Just a Christmas Kiss

Hi friends! Happy holidays! 3 =)

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Chapter 4

As Betty got ready for her new job, she couldn't believe she would actually be getting to work with her role model, Sofia Reyes. It was pretty amazing!

Of course, she was also insanely nervous, especially since she shared an incredible, life-changing kiss with her new boss's guy, her former boss and friend Daniel Meade. She had tried so hard to not think about him or their kiss, but for some reason it just kept popping up in her dreams and thoughts.

She was just going to have to shake it off. She looked in the mirror and frowned; it's not like Daniel Meade would ever in a million years actually be interested in her, anyway.

Just as she was putting on her green vest, Hilda walked into her room and said "Oh, hell no!"

Betty looked at her in surprise "What?"

Hilda came over quickly and grabbed that green vest from her hand, she practically snatched her arm off "You ARE NOT wearing that! You look like an abuela!"

"Hilda! That's so mean!" Betty put her hand on her hips, feeling attacked.

Hilda shrugged "Well, it's true. Come on, Betty! You're starting a new job, a new chapter in your life. Let's shake things up a little with your look"

Betty bit her lip "I don't know if that's a good idea"

Hilda smirked "Why, afraid people will actually think you're beautiful?"

Betty shook her head "No! Why would I not like people thinking I'm beautiful. It's just I KNOW I'm not!"

Hilda rolled her eyes "Betty! You need to stop. Aren't you always going around quoting that Reyes chick you are going to be working for. I am a confident, beautiful business woman, blah blah blah"

"Yah, so?"

"Well, Betty! Let's get you lookin like a beautiful confident business woman, which you are"

"Hilda, I don't know. I like the way I look."

Hilda rolled her eyes "Come on, let me help you a little. It doesn't have to be a lot, just a little sleeker. Let me style your hair, and ditch this hideous vest!"

"Hilda! Stop being mean! You sound like Justin!"

Hilda shrugged, smiling slightly, "well, maybe it's time I start listening to him about helping you"

Hilda walked over to Betty's closet and looked through her clothes sighing several times, but finally picked out a black pencil skirt and found this cute red chiffon long sleeve top. "Here, this is cute AND sexy!" she handed her the clothes she picked out causing Betty's eyes to widen a little "Uh…"

"Just get in there and wear this!" Hilda shoved her in her bathroom. Betty reluctantly switched into these clothes Hilda picked out, honestly not hating them. It was still sort of her style just...cuter. They were her clothes after all, perhaps, styled better thanks to her sister.

She smiled and walked out, causing Hilda to smile at first, but then roll her eyes "Are you seriously keeping the stockings?"

Betty looked down, she was wearing black stockings under the black skirt. Hilda shrugged "You know what, it actually looks ok on you. Come on, let me style your hair"

She straightened her hair, trimmed her bangs, and pinned half of her hair up with a cute sparkly pin. "Look, you can keep your glasses, can I just put some makeup?" Hilda asked as she looked at her sister, her eyes shining seeing her look so pretty.

Betty bit her lip "I...I guess. Not too much!"

Hilda rolled her eyes "I know!" she did her makeup. She applied some black eyeliner around her eyes after she used some light eyeshadow that was slightly shimmery. Just enough to make her eyes shine. She finished with the maskara giving her eyelashes a little more fullness. She smiled as she looked at her sister.

"Here put these back on" she handed her red glasses. As soon as Betty put them on, she looked at her sister, who was smiling "Betty, you look so beautiful"

"Really?"

Hilda nodded. "definitely, and you're still you!"

Betty smiled when she saw her reflection. She did look a lot prettier. She looked to her sister "Thanks Hilda! I love the way you did my hair! It is so pretty!"

Hilda nodded with a smile "Of course it is! I'm fabulous!"

Betty giggled, but then was smacked in the butt by her sister "Ow Hilda!"

Hilda snickered "What, you look hot, mami! Have a great day at work!" she winked before walking away leaving Betty to look panicked. Betty bit her lip looking at herself in the mirror, but then smiled "I AM a beautiful confident business woman!"

Daniel approached his office and was surprised to see Amanda walk up to him with a coffee for him "Daniel, here is your coffee. And you have no messages."

He smiled "thanks Amanda" he said, but then glanced to Betty's desk...well, Amanda's new desk.

"Geez, Daniel! it hasn't even been a minute and you already want Betty!" Amanda stated with the roll of her eyes as she sauntered over to the desk. Daniel looked at her in surprise "What? No, I don't! It's just...I just…"

Amanda was completely ignoring him at the moment as she picked up the phone and made a call.

He sighed and walked away into his office. When he took a seat, he let out another sigh. Man this was going to be a lot harder than he thought. He already missed Betty, and like Amanda said it hadn't even been a minute. How was he going to get through this.

He thought about her the whole weekend, about their kiss. It was definitely something special. He looked out of his office seeing Amanda sitting there and sighed. It felt off not having Betty sitting there.

He knew he was going to have to get through the day as best as he could.

When Betty got into work Sofia greeted her as she walked in "Bet-ty! Wow, you look...quite beautiful"

Betty smiled brightly "Thanks Sofia!"

Sofia looked at her with her eyebrow raised in curiosity "Why the sudden change in attire?"

Betty blushed "Um...it was my sister. She thought I should try something new and different since...new job" she smiled somewhat shyly feeling suddenly nervous.

Sofia simply nodded and said "Let me show you to your desk!"

Betty felt her heart skip as she followed Sofia, feeling slightly intimidated all the sudden. "Alright, Bet-ty, get settled, we will have a brainstorming session in an hour or so."

Betty nodded, as Sofia walked away, leaving her assistant to come over and say "Wait, you're Betty?"

Betty nodded with a smile. Her assistant smiled "Sofia has told us so much about you!"

Betty smiled "Really? That's so nice!"

Her assistant smiled "Although, she said you dressed more like me"

Betty bit her lip "uh...yah...I did, but...I thought I should try something different"

She smiled "well, I'll be sitting right across from you if you need anything!"

Betty smiled "Thanks"

Daniel had been sitting in his office for about an hour, but couldn't focus. All he could think about was Betty, especially as he sat in his office, reminded of their kiss...the kiss that unexpectedly changed how he felt about her.

He walked out of his office and saw Amanda packing a box of things. "What is all that? Are you quitting as my being my assistant already?" he asked in surprise. She just gave him an annoyed look "Yeah right! No! This is all Betty's crap! She forgot it here!" she said as she picked up a snowglobe and put it inside the box.

Daniel suddenly smiled brightly "Great! I'll uh...take it out of your way" he said as he picked up the box causing Amanda to look at him with a suspicious smile "Why, you can't bear to be away from Betty for too long?" she teased.

He rolled his eyes "no, very funny! I just figured, she's probably really busy getting settled in and won't have time to come over and get her things. It's just a nice thing to do, that's all."

"Mhm…"

"I'm serious!"

She smirked "I bet you are!"

"Amanda, cut it out!" He stated in annoyance. She laughed "Go, be with your chalupa!"

He made a face "Chalupa? You sound like Marc!"

She shrugged "whatever, you better not be there all day!" she teased. He rolled his eyes "yah, yah! I'm just going to drop this off and be right back" he said, causing her to simply nod and smile, knowing otherwise.

Daniel got on the elevator with the box of Betty's things, his heart racing a little at the thought of seeing her. He smiled as he looked inside the box to see her bunny, the snowglobe, a couple of picture frames with pictures of her family, and a notebook. He missed her.

As Betty was sitting at her new desk, she glanced up a lot, forgetting that she no longer could look across to see Daniel, and see his charming smile. She read some of the notes that she took when Sofia's assistant was giving her tips on what to know and what she should expect.

As she glanced up, her eyes grew wide when she saw Daniel step out of the elevator and seem to look for someone. Her heart started racing at seeing him.

His eyes grew bright when he saw her, a smile spreading across his face. She was conflicted between melting at that sweet smile and panicking wondering why he was here!

"Betty!" he said happily as he approached her desk with a box of things.

She got up "Daniel, what are you doing here?"

His eyes grew wide at her appearance "Wow, you look...so...wow, different."

She blushed, feeling butterflies at the look in his eyes. Those eyes she couldn't stop daydreaming about.

"Um..what's that?" she asked, snapping him back to reality. "Oh...uh...you forgot some of your things" he said as he placed the box down. She looked in and smiled brightly "Thank you!"

Daniel couldn't explain what was happening to him. His heart was actively pounding inside his chest at seeing her, especially looking so...beautiful...and pretty and...wow. Her smile was shining at seeing her things and her eyes...looked so beautiful. SHE looked beautiful. Her hair was so pretty. Her...clothes were actually…nice. She looked, perfect.

He glanced over to see the girl at the desk across from Betty's watching them curiously. He smiled at her, feeling nervous.

As Betty took out her things and put them on her desk, she could not stop her heart from skipping at seeing Daniel. He was so...gorgeous and handsome and...sexy!

She bit her lip glancing at him, to see him watching her, the look in his eyes giving her butterflies. He cleared his throat "Uh...I guess I should go"

She nodded and sat down, feeling a little disappointed, but realizing that was probably a good idea. "Ok...thanks for bringing my things! That was so nice of you. You didn't have to do that!"

He shrugged, smiling "I wanted to!" Betty bit her lip, blushing "I mean, I just thought you might be busy and would miss your bunny!" he said with a smirk causing her to laugh. "Yah...thanks!"

He was going to walk away, but leaned close to her and whispered "look, actually, can we...talk?"

She gulped "About what?" she said in a whisper, realizing they weren't quite alone.

He leaned closer "About uh...our uh...goodbye" he said feeling his heart race again, thinking about their kiss.

She looked nervous "Uh...I don't think that's a good idea, Daniel! Especially not...here" she whispered.

"But I-"

"Daniel!" Sofia called seeing him. His heart jumped out of his chest, but not in a good way. He turned around. She looked at him with a slight smile "what are you doing here?"

He smiled "visiting"

She looked at him with her eyebrow raised "Me or Bet-ty?" she said glancing to Betty who blushed. He smiled and walked over to her "You, of course, Sofia!" he said and pulled her to him for a kiss.

Betty looked at her computer screen feeling her heart shatter. Of course, that was stupid to feel that way, or even think Daniel did actually come here to see...her.

Of course, he'd really come to see Sofia, his gorgeous and sexy girlfriend.

Daniel was surprised when Sofia kissed him more passionately. When she pulled away she tugged at his tie and said "You are looking quite charming and sexy today" she said looking at his eyes with a seductive look.

He smiled "uh...Thanks" He was worried what Betty must be thinking. He had really wanted to talk to her about their kiss, but she was right, they certainly couldn't do that here.

"I should get going and leave you ladies to your work."

"Yes, I know that's not something you're used to" Sofia said, causing Daniel to look at her in annoyance "Hey"

She chuckled and then placed a kiss to his cheek "I'm only teasing" she took hold of his face and kissed him again "I love you" she whispered.

"I love you…" he said, feeling somewhat taken aback.

There was a sudden cracking sound, "Oops, sorry I uh…" Betty held a broken pencil, realizing the grip she had on her pencil had been so tight she snapped it in half. She couldn't explain how upset she felt, especially seeing Daniel being so lovey-dovey with Sofia.

It was certainly unreasonable for her to be jealous. He wasn't her boyfriend. And she kept forgetting that their kiss didn't mean anything. It was simply a Christmas/goodbye kiss.

"See you later" Sofia said as she grabbed Daniel's arm and pulled him with her, not even letting him really say goodbye to Betty. When they left, Sofia's assistant came over and said "Oo, what was that?" she said with a curious smile.

Betty looked at her in confusion "What?"

"Do you have a crush on your old boss?"

"What? NO!" she felt panicked. She laughed "It's totally fine. Your secret is safe with me! He is a total dreamboat!"

Betty shook her head "He's only my friend. Thanks!"

Betty sighed, trying to focus, on what she had no idea. This day felt worse than her first day at Mode.