Someone like You 35
"So how was your baseball game on Saturday?" Jennifer inquired as she was on her way out the door, with Justin on Monday trying to get to work on time; she turned around and told her she had a blast, "how could I not? They won."
"I thought so. I will be home early tonight so I thought maybe we would eat early and then maybe take Justin to Central Park for a bit."
"That sounds good, I am sure he would love it wouldn't you buddy?"
"Yay."
"Okay, got to go or Janet will have my head on a platter."
"See you later." She said shutting the door behind her, checking her watch."
"Crap, I am going to be late." She said waiting for the elevator to make it to her floor, she had 45 minutes to make it there and as it looked she was just going to be cutting it short, looking at the box, she would drop it off on her way inside to the mail department to have it shipped out. "Come on babe," she said as she got Justin inside and waited for it to reach the bottom stairs, which it did five minutes later. As they both scurried out the door and into the garage making their way to the car, they both got inside and started their way down the busy avenue toward Justin's pre school.
Arriving about 10 minutes later, she rushed him inside and signed him in, gave him a kiss and told him she was looking forward to tonight.
"I love you mommy, good bye," he said giving her a kiss and a hug.
"Bye buddy."
Turning and making her way out the door she ran to her car and got inside, she still had about a half hour left, when she decided to make the quick trip to the post office, instead of mailing it from the agency, 15 minutes later as she stood in line she grabbed her phone out and called the firm letting them know she was running late and would be about fifteen minutes late.
"Okay, I will let Janet know," Alicia said then hung up and returned to her regular duties.
"Thanks"
"Next in line," the clerk said from behind the counter as she walked forward and handed him the box, as he weighed it and told her the amount it would be, she handed her the credit card. Taking the receipt she said thanks and walked out and back to her car, pulling away from the curb she had time on her side, how she didn't quite know, but she hopefully would be on time.
Getting out of her car she shut her door and made her way towards the entrance through the huge doors that led the way to Brown and Associates. Running towards the elevator she just barely made it on before the doors closed as she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness." She said out loud as Lorenzo Alcazar looked up suddenly from what he was reading, only to see her stepping off the elevator first when they arrived on the 14 th floor as she made her way towards the door, he couldn't believe his luck as he saw her open the door just as she was to make her way inside he called her name making her turn around.
"I thought that was you." He said as she turned around stunned to see him there.
"What are you doing here?" She smiled up at him, happy to see him he was good to her and she hoped that he would understand now as this was the first she had seen of him since she had stopped working for him.
"I could ask the same of you."
"I have a job here as an assistant." She said as he watched her he could see from her demeanor that she had no intention of giving him any more information than that, as he detected a hint of sadness in her voice and in her eyes, looking down at her watch she was going to be late. "I need to go, I hope you have a wonderful day, maybe I will see you and if I don't take care of yourself." she said before making her way through the doors exasperated.
"Good morning Sam."
"Hey Alicia." She said making her way around the desk picking up her messages, then glancing through them noting there was nothing pressing at the moment for her immediate attention.
"Janet needs you in her office immediately." she smiled at her.
"What?" Sam looked down at her noticing she had something on her mind.
"I think Mr. Alcazar has a thing for you." She said pointing to him as Sam looked up and saw him watching her.
"I'm not interested." She said as she smiled then walked around the desk to Janet's office.
"Good morning."
"Hey good morning how are you?" She said walking by a fellow employee.
"Good."
"Great." She said smiling at him as she rounded the corner and made her way down the hall toward Janet's office.
"Good morning Sunshine." She said as she set her stuff down and looked at her.
"Sorry I am late."
"That's no problem," She said as she pulled the ads for Locust Industries and showed them to her. Surprised Sam looked up at her. "Which one do you like?" She said to her as she looked at her. "What's the matter cat got your tongue?" She smiled at her as Sam felt sick to her stomach, "Well I like this one," she said pointing to it. "We will be working with Mr. Alcazar today, and I am sure he would like to have a third opinion." She smiled.
"Okay." Sam said as she looked at her.
"Sam is there something wrong?"
"No."
"Good, then you can start off by refilling my cup and maybe Mr. Alcazar would like one too?"
"Yes that would be wonderful."
Turning she made her way out the door as Lorenzo's eyes lingered on her legs remembering the way she fueled his fantasies, and obviously something had happened between her and Morgan, remembering back to the night that he went to pick her up for dinner, he was so sure of himself. However, Lorenzo hadn't and now a new opportunity had presented itself with Miss McCall, one he wasn't going to turn down.