Author: Apandamandi

Summary: Nia Jones, an amazing design company has feelings for her boss. She is sure he doesn’t see her as anything except an okay employee, but she realizes otherwise when his half brother enters the picture.

Pairing(s): Female/Male

Rating: 13+ Language/ rating might change as chapters progress

Note: Forgive any lingering errors…I HATE PUNCTUATION >.<

Chapter 4

She threw her leather messenger bag on her back and scurried out the building hoping to get to her car and be at Wednesday’s Song in no time. She turned to face the street and saw a line of noisy unmoving cars.

“Crap!” she breathed and decided she would have to speed walk down there. Glancing at her phone for the time, she now had sixteen minutes to be there. Walking was now out of the question and in hells no less. She booked it down the sidewalk muttering, “S’cuse me, Pardon, Sorry” every other person she squeezed by. Looking down once more to check her phone, she bumped into what felt like a warm brick wall. “Oh my gosh, I’m sorry.”

Not really in his right state of mind having come out of three back to back meetings he shrugged her off. He dropped an envelope full of papers and she dropped the envelope with her sketch inside among other things she was working on. She was all frantic and bubbling and he couldn’t even see her face but her skirt which was riding up a bit as she crouched was all he needed to see to get him to be at full attention.

He knelt down after her following her movements with his eyes. Any other time he would have cursed at anyone who bumped into him but this time, the power to make even the simplest of sentences escaped him . She was just so…so…breathtaking. Spastic, but breathtaking nonetheless. Where is she going? Why wasn’t he invited? How can he keep her here a bit longer?

She mumbled to herself while trying to separate their things, looking down the street to her destination every other second. She awkwardly got a system for separating their things. Finally she saw him stooping down to help and she quickly handed his folder back to him as he handed hers to her. Their eyes met briefly and she quickly averted her gaze looking past him down to the building she was supposed to be in.

“Seems you’re in quite a hurry.” He finally stated laughing a little.

“Um..yeah. I kinda have this important meeting thingy I have to be to, like now.”

“I’m Yoshihide, and you are?” He smiled, his dark spiky hair reminding her of one of those suave debonair types whom she’d had to deal with at her other jobs. The kind that only thought of women employee’s as a ‘fun time’. They were all the same to her and she didn’t have time to deal with it right now.

“I’m Nia, and I should definitely be leaving. I’m sorry that I bumped you. I should have been paying more attention. Anyway, thanks for your help.” She saw him staring and instinctively pulled her skirt down re-covering the little bit of brown skin that peeped at him earlier when she’d dropped all their things.

“Do you need any help getting there? I could give you a lift.” He straitened his tie and tilted his head eagerly awaiting her reply. This beautiful, scatterbrain before him had taken his breath by just bumping into him. He needed a way to keep her standing with him if only for just a few more moments and then he’d have enough mental pictures to last him until he met another beautiful woman.

“No..um..well.” she checked her phone again. 5 minutes til DOOM! “Thanks but no thanks, I think I can make it from here.” She smiled kindly and waved as she ran off.

“Nice meeting you, Nia.” he whispered to himself

He looked after her as she blended into the crowd that was growing larger by the second. Looking down in his hands at the folders that she had handed him one of the straggling papers that lay under it was a sketch. Her initials were written in a lazy cursive at the bottom of the page. Nia. He repeated mentally.

“Nia!” he shouted but realized it was too late she was gone. Well, he would just keep this little memento of her…savor what little time they’d had and move on. But first he had to go to another boring company meeting. His half brother was always trying to prove his worth to the company and this time he’d gone a bit extreme. This should be good. I wonder what loser Agito will send this time. Yoshihide Sohma, was in a particularly good mood today. So, he figured whoever was sent deserved a bit of mercy. He wouldn’t totally crush the poor sap’s dreams when they presented their sketch work for the CEOs. His recent encounter with an immortal had cemented his disposition into a brighter one.

HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS CHAPTER….LIKE AND….STUFF. ADD LOVELY LITTLE NOTES IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU. ^_^

Today I ran across a post in a fellow AM/BW blog asking about this blog and my heart totally fluttered~ So sweet to know that my followers miss this blog <3 You know what, the truth is, I thought I would have a lot of time this December break, but I met a new best friend, started working almost everyday, and amazingly have found myself surrounded by adorable Asian men almost every day! Hahah no boyfriend yet~ Just keeping my eye on them because most of them are my students (I’m not actually a teacher, Just an English Conversation Intern at the English Language school).  But Honestly, I really have missed reading your stories, So I’m taking submissions again before I start school again on the 23rd. Hopefully I can keep up! Thanks again for following Oriento Choco!! <3