[ May I ]
But I can see when the lights start to fade.
"Are you alright yeah?" Deidara immediately grabbed a tissue and handed it to Sakura who gladly accepted it. She just continued chocking while Sasori had walked away from the two of them.
Sasori fitted the keys into his project's room door and entered, switching on the lights and closing the door behind him without taking another look at his new employee. Deidara sighed as Sakura tried to avoid making eye contact with the blonde.
"I can't believe he just hired you. You are not bad, but yesterday he was complaining how troublesome an employee is and bla bla bla yeah." Deidara frowned and turned to the pinkette. "Do you guys somehow know each other?"
"Somehow, I met him yesterday, spilled coffee on him this morning and stepped on his foot." Sakura gave an awkwward smile. "Hey… he wouldn't hold any grudge right?" Sakura asked innocently while Deidara stared doubtfully at Sakura.
"I don't know…" Deidara lied, inwardly knowing the truth. Sakura just sighed.
"Well! Perhaps you can go now, I'll talk to him later and you can start work tomorrow." Deidara stood up from his seat and approached to his desk. Sakura followed him while he was scribbling some stuff on a sticky note.
"Just clocked in here every 9 in the morning, and here are the keys." Deidara pulled out one of his drawer and handed the keys to Sakura, who immediately took it without hesitation.
"This is my number, if you need anything just give me a call." Deidara pasted the sticky note onto Sakura's hand and spoke. "When you got here tomorrow, I'll tell you what to do; the files, phone calls and etc" Deidara then stared at the closed door. "And to talk about what your other boss dislikes, hates and well, I don't think he likes anything so there's nothing to take note of." The blonde said while Sakura took the sticky note from her hand and stared at it dumbly.
"Thank you!" Sakura bowed a few times before looking down at her feet and slightly glanced at the wooden door that Sasori had entered, Deidara noticed it as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry! As long as I'm here, he won't do anything to you." Deidara smiled as Sakura looked at Deidara with a surprised look.
Realizing he had just said that his friend sound like a lecher, he immediately waved his hand in the air. "That's not what I meant yeah, I mean he would not torture you by doing tons of work or anything yeah." Deidara clumsily said.
Sakura gave an "Oh…" before bowing again.
"Thank you for giving me this opportunity! I'll come here on the dot tomorrow!" Sakura said before walking down the stairs and out of the office building on her own.
Sakura gave a huge sigh as she looked up to see the huge glass where she had viewed before when she was at the second floor.
"Forehead!" Ino shouted as her blonde friend surprised her and she directed her attention to her friend instead.
"Hinata is waiting! Let's go!" Ino pulled Sakura away without letting her to speak another word. They walked down a few coffee shop before stopping at one and entered.
Ino excitedly waved and a long, dark blue haired girl waved back and smiling. Sakura immediately smiled after noticing her friend, her stress from the previous encounter was gone.
"Hinata!" Sakura said as she pulled her chair, along with her blonde friend and sat down. Hinata politely called a waiter and her two friends just ordered coffee for their tea break.
Hinata was Sakura and Ino's best friend since they were in elementary school, it was the two friends that had brought the confidence into the timid and shy girl, encouraging her to speak more without stuttering as much in a sentence and looking into someone's eyes with confidence then being shy about it.
"So Sakura, I knew it. Forget it then I can help you find another job for you." Ino said as the waiter left with their orders while Sakura gave her a puzzled look. "Ino is right, d-don't' be disappointed, I can help you if to find one too…"
"What are you guys talking about?" Sakura asked.
"You don't have to hide any longer forehead, I know you are pretty upset because you can't get the job." Ino said as she gave a fake sigh and pat Sakura's back as comfort.
"I did get the job… Pig." Sakura said after thanking the waiter who placed the tow cups of coffee on the table and left. "You did?" Ino said, filled with surprise.
"Congratulations Sakura! I know you can did it when you told me about your job yesterday." Hinata smiled. Ino smirked as she sipped her hot coffee.
"Then why do you look so sad? Like you just dropped your last penny in the middle of a shopping spree." Ino questioned.
"Do I?" Sakura asked and Hinata nodded. The pinked haired woman gave a sigh as she responded. "Ino, guess what? My boss is actually that redhead who I spilled the coffee on and stepped on his foot on purpose…" Sakura whined.
"Se-Serious?" Ino almost shouted, gaining a few of the costumer's attention before she waved her hands in embarrassment and looked at Sakura. "But why did he still recruit you?" Ino said.
"Luckily, he wasn't the only boss, I seem to have another supporter to back me up though. But that jerk actually agreed to hire me." Sakura bit her lips as she suddenly thought back about the incident a while ago.
"His face just tells me he's nothing but giving me a hell of a life." Sakura tiredly answered as she rest her heavy head on the palm of her hands and the elbow was rest on the table.
"Then why did you agree to it?" Ino asked, not believing that her best friend was so into this job even when she had to cooperate with someone she doesn't want to meet in her life.
"If I refused the job just because of him, I'm wasting an opportunity! And if I just back down, he'll just look down on me." Sakura sternly said.
Hinata took another sipped on her hot chocolate before asking. "Would you quit your job if you find one m-more suitable?"
"Depends…" Sakura shrugged before finally taking a sip of her coffee. While holding onto her mug, she stared at her reflection on the surface of the coffee and smiled. "This is great!"
"Of course." Ino proudly said while Sakura rolled her eyes and Hinata stifled a giggle.
There was a vibration in Sakura's pocket as Hinata and Ino were discussing about something else. Sakura fished into her pocket and answered the call immediately.
"Hello? This is Haruno Sakura."
"Hey Sakura."
"Sasuke!" Sakura cried out in the phone. She had been longing for her boyfriend's voice for so long.
Ino and Hinata stopped their conversation and turned their attention to the lady who was speaking.
"Sakura, you don't have to be so loud." Sasuke said as Sakura immediately clumped her mouth and gave an embarrassed laugh.
"Anyway Sasuke, why did you call for?" Sakura mumbled.
"Do I need to have a reason to call you?" Sasuke said, his voice seemed to be pretending to sound hurt while Sakura giggled before he continued. "It's been a long time since we are together and I was wondering if you want to have dinner with me this evening."
"I would love too!" Sakura beamed.
"Alright then, I'll pick you at 7, bye." They both hang up their call before Ino gave a look at Sakura.
"Hinata, look at our dear Sakura, she just had her personality changed 360 degree when she was JUST talking to her boyfriend." Ino said boredly.
"Hinata, look at our dear Ino, who was just jealous because she doesn't have a boyfriend." Sakura copied the way Ino spoke while the blonde tried to hit her as the pinkette quickly dodged.
Hinata laughed as she placed the back of her hand over her mouth to control her laughter.
"All right guys, let's just celebrate that Sakura got a job okay?" Hinata said before the only female who wasn't quarreling at each other, asked for the waiter and placed their order again.
0o0
Sasori exited his room as he went to his desk and scribbled some stuff onto his notes, completely ignoring to the guy who was standing before him behind his desk.
"Sasori… Seriously what's with you and the book on "1001 ways on how to torture your own workers" thing yeah?" Sasori finally looked up at Deidara before giving him a sigh.
"I didn't want to recruit any workers, and you are complaining, now I've just agreed to recruit one, you are also complaining. Deidara, what am I suppose to do then?" Sasori asked.
"Well, she's just a girl who spilled coffee on you…" Deidara's eyes glanced onto the stained shirt that Sasori was still wearing.
"And stepped on you on purpose, that's all yeah." The blonde happily said.
"Fine, I won't do anything to her. As long as she doesn't creates trouble for. Me." Sasori said as he stick the sticky note on the side of his table.
"You're a great man who doesn't torture your workers on their first day right? That's great! So now, let's celebrate then." Deidara clapped his dirty hands that were stained with clay that he was using a while ago.
"Celebrate what? Celebrate that I just agreed to hire a worker who spilled coffee and stepped on me?" Sasori stared at him.
"Erm… let's just… never mind, since you just agreed not to make things difficult for her that's alright, un." Deidara said before continuing making his clay as Sasori closed his file that he had looked through.
After looking at the file that he just closed for the last time, he began glancing at the sticky note that he had placed on the side of the table, he took out the sticking note and stick it on the white file, before placing it inside his drawer.
0o0
Sakura stood right outside her house, waiting patiently for her date to come. She wore a light pink dress up to her knew with two small ribbons by her sleeve and white laces at the bottom of her dress.
Not long, Sakura was sitting right beside Sasuke's car and on to one of the famous restaurant in town. They kept some minor talking while Sasuke was mostly focusing on his driving while Sakura just gazing outside of the window, staring at nothing.
After parking into his lot, he got of his car and opened the door for Sakura, who gladly accepted his gratitude and stepped out of the car while holding hands with him into the restaurant.
Sakura could felt glares from jealous girls looking by their way, and she love it actually. It just gave the only sense of security in her that Sasuke was her boyfriend, and their relationship would never stop just because of these envious stares.
Right after they had ordered their food, Sasuke started a few mild conversation and Sakura tried her very best to keep the conversastaion between the two of them alive and going. She knew Sasuke was very stress with his work, so she tried to talk about things that could help Sauske rest his mind instead of thinking about his work.
Often in between talks, Sakura would catche a few jealous glances from girls beside their table and a thought soon clouded her mind.
Many girls loved Sasuke as much as she does; his looks, his family background, his attitude, just everything about him made her fallen for him even more. Not only just her, everyone other girls wanted him because of the same reasons she gave.
But why did he, Sasuke Uchiha, actually fell for this clumsy girl with pink hair?
"I've actually got a job, I'm starting tomorrow." Sakura started a new topic.
Sasuke raised his eyebrows, "It's been a month since you didn't have a job, what's wrong? Did you have some finance problems?" Sasuke asked.
"No no, I'm great, it's just that I couldn't always stayed at home staring at the television and shopping all day, I have to actually get a job and lead a life like all the other girls." Sakura explained. Sasuke nodded, indicating that he understood while he spoke again.
"So how was your boss? Is he terrifying or some miser who cheats on their workers?" Sasuke asked in concern.
"Oh, he's perfectly fine, and a great boss too!" Either Sakura was lying through her teeth or she was actually referring to Deidara only. "And the job was actually my dream job, so nothing is going to happen." Sakura assured with a smile.
"If there's anything wrong, just tell me, I'll could find a job that is a hundred times better."
Soon, their food arrive as their conversation were just cut off while they silently eat their food before Sasuke suddenly spoke, which actually caught Sakura by surprise.
"Next Saturday, my brother is having an engaged party at our house and I would like you to come too. It would be a very huge party…" Sasuke muttered, he seeming a little nervous to ask. But in the end, Sakura immediately agreed even though she had food in her mouth.
"I would love too! And I could see how beautiful is Itachi-kun's engaged wife." Sakura perked up a smile.
"Great, it starts at about 4 and I can fetch you by then. I suppose your work wouldn't stop you from doing it right?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura scratched her chin. "Ah… my boss would understand me! As I said, he's a very kind and generous man." Sakura gave a thumbs up.
"Good." With that Sasuke continued eating his food without another word and interruption, and Sakura just did what Sasuke did too.
After their meal, Sasuke brought Sakura home as she alighted from his car before he gave her a quick kiss and rode off, perhaps back to his office or home. Sakura watched the car turned down into anther road before turning and walked into her house.
She took of her high heels as she threw it aside before heavily sitting on the sofa in the middle of her living room. She closed her eyes and took in a huge breathe. It was a long and tiring day for her.
Spilling coffee and stepping on her boss right before her interview, even though it was a 'success'. Then, she got a rare date with Sasuke, and along with that, she had agreed to go to his brother's engagement party.
Uchiha Itachi was on great person, indeed. Even though he was always the silent type, he still talked at times when it was needed. And during a few occasions when Sakura met Itachi, they actually came up with a few conversations they actually made her really interested and attentive.
Sakura wasn't worrying about Itachi or anything. She was actually worried that she might have to meet their parents.
'What if they have bad impressions on me?' Sakura sighed while she walked into her bedroom and placed her bag on her bed as she took out her stuffs in her bag.
While holding onto the sticky note that Deidara had gave her this morning, she saved the number in her phone before she left it out to charge. Sakura looked out of the window, the bright night sky was well lit by the streetlights and the shining stars.
After changing into her pink pajamas, she switched off the lights, slipping under her warm covers and looked out of the window once again. The light outside seemed to slowly fade as her eyes fluttered and fell into her sleep.
To be continued
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