows no rest…"
Click.
The brunette sighed as she pursed her lips and waited for the next line…then waited some more… a couple more seconds… A tiny bit more…
" Oh for the love of Gaia! Just continue the damn poem already!" She yelled. Uh-oh, she hadn't really meant to say it out loud. She buried her head in her arms and waited for her boss to yell-
" Joanna!"
Yup, if she didn't get fired yesterday. She was definitely getting fired today
Slowly, she made her way to Genesis' office. " Um. Hi." She said as she looked at her very annoyed boss who was sitting on his chair with his feet on the desk, reading loveless.
" Hello." He responded. " How are you on this fine day?"
The brunette rolled her eyes. " Just peachy, can't you tell?"
He chuckled. " Quite the contrary. You seem aggravated."
" Gee, you think." She muttered under her breath.
" Excuse me?"
" Huh? Oh, I said, and what makes you think that?"
Genesis raised an eyebrow. "Your sudden outburst actually."
She grimaced. " Yea, about that…"
" Let me ask you a question." Genesis interrupted." Have you ever read Loveless?"
" You mean that poem you always talk about and quote because you can't think of anything better to say?"
Genesis blinked. " Yes, that one."
Joann grimaced. " eh, no…"
" And why is that."
" Do you want the truth?" She asked hesitantly.
" The truth would be very greatly appreciated."
" Well you see, I hear you quote it every single day! And after a while it gets kind of boring and irritating…." She stared at the carpet in order to avoid her boss' angry blue eyes.
Genesis eyebrows rose.
" And when I'm trying to work its just there! Constantly bugging me and annoying me!" Joanna kept saying completely oblivious to Genesis' horrified face.
" What's worse is that it's JUST a poem! A very strange poem too! I mean, it makes you go- what were they smoking?"
Genesis just kept staring.
" And then you go and repeat it and repeat it and so of course I'm not going to want to read it! I might even HATE it now!" Joanna looked up.
Genesis stood up. He took a deep breath trying to keep himself from murdering his ignorant secretary. " You have absolutely no good taste in literature!" He yelled.
Joanna's dark eyebrows rose. " Coming from the guy who only reads one poem…."
" Let me finish!" He yelled. "And you are absolutely insane!"
" Again, coming from the guy who only reads the same poem."
Genesis looked like he was about to explode. He opened his mouth and was about to fire his secretary when Sephiroth walked in reading a paper.
" Genesis, Lazard has-" he saw Genesis' angry face and saw Joanna looking at her boss as if he were insane.
Great. They were fighting. Yet again. They were worse than children!
" Come on Genesis." He said as he went to his friend.
" But I need to fire-"
Sephiroth put a hand over Genesis' mouth and led him out of the door. " Come on. We're going to get you some coffee and delicious Banoran apple pie." He looked at Joanna who was still staring at Genesis as if he should go to the insane ward.
" Sorry about that." He apologized and turned his attention to the now sulking red head.
The silver haired general sighed. Trying to get these two…… idiots to fall in love was going to be harder than he thought. Time to enlist Angeal on operation Make The Two Idiots Fall In Love And Stop Trying To Murder Each Other.
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" Hello?" Joanna answered as she woke up to her ringing phone. " Angeal!" She asked referring to one of Genesis' few friends. " Why are you calling me at-" She looked at her clock. " five in the morning!"
" Well you have to get up sometime." Came his cheerful response.
Joanna got out of bed. " I WAS going to make that sometime seven thirty."
" You go in at seven thirty." He said sounding a bit confused.
" It's Friday Angeal. I can waltz in there at nine o'clock and no one would give a shit."
" I should report you for that."
" Blame Genesis." Came the secretary's quick reply.
Angeal sighed. " Ok, anyways I didn't call you to argue about what time is acceptable to go to work, I actually called to ask if you wanted to meet up for breakfast?"
Joanna thought about it- sleep in or get free breakfast. " Depends, where are you buying?"
" Who said I was buying?"
" Then I'm not going." She retorted as she went back under the warm covers of her bed.
" Fine." Angeal sighed on the other end. " I'll pick you up later like at seven thirty and then we'll see."
" Just one question-"
" What?" Angeal sounded a bit annoyed.
" How much are you willing to spend?"
" What kind of question is that?" He asked confused.
" Hey I'm hungry!" She explained
" Yeah, well I'm cheap so your not worth it."
" Hey!" Joanna exclaimed.
" What! it's the truth!"
" You know, I hate your truthfulness."
" Why does everyone say that?" Angeal asked indignantly.
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At seven thirty sharp, a honk brought Joanna scrambling down the stairs of her building.
She hurried and saw that Angeal was waiting for her in a simple black car.
" Nice ride." She commented as she stepped inside.
" Thanks. I borrowed it."
" I should have known." Joanna smiled. She looked at the cars radio. " Oh, I wonder what this button does." She pressed it and classical music started playing.
" Boring!" She yelled and pressed something else.
" Don't do that!" Angeal cried. " Sephiroth's going to kill me!"
" This is Sephy's car?" Joanna asked mildly surprised.
" Who else do you know, actually likes classical music?"
She thought. " You're absolutely right. Only Sephiroth's old enough to actually appreciate classical music."
Angeal chuckled. " You're lucky he likes you or he would kill you for that."
Joanna shrugged. " I've heard that before and somehow I've never gotten killed."
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Joanna looked at Angeal with awe. He was on his third plate of pancakes and he was drowning them in syrup.
" You are my new hero." She stated as he started eating.
" Why?"
" I thought I could eat sugar. You obviously take the prize."
" You should see my puppy." He replied after he swallowed another mouthful.
" Aww, you have dog."
" I wish. You can train dogs to behave , but you can't train Zachary Fair." He said smiling apologetically.
" I know how you feel. I once had a hamster named Brittany and I tried to teach her how to do tricks and I thought I succeeded in teaching her how to play dead. Turns out she wasn't playing dead." Joanna said as she started at her plate. She looked up to find Angeal staring at her with confusion evident on his face.
"…"
" Ok, well let's just ignore I ever told you that embarrassing little story." She laughed.
" Fine," Angeal shrugged. " So how's work been going for you?"
" Eh, fine." She shrugged slightly, her smile faltering a bit.
" Fine?" He asked concerned.
" Yea, all Genesis does is quote Loveless. I mean it's old! And unfinished!"
" Well that's entices Genesis. It's like an enigma, a puzzle he needs to solve. He understands Loveless but every time he reads it, he finds something new. That's what holds his attention." He explained.
Joanna shrugged. " Doesn't make it any less boring."
" You're never going to like Loveless are you."" Nope." Came the cheerful reply.
" One day you'll learn to love it."
" I highly doubt it."
" Well then, you have my utmost respect. Not many people can listen to Loveless endlessly and not go insane." He laughed.
" I'm already insane so it doesn't count." She reminded him
" You're very strange." He replied with a smile.
" Yup, I'm also probably fired." She added
" Why?"
" Because knowing myself I'm probably going to end up setting Loveless on fire and I have a feeling Genesis isn't going to like that. Loveless is basically his entire life."
Angeal chuckled " You do know what he hates the most other than people insulting or harming loveless is his fan club?"
" His fan club?" For some reason, Joanna had always seen Genesis as the guy who was overjoyed with the fact that to some insane girls he was like a god.
" Yea, they're always coming up with weird schemes to get him to talk to them."
Angeal poured syrup over his pancakes.
" Fan club." Joanna whispered as her brain started coming up with a plan.
She smiled evilly. You see Genesis, she thought, this is why you make friends with your kidnappers.
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AH! Fanfiction is just trying to get me angry. I've been trying to fix chapter 3 and for some reason it just won't let me! It doesn't want to put lines and those lines make the chapter so much easier to understand. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter. Read and Review :D
- Joeyyyy