Chapter 2

Now here I am, sitting at home, thinking about what happened tonight… Maybe this wasn't smart. No, no, what was I talking about? This wasn't smart at all! He's my boss, I'm his employee. But… I really enjoyed today. Meeting him, chatting, the kissing… Why did he have to be so cute?

The next morning I took a quick shower to just let all my thoughts go 'down the drain'… I wanted to look cute and sexy, but I still had to look work-proof. So I grabbed my cropped black blazer, a white top. My super tight skinny jeans and I took my studded pumps to go with them. To edge the outfit up a little I put on some silver bracelets. I looked into the mirror and I thought "If this doesn't get his attention I don't know what will." As I ran to the door (of course I was late, once again) I grabbed my Chanel purse and got a taxi to leave for work.

Pfew, I was just in time. As I walked into my office I could feel a pair of eyes burning. I turned around to see Ezra already watching me. He was looking at me with a smirk on his face. I walked towards him and he said "Last night was amazing Aria, but I think we should talk about 'us', how we want this to work out…" I just nodded and followed him to his office. He told me he'd like to meet at my place to talk later that night. I smirked at him, meaning that it wasn't going to be just talking later that night. I wanted him so much. His cute smile, dreamy eyes…

As I walked back to my office a blonde girl was walking up to me. She introduced herself as Hanna and we chatted for a while. She was the stylist for The Rolling Stone and had been working here for about 2 years now. She was a pretty fun girl, so I was hoping we could become friends somehow, because I didn't really have friends here yet. It was like my thoughts had been heard, because she walked up to my office and said "We should hang out sometime? Tomorrow? Dinner at the Rose?" "Sounds great" I replied. New York was going to be so much fun.

What to wear? What to wear? I thought while looking at my closet. After a while I just decided to go with a simple pair of jeans, loose red-and-white top and my black army boots. I loved those boots. They looked really good on me... Ezra would be here at around 21.00 so I still had time left to do my make-up. I went with dark smokey eyes. That always made me look more sexy... And well, I had to look sexy didn't I?

I was just finished doing my make-up when I heard knocking on the door. It was Ezra! My heart jumped a bit. He had a blazer on, which made him look even hotter. He kissed me on my lips as a "Hi" and then just walked into my home. He looked around for a while and then sat down on my leather sofa. Gosh, he looked so amazingly cute! I sat down next to him and just waited for him to start talking. He mumbled a bit and then said "Look, I know we shouldn't be doing this, 'cause I'm your boss, but I can't help it. I'm really falling for you and I just want to give us a chance... I really hope you feel the same way." The words he said felt so good. I was falling for him too. I could feel my heart beating and my blood rushing through my vanes as I answered him "I want the same. I can't just let you go."

After we chatted for a while (and of course there was some kissing involved) he left. I didn't want to start rushing into things so we didn't have sex yet. With those things I usually wanted to wait for a while, but my gosh he was such a good kisser!

The next day I didn't have to go to work, so I just slept in a bit and took a really long shower. I decided to go shopping in Manhattan. (Not like I needed anything, but I could always use a great pair of shoes right?) I went to Zara for some amazing pumps and I just stopped by Victoria's Secret for lingerie... I had to look amazingly hot in my underwear, just in case Ezra would come over sometime soon. After 3 hours of shopping, 10 bags full of clothes and an empty wallet I returned home.

I had a dinner-date with Hanna tonight! I was really looking forward to getting to know her. I emptied the bags of clothes to look for something cute to wear tonight. Hanna said we were going somewhere fancy so I wanted to wear a really nice dress. I found my little black dress, grabbed some bold silver pumps and my second-hand Chanel purse to go with it.

When I walked into the restaurant Hanna was already at our table. She looked really pretty in her pink dress. She told me some amazing stories about working with all these celebrities. She met so many famous people, but was so light about it. She said it wasn't about the stars, but about the clothing. She loved her job. After that I told her about why I wanted to work at The Rolling Stone so badly. "I'm so passionate about writing. I love it with every inch of my heart." I said. We talked for hours. Our love-life's were also brought up. I really wanted to tell her about my 'relationship' with Ezra, but I couldn't... We're colleagues, nobody should know about us. I didn't even know if we really were in a relationship!

So, I just told her I never had any really long relationship, none that were memorable anyways. I had a relationship with this guy Noel when I was in high school. I was in love with him. No, more than in love with him. He was my world to me.. We dated for about 11 months. Then he just broke up with me, out of nowhere. I was heart-broken, laid in bed crying for about a week. After that I decided to just man-up and get over it. Easier said than done of course. To really get over it I went bungee-jumping to make myself feel like I could do anything I wanted. It worked, I got over it and moved on.

Hanna listened really carefully, you could see she felt sorry for me. All of a sudden she started crying. I didn't understand, until she said sobbing a bit "My boyfriend just broke up with me, like 3 days ago and I have no one to talk to." Immediately my inner-mom came to life. I stood up from my chair and just hugged her. I really wanted to help her. We decided to leave the restaurant and go to my place to have a sleepover. I know we just met and stuff, but it really felt natural. Like we've known each other for years.

At my house we talked and talked and talked, I tried to cheer her up a bit. We played karaoke games and stuff, so we had a lot of fun! She had an awful boyfriend, she really deserved someone better. She told me about some stuff he did and well, let's say he's not your typical sweetheart...

The next morning we both had to go to work so it was kind of a rushed morning. We both woke up way too late to be in time so we both took a quick shower. I lent her some clothes, 'cause she didn't bring any and I just wore a simple cute outfit.

As we walked towards are offices Hanna waved to some girl. She walked towards us and said her name was Spencer. She seemed like a really nice girl. She told me she worked at the New York Times, which was in the same building as The Rolling Stone so we'd be seeing her very often as well, 'cause she was a good friend of Hanna's. We talked for a while, but she was in quite a rush so she had to leave, but we exchanged numbers and decided to get a drink later today to get to know each other. This was so great! I had an amazing boyfriend (was he my boyfriend? I still wasn't sure...) and two new friends after just a few days in New York! I was going to love it here. That was something I knew for sure.

A/N:
- Aria's set for work; .com/arias_set_for_work/set?id=43178144
- Aria's home outfit; .com/casual_at_home/set?id=43229474
- Dinner-date with Hanna; .com/dinner_date_with_hanna/set?id=43296585&.locale=nl