Two months later early February Becky's POV
It's been roughly a month and some change since I last seen or talked to Sasha. I mean besides the release of her music video and a few TV and magazine appearances I haven't heard from her. Ever since I left the club with Finn that night she just cut me out of her life like there was never anything between us. Like she didn't almost get me killed, like we never made out in her trailer, and like she didn't straight up tell me she wanted to make love to me. It's like those two weeks never happened to her and honestly it's kind of not fair. I really did think she was cool we could have been really good friends, but she all of a suddenly doesn't know how to respond to my text messages. When she was still down here in Florida I'd get a text back within seconds and now it's nothing. She doesn't even send me good morning texts or phone calls, yeah it got annoying at some times but it was nice to know someone cared. I'm not saying nobody cares about me because Finn and I are still going okay. If anything since that night he's been really good to me. I guess he felt really bad for leaving me alone and that I got all dolled up to go out without him. He told me on the way home that he was glad he came when he did because I looked really hot and he was scared someone would have noticed it too and tried to take me from him. Little did he know someone did notice and almost took me from me but then he showed up and took me from her. Anyway since that night he's been a real sweetheart to me.
"What do you wanna do for dinner tonight?"
"Anything you want Sharky you know what I like surprise me." I answered coming up behind him and putting my plate in the sink being he's washing this mornings breakfast dishes. Today was my turn to cook so I kept it simple omelettes, fresh fruit, and toast.
"I know but I just want it to be something that's going to get you through your day you know? Something to look forward to coming home to." I just smiled and gave him a quick kiss.
"Just the thought of knowing you'll be home when I get home is more than enough motivation for me to look forward to coming home later today. And add to that I can expect dinner to be ready when I get home.. I'm already excited."
"Really?" He smiled cutely and I nodded.
"Yup I love your ugly mug it makes me happy."
"Well good because that's the reason my heart beats. To make you happy with my ugly mug."
"Good. Anyway I'm gonna get going I have a lot I gotta do today." I spoke looking at my watch seeing it's a little after eight. "Plus there's some big office meeting today so I wanna get a jump start on my work because I don't know how long it's going to be. And I wanna get done my work so I can come home to your ugly mug."
"Okay. I love you." He spoke drying off his hands and coming over to me. He then grabbed my blazer off the back of my chair and held it open for me to put it on.
"I love you too. Thanks."
"No problem I'll see you later okay?" He spoke leading me to the front door.
"Mkay. See ya." Kissing him one last time I headed out. It's still the same routine when I go to work get my coffee and then I'm ready to start my day. Same parking spot and the same office and everything.
"Hey Becks do you know what today's meeting is about?" Asked Eli stopping me in my tracks. He's made it a habit to do this to me every morning since shooting wrapped. And every time he asks me about Sasha.
"I don't know Eli I'm just as in the dark as you are."
"Okay. And what about-"
"I haven't spoken to Sasha since the wrap party so I don't know how she is today. Just like every other day before." I interrupted because I don't need to hear him ask about her again. Hell I don't even want to hear her name. I know it's petty to be mad she didn't respond to any of my texts because she's a celebrity and probably forgot or was too busy. But even if she was it literally takes ten seconds to text back saying she was busy. Mainly it wasn't fair for her to come along and mess with my head only to drop me like a bad habit. It's whatever though I'm not gonna dwell on it.
"You sure? Because I'm almost-" I just rolled my eyes and continued on walking to my office.
"Eli I'm going to let you in on a secret. I've spent a lot of time getting to know Sasha and I just have a hunch you aren't her type." I shrugged going in my office and setting down my stuff on my desk.
"Impossible girls can't resist me."
"Hun no girl wants to eat ham sandwiches in the back of your van. After you told her that she begged me to keep you as far away from her as possible. Like you creeped her out so bad she made me promise to make sure you didn't breathe the same air as you. That's why you were put on security duty outside.. Away from her for most parts of the day." I spoke effortlessly. The look on his face is of disbelief but yet a very cocky one to say the least.
"I see you're trying to keep her for yourself aren't you? Well I'm not going to have it Sasha wants my body and that's just a fact of life."
"Trust me when I say she probably doesn't want your body. I mean she might think you're a great guy but I have a small hunch she isn't attracted to..." I'm not exactly sure how to explain to him that there's a pretty good chance Sasha might be attracted to females. I mean she could be bisexual I don't know I never asked. However judging by how she openly admitted that she wanted me I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Eli definitely isn't her type. Now I can't speak for her, I'm just really certain she isn't into him. "You know what yeah you're right I just want her to be my best friend. I'm sorry she's all yours Eli."
"Yeah she's my future wifey. But it's okay I'll talk Sash into letting you be one of her bridesmaids at the wedding." He smiled. This guy truly is one of a kind. He's the true definition of having a thick skull.
"Alright you do that. But get out of my office and worry about that elsewhere I have lots to do today." I mumbled sitting in my chair and turning on my computer.
"Okay. I'm going to go back to designing our wedding invitations." He spoke walking out.
"My circulars better be flawless if you have time to be designing wedding invitations!" I yelled after him but I don't think he heard me or he ignored me because he kept walking and closed the door. I don't know how it is he even got a job here and still works here. I dunno he's one of this office's mysteries that I've yet to figure out yet. Anyway on a different note business has gone up significantly since Sasha's music video released. Sales have went up by fifty percent. And my email has been flooded with a bunch of other businesses wanting to do partnerships with us. Companies are basically throwing their money at us all thanks to her. Hell I even got a few job offers in higher positions that pay more than what I make now. I got an offer from JC Penny's the other day even Walmart tried. It was nice to see their interest but I'm dedicated to Mattson's Market. They were first to give me a chance and now I'm just proving as to why I belong here. I love my cozy office here and I can't imagine working anywhere else. I'm content with my position here because I know what I'm doing and I feel comfortable doing it.
*Knock knock*
"Come in." I answered not looking up from my paperwork. I have a pretty decent sized pile of contracts and sales sheets to go through by the end of the day and I refuse to stay late again tonight. They then came in and closed the door behind them.
"Hey stranger I told you that wasn't going to be the last time we saw each other." I don't even have to look up to know who that voice belongs to. And quite frankly I'm not really in the mood to put up with her right now.
"Well I sure hoped it was." I responded still not looking up at her.
"Owe that's no way to talk to the person who helped you keep your job for a few more years." She cooed walking up to the front of my desk. I just let out a sigh.
"Thanks I guess."
"Thanks you guess?"
"I hope you aren't expecting me to throw a parade for you or something because it's not going to happen. Shooting is over and I owe you nothing more than a thank you for choosing us to shoot your video with." I spoke still not looking up from my papers.
"You shouldn't talk to me like that."
"Yeah well you also shouldn't ignore people's text messages after spending two weeks messing with their head but you don't see me complaining." I retorted looking up at her.
"Hey I had my reasons. That night we were having the best ti-"
"It doesn't matter now Sasha I'm over it you don't have to explain yourself to me. But if you don't mind I have lots of work to do here and I kinda want to focus on just that right now." I motioned to my papers hoping she'll get the hint to get out of my office.
"I told you I was leaving to go work on my album and that's what I was doing. I was just-"
"Don't it's fine I just want to get through all this before the end of the day."
"Becks will you just listen to-"
"It's Rebecca and what do you want then? I'm trying to tell you I'm busy but you're ignoring it. So you better have something important to tell me else wise I'm not interested." I stated blankly. She just gave me a look before biting her lip slightly.
"Nothing." She murmured lowly. "I'm sorry to have bothered you." She then turned and left. Well what a start to today and the best part is I haven't even been here an hour and I'm already annoyed. I've learned to tolerate Eli a long time ago I just wasn't expecting Sasha to randomly show up. And what made me even more mad is she had the nerve to try and talk to me like she didn't ignore me and expected me to be happy to see her. What kind of bullshit is that? I can already tell I'm going to need a nice tall glass of wine when I get home.
Two hours later at the office meeting
"You don't think this is the meeting where they tell us to start looking for new jobs is it?" Asked Vicki who... Well I'm not sure what her position is around here but I just know she's always bitching about something. She works down on the second floor so I'm not sure what her exact title is. Just sometimes we run out of creamer in our kitchen so I go downstairs and use some of theirs. Whenever I do I often times hear her screeching about something. Anyway right now we are all gathered on the fourth floor because that's where all the meeting rooms are and it's the only place big enough other than the parking lot to hold all of the buildings workers in it.
"Nah I doubt it. I already ran the numbers we're financially secure for the next three years if sales stay up how they are now." I answered sipping my coffee.
"So then why are we all here?" Asked Brooke one of office sectarians who work the front desk in the lobby.
"Dunno guess we have to wait and find out." I reasoned. As soon as I finished saying that Vince walked out and stood at the podium.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I don't plan to keep you guys long it's just this company is going to be going through some big changes. Being you guys are all the backbone of Mattson's Market you guys are all first to know that I have decided that after over forty years of running this company I've decided that I want to step down from my position of running this company. Now I know you are all wondering why? What made me decide to give up all this especially after such a huge spike in stock here right? Well believe it or not we got brought out. Last month I was approached by the new owner with a deal so good I couldn't say no. After a lot of negotiations and compromise as of eight-thirty this morning I relinquished my title of owner of Mattson's Market over to your new.. legitimate boss." He smiled getting everyone to start to murmur amongst themselves.
"Who's the new owner!?" Asked someone. Well there's one way to put what everyone is thinking.
"Well I'm glad you asked because I was just getting there. I'm not going to beat around the bush and leave you guessing for long so without further hesitation, ladies and gentlemen I'd like to introduce you all to your new boss." He introduced pointing to the door. It opened and in walked the devil herself and everyone clapped for her. Oh you've got to be fucking kidding me! Well that's just fucking great just when I thought today couldn't get any worse.
"Hello good morning my fellow co-workers. Thank you Vincent I really did appreciate my intro." She smiled looking at him before turning to look back at us. "Now some of you may know who I am and others may not. For those of you who don't know who I am, my name is Sasha Banks and I'm very excited to be your new CEO." She smiled scanning the crowd and miraculously she locked her eyes with mine. "I certainly do hope we can all get along together in perfect harmony. Because looking at you all I can tell you all are a great group of people who strive to obtain one common goal. And that's to make this company the best it can be." Everyone then applauded that and it caused her to break eye contact and go back to looking at every one. "Thank you settle down we're almost done here. Now after the end of this week there are going to be quite a few changes happening here. I believe that success is always the only option and I don't want a single weak link in my chain of success. So this week and next week I'll be personally evaluating each and every single one of you all the way down to security to make sure everyone is doing their job to the best and full capacity. I want this company to always strive for greatness and that's my goal. But again thank you for your time I appreciate you all stopping what you were doing prior to come let me introduce myself. That being said you are all free to continue on with your days and have a great day." She smiled getting everyone to start clapping. After a few seconds of clapping everyone started to get up and leave or go over and talk to her and Vince. I however stayed put.
Fuck what time did Sasha come and bother me this morning. I really desperately want it to have been sometime before eight thirty, but eight thirty I was just getting to the office. Was that what she was trying to tell me? And I was totally being an asshole to her!... I'm praying she still has a crush on me or something because I don't want her to fire me. I mean I don't think she will because I had my reasons for not wanting to talk to her. Damn it I hope she's in a good mood today or else I'm fucked. I don't even know how I'm going to go about apologizing to her. The best option is to pretend it never happened I guess because it's all I got. I'm almost positive she's going to go out her way to find me so maybe I'll think of something better then. Yeah its perfect I'm going to go on about my day and act like I wasn't a complete and total dick to her this morning. Confident in my plan I got out of my chair and headed back to my office. There's no use of me hanging around when I have all that paperwork on my desk.
...
*Knock knock*
"Come in."
"Hey Sasha wants you to come to her office." Spoke Eddie one of the guys who work under Eli's control.
"For what?" I asked putting down my papers to look at him fully.
"I dunno I was just told to tell you to go to her office. I can't imagine it'd be bad because you're pretty important around here." He shrugged.
"Fine." I sighed out. Eddie then closed my door back and left. Well fuck. Just when I thought I was done with her forever she finds a way to weasel her way back into my life. It's so close to being five I have exactly one hour left and I really hope she isn't going to try and make me stay later because it's not going to happen. Getting up I left my office and headed towards hers. Her office is where Vince's office use to be so it wasn't too far of a walk. Once I got there I knocked.
"Come in." I heard from the other side. Taking a deep breath I walked in.
"You called?"
"Come have a seat." She smiled pointing to the chairs in front of her desk. Following instructions I sat down. "I'm going to go ahead and give you the opportunity right now to take back how poorly you treated me this morning." Well I don't know what she expects me to say but I guess I'm going to have to make something up.
"I'm sorry for being an arse to you this morning I was just having a rough morning is all."
"Why what'd that pinhead do this time?" I just gave her a questioning look. "Finn. What'd he do to you this time?"
"We got in a little scuffle this morning but it's fine now and I'm over it. I don't want to talk about it." Whatever it takes to get me out the hot seat.
"Oh okay well in that case allow me to explain to you as to why I never got a chance to respond to your text messages. For the first two weeks I was spacing myself out from you because I caught hella feelings for you. And that night at the wrap party I was having probably one of the best nights out I've had in awhile. I had you on my arm and it honestly felt so right and so real to me. I don't know if we were just that fucked up but somewhere during I convinced myself that you were mine. We were together and I was living kissing and holding you on that dance floor. Right as we were peaking you're stupid boyfriend came and ripped you from me and my heart it broke a little bit and that's why I was in my feelings when you were leaving. Took me a while to get over that, I got a song out of it so that was nice. Then I figured I really really love... Well now my store made rice crispy treats. And then one night I was sitting on my couch going through Instagram and I was thinking about the first time we ever met. You remember that conversation right?"
"Yeah I remember you coming in and taking over my office."
"Ha well you let me so I did. Anyway I was thinking about how this company was starting to go under and because of my music video it's starting to get back up there. So since I really love the rice crispy treats here I figured why not just buy the whole company that way I can have an unlimited supply of those delicious squares of love. After talking to my accountant and lawyer I brought this whole grocery chain store. Only thing is this new album I'm working on really has to be a hit or else things might get a bit dark. However I'm pretty confident my new album is going to kill." She smiled leaning back in her chair.
"So you spent probably close to twenty million just so you can have an unlimited amount of rice crispy treats?" I asked flatly because that's literally insane. She could have just googled the recipe online and easily made them at home and it would only cost one percent of how much she spent.
"Well the rice crispy treats weren't the only reason but it is a good percent of the reason. I would have told you about what I was up to a long time ago but I was on my grind so I could afford to buy this company."
"Oh."
"Yeah." She murmured before going silent and just looking at me. I'm not sure what to make of any of this because I'm not entirely sure of what's going on right now. Last we talked face to face for this long she was just a business partner and now she's my boss. "Anyway the real reason I called you to my office is to let you know that you're fired." She spoke sitting up and folding her hands on her desk.
"What?" I asked in disbelief because I don't know if she's being serious or if she's joking.
"Yeah I'm serious. I don't take too kind to rude and disrespectful employees. This morning was a prime example and I can't have that kind of negative energy in my office. It's nothing personal or anything I just don't want my other employees to think it's okay to treat me the way you did earlier. I already filled out you're termination papers I'll fax it over to your office that way you can pack up your stuff and sign the papers in peace. And when you're done just leave the papers on the desk and I'll get them later." All I could do was stare at her. My heart just sank all the way down to my toes and even as it lays in half at my feet it's still beating a mile a minute.
"Are.. What? No you can't-"
"I can and I did... Rebecca. Maybe next time you won't be so rude to someone. I surely do wish you the best on your future endeavors, but your services here are no longer needed." She stated looking me in the eyes. I'm trying to find a small break in her to let me know she's just fucking with me but it's all solid. "I understand this might be really hard for you but it has to be done. Here have a rice crispy treat it might make you feel a little better." She then reached in her desk and pulled out a rice crispy treat and placed it on the desk in front of me. I just stared at her because I'm honestly in shock. She knows full and well how good I am at my job here and she's just going to fire me. I'm probably one of the best at my job and she's firing me. "Mkay you can go now this is getting kind of awkward now." I don't understand this woman, what happened? What'd I do to make her act so cold towards me? I don't even want to think too deep into it right now. Getting up I left and made a beeline straight to my office.
I know it's just a job and I can find another one but I really loved my job here so when the tears started to fall I didn't bother to try and stop them. I didn't think getting fired would hurt so much because in reality it doesn't. It's just the fact that it was Sasha who fired me on her first day of being my boss. The person who I was forced to get to know for a month and I to some degree started to care for her. Then she disappeared for a while and randomly pops back up into my life. I just don't get it she spent weeks flirting and teasing me trying her hardest to get in my pants and now it's like none of that even happened. The part that hurt the most for me is I really actually did genuinely like her. There was something about her that just seemed to click whenever we we're just talking or hanging out. It never felt like she was a celebrity to me she seemed so grounded and like any other ordinary woman. Besides when she was hitting on me, we did have a good time together there was always something to talk about.
*Knock knock*
Great now who's at the door? You know what I don't even care. Fuck them I doubt they can have anything more important than this.
*Knock knock*
"Go away!" I yelled out hoping they go away. Instead they came in anyway. I don't know who it is because my back is facing the door but I do know that I want them to go. "Don't you know what go away means?" I asked in an annoyed voice.
"I figured I'd bring you you're termination papers myself. I figured that before you go you mi-"
"God get the fuck away from me right now! You've done enough today." I growled because I know if I look at her I'm going to cry even more than I already am and I'm going to get annoyed.
"It's good to know you still have that sexy spicy side I love it." I heard as she slowly got closer to me. "Actually I'm even more happy to see that you look really good in your blazer. This morning when you were giving me attitude I swear to you I almost lost it, you're so hot I loved it. You're just as beautiful as I remember you probably even more attractive than last time too."
"I really do not want to do this right now. Please just go." I murmured because I don't want to hear it right now. She just fucking fired me and now she's deciding to hit on me? No fuck that and fuck her.
"Oh but we must right now because I need you to sign these papers." As she said that she appeared in front of me and placed down a stapled pile of pink papers. "And then once you sign those to prove you no longer work for Mattson's Market, I have another pile of papers for you to go through on a new job offer for you." She spoke placing down a manilla folder that was full of papers. "Here, I think you'll be rather pleased with the contract I worked out for you." She then slid the pink papers toward me with a pen. Looking at it they really are my termination papers that she already signed.
"Why? Why are you being such a bitch to me?" I asked because before I sign this paper I want to know.
"I'm not being a bitch to you Becks. I'm just doing what I have to do to make sure I get what I want. Just sign and then I'll be on my way." She chimed pointing to the pink papers. Letting out a sigh I began to look through it. "You'll still get paid for this week and today. It'll all be in you're next check next week on pay day."
"Are you really going to do this? Do you really want to fire me? I mean this morning was just an accident it won't happen again I promise. I mean I'm so good at what I do you even said so yourself. So what good is it going to be for you succeeding if you're firing one of your best employees?" I pleaded in a last effort attempt to save my job.
"It's too late I filled out this whole sheet and I low key don't want it to have been a waste of my time."
"It's fine we can just file it away so that if the next time you get mad at me you'll already have it done and ready to go."
"Hmm.. But I already dated it and I don't believe in white out. So you might as well just sign and let's get this over with. I mean it's almost five and honestly sorta want to go home. The faster you sign the faster we both get to go home."
"Are you sure-"
"Sign the goddamn motherfucking papers!" She raised her voice over me interrupting me. "Shit! Here I am trying to do a good deed for you and you're-"
"A good deed!? How the hell is firing me a go-"
"You're really trying my patience right now babe okay. I'm sorry for raising my voice at you I didn't mean to it's just you know how I get when you don't do what I asked of you the first time. Okay I'll try not to get loud with you anymore but you make it so damn hard sometimes. I told you I have a brand new job contract right here for you and all you have to do is let me fire you from this job and take the new one."
"But I don't want a new job." To that she rolled her eyes and let out a sigh.
"Again I didn't ask you about what you wanted. If I wanted to know what you wanted I would have asked you now wouldn't I have? So just sign the papers and then we'll discuss the other ones. Okay I promise you I'm not screwing you over because you know I wouldn't do that to you. I need you to trust me and sign these papers." She spoke in a demanding tone but as she progressed it got softer. She then walked over to my side of the desk and hugged me. "Becks I know you think I'm some monster psycho bitch right now but you know of all people I wouldn't do something to purposely hurt you. You know I'm not like that." She then moved me by the hips so we were face to face. "God I'm so sorry babe I never wanted to ever have to see what you look like when you cry." She cooed caressing my cheek but all that made me do was pull away from her. I don't want to do this right now. "No Becks I'm really honestly sorry I didn't mean to make you cry. I didn't know it'd affect you so much like that, had I known I-"
"It's too late." Turning from her I grabbed the pen and I signed my name next to the small X. "Happy?" All she did was look at me with dough eyes. "Here you got what you wanted now get out so I can finish packing my stuff." I spoke simply waving her off and moving so I could start to empty my desk. Before I could even get to the other side of my desk she grabbed me by the hand and yanked me back into a kiss. Fuck and there it is again that feeling that I felt last time we made out. All of me wants to pull away but my heart, mind, and body are on three different pages right now. I say that because for some reason my arms wrapped themselves around her waist and I deepened the kiss. Sasha's into it too because she has one arm wrapped around my neck and the other is gently stroking my hair. Not sure how long we stayed that way but Sasha was first to pull away. And at this point we're just staring at each other not saying anything just looking.
"What are you doing later tonight? I was thinking that maybe we could go to dinner you know, catch up a bit."
"Finn is cooking dinner tonight and I don't want to not eat whatever he makes." She let out a small huff.
"Bleh! I finished that song I was telling you about the first time we went to dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Well I mean it's been written for a while just when I was in LA I was able to record it with a beat. And I had just wanted you to hear it that's all. It's fine we can do it another time I suppose."
"Yeah."
"We really do have a lot of catching up to do. There's so much I want to tell you. I know you probably don't care about my life but you're easy to talk to... If that makes sense." She asked awkwardly looking at me. "I know I shouldn't but I feel like I can tell you anything and you'll never tell another soul. Just like how we are now I bet we could stand here like this all night and you'll come up with a totally different excuse as to why you got home so late. And the fact that if I do this-" She then pressed her lips to mine and it's back again. I just don't get it I don't want to kiss her but I can't pull away. But I know as soon as I pull away I'll be sort of sad. "And I know you won't tell. Although I wouldn't deny kissing you because you're really hot... Anyway no stop it you." She mumbled before pushing me off her. "I keep forgetting why I came in here in the first place. Now that you no longer work for Mattson's Market, I want to offer you a job working for me." She spoke grabbing the manilla folder off the desk and going through it herself. "Have a look at it tonight when you go home. I made sure that everything expected of you is in bold face print, along with all of your benefits and starting salary. I'm going to need to know your answer tomorrow morning because it'll be then when you can decide whether or not you actually want to pack up here and leave. What I'm saying is you're free to go home early today if you want I don't care you just better have that ass back here at nine am sharp. I'll have someone go through all of this for you so don't worry about it. You just take this home and come back tomorrow then we'll talk." She then handed me the manilla folder. Well I might as well take a look at it because I for some stupid reason just signed my termination papers. I want to trust her but another part of me says don't and it's confusing me. She just cold heartedly fired me for virtually no good reason at all. Then decided she wanted to get all flirty with me, only to offer me another job. Mind you it's an offer to a job position I have no damn idea of what it is. All of this seems really shady to me and I don't think I like it. "Becks trust me just take it and look over it and tell me what you think tomorrow. I think you're going to like it a fuck ton more than the job you have now. At this point you honestly have nothing to lose so it's worth looking at." She has a point and I can't get mad at that. So I took the folder from her. "Kay so I'll see you tomorrow morning in my office nine am sharp. Don't be late because if you are you can forget about the job offer. Buh-bye." And with that she took the pile of pink papers and walked out of... Well I'm not even sure if it's my office still. I don't know what anything is around here anymore and it's confusing the hell out of me. Well I guess I'm going home then, I don't work here anymore so I have no need to be here.
...
"Babe honestly I think you should take it. I mean you get health care and dental health care benefits. I mean fifty thousand a month is ridiculously good. That means you'd make twelve thousand a week and if you keep that job for a year you'd make probably over half a million after taxes. After like five years you would be a millionaire." Spoke Finn going through the contract. When I got home today I told Finn everything that happened today with Sasha becoming my new boss and then firing me, only to offer me a new job. I was driving home from work and I was thinking about how it Sasha just kisses me or teases me whenever she feels like it. And as much as I enjoy it it's wrong. It's not fair of me to do that to Finn, so maybe it'll be best if I didn't accept whatever job she's offering me. She oozes trouble and I'm not sure if I want any part of it. So I originally wasn't going to even look at it but Finn looked at it anyway and now he's trying to convince me that I should take it.
"Yeah but is it really worth running around like her slave. I mean I had to work with her during the shoot in December and she gave me hell. Some days were good others were bad. I dunno I just have a bad feeling about this."
"The only bad thing I can imagine being so bad is her calling you at some ridiculous hour of the night just to get the remote for her that's sitting next to her or something stupid like that. I don't think she'll make your life hell purposely because she personally went out of her way to make sure she offered you the job of her personal assistant. She clearly must like something about you if she fired you only to then offer you a new job working for her." He then began going through the contract again. "I mean honestly if you don't take this job then I will."
"That's easy for you to say. If you only knew half of the bullshit I've had to deal with when it comes to Sasha you'd understand why I'm rather hesitant to want to work with her on a twenty-four hour basis." I don't know if I will be able to withstand her constantly trying to hit on me. And I don't know how many of her tantrums I can handle before I literally kill her with my bare hands.
"It doesn't matter because at the end of the week it would have all been worth it. And if you set aside all the money and benefits think of all the celebrities you'll get to meet. I mean celebrity personal assistants sorta live the same lifestyle as their boss, so you'll virtually get star quality treatment too. Plus it wouldn't be too bad of a thing to add to your resume in the long run. Really think about all the connections and people you'll meet who could really help you possibly get an even better of a job than this and the one at Mattson's."
"But I liked my job at Mattson's." I pouted resting my head on my hand.
"I know baby but maybe this is a sign. Maybe it's the universe telling you that you are destined to succeed elsewhere. Everything happens for a reason so maybe working for Sasha is the beginning to a whole new path you never ventured down before. I'm telling you babe take it and see how you like it worst thing that could happen is you quit and just find a new job."
"I just still can't believe she fired me Sharky! You know how much time I had to sorta get to know her and I really thought we were friends. I mean we went out for sushi during the lunch breaks like two good friends, I thought we were cool. She knew how much I loved it there and she just cold heartedly fired me today. On her first fucking day of being the new fucking owner she fucking fired me for being upset with her for ignoring me. Me out of all ten thousand fucking employees she chose me to be her first victim! And you know what the best part about all of this?! She had the fucking audacity to ma-" Stopping me from finishing my rant my phone rang signaling a phone call from none other than the bitch herself. Okay yeah so what I made out with her earlier today, but it doesn't count. I was still in shock and now that I'm starting to come to terms of what happened I'm livid. "Great now wha-"
"I got it." He then grabbed my phone and answered it. "Hello? Yeah no this is Finn her boyfriend." He then put her on speaker.
"Where is she I need to talk to her?" I shook my head no letting him know I don't want to speak with her.
"Umm yeah that's not going to be possible. When she got home she completely crumbled in my arms before I could even say hi. She cried so much I'm pretty sure she could have flooded our flat, took me hours to be able to calm her down. And when I was able to get her to finally stop crying she told me that you fired her. That wasn't cool of you Sasha because she really loved her job there so I imagine she doesn't want to talk to you right now. Especially given the fact that she considered you a close friend. Believe it or not Becks isn't exactly what people call a social butterfly so she doesn't have many friends out here. So back during the video shoot she was ecstatic about you being her friend, then you going M.I.A on her only to show up randomly today and fire her really has her in the slums right now." That's another reason I love Finn he sometimes likes to imagine a bigger picture that isn't really there. Anyway when he finished saying all that it was nothing but silence on her side of the phone. "Hello?"
"Umm.. Can you just tell her I'm sorry and that I didn't do any of that to hurt her?" When she said that she sounded really sincere.. Almost like she was crying sincere.
"If she hasn't cried herself to sleep yet then I'll tell her."
"Okay. And tell her that I still want be her hummingbird." Finn gave me a weird look after she said that. But all I know is that just made the pain feel worse. I think she has a knack for playing with my emotions at this point. "Also tell her that she doesn't have to come in tomorrow morning if she doesn't want to. Have her just call me."
"Alright then, will do."
"Can you also tell her to just look over the contract because I did what I did with the best intentions in mind. I never meant to hurt her because I like her... A lot actually and I really desperately wa-" Suddenly she just stopped talking. "Forget all the other stuff just tell her I'm sorry and that we'll talk tomorrow morning in my office at noon."
"Tell her sorry and you'll see her tomorrow in your office at noon. I'll tell her as soon as I hang up."
"Kay thanks... What was your name again? Becks has probably told me a million times what you're name is but for some reason you're just a forgettable person for me."
"F-"
"Okay anyway I gotta go. Don't forget to tell her what I said. M'kay buh-bye." And with that she hung up.
"Wow!" Spoke Finn putting down my phone on the table.
"Told you she's an asshole."
"Who does that? Asks someone their name and then interrupts then when they go to tell you their name. Like what an arse."
"Go ahead babe you can say it. I agree with you.
"That bitch!"
"Now do you understand why I'm hesitant to take the job?"
"Yeah I see but like I said it'll be a good move in the long run if you play your cards right. Plus I probably just earned you a shitton of brownie points so if you're scared of her being mean to you it probably won't happen now."
"Maybe I dunno I need to sleep on it. Can we just cuddle and watch movies until we're sleepy?"
"Of course we can. Anything for my princess." He cooed leaning over and giving me a kiss. Like I said he's been nothing but good to me since the wrap party.
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The next morning
"This is weird. I'm so use to kissing you goodbye and watching you drive off in the morning. Now you're kissing me goodbye and sending me off for the day." Smiled Finn as I fixed his tie.
"I know but I mean eventually you'll have to get use to me sending you off to work if we're going to be a family one day."
"I know and I can't wait to have mini Sharkys and Beckys running around. It's gonna be hell but I'm down if you are." I just smiled and kissed him.
"Of course I'm down. But you gotta get going before you are late."
"Alright I'm going, I'm going. I love you."
"I love you too. I'll see you when you get home."
"Bye." Kissing me one last time he headed out the door and got in his car. I stood there and watched him drive away until I couldn't see him anymore. After I finished that I suddenly got really bored. I have absolutely no clue what the fuck to do with myself. It's Tuesday morning and I'm not at work and I feel uncomfortable being at home on a weekday at ten in the morning. There are so many options of things I can do, but my main want is to get back in bed. So that's what I'm going to do, go back to bed and relax. I'm going to try and look at being fired as a mini vacation. Maybe I'll catch up on some tv shows that I've been missing, go paddle boarding because it's been a while since I last did so. Perhaps I'll go visit Charlotte and Bayley at work that'd be fun. I haven't seen them since my birthday last month. So many things to do and I'm excited to see what I'll decide to get into. Going up the stairs I went into our room and climbed into bed. Maybe I'll watch tv for a bit daytime television during the week is something that I'm unfamiliar with so why not familiarize myself with it. Scrolling through I saw Maury is on. I remember watching a short clip of an episode where they told the guy he wasn't the father and he started to do flips. Maybe this is that episode I don't know but I'll watch it anyway because American tv is so different compared to tv back home in Ireland.
I was probably only watching tv for two minutes before I heard the loud roaring of an engine coming from outside somewhere. Judging by how loud it is I think its pretty close. After a few seconds it cut off and everything went back to being quite. I swear what is it with people and these obnoxious cars? There's no need for a car engine to be so fucking loud like that. I mean we get it you have an extremely big hot air filled ego, nobody cares-
*Ding dong*
Who the fuck is at the door? Well I'm not expecting anyone so I'm not going to bother to answer. I don't want to be bothered with people trying to sell me kitchen cabinets. So I simply turned up the volume and kept watching.
*Ding dong*
Suddenly my phone started ringing. Oddly it's Sasha calling. I don't want to answer but I'm dying to see what she has to say for herself. So I answered.
"What do you want?"
"Can you just come open your door please?"
"What?"
"I'm outside ringing your doorbell. I know you're home because you're car is parked out front and I parked next to it. I know you want to talk to me because if you didn't you wouldn't have picked up. I'm going to beg for your forgiveness because I know that's what you want to hear, I'm just not going to do it over the phone I wanna do it face to face so you can see how much I never meant to make you cry. So just come let me in I'll stand out here all day if I have to.. But please decide quick because it looks like it's going to rain soon." I want to argue with her but how is it she can read me like a book. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious of how she plans to apologize to me.
"Fine." I'm in no rush to open the door she can wait. Besides the show just came back from commercial and I'm not really trying to miss the DNA test results. She can wait until the next commercial give her time to get her apology in order, and give me time to decide if I want to forgive her yet or not. Slowly getting to my feet I put on my slippers and casually began down the steps to the front door. "Make it quick I don't want to miss my show." I stated dryly opening the door only to find Sasha holding a giant stuffed panda.
"I'm sorry for making you cry yesterday I never set out to seek tears from you. Here this is for you." She spoke holding out the panda toward me. "I wasn't sure what you're favorite animal is because you never told me, but I remember you one time came to set with a cute panda shirt on so I assumed you liked them." I didn't take the bear or say anything but just look at her. "Becks come on I'm being really serious. I'm talking to you as Sasha, the Sasha that really likes you and doesn't want my stupid actions to come in between our friendship. I know I'm a huge fucking bitch for doing what I did to you yesterday and the past two months. But I really need you to understand I ignored you because I didn't want to get hurt. Everything that I told you that night out on the dance floor I meant. I know we were both pretty fucked up but I remember saying exactly what I said to you with the most sober of thoughts. I was caught up in this crazy fantasy of us just hanging out like I wanted, hell I still do want to hangout with you and party like that. Actually no I don't only want to hangout with you just to party, but I want to do our sushi lunch dates together because it was fun. Or maybe we could have movie nights together where we wear our best pajamas and sit on the couch and watch the scariest of movies only to scare us so bad that we're both to scared to leave the couch. We could even go paddle boarding because I know you enjoy doing that, I've never done it before and I'd love to learn how. The houses I'm looking at down here are all by the beach so it'd be perfect for you to give me lessons. Did I tell you that I've decided to get a house out here that way I'll be closer to my business?" I shook my head no. "See that's why I don't want all this to come between us. Maybe this is all one sided and I'm crazy but I really value our relationship and that's why I fired you from working at Mattson's. We vibe together so well and I figured that you would make an excellent assistant to me because you are so good with numbers and time. All I need is someone to make sure I'm where I'm supposed to be and that I'm on time. You made damn sure that I was where I needed to be during the whole shooting process and I liked that. We work well together and I have a feeling that you'll help me really get my shit together because I'm a mess. It doesn't look like it but I'm really good at hiding it because I've been doing it for years. I don't know about you but you can't tell me you didn't have fun when we were hanging out because I know I did. I figured it'd be cool to have someone I like and actually sorta trust be the one person who is in charge of knowing about all my whereabouts." She murmured looking back at me. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about all of this.
"Hmm."
"Becks please don't shut me out. Look at me you've rendered me completely vulnerable. I haven't slept all night because I hated knowing the fact that you went to bed angry at me. You literally have a three time MTV Music Award winner at your doorstep begging for forgiveness. I don't know about you but I don't think many people can say that so I'm going to even the playing field right now." She then pushed past me and into my flat. Sitting the panda on the step she turned back around to face me and handed me a sharpie. "You can write whatever you want on me wherever you want and I'll let you take a photo. I'll even let you post it on Instagram if it'll help make you forgive me. I just don't want you to be mad at me anymore." I just stared at her because this is crazy. "Go on." She spoke coming closer to me.
"Sasha I'm not mad at you. I mean I was upset that you couldn't take like three seconds out of your life just to let me know you were busy. If I meant that much to you, you wouldn't have done that instead of leaving me wondering if you're still alive or not."
"I know and I'm sorry for that. I just didn't want to get too attached to you anymore than I already was. I promise you I'm trying to accept the fact that I can't have you. I don't care about that right now because honestly you're basically the only person I know out here. And I really don't want to have to try and make new friends when I have a... hopefully really good friend if you want standing in front of me." When she said that she was fiddling her fingers and hitting her lip a little clearly indicating she's nervous.
"Why couldn't you just tell me that to begin with? We wouldn't be having this conversation if you would have just texted me that instead of ignoring me."
"Well I told you I had serious feelings for you then. You don't understand when I want something I get tunnel vision until I get what I want. I mean the whole reason you even showed up to the wrap party was because Finn pissed you off. So you decided you'd come out and get fucked up with me. Let's face it Becks me and you were having a great time together that night. We were both drunk and high so when we were dancing together everything seemed to slow for me and it was just you and me. I was living and then he showed up. Watching him take you off the dance floor made me realize that it wasn't my place to intrude in our your relationship with him. It was probably almost three in the morning and he came searching for you making it obvious he loves you. Knowing that I knew I had to leave you alone because I know if I kept talking to you I'll get tunnel vision. So if I locked on to you I'd probably have you doing things you never thought you'd ever do. You clearly are satisfied here in this cute humble abode you have here with him and I wouldn't want to disturb that... Even if I can make you more than satisfied but that's none of my business. Look Becks I'm honestly really trying to patch things up between us but I feel like I'm just saying the same things to you over and over again. I'm tired of apologizing can you forgive me and so I can have my pride back because it's in your hands now and I feel naked without it?"
"I guess I can accept your apology for not texting me back, but I can't forgive you for firing me."
"That's good enough for me for now. So are we cool? Are we friends again?"
"Only because Peanut-Butter looks like he's going to make an excellent cuddle buddy." I stated simply pointing to the panda.
"Peanutbutter?" She asked picking him up and passing him to me. Taking him I held him on my hip like a baby.
"Yup that's his name. He's my new movie buddy."
"You think maybe I can be your movie buddy too? I'm really good at cuddling too."
"Oh really?"
"Mhmm. I got nothing to do until fiveish so that means we can watch approximately two and a half movies depending on what movie you wanna watch. Plus if you want I have three blunts already rolled and ready to go in my car. I was gonna save them for later but no sense in smoking alone when you have a friend."
"It's barely eleven in the morning."
"Okay so it'll be sort of a wake and bake session. Come on I owe it to you after all the stress I've caused you."
"I don't know I-"
"Come on it's going to be fun. Peanut-Butter can come too." She then grabbed my hand and dragged me out to her car. Well now I know who's car engine it was that was so loud for no reason. It's the same car she drove when we went to Cheesecake Factory.
"Where are we going I'm in my pajamas?" She then opened the passenger side door for me to get in.
"We aren't going anywhere."
"So then why are we getting in-"
"Do you trust me?"
"Not really no."
"Okay perfect get in the car." I don't know why but for some reason I got in and she closed the door behind me. She then walked over to the driver's side and got in. "You ever been inside an Aston Martin?"
"No."
"Good because now you're going to remember the first time you ever got in one, you hot boxed it." She then reached over to the glove department and pulled out three blunts.
"Wait are we going to smoke those in here? Aren't you supposed-"
"Would you shut up and relax. We'll be fine I did this all the time in high school. Here." She then held out a blunt to me and I took it and she lit it for me. "You eat yet today?"
"Yeah like an hour ago. Why?"
"Well about an hour from now we're going to eat again. Between the both of these three there is fifteen dollars worth of weed in each we're going to be fried. Then we're going to go inside and watch movies and eat a fuckton of food." All of me says no don't inhale and get out the car. Then another part of me says to say and have fun. Honestly I have nowhere to be today so fuck it whatever.
...
"Bruh! Like deadass if the zombie apocalypse ever happened I don't think I'll last long. I mean when it comes to life or death situations I panicked and make bad decisions. I'll probably fuck around and get myself killed on accident." Ranted Sasha being she's sitting next to me on the couch.
"I think I'd do alright. I have pretty good stamina so I think I'll be able to run for quite some time."
"Mmm nope see I'd be fucked if they chase me. I hate running my lung capacity is shit."
"Bullshit!"
"What!? How you gonna tell me they're my lungs!" She grinned giving me a crazy look.
"I can tell because I know everything. And I know you can hold your breath for quite some time."
"How do you know?"
"Because you're a singer right?"
"Yes."
"Okay and then how often do you run?"
"I don't run unless I have to."
"Okay perfect so there you go you can hold your breath for two minutes." That got her to bust out laughing so I laughed too because we both know that makes no fuckng sense.
"What?!"
"How many times have you made out with me? And each time you didn't come up for air for a long time... And that's how I know."
"Should we test it out to see how long I can hold my breath?" She asked seriously because now I'm really curious to know. Plus the face she's making is really cute. Hmmm...
"Yes."
"How? I don't feel like drowning today though. I mean I just don't want to mess up my hair."
"What?"
"My breath. How long do you think I can hold it?" She asked seriously but I'm not even sure what's going on right now. All I can do is just smile and nodded. "Fuck you're so goddamn fried." She sighed I just laughed. "Becks focus!" She smiled turning me to look her in the eyes.
"Okay focus." I then tried to put on the most serious face I could and look her in the eyes. That lasted for two seconds because her eyes are so low I'm not sure if her eyes are open. So I guess it must have been the same for her because she busted out laughing too.
"Fuck I missed hanging out with you. That's why I want you to come work for me 'cuz we always have a good time together."
"Yeah alright I accept."
"Accept what?"
"I'll work for you." I nodded because fuck it why not.
"Huh! Really?!"
"We'll talk about it later." To that she reached over and pulled me in for a hug.
"We're gonna have the coolest adventures ever. That mean you're going to come in tomorrow?"
"What time?"
"What time did you normally come in?"
"Nine."
"Then nine."
"Mkay. Remind me so I won't forget."
"I'll probably forget to. Just show up at some time tomorrow and we can go from there. For now I'm hungry so you should probably go make me something to eat."
"What do you want to eat?" I asked looking at her. She just smiled.
"Chinese food, a sandwich, some chocolate chip cookies, pizza, a cheeseburger, you, some velveeta shells, a chicken wrap, chicken nuggets, ice cream, a bowl of Apple Jacks. Anything on that list will do."
"Right so you wanna-" The next thing I know her lips are pressed to mine and damn. If kissing her sober wasn't intense enough it's in a complete and total different world right now. My whole body is vibrating and it feels really relaxing so it wasn't a choice when I gave in to her. She's such a good kisser I can't get enough of it. So when I slowly started to lay backwards she followed not breaking our kiss. Now she's on top of me and were making out and I'm feeling a bunch of different things at once. My heart is telling me no... But my body is telling me yes...
Yes the fuck I did! I totally just left you on a cliffhanger. Like... Becks Sasha what y'all about to do?! Shit might get disrespectful or maybe shit won't. It's great because you all are dying to know how it is Sasha got Becky to give in to her completely and for some reason I'm procrastinating getting to that part. That was a lie I just like keeping you guys on your toes. Anywhore so this chapter was something huh? With Sasha firing Becky that was intense.. You know what I just realized why do I sit here and "discuss each chapter" like we all didn't just read it? Y'all don't need a recap of this chapter cuz I'd rather tell you about how I don't feel like writing a recap of this said chapter rather than write a recap of the chapter. Wtf is wrong with you Joz? I dunno I'm just weird. On a side note the other day I was minding my business listening to music and eating my Popeye's fried chicken when I realized some truly fucked up shit. I realized that there is absolutely no evidence that the government has a great way of saying it would have to go back to sleep. Wut? Rock lobstas ~Joz #putikcu