My apologies! It's only my first fanfiction so I think I screwed up the first chapter. Really sorry! And thank you so much for your reviews! It really do encourage me to continue the story : heh
Thank you Cagalli Yula aTTHA for correcting my mistake! Haha, how embarrassing!
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Chapter Two
"CAGALLI?" called the angry Yzak Joule, the boss of Z.A. Motors. His shoes thumped loudly against the white-tiled floor of the office as he frantically searched for his employee.
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Yzak Joule. Twenty-five going on twenty-six. Hot headed guy, quite similiar to Cagalli's temper. Cold looking pair of eyes which always radiates the don't-mess-with-me, and keep-a-metre-within-us-or-else, aura. Smooth silver hair cropped in a military buzz cut. Original sense of fashion. Promoted from a manager to the boss of Z.A. Motors this year. He's rather cut out to be a discipline master as it shows from his voiciferous calls when he orders his employees to assemble. A bachelor still.
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Cagalli held her identification card against the disc-sized security check machine outside the office.
The machine chirped a beep as a small dull green light shone at the right hand corner of it. The wooden door of the office automatically swung open to reveal the ferocious boss, who was about to grab the door handle, with people engaged in busyness in the background. Several telephone rings resounded in the office and there were smells of coffee.
From the look of her boss's eyes, she knew that she was being glarred daggers at.
Further more, Cagalli noticed that her boss's eyes are a thousand times colder from a mere distance of forty-five centimetres. As cold as pluto probably.
"That goes your never-late-before-employee position Miss Attha!" spitted Yzak. There goes my position in work! thought Cagalli as she received the sudden great impact. She closed her eyes in timidity, preparing herself for further incoming comments by her boss.
1 second, 2, 3...
"Cagalli you may open your eyes now," said Yzak suddenly. "I have an important issue to instruct you this instant, so you better open your ears wide and don't miss out anything!" commanded Yzak.
Now that was unexpecting! thought Cagalli in sheer disbelief.
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"Mortimer, do you see the counter anywhere?" questioned the annoyed Young Master.
"Yes, Young Master, it's at the far end of your right if you had looked more carefully," replied Mortimer calmly.
The Young Master immediately halt and took a turn to his right then walked towards the counter, feeling even more annoyed.If you had looked more carefullyHis butler's words swirled in his mind, giving him more irritation. Mortimer silently followed behind him, trying to keep up with his Young Master's pace.
The Counter
"Hi good afternoon Sir!" greeted the lady at the counter with a cheerful bright tone. It helped to clear a quarter of the Young Master's irritation. She was clad in a royal red coat, the uniform for the Z.A. motors workers. Her brown hair was coiffured into a bun, and a small smile was plastered on her petite face.
"Hi, I'm here to view Z.A. motors's latest convertible model, so-" he was suddenly cut off by the counter lady.
Doesn't she know the famous me at all? How dare she cut me off when I'M speaking. he thought.
"Then please take a seat over there while you wait to get into the exhibition hall. I'm very sorry that you would have to wait. It is because the exhibition hall is too crowded. We have a limited capacity of fifty people in the hall. Thank you very much." said the lady as she pointed at an area filled with bright red posh chairs. Only A few of them were occupied with customers eagerly waiting .
The Younger Master was annoyed once again. "Limited capacity? I've never heard of such nonsense before!" said the Young Master.
"Sorry, but our boss said it is meant to be that way" replied the lady apologetically.
He left his seat angrily and stomped to the waiting area. He settled in one of the red chairs while his butler took a seat beside him.
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"Unexpectedly, the son of Z.A. Co.'s chairman is right now in this building. His sevants called just a while ago and said that he is coming to view our latest convertible model. We have to prepare the top promoter to attend to him. Thus YOU, Cagalli Yula Attha, my supposedly best employee, have been specially picked by me to attend to this V.I.P.. Make sure you don't ever raise your voice at him nor do anything violent. If not,you'll face the music. So, get going now!" instructed the boss, Yzak Joule, hastily.
"Umm.. Yes boss!" said Cagalli after a slight hesitation. She had tried her best to absorb her boss's instructions, however it seems that what came in went out. Ah, forget it. You can think on your feet! I'll handle this with no problem! thought Cagalli. She took to her heels and set off for the waiting lounge.
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"So much for MY day" grunted the Young Master as he folded his arms. He was similar to that of a bitter sullen face of a child brooding over his homework.
"Calm down now Young Master. I'm sure that our maids have already informed the manager of Z.A. motors that you are coming to visit and to send their best attendant to serve us. Perhaps the attendant is late." said Mortimer, trying his best to tame his impatient Young Master.
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"Wait a minute, I don't know how this V.I.P. looks like! Yzak didn't even tell me his name! Damn that Yzak..." muttered Cagalli.
She took the escalator down to the ground level. To her horror, there were a few customers waiting to be served. How would she know who her customer is! However she noticed a young man with his butler. This guy's rich. Must be the V.I.P.! thought Cagalli. She was counting on her luck, and made her way to the young man.
While Mortimer was waiting, he noticed a blond haired woman dressed in a red coat, similar to that of the lady at the counter, along with a silver-haired man behind her, approaching. He nudged his Young Master, " Young Master, I think that the attendant has arrived."
"My apologies for my delay gentlemen. I'm Cagalli Yula Attha, the best employee of Z.A. Motors. Miss Attha will do. And now would you follow me as I take you to the exhibition hall. " said Cagalli with a light smile.
As soon as Cagalli made her 'grand' introduction and apologetic speech, the Young Master immediately stood up and scrutinized his attendant. He looked at her indentification card.
A lengthening pause took over.
Is this guy nuts or what? wondered Cagalli angrily as she noticed her customer scrutinizing her as if she was some extraterrestrial life form.
"Shall we get going now gent-" said Cagalli before being abruptly interrupted by her customer.
The silence broke
"YOU PEST! You are that inconsiderate citizen who collided into me back then, I fell down and got my shoulder injured. Neither did I get any help to get up nor an apology from you, instead I got an irritated sort of, "I said EXCUSE ME!" straight from your mouth. I'm not done yet. There's another thing. You left your half-eaten bread on the floor and simply ran off. Illegal littering I call it. And I, doing my part as a good-natured citizen, kindly picked it up for you, and throw it into the litter bin. By looking at the bread crumps around your mouth, it shows that you are indeed the owner of the half-eaten bread." said the Young Master cooly.
At the sound of the word 'bread', Cagalli's heart skipped a beat. My bread! I dropped it! panicked Cagalli. It took her a while to register her customer's words in her already exploding mind.
For a moment, Cagalli was in thoughts.
Wait a second, I didn't bump into a blue head, I bumped into a black head! Sheesh, this guy's so conclusive!
"Sorry, excuse me sir. I think you have mistaken me for someone else. However I remember that I collided into a black-haired person. Not a blue-haired guy!"exclaimed Cagalli.
"I'm sorry. However it is YOU who have mistaken my black-haired butler for me. Further more, such an unkempt employee does not fit the term 'best employee'. So why am I being served by you?" rebuttaled the young man.
"I erm... " stuttered Cagalli. Upon hearing her customer's rebuttal, she remembered that after she had collided with a man, all she could see from the corner of her eye was a black head. The young man had actually fell down and thus Cagalli could not see the blue head . Instead, she saw his black headed butler. No wonder!
She was at a loss for words. Too taken aback by her customer and her horrible act. She felt shameful and small, especially under the gaze of her customer.
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All this while...
Yzak had stalked his employee, Cagalli, after instructing her on an important issue.
Across the room and down the escalater, he silently followed behind his employee. Like a kidnapper about to take action on an innocent young girl. When his employee had found her customer, he walked nearer towards her. However, he did not interrupt their conversation instead, listened to it. Eavesdropped.
He listened with hundred percent attention to their conversation which had rather developed into a argument. As he listened, anger aroused within him. He had never expected his employee to do such an unmoralized act. He also remembered warning his employee not to raise her voice at her customer and yet, she did it as easy as abc.
If this is the way you do it, then you are fired, Miss Attha
When his employee was dumbfounded, he stepped into the scenario.
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"Sir! I'm terribly sorry for such a callow employee of mine! I've truly made a great mistake in assigning her to attend to you. I ask for your forgiveness Sir. Please, take a seat while I see to this matter and get you another attendant. Give me an allowance time of three minutes. Thank you Sir!" said Yzak in a rush. He hauled his blond employee up the escalator, to theentrance of the office.
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"I hope she gets fired!" cursed the Young Master as he sat in his seat.
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The boss let go of his employee arm after hauling her from the waiting area to office door. His lips were set in tight line, a deep frown knitting his brow and eyes cold as before. With a serious expression, he looked at his unkempt employee who was looking down. He hoped that he would get his message through short, and clear.
"Cagalli"
There was a long pause
"You are fired."
Message sent
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What a common boring ending. Sorry haha, bleah. Well then, for the first i shall say. Please please please REVIEW! State your feelings opinions whether it can be improved, by how, anything. I accept criticism too don't worry.