"No way girl you actually got it?" Anna questioned sitting on Bella's tiny bed. "I told you everything was going to turn out fine didn't I?" She smiled looking at her best friend.
"I'm still in shock" Bella replied, squeezing her palms together. "He actually gave me the job" she mumbled.
"So" Anna continued giving a sly smile as she walked towards Bella standing behind her as she tried on a maxi skirt. "Did you see Mr Grey face to face? Is he actually as hot as he looks here?" she questioned shoving a magazine that had Grey on the front page into Bella's face.
"Give me that" Bella giggled, taking the magazine from her hand. "And yes he is hot. But he's not my type"
"W-what do you mean he's not your type?" Anna asked dumbfounded. "The richest bachelor in the country literally...Is not your type?"
"Yeah" Bella replied, now facing her best friend. "I get he's hot and all but, I don't know if I'm really interested in that kind of stuff. I just want to live a quiet and debt free life" she sighed, taking the skirt off.
"Oh come here" Anna smiled, pulling Bella in a tight embrace. "You're going to be able to pay off your debt soon. Don't let that get to you" she petted.
"Thank you" Bella breathed, hugging her back. "Now let's get back to outfit searching" she chuckled, pulling out of her embrace.
"Sure" Anna replied, turning away so Bella couldn't see the tears that were forming in her eyes.
"Would it be okay if I wore jeans?" Bella asked again, turning to look at Anna. "I don't really know what to wear"
"You my dear friend, looks good in anything" Anna encouraged, squeezing her shoulder. "How much are you even being paid?"
"Oh my God" Bella replied bursting out in laughter. "You know I didn't even ask" she replied in between laughs. "It will be so awkward to ask tomorrow out of the blue"
"You have to" Anna replied laughing. "That's the whole reason you're working there, remember?"
"Yeah I know" Bella sighed, popping down on the bed. "I'm going to ask Evan tomorrow. He's the nice one"
"You're going to figure it out tomorrow" Anna replied sitting next to her as they continued gushing about Bella's new job.
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Katrina watched as the elevator doors opened to Mr Grey's floor humming her favorite song, ear pods in her ear.
"Why is this place so dark?" she mumbled, trying to locate the light switch. She was always the first person to arrive in the office. That was one of the traits that made Mr Grey keep her.
"Oh my God" she screamed as the light came on and she found Bella sitting on the couch in the hall. "What are you doing here sitting in the dark?" she asked, putting her bag on her desk. "Are you a physco or something?" She mumbled.
"Good morning to you too" Bella grinned sarcastically tucking black her turtle neck long sleeve top into her blue faded skinny jeans that made her curves visible"
"How did you even get in? You don't have your tag yet" Katrina questioned ignoring her sarcastic remark.
"The guard remembered me from yesterday" she replied, standing up. "So where do I have to start cleaning?"
"Whatever" Katrina replied, popping a mentos into her mouth. "Clean every room except for Mr Grey's office of course. I'm the only one allowed to do that" she beamed proudly.
Bella rolled her eyes at Katrina watching as she carried a duster into a room she presumed to be Mr Grey's office. She didn't even tell her where the cleaning suppliers were.
She sighed sitting back down on the couch pulling out her cracked phone as she heard a beep.
"How's work?" Anna asked in a text.
"I haven't even started yet" she typed, giggling.
"Someone is in a good mood" Evan commented making Bella spring up from her seat.
"Good morning. I promise I'm not slacking off, it's just that the receptionist didn't tell me where the cleaning supplies were an_" she rambled.
"Katrina" Evan said simply, opening the cross bag on his shoulder.
"Huuh?" Bella questioned in confusion.
"The receptionist. Her name is Katrina"
"Oh" she breathed watching as he pulled out a file from his bag.
"Go through it and if you need anything changed come meet me in my office" Evan said pushing the file towards her.
"What's this?" She questioned as took the file from his hand.
"Contract of your employment" he replied walking away from her towards his office. "And also,you don't need to be on edge around me" he continued before closing the door behind him.
Bella traced the edge of the file with a big smile on her face. "Even the file looks expensive" she sighed, pulling the two page contract out of it.
She read through it realizing it had her schedule and all the things she needed to do during her time here. As she flipped the pages, her eyes bulged out seeing the figure of her designated salary. It was almost double of her salary working as a waitress for four months.
"Wow" she breathed, staring at the paper in her hand. She knew working here was a ticket out of her debted life. But she didn't expect her salary to be this high, she was only a cleaner after all.
Katrina's singing off key cut off her thought as she walked towards her holding the duster in one hand and a dustpan in the other.
"Here" Katrina said shoving the brush in her free hand. "All the cleaning supplies are inside that room at the far back. Now bye"
Before Bella could respond, Katrina put her earpods back in singing as she walked towards her desk. Belle sighed putting the file inside her black bag as she trotted off to go clean.
Over an hour later, she was finished cleaning the whole of their floor. After putting the cleaning supplies in it's closet she took the file from her bag walking towards Evan's office.
"Come in" Evan called out from the other side of the door as she knocked softly on it.
"I hope I'm not being a bother?" She questioned as she walked in. "I've signed the contract" she continued, putting it on his desk.
"Are you okay with your salary?" Evan asked oblivious to how shocked Bella was at his question.
"Y-yeah of course I am" she stuttered embarrassed.
"Okay good" He nodded, taking the paper she had placed on his desk. "I'll make a photocopy and give this back to you"
"Thank you" she replied, nodding at him and turning towards the door to leave.
"Wait" Evan called out, making her turn back to look at him. "Help me keep these files on Mr Grey's desk" he said pointing towards and pile of folders in a side of the table.
"I thought I wasn't supposed to go in there?" Bella questioned looking between the door and Evan.
"Yeah. But I'm busy with other stuff right now. So just go in quicky drop it and walk back out"
"O-okay" Bella replied reluctantly, nodding.
"And don't touch anything!" Evan warned as she walked out the door.
Holding the stark of papers in her hand, she took a deep breath walking towards Grey's office and pushing the door open. Her eyes widened as she stepped into the big room, it really didn't look this big from the hallways.
"How much money do these people have exactly?" She questioned looking around the room in awe. Quicky putting the files on the huge table, she walked towards the floor-to-ceiling windows looking down at the view.
It was beautiful.
"Oh shit! I'm not supposed to be here" she said in panic turning around- heading straight into Grey Carter.