Chapter 4: Beautiful Friendship

• Ashley
• “Lower the blinds of the window, Ash” he ordered me.“Okay,” I agreed and lowered them.
• He called me towards him.
• “Here. See this. This is the most confidential document of this company, I am showing you this so,” I looked at him. “I trust you” I looked at the laptop screen.
• I nodded.
• “I am only showing you cause I need you to study this and know about our strengths and weaknesses. I want you to be aware of our capabilities. Only you are allowed to read and see this. No one, and I mean not another soul should know this”
• I nodded. “Okay, sir”
• “And Ash” I again looked at him. “Don’t lower the blinds just because someone told you to. You can’t possibly trust anyone, including me in such a small span of time”
• I nodded embarrassed. “And if you need to study these documents, only do them here in my cabin”
• “Okay sir”
• “Good”
• I smiled and he closed his laptop, and I opened the window blinds.
• “By the way,” he sat down on his seat. “The work is done. Have a rest now. You need to come tomorrow morning at 8 here, and we have some work tomorrow”
• “Okay sir,” I said and left the room.
• He is very different from what I have heard till now.He is understanding and genuinely good.
• I went to the reception.
• “Bye Kate” I wished her as she smiled.
• “Wait. How did everything go?”
• “I impressed him!” I exclaimed and she looked visibly shocked.
• “Woah, you rock girl!”
• “Thank you!”“No, it is a really big achievement!”
• “But…” I said. “
• He looked easy to impress”“No, trust me, he isn’t!”
• “Okay… I’ll take the praise!” I smiled at her.
• She smiled. “Bye Ashley!”“Bye!”
• I left the building. I glanced back at it as I left. It is such a beautiful building and I am almost selected, aren’t I? I get to work here!
• I took a cab and as I reached home, I called Lara and told her about everything.
• “That is really good, Ashley. You’ll really gonna have a good time there” she spoke.“I hope at least” I put my resume down. “
• I just want this job to stick”
• “By the way…” I understood she was gonna do some ‘juicy talk’. “Is he hot?”
• “Gosh, don’t ask”
• “Nope, sis. He is The Christopher Brown. Tell me!”
• “He is smoking hot, sis!” I exclaimed. “I can’t explain, but he is really good too”
• “You are lucky,” she whispered.
• “Oh, is your boyfriend there? Because he might be freaking out at your talks”
• “Yes, he just came. Now, bye or you’ll make me single while you are gonna get someone--”
• “What? Not at all!” I yelled embarrassed.
• “The anger says it all, dumbo. Bye!” she cut the call while I can’t even scream at her.
• It is true, Mr. Brown, I have a crush on you.
• On the very first day.
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• I went to do some cooking to take my mind off all the things as they came back to me because of my surroundings. I have to focus on the future, and not on the past.
• I ate whatever I made and then went to bed. I did a lot of research on Mr. Brown. He is a really big businessman. He owns many places, and I really can’t believe that his net worth is now $654 billion.
• I mean, crazy, right?
• He is so down to Earth. He is really a great man as I have noticed.
• I have to make it on time tomorrow, so I slept.
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• I woke up and saw the time. It showed 7:06. I should wake up; I really know that I can’t wake up after five minutes or something.
• I got ready. I don’t know what I have to do today. Mr. Brown… or I should say, Christopher? At least I can call him by his name in my thoughts. So, he told me that today I have some work.
• Checking the time, I made my way downstairs. I need to really get a vehicle. It is costing too much for a taxi every day. But I can’t just buy some vehicle, I am not a ‘billionaire’.
• But anyway, I think I’d do that with my first salary.Which means… the entire month.
• I sighed and sat inside a cab and went to the headquarters.
• I went inside and Kate smiled looking at me.
• “Woah I was really missing you!” she smiled.“Oh yeah? Great. I have such a good friend on my second day itself!”
• “Hmm yeah
• ,” she looked at her documents. “Actually…”
• “What happened?”
• “I am leaving this job tomorrow… okay not leaving, I am fired”
• “What?” I was shocked.
• “Yeah”
• “Why!?”
• “I made a mistake, Ashley. I missed an appointment entry and being as the unluckiest person, sir asked me about that only”
• “Sir? Mr. Brown?”
• “Yes. But it is okay, it was my mistake” she smiled sadly.
• “Oh no,” I became sad. What can I do for her? She is my friend now.
• “Anyway, go to your boss’ cabin. It is already 8, he is expecting you”“Oh yeah. Gotta go, bye”
• “Bye
• ,” she smiled.
• She is still smiling. Damn, that hurts.
• I went to the first room on the second floor. I knocked and entered.
• “Oh, hey Ash,” he said. “Sit down”
• I sat down across him.
• “What’s wrong?” he questioned looking at me.
• Am I looking tense?Maybe I
• really can’t lie.
• “N-Nothing,” I said as I remembered that I may be his PA, but I don’t think I have the right to ask him to not fire someone.
• “You know you are a terrible liar. Tell me” he closed his file, his full attention on me.
• “S-Sir…” I took a deep breath. I don’t want to be fired too. “Please don’t fire Kate”
• He looked shocked and sighed as he sat back. “Why?”
• “Because she is a human and she also can make mistakes, sir!”
• He stood up. “If you’ll work overtime today then I will give her another chance”
• “Yes sir!” I smiled. He looked amused. “Great. Tell her then”
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• Chris
• I don’t like people who make mistakes at all. But this Ashley is different.
• She made me forgive Kate even when I fired her in complete anger. Something about this girl is different. She always speaks her mind, which is really intriguing and interesting. She is a terrible liar, and that too adds to her positive points. I hate only one kind of person. I hate liars. I hate them the most.
• Even enemies are better than liars.
• She has this selfless personality that she agreed to work overtime for someone she only met a day ago. She is different, and I like different people.
• “Follow me,” I told her as she followed me to my car.
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• Ashley
• I followed him as he led us to his car. I didn’t know exactly where we were going, so I questioned.
• “Where are we going, sir?” I asked as I sat down on the passenger’s seat.
• “You’ll know” the car accelerated and he started driving really well.
• He was so smooth and his speed was quite fast, but I liked it. We soon reached some buildings. I was fascinated… and astonished. I mean, they were so beautiful and so good. We went between two of them. There was a road between them.
• As we entered behind the buildings, I was taken aback by the beauty. There were endless buildings covered with the almost same expensive marble.
• “Um… this is?” I asked as my eyes were shining as I looked at them.
• “The Brown Luxuries”