"Just lock the fucking door and get in the car Brea!" I yell in frustration
"Chill out bruh! I'm coming" she says finally locking the door and walking into the car, she takes her position in the drivers seat since it's her car and she'll be the one driving. My car broke down last week and I took it to get serviced. I'll be picking it up today though so I don't have to deal with Brea making me go late to work again.
One good thing about letting Brea drive is that she's good at driving fast unlike me who obeys every driving rule, so in matter of minutes we're already pulling up in front of my office. Just a small building owned by my boss Colton Smith, a man in his mid fourties', maybe 46? Don't really know but he's chill and doesn't make us go through so much work and stress like most other bosses do.
Colton is the first person I bump into when I walk into the office
"You're late again Tabitha" he says
"Yes, I was..."
"In my office now" he cuts me off
I sigh and follow him into his office. Mel one of my co worker and lowkey my friend too gives me two thumbs up as I walk past her to the passageway leading to Colton's office. I say she's lowkey my friend because we only talk when we're here at work, we don't have each others numbers and we don't try to communicate outside of here either and I like it that way, she's a really cool person though.
Colton seats behind his desk while I stand in front of it "you've been acting a little off lately Miss Bardot, this is the third consecutive time you're coming late to work''
''uh..I'm sorry about that sir, I just had a little personal issue but this wouldn't happen again'' I apologize
"Is-is there some....thing I can do to help?" He asks distracted and I know exactly what is distracting him, it's not so hard since his both eyes are on it, my boobs, that's what he's staring at. Forgot to mention that although he's a really cool boss, he's also a big ass pervert who can't keep his dick at a place to save his life and that about him is really disgusting.
I pull my coat tighter around my body to cover my cleavage "No Mr Smith, I'm good, like I said earlier it won't happen again'' I try to remain as professional as possible. But Colton being Colton, he didn't take his eyes off my boobs.
I roll my eye and clear my throat ''if you'll excuse me sir, I have to start working now''
He clears his throat ''of course, you- you have to work'' I'm out the door before he even finishes talking
Mel is on her computer when I walk into the office we share, that's how we started talking, the fact that we share an office and we're in the same department too. I've worked here with Mr Smith for the past 2 years, out of 4 interior designing firms I applied to, Mr Smith was the only one who offered me a job and although this firm is not as big as the ones I always dreamed of working in, its still good enough plus it pays the bills, I just need to get as much experience as I can so I can open my own interior designing company. Mel got accepted here 7 months ago and she was brought directly to the designing department which is also where I work. We've been friends since then and she's actually a really good person. We used to be 3 persons in this department but Ellie left after Colton tried to force himself on her in his office. that leaves just me and Mel. She looks up as soon as she notices me come in ''how'd it go?'' she asks bursting into a laugh, everyone knows how Colton is, at least every female staff in this firm, they aren't a lot of female staff here though
I snort ''remind me never to leave my car at the service shop for more than a day again'' I say hanging my coat on the little coat hanger by my corner before plumping down on my chair. Mel laughs at what I said but she doesn't say anymore thing. This is why we get along well, she knows when and when not to talk, sometimes we talk for a really long time but other times like now, I don't really feel like talking much and she respects that.
I turn on my computer so I can start working, I have a lot of work I need to cover in very little time. Couldn't do much work during the weekend because of what happened that day, still trying to wrap my mind around it, my toe doesn't hurt as much as it did two days ago and its not that swollen either. using a band, I hold my mass of curly hair back so it doesn't get in my face as I work
By lunch time I'm still not even half way through the pile of work I have to do ''aren't you going for lunch Tab??'' Mel asks
''Gotta finish these up before I can leave for today, I don't wanna stay late and I don't need a speech from Colton either so yep, I think I'm going to skip for today'' I answer her
''sucks to be you, you need anything?''
''oh Mel, that's so nice of you'' I coo ''a burger or sandwich and some juice would be okay'' I say
''okay, see you later'' she gives me a warm smile before walking out of the office. she's really nice. I turn my attention back to what I was doing
A yawn escapes my lips as I stretch, just a couple more minutes and I'll be done, then I can finally go back home, I check the time on my phone and see its already 8pm, was supposed to leave about 3 hours ago but I really had to finish these up today, I just need to print these designs out from my laptop and put them together in a file because it'll be needed early tomorrow morning. Mel already left earlier and I think every other person has too, its just me and Aaron the janitor. Thankfully I was able to convince Brea to help me pick my car up from the service shop and bring it here since I wouldn't have been able to pick it up myself from them today and I don't want to be late tomorrow too because I really don't have the energy to deal with Colton.
I hear footsteps approaching, must be Aaron. the door to my office opens and Colton pops his head in first before walking in fully. Oh, I thought I was the only one here, I was clearly mistaken, and of all people to be in here with it has to be Colton.
''Tab, you're still here? its past 8pm, what are you...were you waiting for me?'' he pauses before adding the last part
My face scrunches up ''What? no!'' I quickly say ''I just had some extra work to do''
''Relax, I was only kidding'' He walks further into the room, going around my desk and stands really close to me. I try my best to ignore him and I just continued with what I was doing, I need to finish this quickly and get the fuck out of here
''you're skipping this part, it can't work that way'' he says bending down and pointing at my computer screen, his right hand crosses over the top of my chair to the other edge so his chest is touching mine, I'm just realizing that i took my coat off earlier so I'm only on my sleeveless corset top. Lord, why am I so unlucky!
I look at what he's showing me and I was actually skipping something, he wasn't lieing about that. I quickly fix the issue so i can finish this up. He still didn't move from that position. In few seconds I start feeling the tip of his fingers run along my shoulder blade making me shiver in disgust, I try to shift a little bit so his fingers can slide off my shoulders but he grips my arm holding me in place.
''come on Tab, stop acting like you don't want this'' he says into my ears as his hand that was on the chair makes its way to my boobs, i quickly slap his hand off and in a fast motion I push my chair back and stand up creating enough distance between us. He's still a bit taller than me but at least he's not towering over me like he was seconds ago.
"Don't fucking touch me, I do not want anything'' I spit ''and it's Miss Bardot to you'' I add, my chest is heaving up and down from the sudden pump of adrenaline
Shock is evident on his face ''That's not true Ta...'' he starts coming closer to me again as he spoke but I put my hand in front of my making a stop sign
''if you come one step closer to me I'll scream on the top of my lungs, I'll scream rape and I'm not even joking''
''just calm the fuck down! it hasn't gotten to that'' he says getting upset but I don't even care if he's getting pissed or not
''Please leave Sir'' I say very seriously pointing to the door
he looks like he's about to say something else but I walk to the door and throw it open for him, this is obviously not a very polite way to say no to my boss but right now I can't care less, I'll face the consequences of it tomorrow.
He still doesn't move ''Is that not Aaron?'' I say referring to the approaching footsteps ''maybe I could call him to come help me out here'' that seemed to do the trick because as soon as I said that he raises his hand up in defeat and starts walks out. He pauses briefly when he gets to the door and gives me a death glare before finally walking out. I angrily slam the door shut. It's the third time he has tried something like this but this is the first time I'm reacting this way, I guess that's why he's surprised. The look he gave me before he left is giving me the feeling that I might need to start turning in my application to other companies soon.
I shut down my computer and put my things inside my bag, I say a quick hello to Aaron on my way out. Colton's car is not in the parking which means he has gone and that's a good thing. I just need some food and sleep.
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