I'm Admired But He Is Feared

Chapter Seven

“Yes Mr Peace”

“Are you flexible?”

 My eyes shot wide open at his question. Am I flexible, what does he even mean by that question? Without thinking I responded back to him.

“Yes, yes….I am very flexible”

“Let’s put it to the test then”

 I could see his shadow on the glass table as he sits back down in his black leather seat.

“Go get me a black coffee with no sugar, on your way tell Samantha to call Rogers to book the meeting and ask Matthew to come down to my office” He looked down at his wrist and gave me a fake smile. “You have three minutes?” Three minutes, how can he give me three minutes when I don’t know anybody’s name and where they are, as well as the kitchen? “Go!”

Darting up from my seat I quickly run across the room and open the door quickly. I start panting loudly as I look around the empty hallways. Three minutes to find a place that I don’t know as well as people. There’s only one thing I can do in a situation like this- go to the receptionist.

 I speed walk my way back to the receptionist desk which was all the way at the bottom of the hall. When I came in this morning I realised he has a reception desk on all of the floors, he must pay them a lot.

“Excuse me?”

 The receptionist looks up at me and smiles kindly.

“How may I help you?”

“Do you know anybody called Samantha?”

“That would be me” She smiled widely as I let out a loud sigh,

“Mr Peace he um….he wait….um” Think Sofie, think, he said something about Rogers. “Mr Peace said about something to do with Rogers….” She raised her eyebrows then clicked her fingers.

“Yes, I have to book a meeting with him”

 She said. I quickly nod my head at her.

“Mr Peace wants you to do that and um….. do you know anybody called Matthew?”

“Yes Matthew is just right next door to Mr Peace’s room”

“One last question, do you know where the kitchen is?”

“Yes. If you take the stairs from here the floor that it stops at, just turn to your left and the kitchen will be just there”

“Thank you so much”

 I better tell that Matthew guy to go into Mr Peace’s office first. Quickly running back I go past his room and knock on the door quickly of this Matthew guys.

“Come in”

 His voice sounds calm at the other end so I quickly open the door. The office here is much different, instead of the desk being at the side of the room, the desk is right at the front. Matthew looks up with a smile. He seems very nice and very young.

“Um…Mr Peace said he wants you in his office”

He nods his head and gets up from his chair.

“You’re his new secretary right?”

“Yes I am and right now I really need to go and get his coffee”

Matthew lets out a laugh and gestures for me to go.

“You better hurry then”

“Will do”

I quickly run away from his door past the reception desk and down to the stairs. Why did he only have to give me three minutes for?! He knew I wouldn’t be able to do it and I bet three minutes have already gone.

 I make it down the stairs and I’m met with a hallway and a door right at the end. That’s probably the kitchen, run but don’t fall I tell myself. Someone is coming out of the kitchen and it’s another young guy, he looks up at me and gives me a small smile.

“Your new here right?”

“Yes and I need to get Mr Peace’s coffee otherwise he’s going to fire me”

I tell him. I sound like I’m about to cry and I don’t want to sound like that because of a man like him.

“Hey don’t cry, here take my coffee, he has it black with no sugar right?”

“Yeah”

 I take the coffee from him and stare at his face, he has such nice workers and he’s so urghh himself.

“Run”

He yells at me. I snap back into reality and yell a thank you as I run back upstairs. I run back in the direction I came from and knock on his door. I start to breathe unevenly as I wait for him to tell me to come in.

“Come in”

Finally. I open the door and try to hide my fast heart beat as well as breathe; Matthew is sitting in my seat. He looks around and gives me a smile; I smile back at him and set Mr Peace’s coffee in front of him.

“Your coffee” He doesn’t bother looking or saying thank you but just waves me of. “As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted” He looks up at me with a hard glare as I feel myself shrink back a little. “I want you to sit with Jonathan during the meeting and ask him questions about why he doesn’t want to join the branch and from that and carry out the procedure as said before. You may leave” Matthew gets up from his seat and smiles at me before leaving.

“Two minutes forty”

Mr Peace says out loud when Matthew shut the door.

“Excuse me?”

 I ask him feeling confused because I am very confused.

“You carried out three of my tasks in less than three minutes” I could feel myself smiling widely because of the big achievement I carried out for him. Looks like I’m not that useless anyway. “But next time you run around the building again, considered yourself gone” He stood up from his chair and made his way over to the door. How did he even know that I was running around? Did Matthew tell him, he did! He seemed like a nice guy but I guess looks are deceiving, looks are very deceiving. “Don’t just stand there, move!”

Quickly as I can I follow him out of his door.