In a room large enough to be a hospital waiting room, Kris sits at her desk listening to the boss yell over the phone. Granted not every boss is this way all the time but unlucky for her this one was. Every five minuets it seemed he was yelling at someone new. Be it her or someone else it seemed Dick was never happy unless he was yelling. Poor guy to be named Dick, although it sooted him well.
As to try to keep him from yelling at her Kris sat at her desk typing letters and other documents out for Dick. Trying to zone out the yelling in the next room and listening to the clicks of her keyboard. Here and there stopping to answer the phone and directing the calls to his office, then the yelling would start again. The hours seemed to go by so slowly when it was like this. Nothing but typing and yelling to listen to. Again the phone rings " Quality Business Products, this is Kris, Hold a moment while I direct your call ple…"
"Please wait. " the voice said on the other line. " I would rather talk to you. " " May I ask whom this is?" said Kris confused. No one ever called her at work they all knew how her boss was towards her. With no boyfriend and no one really close to her she rarely got a call from her parents. " My name is Andrew, I am Dicks son. " exclaimed the caller. "Why would you want to talk to me?" asked Kris.
"You see everytime I come into the office to talk to Dad I try to get your attention. I have been seeing you at your desk working your hardest trying to get father work done for him. I suppose that is so that he doesn't yell at you too .I known how he can be. " A moment of silence. Then the one thing she was waiting for. "I guess what I am trying to say is that this way was the only way I could think of being able to talk to you without dear old dad knowing, and the only way I could ask you to go to lunch with me. "
Flattered by the invitation Kris knew that Dick wouldn't allow it. He has never let her leave the office for lunch before exclaim with his only son. She answered the only way she knew how. " Your father would never allow me to leave the office for lunch, he thinks it's a waste of time to get a hour off for meals. " "Plus how do u propose to sneak me past your father he is always watching?"
" Easy " exclaimed Andrew "ill come pick you up and we will just wait till his back is turned, he wont even know your gone. "
"Well … ok when will you be here?" she asked.
"Oh give me about ten minuets to get up the elevator and we can go "then he hung up the phone and Kris sat there in disbelief. The son of Dick wants to get to know her. No man has ever shown this much curiosity in her. He is a very hansom man why in the world would he want to be seen with a nobody like her? The question of the day.
She sat there remembering what he looked like. Tall, very hansom, emerald green eyes with a hint of blue in the middle of them, kissable lips and a demeanor that he would be able to get any lady he wants. Why in the world did he want to get to know her?
Knowing that it would take about the time Andrew told her. She pulls out a compact mirror to check her face. To her the person looking back at her is not the one who is holding the mirror. Yet she knows its her and to the best that she knows fixes her makeup. Kris never thought of her as very pretty let alone beautiful. Mabie that is why she had really never settled down with someone. All she knows is the couple of relationships that were very wrong. Sometimes hurtful, sometimes dangerous.
The door creaked, knowing that would be Andrew coming to sneak her away she raised out of her seat to see if Dick was by the office door. Listening intently she hears him still raising his voice at the person on the other line. With him like that he wouldn't hear a bomb going off right next to his chair. Beckoning for her to walk out the door, Kris stands and walks quietly out the door, leaving everything still running on her desk.
The building she works at is huge. It seemed to be a cathridrial. Huge tapestries and beautiful mosaic paintings on the ceilings. Of course the ceiling was about 12 to 15 feet above them but it always has a way of making her look up. Imagining a time when the church had had many munks nuns and bishops wondering the hallways. When out of ear shot form the office Andrew spoke " I am glad you came with me, I have been thinking of ways to get you away from my father for the longest time. " " I know this is quite a shock to you, but I have a picnic waiting for us out on the grounds. My father will never know you were missing. "
Baffled all she could say was "Ok"
Not really wanting to talk but having so many questions she asked "Why would you want me to have lunch with you? I could have sworn that you didn't know I was alive. "
"Oh don't think that Kris … I have been watching you for the longest time, trying to figure out a way to ask you to either a movie or dinner. "
" I am very honored that you think this Andrew, but what if your father were to find out that you felt this way? "
"What about my father? Are you worried that you will end up being fired for being with me?
"Well. Yea I am "
"Don't be. He isn't the one that owns this company. I do, I just let him act like that so that he feels superior. "
Astonished Kris looked away not believing any of this was real. She pinched her arm just to make sure she wasn't dreaming. It hurt so she new she wasn't sleeping. Yet the way Andrew talked there was truth in his voice. Kris had the feeling of overwhelming love rush over her. The sun felt like it would never set and the day would go on forever. Sitting high in the afternoon sky the day's heat felt like it was boiling her skin. Sitting under an old oak tree enjoying the shade and the extravagant food. Every bite tasted sinful ever swallow of the wine felt like blood washing down her throat. The feeling of truth and love washed over her more than once sitting there. Kris never wanted the day to end. She didn't want to have to go back to work either. Laughing in the sunlight and loving every minute of the day the nightmare would continue when the time had come to head back to her office.
Sitting with a full stomach and staring into the blue sky her eyes focus on the one of the gargoyles oh the top of the building. For the longest moment she could have swore that the thing was moving. Lifting her up to get a better view, it was moving ho so slightly. She squinted her eyes to block some of the summer sun out of her line of sight and thought she saw the thing wink at her. Confused but not willing to say anything she looked away.
Seeing Andrew smile at her was all that she needed to feel secure after seeing such a weird development. Her day couldn't get any better than what was happening right now. All her life everything was so hard that she didn't think she would live to be thirty. Now on her 29th birthday everything seemed to be falling into place.
Yet something seemed to make this day alittle odd. The feeling she has was to good to be true, or should I say it was to good to be true without some kind of consequences.
Right now she didn't care what the consequences were, all she dare care about was this moment in time. The feelings of true love, safety, and trust over whelmed her to the point of falling into a deep sleep. Andrew must have realized her comfort and pulled Kris into lay on his lap. Kris lay there staring into his emerald eyes and slowly her eyes close. She could feel his fingers going threw her hair very lovingly and very slowly, she drifted off to sleep.
Waking she hears someone screaming her name. Andrew still playing in her hair whispers " I think its dad." " We better get you back inside."
to be continued ........
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