Chapter Two – Lonely Girl
After an agonizing wait in the elevator you step out onto floor 22. Compared to the reception and lobby there was a massive difference in appearance, while the lobby felt warm and inviting this floor had the opposite effect. Walls were peeling, the wooden floor was faded and covered in shoe marks which clearly hadn't been cleaned or looked after in a long time. Sighing you walk over to the closest person at their desk to introduce yourself. "Ahem hi, I'm new here and I'm not exactly sure where I am meant to be sat I was wondering if you may know where I will be doing my work and what I will be doing" you chuckled nervously at your mouth vomit. "well I know what I will be doing with spreadsheets and stuff I just wondered how it will all be done and what..." you are rudely cut off by your work mate when they push their hand in your face and grunted at you. "Another person who talks too much, that's just what we fucking need" the way he spat at you made you recoil slightly and look down embarrassed. "you're over there next to the window, get to work."
You quickly made your way to your desk while greeting all your work colleagues on the way. Well you would if they had glanced at you for more than a second to give you an ugly look and return to their work. Not feeling too welcome you sat down at your desk and decided to make use of your window seat. Opening the window only brought more disappointment though when the only view you had was of a wall of the building next to yours. Feeling a bit nosy you look over at your neighbours desk and see what's on there. Surprisingly there is not really much on there other than a few stacks of paper and a small little plush toy of a snowman. 'maybe it belongs to their child? That or they really like snowmen' you chuckled at this and deciding you have done enough snooping you start to work.
After an hour or so of getting to grips with what you have to do, which you find to be relatively easy and learnt pretty fast you start to think 'if I'm getting paid this much just to this I wonder how much some of the top guys are making?' You're suddenly dragged out of your thoughts by a commotion coming out of what appears to be the managers office on this floor. "And make sure this doesn't happen again Anderson! I am sick and tired of telling you!" a mans voice bellows from the cracked open door. "I do not care if you consider it important to take what you consider personal calls during work hours. From now on if you answer your phone during work I will personally take your phone and tell whoever it is on the other end to go fuck themselves!"
'Jeez what's this guys problem?' before you can think into what it may be you see a monster of a man walk through the now open door. 'He's massive!' you scream in your head, the man in person was even more intimidating than his voice. At least 7 feet tall and 300 pounds he towers over every single person on the room, even more so since everybody is sat down. You then notice that everyone is facing towards his office snickering and giggling at each other 'what are they laughing at? They seriously can not be laughing at whoever just had an earful off that behemoth of a man?' as is turns out they were doing just that. "I'm sorry Mr oaken sir, I promise I wont do it again" a voice whispers as quiet as a mouse. Suddenly your eyes widen when you notice two red braids walk through the door.
'its her' you excitedly think, 'its really her! She works on this floor! And she is heading right over to the desk…' before you can finish what you was thinking you see her suddenly collapse on the floor and the entire room burst out laughing at her. "careful freak!" one guy laughed out loud "my foot was there" the girl looked down at the ground, tears ready to fall when she tried to pull herself to her feet when again she was pushed back down with such force she let out a small shriek. After seeing this you've had enough and run towards her and push the attacker away grabbing him by the collar of his shirt "Back. Off. Now." you threaten through gritted teeth, eyes never leaving his, watching his every move. Seeing fear in his eyes you smile shoving him back into his seat. Turning back to the young woman who's looking down at the floor still, the tears have started falling now. Seeing this crushes you, 'how could anyone do this to her? She seems harmless, wanting to mind her own business' you think to yourself as you lean down to help her up. Just before you go to touch her she flinches away which causes you to jump back not wanting to intrude in her personal space. "do not touch me!" she shouts, everyone is now watching you and the mystery woman with keen eyes. Waiting excitedly like a pack of vultures on their next meal. "I don't want your god damned pity" standing up she doesn't even glance back at you as she sits at her desk, Leaving you stood in the middle of the room all eyes on you. "don't even try talking to the freak kiddo" came someone's voice in the corner of the room. "why do you think your desk was empty since she got here?"
Looking around for the person who decided to voice their rubbish that you had no intention of listening to you couldn't figure out who it was. Deciding that you don't want to be the centre of attention any longer you sit back down and notice the tears in this poor girls eyes, staring into nothingness as she slowly rubs the small snowman doll on her desk. 'she seems lonely' thinking to yourself. 'well we have that in common then don't we?' That damned voice in the back of your mind starting again.
AN: Hello again, so soon?! I am on a serious roll here just sprouting anything and everything that comes to mind. Also next chapter is the chapter you finally speak to our mystery girl (I wonder who it could be eh?) wink wink hint hint. Let me know how this is going please and any advice would be appreciated! Peace!