"So this is your company?!"

The room was silent until Vick spoke up.

"It's none of your business who's her company"

"And it's none of yours to interfere" Mr. Reid seethed.

"He's my company Mr. Reid" Kate cut in before this could get any uglier.

Mr. Reid looked at her then back at me and walked out without saying a word.

"Sorry guys" I said apologetically.

"It's fine, just leave already!" Kate shouted, she's pissed, I wonder what they were up to?

Not the time Julie.

I walked out and saw that Mr. Reid had his head on the steering wheel of his Jaguar.

I looked at the distressed look on his face and suddenly felt concerned.

Is he stressed?

I looked down and decided to do something I know I'll regret later.

I opened the car door making him quickly straightened up.

"I thought you didn't want to come?" He asked confused.

"I already changed and I'm not in the mood to let a perfectly good outfit go to waste" I shrugged.

He smirked and started the engine.

After a long boring silence because the asshole wouldn't let me turn on the radio and still no means of communication, I couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Mr. Reid, where are we even going?"

"I don't know, where do you want to go?" He says nonchalantly.

I think something inside me just snapped.

"First you drag me out of my mother's house on a Sunday to work, then you practically threatened me to go on this 'outing' of yours and now you're telling me you don't even know where to take me?!" I shouted.

"This is a 'date' Ms. Downs" he 'corrected'.

Is that all you f*cking heard?

"No, this is not a 'date' Mr. Reid, a 'date' is an agreement between two people to romantically go out! I did not agree to this!"

I usually hold out on the yelling, screaming and shouting during fights, wanting to be considered the calm one, but this bozo has driven me to the point of no return and for the record I was exceptionally nice towards him!

He raised an eyebrow at my outburst and I really want to shave that eyebrow off.

"Well then we're going to the amusement park" he declared.

"You can't just decide that on your own! I'm not going to an amusement park! I want to go back home!"

He shrugged and just continued driving.

I took out my headphones and was about to put them on when he grabbed them and pulled them away.

Okay, you do not touch my headphones!

"Sir, can I have my headphones back?"

"No"

"And why not?"

"It's impolite to put on headphones when on a date"

Is this man for real?

I breathed in very loudly.

"How do you expect me to act when talking to you is equivalent to talking to a wall?!"

"You weren't acting like that yesterday when we were dancing"

"You were possessed yesterday! That's why it was easy!"

"Possessed?" He said with amusement in his voice.

I looked at him for the first time since I sat in the car and our eyes met.

He looked happy, he had a small smile playing on his lips and looked younger, more relaxed.

I remember how I said I'd be less difficult but I didn't even listen to myself.

"You do know that we're boss and employee, right?"

"I don't really care, I did say I'd fire you so it still counts as doing your job" he said, shrugging for the billionth time today.

"I will never understand your logic"

"You don't need to, by the way how's your brother?"

"He's good, we went to visit my mom today and..." I dragged on.

"And?"

"Funnily things went better that I thought they would" I finished.

"How did you think it would go?"

I looked at him curiously, should I tell him my inside thoughts?

"I thought it'd end up in a big fight and they'd convince me to hate my brother and not want him back, but the way they acted showed me that now that I found him, I don't want to let him leave"

He turned his head to look at me and I raised my fingers to his face, he was leaning in when I snapped my fingers.

"Keep an eye on the road Mr. Reid"

"Yeah, I'll do that"

I saw a bit of red tint his ears and I smiled.

How cute, he's embarrassed.

After another boring silence, I think he noticed that we won't be having a conversation anytime soon because he turned on the radio.

"Couldn't handle the silence?" I joked.

He narrowed his eyes at me then averted his gaze to the road again and turned off the radio.

"Hey!"

He just smirked and continued driving.

A few minutes later we were at the entrance of Luna Park.

"I feel like a kid"

"Well we are going to ride rides so you might as well"

"Well then Mr. Control freak, tell me, which ride do you want to go on first?"

He smirked.

"Roller coaster, think you can handle it?"

"Oh please, I can handle sky diving"

"Have you ever went sky diving?"

"No, but I want to"

He gave me a lop sided smile and grabbed my hand.

I was shocked at his sudden action and jerked my hand out.

He furrowed his brows and gave me a confused look.

"You told me it still counts as doing my job and I don't think holding my boss's hand is exactly something I'd do in work"

He looked down but then nodded and headed to purchase our tickets.

"Here's your ticket"

"V.I.P? Really?" I raised my brow.

"What? Do you think I'd wait in line?"

"That's what normal people do"

"I'm not normal sweetheart"

I stopped and looked at him.

"Did you just call me sweetheart?"

He smirked and leaned in.

"Do you prefer cariño?" (Darling)

I think my face blew up like a tomato.

He continued walking leaving me there with my face flushed.

It's no big deal Julie, ignore the fact the he sounded like the sexiest man alive and focus on the fact that he is your boss.

A boss with so, so much sex appeal.

I will not argue with you this time conscience, because you are absolutely right.

"Ms. Downs stop just standing there, come on"

"Yes, sorry sir"

We passed through the gates and the first ride we saw was the spinning cups and I pulled Mr. Reid by his sleeve towards the ride.

"This one"

"Are you a kid?"

"You were the one that said that I might as well act like one"

"Fair enough"

We gave our cards to the guy and he scanned the bar codes, we took our place in the cute cups and when all the cups were filled with people, the ride started.

After it was over I felt a bit dizzy but I laughed it off and looked at Mr. Reid, he was smiling warmly at me and I pulled him again to the next one.

After three more rides, I said I had to use the restrooms and he said he'll sit on a bench until I came back.

After I did my business, I came out and walked to Mr. Reid to see him talking to some girl.

"Mr. Reid?"

"Ms. Downs, this was my colleague back in college, Lydia, this is my assistant, Ms. Downs"

"Hi, I was just talking to Derick so could you give us a minute"

I looked back between them and smiled.

"Of course"

I walked away and a very unsettling memory came back to me.

I was sitting in the bus from my way back from school, when the bus driver told me my mom called to ask if he can drop me off at the hospital since it was on the way back to where we lived and that I'd be late for my appointment if we didn't go, so I agreed.

When we stopped in front of the hospital, some girl joked about something that I'll never forget.

"We stopped in front of the hospital, is anyone sick?"

Everyone started laughing except me so when I got up everyone instantly became quiet.

I'm sure she didn't mean any harm but it was the start of something that changed a lot that happened in my life.

The next day I went to school, anyone that saw me started whispering and eventually I became a loner.

But someone stayed beside me the whole way and didn't want to ever leave my side.

Kate.

And when I finally received treatment and recovered, I swore to never let myself be ignored or left out.

And I'm not about to start now.

I walked back to them and smiled at the girl.

"Hi"

"Hey" she said a bit rudely.

"If you don't mind me asking what were you majoring back when you were in college?"

"Design, why?" She asked confused.

"No way! Do you know Mr. Bernard?"

"Yes! He was my favorite teacher!"

"My sister is studying design at the moment and she was talking about him the other day"

"He's still teaching?!"

"I guess"

She looked at me and smiled widely, I think she forgot she was supposed to act like a b*ch towards me.

"I need to go see him, it was nice catching up with you Derick, give me a call, see you assistant lady!"

"Bye!" I waved .

Mr. Reid's face was priceless!

He looked so confused that one look at him made me laugh.

"Did you know that was going to happen?"

"Nope" I said popping the P.

"Now come on we still need to go on the roller coaster!" I said.

"Wait, I'm hungry let's eat first"

"But we'll throw up!" I whined.

"Okay, just the roller coaster and then we'll go eat"

"Fine, but you're getting me cotton candy, the blue kind!"

He laughed and grabbed my hand again, this time I wanted to pull away but his hands felt warm on mine.

As I wished we went on the roller coaster and just grabbed some random food off the stalls and as promised I got my blue cotton candy.

When I was getting tired and it was also getting late, Mr. Reid said that we'll go on one more ride before going back and we went on the bike track.

"I'm not going on that thing" I frowned.

"Why not?"

"I'm too tired to exercise"

"It's fun and calm"

"Fine" I groaned.

We went and did the whole entry process and I guess people also are not in the mood to exercise because we were the only ones there.

If you don't know what the bike track is, it's like a paddle boat only instead of it being on water it's three feet in the air.

It's not scary but it's boring peddling a kilometer just to exercise.

We took our seats and started peddling away from the starting line.

"You know this was my first time coming here and actually having fun?" Mr. Reid said, breaking the serene silence.

"What do you mean?" I said looking at him confusedly.

"I went out with a bunch of friends back in high school and college but I always found it normal and boring"

"And now?"

"Now it's fun"

"I'm glad you enjoyed it"

"The question is, did you?" He asked.

I looked at him and smiled.

"I did"

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