And she entered
"And that is why you can't have your usual today, Mr. Nick." Nick sighed. So far, his day had been pretty shitty. He didn't get to shower because the water was cold. He was late because his alarm clock didn't go off and now his 'usual' wasn't available because apparently they forgot to order new bacon! Needless to say Nick was beyond pissed.
"Great. Uhm, I'll have nothing then." The nice lady wanted to recommend something else but Nick stalked off angrily. He was late anyway, so he didn't really have to for breakfast. He pushed the button for the elevator a few times. He looked at his watch. He was almost too late and taking the stairs would make him late definitely. It was 8:25. No way would he be early. He sighed as someone tapped him on the shoulder.
"What?" He turned around angrily. Behind him was a small woman, looking at him shyly.
"Uhm, the elevator isn't working today. Technical difficulties." Nick sighed angrily before he brought himself to shoot a small fake smile at the girl and took off to the staircase.
When he reached the third floor he was not only panting slightly, but he was also late. He has never been late in his whole life and this stupid day was already bad enough. But when he saw Linda giving him an apologetic look he knew that she didn't have good news. He walked up to her.
"Uhm, the coffee machine wasn't working so…" Nick slammed his hand on the table. He never showed his emotions if he was angry but this day had driven him to the unexpected. Linda jumped out of her seat. Nick looked at her with desperate eyes.
"I'm sorry but this day's been so crappy so far. So far so bad. Any mail?" Linda shook her head. Nick was about to walk into his office when he heard her call his name. He turned around to see her sitting on her desk with her legs crossed in - what he assumed she thought - a sexy position.
"Do you need a massage?" Nick looked at her freaked out. This woman was eight years older than him and he wasn't even that good looking! Okay, he did get it quite often that some girls thought he was pretty hot but as far as he knew, Linda was engaged as well. He shook his head quickly.
"No, thank you. When Miss Stewart arrives, please send her in. I'll… I'll be waiting for her." Linda nodded. Nick walked into his office quickly. He sat down behind his desk and sighed deeply. Could this day get any worse?
He started looking through his papers, trying to figure out what to ask Stewart. He didn't know if she really wanted this job or if she just agreed to see how it would work out for her. He had to make this job look good.
Just as he was trying to put the papers back into a folder, someone knocked on his office door. But because he was so occupied with his papers he jumped. And his jump made his papers go flying everywhere around his desk.
"Crap." He knelt down and started gathering his things together.
"Come in!" He kept on collecting his papers. The door opened and closed and he saw long legs and high heels. He cursed again. The person – who he assumed was a girl; the new girl probably – giggled lightly.
Nick stood up from his kneeling position and put the file on his desk. He heard a gasp so he turned to the girl. And he had to gasp as well. In front of him was the girl from the diner yesterday. He looked down embarrassed. Did she come to curse him out? Or was it the new girl and yesterday was just a coincidence – an embarrassing one?
"A-are you Miley Stewart?" The girl looked him up and down before she nodded.
"Yes, I am. And you are Nick Gray?" Nick nodded. She seemed angry again. He leaned onto his desk awkwardly.
"Uhm, why don't you have a seat?" She nodded politely and walked over to the available chair. She sat down and looked up at Nick.
"Well, aren't you going to sit down yourself? I don't want to stare up. My neck's hurting already!" Nick chuckled and walked around his desk. He sat down and looked at his messed up files. He had to improvise.
"Okay, Miss Stewart. Or may I call you Miley?" She thought about it for a while.
"Call me Miley. But only because you're older than me." Nick tried to suppress a laugh. She was feisty.
"Well, then I'm honored. Okay, let's get to the business. I need to know if you really want this job." Miley sighed.
"If I didn't want it, why would I be here?" Nick shrugged.
"Well, maybe to see if you could like this job? I heard that you were just looking for a job and I assume it was a teacher job since you majored in English? So maybe you don't really like this job that much?" Miley sighed.
"Yeah, you caught me. When they first asked me to be a model I wanted to curse them out. I had million people tell me that I was ugly. And when this guy walked up to me and told me to become a model I thought they were trying to make fun of me. Well, I guess they weren't. I heard you were the best?" Nick blushed when he heard her assumption.
"I wouldn't say I'm the best. But I don't try to sleep with my clients like some other people here. Maybe I'm the best in this company, I don't know." Miley rolled her eyes.
"I can find someone else as well you know?" Nick looked at her and shook his head.
"No, don't. I will help you. But you have to want to do it as well."
"Again, if I didn't want it, why would I be here?" Nick sighed. She was probably still mad at him for spilling the coffee on her new dress. That's why she acted so… weird.
"Yeah, right. Uhm, so we have to go and take a few pictures of you. Then we'll send them to companies that are looking for a model and we'll see what happens." Miley nodded.
"When are we going to take the pictures? Because I have to go." Nick looked at her confused.
"Do what?" Miley blushed a little.
"Shopping?" Nick chuckled.
"Well, I have an idea. My photographing skills aren't the best but if you really want to go shopping, I'll just come with you and take pictures of you while you try on different kinds of stuff that you put together. That would make an even better impression on whoever gets to see the pictures because you picked out the clothes yourself. A model with fashion sense is always good." Miley thought about it.
Should she go shopping with a stranger who would take pictures of her while changing into different kinds of clothes?
Maybe he only wanted to take pictures for himself because he was a stalker? But Nick seemed pretty decent and not like the type of guy to do that so she nodded.
"Fine. Do your job. But don't disturb me, you hear me? When I'm at it, there's no way stopping me and that could be dangerous." Nick nodded. He looked at Miley a little bit while she typed something into her phone.
Probably to her best friend that she should come shopping too? Nick didn't know. He didn't want to know. The only thing he knew was that Miley was truly beautiful. Yeah, she had to be, because otherwise this guy who discovered her would have talked to her at all. But she was special to Nick.
He couldn't explain it, but she just was. After some time she looked up.
"Can we go? Demi's waiting." Nick nodded, though he had no idea who the hell Demi was. Maybe he was right and she did write her best friend? They walked to the door and Nick opened it for her. Miley smirked.
"Aren't you quite the gentleman?" Nick blushed and closed the door.
"Well, only for pretty ladies." Linda looked at them. At first she smiled at Nick, but when she saw Miley giggling because Nick said something to her, she glared. Miley turned to Nick.
"Well, since you're a model agent I guess that you have to open doors all the time." Nick shook his head.
"No, only for the ones who are younger than me and ones that I spilled coffee on." Miley laughed as they walked past Linda's desk. Nick turned to Linda.
"Could you please cancel my appointments up until around midday? I have some more work to do with Miley and that might take a while." Linda glared at Miley.
"What are you doing with her?" Nick sighed.
"We're going shopping. And I'm going to take pictures of her for the companies. Please just cancel them." Linda sighed annoyed and nodded. Nick thanked her and shot her a smile before he left with Miley.
When they turned the corner to walk to the elevator, Miley turned to Nick giggling silently.
"She was so jealous." Nick looked at Miley confused.
"Who was?"
"The girl at the front desk. Your secretary, forgot her name. She was so jealous!" Miley burst out laughing. Nick smiled amused. He thought her laugh was cute. It was loud but cute. And it is contagious as well. Nick had to chuckled himself after some time.
"If you say so. She flirts with me all the time." Miley giggled again.
"Oh, I bet. But wasn't that an engagement ring on her finger?" Nick nodded.
"I think she's been engaged for two or three months now. Maybe she still thinks she'd get a shot with me. I mean, I am adorable after all." Miley shook her head.
"You are cocky, you know that?" Nick nodded.
"But proud of it. Why do you have to go shopping anyway?" Miley glared at Nick.
"Well, thanks to someone I have to buy a new white dress!" Nick sighed ashamed and looked down.
"I'm sorry again. I was a little occupied with my work." Miley shrugged. She was silent from then on. She was still angry with him. His day didn't really get better.
At first he thought it would but when Miley gave him the silent treatment he knew he was far from forgiven for the dress. Just great, he thought. I'm not showered, I'm hungry, I'm tired and I was late; my files are all messed up and my new client probably hates me. There's nothing better than that.
After some time they reached the shop Miley was aiming for. Nick sighed and walked in with her. He hated shopping if he was completely honest. But he thought he could make it up to her by going shopping with her. There was not guarantee that she would forgive him, but it wasn't that big of a deal to him anyway.
"Okay, you get your camera. Start taking pictures. Maybe even while I'm picking out a few outfits." Nick nodded and took his camera. Miley started looking around for a few dresses. Nick snapped a few pictures until Miley turned to him.
"Okay, I'm ready. I'll try them on now." Nick nodded and followed Miley to the changing rooms. Just as Miley walked in, he heard a loud voice shouting Miley's name.
"Miles!!" Nick turned around and saw a black haired girl running up to him.
"Are you Nick Gray?" Nick nodded confused. The girl smiled and stuck her hand out.
"I'm Demi Monroe, Miley Stewarts best friend." Nick took her hand and shook it.
"Well, Nick Gray. As you know." Demi nodded.
"Where's Miley?" Nick pointed to a cabin.
"In there, trying on dresses."
"And you're here with her?" Nick nodded.
"I approve." Nick looked at her confused.
"Demi!!" Demi giggled.
"Chill, Miles. I'm kidding! But why are you here with her?" Nick looked at the cabin. He didn't see the curtains moving so he turned to Demi.
"I'm here because I still feel bad about the dress and I want to buy her at least two so she won't be mad at me anymore. And because of my job." Demi smiled at him. Nick looked at her pleadingly.
"Please don't tell her I came here with her because of what happened yesterday?" Demi smiled again.
"I won't. I'm glad that you care about her." Nick wanted to protest saying he just felt bad, but Miley walked out of the dressing room.
Nick turned to her. She was wearing a red dress and matching high heels. He stared her up and down, completely forgetting that he had to take pictures. But then Demi nudged him - he had to thank her later - and he snapped out of it. Miley looked at him doubtingly but tried to look like she was modeling when Nick took pictures of her.
"You look great. How much is the dress?" Miley looked at it.
"Eighty dollars; not that much, don't you think?" Nick nodded. Thank god, he thought.
"But the heels are worth 300." Nick looked at the shoes. They looked pretty normal to him. He sighed. This was going to be a lot of money he'd lose. But he had to do it.
"Tell you what, I'll buy you this dress and shoes plus another dress alright?" Miley smirked at him.
"You sure you want to do that?" Nick nodded. He knew he'd regret it sooner or later, but he still felt bad. Demi giggled.
"I said I approve. He's a keeper." Miley glared at Demi.
"He is my agent! Not my boyfriend! And definitely not a 'keeper'." Demi shook her head and looked at Nick apologetically. Nick looked down. Maybe it was more than a dress to her?
"I'm sorry Nick. She's not always like that. She just went to bed really late and she didn't have coffee this morning." Nick sighed.
"Yeah, I didn't either." Miley sighed annoyed.
"Well, anyway. You are so going to regret that you offered me to pay for my dress. Because I'm not buying this dress. Well, you aren't."
"What do you mean?" Miley giggled.
"The other dresses are still in there and I like those in there more. I'll be right back with the actual dress." She walked back in, but stuck her head out quickly.
"But I want the shoes." Then she was gone. Demi laughed.
"I'm sorry buddy. But that's how Miley rolls. The dress was special to Miley." Nick looked at Demi confused.
"Why?" Demi lowered her voice.
"It was the last thing she got from her mother before she died." Nick looked at Demi shocked. He turned around to meet Miley's red and puffy eyes. She glared at him.
"This is your entire fault!" She ran towards him. Nick wanted to do something, but then…
Nick shot up panting slightly. He slowly sat up and looked around. It was all just a dream. The bad day he had; it wasn't real. But it somewhat made him sad. Why? Because there was the chance that Miley wasn't the girl from the diner. But why would he dream something like that? It seemed crazy to him. He never had a dream like this before. He shook his head irritated.
And thinking back to his dream; if this dress was the last thing from her mother, he felt even guiltier. But why did he even want the girl to be Miley? Maybe because he thought she was beautiful? That could be it?
He sighed and let his head fall back onto his pillow. He slowly turned to the clock standing on the bedside table. He jumped up when he saw the red number telling him he was late.
"Oh, you got to be kidding me!" He ran and changed into his clothes for work. It was exactly how his dream started and that gave him a slight hope that maybe the girl from the diner indeed was Miley Stewart, his new client.
It wasn't my best, so I'm sorry. And Miley and Nick haven't met yet, but in the next chapter maybe? Since it's the day she's starting a model career? Review!