Author Note: So coronavirus has kept me at home which is finally giving me motivation to continue my stories. Yup I'm trying…back to the story…
Chapter 6: New Opportunities
Meredith's POV:
For the rest of the day, all I could think about was how I totally just dropped coffee on America's if not the World's richest man. My coworkers at first didn't notice anything wrong but I must've been in my thoughts for a while because Mark smacked my shoulder "Dude what the hell? You alright?"
"What yeah…I'm fine…Did we get any calls from Miss Potts about the service?" My voice shook a little as I looked down wringing my hands.
Mark gave me this confused what the hell are you talking about before responding "Yeah all she said was thank you and about the store and the staff".
Instant relief came over and it must have showed because Mark kept shooting me what the hell face. After assuring him everything was fine. The store got busy and since I was a manager, I sent Amy with the next batch of the Stark order seeing as she could use the small break. As much as I love people sometimes, they can be real jerks. Demanding remakes of the exact same coffee.
_TIME SKIP_
It was a few weeks later and I'd finally let go of my fear of Stark Industries calling in to complain about me. Speaking of my job I was currently behind the counter gathering some of the hot pastries to put behind the glass display window. As I was just about to come up from the reheat oven someone tapped my shoulder.
"Oh my god!" The shock caused my arms to fling out which also caused the pastries to go flying everywhere.
"That was not the reaction I was hoping for. More of a oh my god it's you Tony Stark… the billionaire, no longer playboy, philanthropist…you get the point." At first, I thought the guy was messing with before I turned around and saw him. This time he was in a jogging outfit along with his signature sunglasses.
The shock must've have run through me before the sass came out "Well maybe if you hadn't of come up out of nowhere, I wouldn't be shocked. Wait a minute how did you even get in the door was locked."
Mr. Stark got this absolute know-it-all smirk before he held up a key. "Called the big boss. He agreed to load out a key so I could check out the store for a possible investment."
This only served to confuse me more. Had we known Stark was interested in investing in this location (we work overall as a company but there are owners of each individual location who get part of the revenue). Had I known I would've cleaned everything including the employee restroom which trust me no one has hard core scrubbed that place since a lady who "could not hold it" had to use it. Trust me no one even used the restroom for three months before the smell became bearable.
"I'm sorry I wasn't informed anyone was even looking into purchasing the place off of Mr. Lewis." At this point I had grabbed the fallen food and tossed it into the trash and was now heading to the closet by the customer bathrooms to get the broom and sweep the crumbs before any critters started coming in.
"Well no one is. I'm actually interested in offering you a position as my offices personal assistant. We could double your pay. Of course, there would be trail period of about a month. If all works out, we will provide you with room and board as well as working out the finer details of the arrangement."
Now that I was not expecting. I was trying to process all this information at once. It was a lot what about if the trail period didn't work out. I didn't know anything about being a personal assistant let alone one that would be assisting Tony Stark. I also had a for sure job…what would happen if I gave that up?
"As great as that sounds. What about my current job? I can't just leave with no security of job." I felt this answer was a good one although from the look on Tony's face it was not what he is expecting.
There was a pause as he seemed to contemplate his answer. "Fair point. While we test you out you can work your current schedule and we'll work around you. That will extend the trail to two weeks."
"Can I think about it?"
Author Note: OMG that was a big one. So, I am figuring out the logistics of how I am getting Meredith to the main plot. First, I want to get her there which is why it's taking a while to meet Peter. I plan to only have about two more chapters to set up the background of her and how she got where she is.
