Hi here's the new chapter! I'm so happy every people are reading it. This chapter is where it starts to become more Cave and Caroline but Rick is not going to like it! Please leave a review when you're done reading!

-Bea Bea

Chapter 3: Caroline's New Feelings

My job continues to interest me even after working here for a month and my respect for Mr. Johnson is rising with every passing moment. I have read enough romance novels to know that it isn't just respect I feel for Mr. Johnson but I also know how he feels about relationships. I spend most of my time giving him massages, getting him coffee, or just making sure he's not losing his temper on some poor intern for no reason. Rick has been keeping his distance and it has been very disconcerting because he pretends nothing ever happened when I finally get him to talk to me. I guess I can focus on one problem that needs solving at a time such as getting my stressed boss some coffee.

As I walk into the break room, I notice Rick yelling at one of the Lab Boys, a young blond who I looked scared. "…Shut up, Blondie, I don't have to deal with you all hours of the day!" I heard him shout.

"Rick, what's wrong?" I asked, having never seen him agitated let alone mad. As soon as the words left my lips, Rick whorled around a put on a smile as if nothing had happened.

"Oh hi, Caroline, how's it goin'?" he said as the smaller man next to him sat down to finish his coffee. "I was jus' tryin' to tell Craig over here that I really don't want him followin' me around all day because he's annoyin," Rick said quickly when he noticed my glance toward the other man.

"What'd he do to annoy you?" I asked Rick, sympathizing with the young blond sitting at the table looking into his coffee cup. The kid could hardly be in his twenties and probably just out of college so it was natural that he would be curious.

"He acts like a know-it-all and spews out facts that nobody cares about," Rick yelled pointing toward the kid. I couldn't help but take a few steps away from Rick because I had never seen him like this and especially not toward me. When I didn't respond to him from lack of words he stormed off angrily mumbling to himself. I finally managed to shake off the shock and walk to the coffee maker to do what I was originally supposed to.

"I'm sorry I caused him to yell at you like that," the kid, Craig, said quietly. I moved to sit in the chair next to him since I had plenty of time to talk with the slow coffee maker.

"I can understand how you feel. I can tell you really admire Rick, don't you?" I said suspiciously while putting my hand on his back.

"Yes of course I do! He always yells at me to stop talking but I just want him to know I'm not some dumb kid," Craig said with a small sigh.

"He'll come around don't worry about it but we can talk more because I have to get this coffee up to the Boss right now," I said with a smile and stood up to grab the cup from the beeping coffee maker. "Nice meeting you, Craig," I said patting him on the back as I brushed past him and out the door back to the office.

When I walked into the office, Mr. Johnson was on the phone with a paper in his hand and his feet up on his desk. "I don't care if it takes that long! I want to start production on the propulsion gel immediately and I can't do it without test subjects so bring those astronauts back to Earth!" Mr. Johnson yelled into his phone as I set his coffee cup down on the desk. "Damn people trying to keep my test subjects on the moon!" Mr. Johnson said after hanging up the phone.

"How long will it be until they're back?" I asked while walking behind him to rub his shoulders.

"About three months but the issue is they don't want the astronauts to put themselves at risk," Mr. Johnson said leaning back into the massage with a contented sigh. I glanced at his desk and noticed the amount of paper work that was stacked on it and some from a few days ago.

"Sir, some of this paperwork should have been done a while back!" I said sternly as I stopped rubbing his shoulders to reach over and grab one of the papers that happened to be on a project from last week.

"I know but there's so much!" he said putting sitting up straight while putting his feet on the floor. I let a small sigh escape me as I leafed through the stack to see exactly how far back it went.

"There wouldn't be so much if you kept up with it but I can help you with some of these and get you more organized so you have less work," I said as I picked up a big stack.

"Wow thanks, Caroline! You really have made this company better since you started working here!" Cave exclaimed as he stood up to give me a hug as a blush crept up my cheeks.

"I'm sorry, Sir, but we should get to work if we want all of this to get done today," I said prying myself from him even though I didn't want to.

Well this chapter is a little bit longer and I'll try to keep my chapters long. Please let me know what you think and I always appreciate critiques.

-Bea Bea