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All of us swiped our cards just 5 minutes before the official "lunch time" ended.

"I'll see you in a minute," I whispered to Alice as she walked towards our office…I went the other way, towards the washroom.

Washing my face in the mirror, I realized that I looked older than my age…I was 25 but quite honestly, I looked 30. I had no makeup on, except some lip gloss and just a bit of kohl, which was smudged by now. And I looked tired…extremely tired.

"Isabella, my friend…you need a nice long vacation," I sighed as I wiped my face.

I patted my hair in an attempt to make them look more presentable and walked out of the washroom.

I had barely just settled into my seat and opened my branch reconciliation file when my phone suddenly rang.

"Hello," I answered slightly annoyed.

"Hello Bella," replied a smooth, deep, liquid voice. Oh my God! It was Edward Masen! I shot an urgent look towards Alice, but she didn't seem to understand.

"Yeah Edward," I replied casually and saw Alice's eyes open wide. "What does he want with you?" she mouthed. I shrugged.

"You see…this time we are going to disclose a little more information in the financials of Cullen enterprise. So whenever you are free, could you join me in understanding the changes from James?"

"Uh…ok…give me a while. I'll just finish work on the branch reconciliation and join you," I said and hung up.

Alice was looking at me expectantly. "Some changes in the financials," I muttered. She just shrugged.

I finished the file in another 30 minutes. I had just closed the file when I got another call. "Hello Isabella. There's a parcel delivered for you at the reception. Could you please collect it ASAP?"

"Sure Jessica," I replied, addressing the receptionist by her first name just to be friendly. I wondered for a moment whether I was expecting a parcel. I couldn't really think of anything but I went to collect it anyway.

"Oh, Isabella," cried Jessica handing me the parcel, "you just need to sign a couple of things. Just your acknowledgement of having received the parcel safely."

I quickly signed the documents she presented and looked at the parcel. It was a small rectangular box. I didn't know what was inside since it was wrapped in a non committal brown paper. I turned around to go back into the office when I bumped into someone.

I hastily apologised and then looked up. I had just bumped into Edward Masen. He was looking at my parcel very intently.

"It's ok Bell," he replied, licking his lips. Bell? No one's ever called me Bell…not even my mother. The annoyance probably showed on my face because he just laughed and said, "or would you rather I call you Bellsy Wellsy?" I just rolled my eyes and said, "Don't make me start coining nick names for you Edward." I smiled at him and walked away. I heard him walking towards the washroom.

I slumped back into my chair and stared at the parcel.

"What's that?" asked Alice. "I don't know Alice. I don't exactly have the superhuman powers necessary for seeing through a wrapper." I said.

"Whoa…snappy much," she said flinching slightly.

"I'm sorry," I said, "It's just that…no one calls me Bell…or Bellsy Wellsy either."

"Oh…who?" asked Alice. "Edward Masen," I muttered flatly rubbing my temples.

Alice grinned and said, "But that's forgiven because of his awesome taste in music, right?" I just shot her a look and unwrapped the parcel. It was a pen. And not just any pen…a Waterman Charleston. There was also a note included. I opened it. "Just a little something to help you organise. You may consider me your secret admirer dear Bella." I looked at Jacob sitting next to me…a tiny flicker of hope. But he was discussing something with Rosalie. And i reckoned Jacob would never have such elegant taste in stationary. I looked at Alice next. "Alice…" I squeaked. Alice looked up from her computer and her expression changed from irritation to concern in half a second. "What happened?" she asked.

I shakily handed over the card to her. She read it and giggled…a lot…so much that Jacob and Rosalie looked up at us. Rosalie raised her eyebrows and mouthed "What's up?" But Alice couldn't stop giggling. "Nothing," I mouthed back and looked at Alice furiously. "If this is one of your lame pranks," I threatened…"no, no, no…it isn't. Cross my heart, "she replied turning serious. I believed her partly because I knew she could never write so neatly and partly because I found the idea of having a secret admirer captivating.

Both of us settled down after a while. I shoved the note into my drawer. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder and warm breath near my ear. "Are you ready for the explanation by James?" A liquid-y voice said. I turned around to see Edward's face an inch from mine. Involuntarily, I shifted my chair back. Edward just gave a crooked smile, which I didn't notice too much because I was too busy staring into his deep green eyes. "Yeah," I said, cursing myself for sounding so shaky.

"So can we take it to the conference room?" he asked, straitening up. "Of course," I said and got up. He casually took my phone and dialled James' extension, despite the fact that he sat just in the opposite row, a cubicle away from Edward's cubicle. "James…the conference room please." He said and hung up. We walked to the conference room, me with my new pen and a writing pad in hand and were joined by James shortly after.

The meeting was really boring…the changes were very basic and I honestly would have survived without this meeting. James' boring drone made it all the more boring.

After enduring about an hour of this torture, James summed up the key details to be kept in mind and we dispersed.

"Nice pen," I heard Edward say, very close to my ear as we walked out of the conference room. "Thanks," I smiled and rushed back to my cubicle before he said anything else.

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