Encounter on the bus

Marcus

"Yes, thank you man, you're a life saver"

Cutting the call, I lightly threw my phone onto the office desk, sitting back down on my chair, I sighed heavily. I was now back in the Manager's office, my office, still trying to make sense of the whole mess left by the previous Manger, Mr. Harris.

It had already been a hectic day, and I had just gotten off the call from one of my best friends, Jaden, he was also a colleague at work, one of the few I knew that was working for the company, and that did not manifest any inferiority complex when in my presence, that is, of those that knew that my dad was their employer.

Jaden was the one helping me sort out the problem of the password - locked Computer that I needed to use, I don't know how, but for about a year now, he was apparently very close with one of the 3 ladies in charge of the company's tech issues. It's not that I didn't know them, but we were just acquaintances, so if I had called them, they would have just added me to the cue, the only perk I would get would be if there were not any tech issues to be fixed for people higher placed in the company than me, I would probably get it done immediately, after all I wasnt a nobody. But I knew that the chance of that happening was very low, 'the chairman' s Kid' brand on me couldn't solve everything, although I could have had it solved immediately by calling the old man, but well that wasn't happening if I had my way, so I had to call Jaden.

Thankfulky the problem had been solved, and I just had to wait for the computer system to boot up. As I waited I recalled the happenings earlier today and the annoying woman, Monica.

Unbelievable, she had firmly insisted on not allowing me to use her computer, completely relying on the rules to be headstrong and difficult. I could see her almost smug smile when I finally accepted her decision, but surprisingly I wasn't annoyed any more. I was just confused, confused wondering how two people could look so similar, yet act completely differently all the same.

Shaking my head I maneuvered the mouse to access the information on where the former manger had stopped in his duties. Miss Monica had helped me tremendously this morning, even if she had been a bit difficult about it first, but she could only give me the information on the the staff below her, and some non-classified information on some regular clients that she manged partly or fully.

Clicking on the folder that read 'Manger - grade clients ' I casually glanced at the watch on my left hand, it was almost four o'clock, I sighed

'this will be one hell of a day' I thought, concentrating on the opened folder that i just opened I began to read it carefully.

Monica

'Only God knows what he thinks of me now' I thought,

it was only now as I began to think back did I fully realise the type of first impression I had given my new boss. And it was worse because it seemed like he was one of those with bad tempers. After the oddly harmonious two hours I spent helping him catch up with some basic info of our branch, I was a bit relieved and no matter how vigorously I wanted to deny it, a teeny bit disappointed, when he had finally left.

After which I went downstairs, with the elevator this time, because I wanted to know what happened before I came to work, and I could think of no other person better at sharing such 'news' than than Eva.

She was about to leave when I caught up with her. So I waved to her to stop, and when I convinced her to just spare a few minutes over snacks at the buildings café, that's when I noticed that the place looked much more livelier than earlier when I came.

I finally learnt what had happened, long story short he had flipped out, apparently because most of the questions he needed answered , no one could answer, most questions of which concerned people of my staff level. He had managed to get the numbers of Meagan and my other make colleague, but supposedly they were not connecting and then no one owned up to having mine. So of course he had burst out shouting, going at it to almost everyone he could see, before finally going up to my office to wait for me.

Finally understanding what had happened earlier, I let Eva leave and made my way back upstairs. And now I was rounding up and preparing to go home, today had been one of those days.

I normally left work between four and four thirty, depending on the work load that day, so all that was alerting the manager before leaving, as was the regular protocol.

' I really don't want to talk to the guy again for now' I thought

Looking at the time, it was a few minutes past four pm, standing up from my seat, I pushed it under the table, went to the office blinds and closed them, finally turning off the lights I stepped out, closing the door behind me, I left for Mr. Marcus's Office.

He was asleep yes, the rude 'I own it all man', I had decided to tag him that name for now, at least privately, was now fast asleep, face down on his desk. I almost felt sorry for him, but I squashed that feeling before it could rear its head, 'hmmph, good for him' I thought, I silently closed his office door behind me as I entered, I had knocked on the door earlier but receiving no answer, I opened it, and 'voilà' the man was fast asleep.

I walked to the front of his desk and lightly knocked on it,

"wait.. What?" groggily raising his head, he shook his head a bit and finally rested his eyes on me. I had to hand it to him, he still managed to act all professional about it.

"what is it miss Monica?" he asked

I replied while lightly tapping my watch

"sir, my office hours are done, and I have to leave, I just came to notify you"

Looking at me quizzically, he asked

"why are you telling me?"

"Because that's what the former manager had us doing, unless you wish to change it?" I replied.

He stood up, using his fingers, he combed his hair and then swiped his hands over his face.

"So you leave at four thirty?" he asked, while looking at the cock on the wall,

"No" I said

"anytime after four, I'm done"

Nodding his head, he waved his hands, motioning me to go,

"let's keep the practice, I think it's beneficial, especially as we are not staying in the same office, yea?"

"OK sir" I said.

Turning around, I walked to the door,

"Good bye, sir" I said, before closing the door behind me, hearing a low grunt, I left.

Marcus

"Yeah mum, I'm just leaving the office building now, yes yes I'll do that Okay, yes thanks bye! "then I ended the call, my mum could be annoying at times, but I knew that she meant well, unlike some father who only looked for trouble all the time. It was about two minutes after five, and I had just left the company building, as I had been given this appointment abruptly, I had not made any proper preparation for where I would stay, so I had just googled the closest, highly rated hotel around, and that was where I was going and I even had to hitch a bus on top of all that because I had not gotten around to getting my car brought over, or at least renting one for the time being. I decided that all that would be done later, I was too damn tired right now.

Fortunately, the 5 o'clock bus was a few minutes late, probably due to traffic, so I luckily caught the bus. Stepping into the bus I moved toward the back while looking for a free space to sit down in, and that's when I saw the woman again. I paused, rapidly deciding on whether I should take the free seat beside her or just move along.

"hey man move along, will you" the man following me behind said.

I quickly took the seat beside her, I don't think she noticed, unless she was a very good actor, as I could see she was seriously listening to music, because she had her earphones on and was periodically tapping on her bag to some beat I couldn't hear.

It was only now that I calmed down and began to access her properly. A face not too long or short, cheeks with a tint of pink, and slightly shivering eye lashes. The weather was not so cold, but evenings tended to be a bit peachy, so she had a small scarf around her neck. Looking at her feet, she was wearing a flat back shoe, my eyes climbed up a bit resting on her slender long legs,

'ohh a tall one' I thought,

mentally confirming her height with mine with the memories of the several times that she stood beside me today. 'Leah was not that tall' I thought.

She was wearing a normal black skirt with a thin black blouse tucked in it, the blouse was in no way loose,

'tight but large' I again thought, my gaze lingering briefly on her finely shaped front, this was then partially covered with the dark blue suit jacket she was wearing, and that was left unbuttoned . I had to say, she looked good, very good, she had somehow managed to show sexy and formal all at once.

Taking my eyes off her clothes, I looked back at her face, and that's when I realised that she had opened her eyes for God knows how long, pretty eyes they were, which were just quietly staring at me and when my eyes met hers, she blushed and then smiled.